Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 38, Number 35, 20 December 1912 — Page 8
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THE RICH3IOND PALLADIUM AS19 SUN-TELEGRAM. FRIDAY. DECE3IBER 20, 1912.
THE CANNY FACT
We Think It's Elusive Because It's Hard to Find When the Trouble Is that the Pursuer, Not the Pursued, Is the Uncertain Quantity.
BY ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE. Consider a fact. Or the fact. The fact is the most important thing in life We don't recognize this. Hut it's true. But the fact is something or a coquette. The fact is elusive. You think you have her and you find she has eluded you. A fact is seemingly like an eelslipping in and out of your fingers like the fabled water reptile. And yet the fact remains as solid as the foundation of a sky-scraper. The great trouble about the fact, is not the fact, but the people who are dealing with it or pursuing it. It's a funny business this fact expose. You'll find out how funny when you're on a newspaper, or in a courtroom or at a coroner's inquest. The people who think they know thinks then find out what a gay, little, mocking thing a real for sure fact is. You'll always find plenty of people who know all about it. Why of course we know because weren't we sitting on the front porch
at exactly such and such a time and
didn't we see so and so pass and don t you think we have got eyes in our heads and what do you take us for anyway. But nail them down, pin them to the board, back 'em up right against the walland pouf! your fact has flown out the window. Because it really wasn't a fact but surmise, heresay, guess-work, conjec
ture, supposition, imagination, what "they said," what you thought at the time, and a variety of other things which are so easily punctured full of holes you wondered why you hadn't noticed how flims'ey the fabric really was. The great lack of the human recording machine is accuracy. Not one person In ten thousand gets a thing right. That is, what people think is right. What really is "right" thBt is in the meaning of being correct and accurateis another thing. As has been said here before history is more or less a tissue of lies, halftruths, fabrications and colored by personal bias. It's the hardest thing in the 'world to get at a truth. Some people lie wilfully, others unconsciously, others color their statements by self interest and others' imaginations lead them astray. Take the trouble some time, say, to get five different persons to give their version of the same story or event or happening. You'll "be surprised" as the man said in the unlamented "Madame Sherry." The stories will be so different that they will hardly be recognizable as the same. This is the blind alley into which a reporter will run when sent out to get the facts concerning a certain affair of some sort. Nine people out of ten can't tell you although they'll say at first they know all about it. Oh, yes, I was there why certainly I was there yes I heard the conversation why certainly well er I can't tell you exactly what led up to it no T don't remember precisely what was said but I heard it and I know that what they say happened. Yes, it was a splendid sermon fine!
Never heard a better, I said then that I wished we had him for our regular pastor the text? why I can't quote
it exactly but I think it was from
Corinthians no come to think of it it was Isaiah but, on reflection, I'm not sure as to that but it was a splendid
sermon
No I don't remember what his exact argument was oh, yes his premises
were clear now I ought to be able to
tell you but-1 can't recall it but it was one of the finest sermons I ever
heard simply splendid. Yes, I know all about her no, I nev
cr remember to have seen her but
she lives below us some place and our
cook sees her pass every day and
am perrectiy sure it is an true anybody that will wear a green feather on her hat is enough for me no, I didn't know the man never saw him
either that I remember but I'm perfectly sure he is a villain because the man that cleans out our stable used to live next door to his grandfather's
wife's sister-in-law and she said that it
i teetering and slipping and sliding and
i feinting.
If the Lie would exit for a season it would never get in again. We'd give it short shrift when it returned. For life would be simpler, easier, saner, lovelier without it. It's -what's the matter with the world. Run the Lie to cover and the millen-
; ium would have arrived.
was something awful the way they
went on I didn't see it myself cer- j
tainly not what do you take me for? iU i IN vi TV . INLPW I
I don't go with such low down peo- ' Leave your order and measure. Now pie but I know that this is true be- j for that suit and overcoat, and wear cause they say that she j it Christmas $15.00, No More. No And so on and on and on and on yet ! Less at the again. j DOUGLAS TAILORS. To get at a fact you must wade 10th and Main Westcott Hotel Cor. through a quagmire of surmise and i Pen evenings waiting for you stop suspicion and then when you capture j a minute -Others say It pays." 20-lt it sometimes it isn't a fact at all. or ; of such a puny character that it dou- Ths Catliks Fox. bles up in your grasp and melts away The fox Is an excellent mouser. lie to a drop of moisture. wi je und watch for a field mouse ln The whole world is tottering on a i tl. ,Iin,r ,.ke cat IKUIlrt UDOn
basis of untruth.
We live lies and die them. We lie to ourselves, to our parents and children and friends and lovers and to the stranger within our gates. We are afraid of the truth. We will dodge a fact 'till the crack o' doom. We'll run a city block to avoid a precise statement. We ballywhack round and side-step and back-pedal and hide and elude. We'll do anything but come out in the open and tell the honest truth. We're afraid to face the light of day. To have the search lamp turned on to pick us out in the offing. Society is based on a superstructure of lies. We all know it and yet we continue
it, kill it with a bite and lay it on one side until he has caught another and another, when, picking them all up, as many as he can carry in V. mouth, he will cauter away with vm to serve them out to the cubs.
HUNTING ACCIDENT BEFALLS C, DEARTH May Lose an Arm as the Result of the Discharge of His Shotgun. CENTERVILLE. Ind.. Dee. 20 A roost peculiar accident, which may result in the amputation of the right arm of the victim, occurred this morning to Charles Dearth, aged 35, living one mile southwest of Centerville. Dearth's right arm and shoulder were completely riddled with buckshot. Dearth went to the farm of Charles Jackson, one mile west of Centerville,
this morning to hunt rabbits. He leaned the gun against? a barbed wire fence while putting on a hunting coat. When he attempted to pick up the gun the wire caught the trigger and the XMAS SALE Fish Globes and Gold Fish THISTLETHWAITE'S Drug Stores
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Bleeding Copiously. Dearth managed to walk to the barn yard of the nearest farm house where he fell exhausted to the ground. His
calls for help brought assistance. He
Wwas placed in an automobile and taken
to the Reid Memorial hospital at Richmond. Physicians stated that It may be necessary to amputate. Dearth is married and his Ive stepchildren reside with him.
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