Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-09-29
READ HIS CHARACTER

READ HIS CHARACTER
II there was anybody in the world
that. Thomas Jaynes had unbounded
respect for 1t was Thomas Jaynes He
looked upon himself and ali his &C
tions with as. much satisfaction and
self-complacency as other people
looked upon him and them with sus-
picion and distrust He thought he
knew a good deal more than the Or
binary run Of men, and he never let
slip an opportunity to air that knowl-
edge, and the oftener to the discom-
future Of his associates, the better he
liked 1.-THE sweeter the victory.
When he was not endeavoring to
prove what he knew about any given
subject, he was trying to show what
Others chiefly those present, did not
know. This was his invariable Gus
tom in whatever assemblage he
might find himself, by accident, or
throw himself %unbidden, for he was
not a very welcome visitor anywhere,
excepting ut the home Of his sweet
heart, who was blind to his faults and
,adored him.
He never lost an opportunity to
'call down" anyone, even his best
friend, and his friends we're con-
stantlY on the alert to "call him
down." and whenever anyone sue
ceeded in doing so. great was the re-
joicing 'therest Jaynes, as will
readily be understood, did not take
his defeat with anything like grace.
He did not like the taste of his own
medicine.
Jayne's face always wore a smile,
at least it looked like a smile, but in
reality it was only the imprint of a
.sneer with which he was accustomed
toregard a defeated foe, one who fell
beneath the onslaught of his superior
knowledge.
Jaynes was never known voluntar-
lily to admit his own ignorance upon
any topic, but he was very willing to
point out the ignorance Of somebody
else upon subjects Of which it was
we'll known that he possessed, If any
thing, only the most superficial
knowledge. He always conducted
his arguments or impaired his inform
alton under heads and subdivisions,
never going into detail. Either he
could not do the latter, or would not
condescend tn do so; probably the
former.
Such a disposition as that of Jaynes'
is an unfortunate one, and the un-
happy possessor makes enemies faster
than friends. Such, at least. was the
case with Jaynes. His enemies were
many and they were continually try
ing to devise some means by which
he might be compelled to eat humble
pie. but with less success. But on
one occasion they came near succeed
ing-perhaps they did you shall
Judge.
A small coterie of friends at o club
to which they and Jaynes belonged
were talking about Jaynes one day,
when c of them said,-
.'Apropos Of Jaynes and his dis
agreeable know-it-all disposition, I
know of a fellow who calls himself a
graphologist. Since Jaynes is not
here to tell you what a graphologist
is, I will volunteer the information.
A graphologist reads character from
handwriting. 1t is getting to be
quite the thing, you know. This fell
low is pretty good at 1t, too, SO l am
told. He claims that no trait of the
subject, or victims character can be
hidden from the graphologist that
knows his business In fact, he claims
to be able to make a deduction of
character better from a specimen of
handwriting submitted to him than
he could from an intimate %acquaint-
Inc with that person. A man can
not lie through his handwriting"
.sWhat has all this to do with
Jaynes?" inquired one of the party.
81 am coming to that-to Jaynes,
mean. II We could get the profess
sor of graphology to read Jaynes'
character from his handwriting / am
pretty sure the result would not be
tiattering to Jaynes."
stNot il the truth were told," was
the general comment.
1.-THE truth cannot be concealed
at least, from Professor North. II
we could only induce Jaynes to sub
nit a specimen of his handwriting
'.That's easy enough" interrupted
Fred Glynn. TASK him to write to
the professor. telling him what he,
the professor does not know about
graphology, and. what he, Jaynes,
does know. He won't refuse"
'JaYncs wouldn't fall into that
trap / fear. We must get him in
terested in the subject and prevail
upon him to submit a specimen of his
handwriting to- the professor. From
what I know OF Jaynes, he will do SO
with the egotistic certainty of receiv-
ing a most tlattering reply. Of course
If the professor knows anything
about his business-the reply won't
be f~lattering by any means. To make
sure, we can g the professor in ad-
vance and bride him to tell Jaynes
the whole truth about Jaynes.".
sIf the Professor tells half the
truth about Jaynes we shall not need
to bribe him A more d~isagreeable
fellow than Jaynes never lived-at
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