The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-05-29

Being Called . Liar.
A boy who says he is IT years old.
clerk, with good family connections.
writes to know II Q person should knock
another down for calling HIM liar. or
what he should do. He says it seems
to be customary to look upon fellow
as a coward If he allows anybody to
call him liar and does not resent it.
and yet IL q person takes up every such
statement. he is liable to have black
eve half the time, and he asks advice
about it, The most notorious liars are
the most sensitive about being called
liars, and they will fight or shoot
quicker for being called liar than they
would ut being accused of murder.
Take man. for instance. who wants to
sell horse that is unsound In every
particular. He will tell you that tho
horse is sound as dollar, not pimple
on him, never sick day, and he is
good in any spot or place. any lady can
drive him, and he will lie about that
horse oil day, and know he lies, and
knows that everybody knows he is q
liar. And yet, il you were to call that
man liar to his face, his ~honor"
would be at stake, and he would fight
at once. Though man may have been
proved in court to be q swindler, q
thief, "a murderer and highway robber,
and while he will converse on any crime
he may have committed, and rather
glory in being bad man, il he should
make a statement and you should doubt
it, and call him liar. he would be wild
at once, and knock you down and walk
on you. 1t beats all what sensitive
ness there is about being called q liar.
1t has been said by some great man,
"all men are liars" but it is probable
that statement is overdrawn. IL is
doubtful If statistics would show that
more than ninety.nine men out of
hundred are liars, and yet the ninety
nine liars weuld fight at once on being
called liars, while, il the truthful man
should be called liar he would feel
hurt, and would go to work to convince
the person who called him such of his
error, in q respectful sort of way, by
argument and demonstration. While
it may be custom to fight at once on
being called liar, We would advise
young men to gradually break them
selves of the habit, both of lying and
~
sarily coward because he does not
engage in a brawl ut being called
liar. If man calls you O liar, and
you are a liar it does not help the
matter for you to thump him, and be
arrested for disorderly conduct. Your
fight will not convince him that you are
not liar, and everybody who hears of
the row will say you are bully as we'll.
No gentleman will call man liar,
and, if a man is a loafer, you can afford
to ignore him, and go aEout your bust
ness, and you should never recognize
him until he apologies. which he will
do, nine times in ten, when he finds he
has made fool of himself, and that
you are respected more for quietly re-
framing from furnishing him than he is
for being q bully. Those who are the
most apt to call people liars are usually
the worst towards in the world. They
think by using such language they can
convince people that they are brave.
Take one of these fellows, and he does
not call you out alone, and call you o
liar, as q business statement, but he
gets you in crowd where he knows he
has four friends to your one, and he
1 ~
crowd can whip your crowd. He t,lks
loud. and wants to convince people
that he is brave, but generally he is a
weak minded coward. If young man
selects respectable company, treats
everybody well, is kind to high and
low, rich and poor, just the same, goes
out of his way, if occasion offers, to do
kindness, speaks well of all, or says
nothing, and never, knowingly, does an
injury to any person, he can go through
life and never be called O liar and never
have occasion to fight He can so con-
duct himself that if a person should
call him liar he would not get time to
fight, for every friend he had would
know the charge to be false, and they
would insist that the person making
apologize, it would seem such q mon
strous injustice to the friends. But, il
young fellow is liar, and talks too
much with his mouth, and is constantly
saying things about people behind their
backs that are not SO, and he is selfish
and mean, and would not do kindly
act, except he could make point by it
and have everybody know it, if he is q
liar, and O mean one, who cares moth
ing for the anguish and heartaches he
may cause by his lies. he is liable to DO
called liar any time, and maybe it is
best for such persons to resent 1t and
fight, for they will occasionally be
mauled. and it will eventually do them
good and teach them lesson. --PecRs
Sun.