The Brussels Post, 1920-7-1, Page 2Uinta For Motor Camper, --II.
There aro many styles and kinds of
tents jn the market especially suited
to motor camping. These are made
> of (brown or white ducking or the
• lighter waterproofed. cotton fabric,
frequently culled balloon silk. White
tents are somewhat objectionable be-
cause they give little proteetion
against the glare of the early morn-
" Ing sun.
Some tents are made to attach from
tbe'top of the motor ear and extend
outward like. a lean-to on a building,
others are attached to the runn:ng-
board of the car and fold back to
carry rolled up on same. Most of the
styles of tents must be taken down
should one wish to use the ear for a
trip into town for supplies. These
are suitable for one-night camps only.
Some of them have cotheds integral
with the contraption as fastened to
the running board, while others necs-
sitate separate sleeping cots.
As a one-night camp proposition
may be reckoned, the extension beds
made to extend across the back of
the seats of the car close up under
the top. These take little room when
folded. and some are of very prac-
tical construction.
Separate tents of various models
e:thcr guyed to the side of the car or
staked independently- near it. allow for
more freedom of action. They may be
in the style of wall tents, "A" tents,
"canoe" tents or "miners" tents, They
may be had with or without ground
cloth sewed integral; the latter is pre-
ferred. Bobbinet mosquito proof
fronts and windows should be pro-
vided to allow for free circulation of
air without letting insects in. All
tents should be carried in separate
duffle bags. When one unpacks the
tent for the first time watch carefully
how it calve folded from the manufac-
turer. This will show the best method
of packing the tent when moving
camp.
Tents may be adequately lighted by
electric light with an extension wire
from the battery on car.
Folding cots weighing as little as
eleven pounds are on the market, Cots
and bedding should be carried in duffle
bags to keep them dry and clean.
Warm lightweight blankets and an
air pillow, inflated soft or hard ae-
- cording to taste, besides a cotton com-
forter or kapok mattress or bed pad
should constiute the bedding,
A 6x8 foot waterproof tarpaulin is
useful for malting wind breaks or
roofing the porch," Light folding
g
camp stools or chairs with backs and
a folding camp table may not be es-
sential, but are very comfortable to
have along, So Is a rubber wash bowl
un a tripod. Bring an ordinary ker-
osene lantern; a short spade or trench
tool to make a shallow trench around
the tent when stopping several nights
in one location; an axe, with blade
"three-quarter" size and a twenty-
eight inch handle; fifty feet of sa-inch
rope and a coil of cotton clothee line,
always useful around camp. .A two -
burner gasolene stove or a camp grate
with back and side sheet iron walls
is very practical for one night camps,
while a folding camp stove with bot-
tom and telescoping pipe, for burning
wood, is very useful in more perman-
ent camps. Steel wire pot hooks or
hangers are useful to prevent upset
pots and burned fingers.
Lunch outfits in suit cases more or
less elaborately fitted with plates,
utensils and vacuum bottles for tdo
t,1' more persons are in the market,
so also are small neat trunks fitted
as iceboxes or fireless cookers with
plates and utensils.
While any old pots and pans spared
from the home kitchen may suffice,
they are generally bulky, hard to pack
compactly and difficult to carry in the
car. Nested outfits, specially made
for camp cooking, may he bought at
various prices, depending upon ma-
terial and size of outfit. These uten-
sils are made to nest compactly, need
little room and are packed in dust -
proof canvas bags or cases. Outfits
may be had for two, four, six or more
persons and consist of cooking pots,
coffee pot, frying pans, plates, cups,
soup bowls, knives, forks and spoons.
To this regular outfit may be added
a good bread knife, a flapjack turner,
a large turning fork, a basting spoon
and a bread board, also a bread pan
for dishwashing, a corkscrew, a dip-
per and a patent egg carrier. And a
piece of oilcloth for the table.
An aluminum folding reflecting
baker for biscuits and bread is very
practical, and a "Dutch oven," though
heavy, is useful.
