Norwich bulletin., 1913-09-27
THE MAN WHO TALKS

What do you think of the man who
 thinks that the fellow who does not
 agree with him in his opinions o1
 convictions Is 6 back number or a
 curmudgeen? This kind of a man has
 existed ever since the populace made
 fun of Noah for needing divine injunc-
 tien and building the ark. When Hip
 pocrites discovered five hundred years i before Christ that the oil of puppies
 which was made by cutting up two
 newly born puppies and boiling them in varnlshed pot for twelve hours with one pound of earth worms, would cure rheumatism. he was clear ahead of his times; but now. the man who cures rheumatism by carrying a horse chestnut in his pocket. thinks Hip pocrites was an old fool. History shows that what passes as wisdom in one age becomes rank nonsense in i another, hence 1t is not safe for a
 man to feel cocksure about the value of what he thinks he knows. It was
 Josh Billings who said: We all know too much that ain't sol" Calling a person names who doesn't agree with you is an easy way of looking intol- erant and cheap. 1 advise everybody
 not to do it!
 ! Many a man who has been tilted
 has thought that all his hopes were
 blasted and life was not worth living l when it was really the best thing that ever happened to him. The man who ruSheS out and commits suicide robS
 himself of the pleasure of seeing the man who wasn't tilted in despair and willing to graciOusly accept what he regarded as q sad fate as true bless
 ing. There Is To use of trying to be
 too fast in interpreting the So-calIed adversities of life. for those who have lived long enough know that they fre- quenuy turn out to have been bless ings in disguise. The person who does not know that it takes something more serious than ppointment in love to
 make a dreary life has not reached the stage of full development. Ad- versailles are usually eye openers. and the most serious failure has some
 times paved the way for success. There is not half the fun in smooth sailing there is in meeting head winds and buffeting seas. Do not let disap
 pointment sour you, for it is sweeter to stand up and knock it out
 # the egotst is the man Who thinks he is better than you are, there Is no scarcity of them in this world. It is a common habit to think mankind generally is nowhere up to our stand ard; but if We are challenged as to what our standard is most of us would have sorry time defining it. We have feelings which we do not try
 
 what most contribute to our vanity and increase our perversity of spirit. It has become a proverb that those who talk most about themselves tell most lies" When you look at the al Thabet you always see an egotist 'P'; and one of our great American lead CTS has almost made it his coat of arms, and so leads all others in it's use that it is not necessary to men tion his name. It has been said when you meet a person who talks so much about himself that you have no chance to talk about yourself you may feel sure you have met an egotist. This certainly makes the egotist's identity an easy matter.
 Most people who talk about religi- lOus freedom do not realize what an amount of confusion it has led to, all though, that may be better than the tyranny which history teaches us preceded it. The census shows that there are one hundred and forty nine different religions in the United States: and there are 79 in Canada; and it is said there are 169 different religions in the city of Dublin The differences of opinions are many, and should be respected; but it is difficult 1 to tell what to do with their antago- nisms, for rarely to any extent do they believe in one another. l like to be- lieye all are striving to sincerely live up to the truth as it is given them !, to see it; but viewed in the mass one ] cannot help thinking there are at least five times too many, and that 1 with less divisions more effective | work might be done for the religious progress of mankind. The average mind 1 deals with commercial conditions; and | the average eye does not have long range enough to take these things in 1 for consideration.
 Tn these days how long it takes a 1 careful man to plan his work! I have l known men to be almost as long plan | ming small job as they were in do- 1 ing it. I sometimes suspect that the | planning Is more of matter of mak- i ing it pay than of making 1t profitable | to the man who Is having the work 1 done. It used to be said if man put l his heart in his work he did a good 1 job; but now they seem to put time | into it, instead, and frequently do a | poor job. We all know the plumber will take time to do a job If he has to | walk for it; and there is no doubt 1 lettering is money if il can be artistic [ ally applied. The old fashioned man used to do things on honor, but the 1 new-fashioned man does them on | short hours and long wages, and be- | lieyes he has made a stride toward 1 better days; but he has been check | mated in so many ways that it is an 1 open question as to whether the i'm | is so great as he thinks | The workers have shorter hours and | perhaps more fun than their prede- i cessOrs did but not any more money l
 l feel at home among the flies if it i is an exciting subject. l have been bit ten by a thousand horse flies in my time and never had the bots and by | all varieties of mosquitoes and never had the malaria! It seems to me as | if the women have been swatting the | fly ever since he got into the ointment 1 which was previous to William Shakes | peare's time. When the fly got into 1 the amber he sort of embalmed and | glorifled himself; but when he got in- 1 to the ointment he thereby got a bad | name among men. According to Ex- l odus: chapter viii, the Lord had per l sonal charge of the flies and sent them l into Egypt in the time of Moses to l confuse and corrupt the Egyptians; and he drove them from the land of | Goshen where his people dwelt Chris | tians in those days did not have to | swat the fly; but they have been swat ting him now these many years. John | Ray in his book of English proverbs printed in TAP preserved this: Kill | two flies with one fap!" You see swatting flies is not a modern occupa- l tion. Before the days of Aristotle it was discovered that flies attended all 1 banquets unasked; and statistics show the death rate Der thousand has been growing less all the time.
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