Norwich bulletin., 1913-02-15
THE MAN WHO TALKS

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 trouble 1t is. The other fellows tron ble furnishes often an amusing pie l lure Tor us, because 1t semms to be q ! very small matter greatly ma gniHed: 5 We seeiss te be unfninslful Of now skill 1 fsfl we all bece4ne in magnifyifig stir own treueles. You haA deupt&ess 1 felt that no one ever had such an l afflietisn in the world before, even for i getting Jais. 1 navel and then after the 1 e2eads have relied away have wond- cred what was the matter with my thiniefi Ard I do not forget te reel i glad the sunshine comes IF 4 do not ] The clouds never roll by foK some folks, because they do SD enjoy their misery. They cant have it otherwise. Some folks cant's are equal to an attack of the cholera The persen Is wisest who gets. so he can laugh at his own troubles instead of the other fellows. LohEfellow says: Trouble is the next best thing to enjoyment --- You see 1t teaches us what weak foundation the other fellows misery usually rests upon.
 Have you ever considered why lie always travels faster than the truth. This is not an idle affirmation for has 1t not become proverbial? You can see that it is becausee it is necessary that it should, and 1t doesn't make any difference whether the course is
 
 never obliterated, but rather gathers force to itself. This is why the man who stole sheep and fled went back home when he learned he had stolen seven. You see a lie has to have greater speed than the truth or it would get nailed down. Speed with it is not wasted motion-it can't have too nluch:-and this is where it differs from most everything else. It is about the only thing lighting can't knockout al j111s sc~h l1.aS li Ta1 a liarl Do not tell one for you are sure to be ashamed of your offspring when it r-turns home.
 Do you realize that there are lot of men in the world who think they are right.-who have a deep i'm pression that they are good,-are so pleased with the idea they just sit right down and coddle it for life You have seen such men; and you became aware at once that nothing much worse could have happened to them; but it has never dawned upon them; hspnotized, and are hugging a delu- sion. T am good!" If I should catch myself greeting myself like that there would be a Scrapping match, because I feel and know it is better to be ac- tive and useful. 1t is really an abuse of the mind Ged has endowed Us with to make such a use of it. Your mate or your neighbor can tell you how good you be without any trouble. and they are likely to get nearer the truth than you can. Do no forget itt
 1t is an old saying that we do not know how the other half of the world lives; but no one has called attention to the fact that we do not know what 1t is doing while we are asleep, either. Almost one person in five works, about one in twenty five are in trade of some sort. and about one in fifty ft-a jaxr Ia of hai wi tine rest get their living by their pro- fessions if they can keep from stary- Ing to death The farmer, of course. is the most important worker there is, if the world does not think so, but he isn't the fellow who puts on airs and wears his thumbs in his vest holes it takes specialists who do not accom- pldsh much of anything for that! You do not think this is a false staten ent, do you. that ''one half the world is Just awaiting the opportunity to do the other half," Perhaps the saying man is only d little lower than the angels might be amended to read, man is but a little higher than the vul lures. What do you say to that?
 
 The men laugh at the absurdities of fashion just if they never followed them: but history shows that men bowed to Dame Fashion once upon a time until she made perfect clowns of of them. Should we meet an English beau of King Edward, III s time we should laugh at first and then mob him. This curled mustached dude wore long pointed shoes fastened to his knees by gold and silver chains; his hose might be red on one leg and yellow on the other: or black and white, or blue and gray His brooches legs. skin tight, came half down his thighs: and his coat must be half black and the other half white or blue. He wore long beard, and his head was covered with a silk hood buttoned with grotesque figures of animals and adorned with gold, silver and jewels. This was the Ia la boy of King Ed wards day; but it is not probable the world will ever see his like again, for this particular kind of a fool is dead.
 You may think life is on a broad suage but il isn't. Have you ever seriously asked yourself what life Is to most people? There are almost as many angles from which to view life as there are in sunbeam. Few men lend their minds to books, or the anal ysis of life. Since self preservation is the first law of nature, the way of maintenance is the foremost question in the mind of man. To many men life is just business and profits, home and food and sIeep-and what reere- alton they can sratch: and to many mixing and worrying and hope for some hing better. and living after a fashion; and life means something different to almost every soul Some men have declared that life is "one grand, sweet song" but this affirma- ton has to be taken upon trust, for it will never bear investigation. The great problems are crowded out of the minds of men because they have not the time or disposition to wrestle with them: and how many think you really take them upon trust?
 The farmer and his green hand is something the farmer of the past nev CT knew anything about. To-day even the greenland is the thing the experienced farmer must work care fully. pay liberally and not forget to kow-tow to. The boy born and bred on the farm is and always will be the ideal helper, but he is getting scareer every year. It would have made a farmer of ye olden times crazy to have had to pay for a hired nan-a poor one at that-s25 month with board and washing. to sax nothing of short hours and the submission auired to keep him. The farm hand of 1913 can neither be nettled nor sighted. He sits at the first table says what he will do and what he will not do. comes on the job when the sun is four hours high and leaves off two or three hours before sunset and if he isn't kow- towed to Jumps over the fence and goes to work for compet- 4a.~ AEE-L- t 4 Ia. &A