Some friction top cans to carry
sugar, tea and butter are useful in
camp. Salt, which absorbs moisture
readily, should be carried preferably
in a wooden box or wooden tube. Do
not forget soap, Sapolio, hand towels,
dish towels, toilet paper and some
candles.
Cut Vessel in Naives and
Launch as Separate Units.
Long ships and short locks have
been the cause of more than ane opera.
tion making the bow and stern of a
vessel two distinct units. But to make
the bisection on the ways, before the
shin is launched, and then slide the
parts into the water as separate ob-
jects, ie a decidedly novel procedure
in shipyard practice. A double launch-
ing ceremony of this kind was recent-
ly performed et Welland. with the
vessel "Canadian Otter," of Canada's
merchant marine, as the eubject.
The finished hall was 320 ft. long, 43
ft. 10 in, in the beam, 25 ft. deep, and
of 4,350 tons dead weight. Of this big
structure an accurate model was built,
end subjected to a series of experi-
ments, and calculations were made to To forgive if we have received un-
determine the exact centre of gravity kind treatment from others, the busitless she has le very itupor-
of each part, asaffected by the pro- To apologize if we have boon in the tont,"
e
posed lines of separation, wrong. "Very well."
As nearly as possible, outfitting was Tu give a lift to the unfortunate, to Pleased to be able to break off the
completed an the separate halves, the ; light another's candle Py our own, interview with her godson without
el,gince and boilers, and most of the which will lose none of its light there- coming to a decisiou, Mahe. Darboise
cabinet work being installed, 1>y. sent him away.
1'o turn over a new leaf; to leave "You will excuse ate, wont you?
off doing wruug; to turn our back up' Don't get in a pout, Come and join
an cin evil past and fate a worthy me This evening at the Corneille PM!,
goal. calm"
in the salon Juliette found a young
The Bishop's Answer, - woman of about her own age, as blond
A bishop was addressing a large as. es she herself was dark, as delicate in
sentbly of Sunday School children, and appearance as elle hereelf was vigor -
wound up by asking, in a very coudes- Gus and robust.
vending way, 'And now is there any "Pardon me, madame," said the
little boy or little Biel who would like stranger, "for coming lu on you so un-
to ask mea question:" Artor a pause ceremoniously. ilut when you know
he repeaters the gmrstiun. whereupnu the object of my visit I hope you will
11 ionto ahrill voice woad nut: '•Plense, understand my importunity and for -
tit' • 1 wgive it,"
why did the angels 1'l., tail. and Y gt dl
updown .Jacob':, ladder when they had Juliette asked the visitor to take a
wings?" " "Oh! eh! I see:" said the seat. The latter continued:
ltiehtp, "And now is >here any little "I have been senrchtng everywhere
bo y or girl who would like to answer for you for the last six months, 1
'��•^•°^^"""^'^' mates question?" didn't kuow your nolle or acldreoe, So
It's Never Too Late.
It Is never too late, says 0, S. Mar-
den in "New Success":
To begin to smile if we Have been
frowning.
To save if we have hitherto been
spendthrifts.
To be honest if we have been dis-
honest.
To be careful and painstaking if we
have been slovenly and slipshod.
To be considerate and kind if we
have been thoughtless and cruel.
To form the habit of looking for the
good in others instead of the bad.
To give an encouraging word in-
stead of eritictsm and blame.
To love instead of resenting and
hating.
To he generous if we have been
mean and stingy.
THE STRANGER
A French War story
"It is cruel of you, my dear little
godmother, You listen to m0, and
your ayes gleam with mischief, Your
lips are ready to break !oto a smile,"
"Do you want oto to weep?"
"No; but I'd like to see you take my
views more seriously, When the war
is over" "
Fearing that he was going to eon -
fess h1s love, she he,
in gayly:
"Do you know when it will be over?
Will It be ovel' tomorrow, my dear
Jacques? Or to a week? Or in two
weeks?"
"Trifler! 1 know, only what I want
when peace comes. I want to make
my godmother my wife. Are you will
Mg? Tell me!"
