Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-09-22

xu0 Spent 0UU manned dmOuSs F..
Ana God grant you find one face there
You loved when you were young.
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 ac-
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 anopportunity to- air that knowl-
edge, and the oftener to the dtscom-
future Of .hisTassociatcs, 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 at the home of his sweet
heart. who was blind to his faults and
adored him.
{. He never lost an opportunity to
''call down" anyone, eve his best
friend. and his friends were con.
stantly on the alert. to ''call him
down." and whenever anyone sue
ceeded in doing SO. great was the re-
joicing therest Jaynes, IS 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
to regard q defeated foe. one who fell
beneaththe 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, ii 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, OF would not
cOndescend to do SOL probably the
former.
Such a disposition as that of Jaynes'
ia an unfortunate one, and the I'M
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
n occasion they came near succeed
ing-perhaps they did you shall
Judge.
A small coterie of friends at a club
to which they and Jaynes belonged
were talking about Jaynes one day,
when e Of them said,-
'tApropos of Jaynes and his dis
agreeable know-it-all disposition, I
know of a fellow who calls himself a
graphologist. Since Jaynes ia not
here to tell you what a graphologist
is, / 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 it, too. so I 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-
ance with that person. A man can
not lie through his handwriting"
what has all this to do with
Jaynes?" inquired one Of the party.
II am coming to that-to Jaynes,
I mean. II we could get the profess
sor of graphology to read Jaynes'
character from his handwriting l am
pretty sure the result would not be
tiattering to Jaynes."
mot if the truth were told" was
the general comment.
1.-THE truth cannot be concealed
at least, from Professor North. If
we could only induce Jaynes to sub
nit a specimen of his handwriting"
.That's easy enough" interrupted
Fred Glynn. "Ask him to write to
the professor. telling him what he,
the professor, does not know about
grapholoRy, and what he, Jaynes,
does know. He won't refuse"
':Jaynes 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 q most fiattering reply. OF course
lii the professor knows anything
about his business-the reply WON'T
be ~f1attering by any means. To make
sure, we can see the professor in adj
vance and bride him to tell Jaynes
the whole truth about Jaynes."