Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1891-09-03

times-and when l say sometimes, ]
mean a great many times-it is hard *
tell the truth the first time. But when
you have told it there is an end of it.
You have won the victory; the fight is
over. Next time you tell that truth
You can tell in without thinking. Your
memory may be faulty, but you tell
your story without a single lash from
the singing whip of that stern. old,
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. You don't
have to stop and remember how you
told it yesterday. You don't get half
through with it, and then stop with the
awful sense upon you that you are not
telling il as you did the other time, and
can not remember just how you did tell
it then. You won't have to look around
to see who is there before you begin
telling il. And you won't have to in
vent a lot of new lies to reinforce the
old one. After Ananias told a lie, his
wife had 10 tell another just like it.
You see, if you tell ties you are apt TO
get your whole family into trouble.
Lies always travel along in a gang with
their eo-equals.
And then, 1t is so foolish for you 10
lie. You can not pass a lie off for the
truth, any more than you can get coun-
~terfeit money into circulation. The
leaden dollar is always detected before
it goes very far. A bogus quarter is
always found in a little while.
When you tell a lie IL is known. Yes,
you say God knows it," That's right;
but He is not the only one. So far as
Gods knowledge of it is concerned the
liar doesn't care very much. He
doesn't worry himself about what God
knows-if he did, he wouldn't be a
liar: but it does worry the man, or boy,
who tells lies to think that everybody
else knows il. The other boys know
it: your teacher know. il; people who
hear you tell ''whoppers," know IL;
your mother knows il, but she won't
say so. And all the people who know
it, and don't say anything about II TO
you, talk about it TO each other, and
dearl dear the things they say about
a boy who is given 70 telling big stories,
If he could only hear them it would
make him stick to the truth like -four
10 a miller.
And, finally, II you tell the truth al
ways, | don't see how you are going 10
get very far ont of the right way. IL
isn't well L have too many rules Of
conduct and laws Of living, because if
you have a long code OF many laws, it
is so much easier TO forget one-half of
them than it is TO remember the other
half. But any boy can remember one;
you can remember to tell the truth.
And how people do trust a truthful boy.
We never worry about him when he is
out of our sight. We never says: II
wonder where he is; ] wish l knew
what he is doing; / wonder who he is
with; ! wonder why he doesn't come
home" Nothing of the sort. We know
he is all right, and that when he comes
home we viii know all about il and get
Il straight We don't have to ask him
where he is going and how long he viii
be gone every time he goes out Of the
hoase. We don't have TO call him back
and make him 'solemnly promise" the
same thing over and over two or three
times. When he says Yes, | will, " or
W. 1 NUn Z Just butt tidA otAtAcS IL
He may 60 where he viii and we
won't fret about him. We don't have to
eross-examine him when he comes
home to find out where he has been.
He tells us once, and that is enough.
We don't have TO say ''sure9" Are you
sure, now2' when he tells anything.
Sure2 We would as soon think of ask
ing the sun If he was sure he rose in
the east this morning.
All these things viii soon be righted.
The worst whipping that can be
laid on a boys back won't keep him
out Of the water in swimming time
than a week; but a lie will burn
the memory fifty years. Tell the
for the sake of the truth, and all
the best people in the world will love
and respect you, and all the liars re-
pect and hate you.-Robert j. Bur
in Ladies' Home journal.