In order to avoid hurting his feel-
ings site dodged his question, -
"We shall see. We shall hove to
think things over. We have plenty of
time. The godmother, who seems to
Please you when you see her only
rarely, ou your furloughs, nluy be less
attractive when yon have to be with
her all the time."
The ofllcer's face clouded.
"Then you don't like ole? Don't
you care for me at all?"
She felt the justice of hes reproach,
Taking his hands in hers, she explain-
ed in a coaxing voice: -
"Why, ye:e. 1 think you are very
nice --very, very nice. When you are
at the front I think of you constantly.
Only" ---
His face already had cleared at this
half -way avowal. So he pressed her:
"Only what?"
"1 am divorced, ely husband wrong-
ed me."
"Well, what of that?"
"Yet can guess that I wasn't very
happy. I fear a second experience"
He straightened up, almost joyous-
ly, feeling that he could easily make
out his case, so long as she was will-
ing to discuss it with hitt,
"Is that why you. think you might
stake me unhappy—and yourself. too?
But that is absurd. Hearts aren't alt
alike. any more than human bodies
are all made in the same image. They
can't adapt themselves to anybody and
everybody. As the proverb goes, you
must find the other half of your pear.
You were unhappy with that man be.
cause you and he had nothing in com-
mon—either in character or in ten-
dencies. You will be happy with me,
because I understand you and love
you, And it's equally possible that
your ex-husband might bring happi-
ness to some other woman, with whom
his own tastes and character agreed."
"That's impossible," she interposed,
sharply. She was indignant at his
Imagining such a thing. Itt her mind
her former husband was incapable of
inspiring or deserving the affection of
any woman,
"Paul Darboise was a brute, a black-
guard," she went on. if you try to de-
fend him" ----
"I'm not defending him. I was slurp.
le, saying this; .For one mlhuppy
match there are ten happy 0110.0, I
should be so glad to go back to tee
front engaged—engaged to you, That
would bring the good fortune. I see
you smile at that. But the faith that
I shall some day marry you will save
me front danger. It will also inspire
me to show that I am worthy of you."
A servant opened the door,
"There is some one outside who
wishes to speak to madame. She
doesn't know madame, but says that
The roses+ red upon my neigh-
bor's vine awut I I>y lino. batt they are
also moue:
alis was the r•ost. and his the
labor, ono;
But urine as well e, his the Joy,
their loveliuea: to view.
They bloom far ate. Ind :are for
me as fair
As for the man who :ive- thein
alt his carr..
Thus I an rich, bCr tU-e a good
2111111 grew
1 :,•, ,Ne clad vine for oil ills neigh'
w+%, SH1t-46-To (-.i
ti P. S Cr1E MPV,1
Wei 5Pdi7 "Fieartee..2.
1'{4 1 GPd-a--tc7Y TELL.
A LIE."
Why Worry?
Calamity loomed in tato way;
My lips weut suddenly gray,
For his sword was long
And 111,5 armor elroug,
"No sword !tor armor are !nine,"
r lurid,
"l aIn but its the dead!"
But a thousand deaths 1 cited
that day
As waiting Calamity's blow I lay.
Calamity cause and Rigel uhy
head,
"I am uo cur," he proudly said,
"That would slink t0 uttitek
A defenseless back!
1 am not Worry, whose bark
Slays fools in the dark.
Not so; I fight as a well-born
knight:
Nor shall you fail of ilto chive!.
roue right
To equal weapons and equal
stall" ; When, In! ray body was girt In
steel
And a blade In my hand was
bright. -
Then slid 1 feel a tenfold ;light.
With 0 tenfold zeal then did I
fight.
Then did I fall
Witt courage alight.
Deep and grievous ply wounds
were, all;
Cut none In the bark, :Ind fatal,
none.
Already -toy conrldent flesh had
begun
As the c•1e•eu-rutting steel with-
draw. to heal.
And the pain was as naught tc.
the pain I had felt that day
When blindly: owaiting C.'alantt-
ty's blow I lay.
t was very difficult.. The reat:on I
was so anxious t0 get in touch welt
you was that you bought at all nuc•
tfoneer's some time before my quest
began a little Louis XV secretary."
