Show EVIDENCE OF FAITH You often say when they the want to be smart You cant believe everything overy thing you see in a newspaper Unfortunately the statement is true Try as they will wUl the newspapers can cannot cannot cannot not be accurate all the time Once in ina ina ina a while errors will creep in In spite of all precautions But there is or rather i iwas was one woman whose faith was all alt that the most exacting could require This woman according to a dispatch from Evansville Ind md was Mrs Louisa Duley Dule aged 49 years One of the Evansville papers printed a notice of the death of Mrs Louisa Duley giving her address at the resi resl residence resIdence dence of this Mrs Duley Tho 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 Ing her but once more she broke out and crying I am dead I am dead I 1 saw it In the paper she passed into convulsions and died So great was washer washer her ler faith in the newspaper of her choice that she believed it told the truth when It announced her death deaUl The trouble about the yarn is its total absence of probability It is not possible possible ble blo for us to believe that a rational sane sanc woman in perfect health as Mrs Duley is alleged to have been would do anything but smile at reading her own death notice Mark Twain once on co wrote to a friend who had heard that the great humorist had passed away The report of my m death was greatly exaggerated And that is the normal common sense view to take of the mat mattor matter matter ter tor The Tue Louisville is the Bible of many Kentuckians Once It had a story bout about the thc death of ofa a prom prominent promInent mont farmer Carmer A few Cew days das later that farmer came to town and his friends thought they were ere surely seeing a ghost It required argument on his part to convince them that he was still In the flesh He said he had seen the story in the paper and very grave gravely ly I knew it was a mistake the min minute minute mm ute I looked at It There was no doubt in n his mind about the matter matterAnd matterAnd matterAnd And we insist that if the Evansville story is 13 traced to its source the source will be found in the brain of an Ingen Ingenious ingenious ious ous correspondent who was sadly pressed for an interesting item If there really ever was a Mrs Louisa Duley she is probably as well and hearty today as she ever over was |