Norwich bulletin., 1919-05-17
THE MAN,'WIdO TALKS

and we cannot afford to dc. why do We not include worry. No one can afford to worry. or to entertain such bad habit It is a. habit resulting from lack of knowledge both as to it's cause and effects. Under it lies the imagf- nation Whlh excite fear and distrust in the mind. Mind can eliminate worry; and the true medicine for it is knowledge of its character, and the will to be cheerful, for cheerfulness is foe to all disease and many weak. nesses: Only under a very few cir cumstances is worry defensible Un-. der the very worst of circumstances l it never pays. It. adds nothing to achievement, but it does make failure worse and life unenjoyable. Thinking 1 of llfe's. successes and blessings is a ! fine way to kill worry.4s. ..~.-.=.= The first solden-robin greeted us from the top of the maple this year on the morning of May Sd, a little ahead l of his regular time and apple blos- sons; and his metallic call gave a new thIill to the season. If it is not sweet it is cheery; and like the e.m- | bone, has it's place in the orning Chorus chorus as an expression harmony The l first swallow clove" the air on the morning of Mat 9th, in 8 solitary ! flight for ephe1ilera in the oil 'routes from which it has been absent ffor the past eight months, but t seemed to know its way through the tuncharted air and to feel perfectly at l home. It used to be thought these birds spent the winter in the mud with the toads, when they really. went to South American states. It is fair to presume the wren is here since he is a close follower of the oriole.
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 | Every year l watch for the indigo bird. 1 have never seen him two years
 in succession, but when I do see him it is usually of a cool gray and rainy l day in April. near the same spot in the garden where the sunfiowers grew the i year before; and l have reason to l think he comes every year. and I miss i him because the weather is not suita- ele for watching. He is the one real 1 blue bird that summers in New Eng land and often winters no farther south than Delaware. He doesn't sing down the sun every night, like the robin, but simply says tgood night, to 1t; and C. C.=Abbott says he repeats i this. adieu every hour of the night un- til he sees again9tl4e sun and whistles I ''socd morning. TTife indigo bird is I Q sweet singer, and he is suspected oi
 being "the warbler Thoreau used tc hear singing in the night It is diff I cult to believe a bird like this evolved from d lizard in4tFe may days of tht Long Ago.
 The tree has been talked of as
 memorial of our dead soldier boys ant
 the idea has found wide favor. Tn
 short life of the ordinary tree has beer
 filed as an objection. Trees vary il
 length of life The great cedar whicl
 bears. the name of General Sherman il inc Mariposo. grove. was a large tre
 when the Saviour was born. and is Stil T likely to outlast many generations. / pear tree in. Norwich has been know } to bear fruit 150, years. What is calle a short lived tree will outlive severa generations of men. Memorial tree are not uncommon, and some, like GU
 own Charter: Oak, become famous
 There are not a, few mothers trees in New England which in their re newed beauty, arc 9 joy to the Twin every snring. I. call to mind one i } New York state which is a memoria | of mothers love because she sent he son out to ask the road cleaners [
 spare that wild roadside tree which sh
 loved and which is still a beautiful re
 hinder Of her. 7. If there is. one privilege mere tha , another. man abuses it is speech. H
 
 !. voice. and is repGted. to talk mos $ when least qualified - Did you eve $ think that our talk is usually th l tfwofst part of our daily conduct? To : Ihave -heard. professionally Christia rt sects talk about one another. We a .haye. But we seldom hear what tn ! Bible writers say about talk. On for instance. in warning speaks thu
 to his fellow mem God hath shewe me that I should not call any ma E common or unclean." Charity com
 pels US to beware of our speech. Ne : tappear singular, to say the, least. wfl : regard things as being common ths God has pronounced to be good.
 Have you ever asked yourself wl1 birds sing? This is all old questio . which has leeen repeated for centurie | and the answer has been because it :. their nature to. The birds sing doubr s less because every creature God hs e made prefers sound to silence. Son = lis an expressieuaof feeling. and mu1
 more so in birds than in man. bl 4 nothing in distress sings, although u
 swan is said to-induIge in a death son ] The ripping, streams and rus+lir 0 leaves and whispering and whistIir s winds are believed to be the prinal 0 source of hird songs, and of all son , Every bird song we do know is bt
 ieved to be only a part of a series V
 do not know. Our knowledge of birt
 songs is lin1ited, as is our knowleds Il of their means of communication.
 II Sometines think most men al q born tired. There are many who (
 not feel ashamed to say they. wou
 net work. if they could help it. Thel is no such thing as living withol
 work, and there never has been; ar e is never likely. to be. Man. under u @ very best of circumstances, is depend
 | ent upon one another; and none al
 more dependent than the rich wi q come to regard work as menial ar if Iaziness as aristocratfc. All there o to man, anyway. lies ain being usefu
 and nature has provided that if he
 not useful in one way he will even
 ually be i'll another. He is happie st who is busiest ... le l suspect the name of the man vi 9 wants more than his share of tn
 worlds goods and privileges is Legio
 If it were only virtue to want mo Is than belongs to us we should ha- S reason to be chesty; but for more tn; " two thousand years we have been to '' that the more our selfishness groy
 the nearer we get to the devil; and Y
 seem bent upon getting as near | Le Satanic Majesty as possible, No O 1f ventures to praise selfshness; but Y t. all practice it: and not few let ~ creep into their prayers. A foe to go
 can never be a friend to man, we a
 told. Do you think our turbulen m and wickedness can be overcome r. long as man autos along this road? at Have you ever thought what in tt religious life is the most importa
 thing? It is. not confession. or co
 triton, or meeting every requirenne ,a Of the church. Prayer and reading t