Bisbee daily review., 1911-07-02


 the olden times at Athens and he ap- preached a group Of the fashionable young men of the city who were lounging on a corner discussing the amount Of ly1ng that a man might do and still keep out of the Annanias club. One of the young men was telling in disgust of the number of small lies that man was forced to utter in the course of a day and ayerred most Yehemently that 1t was 1 not at all necessary. Another of the young men offered to bet him that if he were to stop lying for one day that he would lose his friends. lose his sweetheart, be disowned by his father and lastly be arrested by one Of the Mike Murphys Of those times and spend some time in jail. The first speaker took the man up on the bet and swore that he would not tell any thing that had even the semblance of a lie or an untruth for a day
 The little old man who had been coming up the street arrived upon the scene in time to hear the young man take the oath to truthfulness. He beamed upon him and turned his lantern out. putting it in the pocket of bis tunic. At last" said he. "i have discovered an honest man Come home to my tub. young man. and spend the night with me. believe that you are he for whom I have sought these many weary years
 Oiogenes Falls Down.
 The young man felt highly compli- mented by being noticed by such a great philosopher and wise man as DiOgenes so he walked along with him to this tub and had a long talk with the patriarch on the many diff ferent problems of life. It finally be- came time 70 go to bed and Diogenes invited the young man 70 go to sleep in the tub. New this young man was the son of one Of the rich patf1cians of Athens. and sleeping in a tub tor the night did not look good to hi,r He started to say. with pleasure. 1 but he suddenly remembered his oath ] to his friend about telling lies. so he frankly told his newly found friend that he did not like the idea. DioC- !, enes. in spite of all his wisdom. had I 9 weakness. his vanity. the same as Other greet Ucn and became SO en- ! ragged that he drove the youth away.
 The young man started of up the street and cbanced to meet a midd e Rged lady. an old acquaintance Of the | family. She had evidently bought | new dress ana it was red. The ycCre man saw her coming and thought how horrible this red dress i.,okedf 4 upon a person so old as she She bowed to him in the most charming manner possible then and asked him if he did not think her new dre.s dream. It was upon the tip of his . tongue to tell her that be thought it . was the most beautiful thing tkat he . had ever seen when he remembered ' the pact and was mortified for mo- uent. He finally told her that it was not at all nice. instead of glossing the | bare truth over. He told her that she should never wear a dress Of hat . kind because it brought out her age |. too much and the wrinkles arouns her ] eyes became too prominent The good { old lady. who had held him in her lap l when he was baby many a time. |. went Of in a high dundgeon when l little tact on his part would have sverted it all This was his sec9uC ! trouble for telling the absolute truth | and he began 10 become. a little tired ] of his experience
 Truth About Father.
 A little farther on he met an old acquaintance Of his fathers.
 Well. how are you today?" said the old acquaintance
 I'm not feeling very well. replied the young son.
 What is the natter asked his friend
 Well. father is about to fail in business so 1 am afraid. I heard him tell my mother last night that he could only pay about 40 cents on the dollar if his creditors should suddenly come down on him It looks pretty bad
 Well, I should say sol" eiac lated the friend. He owes me some money come to think about it, so I guess ri go around and collect it before any one else hears about this. or I wont get t. I didn't know your father was up against it in such a way.
 The young man continued up the street and met a business man nt- fie farther on.
 How is brsiness?" ht asked
 Bad" replied the young mar. T think this town is going to the logs Nothing is coming out right Every one is leaving for the summer and business Is awfully dull suppose yoa know that father is about 70 sau and can't even pay 90 cents or the dollar"
 T should say I didn't" replied the other. T am to collect some monny from him in that case. didn't know that he was about to go under"
 Several other men near here watch cd the young man go sorrowfuily up the street. They were all pretty sore al the young man judging from their conversation which ensued