Norwich bulletin., 1920-11-20
TIE MAN WHO TALKS

been greatly impressed with the size and quality of this important crop. As sta pie article of commodity in the fruit line here in New England, the apple Is easily i first. and in all probability will never be | supplanted It would hardly be New l England with the apple tree destroyed. | In it's present stage it is very much like | Christian character in that it has not l already attained" but 1t is pressing l toward the mark" of higher develop l meiit The culture of the apple, like the | culture of the soul, has departed some | what from the old Puritan standard. Science has taken the place of specuia- tion. We know more about the chemical composition of the soil than our fore fathers did. We know when and how to prune in order to secure the best results We know that you cannot have a success ful orchard and grow a big woodiot on the same ground at the same time. We also know that spraying is essential to fine crop. And thus the apple is march ing on like the soul of John Brown.
 But when we come to harvesting the apple we do not see the same degree of advancement The business end of the apple trade tends to nullify the scientific progress in apple raising. We are told that the apple trees this year in the state of New York have yielded a crop un
 paralleled "by any apple growing region
 in any country, in any year, in all the History of the world That indeed is going some, thanks to science plus most extraordinary fall. But greater part of the crop is rotting because of the lack of people to pick the apples This is bad enough. but 1t is a great deal worse not
 to be able to get barrels to put them in
 But worse than all, because so exasperat-
 ing, is the utter lack of transportation
 and distributing facilities. Think of it, five millions of people in New York city
 without apples. while within easy dis
 tance are tens of millions of apples of the rarest quality rotting! The terminals are all right, but the connecting link is as rotten as the apples.
 As one rides about the country he sees this adv. in big letters on billboards:
 United States Tires. We'll, why shouldn't
 our poor, long suffering country tire of ! the sob stuff that has been said about her headlong rush to destruct ion iri the late i presidential campaign? 5e U. s. will probably outlast any automobile tire that i has yet been made. It would be quite ap- propriate if some man in the rubber busi- | ness should put out this adv. on a big | billboard: United States Tires Still More l with the recrudescence of William Jen- nings Bryan who once more is running true to form. This superman having dug 1 up "his heart out of the grave,'' where | he said "it was buried" and where most
 of were hoping it would remain, has 1 broken out with this far-sighted advice:
 Let President Wilson abdicate, Marshall l 1e crowned, Harding put into the state department, and then Marshall resign, so ! that Harding will be free to work out his po1icies.'' The world has had nothing like
 this since Solon died. Surely in three
 presidential campaign the democratic party was z Ter a special Providence, but 1 doesn't it .rve one the "creeps" to think 1 what might have been had this man sue
 ceeded at the polls?
 i One of the most beautiful things in the I whole history of music was the adt1ira- I ton Mendelssohn had for Jenny Lind. That matchless voice was evidently ring l ing in his ears, also ''her spiritual inter- : pretation was in his mind" when he com ! posed his masterpiece, Elijah" It is said i that he made a study of her voice. Some f of the great arias of that oratorio so con- formed to the peculiar quality of her voice that sine made her greatest success in .! Elijah" No other great songstress ever sang this composition so splendidly. AL J though Mendelssehn lived to conduct the first performance in Birmingham, if was pathetic that he never heard her voice in his greatest work. So profoundly was 1, she moved by the great composer'e un- . timely death that she gave free concerts , as far as her services were concerned for the foundation of the Mendelssohn :; scholarship fund. Now this teaches that q great talent is always an inspiration II Other lives are made richer by it. There fore We are morally bound to cultivate ii for the good of others.
 It is still fnpressively true that truth | is stranger than fiction" One may req [ sonably question if Stevenson's Treasure |, Island or the weird tales that came iron
 the unhealthy brain of Edgar Allan Poe
 are so vitaIiy interesting as the Autobiog- raphy of Andrew Carnegie recently put or the market. Even the lad willadinit wher absorbed in an exciting story that the = keen edge of pleasure is just bit blunt , ed by the feeling. that it is made uI
 wholly, or in part, out of whole cloth. v If a writer makes his story too eXtrava {. gant it pals even on the lively irnagina : ton of boy. In reading the life of MT t Carnegie one is made to feel that hert ' is unflinching fidelity to truth and ye i it has all the glamour of romance. W, r are with the poor Scotch boy who came t t our shores seventy years ago; we g < with him into the factory, the telegraph
 office, into the Civil war as an operator , we stand with him as he builds bridges we rise with him step by step until h = becomes the greatest ironrhSstef of tits 0 s any age. Bays, don't fail to read it
 Our near approach to Dec. 20 make
 it perfectly natural to fix our thoughts o
 the landing of those noble men and wom
 an on Plymouth Rock three hundred year # ago While We woRder at the singula IF sternness not so much of the Pilgrim
 as the Puritans who came later, we fol
 get that possibly they, were they aC quainted with our thought and actio1
 would weep because we had gone so ia l. in the opposite direction. That is; ou
 departure from things which they regard
 ed as Fundamental. But they had s St many stalwart virtues that make for th Il highest manhood and womanhood that V n can overlook what seems to us undu
 severity. The most popular means of pri .. sentiflg the Pilgrim life and times is u to pageant. What whirligig has tin '', ~ made of some of their notions How the LII condemned the spectacular! To the
 thinking the theatrical was instigated | the devil And yet in some of u h. churches which they thmeselves fotnde Id elaborate preparations are being made III represent these early times by pageantr
 The world certainly moves.
 !. Out state legislatures are not su, i9 cumbersome and slow-moving bodies el they are sometimes pictured, when son rs. great humanitarian bill comes up for a
 tion. The director of the bureau of W;
 risk insurance of the United States go i'll ernment wrote to Governor Smith of Ne ,e York that there were S45 ex-service m, h. in that state suffering from mental di
 orders who were being cared for in thirt
 nine hospitals and sanatoriuIns. Becau
 l of this eror z ed condition the direct