The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1885-10-02

fact. on my honor as q sportsman why
do you say it's impossible?'
''Rccausc.' said the other. calmly,
~ I, an asccrtaincd scientific fact. AS
every true fisherman in this ~ knows
perfectly well, that there are no trout
in Mooselcmagunticook weighing under
half a hundred"
ssCertainly not" put in a third
speaker. 1.-The bottom Of the lake Is
q scive-a sort Of schistosc sieve forma-
tion-and all fish smaller than the fifty
Founders fall through"
why doesn't the water drop through.
too?" asked the stout patient, IN q tri-
umphant tone.
.:It used TO-" replied the quiet
gentleman. gravcly, until the Maine
Legislature passed an act prevent
Ing it,
My guide rejoincd Inc, and we went
/ on across the room. "These sports
men liars" he said. fare among the
mildest and most easily cured cases
that come here. We send them away
IN from six 10 nine weeks time, with
the habit broken up. and pledged not to
fish or hunt any more. The man who
lies about the fish he has caught, or
about the intelligence Of his red setter
dog. il often In all other respects a
trustworthy citizen. Yet such cases
form nearly forty per cent Of all U
patients
What are the most obstinate
casesp'
Undoubtedly those which you will
see in the Travellers and Politicians
wards Of the Infirmary. The more be-
nign cases, such as the fishermen liars,
the society liars, the l~ady-killer or
6onnes fortunes liars. the Rocky Mount
ain and frontier liars excepting Texas
cases., the railroad prospectus liars,
the p~sychical research lars and the
miscellaneous liars OF various classes.
we permit during the first stage Of
treatment to minglc freely with each
other. The effect j. good But we keep
the Travellers and the Politicians strictly
isolated.'
He was about to conduct me out at
the room by a door opposite tn OF
through which we had entered. when
a detached phrase, uttered by q
pompous gentleman, arrested my at
tention
"scipio Africanus once remarked te
NE"
ssThere couldn't be a better ex
ample said ny guide, a we passed
out Of the room, .of what we call thu
|, forcing system in the treatment OF men
dacity. That patient came TO us volun
, tarily about two months ago Ih'
, form Of his disease is = common one
{, Perfectly truthful in all other respects
+, he can no resist the temptation u
! claim personal acquaintance and ever
intimacy with distinguished individuals
/, His friends laughed at him SO much TO
! this weakness that when he heard o
! the establishment Of the lniirmary h
came here. like a sensible man. and pu
himself under our care. lie Is doini
|, splendidly. When be found that M
: "reminiscences of Bcaconsiicld and Bis
! marrk and Victor Hugo created n
! sensation here. but were. on the con
trary. at once matched and capped b
still more remarkable experiences mar
\ rated by other inmates. he was az first
i little staggered. But the habit is $
strong. and the peculiar vanity tina
4 Graves admiration on this score l. so eN
] acting, that he began to extend his &C
! quaintancc. gradually and cautiously
:. back into the past. soc we had hir
giving "reminiscences Of T~allcyrand, q
Thomas Jefferson and Of Lord Corn
wallis. Observe the psychologist efirc
I Of Il system. The ordinary checks O.
the performances of such a liar bein,
removed and, no doubt, suspicion, no
4 even wonder being expressed At any 9
\ his anecdotes. he has gone back throug
Voltalre and William the Silent I
= Charlcmagne. and so on. There haT
: pens TO be in the Institution anothe
I patient with precisely the same trouble
They are. therefore, in active compel
ton. and each serves TO force the otht
I back more rapidly. Not long ago
!, heard our friend in here describing on
7 Of Heliogabalus's banqucts, which }
had attended rs an honored CUES
= why. | was there, too cried the oths
liar. 1T was the night they gave ust u
/" boar's head stuffed with goose giblet
and that delicious dry Opimian mn
!. cadinc''
4 well" / asked. ..what il your pro-
!, nosis in this case?" (.
~ Just now the two personal rcmIni
q. ccncc liars ART driving each other bae
y through ancient history at the rate
three centuries a week. The food isn
% likely to stop them. Before long I'll,
~ will be matching "reminiscences Of u
8 antcdiluvian patriarchs. and then they
y bring up square on Adam. They can
- 90 any further than Adam. by tn
ot time they will be ready for the trut
:, cure process; and after q few weel
&C spent in an atmosphere Of strict vcras
.. tv in the other wing Of the lnfirmar
tc they'll 20 out into the world again pc
OF fectly cured. and much more useful CT
2 \ zcns than before they came TO us"
u We went upstairs and saw the ser
" pulously neat bedrooms which the p
fienfs ncclny: through the separa