Norwich bulletin., 1911-08-19
The MAN WHO TALKS

IL would pe Well II those people VINO
think their religion prepares them for
death would just realize that it should
prepare them for life. Death under
any conditions is not prospect to be
considered or cherished; but regarded
as ar inevitable incident which a good
life defers and an ill-liyed life hastens.
The victims of ignorance are legion,
and the way CT intemperance is the
way to death in every direction. 1t is
not our relation to death which il
worthy of our thought AS much as our
relation to our feliowmen; and it is
our relation to our fellowmen which
makes secure our relation to our
Heavenly Father. LAS YOU do unto
the least of these" said the Saviour,
you do unto me- Kind hearts, de-
clared Tennyson, are more than cor
onets, and simple faith than Norman
blood This question by George Eliot
was we'll put: What do we live for,
if it is not to make life less difficult to
one another?' Orderly thought is one
of the truest blessings the mind of
man knows anything about.
The English sparrow is out of favor
with those who do not study him and
recognize his ability in various direc-
tons. He is charged with driving
away the native birds: but he cannot
be charged with robbing them of the
trees in which they like to nest; or
with killing them by the thousands as
men and boys have been doing ever
since this country was settled. If there
ever was a bigger simpleton in his re-
lation to things in nature beneficial
than man l have not yet been able to
find it out. The English sparrow is
one of the most versatile birds it is
my privilege to know anything about;
and he adapts himself to any climate
man can endure from the tropics to
sub-arctic regions, and stays the year
round. OF a recent evening lust after
shutdown / noticed a pair of English
Sparrows on a maple tree running ~up
the trunk hunting insects like pair
of nuthatches. the male pressing the
trunk hard with his tail in imitation,
but they could not run down. He does
not drive the native birds from any
place, and the goldfinches are more
than a match for him in combat
There is too much being said about
the English sparrow that is not so.
Those people who become chronc
invaiids and then like to talk of their
ailments do not appear to be quite as
numerous now as they were once; but
we venture they are not and will not
become thing of the past for 10
these many years The truth never
dawns upon them. their exploiting of
disease breeds disgust in the minds of
their friends. If there is anything in
life that is distressing to the well 1t
is the harpings of the sick upon their
troubles, for most people understand
that to get ones mind fixed upon dis
ease is not the way TO promote health
fulnesS. To overcome diseased con-
ditions resolution is often. more neces-
sary than medicine. A resolute and
opposing mind can sometimes drive
out disease that the doctors cannot
seem to touch. Talking about all
ments is a bad habit, and the sooner
It is abandoned, usually, the quicker
the patient shows signs of recovery.
The invalid who can say constantly to
soon obeying orders. To the brave be-
long The fair, and everything else good
and desirable in this life.
1t might seem like fish story to
hear it said they catch trout in Mon
tana by tickling them on their sides,
if one did not know this was print
tive way of catching some salt water
fish. 1t sis recorded of the Indians in
this part of the country that they
caught frost fish through the ice by
jigging. They put sticks in the water
against which the tomcods rubbed like
cats and put a stick with a bare hook
upon it down through the ice. then
when the fish became sufficiently un
wary, with a quick jerk hooked and
threw them out upon the ice. The
manager of a park in Montana calls
attention to the fact that anglers there
catch trout by tickling them. 1t is
claimed that after the fisherman has
quietly tickled the sides of trout
under the overhanging bank of
stream, Or the shadow of rock, that
the fish seems to lose all his natural
wariness and finally the fisherman
reaches in his hand and deliberately
takes the fish out of the water. This
man says if he had not seen this done
himself he does not know as he should
believe it, so those who read it will not
be blamed if they coubht it.
Some men are good today because
they are devoted to keeping what they
did Yesterday from getting out. This
is not very high type of goodness;
but it is quite an improvement upon
continuation of evil; and through fear
a few men are brought to better con-
ditions just as through night some are
brought to light. The way to better
things are many, and some of them
appear to be cast upon the idea that
the farthest way round is the nearest
way home. 1t does not make much
difference whether the line is straight
Or crooked SO long as the goal is at
last reached. The merit of righteous
ness is not in being merely good but
in being good for something. The
Chinese have a proverb that 1.-The two
perfectly good men are the one who is
dead, and The one who is unborn
and the western world is not contra
dieting them. "A good man is better
to his enemies than a bad man is to
his friends" so it is not so difficult
to mark them. Many people who think
they are good are simply inert. which
instead of being akin to virtue is akin
to vice.
1t is a wonder man does not con-
template more the changing beauty of
the day. Not one hour a time does
the landscape look the same. The
changing lights and shadows form the
panorama of life. ] do not wonder
that morning parties have been the
vogue for young women this season.
for it is in the early morning light
that the air is sweetest the flowers
look the brightest. and the skies the
DlueSt-then all nature looks freshest.
1t is when the shadows are long that
I like the pictures best; and l have
a constant fancy for the gray days
which have subdued colors and soft
distances The flowers have q tired
look at night after the heat and work
of the day: and nature going to rest
seems to welcome the weary eve IS
much as man. We rather like tie
cleaning when day is done and dark
ness falls from the wings of night
when night is getting ready Ito draw
her mantle round and pin it with
star" And / like the night because of
it's silences and its sounds. Like Byron,
lin her starry shade of dim and soil
tary loneliness. I learn the language OF
another world