The Somerset reporter., 1893-01-05
RlIrdett> Message To Boy =.

Nv hoy the first thing Nou Nant 10
harm ii YOU haven't learned ho" 10 d"
il already to tell the truth. flie pure
sweet. refreshing. Wholesome truth The
plain. unyarni>hcd, simple. EVERYDAY.
manl, truth with a littlr -.
Fer M Thing il will save xaa 80 much
trouhlr oh. heaps of trouble. ahd n"
end al hard work. Aud terrific strain
upon Your memory. Sometime and
Nhen -, sometimes. | mean ,, great
many times it j. hard TO tell the truth
tie iir.t time. hut when You lave told it,
thcre i, a. end of it. on haVe Vol
the victory: the fight j. oNcr NeNt time
Yol tell the ,ruth YOU can tell it 18th
out thinking. Your memory MAY be
faulty. but Won tell your story without
"A ,ingle h,h from the singing whip of
that >fern old task master oilsciencc.
on don't have to stop and remember
how YOU told it yesterday, \ ou don't
ret half through With it and then stop
with thu dW iul SENSE upon Nou that you
did the other time, and you can not &c
member in,t how YOU did tell il then.
on won't have to look around ia see
who j. there before YOU begin telling it,
And You Mont have To invent Il lot oi
new lie, Ia reinforce the old one After
Auana- told "A lie. hi, wife had Ia tell
another iu,t like it, You ,ec il Ynu tell
liz serl are apt to get Your Whole family
into troublc. Lies Away travel along
in gang with their co-cqWt-
And then it i, 80 foolish fer Sou To-
liz. \ on cannot pass Il liz oil Tor the
truth. any more han you can get c"un-
trrteit MONEY into circulation. The lead
IN dollar i always detected before it
gor, yer, far. When you tell Il lie it j.
kneNu Ar~, You say. tod knoM> it.
That right; but hr i not the only
one. 80 Tar H. God'- knowledge j.
concerned the liar doesn't care very
much He doesn't worry about what
tod Know, if he did he wouldn't b. It
liar: but il docs worry q man or boy
who tell "A lie to think that everyone
else know it, The other boN> know
il Nouf teacher kuoNs ii; people who
hear YOU tell "Whoppcr> know il Your
mother knows il, but he Wnn'l .;N 81.
Nud all TN people who know il. AMI
don't >aY Il ythiug about il Ia Neu, talk
abdul it Ia each other. and ,tear' dear
the Thing they say about the hoy Who
i given IL telling biz ,tolie,' II he
could only hear them it would make
him stick To the truth like Hour 10 a
miller.
And finally. il YOU tell TIN truth al
My. | don't sec how YOU are going to
get very far out Of the right way. And
how people do trust the truthful boy.
We meyer worry about him When he is
out oi Our sight. We never >;tY. II Won
der where lac j.: wish knew what he
il doing: wonder who he i with:
| wonder Why he doesn't come home"
Nothing of the sort. We know he is all
right, and then when he comes home we
will know all about it and get it straight
We don't have to ask him where he j.
going and how long he will be gone
every time he leaves the house. We don't
have 10 call him back and make him
"soeninlY promise" the samc thing over
and OVER TWO on three times. When he
say. les. will" ur NO, | wont.
Just once. that tiles it, We don't have
to eros examine him when he comes
homr to find out where he ha> been.
lie tells IL once and than is enough.
We don't have to say "S,rc: = Are Won
sure nov 7" When hr tells anything.
But my boy YOU can't build up that
reputation by merely telling the truth
about half the time, nor two thirds nor
three fourth~. nor nine tcntls of the
time. II il brings punishment upon
you Wllilr HE liars escape: il il bring
you into present disgrac" while the
,mootl-tongucd liars are exalted: il ii
Loses Son Il good position it it DEGRADE,
YOU in the class; if it stops II week
payne matter what punishment it
may bring upon YOU. tell the truth.
All these things will soon bc lighcd.
The worst whipping that can be- laid up
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