Show C ALONG LIFES LIFE'S TRAIL Dy fly THOMAS A A. CLARI CLARK CLARIn l n. n Da ui r of f Mm Jim Cd er ot at Illinois O I Oi m. lilt UK waters N w p p t Union WHEN YOU KNOW A MAN MANIT IT WAS Charles Lamb 1 t believe who was responsible for tor the statement state meat ment that you ou cant can't hate a man wh when n you know hint him Whether or not the he eJ experience of people le In general will bear out this th's vl view 1 t cannot say I do know however hower that a n superficial acquaintance ac se with people tends to con COile firm finn one In pessimism 1 most of f us u. seem to have hare our worst qualities on oa the surface It Is curious how few v men we really do know Those whom we meet dally at our places of business or In our households are often strange to us ua Fathers and sons mothers and daughters daugh hers terR husbands and wives ves even have little real knowledge of each others other's thoughts and characters and the people pee peo pie with whom we associate every everyday everyday day are often as strangers to us Even our own brothers we often nand or have little sympathy for tor It Is only when we get at lit the heart of a a man that we recognize his hla real rul worth I I Iha ha have vc won wondered ered sometimes sometime It If we could get Into more Intimate acquaintance ac IC with our pet Iet enemies or with the devil even If we should not find them Diem Ices hlA that thov they have hv n been painted I really ought to be a pessimist fori for tor forI torI I i have ha seen the worst sort lort of ot men and end so man many men n at nt their worst On the co contrary however as time goes on my faith In human beings strengthens E Even n the time worst of men toen whom I have bae known have revealed so many good qualities when I have really got at them that I could not admit that anyone any one was wholly ba baThe The evil which bad come to the surface and which had bad attracted attention was Wal only Incidental inch Inci dental In most cases and the good after all predominated At times when I get to the point of at admitting that no DO one keeps faith no noone noone noone one Is virtuous no one honest something something something some some- thing Is sure to happen that drags me back to a safe harbor of hope and faith and anchors me fast again Every ery day fay I get new Insights Into human buman character Fellows whom I 1 had supposed I knew through and amid through show traits that I bad never suspected strong qualities which through all ail the years of at our lion had been entirely concealed I am m coming more and more to believe believe believe be be- lieve that Lamb Iamb was right and anft that If It we could bring ourselves really to know a man we should find In him so much to respect so much to admire so PO o much to wonder at that ae we could conic not bring ourselves to hate not him not even to dislike him I haven't a doubt but that old Martin Martin Mar Mar- tin down the street whom I have ha always al ways was looked upon u upon as the most mOlt hie of ot men has hall virtues that would woul shine qualities that are really lovable lovable lov able ollie It If I could only know him fully |