Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1889-04-20
LIARS OF TRAINING AND SKILL.
To Tell the Cold Truth Not Always Busi.
kc-prcvaricators Classified,
Diagnosed and Cataiogued.

Diagnosed ana tatalogued.
From the New Orleans Picnyune.
4 liar is person who tells f,lsohoods
nabiuHlly. The word habtually is used
adNisedlN. A man may take n drink occa-
siunhllN without being drunkard. II
W Onld bc hard TO class man aS "A liar " ho
has only occasionally made n false repre-
sentation. An eminent merchant once said
no man could carry ON large dry goods
business and get rich at il without living
some. If he did not lie some he could
have men about him " no could say entic-
ing things and make the worst seem the
best. The goods must be sold at n profit to
make money.
There are mary liars in this world. The
psalmist remarked: :" said in my haste
all men are liars" II he could have delib-
Grated on this thing during an exciting
election contest he might not have changed
his mind AT leisure. Master George WASH
ington said he could not tell lie. II he
could not tell one, then of course his merit
for truthfulness was not 50 great IA that of
one who could tell lie and would not.
But il must he remembered that when
George made his cherry tree remark about
his truthiulncsS he was II small bov, aud
that was long before he engaged in politics
When he was running for office, and before
he became president, he never said any
thing about not being able Ia tell lies. lie
had promises to make and postotlices To
give out, and had 10 do the best he could.
Lady Macduil, talking to her little n
during the troublesome times in Scotland
when men died "cre the flowers in their
caps withered," told him that traitor is u
man who lies and swears, and that they
must all hc hanged, every one. 'WhO
must hang them ?" asked the boy. "Why,
the honest men," said the mother. ''Then, :"
SAID the boy, "the liars and swearers are
fools there are liars and swearers enough
to beat the honest men and hang them up"
That Is how the population averaged in
those days. Things have changed since
then. Perhaps there are more liars now.
There are more people.
There are numerous kinds of liars. A
few of the little nntruths one meets in
society are called white lies A polite per-
son says She is glad 10 see YOU when she is
not she says 10 a servant that She is not at
home when the wrong person calls; that
she viii DE sure to keep an engagement
one she regrets having made and does not
intend kecping-these may be called white
lies. Friendly lies may be told 10y friends
who are trying to make the best of bad
news and think they are doing il for the
best. Black and malicious liars are those
who lie to do harm, who perjure themselves
To convict others for crimes They deserve
the hottest dannation that can be laid out
Tor them. A man associated with Falstati
said: IL do despise a liar" So do We all
There are infinite and endless liars and
hourly promise breakers. " They are all
despised.
There are Dragging liars. They have
always something wonderful To saw about
themselves that really never happened
They viii tell You what this or that great
man said Ia them when lac had said moth
ing. They brag about their business when
they are doing nothing Ia speak OF. Some
al them print new spapers-m New York
and lie tremendously about their circula-
ton. They are of the Baron Munchausen
order, and make themselves believe they
are believed.
The oldest inhahitant liar is among the
most harmless of all old bores He will
tell you all about Jack war, and how
the cotton bales were placed for breast
works, ~ they have never been placed
since, and how things looked when the
stars fell, and how he skated 10 Algiors
when the Mississippi river was frozen over.
anu how he had talked with Lafayette.
The campaign liar is superb. He is so
grand that his friends have Ia nail him To
Keep INN down on earth. lie works for
poth and any sides AT the same time. He
stops AT nothing softer than II brick wall
heh the campaign is not too clean ne IA IN
undertake 10 ruin the character of any cam
dldate. lie il not thought much of
lhe polite liar Is delicious. He always
says you are looking well-that Won do MOI
seem day Older than YOU did ten wears
ago-that lac Is delighted 10 see Won Uc
does not bore YOU, because heis polite .nd
knows when 10 stop, and when to take
himself oil. The polite lisr is among the
most tolerable of all liars but he Is sIilI a
mar lie mixes taiiy with his Etlsphood
and makes ii palatablc
The new style of the theatrical advance
agent shows genius. He comes along ahead
on barn stor1ning company thar We ali
know about from reading in papers im un-
fortunate towns where il has PLAYED. II is
s,llue, Without an actor oi merit, and is
playing a miserable play, He saws the
company II great-geneTally the original
New York casI-and the play has had a
Professional liars are ofmany kinds. The
commercial dluInIneT who inVenIs yaras
10 make himself talked about il a nrotas-
hoial The corporation lawyer Is NOT