Connecticut western news., 1910-07-21
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 MIRROR, N!..!!l!:'!' R.
BY W. Fl. SPEAR

You never can tell when you send a word,
 Like an arrow shot from bow
 By an archer blind, be 1t cruel or kind.
 Just where it will chance to go.
 It may pierce the breast of your dearest friend,
 Tipped with it's poison or balm;
 To strangers heart in life's great mart,
 It may carry it's pain or it's calm You never can tell when you do an act,
 Just what the result will be; But with every deed you are sowing a seed, #.
 Though it's harvest you may not see.
 Each kindly act is an acorn dropped
 In Gods productive soil; sf Though you may not know, yet the tree shall
 grow
 And shelter the brows that toll - You never can tell what your thoughts will do In bringing you hate or love;
 For thoughts are things, and their airy wings
 Are swifter than carrier-doves.
 They follow the law of the universe,
 Each thing must create it's kind, And they speed o'er the track to bring you back
 Whatever went out from your mind"
 Many a kind and loving heart beats beneath tattered jacket. It isn't al- ways the best dressed people who are the kindest or the most charitable. Fine plqmage hides many bad defect and moral degeneracy masquerades in broadcloth and fine linen, in silks and costly lace. Life is great building school. Each. to large degree is arch itect of his own fortunes, but some are blessed with better building material Ina 1kA kkat &1 worlds bank of Commerce. having been placed for them by frugal ancestors helps them out and hides their defects, which otherwise might become painfully apparent. It is no great credit to the man who comes in to the world with his fortune made and banked for him, so that all he has to do is dress we'll, live high and enjoy the fruits of another $ lbors.
 That man is the true aristocrat who, finding himself launched on the sea of life, Ill a poverty of surroundings. is able, by his iRtergrity, genus and in. dustry and honest ability to mass e competency for himself and those de- pendent upon him, and, amid his changed surroundings is not unmindful of the poor and whose heart is we'll. spring of sympathy to those in misfor. tune. He may not wear the tinsel crown which social caste places on hu, man brow, nor be counted in the circle oi the four hundred, of the butterfly class but his crown is one of living light, and the gems which adorn it are the blessings he has brought into other lives, and the pearls and diamonds are the crystalized tear drops from the eyes of those his bounties have helped aud the robe of his coronation are the prayers of those lives his kindness and goodness has raised from out of the slough of despair. and placed upon the the firm foundation of hope and trust.
 Words are arrows, and alas, pity il is that so many of them are poison tipped. It behooves us, each and every one, to guard we'll our. speech, lest our tongue work us an unintsnded mischief Many a friendship has beer lost through nasty word that much would be given to have restored. but repentence came to late. So, many ar act of kindness, done to some soul il distress, has later proved as bread cast upon the waters and in due time has brought fourth an abundant reward Not day passes but each of us is sow. iug seed. Do we ever consider the coming harvest. whether 1t shall be good or i'll? Every act of ours has some effect upon some other life, and oftimes that effect is far reaching much farther than we believe possible at the time Let us so guard our acti aud so coin our words and so shape oul deeds that blessings may grow out oi each, and in the world, great van oi of battle, we may each do our part, nol in striving to overthrow each other but rather to so live that each may bt of some aid to the other, leach for al and all for each.p When the world reaches that degree of living the dreams of Utopia win stand chance of being r5alized.
 And yet, after all, the dream is no wholly Utopian. Its success is depend ent upon ourselves, and the willingness of each to do his and her part We ar, all particles in the great mosaic ot human experience made up of many shades and many shapes, but there ar' grand possibilities of formation, ii each is ready and willing to occupy whatever position in the artistic har mony the Great Architect, in his wisdom and test of our usefulness deems bes for us to occupy. All cannot be centra figures, nor become the chief feature ot the border line. Each must be williI { to take the place the Master Builder as sipns and in that snace be it little ol