Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-17
THE MAN WHO TALKS


 mighty lame for the want of it When one has it. he cannot neglect it fofsit must be lived up to. It takes thought and care and energy to sustain a good character. It needs constant attention, like a good tree which bears fine fruit; and any neglect impairs it's fruitfulness. A good character is like piety, for it is a thing the heart must constantly nourish It was never designed to sleep with, but fo enoble ones self with and to keep one straight. As an incidental bed fel- low a good character is of little ac-, ] count. It is the evidence of moral worth.
 We have been asked; Where. are all the starlings?" It does not look as if this vicinity was in any danger of being without thein. They do not | come to the backyard feeding shelves because they are getting plenty of food elsewhere. The old apple trees | with frozen fruit hanging to them are ] a favorite resort, and in many places of late the trees have been black with these birds who are fond of the seeds Suet wired out in; the trees will | call the starlings. if they are wanted l The time is coming when the starlings l will be more plentiful than English sparrows; and they may become as numerous as they @are in England where there are rookeries of 15O, 900 of l them.
 We have all got to become better l acquainted with the square deal What
 has cursed the world is selfishness. l and fairness honestly conceived and justly administered will save it. The l best life and the best government is that which eleyates the people. not 1 that which reduces them to serfdonl. l The spirit of freedom cannot be sup | pressed because it is Divine; and it l will break into violence to overthrow l injustice until the end of time Hold your workmen in low esteem. and they will regard you as tyrant, de- serving a tyrant's fate. The laws of 1 life cannot be violated with irnpunity i;
 and it is because they have been So | violated that the world is today in it's l perilous condition.
 l A great many real aood folks find
 pleasure in thinking they represent | the quality and not one in a hun dred ask themselves what quality There are great many different kinds 1 Of quality, but too much of it is like
 that shown by Dives, who later or l pleaded for water to quencll an endless thirst. There is only one true stan-
 dard of quality, and that was demon i Stfated by the man who sDake IS nc man had spoken before him. Some l times vanity is mistaken for quality 1 and richly arrayed it goes good ways even with bad manners Intro
 spection is good habit, and if thought I was quality I would measure my quality to see how it sized up witt
 the standards. Watcf1 your step.
 It is a fact that the most seriou. writers have their ideas laughed at
 Ignorance has been poking fun al
 Wisdom ever since they have ploddet side by slde through life Wisdom i never coIaJ,iaias. ? What one does no I kr.oW will net worry or frighten hin
 to death; and it is said: A laugh i. good medicine" So ideas laughed a
 may serve a very good purpose, in Il deed, if they do not accomplish tn,
 work which may have been expected
 of them. There is really nothing more humorous than the truth, or no ont : more ridiculous than those who con. sider themselves wise in their owr
 conceit. Laughter expresses the bes mood of Ignorance and cannot possi bly, do anyone harm.
 | Never mind how learned you may be
 or think you be. do not think vol | know it all The opposite opinion may be found right in the family. There i always another side to every subject and although you are very bright vol l may be regarded at home as the foo $ of the family. Maeterlifck, showing : no mechanical genius, was looked upol l, as the one without sense at home. ant , he has had skill enough to win irtar national fame as a writer and upol
 his name only Will the family b known to future generations. Boy who early show a genius for poetr! l or art are only thought to be goot
 enough to laugh at and to fog. Tn si bright and shining star man Is hardl. l ever capable of identifving.
 [ A wise man once said: Fool. lool { into thy heart and writei,' You knov
 the man who doesn't look into hi I heart and write is not loyal to his owl , convictions, and is actually a fool Tn . heart of man has always been re garded as the avenue of Divine com munication. and from it the truth i : believed to wellup. As a source Q l spiritual inflow it has always been re
 garded as dependable as an inex haustible spring. Without spiritua light, which may be had withou
 price, man is a fool, for he is guilt. of rejecting a good thing. The mal who looks into his heart and write will have no difficulty in fndin!
 something worthwhile to say.
 A voica comes to us from The Lon ) Ago which says; "The Best men ar ] men of few words" The correct us
 of words is a science, and the care
 lessness. of them g menace to pcac 2 and liberty. Words may have bee, r invented for the expression . thought. but those who think 1eas
 use most of item. A good word ma
 be a blessing for ever; and one evi
 word may harrass a man for lift . When man became too curious con
 cerning the Creator he was told: {.
 am that I am, and that is what H . will remain to man for all time. { : man with too many words and too lit
 tie sense is always in peril. Tter
 are words. with power to sting like a
 asp, and to soothe one like the dear !, est friend.
 | It Is moi. so long ago that the admir-
 CTS of Walt Whitman celebrated tn
 Tooth anniversary of the poets birth and not so very, very long ago tha the intellectuals of America regarde 2 him as the buffoon among poets, al Il though the English literary critic
 pronounced him to be the first grea
 poet America had produced. Now h e is recognized as a poetic star, and hi v English critics declare that he wi . be admired and his birthday cele
 brated hundred years from now, e
 in the year zo1s. His Leaves ( : Grass" do not fade. or. his songs ( 2 life lose force by the lapse of time! ' When a person loses. caste with an T of us how he seems to recede or
 shrink in importance to us, althous
 he is the very same man and just g n worthy. Our distrust and disgust an d prejudice keep pushing him off unt # he looks no better to us than lit