Norwich bulletin., 1913-02-22
THE MAN WHO TALKS

Some rnsn Whs havc hard luck are inviting it all the time, and do not frealize it. There is nothing that tells for or against is like the impressions we make. There is no use of making fate the sea pegoat of our own lack of tact which is usually q lack Of know ledge. For any person to think his is an error of mind which is no com fort; but the cause of many dis&p- pofntments. Every body is not attrac- give, or prepossessing Tn looks; but disposition lends 8 charm to any one when it is right. and the indi- yiduai can control that and make a good disposition rather than a net tlfne disposition habit. The greatest battle in life must be fought with self and he who has not found this out has an important thing yet to learn.
 Most every tsamstsr of this age seems to have taken for his motto: What is man that we should be mind full of him. or else his Ignorance of the law blinds him to the fact that the pedestrian has rights in the street which he should and must respect. And he manffests the same spirit to- ward the trolley and the motor car- riases-and in his disregard of the rights of pedestrians. he is not alone, for many automobiIe driverc follow this bad example. It does not look we'll to see the lives of aged people in the streets and also the lives of small children. irnperilied by q dogged dis regard of 8 just law which from any point of view fs indefensible. In the rush of life consideration for the weak and the aged and politeness towards our feIIowman appears to have got lost. The world really cannot spare the graces which made life so much different only few decades ago. The hog in man needs no development- it is only when we try to suppress him that man seems noble.
 
 Man complains good deal about the way nature deals with him. Ma ture first requires that every man who tilis the soil shall be student. and his compen sa ton Is in accord with what he learns. Nature does not let him slop around and win any great success; but she seems to be graceful enough toward the dullest to let them see that good work brings large re he has never found any short cuts to success in her domain. He can iH1i- tate natural conditions when he has learned his lessons well, and force plants and vegetables in the off sea- sons but nature will often disappoint him when he has done and is doing his best. Man under the tutorship of na- ture has developed wonderful skill and power but there is a thus far and no farther regulation of their relationship which makes certain the pupil can never equal his teacher. The check put upon man is reminder that he is the child, not the master.
 Some people lay great stress upon the importance of being in good com pany; but their idea of the subject IS rather narrow and not always what 1t seems to be. Good company that ouarrels is far from being ideal, and great deal of this everyday good com pany both quarrels and gossfps- A person is in good company with good books. and they never bore him A person is in good company when he is with the sunshine. the flowers and the birds. none of which are capable of saying or doing unpleasant things. To be alone with one's self is being in good company when self fonors the principles which ennoble manhood. To be alone with God is to be in the best of company if you dwell ir,s love, not in in fear. Being in good company does not necessarily mean surrounding ones self with good fellows, or classy peo- pie although this Is the general inter- pretation of the phrase. Some good company is not elevating-how. then, can it be good?