Norwich bulletin., 1915-11-20
THE MAN WHO TALKS

We are told everything comes to
 him who waits" and we are cogniz-
 ant of the fact that temptation
 comes early and stays late. Tempta- Honesty, virtue and achievement are
 made sterling by temptation. A man who realizes the worth of temptation
 as a strengthener of manhood and a I sharpener of sagaeity doesn't want to i be led away from temptation, but Resistance under temptation forces
 the will to hold firm for good instead 1 of yielding to weakness for evil. Spurgeon used to tell his hearers to learn to say: "Noi" It will be of
 more use to you than to learn to read
 Latin." Life has revealed that some | temptations come to the industrious;
 but that all temptations come to | idlers." To resist temptation you I have to be able to be blind to charms temptations are weak to those who are welded to good conscience.
 An honest man is not expected to l tell all he knows. The conditions of society make the subjects we know l least about most popular for conver- sation. It is in the exploitation of truth that a man is likely oftenest to be called liar. If every violation of truth Is a stab at the health of
 
 that human society is sadly in need of a physician. The truth which in- eliminates yourself or any one else never increases ones popularity, but it may strengthen one's self respect. Our courts compel witnesses to make oath to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, but counsel make it difficult to get the whole truth in presentable and believable shape. Mental reservation is right -frrrrA ( Aa,~~-e- wwrsf fta codes or creeds. The fact is the commonest man among us knows more than any one else wants to hear. In this world you are chal- lenged a dozen times as to what you believe to once as to what you know. What you know Is yours to keep
 l do not think a bachelor girl is sometimes an old maid who is
 ashamed to admit it, do you? Why should a bachelor girl be a constant subject for jeers or gibes more than on earth be obliged to explain or apologize to any one else for living a single life since single life has often been more a blessing to the to the few. We all need companion ship and the evidence Is abundant that the widower is more lonely at last than the bachelor. When it comes to those who curse the day they were ever foolish enough to get married and those who deplore that in some way they never found their mate, the balance would be found to be about equal if we had any way to test it. The Florence Nightingales and the Clara Bartons and the Jane Addams's have proven that a life of
 single blessedness may be glorified by service to the human family. The bachelor girl has lap upon the mar ried feminine flirt or sport for virtue and for worth.
 When we wake up in the morning
 with coated tongue and ruffled temper nine times in ten it is yester- i da's folly expressing itself. No per- son can be guilty of indiscretious and go scott free--no man can make a l monkey of himself and escape recog- hilton. We have to pay the price for | all our high jinks and our low jinks It takes us a long while to become conscious of this, but nothing can so quickly give f1rmness to resolution to reform. When we see from an
 economic viewpoint that we cannot afford the price we immediately cut out our excesses. In many things concerning his own well-being man is | a dunderhead-he jumps over the f1owery and inviting. Many a man
 has made himself like a galvanic battery, capable of shocking every body but himself. There is nothing in the world seems right to him for he has put himself out of harmony with it all. He has become a GIscerd-a | disturber of the peace, an undesirable unit in life
 While the ehrysanthemum is old the possibilities of the plant under cul- tivation are a modern discovery. We know of nI9nt which rncnnndS 1 wonderfully to constant care, and the leviathan of the tribe which is now
 or exhibition at the San Francisco exposition is 65 feet in diameter and is the second largest chrysanthemum in the world; but these great plants are not the producers of great flow CTS. The Japanese first discovered the wonderful result of disbudding which gave rise to the mum craze l over a quarter of a century ago, and The growing of these beautifully H. l luminated flowers with their incurved and ref1exed petals is an art in which even the amateur finds success and delight. MT. Clarence Norcross, at the place of Mrs. Helen Gardner on Maple street has devoted himself to mum culture with wonderful success producing exhibition flowers nine and ten inches in diameter in white, pink, and yellow, varying tints and shades, CO say or a score or SeeQllnSS which would do credit to the skill of a professional. Under the guidance of Mrs. Gardner, Mir. Norcross has be- come familiar with their culture from | seed to bloom, and it is the beautiful seedlings produced which makes their limited collection of rare interest and value.
 # the present European war has done anything 1t has disclosed the mistake Gen. Sherman made when he said war is hell, for it had not then got beyond the power of human con- ception in ferocity and baseness. The old soldiers cannot comprehend the savage rigor of an artillery engage ment which in 72 hours discharged from one side two million shells, or a fraction over 456 shells a minute for three days; but this is the French battery record, which is equal to ten days output of all the French fac tories. This reveals why heavy am- intuition Is always short, and makes plain that it is no fairy tale that at l the end of the three days lombard tment what Germans were left alive in the trenches were too exhausted and | dazed to make any resistance-they did not seem to know whether or not they were on earth. There was never anything like this in war before and who can imagine it being excelled.