Norwich bulletin., 1919-07-05
THE MAN WHO TALKS


 l We all have our faults and strange to say the faults of the other person l trouble us most. The Bible says: t"Confess your faults one to another"
 but most of us never get pious enough
 have is to think he has no fault. The poet tells us: "Whoever thinks a faultless person to see, thinks what We are never as good as we can be, but we are usually as bad as we dare be. We pay scod money to have our
 fortunes told; but whoever invited
 he would do it for nothing. He who does nothing at all to mend, keeps his
 faults on the increase till the end. l It is the gossipina habit that makes | a islander nimble footman. Because
 of this many lie has travelled round the earth. We have open ears for the | talk of babblers; and we are credulous when incredulity would be to our credit. The back bitter seems to be just as natural to the human race. as l fieas to dog. Someone is whisper ing something somewhere every day l and saying. Don't repeat it!" And
 What they say" is usually wire I less message from liar. who de- | lights in entertaining fools
 | The mother robin finds it no idle dream to teach it's young to follow in the footsteps of it's parents. A moth I CT robin brought a young bird from a month to six weeks old into the gar den the other day and proceeded to
 teach it that ripe cherries from a 1 neighboring tree were good to eat; and the little bird with open mouth enjoyment. Then the mother robin invited the little bird to play tag, and ran, increasing it's strides with the help of it's wings until it darted into the air and was off to neighboring tree to watch and guard it. Then the series of wing exercises around a circle that looked very H,-,ch like a juvenile dance; and it hunted. fed and had a good time all by itself.
 What lot of measures we have for men, and what lot of injustice is done by them. The Saviour. the Man of Nazareth, with his three examples has never been excelled-loyalty to God, loyalty to truth and loyalty to self, all included in the one measure: Honesty! It is not smart to be dis honest in any respect. and the man who is not loyal to his own honest convictions cannot be honest with his fellowmen or his Maker. The great est man is not the one who seems to make good under human rules. The divine rules of conduct transcend any thing man has been able to devise, and there really is no substitute
 How we all strive to keep up appear anees; and you may ask: eff we did not, what would become of us?" I guess we should be less victims of delusion, don't you? And get a better view of real life. Half the world with great difficulty support the pretense which it is pleased to fabricate. and the world sees them as they appear. Appearances have been classed as de- ceitful ever since Cain inquired: Am I my brothers keeper?" Nature some times produces a fool who appears so the deception will not be complete. If we strive to become what we like to be taken for. appearance is really worth cultivating.
 Do you know that the toad who thought he was the only toad in the puddle had all the other toads laugh ing at him. It is gretesQue even for toad to be so unconscious of his sur roundings as to think he is alone. espe- cially when he is in superior company do not know who discovered that toad could make such a bad example of himself. or play a foolish part nor one is safe who can find no one to look up to, or no one of the right size for com panionship, or no one who deserves smile rather than a frown. The ex- blamed, for they are of the earth earthly, and unto dust they must re- turn.
 We are compelled to compliment the Germans upon the completeness of their plans to win the world war if possible and. if not. to elude the re- sponsibility and punishment for it. It is apparent now that they should have been fought to an unconditional sur render. Having been permitted to barley with reference to peace. they have dissolved their armies without the humiliation of an officer or the surrender of a sword. and the navy was sunk with the German flag flying. They have had no responsible gov ernment for six months or more. and now seem to be figuring out a bunco scheme to make the demands of the entente worthless This nation of such acclaimed high honor is resorting to every dishonorable method to beat the victors.
 My crabappIe tree is the domain of a pair of wrens who have made it their home The other day it was in vaded by a family of English sparrows that seemed to be up to their old tricks of driving away other birds. They could not approach or enter the wren house as they can the house of blue bird or martin; and the valiant wrens outma nouvered them and drove them from the tree when they could stand their irnDortunities no longer. At last I discovered the sparrows were train ing a young bird how to take dust baths in the garden and how to fly and hunt The wrens didn't like to have this family exercising in their front yard hence assaulted them. As the wrens and the sparfows would sing gleefully a minute after a conflict there did not seem to be much venom in the affair.
 Gardeners talk to plants, but you1 never have heard of plants talking to gardeners, have you? But you must admit plants. like everything else God has made, have forms of expression. A plant in the garden which is not do- ing well expresses it's lack of thrift which is it's way of disclosing its needs. The attentive gardener can tell you when plants need special atten tion from their size or their color, or their slowness of growth, or various other things. They make no sounds but their life conditions are recog nized by observation, and he waters them and feeds them and prunes them or disbuds them because they either need stimulating or to be par tially relieved of their burdens. Then do they not talk in their way?
 Don't you think as great republic America should follow less and lead raore2 Instead of sending Annericans