Norwich bulletin., 1913-10-04
THE MAN WHO TALKS

Dy those who think life does not need careful interpretation. It must be ad- m1tted that such a soul cannot be made better by any sort of nagging ot abuse that can be imagined since he l IS lost in the darkness of his own 1 thoughts. What he needs is to be il- l illuminated by the truth so that he 1 shall know that he is master of his fate
 and the captain of his soul"-that he
 can let the sunshine in or shut it out 1 Life demands we shall be masters or l memals. and We have our choice and never shall be able to dodge the re- l sponsibility. We should know a bles- sing when t is received, and be ble l to appreciate 1t; and 1t is up to us to 1 know tribulation and to refuse to sit l with in sack cloth and ashes Dark 1 ness is spoken of as the shadow of death, while sunshine is recognized as 1 eternal light Embrace your joys and ! say to all else get thee behinde me, as l the Saviour did to Satan.
 The unfortunate always surprise me 1 by their fortitude and make me feel as if could not equal them in advers- Ity. Of course diversity may be the diamond dUSt that Heaven poli shes It's jewels with but that doesn't make it look any moro inviting to me. l prefer not to be polished by that method. We all know when things go awry we 1 must grin anG bear them, because that is the very rest thing to do; but with due diligence it is possible to keep many things from going that way. We | have all seen the cheerful no armed
 man and the gleeful paralyzed lady; 1 the merry cripple and the jolly invalid;
 to say nothing of sour humanity who can~giVe no reason for it's abnormal acidity, and the contrast makes me sit
 up and take notice. I like the people who cheerfully endure misfortune and
 bravely maintain silence concerning
 their trials. If we should cry "Brava- do!' when we meet them the world would question our sanity. and yet the appreciatiye spirit feels the impulse to do it. Heaven bless them all
 Although we constantly srumbs about the weather I frequently reach the conclusion it must be perfect eV-
 cry day simply because God provides 1t and knows the earth's needs. The floods and the drouths puzzle us. and it Is only modern discovery that the
 drouth is just as necessary as the floods since il is the correetor of bad conditions and the sweeteher of the
 earth, the balancer which assures conditions which mean good and Sus-
 taining crops. Some men in their con
 ceit think they could provide better weather, but 1 should not dare to have them try for fear it would be much
 worse. Man in his desire to improve crop conditions has shot into the heavens with heavy artillery to change
 the vibrations and force the heavens to give down rain, the same as the Farmer used to slap old Moody to make her give down milk but it did n't work. Old Sol draws the water up and it is distributed over the earth by a regular system man is never likely to fully understand. When we look at results in the total there doesn't ap- pear to be anything the matter with the machinery.
 Did you ever notice the queer part but" plays in speech The man who stands for temperance Is met by the man who thinks he does, but he ob- jects to methods and for the present prefers the license system. The man of peace meets his neighbor who also stands for peace. and he has but" which prompts him to argue for big navies and every thing which pro- notes war. The man of the church meets his brother and in religious ar gument finds when the but is reached the ten commandments even are queered. Politicians of the same party and principles meet to discuss uues- tions, but the sharp curve Is reached by the one who gets in but first for he is on tangent which makes him look disloyal. There is something but is founded upon when it so queers ev- erything, and when looked into a sell fish motive is usually found beneath it; and that. like the Rhone, Hare says, has 2 pure and an impure source, and the latter Is ever showing Itself in the flow. Do not depend up- on your but to get your bread and butter.
 It has been truly said "the study of the mind is exercise, not rest" and those who have applied themselves to the task have no doubt that it also has it's comp pensating results. Schol- ars have realized for ages that the power of the mind was such that it could make a heaven of hell, or a hell of heaven; that it could degrade or enoble a soul; that it could destroy health or be used IS an agent in re- neWing it. The most advanced people of this generation are today realizing the necessity for becoming masters of mind instead of letting mind impair them. One of the cleareSt and most convincing writers upon this subject Is Annie Ritz MilitZ, who is the author of several handy little volumes upon mental self-improvement. Her latest work: The Renewal of the Body" of TO pages, may be had of the Eliza beth Towne Co, of Holyoke Mass for s1.00 Its message is: The power of the mind. exercised through the will and the understanding, is the key to bodily renewal" and that Truth be- lieved and applied delivers the body from the ills of flesh.'
 1t would be interesting to know what the ordinary every day citizen knows or cares about germs. When the sci entif1c physician talks to him of the fauna of death, and assures him man Is symbolic and carries with him at all times millions of microbes; part ners of life; and that his species of the fungi are q and the number three times as many as those of the hog and only third as many as the horses he stares; but does not get scared. If God made them he knows they have been in existence ever since the days of Adam, and that It has only been of recent years that they have disturbed the human mind. When it comes to the scavengers who get these germs on their feet, it takes eight distinct sQuadrons of insects to dispose of any animal carcass and the flies get in their work in the first stages of decompo- sition and in the fifth while hosts of other insects do the rest: the last, or eighth squadron cleaning up the filth left by the others as faithfully as a health brigade. If it were not for the scaVengers divinely commissioned to clean up disease creating filth, it is doubtful if plaques would not depop- ulate the earth.
 There are too many public speakers in the world like Senator Sorghum who felt sure that what he said never gave offence because most of the audi ence went to sleep. Those men who study to be sweet in public addresses instead of being effectively instructive Xxrhi