Weekly Trinity journal., 1875-07-24
Weaverville, July "a, 1875.
LIARS.

Mr.. Dickens, in one of his reprinted
pieces, very faithfully and humorously
described "Our Bore" a creature to be
found in almost every village and hamlet
in the world; indeed, so truly did he de-
pict him that when reading it imagined
that the bore which knew best must
have set for the picture.
There Is another character equally ubi-
quitous with the bore and possessing many
of his qualities, which l shall make the
subject Of the present sketch. / shall
write Of Our Liar" Everybody knows
liar. You see them, meet them every
day. Go where you will, in steamboat,
on the cars, in saloon, to a circus, u
town meeting, public assemblage Of any
kind, or anywhere, and you will find
"Our liar" the center Of little coterie
He is an orator ia his way and very elo-
.guent. He attracts men as sugar attracts
flies. You may not believe in him you
may de,pise him but you want TO hear
him, and when he is done you will pro-
nounce him the greatest liar you ever
saw. There are many kinds Of liars.
There is the profound liar who is general
ly an Old man with white hair and sober
Inien. He walks about with cane and
daily sits in the post Office or grocery.
He tells the most marvellous stories Of
,,,bot Lo en- a, and ,1id ,pbop a ,,nuro, man
and speaks with such apparent candor and
truthfnlness that you are compelled TO say
TO yourself: - cannot believe his story,
but there must certainly be some truth in
it,"
Then there is the shallow liar. Ho is n
fellow with an eXpressionless face and big
mouth he lives to lie. lie mover deceives
anybody, however. He is as transparent
as a clean window pane. He never told
the truth in his life, purposely, and you
never expected him TO do so. lie lies
about the comnonest affairs Of life. He
has seen great many wonderful things
that no one else ever saw. lie once had
in his possession hen named Betty that
raised six orphan pigs and if he had that
hen now he wouldn't take a million dol
lars for her no, sir, he wouldn't. When
that hen died, there wasn't a dry eye in
the village where he lived. Owing to Il
singular streak OF good luck, years ago,
he saw Mt Bucks county, Pa, a man at a
circus, swallow a boa constructor eight
feet long. He wouldn't have believed it
could be done if he hadn't seen it with his
own eyes. The other people who we're at
the circus are all dead now, and all the
men who performed in it are dead, too /;
fany Of them were living he could prove
it by them.
Then there is The itinerant commercial
liar. lie is keen, sharp, and cunning
You have seen paste, sir, that won tho
distinguished admiration of the crowned
heads Of Europe. You have heard him
on the street corner, vending the wonder
ful and sublime corn extractor, which is
instantaneous and painless took the pre-
MUM at the worlds fair, against 81 GOO
competitors. Two dollars II bottle, and
recipe thrown in. Or perhaps you have
seen him trying to persuade the pig
headed populace to buy the celebrated
South Sea Island Pile Remedy fifty cents
box which has been oxtoled to the
skies by President Grant, Peter Cooper,
Bismarck and Pope Plus TX. Secret
obtained from an Old Indian. Or you
may have heard him say to n gaping as
semblage, Gentlemen, this Is probably
your last chance to get a bottle OF this
werd-renowncd, sublimely famous, and
Justly celebrated Wizard Oil which cures
all diseases that the flesh is heir to. 1t
cures piles in fifteen minutes, gout in six
teen, cholera in seventeen, black tongue
IN twelve, spotted fever in ten, headache
and consumption in thirty seconds. My
Christian friends, do not neglect your
physical welfare. You are rapidly rolling
toward eternity only one dollar per bot
tie +; walk up, walk up, gentlemen, to tbs
great fountain of health, and drink from
its exhaustless depths. Any man falling
TO buy this renowned and Ilustrious med
icine, is a murderer at heart. Only one
dollar bottle and full directions enclosed
IN English, German and French" Or
you have seen him in thousand other
places, lying to the best of his ability.