Show AN OHIO FABLE FA LE LETHE THE THE THE DOUBTABLE RI Joe I in fuis day the most redoubtable lint liar on the continent has passed from fr mi the sphere of ot action He H may be dead and he may be living but he is not heard from any more However Joe loft left an entirely worthy worth successor The successor was last ast heard from at Find Findlay Findlay lay Ja 0 O from rom which place he sent S out a astory astory story about ab ut Mr lir and am Mrs ilS Jeff Farthing and their interesting family The Farthings according to this yarn the parents of twelve charm charming charmIng ing ding children though the ui father is just forty fort years old and the mother thirty five We Ve are told that Mrs Farthing recently sent a letter to t President Roosevelt Informing him of her efforts against race suicide By return mail mall the correspondent cones blithely informs us came a letter from the president oon thorn thom upon being the par parents parents parents of twelve healthy children and en enclosing enclosing closing a deed for acres of govern government government ment land laud Further along in the story tOO to give it the appearance of or genuineness so necessary in such Mrs Irs Farthing is quoted as story sto She S Sis si is alleged to have hae said The deed from the president conveys to us acres aeres of government land wherever we choose to locate 10 I thought that the president pr would be interested in our family y and so I wrote and told him of the children Suro enough it was only a few days da s until my letter was acknowledged and the congratulations and deed arrived nied today Of o 0 course we are arc all pleased We decided eci ed where we will locate We re suggest that the Farthings come cometo come coma cometo to Utah and locate on the Fort Doug Doub Douglas Ins las reservation That is desirable well wa ered land and the climate Is splendid splendid splendid did All AU they th y will have hae to do to gain possession is to show the commandant comman ant the deed from President Roosevelt TI Or Orthe Orthe Orthe the Farthings might go so to Washington 1 and settle down quietly in one of oC the th government buildings The deed would be recognized there surely and all the occupants of the tho building would move out at once Seriously though such stories are likely to cause the chief chic executive con sl erable annoyance It is hardly nee necessary essary e ul for us m to say that nothing re ye remotely motel r the th Farthing story stor storer ever er came caine to poss pass |