Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1919-01-04
THE MAN WHO TALKS

sands of time was not all he was
made for. From the era of hierogly
phics to the dawn of letters was, as
they say in The south, % right smart
distance!" The first newspaper was
started so Car back in the dim dis
tance that it is clear out of sight. The
Chinese who have nearly five thou
sand years of recorded time, recently
had newspaper stop publication at
the close of 1000 years. 1t must have
been good while after the first news
paper was started that men like John
Newton published to the world: 81
read the newspapers to see how God
governs the world" We read the
newspapers now to see what a wreck
man has made of it.
The man who has pep is not looking
toward his grandfather with pride for
he is alive to a purpose which will
lend lustre to his grandfather'S proud
record. Don't you think il is an awful
thing to be Just the shadow of a great
name. with 50 little pep you are I'M
able TO make name for yourself
Some people have a pedigree and
some do not. I do not know which are
to be most ritied. GenenIogy is a
disease that becomes chronic, and it
has killed its thousands. 1t doesn't
make any difference to Tesla or Edi-
son or Marconi who is hack of them
they are it, and the world knows it..
They had pep and they may have had
ancestors, but they all Look up to them.
They do not know how to look back.
When a friend asks your advice go
slow. If you cannot endorse him, or
praise him. you better confess your to-
tai Incompetence as a judge if you do
not want to offend him. If there is
anything friendship can get along
without it is advice, neve" mind how
sincere it is. A friend should always
be too astute to need your advice.
You could not please him better than
say he is. Friendship has been wreck
! ed upon this reef too often for one to
| take any chances. Any friend who
asks your advice would prefer your
! praise, and is usually expecting it.
! Some things are not what hey seem
! to be; and ti-r cement OF friendship is
! not i'll advice, as has been often dem
| onstrated.
! 1t was Napoleon who remarked that
! Occupation IS the scythe of timei''
And what a swathe it has cut in the
world. Occupation is a miracle work
er for it cures the m arable and the
sick, and now and then comes neal
raising the dead. Lack Of it breeds
Z y
! Honest employment not Only keeps
men from mhappiness but from be-
coming criminals. When we are talk
ing of mans necessities we forget tC
include occupation as one. Having nj
time for idleness is to keep immune
from most of life's distresses. Cheer
fitness, you know, is said to be the
daughter of employment An under.
taker comes home from a funeral full
of good cheer, for to him it is profit
able employment. The busy can hard.
| ~ find time to weep. Service fits mar
for paradise.
! Some one has said Il have LIVED
long enough to know it is best not tt
know nothing That fellow mus
have been looking back to mis- teen!
across several decades. L takes ;
deal Of time and experience to maxi
real the saving: when ignorance i
bliss it's folly to be wise" III time
man gets where he senses acutely tn
value of minding ones own business
If the learned should take an inven
, tory of what @ley think they know
and compare it with what is not 81
they would be surprised by the riff
, raft mixed up with Knowledge. Thi
man who lived so long that he 'kney
il is best not to know nothing" Ia
no prejudice perhaps, against know
ing something. Airing ones knowI
= edge is an Improbable and disturbin
$ habit and he evidently knew enoug
a not to do that.
g 1t is great to be awake to the fault
of ourselves and blind to the faults c
others How quick we notice whe
another errs, and how dull we are I
our own mistakes? How we magnif
: unconVentionalitie and pirate abou
| the clownishness or lack of culture /
G others. There are people who do nc
: know honesty in word or action is su
! perior to Conventionality when it spell
false pretence. and even takes on tn
color Of dishonor. Many things con
vention recognizes as proper seem /
be far from being polite. Most thing
I we condemn as being bad, are not ha
y as evil as some of our own cute pei
t formances. The odd ways of other
= are just as tolerable as our own; an
= If we recognized the soothing an
h blessed quality of charity how it wouj
! GGd sweetness to life
i Somehow in this life it is easit
n getting what you are looking for tina
. anything else. Those who are lookir
. for evil have no difficulty in findir
it, and those who are looking for goc
n can somehow find good in adversit
e The action of the mind of man is
lncomprehensihle as the action of ar
OF the great forces necessary for II
governing of the universe. Mind n,
only overcomes gravity and harness
a the powers of nature but it gives IL
- glow or the gloom to every huns
life, and each being should be Il
=. master of his mind and guard again
q It's becoming the master Of him. It
I not wilfulness but science to SO adju
= ones self to life as to get the be
from it. and reject that which W
e mar our joy or usefulness.
n This is living sentiment, all rigf
k though written hitherto, and it W
ever be a pleasing wish to those
< whom it is revealed: May life I
10 gloomy side reveal, but all this brig
year through Good Fortune spin h
shining wheel right merrily for you
The chronic kickers and the surly a
le not going to have bright New Yea
Il or let anyone else nave one, if tn,
lie can help itHs. 1t is a mistake to |
them cast gloom upon US. Those wi
:. make molehills into mountains W
= always have a frigid atmosphe1
= They know little about the habit
y being glad, and of passing the pc
plexities of life lightly. They shy
10 little things like a senseless colt, al
l. are as Indispensable. Never let the
l. see things for you. It is in bett
form for you to see things for them.
lg Did you ever hear anyone say:
TX doesn't pay to be good ?" Such
Il averment does not call for discussio
as it is impossible by words to CORE
such dull perception. Two thousal
ie years ago the question was asked by
= follower of the Savior: who sh
OF harm you if ye be followers of tn
which is good?" And no answer b
Ell been recorded. The kaiser and t
at Potsdam gang might pass for an a
w swer in these days; but the assaile