"That is possible, madame. Acct
what then?"
The stranger's pale face grew crim-
son as she told her story.
"The war found me living in a
family boarding house. I expected to
be married very shortly. The absence
of the man I loved and the dangers to
which he was exposed, as well es the
terrible sufferings of the country,
broke me down. I fell dangerously ill.
My hostess had me removed to a sani-
tarium, where I remained for several
months, practically cut, off from the
world. When I came out of my long
torpor I cursed my doctors for saving
me. My fiance was reported missing,
Nobody knew if he was a prisoner,
wounded or dead. Every one of his
comrades told me a different story."
'Pwo big tears rolled down her
cheeks. Juliette murmured, pityingly:
"I am sorry t01' you. 1 am very sorry
for yon,"
"So you see, madame, 0 have absa
lutely nothing left—not a single thing
to remember my fiance by. HIe was to
ine an incomparable being, good, ton -
der and sympathetic. I haven't even
his photograph, and his letters to me
were-lcr>>t while I was ill. I bad put
them in the secretary in my bedroom.
It seente that they weren't taken out
at the time of the forced sale which
wound up the affairs of the propriet-
ress of the pension, You bought the
Louis XV piece at the auction, All my
hopes are based on this chance, ma-
dame. Did you find the correspondence
in the secret drawer undo!' the ink-
stand?"
"I didn't know that there was a
secret drawer;" said Juliette, getting
up. "I understand your feelings, and
I will go immediately and see if 0 can
find the letters."
"Thank you, madame."
In her chamber Julletto seaters her,
self at the desk, removed the inkstand,
searched for a Spring and found
A cover slid away, disclosing a bundle
of letters, tltruet hurriedly Into the
cavity below. Some of them worn
without envelopes.
Mechanic•alty site picked tip onrand
began to read it. It was well written,
affectionate, and had an emotional
touch dut to the sense of separation,
which site found aitogether deligleetful,
Her lieutenant had written very eiml-
lac letters to her. She turned tate final
sheet, An exclamation of astonish-
ment escaped her. These tender love
Pages, revealing a sensitive heart and
a responsive mind, bore her ex-lms.
baud's rigimture.
Now, in fact, she reetlgnlzed the
hand writing,
Without regard for tee secrete they
Down at Sea's Bottom
'rite normal depth of the ocean 11001'
is about two and a half miles. To-
ward and near the Pelee, however,
there is a marked ehallowiug.
There are ten known 10100s where
the depth exceeds foto' miles, not
counting four other placer where it is
111010 than five ulnae. 'l'heee areas of
except 1011111 prafu nit! ty are called
"enema" One of them shirts the
south shore of Cuba, an elongated sub-
marine valley. _
The deepest hole in the Atlantic le
Nares Deep, between the West ladles
and Bermuda, where it takes a sound-
ing line five and a quarter mile, long
to reach bottom. Wharton Deep, in
the Indian Ocean, between Java and
t'lu•istntas island, has a depth of four
and two -111111; utiles. lett deepest of
i all known marine abysses is Planet
Deep, east of the island of Mltldanua,
shier has a sounding t,"•urd ni 0,348
fathoms, or more than six utiles.
If you were able to walk nbettt on
the floor ut the (cean. D.4/flying over
the. soft Shelly ooze, you .would find
yam -surroundings most unattractive.
For one ihing, you would he In pitchy
darknc s; and even 10 you could look
abort, you would see nothing but 11
vast expanse of utter deeolalion 0
submarine detect devoid of any grow-
ing things.
'l'lte water would be nl,licnles. 1111(1
the absolute silence uubr3110u by any
sound othe• 'o add lathe s uu i f sea. Z h un-
pleasantness, the cold would be severe.
F'o1' the temperature at such depths
never rises above 40 aegloes Fahren•
tom ht equatorial regions, though the
season be nlldsumuter, alllost freezes
the stand, 'l'hts Is becaucto the water,
cooled at tate poles, spreads out over
tate son -doer evert to the-tropice.
