Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1883 — HOW TO HANDLE A LIAR. [Peck’s Sun.] [ARTICLE]

HOW TO HANDLE A LIAR. [Peck’s Sun.]

The only way to deal with a liar is to beat him jit his own game. That is of tourse unless he is the editor of a pious newspaper. What started this item was readingabout an American who bad been to Europe, and Who was telling a friend, who knew he was a liar, about his trip on the Atlantic, and how on the 25th of the month "they encountered a swarm es locusts, and the loousts carried every •stltoh of caDvass off the ship.” The listener looked, thought a moment, and then said, hesitatingly: ”Yes. I guess we met the same swarm of locusts the next day. the 26th. Every locust had on a pair of canvass pants.” The first liar went around the corner and kicked himself

There died a few weeks ago in Toronto an old man known as Uncle Beube, who for thirty years had sold his vote for $2, the average market priee, Ten or twelve years ago, as eleetien day approached, he went to the man whe usually bought him and said, "Mr. Blank, I guess I won’t sell my vote this time.” “You won’t; why ; what on earth ails you. Uncle Reubf” “Well. I wa t to see how it fpel* to cast a free ballot once.” But be was greatly disappointed in the sensation, and at the next election insisted on havings4 to cover arrears. A single-thotoughbred male introduced in a farming section for purposes of improvement adds more" Wealth than any investment that can he made. Though worth but very little in the shape of so many pounds of animal matter, the value of the progeny may reach away up in the thousands. Farmers should learn this fact and take it into consideration.—Farmers Magazine.

Attorney General Hord ha* shut down on the practice of delivering opinions on all sorts of legal ana other questions to coanty officers, Justices of the pefcoe, oonsta lee. In accordance wtih the law, he will give legal opinions to State officers upon request, but to no others. This plan •is a decided improvement over that of Mr. Herd’s predecessor, who gained much unenviable notoriety for the frequency with which he fired opinons at an ofrensice public.

The recent eulogies io the Uafted 1 States Senate upon the life and character of the deceased Senator Ben , Hill, of Georgia, reminds a correspondent of the following incident* ! “t shall never forget the first time I saw him in the Senate. .It waa the occasion of his vindication from the nagging assauitsj that Blaine, Chaouieraud otner Republicans bad been making on him and other Southern Senators, the burden of which was their Rebellion record. The galleries and every available foot of space about the Senate Chamber were crowded, for it was known he was going to spsak, and everybody was anxious tc hear him. For over three hours he held the great audience entranced in bis manly eloquence. He described the process of secesa.oa in Georgia, >is efforts to prevent it. hi* connection with the War which followed, and bis present attitude to the Union-a full atid lrank acceptance o.' the situatiou aud a declaration of undying loyalty thereto. His munuer all the way through was subdued, earnest and convincing. In closing lie picked up from his desk a paper containing Zuoh, Chandler’* noted letter, written at rfhe outbreak of the civil war. He prefaced the reading of it by a tew re/Uiarks, saying that while he was thus struggling with, sorrowful heart to prevent n dissolution of the Union, some then p.esent were doing their best to precipitate a civil war. Then he read th it- let.er slowly aud with careful ennunciation, lotting bisjvoic dwell ou the closing sentencs: T is Union will not be rorth a rush without a little blood-letting. Z. Cnandler ’ He paused a moment and then said Blowly and deliberately. “Z. Chandler—who is he?” and sat down.