The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1908-01-25
A Visit to liars.


as if it were country, instead of world I argued
that like our earth, it was divided up into series
f countries with different ideals and different Ian
o,aoes AS far as I have been able to make it out
however this is not the case. My interpreter, who
travelled with me over many lands and SEAS assured
me that as far as he knew the same language was
snoken all over the planet 1t u.s. therefore, quite cor
rect TO speak of Mars as country rather than
world.
remember causing great deal of laughter when
T tried to explain through my interpreter to body
If learned men that our world was split up into
several countries all fighting or less against
each other 1t is by making these little explanations
from time to time that l have picked up the only
Marian word l know. 1t is something like cough
ord . low whistle combined and my interpreter tells
me it is the word that Martians use to express the
oninion that somebody is very reckless liar indeed
Tn Mars the provinces that produce corn pool their
barvests for the general profit and all the other pro-
d,cers do the same There is no buying and selling
- al and when YOU come to think of it, there is
certain common sense principle underlying the prac-
+;ce because if YOU buy bushel of corn tor twelve
h11;nos and sell it for thirteen and Six you haven't
really increased the vaue OF itself by hal-peny'
The odd eighteen pence is only supposed me- ea1o
that has got to come out ol lllo PooNN'o " o~'
or another. 1o
I was thrown out of meeting tor trying 10 mar
:. Gathering of Martians believe that man coula
handle corn in that way IN this country anu Poeh.I
The eiohteen pence for himself One Marian got up
and said that if that Our idea OF r1gnt anq JUS
flee # was clear that if one man, or synd1cate
rich enough to buy up Ee ha nbabfans out and
overcrowd the other half [ told him that that Was
nonsense, and he replied testify that ne hao recog1
nzed it as such all the while was ta h;lts nd
moment later peculiar combination OF whistle ana
nonoh hnzzed in nv ear from hundred lips, and
I was pushed off the doorstep. .o.o
One evening about that time lost my lnte1plete .
who acted also as my guide, and had TO roam
through a large city by myself looking Tor MIN. rs rs
T went along [ noticed Marian gentleman Oh tlo
onnosite side of the street, evidently suffering from
the effects of strong drink nave M, seen tbe effect of
drink is rather different. This gentleman LOT ~
stance had got an enlongated arm stretcheu llgn.
across the street, in order to enaDle mn II ~ The
his balance, and as | wanted to get by tooN ~ ~
liberty of pushing it on one side That where the
trouble began. . 100000 +bo+
am not so foolish of course, as to suppose tnas
can take on a whole world sngle-handed, Dul In ~
the hurry of the moment didn't think about the con
sequences The first effect of moving the ne9piale
arm was to destroy his balance, and ne came cow q
friqhtful cropper The next minutes MS eyes WI
r1,nnino IN and down all over me, evidently with
the view of taking stock of my lighting FORM drl
as the survey apparently satisfied the genteI.dn -
pletely he shot leg across the roaa anu 49, ~ ~
rnceremono11slv through somebody's draW1ng-rooiill
window. Of course I scrambled out again as qulck1y
as possible and hurried toward him with a view Oh
thick ear. Long before could get up to him. now 9o
his hands had begun to slap slap me wd f0@ quite the
most exc;tino fobt I remembered having since
po GSt I'M Tootng pushed against the
fence in the of heated argument
the polceman's window was subsequently pen'i0i0N
off, though am not quite sure 900 of the Mar
10 begin with, caught grip on one OF the mSk-
ans hands, and while the other hand was ,; Snhco Of
ing me about regardless, was punching as 1nucI Fv ~
IDENTITY he had had enough Of it after while because