Norwich bulletin., 1919-08-09
THE MAN WHO TALKS

living pet and protected it from it's
 enemies. trusting in God for results,
 which do not fail if we do our part
 We plant the seed again and follow
 the cycle of life, and in the end we
 find that We have not the same flower,
 but collection as variable in color as
 litter of kittens:s because the wonder
 workers of Nature have been working
 to give variety to her products for
 monotony does not seem to be agree
 able to God nor man. The cycle of
 life is constant. but the results of life
 are variable;S and with Pope we are
 able to say: Order in variety we see,
 though all things differ, all agree" The
 garden is a place of constant revela-
 ton and education.
 Revelation Is sIo~ Nature is al-
 ways trying to reveal some law or
 truth, but how many thousand ages
 whirled the earth in its daily course
 before GaIlilee discovered that the sun
 neither rose nor set but was brought to
 view and lost to sight because of the
 movementrof the earth: billion men
 had seen an apple drop from tree
 before Newton saw that 1t was declar-
 ing the law of gravity; for thousand
 of years men had found fossils in
 rocks and noticed the glacial polish and scratches Jupon them. before Hugh
 Miller and Alexander Agazziz recog-
 nized they were the revelation of the
 man has thought and what the earth has declared harmonize wherever and
 whenever man has been right.
 Nature is the great puzzIe- maker for man-the spirit which swept over the face of the waters before man was, and which created the mountain and
 the n1icrobe. and decorated the pea
 cock and the diatom with the same painstaking care. made the little round hills with it's iceberg blows. and with them distributed the boulders, while the elements ground the rocks into sand and the wind -eddies formed it into beaches. deserts and dunes. and carried to them the sedges and beach p1ums which hold the sandhills in place and make breeding place for birds and rodents. A million tons fo sa nd, cone -sha ped and clad with pine trees. forms one of the eternal hills of which we read, and no scientist has been able to tell how this pure sand was so symetricaliy piled up between the mountain ranges; and it will re- main a puzzle for geologists to work out for ages to come.
 What do you suppose birds pick up snake skins for to line their nests? Is it likely that they are a menace to in- sects which infest the nest as spear mint is to ants; or menace to some larger foe, as is the scarecrow in the cornfield? The owl places the cast skin of the snake. in it's nest whenever it can get one; and so does the purple finch and the White-eyed vireo. either of which must look queer flying with a foot or two of snake skin trailing behind them, since both are about the size of a sparrow. In these small nests the snake skin is rather conspicuous object, and there seems no doubt the Of it is designed to be protective. There is no doubt birds { nests differ greatly in their structure, but the lining material is usually se- lected with care.
 We are told all through life that our conditions are what we make them; but most of us are aware that most of them are what the other fellow makes them. Because Of the war and the profligacy with which the 1 government put out money and the ranpa geouSness of the contractor for coining money, and the passion ex- cited in everyone else to make money. 1 there is in this country an incipient state of anarchy among the people, 1 who are getting to feel that anN gov ernment which cannot protect it's l the foxes of trade is not worth hav- ing. Justice needs to check the free 1 dom which ensiaves the other fel- low.
 What fine thing the farm is to run to in summer. and to run away i from when the land is ice bound and | the winds are bleak. The real farmer cannot get off the farm any better i than we can get off our hobby He 1 looks at rhapsodist very much as a | dog LOOKS al a SQu1rrSl-SOmetnlnR to 1 chase out of sight. The antique and ! mystery working attractions-the poe try inspiring vistao - do not interest 1 him, since potatoes and onions and corn grubbed from the soil and sold | for so much a bushel are his depend- ] ence. The farm cries so loudly to him to get busy and keep busy. that he 1 doesn't get the charm which makes the sons of leisure sing while he works and wipes away the sweat
 Animals have keen ears, birds have far seeing eyes; insects have keen scenting powers. A dog can hear the footsteps of another dog one hun dred feet away when he cannot see him; and bird can see an insect one thirty second of an inch in size five flying fifty miles an hour see and catch the midges in the air they go; and the tiny red ants which in fest the pantry can scent sour milk as 3 hound scents a fox. I am not sure that birds and insects do not have ike our Marconi system of wireless -elegra phy, since they have means of getting together at certain hours of he day and night, without any sig nal man can. discern or discover We nave much. to learn from the tiny creatures associated with us.
 The city folks are hearing the call of he berry patch, and the boys and girls with baskets and DaiiS are making heir way to bayberry and sun1ac land o gather hfueberries and huekleberries n all parts of New England. The ber- y field is a breezy. mosquito. snake, rider and worm infested place, where he pleasure of aromatic odors Is offset " the persistence of the little stinging insects; but the berry pickers have a merry time. and if they do not fill heir pails, fill their stomachs. and ave adventure sepough to talk about nd laugh over for a year. Of all the uMnaer parties, the berrying party Is he oldest. and most satisfying, since vinter pies are a pleasing reminder Of he oldest summer outing.
 Few people realize how constant irds are to nesting places. The other ay aqfarmer was telling me that when
 boy, as his father was driving by a edge hidden cliff, he said: When vas a boy the wood -peewees used. to uild their nests here. ~ Let's get out nd see. if there is a nest here now" nd they stopped and went and pushed he bushes away, and To and behaid . 1 est was disclosed. For more than 4p A. L. |