Norwich bulletin., 1922-07-29
THE MAN WHO TALKS

Have generally IolloWeQ the line of the migrations of the people In the early days, when pine was cheap and plenti- ful, the center of this industry was Port land, Me In this country timber has al- ways been frontier product. The first jump the market made was to Buffalo. N. Y, which corresponded with the first migration from New England westward When pine began to grow scarce and | Pennsylvania hemlock was discovered | the market moved again, this time to l Pittsburgh. Then with the advent of l southern pine Memphis, Tenn, became | the center. Then with later migrations | the market moved consecutiyely to Wis | constn, Minnesota, and finally to Port | land, Ore. The one thing remarkable 1 about this analogy is that the opportuni- l ty to get lumber has always followed | the opportunity to get food, the two great necessities of pioneer life. In some way the greatest needs of man are met
 wonder why some professional au- thor does not write on the significance of silence. Thoroughly worked out. what book 1t would make! Silence between friends is understood; between those who are only slightly acquainted 1t is not. If a good housewife who has a great community reputation for making squash pies gives piece to her inti- mate friend and if the latter does not rave over it she thinks nothing about it; her appreciation is taken for granted But if a comparative stranger should fail to make known her delight, the squash pie business between them would | end abruptly. If there is misunder- | standing over words it can be reetified 1 when one explains the meaning he ill.,
 tended his words to convey. BGt when 1 silence is not understood 1t cannot be reetifed because there is nothing to ex- plain. How much can be said when nothing has been spoken, and these un- spoken things cannot be proven. Every 1 human passion can be expressed by si- l lence, and yet it has no legal value.
 To the inquisitive mind there is al-
 ways interest in a new prospect And herein consists the fascination connected
 with travelling. It is tn eternal newness I of the scenes that are being presented I to the vision. It explains why at the present time the ocean liners are carry ing capacity crowds across the Atlanta, notwithstanding the highway robbery to l which the tourist is submitted at the hotels of France and Germany. But one need not take an ocean voyage i'll erder
 to get the new prospect. It can be found in your own country your own state,
 and possibly in your own city. I take
 decided objections to the old saying that "when you've seen one place in a given state you've seen all" Or that two places in a given section are as much
 alike as two peas in a pod" How many
 of us, living here in eastern Colaecti- cut, are familiar with all the mountain
 glories of Litchfeld county? The new prospect is always where our eyes have
 never rested, or have rested only care lessly.
 , When we look of from the top of a mountain or high hill what dominates , the landscape? Is it man? Hardly, for z if man can be seen at all from the sum-
 init of a mountain he seems about the
 size of an ant creeping ever his little mollehill. Is it the works of man? Il Scarcely more than man himself, for . they too seem to be corrasponding,y as . diminutive as man himself when looked e at from the standpoint Of the higher d. t titudes It may be that Thoreau the t cynic, goes a bit too far whan he says y Man and his affairs, church and statC l. and school, trade aud commerce, ane V manufactures and agriculture even poll , tics, the most alarming of them all
 am pleased to see low Iit-le space they s occupy in the landscape.'' Frcnt thf = mountain top even the abodes of farm
 CTS and the fields they till seem to hav'
 the relative size of woo1chucks and theil II burrows It is mostly unsettled nature , we see from the ele ration. Perhaps i q we ever get higher than tte mountains n the things below us will seem snallel T. still.
 'e Raising chickens is worth while iron l. more than one standpoint. It has beel 'e asserted that there is money i1 1t, bu IS I question whether 1t has produced man. 1f bloated millionaries up to the presen Ut time, although there is no telling wha De science can do even with hen. Whel is science can make hen conform to an! st law, known or unknown, it has reaehet
 the ne plus ultra of its activities. Bu
 surely raising chickens affords a valua
 ble object lesson in psychology and al
 acid test of the human disposition. On to need not be an Humboldt or a parwi 9? to discover that the average chicken is
 mechanical mixture of appetite, nois te and stupidity; a compound that has n s. exact equivalent anywhere in the wcrli
 Chickens will stuff until they are de es formed and will then lie down, and, a on diversion, will eat a little more Con
 trary to general opinion, chickens sel
 dom "shuf1e off this mortal coil' throug he acute indigestion, but through remors rs brought on by nightmare. But whe
 it comes to noise and stupidity, languag
 fails me Perhaps some of these trait " apply to creations that do not gro' .ld feathers.
 ny Is there not a sense in which ever
 living man may be an imitator of G
 lumbus, not as replica but as vs model? By making explorations alon we certain lines one may make fmportar ra discoveries not unworthy of the gres
 navigator. The discoveries refer to |
 within the realm of ones own persona ,,, ity and this was the root idea of all
 Columbus voyages If men would oni As venture more into the unknown recess; lil of themselves they would be surprised
 the extent and value of the find, Ar
 here again they are not unlike Colun sh bus. He started out with the hope 'es finding a new and better route 10 u am Hast Indies but what he found was
 new continent Many a man lookir
 into himself merely for a new path be the old world has really found a ne ga. world of whose existence he new ,th dreamed We all of us have latent DO
 abilities that are discoverable; they a
 calling loudly to us to go down into u ng deep mines of ourselves and do son go hard digging; to bring the rich cru re- ore to the surface and prepare it for us
 fulness. Let us get busy.
 The blessings of life would greatly | TO- crease if we put more of ourselves in oal the life of today. Just for Today" of a song of rich significance. As a co