Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-02-07

| he will be caught. But the man IN
small village who corners the cores
pondence for all the city papers may
lie To his hearts content. SO fancifu
were the creations of one Minnesota
country correspondent that he was IN
duced to go to the city and enter the
field Of fiction He has been writing
very successful stories from the Tai
Timber" signed the Lesueur Liar. The
Parkersburg Liar in West Virginia and
the Milan Liar in Tennessee few
years ago created great CONSERVATION
among the people of their own home
towns. Every paper in the country
had a story of murder or suicide or
some other tragedy each day which had
happened in Parkersburg or Milan
The Parkersburg man was induced to
quit By public sentiment, while the an
CRY citizens of Milan forced their fa-
nous liar to leave town.
A young man of a prominent family
in a city on the Ohio left school and
went into the newspaper business. His
name was Jake There was a hard
ened gang of fakirs doing police news
at that time, and they had large or
ganization of lawyers and physicians
who would stand for" the fakes. They
recognized in Jacob a promising youth
with q lively imagination, and after
teaching him the rudiments Of the eth
les of the game as they played 1t they
set him to inventing stories while they
amused themselves.
Jake did nobly for a week or two.
Then his young imagination began u
give down under the strain. He had
recourse to some facts. His father
had been q Confederate soldier Tex
as ranger. He had heard the war sto-
rIes over and over again. So he wrote
the story of a man who fell in a faint
on the street and was taken to a doc
tors office The doctor found that
there was a foreign substance pressing
on the mans heart. He cut In, found
that il was q bullet, took 1t out and the
man revived. The story then told how
the bullet, which was the cause OF the
trouble, had been shot into his side by
a Federal gun in some civil war bat
tie when the old man was serving
with the Texas rangers. Jake wrote
it for his paper and the other morning
papers used it, too, according to agree
ment When the afternoon reporters
went around the next morning the doc
tor. a wise one, gave them additional
details.
Jake went home, and next day his
father, a retired lawyer Of great age,
was much excited Jacob" he said,
did you see the article in the papers
about the old ranger?" Jacob corfess-
ed that he had glanced at it, Jacob,
continued the old gentleman-"Jacob,
knew him we'll. l was standing by
his side when he was shot. am going
down to the doctors house to see him."
The son persuaded the father not to
go. but ii was Jake's last fake.
Sometimes n news fakir wastes the
material for a Poe or Verne story in
a short paragraph-for instance. the
Texas balloon tale. A little girl at a
Galveston celebration caught hold OF
the strings to a large bundle of toy
balloons. The peddler let go, and the
weight was so much less that the bal
looms went up, carrying the child. The
crowd shouted to her to hold on. A
strong wind blew the balloons out to
sea. The life savers manned their boat
and rowed out under the balloons,
keeping up with the wind. Then came
Dead Shot Pete. He unlimbered his
Winchester and punctured one balloon
at a time, letting the girl gradually and
gently down into the waiting boat.
Captain Honeybrain is the name OF
a mythical scientist in Virginia, the
accounts of whose inventions have
more than once caused the mail Of the
Richmond Times-D Dispatch to overflow.
They are written by a country gentle
man who does not give his name. A
specimen is the solemn announcement
Of Captain Honeybrain's beefsteak
plant. The great scientist found that
tomatoes growing in certain soil had a
very meaty taste. He resolved to in
vestigate it. Taking the tomato and
the eggplant as the basis for his ex-
pertinent, he worked through a term
of years, hybridizing, fertilizing, till
ing, until at last the beefsteak plant
had been created. Not only did the
fruit have the exact taste of beef, but
it resembled it in texture and was
chemically the exact counterpart of the
flesh of cattle. BY varying slightly
the methods of culture he could pro-
duce porterhouse, sirloin, round or any
sort Of steak that Armour's or Swift's
plants could turn out. Hundreds of
people wrote to inquire about this Won
derful vegetable. - Chicago Inter-
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