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Show WHAT AREJfWRI Foolish Feara That a Bravest Men. """ ' lletween courag, and kr.w cording to competent mith " ' fixed n great gulf rhy,' J t natural nnd simple may ' safely In and out of gr.,,,' brovery la needed when eournge being licking he ."" the flesh In'o .lmuUu,n7f2fc natural timidity would ,un Thli Is. perhaps, one ol 1. ' why men nnd women strong J,? date rtrange perils advl,L, 7 back, aftnld, from .h.'' rldlculoua ttlfles. 'S ' m)8terlously foils to JrovH i1 iin-xplalnable Instances tk"6 feared la too email or n,, ' call forth sufficient elfott?11 to roh it of it, unreal t"ror,U"' rear, again, In some neRT , to be a necessary confemi,1"' revetence The man wh" ,?'5 In not necessnrll). the mom I."1 mortals, hut the untaTht.rt", whose consciousness f " I. f Its natural extreme of hi .W tlon certnlnly knows more e than Ihe civilised man who,,"1 rally enrltvel by the on, 1 dread which proves stronger !i,1U teason. but the objects or iiti1"' ration are few Many of, fc and unreasomble terrors ki Ptesa humanlt) may h ,"; root In some ong forgotten ...c evolutionary cause or neceLn" Scton-Tliompson oplS,"" lh'E' fchil eless, gieen-oyed montiu ; terrorizes the wakeful nlthi. .'.' hood, the world over o,SSm& glim tealllv whl h eSbSSw' dreaming existence of th. ri, monkey, nsleep on the foreitT The gieat cats of the forest .' Ing, grecn-oed, but dlmlv Z ' th.ough the thlc, darS, ff tit Pt unoti the inert monk,"it! after sunset, and bote hlm'', hut helplcfs, nwny lo desttuctim 1 , unte.il race-memory of that 1 terror troubles the alsenleir; ' vvntther now. Other unreal ana J ninrant tenors -the miM ,.,;'"' black cats of shilnklng fetninW, llme-honoted Jokes- and the ill J ridiculous fears to which truthhu will confess, eiccaslonally-maj ui to a similar muse or ImpulM. many of the more general suwiuJ fenrs, such na the dread of anillint. the evil eye, beginning a 0S Pridn). or of making one of i of thirteen, recognized and Ur, causes may he traced out Thml remain, however, the peculiar anl" explicable feirs for which no J, of reason ran be dlscoveied anjih go far toward proving all humL akin Men who hive faced cannon.!' stance, who have fought win. beasts, endured the solitude of great forests and mountain!, t the peril of tho gteat deep u might) tempests, unflinching t shilnk with terror from the thoutst spending 11 night nlone In a V houso. There lire other brave tr ond women who trembln it thought of a locked door or of tb, 4' The sight or smell of blood ttnm many otherwise (ourageoui t" vldituls, some of them rhjelclinit DeonS. llOSnllul titlrcaa mI,j and the like. Adventurous and di4 hunters who quail before the orU house dog nre by no means unemm-Hlstory unemm-Hlstory Is full of striking imtun which persons nf acknowledged ek superiority have bowed In abject ror, before sonic trifling or unrtu ihle olijecl, not ahwij inlrlM'a unpleasant ns the famous Qua.i: fainted upon touching velvet, audi violets which so Invariably dim lerletl Tallyrand Of President Us It Is said that 'an a boy he actu: feaied to lift a tin), vvrlgjllnr f hatched chicken In his fundi, Time Ti-me brainy and cnurageoua tma 1 women In plenty who would filat shlvet If left alone with a tart'-llrtjsldo tart'-llrtjsldo cat. OraBhlioppers, lo some people anl with nn Indefinable terror Water a natural element nnd natural Ina. Bivlm without dimculty, tut rm tnlng Instiuctnrs tell counllcm r stories of human beings go unafraid un-afraid of water thit it la ImtosS to teach them to master It ll'it a dull days. Hie. thunder strong K and even 111I11 have power to hold cr tain memhets of tho human fin bondage of feir. The dread of lh der nnd lightning Is so common 1 widespread us to be nlmost uniim Pcnr of human crowds or even of fa gatheilnga lenders the mlktot p nicnslon a tlmo of real autf erlrt miny people It Is, perhai s, 11 natural thing tile death Hut the man or woman b abjectly, pupetually anl profon."-fears profon."-fears death ns to die a hundrtdda" dally would seem tn he placed lair sltlon as tiniensnnilile as unrleia Bnch people, nevertheless, are; bered by the thousands The M disease, ncintdlng lo competent thorltles, li 111 should he utterly f-elgn f-elgn to the naMito of n healthy."? bring Vet there are limes bcie dread and Tear of some rarllnili'' ness or mal uly sweeps Ihe countrr' world, brindnist -an the fear ottt miosis Is illsm lying to countlem tltudes nt the preient moment'1 fear nf pnvetty, dlsneter, dMOJ loneliness. plDslral pioslratlon J 1 peeler like, before many lndl until lire holds but little of "Jf ' sweetness There are human nu who aie iiftniil of music othMir shrink from certain colors b lions of theln. or a particular IWJ harmony nf light and shade TW' of sweet rounds la now eir" certain pavrhologlsts upon the lethal le-thal It is instinctive, that It"; answer tn the nevCly esabllsh'H IJJV thnt reitnln musical lonea aid" tegrnte human bodies If prM cert iln limes nnd tinder certain, lions hut nn Ihe fear of cow color tone no such shadow "''"a, reisonlng has yet been a"";1!. dlscovereil T lie extiemes of " ldlns)ncraslea no found In ie,a, as) linns T ho beginnings. acmriP studenls of human naline o "J" authorltlen, huvo toot wlttiln i 'Ihe night of n gun or platoi ' known In Im renlly unloaded' t fright some people ahnos W verge of Binltv Any position f.l e-veils n rlmllnr effect oier " harmless. Impotent. ''" W gaiter snake will do the Mm'J;i ir lempet mieiits Tn demonri" foollshnesi nnd lack of reason " for such fears Is quite unaval" t It Ihe one terror Is by some n '' move! or lissened anottirr ' , t dlalely Btihstltutcil mil dreaitedi" Plni e ki. nduf Hollup men, burglars catl'"u,. ley . irs, aiilnmoblles. negrofi.-Mlf Indian anl .lapmese Vre .fSerta' HPlders, gliosis, wrlnkes i un"'' . polleent-n. dogs, cats, liur'M J d parrots wild beasts dark" w makers doitms, falling ."".inr nlng windstorms, lire. "''', opals, amber flowers lee ,n etons, deviled lallways. " enees and studies pic"' ( nnd nn unhappy futiira "";, wit' Ing or Imlnced uiu onBclniwnn 1 houtes nml 11 mmla for P , , I these urn 11 few uninnB tl & numernhlu femn 'l"i'"',i, po?. able nnd liitclllbiiit 1,'11.ft,e Plvery huninii being '"i 'of iToroai nfe o sty. Is ufil'l ?rcuriii Hven thf lunv.it L'!wt .most persistent fenr lRh'r,",f ni cnuriigo-exiiltliiK and f "i'mlnd enta of mental science a n ' j-leiy j-leiy la ufruld nf feir -t'"c" tine, |