Norwich bulletin., 1919-10-18
THE MAN WHO TALKS

! l It was the 7th day of October that Jack Frost came down upon us with intensity and made an end of our l gardens and warned us to hustle, be- l cause his reign was near at hand.
 omeAnw nsa we nr nsysr think 1,s or Jack oa aroat He sits a mile or so high, and is never 1 dense enough to cast shadow. We have to go two or. three thousand l miles north to find the temperature 62 1 weather at one mile high winter cloth 1 ing will hardly keep us comforta ble.
 and seven miles high. far as from Norwich to Montville, the cold is sell l dom less than 62 degrees below zero. l Old Sol for seven months in the year makes Jack Frost obey his thus far l and no farther.
 Have you noticed that our musts 1 needs. and our must-nots far behind ! them? Must holds the mastership in i all of our extravagancies and con- spiracies. It juggles our wants. and when really they are of small conse- quence- Our must 7nots menace our ! ambitions. and would prevent our errors of action and check conditiops which are deplorable. Must and must-not, are divinely set as the Scylla and charybdis of life through which we must steer straight if we would avoid shipwreck.
 The birds of passage are on their way to a warmer climate and the
 amateur bird students are alert to see
 and identify species that nest farther
 north. We do not have the opportuni-
 ty of the students along shore to see
 these birds in largs f1ocks.. The last
 Sunday of September Nahant.
 Mass. was called warbler day" be-
 cause of the large number of these
 migra ting birds seen there. A student
 writes: Our trees were full of the
 tiny migrants, notably Myrtle and
 Pine warblers. and two days in suc
 cession I saw Connecticut warbler,
 with his slate colored cowi over his
 head. bird I had never seen before.
 I was quite interested to see in Reeds
 bird book that they were seldom seen
 here. except during the fall migra
 tions. Sunday afternoon while the
 sun was high up I turned on the water
 in the fountain and the crested fly
 little birdsl I also identified tiny red breasted nuthatch, a downy wood becker and kingbird Except for the latter. none of these birds spend the summers here" The bird lovers in Eastern Connecticut are on the alert for the small groups to be seen for a l few weeks in most unexpected places. !
 The person who thinks he is right thinks the other fellow is wrong, when i the right and wrong of things in life 1 are the hardest nuts we nortals have ! to crack Of course every man must live up to his own ideals of right to be i at peace WILT HlHSeI1- II IS FlSnC TOT all of us to mind our own business and ! to set a good example: but these offices have their limitations. and it is ! quite difficult to fix the boundary lines. l Ii is right for us to worship and to ! work according to our convictions and 1 ca pacities. if in doing we do not | conflict with others in the pursuit of i their rights. Very few people are all ways right in thought and action: and along these lines rise all of our issues. A person set in his ideas is not so much different from concrete dog as he thinks ne is. Mortals were design i ed as one of our old citizens used to remark, ito go slow and keep the mid dle of the roadt
 Twenty centuries ago the question was asked What should boys 1earn?' And one of the greatest scholars of that time replied: Things which will be of use to them when they are men," This answer, after enduring two thousand years. needs no amendment; [ but our systems of education today would have to be much improved to fully embrace the possibilities of this task. Every kind of physical exercise and employment is necessary to q mans full development and usefulness, | as well the mental culture which increase happiness. There is certainly no equality of ability or capacity among men, What some can acquire. others cannot One may be great in l literature and dunce in mathemat- ics. It was Maeterlinck with his in ternational literary repute. who was obliged to confess that he did not know so much about cube root as a horse.
 We not infn>quentiy venture an opinion as to how good or how bad man is: but it is an undeniable fact that not being masters of souls or always in the dark concerning the goodness or badness of any one; and in this direction are always at sea with ourselves We think some people are bad because they will not do as we think they should, when they are duty bound to do as they think they ought. We are capable of identifying } trend. but totally inca pablo of com in ourselves Or others. Tn life the wolves are always mixed with the sheep. because Of inability to identify them Man as a crea ture against him is that he steals the livery 1f Heaven to serve the devil in
 While we can tell what makes the caves take on their autumn colors it $ not so easy to tell why the birds re- urn to their autumn notes. Of course he season for mating is past, and the lullaby stage of young bird dom has gone by. and no longer the. cuckoo sings to his mate; but why. should the o1uejay be screeching like cart wheel crying for grease? There is nothing musical in his cry, although his plumage is gorgeous, and he does not carry himself with grace. He and he handsome merganser duck are at he head of our true Yankee birds for beauty; and. to his habits they are ike our own. open to criticism Au- umn has it's peculiar noises and skies IS wen as colors.
 The old Golden Rule is out of sight md the new one-Do him quick or nell do you!''-was never home in evil l fence a force. Mankind has been the wrong trail and it is go- ng to go over the precipice of Distrust nto the gorge of Damnation if it does not retrace it's steps to the plain of Honesty. The Golden Rule declares divine truth which would make mor- al life heavenly, and for it there is no substitute. The price of departure rom it is all the confusion and con-