Norwich bulletin., 1919-08-16
THE MAN WHO TALKS

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 There are toe many psepls who Ike l forever Invoke the favoring gale, which, by the way. does not develop the mastery and the skill required to l produce manhood or womanhood.
 Stress and antagonisns are made a part of every ceature's experience in life to sharpen his wits and develop his energies and to familiarize all with exigencies which menace and must be overcome, Plain sailing is in perpet- l nity what a fools paradise would be like. This is a world of hard knocks
 in the right spirit wrought into a | blessing. 1t is the miracle of the hard I knocks which makes a backwoods boy l into a Lincoln. Easy going always | produces sloyenly results. What man wants is a fighting chance.
 l It is well to bear in mind that he who buys what he does not want will saop want what he cannot buy. Your ! wants and mine are always far in ex-
 cess of our needs. and our ability to 1 gratify them Self denial is the full l crum upon which the attainment of l the best there is in life for any of us 1 depends. It is always better to do as l we should rather than as we would. I Our wants know no bounds. but our purse does Our needs are greatly 1 multiplied by the imagination, and are l not nearly half as great as we think l It takes self-denial to hold one's self
 
 seem in doing this we may build our 1 selves UP Those who go as they please
 are seldom pleased with results.
 How the past sings to us, and l charges our souls with the spirit of l hope which comforted the people thir- | that the twenty third Psalm has car ried more comfort to the hearts of men I than any poem ever written; and 1t is what Alexander Smith called "a poem e<%, ,,-3f T the Psalms of David. a large mum Der ! of which were written by someone | else, reverberate with hope and faith | and power, and have lent cheer and and will continue to do so for centuries l to come. "1n peace. Love tunes the | shepherds reed; in war he mounts the warriors steed; in halls in gay attire | is seen; in hamlets dances on the green; Love rules the court, the camp, | the grove, and men below and saints above. for Love is heaven and heaven 1 is love" sings Coleridge.
 On a recent halliday a fine looking American of Irish descent met an old i empioy. Hello! Ratraciel" said he. l 1s all we'll with thee?'' The Italians face lit up with an almost smile as he
 replied: V-e-r,ra w-e-e-a How the American. "Fiva. but the old woman no work-ain There, there. don't talk about family troublesH said he, i've all have 'eH- but never talk about 'em! Stand by the country and be happy!" ITO hell wid de countra,'' replied the Italian. ':Hon't say thatln exclaimed the American- 'sYou know
 what Gspe,-ah and ysenise are for 2
 and be happy" 'T did not-a mean it.'
 said the Italian. 'I feel-a crosst" '1 am geing to the restaurapt te get somethipS sood to eat" said the Amer weicemeb No, fapk-a you and
 turpipg to 3 bystanasr he said: T werlSa for him two year. He good-a boss and a geod-a feilow." . Experience may be the school in which fools are taught but it is the realize if he wasn't fool yesterday he was the day before. It is only by this knowledge that man can hope to become master of his conceits, and in
 the end gather to himself common
 sense, which always precedes the ac- auirement of the little wisdom possible to the human mind. The man who realizes his own weaknesses. and is assistant to heln him gather strength of character. The man who thinks he never makes mistakes is the one who has and is liable to make the most err TOTS in life, Experienee teaches us what we take for wisdom is often punk.
 It was J. c. Helsnd who pointed out that '.no nation can be destroyed while
 it possesses good home life" A good home life is the home life in which We trust God and ons another. NO na-
 ton can perish quicker than the one
 whose people are devoted to selfish
 enterprise and disreEardful of the in
 terests of others. The distrust which
 grows out of all combinations for ex-
 torting excessive taxes or profits from the people weakens a nation, rohs it
 of unity and in effect creates a mob.
 Man cannot live and thrive without
 the virtues which put joy into life and
 hope into the human heart. Extortion
 is the child of sslfishness and an eTn
 isary of the devil and hedes no good to nation.
 lf ''the love of demeeracy is the love
 of equality just where are these
 world democraciss the president de- clares we have done so much to pro-
 tect and give future assurance? In the greatest republic of the world who
 perceiyeS a superabundance of the love of equality? The idea of equality
 is something all kinds of society seems
 to be fighting shy of. Dep1ocracy Is
 history has become little else. The author of "the Sermon on the Mount"
 his freedom in righteousness, demecra- cy will have been well founded; but any scheme which says: Every man
 for himself. and the devil take the
 hiHdermost' is far from a realization
 of what man has been striving for
 through the ages.
 In these prohibition days how do you suppose the fellow is getting along who won popularity by praying
 with the righteous and drinking with
 the dry?" In a way it may be seen
 that he has lost his grip. although the
 art of being all things to all men has
 not been seriously Impaired thereby.
 This being "a good fellow" Is a way of
 being about as tricky and irresponsi- ble as one can be. The good mixer"
 fits in any kind of company. and he is
 usually the worst feature of the com pany he keeps. The man who is sharp ly playing the game of life doesn't be- lieye so much in virtue as, he does in pep" He is hot on the trail~ of selfishness.
 Those who yesrn for the blessed age of leisure are unaware that it is an age of wearipess. Activity is the rriro nf