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Show pv n p r-iw'tr-iin, r - ,--- ,"-' CHICAGO, April 7. Prof. Adolph Gluck Is to tell the truth a year on a wager of 125,000. The agreement will be. entered Into today with Rudolph Jones, a neighbor, and Prof. Gluck's property will be staked as the issue of his adherence .to plain, skeletonized, colorless truth. Prof. Gluck holds the degree cf doctor of philosophy from the University of Lemberg, Galatla. As he expresses it. he is to demonstrate empirically what he has long held to be rationally true namely: That long continued mendacity will in time lead a man to a point of "sad satiety," where he will find it more pleasing to leave the trimmings of his conversation off and reduce It to the scriptural "Tea, yea, and nay, nay." i .... Prof. Gluck will undertake not only to adhere to thev truth during the year, but he will enterMnto an aesthetic life which would have done credit t6 a middle age adept. In the event of Jones' refusal to sign the articles of agreement today. Prof. Gluck makes the following announcements to the pub-lie: pub-lie: .. - ; , , "I am' willing .to give a demonstration of the philosophy which I have been teaching for years and I am willing to agree to live according to this philosophy philos-ophy for one year, on a; wager of $25.-000. $25.-000. I will agrse during that time not to utter a single falsehood, to eat nothing noth-ing but raw, uncooked, foods, to fast thirty-six consecutive . hours every week, and to forego pleasures of every description. Any person making this wager with me may take any means he chooses of satisfying himself that I keep my agreement, even to the extent of placing a watch over me. "All philosophies which have been developed de-veloped in ' the history of the wtrld have amounted to nothing, because there has been no demonstration of their, use or their soundness. Before beginning I will sign an agreement to -deed over all my property, if a single violation of mv nledge is found." |