Norwich bulletin., 1911-08-12
THE MAN WHO TALKS

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 We may talk about conscience, but did you ever think of pride as an aux Hilary to it. Man has the power to perveft conscience but few are the men who can put down pride, that exciter of shame. l. has been said, and truth fully soid, that men would have but few regrets if the world id not find theTn out They do not conceive that they may be read like an open book from the spiritual side; and they will lssit cringing with guilt a long. time if they think that they are not even sus-e pected, although conscious guilt is far from being an agreeable companion as every one knows who has been stirred by it. Misguided minds have honestly done things in the name of conscience which the devil would be. ashamed of; and so long as they were supported manifested no signs of regret; but let the world condemn their acts and let fear break through their rconceit, and pride will soon invite shame and con- triton to come and sit with them, and then they quickly resolve in sorrow to sun nor more. It is singular how an erring person. or fool are sometimes saved from themselves.
 l noticed in the breeding cage the chrySalidS of two butterflies which had been brought in on wild cherry in the larEal state. Sharp eyes do not a1- ways notice the living creatures in the foliage. As l was putting in a lot of fresh sprays of foliage the other day for the Ceeropias 1 discovered a whole colony of the Promethea larvae in their first stage. socially sitting be- heath leaf, although in the advanced stage this caterpillar is solitary in it's habits and has no regard for the ex- lstence Or welfare of it's brothers and sisters but just goes on alone These little yellow fellows ringed with tiny Flt fl t11h 10 7nf Irr1 rhe mature larvae dressed in inn maculate white with coral red and lemon yellow horns upon their back: and living so wide apart in the foliage that they cannot be aware of each others presence. They pass most of their lives on the wild cherry shrubs not leaving them until they come out of their cocoonS in winged form the following year to hunt their mates. Then some of the males fly long dis tances before they are paired. So acute are their senses they will find a female in a house mile from their place of exit. They make a very in teresting study for amateurs.
 # style did not have greater sway in life than common sense so many people would net mortgage their prop erty in order to buy an automobile; they would not strain themselves into bankruptcy that they might appear to be something they are not by doing something which they cannot afford to do. We all pander more or less to the popular vanities of life, which all ways appeal to our weakest side. Rochefoucauld says: Tt is our own vanity that makes the vanity of others intolerable to us" Seet And George Eliot points out that "our vanities diff fer as our noses do: all conceit is not the same conceit but varies in core spondence with the mental make in which one of us differs from another" We all have 'em, but not to an equal extent, for if we did there would be many more pieces of mortgaged prop erty with shin-plasters upon it than now. We have reason to be thankful for the differences in our vanities for this must be the difference between fooIishness and common sense.