Norwich bulletin., 1909-05-29
THE MAN WHO TALKS


 It is the Christian duty of man to be forgiving, but it has never yet be- come a characteristic trait of man I I've heard real well-meaning pious people who had been stung say; "Fll forgive him if I cant" Holy Writ
 says we shall forgive our brother straight 490 times; and l shouldn't
 dare make oath that ever knew a | person more than one-tenth as forgiv- ing as that. It means good deal. The heart possessed of such charity, patience and kindliness as that would
 be far beyond hate and meanness-it l would be possessed by love that ts pure and powerful That is what it meansr-that is the triumph which it i. marks out for man. If God could not | forgive better than man can there ! would be no hope. And we pray Him to forgive us as we forgive those who
 trespass against us. We should have
 a care. or else improve
 "Go, now, and try to be a good boy"
 I heard man who had a black rec
 ord say to a little fellow the other l day. The remark from such source led me to think that he may never
 have had any one to thus admonish | him. There is nothing in his career,
 boy or man. which suggests that he 1 realized the value of good conduct; \ | but he did, or he would not have been | trying to put the youngster in the right way. If it was only as easy to
 be good as at is to give good advice we should all be better men and women. It never had struck me before
 that the man who had been punished l for his offenses can put most unction | into the advice to be good. He knows ! it will save a fellow from a great deal
 of sorrow and pain-save, him from being victim and make man of
 him.
 | A strange woman of recent even | ing on East Main street was heard to exclaim; What are these big poles set l in on the walks for?" Her friend ex- | plained: That's what brings us up to
 date. You see, Norwich wants to give l the automobiiists chance for their
 lives-the people can stand it." "They wouldn't stand for that. or such look
 Ling poles, either, where live" she re- l piled. Why, this is the most ridicu- | lous thing ever What Norwich needs
 is few bright women in authority mark that!" The man who overheard | the conversation does not know wheth- CT the woman was a suffraRist or not, but she seemed to be a woman of good 1 sense and good taste and of exception
 ally good eyesight.
 Boys like to hear themselves talk l just as well as men do, and they like | to have other people hear them talk, too. This was illustrated by two boys. | one of whom wanted half a dollar for l this and half dollar for that After i listening for a little while. his com
 rade hroke out: You always want hale
 dollar for this and for that-what's the
 matter with the nickel?" The half l Jo11 h.. l-~ 4 | been brought down to hardpan. The hint to keep his speech and financial | ability in sweet accord was all right
 It made his playmate tired to hear ] such flush talk from such a dry till | He didn't know that some men talk
 in the same way-talk about hun. l dreds and thousands when they cannot l realize how it sounds to the other fel-
 low they refrain.
 The season is approaching when l the trolley ride across country in an
 open ear is the inviting ride; and the
 arranged, for all who would travel,
 Trolley Trips Through New Eng
 land and the Hudson River Valley" | with 40 maps, and 'how and where to \ gc and what to see" So there is no
 excuse if we do not avail ourselves I of the privilege. And the descriptive
 writer refers to Norwich as "The
 Rose of Connecticut" We'll forgive
 him, but we shall never come down | to that. for we are "The Rose of New
 England" and troliey-wise we are connected with all New England and
 a part of New York. Where can you | trolley in day? From Norwich to
 Providence, thence to New Bedford,
 thence by way of Brockton to Boston, arA f1,. A
 955. That would be good day of
 travel for strenuous person, and 1t
 is too much to be taken for two con-
 secutive days.
 Did you ever try to think which in
 the days of your life was the most l wonderful? The more days you have behind you the harder it may be to
 make this out. looked over all my
 days recently, and fixed upon ths day | of days. It was when I was camping for week with twenty boys on the coast just north of Cape Ann; and
 the voice of Lincoln was heard wher-
 eyer eyer the flag was. flying, calling for | 100000 more sturdy sons to defend
 it. That was the day which inspired | the popular war-song: We're com | ing. Father Abraham, 300,o0e more" | We cheered the flag that day and wept there was feeling and patriotism and tears weHing up from the American
 hearts in those days-and we took an oath to go home and enlist; and not
 boy there was 20, and not a boy there but responded to the call within a year. The schoolboys were brave in those days, and so were the appren- | tices. That was wonderful day in- deed, day of which there is no du- 1 plicate.
 presume that the country people dream of the day when they hope to enjoy city life, just as the city people dream of the day when they will flee
 to pastures green or to the woods to
 spend the remainder of their days. A
 city man delves and thinks of the day when he'll have a small country place near enough to the meeting house so that he can lie in his hammock and hear the congregation sing and have
 two-acre pasture with a Jersey COW
 therein, and an acre of garden-sass, and two acres of peaches, and an acre of grapes, and bluegrass lawn with ar automatic lawn mower, with A crimson rambler running over the ! porch and a yellowhammer's nest in the honeysuckle by the door and a catbird's nest in the rnock-orange shrub, where he'll spend his days in
 peace and quietness, although he doesn't know how to plant a straight
 rev of beans, or how to milk a COW.
 Do you know that the woman who is looking for the ideal husband never finds him; and when the woman who ic I0oIxtprr f0,. bap fAanI .t..