Show EVIDENCE OF FAITH You often hear people say when they want to be smart You cant believe everything you see in a newspaper Unfortunately the statement Is true Try as they will the newspapers can cannot cannot cannot not be accurate all aU the time Once in ina ina Ina a while errors will creep In in spite of all aU precautions But there is or rather was one woman whose faith was w was s all that the most exacting could require This woman according to a dispatch from Evansville Ind md was Mrs Louisa Duloy Duley aged 49 years One of the Evansville papers printed a notice of the death of Mrs Irs Louisa Duley giving her address at the resi residence residence dence of this Mrs Duley The Mrs Duley who was not dead saw the notice and immediately went into hysterics Friends after a time succeeded in calm calmIng calmIng calmIng I Ing her but once more she broke out and crying I am dead I am dead I saw it in the paper she passed into convulsions and died So great was washer washer washer her faith in the newspaper of her choice that she believed it told the truth when it announced her death The trouble about the yarn yam is its total absence of probability It is not possible possible possible ble for us to believe that a rational sane woman in perfect health as Mrs Irs Duley Is Ii alleged to have been would do anything but smile at reading her I own death notice Mark Twain once wrote to a friend who had heard that the great humorist had passed away The report of my death was las greatly exaggerated And that is the normal common sense view to take of the mat ter The Louisville is the Bible of many Kentuckians Once it had a story stor about the death of a prom prominent promInent promInent farmer A few days later that farmer came to town own and his friends thought they were surely seeing a ghost It required some argument on his part to convince them that he was still sUll in the flesh He said he had seen the story in the paper and very grave gravely gravel ly l I knew it was a mistake the min mis minute minute ute I looked at it it There was no doubt in his mind about the matter matterAnd matterAnd matterAnd And we insist that if the Evansville story is traced to its source the source will be found in the brain of an Ingen Ingenious IngenIous ious bus correspondent who was sadly pressed for an interesting Item If there really ever was a Mrs Irs Louisa Duley she is probably as well and hearty today as she ever was Y s |