The Monte Vista journal., 1917-03-03

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on the warm side of a straw stac.
and upon the break of morning
| pointed his tail to the West, his
head to the East, gave long bray,
and as the sun rose said See what
/ l have done" l was impressed not
! long ago by the notice in the Duran
/ go News where villa had already
taken two states and was pursuing
] Wilson into Canada. Now there are
those that lie for gain, and that class
/ constitutes a great big class: the
merchant who gives thirty-five inch
| es of ribbon for yard and fifteen
| ounces of sugar for pound, and the
churchman in some of our cities who
| is a pillar in the church and at the
same time attends merely for prest-
| ige. You all know him He is one
of hat class. Then there is the
small merchant who has scales that
lie in weight, and by their use he
saves a few ounces of this and that
In the aggregate this counts up.
There is the conductor on the rail-
road train who collects the fare be-
tween Hirams Spur and Jones'
Crossing, and then goes into the up
per part of the train and throws it
up. If it sticks to the bell rope it
belongs to the company; if not, it is
his. Then there is lying, cheating,
in college that l think of, and l have
10 70 do
tion in working with the students
We have now adopted the Honor
System which lessons the amount of
cheating but don't stop it, The
employer who fell into the river and
an employee pulled him out then
helped to pump the water out of his
lungs, and then his boss was mean
enough to dock him for half days
pay and charged him for the use of
the pump. Now there is another
! Classifying for fear, the lies that
are taught by the parents at home,
and that applies particularly to the
home. Now look out for the 'Boogy
Man will get you" Then there is
the mother Il saw this not very long
ago). She sat around with tired
look and when the children were put
to bed, made one bound for the
| cloak room and went to the dance.
Then there is the father the Great 1
Am, the head of TIE family, who sits
at the head of the table, asks the
blessing, and then proceeds to tell
some of his experiences in business
where he skinned a rival in business
| Then perhaps he spanks the boy
smoking. For most of us the gap
tween precept and example is no
wide. We are long on precepS but
mighty short on example. All we
| tell them don't amount to very
much. The boy does what dad does
and the girl does what mother does,
and there you are. And then in a
| great many homes there are a great
many lies. There is the boy who
grows up to a certain age in world
| ly ways; he REBELS at the matter in
| question. The boys will must be
broken. False charges are made
| Now that will is the dearest attribute
OF the soul; the boy needs that will:
to break it-that is one of the bad
| lies that occurs in the home. Well.
the boys says the lie is wrong but an
ever-ready and present escape in the
time of trouble, and | argue that the
Almighty created the lie, and under
these conditions what can boy do
in self-defence?
Now the one who lies from con-
ceit is an angel, and the one who
lies from fear is a God, and the one
| who lies for gain is but rascal, but
the one who lies to deliberately un-
dermine the reputation of another is
a skunk" Yes, / argue that with
the North Pole as a lever and the
equator as a fulcrum one couldn't
pry such a person up to the level of
the lowest criminal OF Canon City
in the penitentiary-for such per-
sons soul Is sunk 80 deeply in the
mire. Yes, that's not half, and
haven't quite exhausted my vocabu-
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