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Show Truth-Telllng. ' Tho test of civilization Is Its regard re-gard for truth. Truth is nothing more than honesty. Tho habit ot telling tell-ing the truth begets accuracy of statement, state-ment, and tho habit among a people of hearing and expecting tho tru,th produces tho truth. Honest men who have no intent to decclvo aro called truthful, but If they aro laxr and careless, care-less, and havoibden.' -habituated to looso atntomenta, and themselves place no groat valuo upon truth fdr Us own sake, they aro pretty sure to bo Inaccurato, and, therefore, mis-trustworthy. mis-trustworthy. For this reason, perhaps, per-haps, Sir Walter Scott declared that tho right education for n young man was to learn to fish anil to tell tho truth. |