Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1906-03-03
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one | have been able to pick out 50 |
far; 1t effectually shuts fellow off |
from lying otherwise. Indeed, II is |
questionable whether this is so much |
an advantage after all; in the case of |
one who has followed newspaperlng |
continually, law frequently and min |
ing occasionally, may 1t not be case
of adding misfortune to misfortune?
A fellow with an active temperament
and vivid imagination to be all at
once put out of commission as to both
is, one would think, liable to pro-
duce congestive short-circuiting, but
no matter so far as the writer of
these lines Is concerned, for he has
run the gauntlet of those generally
successful census administers, grip
and diabetes, and will see the angels
later.
This occupancy OF a couch, day in
and day out, Sundays and holidays in.
cluded, gives you fine opportunity to
think in spite of the discomforts
pains and penalties And you don't
have to wrestle so hard with your
gray matter to make 1t produce as
when it surmounts your whole physi-
cal being and spiritual enclosure. In
fact, you don't have to labor at all
just let your thought foundry rest and
spontaneous generation of ideas soon
takes place.
All of which is not exactly what
started out to unfold. One of the
things that was on the programme for
presentation was the thought duly
Matched out as previously suggested.
that the remark of that Scriptural
character about all men being liars
was simply a truism so far as this
day and age are concerned. 1t does
not follow even then, though that they
are all alike, not by a great deal.
Some are skillful while others are
clumsy, some are voluminous while
others are scattering some are born
that way, others acquire the habit and
others still have it thrust upon them.
There are few who have acquired
the art by means of all three of these
methods; they constitute the 33
degree class and are distributed var
iously.
The most innocent and least harm
full Intentionally of all estrays from
the path of living facts is the from
tiersman in various callings but who
is stocked up with mining stories
and has had enough actual touch
with the business to make him
the ready receptacle of all the
stock fake stories going, and
which he passes off on listeners as
willing as himself to hear, always TAX
ing care that the recital loses nothing
in the process of continued repetition.
The inventors of the Breyfogle yarn,
which told of the discovery in Death
Valley or Whereabouts of a ledge that
contained a cement carrying more gold
in great gobs than anything else, and
which became a kind of geological
Lorelei in Turing great numbers of
men to destruction, have doubtless
passed along to their reward, such as
1t Is, as the story is itself quite venera-
BILE; but the following it has
had and he yet will prob
ably live long after Lydia
Pinkham and Uncle Toms Cabin are
forgotten. The same as to the Pegleg
mine, the Gunlock mine, and a large
array of others. The fact that great
finds have recently been made in the
region where the phantoms were To-
Gated has naturally added to the con-
fidence of the believers therein and
the golden idyls have naturally taken
on new lease of life.
Undoubtedly some of the finds of
precious metals and stones have been
under such circumstances of ignorance