Norwich bulletin., 1919-02-15
THE MAN WHO TALKS

ticn, and professediy clean men yield to the unclean in order to assure vic- tory for their principles and their schemes. Some people think politics is mostly founded upon principles, and it may be, but it takes something more than principle to command the driving energy which moves the forces to success. We are told true states manship is the art of changing ma tion from what it is into what it ought to be (not what it ought not to bel: and Burke defined government as "a contrivance of human wisdom to pro- vide for human wants" In these things we certainly show glaring lack of efficiency.
 We are told that chain is no stronger than it's weakest link; but have you thought your character is no stronger than your weakest habit? Habit makes and unmakes character. Habit makes our professions often look worse than counterfeit coin, and makes many well-m meaning brother look like crook or hypocrite. Many a professionally pious man is queered in the sight of his fellowmen by some lingering habit which he has thought to be of little account. Good habits make us candidates for glory and bad
 
 money habit Is either ''the best of ser wants or the worst of masters" Some people act as if they expected to be permitted to take little pet bad habits to heaven with them It is these little pestiferouS habits which may eventu- | ally knock the foundations from beneath i what otherwise would have been an exemplary life.
 Someone has said: The greatest prayer is patience e''-noiseless conduct | rather than noisy words of regret feel l ing rather than perfunctory habit. ; The fewer words, the better prayer" 1 said Luther. The condition for all i prayer is that i've pray believing" :" | and one of experience has told us to 1 practice in life whatever we pray for l and God will give it to us more abun- ] dantly. There is too little sincere l prayer and too many prayers of words without heart. Prayer as a form is weak beside the prayer of conviction ] Some people ask Gods forgiveness i every day for sins they have been con 1 sciOus of repeating ever since they were old enough to remember The forgiveness of sin comes when the sin is abandoned. It has been truly point ed out to you and I that Our prayer and Gods mercy are like two buckets in q well; while the one ascends tine other descends.'
 Have you ever heard it said: "Thert is no turning back in th2 stream ol Gfe," Sail on, Sail on" said Colurn bus when his faint-helrfel crew DC
 sought him to turn the pr0w of his
 ships bacward: and so ,ifo 's cont;n. ually commanding it's vofarirs TO 10
 We cannot stem the current, but w'
 must he correct navigators--We mu-
 recognize the Gruc from tla false cur
 rent: and a,o.d the addi"s and til'
 whirlpoois Tho stream is foulet
 with lost opportunities and might-
 have beens. We must take our lati
 the star of hone in inc right rela
 tion to Faith. if we wou1l reach tn
 golden ahora. There $ many Charybdis anl Scylla on the way; an,
 9 fixed purpose and 8 straight cours
 are necessary to avoid being wrecked , Living well ia of moro impo~tanc
 thar living long: and rCiu- If use t
 others is safer than be;rS :Fevoted [
 sal'
 On cold winter mornings I like [
 hear the crows CawinC rs they q over carly or their way 70 thoir feed : ing grounds. I have missed them to : several years, the roasting plar : southwest of the city hav;rg bee l abandoned C. broken ur. If a t!1it , in summer I suspect -|?n crow
 something If a scavenccr in the col
 months. Tho war whoops tt th' Ir dian long since ceased; but the "vaw
 of the crow, which is ollar than i promises to continue for ages . come regardless of the faTocity 2 I man. This morning "cav'" ha Q rent the New England air 7ouhtles ! for thousands of years way back r the days when Boreas had nothing . = | whistle around hut the bOul ier3 dr U cliffs of this bleak land The cro n greeted the Scandinaviars in t Q morning q thousand years hjforc C. 2 lumbus was accredited with havir = discovered America; and this anuIel 5 bird call will he heard nerhaps yea, v herce when this republic has bee v forgotten
 t It is somewhat surprising to fir ' an English G2nc@ teacher s.lying ' ballroom dancing walking is the mo Q important part" This teacher b.
 lieves ''ragtin,e" has come 70 stay b' e cause it inc c.udes more natural InCv, n mentS than any other styln of danc1n . that it ''cOu'd be varied to any e, N tent, both in time and movement ar 9 made as simple or as complicated II the dancers choose; that any one wi Q can walk to the rhyme of the mus n can lsarn to dance a ore- step witho h looking ridiculous. and can get l. much amusement out ot It as the mo l. accustomed dancer: that dancing il |, at last taken form which makes ,a possible for everybody (eVcn for lar is people who have thought that tn S would never dance again, and th
 therefore it has come tn stay. "
 will find the sharpest crir;ci"m amo,
 those who Te-2rd dancing as
 artistic accomplishment. t was Joh r. son who alleged that "tha chief ben S fit of dancing is to learn one how
 sit still" but the elasticity a to rhymth of the step mus also lead in graceful walking which is tr . accomplishment.
 l' It will not be a great while befo CT the starlings will be more numero as i'll Connecticut than the crows. I've CT ty-fve years ago there were none
 this part of Connecticut. and they 3 CT Tow frequently seen in fockS nui # bering hundreds. The 18th Chrism o+ Census of Bird Lore shows that in VI few hours walk in nine Connectic
 towns. 1,66S crows were seen, { w largest number being 1000: and m starlings, three fiocks numbering | oh tween 250 and 260 each. In these nj
 walks of from four to eight hours, id species was the largest variety se +o and the total number of birds s thousand and eighty-two. The eve iie ing grosbeak has come to New Er on land to stay winters, because of |
 maple seeds of which 1t is fond; a to the pine grosbeaks are more Hum b. ous than ever The most birds SC on at any one point in the country " Nv at Orient. l.. l., where there were V ' ter and land birds to the number