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Show GENERAL FATE OF HYPOCRITES, Qlve Themselves Away, as Did Pap slmonloUs Manufacturer. Thomas V. Lnwson at a dinner In Boston eald of n certain flnanclct that thd man condemned himself oul of his own mouth. "All his llfo," said Mr. Lawson. "ha has played the hypocrite. But.unsuc cessfully. Continually ho hlmscll overturns tho wall of dissimulation and giillo built about his affairs. "It Is so, I fancy, with nil hypocrites. hypo-crites. They are not exposed. They glvo themselves nwny. "This man began llfo as a manu fncturer. Ho pretended to bo a friend to profit shnrlng nnd all such philanthropic philan-thropic schemes, but ns .a matter ot tact ho paid starvation wages. Ho ground his hands nearly to death. "And this fact ho was continually exposing. "Ono day he sent for a detective. " 'Oh, I want you,' ho said, 'to shadow shad-ow my bookkeeper. I suspect him of dishonesty.' "Tho detective, hardened though ho wan. looked shocked. " 'Suspect young Harry Chalmers of nlshoncsty?"- ho cried. 'Why, I can hardly believe It. No ono lives more frugally, though It Is truo ho has recently re-cently mnrrled.' '"That's tho point,' said tho other. 'With tho salary I pay him ho could not possibly marry." |