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Show Suffered for "White Lie." la a white He ever Justified? That at least some people bellcvo It haa ao excuse Is proved by the following tale: An nnclcnt rabbi came to a city where all tho people woro truthful, married ono of the Inhabitants, had two chlldron nnd prospered. Ono day a neighbor called whon tho rabbl'a wlfo was washing her head, and the rabbi, going to the door, was seized by falso modesty and Bald that she had gone out. Thorcupon both ot his children died, and, as no ono died In that city beforo reaching old nge, tho nolghbors mado Inquiries, the rabbi confessed what ho had done, and waa ordered to leavo the city Immediately |