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Show Self-Betrayal. Mayor Guthrie, at a dinner in Pittsburg, Pitts-burg, safd of the grafters whom he had exposed: "It was not such a difficult work to catch them as some people think. Guilty men, you see, always betray themselves through their continual efforts ef-forts to appear innocent. "Thus a professor from the University Univer-sity of Oxford, at a banquet here one night, drank several glasses of port. The professor did pot know this wine's extraordinary strength, and in all innocence in-nocence he took too much. When he rose to leave the table, his legs, to his dismay, tottered and the room seemed to sway slightly. "The horrified professor got to the parlor in safety. He sat down in the most distant corner. But soon his young hostess, leading a maid who carried her two beautiful twin babies, came to him for his approbation. "The professor sat up very erct. He gazed at the twins glassily. Then he articulated 'carefully, in a hoarse, thick voice: " 'What a bonny little child." |