The durklteee can literally be fell;
for the pressure to the depths Is tin•
t
momenta -seemed tons In the square
incl!. It you worn exposed to It you
would he Met antsy crushed to a jelly.
But the fishes and. other ttnintals
dwelling there have bottlers s0 per -
pleated with water (even their bones
being soft end cartilaginous) that they
experience no illemtvOiltenee, When
captured laud brought to the surface,
they ere Capt to burst open, owing to
sudrien removal of the pressure.
Suppose that some straage dwellers
of the eater shove the sea of air which
we 111 habil. should flee for us with in-
gealou: contrivances of their own. On
being felohed up to a height of fifty
miles trent the surface of the mirth,
our '.appearance towing ro removal of
attttesphea•eic• pressure) would be sad..
iy altered. Our eyes would he start.
ing 0111 Lf 111,'!)' socket.+; our tongues
would hang ells of cur mouths. and,
1f trot ;already defunct we would lun-
uudlotely tilt'.
1t is cath. -1 nt inte L tin„ fact that
the ocean's de ,,e" 1 deeps have depths
about equal to the 11v17111,4 of line
loftiest =quanta rouges. 1tut the tea, -
most yolk Of (be flighted mountain in
the world, Er'rest, in tete Himalaya.,,
is only live and a half miles above '"0
level; en that 10 places on the bottom.
of Planet Deep. more than half 0 utile
tteit, and mud dredged from the bot- of voter would flow over its ere.=t,
contained, Juliette rook out the let•
tern one by one and devoured them
with feverish interest, When she had
finished the last she fell back in her
chair, her React dropping forward. her
arms swinging. He who 11ac1 revealed
(himself to her as a slteptic, at ma-
'teriailet, almost cruel, whose coldness
had frozen her soul, haat revealed him-
self quite otherwise to another wu-
mac,
"Hearts cannot adapt themselves to
anybody and everybody," Jacques had
said. Site had lived with Paul Dar-
boise for five years- -without knowing
him.
Straightening up' again she opened
the drawer of a desk which contained
some souvenirs of her past, With a
furtive movement she drew out a
photograph of her ex-husband. Physi-
cally, also, she no longerrecognized
him. No; that eye, ranging straight
ahead, hadn't an implacable hardness.
That firmly rounded mouth hadn't a
curve of inflexible severity. She had
been the wife of a stranger, who had
come into her life and disappeared
again, without leaving behind him any
traces of his real character.
Juliette put the letters into a big
envelope and enclosed the portrait
with them. Then she rang for the
maid and said:
"Give this to the lady who is in the
salon. Ask her to excuse one for hav-
ing kept her waiting so long."
.3.
Millions in Salmon.
Since the Columbia River Salmon
canning industry was started by
pioneer fishermen in 1876, a total of
3100,000,000 worth o£ salmon has been
taken from the 30,000 acres of fishing
territory in the river from Caecade
locks to its mouth,
A Keeperless Lighthouse.
An automatic lighthouse that does
everything apparently but talk :.lands
guard over tate north-east shores of
Guernsey. Tourists t0 the Channel
Isles 51,011111 1115 miss this sea ]Harvel.
Platt Gcugere Lighthouse ronslete
of a concrete pillar set 1n the sea; 11
is unmanned, and is worked by a sub-
marine cable one and a quarter miles in
length, which links it up with civtilze-
tion, e0 specially - c'outrived elock
switc-hos its ocetyleue beams on and
MT with the utmost precision; during
fog a compressed air fog signal in-
stalled therein is enabled to ring a
bell on Shore to inform officials that
the lighthouse is functfonrng properly.
When the lamp supplies of acety-
lene become low, a pressure -gauge in-
timates this knowledge to the Guern-
sey engine -room, while a telephone is
installed, and any pilot at sea can ring
up Guernsey free of Charge. The tele-
phone is ,situated fifty feet up the side
of the lighthouee, and its position le
probably a unique one among call.
boxes.
