Norwich bulletin., 1919-05-24
THE MAN WHO TALKS

have turned to steel. Why do you look so lonely? Why so sad? Why so worried? Through the mind Habit has imprinted the sign where all can see it. The heart, which likes to cherish little song is not guilty of giving you away. The habit of the mind increases the wrinkles on your brow and removes the light of joy from your eyes. You cannot look right unless you think right. You cannot carry age well if you do not carry lifes burdens well. You miss the joys of life by becoming too con- scious of its drawbacks. The eliXer of life lies in the heart, not the ima- gination. Think right. do right and you'll look right.
 You may never have thought of yourself as a wizard. but since Ma ture is a wizard and you are a child of nature, there must be something of the wizard in every one of us. of course. And the more we know of Nature and Natures laws, the more of a wizard we become: and it Isl through this knowledge that men come to be known as nature fakirs, or as weather prophets. If it is a law of nature that false thoughts will physically impair you, it is no joke that good thoughts will repair . a fool of you. if reversed may make you wise. Nature is called a wizard because she is constantly doing something we do not understand. By better knowledge of her laws we do things others do not understand.
 A great man shows his greatness by his lack of conceit and breadth of. human interest and apparent un-7 consciousness of his power, not by an assumed front and shiny collar and cuffs. Greatness is the reward for having done little things well and all things creditably. All any of us can attain depends upon our rela- tion to the other fellow. No man can become distinguished or great by himself. It is recognition and ap- preciation of what we do that gives us place and power. We are indebt- ed to the men back of us for twenty centuries, as well as to our personal efforts and our instructors for what we become. No man is born great. Only industry, honesty and honor lead to true greatness.
 For gracefuIness of flight and play, the swallow exceeds all other New England birds. When they are not hunting ephemera above large maple l trees, or over water, they are playing NIti Oilt dnOLiltI UT pldN HE dlUllV. olB 1 will fly high with a feather, drop it and dive and catch it before it reaches 1 the earth. being self-entertaining like l the person who plays solitaire to take up the time and cultivate his wits 1 The other morning among a mass of | swallows l noticed two that flew side l by side like chums for an hour pr more, just because they liked to be to- gether Swallows usually fly separate fly and eonfine themselves to individual achievements and make few combined movements.
 We are all looking for happiness ir 1 life, and may find it not in the attain ment of their desires but by making ness depends more upon the mind thar upon material possessions. It makes
 no difference what we succeed in, or 1 how we live, if we do not think we are happy we cannot be. Enjoyment is
 an emotion never intended to be con
 tinuous, for it is the stern experiences of life that are necessary to builG
 character, and from character grows contentment, and this is as near tc real happiness as most mortals car hope to get. Happiness is such a goot thing it has it's counterfeits. and the 1 happiness of some people in the enc increases their misery. Real happiness is the result of sane thought properly applied to that which we have anC that which we may hope for.
 No matter how long he may live man cannot seem to fully acquain
 himself with the full life of plant ol
 a bird. I do not know whether or no they learn more about us than we dc
 about them. The other day l saw Robin Redbreast modelling her nest
 and she was patiently beating in the lining with her breast. and deftl1 moving around in it every minute tt give it the cup shape until it was fin ished How they must toll to get the materials together which represen miles of flight They make long day. and sing as though they found joy il their work. And what trials O strength they have with the angleworn now and then: and they pull and us' their wings like tiny motors to in crease their pull, displaying spiri similar to that of the sailor who erie 1 "Heave ho." as he pulls. The robi1 puts art as well as energy into hi teveryday affairs.
 It seems strange to hear the Ger mans tell the Entente what they have turned Germany into. when they l turned every nation they oVerrun lntl a slaughter house, and manifested , desire to make of every garden spot { desert, and to make of every holy
 sanctuary heap of ruins. They fine , no heart in the world responsive tt
 their appeals because of their owI heartlessness, They are now dem
 onstrating to the nations they plotted to conquer that men who enjoy thu
 self conceit Of power. cringe to it
 just demands, and seek to be excused for barbarities for which they would
 excuse no one. Germany cannot mak good the lives she has destroyed. bu for material damages she should b made to pay to the last farthing. Ger
 manys deaf ear to all appeals fo mercy have made the world deaf t her
 Will the world ever know the loss o r human life from war, pestilence an
 famine" in the past five years? Tn
 war swept off ten million humaI , souls in four and half years: and tn
 pestilence swept away many more i half a year in 1918. America lost hal a million. England a millions Europ ; four million, India six millions, wit
 Africa and Asia entirely left out Q
 the computation. which may add othe
 millions. Doubtless a million or tW , have perishcd from starvation; and } is no misrepresentation to claim abov twenty five million people have die 5 during the worlds war, from cause
 directly or indirectly chargeable to i
 And man goes right on -sacrificin a lives to Mammon.
 F The American elm has the merit { = being one Of the prettieSt of trees n form though it is short-lived, for
 has the graceful lines of a huge bou
 quet It takes 50 days for it to clot f itself in living green. The earliest th
 buds have burst in r. years was
 1 1903 on March 15 and the latest Apr I Sd, 1912: and the earliest it has bee = in blossom was March 29 1903 an 1 la4 \ A- l..