Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 145, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1919 — Suspicion. [ARTICLE]

Suspicion.

There are minds so habituated to intrigue and mystery in themselves, and so prone to expect it from others, that thev will never accept of a plain reason for a plain fact, if it be possible to devise causes for it that are obscure, far-fetched and usually not worth the carriage. Like the miser of Berkshire, who would ruin a good horse to escape a turnpike, so these gentlemen ride their highbred theories to death, in order to come at truth through bypaths, lanes and alleys, while she herself is Jogging quietly along upon the high and beaten road of common sense. The consequence is, that they who take this mode of arriving at truth are sometimes' before her and sometimes behind her. but very seldom with her. —Anonyriious.