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Show Art ol' Lying. Now Yorlc Herald; I seem to havo had a rather largo acquaintance wjih liars, and I lltid that they dlvldo thorn-selves thorn-selves miturally Into four classes, suys David Christie Murray, tho wrltor. Tlioio Is thu cruel ami scandalous ilar," who makes mischief In your homo or among your friends, nml who is one of tho greatest curtcs of soclul life, Thorn Is the mnu who lies for protlt and ho also U u (lunger to tho trustful and uuwury. Then thero s tho man who lies bucausu ot his own exaggerated souso of BulMmportuiico, and the constant, con-stant, craving to astonish or Interest other people. Ho Is utmost harmless, and If generally a man of cxeosslvo niiilablUty, Thtm thoro i the- purely humorous liar who Is an unadulterated boom and blessing, I had wrlttou for a. magazine a poom culled "England to America," One of those goutlo prevaricators told tnu that ho hud received loiter Irotn Prlneo UUmurk about it and matlo a gropo a In his pocket nnd homed through a ' heap of documents. He was awfully sorry Unit, he Had loft BUmark's hitter ai homo Ho remembered now exactly where lie had bestowed It, and hu would bring It into town uoxtdiiy. , I met him next day nnd ho ran to me with enthusiasm. "I'vo got that letter of Uio Knlscr's," ho fuld, with a beaming beam-ing triumph. "Tho Kaiser's?" I asked, "yes; the letter ahotint your poem. The letter from the Kulsor. I told you about It yesterday." "You forgot the Kiilser yesterdny; you only spoko of BIsmarK," "Really? Is that so? Well, I'vo got them both today." There was a nnw search and there wero new h- nients. He could not guoss how he had coino to be so stupM. He had left both letters ot home, and what a pity It was Ibat I was going to (lie continent, that evening. Ho finally overdrew his account ac-count when ho assured mo that he bad just loft "Salisbury,"' and has learned fiom Unit distinguished man's own Hps that I wus In the running for tho I hi-rcalcshlpl hi-rcalcshlpl The odd and uotnolc thing was that, nulsldo this aimless, shnmo-Khs shnmo-Khs foolery, tho man was iistuto and honest, I believe that ho was scrupulously scrupu-lously exact In money matters, mid that the world could not hnvu tomp'ed him to an liieXiictlturlo In business which would havo brought a dishonorable dishonor-able bIiIIHiil' to his Docket. |