Norwich bulletin., 1920-05-22
THE MAN WHO TALKS

certainly true that the farther away you go from human habitations the scarcer the birds are. Some naturaliSts con- | tend that in the depths of vast forests, ! many miles in diameter, no birds are i found. At least they do not make such ] places their habitat. The writer knows !. from personal experience that there is l something delightful in the companion ship of bird. For number of years a jenny wren made his home in hole of an old apple tree near his house. He noticed whenever he approached that tree the little bird would come out and sing. He gradually grew bolder and allowed his auditor to draw nearer. At length he would come out of his hole and perch on nearby branch and sing whenever his name was called. And what singing It was enough to make Csalh-Curcf exile herself in senegafn- bia. Unfortunately the tree blew over last fall and I know not where my little wren Is. I hope he hasn't forgotten me. The above incident is fraught with irn- portant lessons: Many people like this little wren live in holes. And the worst feature about it Is they are perfectly sat isfied to stay in them. If they would only come out once in a while and sing 1t would serve double purpose; it would be pouring forth music to our delight,
 
 theirs. It may be you and 1 haven't done our duty in asking them to sing. Possibly they are shy people and only need a little encouraging. In wonder home is little flower dropping; a night ingale. that will come out and flood the air with melody if only coaxed some lt- tie boy perhaps with an. innate talent for drawing. just waiting for some human
 touch to draw him out. The age long problem is with us, and still
 -"the flower is born to blush unseen. And spend it's fragrance on the desert air.
 This belated season is giving instruc I tion in farm economics. The special iec- lures just now are along the line of pre- paredness. Experience, the greatest of | all schoolmasters, enforces this lesson | upon us. High winds with touch of Greenland's ice mountains in them hold back the blow. But let us get the blow out and the horses liitched up and as l soon as the winter oVereeat can be dis l carded we must go for the sod. This year it will probably be only a step from 1 the arctic circle to the equator, and we shall doubtless find that "mdia's coral 1 strands" are burning. strands. If we are caught napping in these pretoria days l it will surely show that ''only man is l vile" If Belgium and Trance had been I l Teutonic Invasion If everyone who has a bit of land to plunge in when ickle Dame Nature mods, then low production l will be driven into the land of night ! mares.
 4 Tie eyes of the nation are fixed al present on. the presidential primaries l This is, nothing more than voting inform ally for choice of president to be elected 1 in November. It Is by no means certain that a decided choice, expressed in the 1 primaries. will be ratified at the nation al conventions in June. There is plenty I of time between now and then for the work" If delegates go to the conven tion, Hnpiedged, they are at liberty t
 change their minds with every argumen -.'uttered or unexpEessed''- some o them do. We are told that the way of Providence as past finding out so al
 so are some other things that don't hay quite so good a deputation as Providence A Clark, horse is not the only thinl Ii that's dark in a political convention :. Very likely we shall not Improve | presidential race until we have first i'm . proved the human race.
 Il Talking about presidential timber rais p es. the question, What sort of a man d 7 we want to rule over us. savages? Judg
 ing from the result of the primaries,
 is clear that the people of the Unite . States realize that there is no distinctio n between timber" and Wood" If 3 stranger should ask: Have you an
 real presidential. tinber?'' Of course " i could proudly answer: Certainly, N
 have the very best. we have Wood
 What we need, and probably what W s shall get. is a man strong. capable an e courageous enough to refuse makin; l pledges as to what he will do, or will nc tt do if elected. Beware of the subservier s candidate who promises powerful intel Q ests that he Will favor their cause :, 1 they viii put him into the seat of th mighty. No. individual party, or cliqu : has any right to handicap candidat ,, with prediction promises.
 Was Plato extravagant when he saj ( so very long ago that music is nor; y l law? It gives Q soul to the univers
 wings to the mind, flight to the irnagii ,t atien, 9 charm to sadness, gaiety and Ii. r to everything" Music is surely the mo .te universally applicable of all the fine art S There is no place where human beinI '- gather, social or otherwise. where m, T very few gat,i5' i: are entire h satisfactory if wanting. It e still the musical . }hc II that is the mo e popular if judged by the patronage. If u # occasion is one of joy Or sadness, mus fits in; if if it is social or sacred, sec u lar or fraternal, or civic, music is gla e-l ly admitted, Music ought to be mo ot generally cultivated by young people ot they would only look beyond the mono ,e ony of first lessons to the joy it wou give themselves and others some da : { they would keep on.
 .e It will add greatly to our peace n l mind if we realize that you and I a
 not called upon to shoulder the burde
 of the universe, There were some pro
 lens on this footstool before you and
 honored it with our presence an ill strangely enough. there will be a fe
 here long. after we are dead and forge
 ten. Let it be granted that the tim
 are out of joint, and that most thin pc are topsy-turvy. We may work ove ne time in bowling our protests against tn
 that and the other thing, but by so q
 ing we shall only work ourselves in Ii- nervous prostration. We should accol ,e I plish just as much by putting our l1ea li against blank wall Old Epictetus
 the nail on the head when he wrot,
 You are not Hercules. and you are r
 able to purge away the wiclzedness toi others. nor, yet are you Theseus. al ar to drive away the evil things of Atti, ,l- But you may. clear away your own
 There is one thing. and only one thi
 we can do. along this line, and that is ?, put into the days doings the, very b, heI there is in us, and then, lie down to he night of dreamless slunlber.
 ne It is. fine thing if a boy is able
 head his class in school but it's no si
 that he's fool if he doesn't. He m an have special bent that takes his mi = away from the usual line of studies, I fin the things that awaken his special -e- in schdo, A narta in I,o,,,srstaS {;