Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1903-09-24

SHADES OF AnanlaSi a FrenCn tneO-
Logan has written a book in defense
of lying. The dispatch says the
work was published by permission OF
the vicar general, who is evidently
something of a liar himself Tho
exact excuse for this book is not au-
thenticated. unless previous authors
had exhausted every known text or
sensation prior to the French gentle
mans taking his pen in hand
Be this as it may. this remarkable
book goes so far as to maintatx that
a man may even prevaricate TO his
wife, and vice versa. Married men
who have been stretching the truth
now and then and feeling conscien-
tiously uncomfortable under the up
braidings of their inner consciousness.
may go out in the woodshed and
shake hands with themselves. George
Washington and his cherry tree are
no longer au fait, the Office bag's
grandmother may die as often as the
lad chooses and the "hub' who goes
out to get drink while the prima
donna changes her pink tights, may
still insist, and with much better
flavor, that he has "been to see d
man."
Plate once asked, Testing apart,
what is truth ?" The fact that the
make little difference now when a man
may live, not by the Good Book which
says Thou shalt not lie," but by the
theologian's book which says in spirit,
Lie plenty when you feel like It'll"
Just how st. Peter will look upon
liars we have known" when they
seek admittance at his gate, Is q
mooted question, and yet, while the
Frenchman's theories may seem q
spectacular departure from the stat
utes, history corrects the impression.
Henry Garnet, a Jesuit, tried as a CON
spirator in the Gunpowder Plot, said:
In moral affairs, and in the COM
mon intercourse of life, when the
truth is asked among friends, it is not
lawful to use equivocation, but in
cases where 1t becomes necessary to
an individual for his defense, or for
avoiding any injustice or loss,
or for obtaining any important advant
age, without danger or mischief to any
other person, there equivocation is
lawful
By these tenets a man might tell
the partner of his bed, board and
bosom that he had been bucking dy.
spepsia in a bowling alley when In
reality he had been bucking the tiger
In a joss house. By so doing he la
injuring no one, is calming his wife
and, incidentally, not injuring his dys.
pepsia.
Samuel Johnson, too, admitted there
were times when truth need not pre-.
vail. despite it's mightiness. Johnson
says one might falsify as to which
way man, chased by would-be muir.
derer, was running. We agree, also.
with this version.
A friend of ours, now a well-known
writer, was in Frisco and broke.
He received word that his sweetheart
was dying. He had not enough money
to pay his railway transportation
home. The postoffice steps being near
and friendly, he sat down to thinki
In the moment his head was between
his knees, his mother died. That Is,
shielded to all purposes of emergency
Then he went to railway passenger
agent and, with tears in his blood-shot
eyes, told how his mother had peace
fully passed away. He must catch
the first flyer to look for the last time
upon her dear, dead face. The agent
melted and as soon as the conductor
punched the ticket, the bereaved son
ducked his head between his knees and
brought his mother back to life, love
and the pursuit of happiness again
The sweetheart, cheered by his pres
ence, rallied and in after years he
married her and learned to lie with
neatness and dispatch. He was a
versatile cuss.
From these examples it will be seen
that prevarication has its moods and
lenses and much depends upon the
conjugation. AS for us, we are
pleased at the Frenchman's theology
1t opens up new by-ways that only 9
writer and a married man can appre
ciate. Being in this category, We
get benefit going and coming. -Ir
other words, "Ach! there goes Louie
comm back"
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