Of Liars and Lying--Woman Suffrage and Feminism--The Professional Female--Parties, Politics, and Politicians in America I All is fair in love and war, the saying hath it.

"Lord!" cried the most delightful of liars, "How this world is given to lying." Yea, and how exigency quickens invention and promotes deceit.
Just after the war of sections I was riding in a train with Samuel Bowles, who took a great interest in things Southern.

He had been impressed by a newspaper known as The Chattanooga Rebel and, as I had been its editor, put innumerable questions to me about it and its affairs.

Among these he asked how great had been its circulation.
Without explaining that often an entire company, in some cases an entire regiment, subscribed for a few copies, or a single copy, I answered: "I don't know precisely, but somewhere near a hundred thousand, I take it." Then he said: "Where did you get your press power ?" This was, of course, a poser, but it did not embarrass me in the least.
I was committed, and without a moment's thought I proceeded with an imaginary explanation which he afterward declared had been altogether satisfying.

The story was too good to keep--maybe conscience pricked--and in a chummy talk later along I laughingly confessed.
"You should tell that in your dinner speech tonight," he said.