Oroville daily Butte record. [volume] (Oroville, Butte County, Calif.) 1856-1858, 1857-02-20
Otuuille Daily a5utte RerurG.
Scandal and Tale Bearers.

by their shiny and fostering influence,
save us from the scandal monger or
tale-bearer. If there Is ono human,
or rather, inhuman being, who Is mean
or or more contemplate, who will stoop
to lower devices, or be guilty Of small
Ter tricks than the scandalizer, VIC have
not vet seen him. Oily and insnuat
ing, he wriggles his way into the soci-
ETY. of the domestic circle, and his APP
proach breeds moral leprocy. From
friend to friend, trem father TO son,
from husband to wife, from sister to
brother, this busy taller glides, with
Shiny track, infusing his fostering poi
son, destroying friendship, running do
inestic peace, creating misery among
all with whom he associates. lie how
ever, is friend to every enc; he
pous his oily words into your listen
ing ear, and goes tie your bltterest ene-
my to feed his malice with recital of
your story, told to him in confidence.
With whispering eagerness, he tells
you Of some imaginary wrong, and flies
to your neighbor to speak Of your IN
dignation, and infame his passion. No
place is sacred from his presence he
ooges his way into and intrudes upon
your privacy to empty his budget of
lies, and breed fresh mischief out of
that which he has just created; he
glidcs out to crawl in at some other
door to pick up a fresh load of scan
dal, again to empty it in the same man
ner. He carries a large bundle, which
grows larger and still larger with age,
and vet faltens on it, His mind IS so
very low, his heart so very corrupt his
feelings so very debased, that Satan
himself might well be ashamed OF him.
lie does the devils work, and earns
the devils reward. lie is any where
and everywhere. at all times, and upon
all occasions He pulls you by the
coat-sleeve in the street, to inform you
that he suspects BIS integrity, and
suggests that you had better not con
fide in bin. He rends the reil that
surrounds the family circle, with
ruthless hand. He will insinuathe to
YOU that Mrs. A. or Mrs. b. is too vol>
atilc, goes to parties, balls, &c too
much, dresses too fashionable, and
does not attend to the wants of her
husband or children; he will say
thousand things to you, with no ostcn-
sblc meaning, but still cunninely cal
culated to leave an unfavo able inn
preston on your mind. Almost in
moment, he will 90 to Mrs. A. Or Mrs.
b., shrug his shoulders, look pltylngly
at you, and say, perhaps, that it is We
ny strange where you spend SO many
evenings away from your bone; mt
mate that there are such al d such plae-
cs, situated o and so, Of course, he
does not mean to imply that you are
ever to be found in them; bat how
unfortunate it would be if it were so !!
Thus he goes on, creating jealousies
and heart burnings, heaping Goals up
ON the fire, and tanning the flame with
his pestilential breath. The stories
are circulated, and become common
property; and here is to be found ore
reason for the applications for divorce
es, so common in our midst. Thus ia
miles are broken up, and each case
affords a nine days subject for fash
ionable horror, when the victim, or VIC
Tins, are forgotten, and the scandal
mongcr glides along, a very respecta-
bic member of society. This particu-
lar class is, however, thank heaven,
few in number. 1t consists Of bitter,
malignant, or disappointed ma"bers OF
society, who give way to their bad
feelings, and seek to wreak their ven
geance on the world !; those who make
tale-bearing a daily practice, and de-
signedly use their power of dissl'nula-
ton to promote dissehtion. 1t was
one of this class that Byron said,
speaking Of her death:
Down to the dust, where as thou roll'st
away,
Fen worms shall perish on thy poisonous
clay"
But then we have our small>fry scam
dalizers-good, easy going people, who
Wouldn't injure any one for the world,
but can't helm induluino in n ouipt b,t