Norwich bulletin., 1912-05-11
THE MAN WHO TALKS


 should not be as long as that of the elephant or the eagle. The greatest scientists of the day say there is no reason why man should hot live to be 140 years old. Such man would be boy compared with Methuselah, or the venerable secretary of the mikados of Japan, who lived 500 years. Man makes time his by the care he takes of himself. The man who lives in health and strength and comfort over 70 years earns all of the time-it is his by ac- quirement as much as wealth or learn ing. It is a humbug to talk about any mSn's living on borrowed time.
 do not think there is any evidence that old men are harder hearted than young men; but they are different. Ex- perience and life makes a great change in human beings, sometimes for better and sometimes for worse. An old doctor is quoted as having said:
 Books mean less to me; prayers mean less; potions, pills and drugs mean less; but peace, friendship, love and a life of usefulness mean more--inflnite- ly more" The man on the hill usually has pleasanter prospect before him than the man at the foot. There is only One competent to judge of the hearts of men. Age mellows man, if it does not make him wise. As was long ago observed: Age has deformities enough of it's own without adding the deformity of vice." and age is not often guilty of this. Age is apt to re- ishes the substantial things which it has found to be boon or a blessing.
 "Oh, my troubies!" These three dis tressful words express the feeling of those who become too conscious of their disappointments and antagonisms which establish within them a whole nest of worries. Do not exercise your mind by remembering trouble, recog- nizing trouble and anticipating trouble. What was, is, and is to be is always too much for one person to joyfully bear up under. Our trials are good things to throw down and forget. We do not have so many more of them than other folks-we make more of them, that Is all The troubles of yes terday are past; the troubles of today largely imaginary; and the troubles of tomorrow never have an existence and never will There is only enc trouble any person must bear up under, and that is the trouble now at hand. If ii Is too ponderous to be thrown out just sit upon it-never give it the distinc- ton of being a companion. If out troubles arise from evil habits they are readily banished by doing right
 A life all business, or a life all sen | timent or a life an selhshness, is likely | to give a lop-sided result. The sweet l and sane life, which is also healthy and inspiring, can only be attained by | faith in God and man. and that broad l interest and sympathy which results iT the most complete development of al | the faculties, evidenced by mental an( | spiritual harmony. The aim of If, should not only be to attain a compe. tence, but to attain the freedom whicl l gives the human soul assurance anC | peace and leaves an afterglow at life'I decline. The coin of earth cannot bul | the hope of Heaven which abides. II getting rich, men seem to forget thu | treasures money cannot buy-the rich
 es which endure; and these are obtain
 ed by making money an instrument fo
 good instead of a foundation for arro
 gance. There is no man so poor as tn
 man without hope.
 It was Gibson, the naturalist. wh
 wrote up the butterflies as the frs
 botanists; and doubtless someone els
 has observed the parasitic flies as tn
 first anatomists. The flies that la
 their eggs in the caterpillars of ou
 big moths never touch vitai par
 and the maggots in the body manag
 to steer clear of fatally injuring thei
 victim until they have profited by hi
 flesh and his genius The other da
 we opened a cocoon of the cecropi
 moth to find there as chrysalids SCOT
 of ichueumOn flies who fed upon tn ] caterpillar until he had spun his doubl
 cocoon of brown silk for winter pro tection; then they emerged and oc
 cupied it while the maker expired an dried up. The act of the cowbird fay ing it's egg in another birds nest
 nothing compared to the calculatio
 which is shown in this case of parasit
 ic flies that live through the wintt protected by the cocoon spun by the l victim. Of course, these flies accon plish this feat instinctively; and , they have not mind to plan, the divif mind must have made it possible ft them. There is in this phenomena e,
 idence of the closest calculation.
 Since it is not so uncommon
 hear good conscience spoken of, is fair to presume that there may l } such a thing as bad conscienc ; which, perhaps, may be defined as u
 conscience which approves evil ac
 committed in the interest of good. YC
 may not have given much thought
 consciences. As one of several childrt ) we could not help noticing the di- l similarity of conseiences among
 who were reared under one roof al
 the same instruction and influenC I The conscience may be "a little spal 1, of celestial fire" but not when burns the other fellow instead of i
 possessor. Franklin says: "A go,
 conscience is a continual Christmas r and Calvin declared: "The torture . a bad conscience is the hell of a livil ! soul The average conscience do | not seem to me to be capable of d ing either of these things. The quail
 of conscience has much to do with u ' training of the mind. In the name
 conscience the most terrible crim
 have been committed.
 { The web spinning spiders are valia
 hunters and able engineers. I watch
 a little spider subdue a wasp in t @ window of my den, and he did 1t wi f despatch. The entire spider was abo as large as the wasp's head, but ' quieted the wasp in a brief half ho,
 The triumph of David over Golia was not greater. He first entangl 0 the wasp's hind feet in his web sl S then he increased the strength of l
 lines by special spinning, and wh
 they were strong enough the spid q hoisted the wasp into the air as t Q butcher does a hog; but he was st :, alive and thrashine to clear himse Y The spider worked from the center
 the wasp's body, keeping clear of l
 sting and of his powerful jaws; a r as the foe tried to bite and sting hi l. the spider calmly cast his lines ov e his forefeet, and as soon as they we
 fast he began to bind down the buzzi
 wings. When the wasp was compIet o ly bound the spider ran down and (
 a cable centered his tackle on | wasp's body and hoisted him so tf It he rested in a horizontal position a
 then secured him for future use
 was a merited punishment, for | a1Tas hat 4sFasfy4 hsN 1az.a