Norwich bulletin., 1916-06-03
THE MAN WHO TALKS

If everybody paid pills as promptly as offended persons pay grudges there would not have to be any professional collectors. An offended man comes back at you like sparrow hawk Eo- seems to be to do an ugly task than an honorable one. It is not stTangei Ehat the belief In total depravity be- came so deep-routed 1t promises 10 | abide with us till the end of time. The ! savage in some people cannot hardly | be hushed long enough for them to l say their prayers. Our wrath bctls so | that our p3ety gets hidden in the steam of it. Although we expect God to for give us we do not seem to know how l to forgive others. We ask Him to for give us as we forgive our enemies and l then we do not forgive thens or realize l what kind of q prayer we have been 1 making. Don't you think 1t would be better to pay our bills prompter and to forget our grudges2 mind with grudges in it cannot be divinely i1Ium- tnated-
 There is no reason why we should be. hard upon the man who parts his hair in the middle. He has a right to part his hair in the middle if he wants to. A western railroad president said no man who parted his hair in the middle could work on EdS road for he wouldn't trust such a man; and yet pictures of Christ and of Matthew Arr mold show that they parted their hair in the middle. A man who parted his hair in the middle could not have done worse than this western railroad pres-| 1 ident, for he wrecked the road Part | ing ones hair in the middle may be a | fancy or a necessity, but we doubt ! whether 1t is ever a true sign of ef- feminacy. We have known clergymen who parted their hair in the middle. but we cannot call to mind a prize fighter who did. We have noticed that a man who parts his hair in the middle usually has a well balanced smile, and who declines to take d smile with him.
 A daring evangelist did not hesitate to tell his hearers that "a man who uses a cusS word would strike his grandmother" I do not see why such
 d man should strike back two genera
 ticns when his wife is near by. I have
 known a man who used cuss words to
 be constant in prayer and ever ready } to promote the interests of the church. It was the mark of bad habit, not the evidence of a bad heart believe lit was General Lee who bore witness that General Washington swore di-
 yinely on one occasion when he cursed | a traitor just right. do not believe
 Washington would have struck his grandmother, or have tried to have justified the temper which led him to resort to oaths to do verbal justice to 3 | a, disloyal officer The temptation was
 great and his words of condemnation
 fitting. Cuss words are too prevalent; 1; but they are not such evidences of : brutality as this preacher would have us believe. They are always in bad ? taste, but not always vicious.
 Do you believe we all have a fool s streak in us somewhere2 There are 2 intelligent men who think they see
 plenty of evidence to confirm such a conclusion. All people ready to take a chance are in the streaked class n from the man who wagers all his : fight to the bank president who ven e lures to run his finances as a me n dium advises who is in communica- . tion with the spirit of a great f1nan-
 cier, instead of his own judgment : and wrecks the bank. Charletans art e so common and their work so success. l- full that we accept for truth the say. s ing that "a sucker is born every min. l. ute" We are all so anxious to ge $ something fors nothing that we art II game at almost every turn in life. w e are easy victims to thousand n schemes because we prefer to take { n chance than to rely upon experienci l. and the traditions Of common sense. ;t
 ,1 A neighborhood that has not in 1 the bugle voiced oriole is songsterl lacking. There are really three bird ai needed to make complete any neigh n. borhood bird choir, robin red-breas # the chorister, and the golden robin an l. the red-breasted grosbeak, the trump V eters. The clarion notes of tn n last named are so similar that it take
 an experienced ear to distinguish be
 tween them; and even with thes
 something will seem to be missing
 the sprightly trilling wren is not tfer fe to add its sweet interludes. Powe 7, conferS upon our red-breaSted thruS
 the honor of being a finer singer tha
 the mocking bird, and second to II
 bird in America for the variety an 1t sweetness of it's notes. As in o1de ot times every court had it's jester, so it these days no bird neighboThood
 complete without it's cat-bfFd mewin
 in the shrubbery, or mocking derisivel ', the fowls in the yard, or the song ae ture wil not be complete without tf at silent gracefully flying swifts an
 swallows which destroy millions
 midges and mosquitoes that they car e. ture in the upper air.
 Do you know that more than or ce man who never could get the out
 busy Glas become millinonadre; ar
 more than one woman who never cou he get the t out of which has been dis
 
 n- a successful society leader. We shou
 rot hold people in dis-esteem for the
 small faults. People who cannot spS
 may attain the power to cast spt d. over those who can. The great Ma f. terlinck confessed there were commC ng stunts in arithmetic he couldn't st whiesl the talking stallion of ETbe
 Held could; and Henry M. Stanley q
 discoverer of Livingstone was eel
 brated for most everything except b de ing a good speller. It is fine accon re plishment to be a correct speller; b he the men who have been able to SD, or down every competitor in their toV
 or county have never b cen enroll
 upon the scroll of fame. Being ah - to put a town on the map or a tel ~ phone in half the homes of America zee of more importance than Knowing hc ch to spell Bucephaaus or Constantinoplt ng -
 It has been remarked that every O
 should have a little spare time vs sides that devoted to serving up ~ committees If we do not get su - spare time how can we forget our oE m importance? If we do not forget o ssh own importance how can we pe ava
 ened to or appreciate the importan
 1 of others? When it comes tjo comm