Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1905-12-24


 for three months. He found out about the Liars club at an early date and insisted that the weekly meetings be held at his room. in the tavern
 It was at this first meeting that the Jericho liars discovered What poor imi- tations they were. They told their best lies, and yet the stranger lying there with a broken leg outlied them so cas- < fly ardsso handsomely that they were for them, and at the second meeting he offered to give them lessons. All ac- cepted the offer and from that date on for ten years the Jericho Liars club shad no rival of consequence. Every 4aturday night after the lightning rod man had gone limping on his way there was a meeting at the postof1ice. Good heart Johnson was the first president, and after him came Truthful Smith. When the first meeting had been called to order the president rubbed his hands and smiled and said
 We will now hear from Elder flick ron. If he don't mind, he will tell us a wolf story"
 ' The elder was a good man-none bet terT-and he wouldn't have told lie outside of the Liars club for hun dred bushels of potatoes. That wolf stofy of his was yarn pure and sim pie, but he had told it so many times that he had come to believe it. It al- ways took him just twenty eight min sutea to tell it, as he had to work in lot Fl snarls and growls and hunt up an 8ax to kill the wolf with, but nobody < ever complained. When the elder had dnished and the audience had got through holding it's breath and shiver- tl19.the president would call on Uncle Bill Whitcomb to tell how he was rob- 9ned of 5000 on a Mississippi river { Sotoemboat and how he came into his oWn again by killing two blacklegs ma swounding third.
 a matter of fact, Uncle Bill had x Sor been fifty miles from home and \ never had over $1OO in his posses ! at once. He was also man of natural timidity that the calves d him around the barnyard. His 5 was a thrilling one, however. ga2 ghtning rod man had given him x sons in telling it, and some of his { always held their breath so bat they had to be thumped on k to help them get 1t again. @ there was Zadoc Barnham, MI story about being on board a Ghi the Indian ocean when whale hit a blow with its tail and made " of her. He had never even see ocean and nothing more than tho pre ofsa whale, but men walk n M miles to hear him tell that < Sto Tor the first year he frankly o0& that 1t was yarn; at the end Qf ears he asserted that it might 1AyA opened; year later he offered to 1 oath that every blessed word Of e true.
 1 were other liars,and other lies, and club was in such a flourishins cou4 sn that the people over at Dobbs Fexk%Nere selling their real estate at any 6E4ce they could get, when the bell of 1eWas set ringing. A new minis ter Nyoe to the only church in Jericho,
 and as not long before he heard of
 the ks' club He found out what he
 coul4 nd preached sermon about 1t.
 The mbers were little startled, but
 thein1ext meeting was just as fully at. ltapdaHas ever. When he saw tha, karoE4g grass would not do, the min.
 ist6r egan to throw stones. Every E nen of the club belonged to his conofAa ation, and he called them to.
 geth6ne evening and said: - e
 "Bhren, I don't want. to break uu
 any the social relations of the vii
 hee3 the Lars' club must go. Any