Norwich bulletin., 1920-06-12
THE MAN WHO TALKS

not or Kind. II mere IS any real AliLeT- ence the line of demarcation between them is so fine as not to be observable | Perhaps it is only the agent that creates the supposed difference. The following | l-authenticated story is in evidence :. I In one of our rural districts a mother | entrusted her little girl to the compan- l ionship and protection of powerful St. Bernard dog which was much attached to the child. Shortly she was alarmed by loud screams. and rushing to the door she saw the dog some distance away, l dragging the child on the ground. Thiuk-1 ing that the animal. had suddenly gone mad, she seized shotgun and ran to l the rescue. She didn't shoot the dog, | however, for about ten feet away was an enormous rattlesnake all coiled up, ready | to spring. The dog had saved the child. ] If man had done this it would have been called intelligence. Why call the same act only instinct in dog?
 How stories gain in circulation! Addedi momentum also gives them absurdity. Now and then one comes to our notice that is really amusing: During cyclone in a western city doctor left his Hud- son touring car in front of his office When the storm had passed he couldn't find his car. At length he saw it with top gone, standing at the door of a church one block away. The fury of the storm had sent it along the street to the church, and then its freakish impact had forced it up. the stone steps to where he found it.. Somewhat later 8 paper published in Salt Lake City fell into his
 hands containing this amazing state ment: that in the midst of a tornado, his Ford had climbed the steps of a. church, entered the building, tipped over the first nineteen pews, then throwing itself into reverse, had backed out again!', Per haps the doctor regarded this incident as loud call to attend church.
 Rightly or wrongly, there is most cer- tainly an undercurrent of dissatisfaction in the American mind with presidential primaries. They seem to give the wid est scope to men of wire pulling ability to draw public attention to themselves, while other men of sterling ability, and the highest administrative capacity are l thrown into the shade because they haven't the l1nack of. keeping themselves in the linelight by cheap trickery, and 1 because they refuse to besmear them ] selves with the tactics of the ward politi- elan. The primary makes no final de- 1 cision it simply opens the way for men who are past masters in soliciting votes. ] No preliminary action can be taken that can be binding on the convention. Throwing bouquets to favorite sons who l live across the continent does not clear l the way for the selection of presiden- 1 tial nominee. The object of the conYen- 1 tion is to select the best man and some times the best man is not the most bril- 1 liant electioneer.
 1 New expressions are constantly com l ing into our vocabulary-and some of 1 them are here to stay, by sort of di- l vine right One need not be very old to 1 remember when Children's Day came iR- l to general use. It might be shock to l Puritan severity to see how far the child l has advanced in the life of the church 1 The great spirits of the past, austere ! as their beliefs were, had-many of l them-warm loving hearts, and it. re- l quires no wrench of the imagination -tc 1 see Cotton MatileP and Jonathan Ed I wards holding little babies in their arms and saying with great depth of feeling
 flor of such is the kingdom of heaven 1 There is no service to which the church gives it's authority more appealing an6 tender than the recognition of the little : child as a part of the divine institution : It is quite logical that it should be sup plemented by the recognition of Mothers : Day a few weeks earlier, for mother. ol and children are still the supreme forcei 5 of the world.
 | It seems very strange. to us in .thi 1 prosaic age of ours that the time eye 1 was when poetry was regarded as tn. l supreme possession We would natural ly infer that the more advanced a peo ] pie were in the arts and sciences tht [ stronger would be their relish for. ideal | ism such 2s poetry expresses, but it i l quite the reverse. Advanced civilization I abounds in the exact sciences and spec nlative philosophy. It has also carriet
 industry and commerce to a point tha Y the ancents never dreamed of, but poe
 cry, one of the finest of the arts. has al l ways been cultivated by nations in thei Il infancy. The Had. perhaps. the great - est of all poams was produced whel Greece was young. Virgil, the greates q, Roman poet, was contemporary with Au , gustus. Italy was also young when, sh Il gave Dante to the world So great wa
 the love for poetry in those days tha l Plutar2f tells us that after the disast rous defeat of the Anlenians before Sy t racuse the Sicilians spared those wh
 could repeat eany of the poetry of Euri
 pides. Think of the bolshevil6i sparin n those who could repeat Shakespeare. 0 l. Milton! For prisoner to repeat som
 of ol1r modern poetFy would be to sig
 his death warrant.
 d In this human makeup of ours, ac e eording to the psychologists, sensatio
 cuts a broad sFath. It includes. C
 l course, pain as well as pleasure ;psorroI tt as well as joy. Sensation admits airnos Q Of infinite classification; there is the pe1
 manent and the seasonal sensation
 Something of this sort came to the writ
 CT the other day which was most de < cidedly seasonal. He sat under an, ar IL pie tree that was a solid mass of frae
 rant blossorns.s ItSwas not a painful c
 sorrowfui sensation that possessed hin e It reminded him of Whittier's poem 'C Il the charming witchery of smell" Tn
 petals, snow white, gently fallini
 brought the rich fragrance little neare l. to his delighted senses. Under such is charm one can understand how Tenn1
 son felt when. he wrote; AThe milk-whit
 1 hawthorn scents the evening gaIes' TT 1 bees added something' to this witcher It was not a symphony, but a. monoIon lei However it was a part of the game an a they were not troubled by the eight-hol
 law. 9 -.g @4. -7.s<t
 Bishop John fl. Vincent. one of. Anne g ica's grand old men, has recently passe is away at the advanced age of eight. i eight years His was the creative mir
 that conceived the "Chautauqua idef
 and for quarter century developed is into an abiding American institution. " he had never reached the episcopate < fame would have been secure. F.
 many years and still Chautauqua Lal
 is the Mecca for all those who seek
 vacation in summer by combining il 9o | struction and entertainment during u ts annual period of rest. It was sot IT, learned that if the people were willii
 to go to Chautauqua, Chautauqua VI
 willing to go to the people. No ol ry place was big enough to accommoda to all those who wished to avail then
 selves of its priVilegeS Hence the ci