Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-31
THE MAN WHO TALKS

the blue sky method',' in other words the development Of manhood in a natural way. It is bringing men to recognize intelligence and power and beauty in nature as well as inducing nature to develop it in them. Wood craft brings to the consciousness of man twice as much to enjoy in life sky man recognizes red sky itnd lowering sky signals as readily as the wigwaggers of the army can read one another. The voice of natute becomes a real thing to them: and while to other men they seem to be wizards they are only natural men with open air ears and eyes and powers of in terpeting nature.
 The food and fuel administrators are constantly preaching the truth that obedience to regulations and strict attention to orders will make the burdens of all easter and ssricter measures unnecessary. But selfish ness makes many of them as deaf and blind to the public interest as if they were made of wood or stone: There is nothing that can make human being more worthless than a mis- conception of the relation of wealth, so called refinement and education to the masses. He who forgets we are all made of the same clay is becoming confirmed in self-illusion and that sell fishness which makes his demise a benefit to the world instead of cause for sorrow. Selfishness. as Whately points out, is not in pursuing our own good, but in negleeting our neighbor's. He who plays the part of hog soon gets to the hogs conception of life, and finds it impossible to rise above it.
 h another city not Ieru since I saw a British soldier with a swagger stick. He was stylish locker and there is no doubt of his bravery; but are British male varieties the aver are British male varieties the aver age Yankee cannot understand and
 smiles at; but the American boys
 who have been upon fierce fields with 1 the British troops praise the req | democracy and valor of the men wht cultivate the swagger- and mon | ocle habit, and admire them They
 may look like sissy boys in Yanket | eyes, but in action they force then
 to recognize them as true cubs of ths British lion. Beware says La Fontaine 'as long as you live Of iudg- ing men by outward appearances 1 The British show that the dandy may | | neryy as the next man regardless Q
 external impressions,
 ] It ia quite difficult to make peopl, I believe in the force of thought. Le
 a beggar appear in any public plac,
 and he is treated just as the wetlt ] thinks 8 beggar should be; but let l get noised about that he is mil ,ionaire with no fancy for dress, bu l that he could buy mansion, endov
 a college or fill a contribution bo, with bank bills, and a lightning chang 1 takes place not at all to the credit 0
 mans intelligence. although greatl to the enhancement of the beggar' standing if not to his comfort. It onl, takes few words from a respectabl source in this world to make the roai for the vilest irnposter easy an smooth, It is our eonceits that make
 easy victims of us An exhihite weakness has always been a rogue I opportunity. Our mistaken idea c I riches leads to all kinds of venture
 and vices.
 It was Joaquin Miller who said h kbad become convinced that we begi fthe next life where we leave off thi. It is up to you and 1 whether "
 commence the life immortal low dow
 or high up. No person can climb b
 words-they must climb by action
 what is thought and what is don
 must harmonize. To think one thin and do another, when the vision
 clear and duty plain. is rank dis honesty; and the price of being dis honest with ourselves, is to becom
 incapable of being honest with other !. Mans mind was not made to grove 1 but to soaF-to be able with Robei Kemp to sing .tOh, God, eterna Lord of love whose power goes fort
 in pity, to stir the. sleeping fields an : move the clouds from o'er the cit breathe on my heart and let me kne the gladness of the way I go!" Whei , this life ends below it begins above . if we lose ourselves in Him we sha
 not be strangers in His kingdom } The soldier lover There" is far fro, 5 home, from staunch friends, from goo . counsel and it is not strange tn:
 memory is broad enough to hold ar
 ponder upon and cherish it all In Il face of all this disorder and dissoll : tion, memories of the good old wor behind him seem like glimpses 5 heaven; and the thought that if ] l ever lives Co get home he will sho | he is worthy of 1t are all just as na ? ural as thoughts of peace and lo' and quiethess. There are always wi us remains of the good things we on did not seem to recognize, or to i conscious of; and when we beho Q life at its worst and fiercest we reca : not only pleasures, but good couns
 and even. our own remissness
 takes a good deal to make man tai
 account of himself, and usually wht
 he does his balances are not satisf t ing. When mans spiritual visit 0 becomes a nightmare he is anxious
 awaken to better things.
 g Isn't 1t singular that no one co . demns war with more vigor that t
 great generals of the past. Wellingtt . sufficient for life; and Napoleon d !" clared war was the business of ba l. barians. Gen. Sheridan said the t had never been a var in which hloe y shed had been invoked, that cou
 not have been settled without appes @ ing 10 the sword. The wars of if time indict man as a savage mo ,t ferocious than the wild beasts
 hunts and stays. The sentiment
 the world today is against war; a ? 1t is time it ceased to be the sport 't royalty. The prayer of all nations d that this may be the last war amo S. the nations; and the idea of leag ir os nations to keep the world SC W .e policed that another such war will
 impossible ought to find favor wi
 enough nations to make such a D < effective. ~ An American neWsparerman | K been abroad and visited the gra
 fleet composed of IS miles of bait Ia ships; and this is the message te brought from the boys in the trench, d For Gods sake tell the folks ,e write" The absent lads can stand |
 trials of the front. but they want |
 cheer from home. which we should " 1 Achn "a !.