Norwich bulletin., 1912-12-28
THE MAN WHO TALKS

ference between mate and mother the music of love seems to have crept into the second word-the infection seems to make 1t sweet. There are those who like to use big words which show they are more devoted to sound than sense We all of us take the dictionary for better or worse, and most of us get the worst of 1t. We snuggle up to the wrong words make too much of hate and too lit- tie of mend, too much of cheat and too little of charity. We fail to get a grip on the good words which reflect good actions. Carlyle said If you do not wish a man to do a, thing, you had better get him to talk about it, for the more men talk the more like ly they are to do nothing else. While words crystalline history and syllables are said to govern the world, few of us master them, but let them master us.
 Living day by day makes strong men. Men who concentrate their ef- forts to make today the best day of their lives look back upon improving yesterdays. What we are going to do cuts no ice-what we are doing castes the die for us. Abraham Lincoln said, T have no policy, but meet all problems day by day, and each day do the best 1 can." This habit was a factor in making him great, and 1t will develop growth and power in every man who cultivates 1t. How many are secretly saying to themselves, 1 mean to do better next year, when it is up to them to do better now We all proerastinate, and this has been defined as struggling with ruin. Too many men die deliberating. We make promises to ourselves as we do to oth- CTS, without any intention of ever tomorrow is the fools day for reform, without realizing that 1t Is our day Today is what we should wrestle with.
 There is never any moro music in musical instrument than the player can get out of 1t; and an amateur can get just as many discords from a Strad. violin as he can from a $1.50 instrument. The thrill of the heart the music in the sou1-is the measure of players ability. I suspect that great many people think they are mu- sicians who are not; and still I have always envied the boy who can pull Home. Sweet Home" out of har- monica without any variations. A story is told of boy who had a fath- CT who owned a very expensive old violin, and when asked one evening by male friend of the family. Where Pa was?' said: "Oh, he's home pulling the caterwauls out of 'Schubert's Ser enade." But the fact was, of course, he was putting them into 1t. Music hath charms, we all admit, if rendered charmingly; if not we are liable to think otherwise Some people enthuse over music who cannot tell clef from stave, or a note from bar, because it is something to "seem!" Sweet sounds are pleasing in limited sup plies.
 In mid-winter, when the earth is farthest removed from the sun, the starlit sky seems to be nearer the earth. Why should we yearn for the works of old masters when nature hangs be- fore our eyes every night such a ra- diant picture of suns and worlds and comets and meteors. a picture which man has looked upon with wonder and awe through all the ages, picture he has revered and still cannot compre- hend. Moses led the children of Israel to the promised land beneath this very CduOpy Ol lISut anu DedulJ ddlu OuT
 star. or sun, was the star of all the philosophers, sages and prophets since God said: Let there be light" Per- haps you have never looked upon this picture as yours-yours to admire and to contemplate with the admiration which 1t merits. The sky seems to be
 bluer, the clouds whiter and the stars brighter in winter time. When you are out at night look up!
 What some people think is goodness Is the purest selflshness. They main tain a life of good order and conform ity because they believe their best in terests require it. In this they may be right; yet they are wrong when they think this Is righteousness. Right eousness Is something more than be- ing a good fellow-it is being good to the other fellow. Too many people
 get up to the verge of righteousness and then stop. Doing what the preach
 CT tells you to do Is not piety, but conformity to suggestions or advice;
 but doing what your heart prompts you to do in kindllness, or uodlikeness,
 is piety. Too few people who profess
 to be good take stock in the still small voice." although 1t is the sym bolic Redeemer. It isIup to every one of us to honor our own convictions and far from being manly to scout
 the other persons Some day we may be obliged to sit in judgment against ourselves. We may be the only wit ness against ourselves in the day of judgment.
 haven't enough patience with the
 man who talks about wage slaves. but I nAl hof T to has vn | for have defined the wage slave foI | myself and the slave driver of America in this year of our Lord 1912. A per 1 son whose compensation for his best 1 efforts Is not hardly enough to keeI body and soul together-to keep the wolf from the door--is a wage slave The family whose total efforts art
 required during long hours to keel \ them barely comfortable are the vic ] tims of a system as deplorable as tho l slavery abolished by Abraham Lincoln The reign of greed is 8 reign of tyr.
 amy and oppression. These indus.
 trial wars are not caused by the poor l but by their oppressors, and they show
 an indwelling spirit of manhood amonl l the people which is a credit to thl race. The Golden Rule has never ye been recognized as worth honorins industrially or commercially. Let ul hope that 1t may be some time.
 Have you ever thought that tn, mother of all the ocracies !s democra l cy, or that of all Of them 1t is tn, best? From 1t ali other ocracies hay,
 come despite the old fiction about al | vine rights. About the cheapes
 ocracy there is in life is plutocracy | which was never yet known to have
 real man in 1t. It is not demonstra ton of manhood, but grand exhibi
 of vanity. It should be remembere,
 that in life all things work from tn
 bottom up. The root of all progress
 greatness and genius Is in the people l All wealth Is created by the people,
 not possessed by them. The abuse o 1 wealth and power upsets order an
 destroys nations. agree with tn
 writer who said: ''One'S blood boils t
 read the dedication of a Beethova,
 sonata to some royal asst" MentaIit
 never appears well hattering weakness
 There are real kings among men, bu
 they are not of the privileged class
 they are -lifterB, not down. treaderi