names. "Newspaper polecats" is one of the terms of 115 The Rule of "Not Too Much:' endearment he applies to his assailants; "the old he- goat liar" is another shot. Says Henry : What would become of us if we could not cook our moral rabbit under the warm lids of perfidy and pharisaism, where the greatest man is the biggest liar, and the most eminent statesman the slickest and least conscientious politician? . . . . Our assailants either do not realize the enormity of lying, else they do not care, or in many cases we doubt not they fancy that they can lie without detection, preferr- ing to lie than to tell the truth. That must indeed be a bad cause that needs to be propped and promulgated by such means. Yet, as all history shows, religion mixed up with things temporal, quickly takes on fanaticism. Morality be- coming an asset, gets to be a beggar-on-horseback, and here- sy to the pervailing hysteria assumes the dimensions of the unforgiveable sin, to be visited with the inquisition and the stake. . . I do not like to call names. But there are times when I feel as did a young lady whom I once saw crossing a muddy street and who, getting caught be- tween teams going in opposite directions, was splashed all over with mud. A man beside her, caught in the same predicament, relieved his feelings with some vio- lent oaths, whereupon the lady turned to him and said