All these various services are per-
formed by the original cable, and the
whole contrivance cost fifty thousand
dollars, or one-eighth of the sum neatl-
ed to equip an ordinary lighthouse. So
successful is this "sea sentinel" that
another on similar lines is now in
course of construction by the Light-
house Bureau of the Uniteri States.
Chocolate was introduced into
Europe by the Spaniards.
Canada itas 8 canals, with 48 locks,
between Montreal and Lake Superior.
100 miles of canals cost one hundred
millions,
Deforestation Anil Bridges
The effect of the removal of tete
forest cover 011 the watersheds of our
waterways is more 'widespread than
ie generally supposed. Not only is
the snowfall allowed to melt more
quickly and heavy rain fail permitted
to reach the streams more rapidly, but
In doing so carries with it much lum-
bering waste and other forest debris.
Such material- anuses serious jams,
forming itself into closely -woven
messes against the abutments and
piers of bridges; the pressure of the
water behind these jams carries away
the hridgee and their approaches, and
floods much snrrmmding territory,
The rapid rise of the streams ht
response to the precipitate run-off also
requires the provision of greater
clearance between the ulmtmenis of
bridges, whereas the tendency has
been to reduce the spans. thus eut-
phastzing the possibility of their des-
truction by freshets.. Mr. Tames W.
MacKenzie, Assistant Road Commis-
sioner of Nova Scotia, says:
for years, as woad became scarce, to
narrow up and coniine the etreams'111
smaller vents. If it is a fact that the
clearing of the country is the cause of
the water running off suddenly in case
of heavy rainfalls, our bridges must
be enlarged to carry the increased
streams, and this ham bean my ex-
perience during the last twenty years.
The most destructive mummer
freshet experienced in the counties of
Antigonich and Picton for tl>o last
twenty years, was the freshet of
August 2nd, 1908. Some forty-six
bridges in Antigonish county and fifty-
six in Pictou were carried out, and in
some sections every strnetnl•e in wood
was cleaned away. I took particular
notice that, where the Iuutber trim-
mings had been thrown into the
stream, the destruction was the great.
eat.
Steps should he taken to prevent
lumbering and mill refuse being wash-
ed into the streams, and to remove
obstructions in the ,etreente ou which
"tt seems to have been the custom jams may forst.
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Marvellous Mountains Lie
Under the Seas,
At Oho captain's table on an Atlantic
liner a young woman 1d1y lequlrea
(tow Inc'the ship was from the near.
est land. Several passengers would
AIWA said offhand, "About eight Hun-
dred 1111100." But the captain turned
the ques,t011 over tie a quiet gentle-
man, who looked et his watch And at
a chart and 5It111 ea bis hearers by
fine weal ug, "Jim'! a bout sevcltty yards,"
-The land I speak Ol' is just thirty-
six fathoms beneath this ship," eon -
Hutted the expert. oceanographer. "It
is the summit of the Laura liithel
,Mountain, wh'r h is 20,000 feet above
the lowest 10501 of the Atitintic basin,
1f It wore some two hundred feet high-
er, u1' the sea were two hundred feet
lower, you would call It uu ',11.11111."
In ellen the Atlantic is a huge con-
tinent boating a superficial area or
26,011il,aoa 3 rpta1'a tulles. Il is 3,000
wile:: long end 2,7110 mile; broad. Tito
depth of 1111 water that t'r,vers it 18 by
no means so eolelcleruble ns people
r,sed to imagine. Oeclaimer:'1111y as a
science may be said to date only troth
about 1050, but thanks ehleily to the
lahors of the cable leyleg and fable re.
pairing shier, - our knowletige of the
cctlfigeraLioa of the bed of the ocean
glows greater every year, ,
Phe Latera Ethel Mountain, dlseover-
e d in 1878, Is the 1 elle.entest peak of
fity 1'f I110 010,1 oe:cbe'1lterl Of the sub•
''
marine elevations in the Athultlr. It
i>t1 itltle icnown ill 1:32.
