Norwich bulletin., 1922-04-29
THE MAN WHO TALKS

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 or later-and it ought to come to most persons much earlier than it does-is | this: Shall 1 amount to anything in the world or nothing? Shall I be some body or 8 nobody? Which shall it be?'' 1 The question, of course, is complex be- cause many things enter to modify the 1 decision, but the answer lies more largely ! in the hands of the individual himself l than even he is aware. have never i seen a person start out in life with a i fixed purpose to make the most of him.
 self who ever failed who was willing to pay the price. That is where most peo- ! pie fail: they want the acquisition and 1 reputation of a somebody by living the 1 life of nobody, and it simply can't be done. It is however, a question that I each one must settle for himself No- l body cal settle that question for me nor 1 for anybody else. Other things and other persons may influence the decision,
 and yet the decision must be made by | deliberate act of my own will
 | In order to be somebody it is not neces- T sary to be conspicuous There many worthy people stumble. According to their ideas one must be great, wealthy, learned, and otherwise conspicuous to be somebody This is all a mistake. For four years only one man out of one hun dred and ten millions can be president of ,I this great land. Few comparatively can ever occupy seats in the United States
 senate. Few can ever be presidents of
 our colleges and universities, and few can be mar gers of our great industries.
 It Is probably safe to say that not more than one man in five hundred of our peo- pie on the average is known outside of l the little town in which he lives. It is 1 not necessary for one to be widely adver- i. tised to be a somebody. It is done by i, simply living worthily of oneself to make the most of ones opportunities, and to struggle against all enemies that would
 keep one down.
 It is not a very hard thing to be mo-
 body. Even those who come nearer to , being somebodies than others find it just as easy to be melodies. Simply do noth- ing and we will become nothing in a very 7 short time. A mans ability is going to ] be gauged not by what he can do but by what he does. Even those who rot
 burn and kill may be somebodies per verted. Doing bad things does not
 necessarily make people melodies, how : ever desirable it is to avoid their exam pie. To be a nobody, simply do just what all melodies do: prefer idIeness tC s work, be a chronic loafer rather than ar ? habitual producer allow yourself to float f aimlessly without chart or compass f rather than paddle your own canoe with
 some end in view, mix with those for fel. :. lowship who are as amb!tionIess as yoG are. To be nobody, let scheming mer - grip you by the throat for their own self t ish purposes, let them put their knee or :. your spirit. and you will soon reach the e swineherd's hut
 t The sky is moatIed, the sun is shining : intermittently and a breeze-thougt
 rather stiff at tines-is blowing most re rdeI fy,fr1r 4I,o rr1
 ! just enough vigor in the air to make ou1
 overcoats needed when driving or whel q one is not exercising. Facing the breez' 6 in the shadow one is made to feel al if the rawness of March but in the sun 6 shine protected from the wind it is May s in all it's glory. We have now left oui
 automobile on the shady. windward sidt | of the cabin and, in the sunny calm of it. IL southwest side, we are feeling the thril 1t of nature at very short range Thougl 'r less than a dozen miles from home, W, l. are in the heart of a wilderness. Th g nearest house is one-half mile away a long and extremely irregular lake is il 4 front of us; about us are vigorous pine = interspersed with spruce, hemlock ant ' oak, Beneath our feet most wonderful
 Administer of soft pine needles Abeat IS of us through the trees the sparklin, -- water invites the use of our newly paint
 
 "a first temples"
 l. l cannot let this day of rich experienc at the log cabin go by without a furthe ,S consideration. While we-the male con
 tingency of the party--are stunning our
 selves in dilapidated arm chairs on tn '7 south side of the cabin drinking in tn z ozone of the air scented with the perfum r. of pine needles, our fair companions ar l. not stunning but sweating themselves in fl side the cabin, drinking in the sustaininj ,- ozone of clam chewder scented with tn I. delightful odor of onions. Soon. however
 the more material fragrance of the lat :. ter begins to seeD through the cracks o U the log cabin and then good bye to poeti r. visions of sparkling water, mottled sky n and varied landscape when this ney I sensation dominates the scene Beauti d full nature has to take back seat whe ,e delicious clam chowder is around. ia ~ ble is placed before our Iordshfps and
 steaming clam ehov, der with plenty c a' butter and other things that tickle tn T. human esophagus-and then 'the end c
 perfect day"
 = The subject of spirituaIism or spfritis1 ,a more properly is bound to arouse interes '1 even where 1t fails to command accent De ance. The occult can never fail to awake t. human curiosity. The mysterious in q
 its forms fascinates. That is why detet is tive storiesf if the plot is good and tn tt story well told captivate us. Possibly tn
 name of Conan Doyle, whose Sherloc - Holmes is truly immortalized, will intrC to duce new vigor to spirit phenomen; ht but it will tax even the inventive facult td of Sherlock Holmes to untangIe il fn mysteries that now surround the fun ne tions of disembodied spirits Sir Coma .et Doyle, who is physician as well as N- novelist. is acquainted with science ar ,a when a man of his mental ca1iber io;l
 forces with such eminent scientists ;
 Lord Kelvin and Sir Oliver Lodge. V
 must admit that the subject of spirits
 has some foundation in fact even if tn a+ ories now advanced are not definite co ~. cEusions. Up to this point we can on
 say Not proven
 I have long since ceased to conden <. things as false simply because I do n ~, understand them and, at the same tin III refuse to accept things as true unIe a. the evidence in their support appeals
 my reason as conclusive. would ha
 mind open to all the facts bearing .u- the case. There are certain claims n't spiritism that bafhe me. One claim, Ia. least, cannot accept at present. and tn
 is the possibility of a disembodied spf
 making any communication that can
 understood by an embodied spirit ' scientist can believe that a spirit has t i@t power of speech, because speaking to purely q physical function, and when {
 spirit leaves the body it leaves behi
 all power of physical action One spea in because he has lungs vocal cords, tl1ro he tongue, mouth, and breath. When St