San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-11-10
A RAPID TRAVELLER.
The old adage hath it that "a lie

been missing link in the chain Of
that proverb writing scribe, or
there has come a mighty change
over the spirit of.the prevaricstor's
dream since the old saw was put
on record. The old lies may have
been legless, but the man who
imagines that the modern descend
ants of that tribe are stumping it
along on crutches is badly left.
Tue proof of the pudding is in eat.
ing it.
II this view Of the locomotor
power of the modern lie is denied,
Just let the objector try it on and
see the outcome. Just start lie
on its travels and see if it cannot
get there, Eli. Give it fair chance
and no quarter horse ever bitted
will outrun it. 1t will give points
to woodworking from the tar
heel-state, on a bride path
through the woods, and force the
procine racer to take to the brush
in the first furlong.
A lie no legs! The man who
first outlined that statement was
simply playing blind-man's bluff
with the truth. He was simply
drawing drafts on human credu-
lily, to see to what extent they
would be honored in the bank OF
the future. That he knew his bust
ness goes without saying, for his
lie, about the leglessness Of a lie,
has gone cavorting down the ages
with as much friskiness as if it
had the calves and Trilby foot
of modern foot-light favorite.
His lie has travelled at gait that
would smash the slate Of racing
combine and leave the equine
spirters so far in the rear that no
trace of their colors could be caught
in the obscuring clouds enshroud-
ing their heels.
Ask that sweet daughter of the
graces, who in the freshness and
innocence of her heart is little
too free with her gentleman
friends to suit the views OF
Madame Grundy, if lie has no
legs. She will tell you with flash
ing eyes and with tears in her
voice that her innocent flirtations
have been magnified into every
possible offence against modesty
and purity, and the lie sent howl
ing through every highway and
by way of society at pace that
would distance a CREASED streak oil
lightning, tied to a prairie fire
famed by a cyclone. She will tel
you that a lie has both wings and
legs, and can belt the earth as rap
idly as a message by wire; that
no forces of earth, air or water car
stay its progress; that the ma
gicians of hell wave over it theii
wands and in the movement of q
thought it is flashed to the utter
most parts OF the earth. She will
prove to you that no seismic
shock, nor cyclonic whirl, car
equal in speed the lie that i:
spoken against innocence, or vie
with it in the destruction that il
scatters by the light Of the sun and
under the glance of the moon. A
lie no legs! What whopper. A
lie is the Neutrality-suspicious. Of
perdition.
Ask the man Of affairs, the mar
of letters, the statesman and the
poet, the scholar and the financier
bue uOClOE VI lutulClue dLu tut
doctor Of laws, the divine whose
theology needs no doctoring, the
bigot and freethinker, the chris
tian and the heather, the savage
and the civilized, the pious and
the profane, youth and old age
pass by no condition or race OIL
color, ask all save the politician
and the space writer on the press
and all will answer: a lie is like
creation, for it is generally made
out Of nothing and endures as long
as the sun and the moon; it is like
the Questionable sea into which
all rivers run, but which grows nc
larger in itself; it is like the wind
blowing where it listeth, yet no
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