Prior to the Myles' of the first Atlan-
tie cable, l,lcutnnaat Maury, United
Suttee Navy. made it known that a
wide plateau exist. beneath the ocean,
running from Ireland to Newfound-
land, It seemed so edntirably suited
to the purpu;e of cable lay;eg that he
modestly' called it Telegraphic Pla-
teau, but in most charts it beatra 1110
diecovereee name.
The locat!ou of "Davy Jones's
Locker" Wright be said to have been
established with the dlacavery of
Saintllill. It hue been estimated (bat
at the base of this eminence the ra-
lIdo of not fewer titan -seven thousan:l
wrecks lie scattered. Or ono Wright.
etec'ribo that gruesome distinction to
the li'aradey Hills. discovered in 1883,
and lying between Mount Chaucer and
Laura Ethel Mountain, These hille.
are noted among oceanographers Lor
the amount of wreckage of which they
are the monument.
There are cavernous depths, of
course, in the Attantic, as well ea ma-
jestic heights. Faur miles and a half
may be taken to be the greatest, The
average is probably about two miles.
Heights and depths alike are merely
hidden land, which may same day be
exposed by the mighty workings of
nate
'a`,ieurantime few changes occur, Bee
heath the ocean there are no frelta,.
no lightnings, no glaoiers, no meteoro-
logical agents at work. if it were not
for the eddies and the destruction and.
accumulation oi' animal lite, these At-
lantic hills and vales might rest as
immutable as. the peaks And craters al
the noon, where there is no atmos-
phere to cause decay.
Those We Know Best.
Iiow little we know !hose we know
best! We know the face, study it tong
and carefully until every lino and fea-
ture are deeply impressed upon the
memory. We know the carriage and
the manner, the- gait and external hear-
ing; we know the sudden and delicate
changes. of expression, knot' the voice
with alt its tones and inflections so
that we can recognize it instantly
among hundreds. But the „onl we do
not know even after long acquain'tattce,
and careful study—net so that we can
count upon its motives o1• explain its
course. With all our watchfulness the
thoughts escape us anis the hater life
is hidden from our minuteot and most
exact research. Wo eau never secure-
ly predict the actions of others, al-
though such prediction is among the
most important branches of our mac -
fleet knowledge.
How should we know our friends,
when we do not know ourselves, have
00 often but the dimmeei insight into
our motives, and cannot toll whence
they spring or whither they will lead
us? Even when we have traced them
subtly and analyzed them fully, two
are astonished to find that other's,
whose judgment we respect tako a
very different view oe utero. And on
the rare occasions when wa learn
what our friends really think of us we
are puzzled to see/that they have mis-
judged us so ccerttpl'dtetye
In the 5a4Lt0 way these who are
dearest to ,its tend whom we think we
uncderatedd perfectly often appear Its
gaite. lluotller light to stranger's or out-
`dters, For example, how Many wo-
men know husband or father as goner.
one, sympathetic, 'considerate, tender,
devoted, and never suspect that this
same hueeband or father appears to 111e
business acquaintances in quite a dia.
-Cermet aspect? Those wlio know hint
in the way of business perhaps find
him hard and mean and exacting and
in some eemes absolutely dishonest.
Over and over again we get conflicting
tcettiuonies to character, quite irr.e
coucilttl,lt tf1t;I 1I1 -zn 1patible: with or.0
flflt Liter,. as It 00011131 to ns, yet snppol;.
ed by facts beyond controversy or tie.
pato; for the human. soul is a attana s
and unaccountable and 001051 x tiling,
Which deet! not 1001111 that we are
not to lavo and tOnst. Wlthtmt lovo
and: trust life is iinpossiblc at any
rate, wot7thlese,, Bub it is whnlos0ma
to eon -elder oecasionnlly that, with
those we ltnow but, as with so litany
otheir things, we walk its a cline come
try of uncertainty and ignorance,
where one of the most dangerous pit•
falls is e,ssulato r that we know things
that we Gto oat and cannot itndlt?;