Show TELLING THE TRUTH it is not pleasant and profitable always to tell the truth in the columns of a newspaper men who have tried this hitherto have always come to grief only a few days ago the editor of an indiana paper grew tired of being called a liar and antoune ed that he would tell the truth in the future in the next issue the paper contained the following items IT v ohn john coyle our grocer man is doing a poor business his store is dirty and dusty how can he fee do much 9 rey styx preached last sunday night on charity the sermon was punk dave sonkey died at his home last friday faday the doctor said of heart failure whiskey killed him married miss sylvan rhodes to james canclin Con clin last saturday the bride is a very ordinary town girl who know any more about cooking than a jack rabbit and never helped her mother three days in her life she is not a beauty by any means and has a gait like a duck The groom is an up to date loafer he has been living off the old folks at home all his life and is not worth shucks it will be a hard life the governor of our great state an ordinary man and who was elected by fraud was here yesterday he has but few friends here now he promised some of the voters of this precinct a piece of die pie in event of election but had forgotten all about it when the time to hand over the little office rolled around died aged fifty six years deceased was a mild mannered pirate with a mouth for whiskey he came here in the night with another mans maes wife and joined he be church at his first chance he owes us several dollars for the paper a varge meat bill and you could hear him pray six blocks he died singing jesus paid itala it all and we think he is ia right he never paid anything himself he was buried in an asbestos casket and his many friends threw palm leaf fans iri in I 1 his grave as he be may need them his gravestone will be a favorite resting place for hoot owls |