Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1877-04-10
GOSSIPING.

1t means a very little and a great
deal. In the first place, it is a class
of people who are so very ignorant,
generally speaking, and who know so
very little of good sound common
sense, and who care so little for them
selves and their neighbors that they
bring about great disturbance and up
roars in any community in which they
may be found.
pity the neighborhood or village
infested with those miserable, poison
Gus neutrality-suspicious. initiating
the vultures, gather up all the cor
rupted putrefying matter they can
hold at one time, and then after carry
ing it through certain process of am
plifcation and hellish erageration, get
sick of it themselves and vomit it out
over the community, and the stencil is
so stirling that intelligent and decent
people almost faint and desire to get
far away.
i In the common form of prying
disposition the tale bearer or gossiper
incurs the penalty of no one trusting
him or her with anything except for
publication. In this case they use
them for living advertisement like
the bill-carriers III the streets, with
; whom she or he only differs in the fact
that they carry their bills openly and
above board, and he or she secretly,
: and, like spaniel, between their teeth.
: Every social circle has some such am
. ateur gazette, who lives like SOL
dier's dog, ON the bits and scraps he
: picks up in the barracks, and whose
i office it is to fetch and carry for every
: man in the regiment, thus it is no such
{ honorable pest, nor half so innocent
as its animal prototype. The poordog,
= at least, wags no mans tail but h S
c own; but the ignorant gossiper is a
mischievous wag with other peoples.
Mr.. Editor, Idaho City is no excep.
, ton to the general rule. She has her
j" miserable gossipers-a half score
k perhaps-who may be seen on the
!. street almost any hour of the day
" prowlirg from house to house, ped
q ding out their filthy slime. Some o.
% them probably will never be cured
n without cancer or quinsy, and yeI
if they would avoid all company as
willingly as all respectable company
3. avoid them, they might quickly have
n silence great as midnight and pru
u dent as the Spartan hrevity. ! pit,
I'd the gossipcr, the tale-bearer, the liar
r. for they are all one and the same
I'd they need pity. God and the dew
y both pity them. And as there is
ly party of guilt between the thief an
ne the receiver, so there seems to be TIN
8, like between the teller and the heare
to of malicious gossip; and that upo
nd very great reason. For who woul
ne knock if he were forbidden entrance
he Or what farmer would cast his see
nd but into an open aud prepared ful
row. So it is most certain that j
y tongues would be idle if i'll ears wer
ot not open. And for this reason it wa
ot the saying of one Of the ancients tha
bs both the tellers and the hearers of falls
,ts stories ought to be hanged; but on
by the tongue and the other 10y I'll
ears, so that nobody could cut thel
ie- down unless by cutting off the for
wo mentioned parts by which they hung
IL w. +. f.
eff The above article is nothing mo-
'ch than the vile gossipers, who are slim
he ing Spite over the community, d
len serve. We would be pleased to pu
en-. lish more observations by the san
SITS writer, as he is fully competent to
ex- such subjects justice.