Norwich bulletin., 1909-04-24
THE MAN WHO IAlAS

t6 it's sunshine and beauty is deform- ity of the worst sort. To be unmind- full of the loveIiness of natgye is to be deprived in part of realization or the goC<less of God. Labor isn't curse it is a maintenance and sometimes more. Many a soul has found pleas ure in work, and that is what no man ever found in idleness. Have you not noticed that the idle rich have become a butt and a by-word in the mouths of the people A delver comes near being a bondman-a thinker never can be. High thought is high culture.
 If it was not easier to find a hun dred faults in your neighbor than to mend one fault in yourself, things in this life would be different. Some how the faults of others become popu- lar as a stock in trade and without them the gossip mills could not be run. It is always surprising why he or she will do so but not why we con- duct ourselves as we do. We hardly ever harbor the thought that our be- ing better could not make other people worse. We're all talked over, and the shame of the other fellow distresses us when we should be brought to book by our own misdeeds or short comings. With all our differences in quality and culture we're only human, and if one mans bane is another mans pleasure, as one mans meat is anoth- CT mans poison-what then?
 There is one thing make no ac- count of in my memorandum book-l have no place in it for the trials of life. l have a habit of putting the best things down where they can be seen and burying the worst in memory so deep that they do not arise to menace me. Trials in life are just as common as tadpoles in a pond. and they get to be ugly looking toads if they are cultivated. Never let a trial get out of the infantile stage-keep 1t least, and it will be as natural and of as little account as the spots on Dalma- tian dog. Some folks make so much of their personal trials that they be- come severe trials to every one else. Don't, Everybody has troubles of their own-they are never worth com pairing or remembering.
 Some men are guilty of over-valu- ing profanity and applying 1t when 1t has no value whatever. The man who swears at a frightened horse, instead of speaking kindly to him, and who pours out volumes of oaths upon the automibile that doesn't go, when a little oil or scientific knowledge would  serve him better, never is regarded as wise. for he Is wasting both language and time, without any prospect of eff fecting a cure. The way to move a balky horse, or a crippled motor car is to wait whistle and work. Every man cannot do this, but the man who can leaves no doubt that he is master of the situation, In moments of trial profanity is of small avail,
 
 A cynical woman declares that "wi1cn a man promises to tell a woman all he means all that he has any reason to think she will find out anyhow" but a married man of experience asks him self what there is a cunning woman cannot find out A young man might try to measure the ability of a woman to divine things because he is fresh; but man of experience knows that 1t is often necessary to tell a woman all and more, too, just to calm her sus- picions and to keep her in a trustful mood. Many man who goes out ito lodge meeting is too dull to realize that the woman at home knows that he is a liar. The wife of a gay de- ceiver never tells him all she knows about him. She only explodes a bomb under him now and then-that is sui hcient.
 There are brave amateur gar fer CTS who every spring enter upon a series of failures. This gardener or that one cannot tell why they fail It may be the lack of inward culture or outward culture The woman this spring is planting the seeds that never come up just as she did last spring. She loves to garden-she only dreams of success She likes 10 see things grow better than she likes to hoe. If she was mas terful with the hoe the seeds would grew She is out of harmony With the work she is in love with. Her per- sistence is admirable-she is always trying to reap what she sows and never asks the reason why If she cid, no doubt the seeds that never come up would cease rotting in the ground.
 "The thing we fear we bring to pass" and this is why apprehension is really an enemy to mankind. If the mind does not overcome fear fear will ovnv- come the mind. There is no neutral zone there. The mind not only invites them, and 1t can be made to injure as well as to bless man It has been de- clared that if you do not master your mind. your mind will master you. We should strive for the mastery of self, for that carries with it the mastery ot others. It is no easy task but it is a great achievement. Surely 'he who ruleth his own spirit is greater than he who conquereth a city"
 Norwich has produced many poets in her two centuries and a half, and many of them have said nice things about this dear old town, but it is doubtful if ever better couplet was turned off by native of Norwich than this by Anson c. Chester, when he sang fifty years ago: "As a mother loves her darlings, as a sailor loves the sea, and as a woman loves her idols so, dear Norwich, love I thee" This expresses the true love of a na- tive who had become enraptured with the sky and earth and running waters the hills and vales and queenly daughters of 'the Rose of New Eng land" Someone will soon be singing another song in Norwich, and may it ring with the true music of the soul.
 These April rains are redeeming the lawns and quickening the towering shrubs and bulbs which are feeling the revivifying touch of the sun, burst ir~ their buds and hastening toward infOrescence. These are busy days in Natures workshop. and the magic touch which every day makes the earth greener is the same which will in the apple orchards put the crown ing touch upon May. and give to June its abundant crop of roses. and it's fine dress of emerald green. The farmer and the gardener are busy and the earth is being worked for produce and for flowers. Nature stops for no man the laggard gets left and only those who keep in step with her music achieve success.
 It has been said that "a man of si- lence is a man of sense." It goes without saying thas there cannot be much nonsense about him-there is