The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1908-09-03
The Cheerful Liar Again.
The Farmers Mail and Breeze.

man does lot OF good In the world.
He never tells a lie that will iDiure
the feelings Of any individual. On
she other hand all OF his prevarica-
tions are calculated to make the peo-
pie be talks to feel good,
II was out with him one day trav.
cling ,hrough the country and stop
ped for dinner at q farm house. The
woman In charge was young thing
who evidently never had had any ex-
perience worth speaking OF In either !
cooking a meal or keeping q house.
Il was a long way to the next house
and finally we persuaded the young
woman TO get a dinner for US. l
must say that that dinner was near
the limit. Ii was certainly some
thing fierce That meat was burned
to crisp. The potatoes were also
burned. The coffee vas a mighty
poor quality OF slop, The biscuits
would have done all right for grape
shot and the butter-well, small
hunk Of that nearly threw me out OF
my chair.
81 was having mighty hard work
to find anything that l could eat,
but cheerful old lisr sat up there and
besmed at that poor woman aud
praised her dinner and actually did
it with such tone Of sincerity that
II had not known him would have
sworn that he meant every word OF
It. The woman started In with the
impression that she had made fall
ure OF that dinner and she was dead
right about il, but as the old prevar-
icator warmed up In his praises OF
that meal 1t was really pleasant to
see the look Of worry vanish from
her face. She started In to apologize
In a timid awkward way but he cut
her off with proiuse flattery.
81 asked him after we got away
how he could work himself up to lie
ss he did and all he had to say was
that II he had told her the truth that
poor woman would have worried Tor
a week and probably not have slept
a wink that night. Now he said,
Just listen to her singing And sure
enough We could hear that woman
singing until we were 80 far away
that her voice would no longer reach
us
"When he goes to hear q speaker
no matter how poor a talk the mar
is making that delightful old liar viii
| sit there and listen as II he was being
entertained by angel voices and aftel
I the speech is over he will go up snt
i. grasp the hand Of the speaker ant
! compliment him just as II he mean
!. Il. OF course he knows that tn
= speech was rotten and the rest OF th
0 audience can hardly conceal thei
Q disgust, but the old lair makes u1
e for good deal OF the lack OF az
q probation on the part OF the rest {
o the crowd.
: Sometimes the speaker know
that he has IT ade q failure VI it l
spite OF what the old liar says I
him but then the way that man ha
, Of grssping the speakers hand an
- telling him how much he eDioye
Y that speech Is worth a lot to an
l speaker. l have said to him att
IL seeing him congratulate q speak
:. who had made Q complete Assl
Il Now, look here, Jim, you know tht
10 that speech was simply rotten
" Sure be would say, 1t was Il
81 worst / have ever listened to, b
=; don't you know that that poor 4
ID low was doing bis best? What
g the use OF rubbing 1t 10 on q m,
al when be is doing bis best? He kne
that he wasn't getting next to th'
audience and II hadn't gone up al
spoken to him he would have gol
lie out Of there completely discourage
OF As Il is, be thinks maybe 1t wasn't
I'd bad after all
Id "Now have heard 1t said that I
t. liar can enter the kingdom If heav'
Q, but when that man shows up vii
"a. bis cheerful counteDance before 81
in bar of judgment I have a motto
that he will find the books balanct
Id all right and be told to go In and 9
al Joy himself"
=, An Editor Bound to Be Clean.
l. l. A. Alta no.