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Show Single flair Divides the False and True It Almost Caused n Man Trying to Balance an Account to Commit Com-mit Suicide. "A hair, perhaps, divides the falMe'and true." says Omar Khayyam. Tho truth of tho saying say-ing is attested by tho experience of u Salt I-iko man who has charge of the finances of a largo fraternal order throughout tho Slate. Ho hus been preparing his annual report and balance s he. t. In which ho had to account fr the disposition if m..,., Hi. in t21.00, inndo up entirely from small amounts. Five Cents Out of Balance. Tt was a huge task to go over all the pages OOd verify lhe totals, and what was Iho ae-countuni's ae-countuni's dismay when he discovered that the grand totals would not balance by 5 eentf.! Time and nguln ho went up and down the long columns Tho results were always tho Nine and tho nli.ke-1 was not accounted fur. Ills meals were untaalcd and ho began to do Hums In his sleep. Figuies Sometimes Mendacious. Whichever way he added, backward, forward for-ward e.r across, thai oxaspfi atlng figure r always al-ways nobbed up serenely and grinned at him I Ingly from the total. The gray hairs In his hea-1 niulllplli-l and hl wife talked of sending for a nerve- specialist. He WSS almost al-most tempted to dispute the axiom that tlg-ureM tlg-ureM cannot lie and affirm that BgUTOS are the most mendacious things dovised by man. Caused by Fine Hair. What the outcome would have been If tho error had not hce-n dl'covered the gentleman Is at a loss to say. but It happened that in Kolng over one of the ibises with un eraser hi ilMlu.lgrd a line line- that lay across the n o( n Cipher. U was an eyelash. Hurrlod.-v Hurrlod.-v running Over the column, the accountant found a difference of r. cents In the total. The hair had transformed th- u into a f |