Norwich bulletin., 1910-01-01
THE MAN WHO TALKS

I'LL ukAN w AlO 4ALAO The man who talks wishes all of l his readers "A Happy New Year" ]" . This is a popular way of showing a 1 kind regard for one another. We wish people "a happy New Year. who are
 conscious that they have had a miser- l able past and who anticipate an un- l happy future It serves as a momen- | tary benediction, but it cannot lift 1 them from their states of depression,
 because the mind Invites gloom It 1 cumstances invite hope, but they do 1 not realize it. Ignorance of a fact | makes all the odds in the world. They do not count themselves among the l ignorant. but few men can escape the l charge. however they may have been | trained or educated.
 Man is a creator and he is the only 1 creature so distinguished that God l has made. He invents material things i and creates all sorts of combinations and conditions. He organizes to fleece ! his brethren and to protect them-he i creates social conditions which please i or disturb himself and others. He ! not only carVes his own career, makes 1 his fortune or invites his fate-eut l invites beauty where deSOlatlon pre- i vails and it comes-inVokes plepfE where there is want, and it comes; and l contrary ability is within the scope Of hlS power. f1llG IS nOL N4iGt NFOO makes it. but what man makes 1t and the sooner this is recognized the bet ter it will be for the race. Man has a high commission from his Heavenly Father, but doesn't more than half realize it.
 Some folks think that snobbishness is a heavenly gift-they never yet have learned that this spirit was born when the first man or woman found utterance for the sentiment: l am holier than thou!" and it has given birth to every conce1t eXtant Whleh applies to superiority of dress. or to assumed hereditary distinction, or 10 better social standing. or higher educa- tionaI attainment. or to cheap renters
 in their relation to high renters, 10 clean occupations in contrast with dirty employment and it has been carried to such point among men that there are a million conceits of superiority; and snobbfshness IS Just a s common in the labor district as in the residential section of a city, and often more SO The world does not value men and women so much be- cause they have pure minds and clean hearts as because they wear good clothes, live in fine houses, and put up a fine pretence. Man has made life what 1t is.
 The itching for fame is a much more common disease than most people think and with some it is not cured until late in life. This kind of an itch is not cured so readily as the other kinds and those who have 1t are very often referred to as having a bug, and very properly too. How it is cured is not so apparent, for the cure is usually as unexpected as 1t is sudden. When the young man who dreamed that he was designed for the governor of a state gets settled down as a hack driver he dreams no longer of fame, but wonders if there is not still chance for him to be hero. Some men have been suddenly cured of this print for the first time-this was enough to end all further aspirations It is a complaint common in the downy life of man-maturity invites the frost which is fatal to it.
 Forget your new resolution making and hang this up for 1910-"Look not back but forward!" Attainment is not sands of time are behind you and they are nothing to be proud of-your feet have been growing and spreading and are not as shapely as they were. It is well that most of them disappear and the remainder cannot be told from bear tracks except by experienced trail followers. It has been said that when man of 50 takes business sQuint of the past-just puts his eye on it as a carpenter puts his eye along the edge of a bOard-nothing inpresSes him more than the worthlessness of the things he wanted at the age of 21. He sees that he didn't know what he did want then, and he finds at 50 that he then hardly knows what he does want.
 was interested in a lot of little whirlwinds that were describing ci1- cles on the walk the other day, which would always be invisible but for the dirt and particles of paper which they appear to be fond of stirring up and always feel glad that little whirl- winds are the only kind which seem to Whirlwind is something terrific. ] never saw but one and that picked up the trunk of q felled tree on the east bank of the Mississippi river that wa at least forty feet long and whirled it around and around as 1t rose until it did not look larger than a walking stick and l did not see it come down, hut l can imagine if such a stick of timber should fall upon a house or a steamboat it would mean destruction. Only the little ones are amusing.
 It is we'll in this world to know how to graduate our losses. It has been demonstrated that there may be gains which are losses and losses which are gains. One wise man wrote: Fortune lost. nothing lost; courage lost, much lost: honor lost, more lost; soul lost, all lost" You will notice from this list that as the world judges things that which is least is of most value and that which is of most value is of least account. The blind go right on leading the blind, and the frivolous go right on hooting the watchmen on the wall They take no note of irnperish- able treasures but seem to have ac- cepted for their motto, Eat. drink. and be merry, for tomorrow you die!"
 It is good rule of conduct "te for get the faults of others by remember ing your own The only trouble with it is that so few folks realize that they have any faults that they are not con scious of having enough to sustain memory on for half an hour. A blind man can usually espv the faults of his neighbors while a person of keen sight cannot descry his own. We are told that every man has his little weaknesses. and as a pointer may be told that one of them is a desire to get something for nothing-a trading stamp fever or gold-brick ambition; but he doesn't take the cue because the modern golden rule is: Do him quick or he'll do you!" And, we are also told, that ito deny fault is to double it.'' This is where the world is run ming up it's compound interest at a terrific Ta