Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-11-20

one whispered
saspieion Abeut Your Credit.
| Perhaps yon sold your carriage because
YOU thought il was useless expense. The
whisperer began TO wonder why yeu sold
il. They said: Perhaps his business is
/ going down." 'sYes, it must be going
down. Perhaps You had to borrow money
from bank. Some director whispered it
outside. You lost heavily by the failure OF
friend The suspicion that you could
not bear the pressure was started, and it
leaped from lip 70 lip until eyeryb )dy
| whom you happen to owe wanted his
| money, and the business world closed in on
you like pack of wolves, and with assets
more than enough 10 meet your liabilities
crushed in everything. How many mis-
apprehensions Of this kind business men
| suffer. We discuss sometimes in ministe'
rial churches why 30 many commercial
| gentlemen do not I'd TO church. One great
reason is that by the time Saturday night
\ comes they are tagged out with the annoy
| ances of the week. They have had enough
| meannesses practical on them to leave
| their nervous syste11 all a-twitch.
If people would nfnd their own business
| we would have the rNilennium next week.
| These ga d-abouts, tlIese tale bearers, these
| back. biters, these Ggerlasting snoops-I
hate them with ho5F and vehement and
| ever-increasing hatr@ and love to hate
| them. One Of the worst OF these creatures
| is the one who brinfsto your ears all the
harsh things they hive heard said against
your personal Appearance, or against your
| family, or against your style Of business
They gather it up and eackle while they
see you writhe under it. They tell it in
its worst shape and leave out the extenu-
your feelings raw, they take this brine,
| this turpentine, this aqua forts and rub it
| in with q coarse towel, and rub it in till it
soaks clear to the bone. They make you
pin.cushion, into which they stick all the
sharp pointed things they have heard.
They beg you not to say anything about it.
Now, don't bring me into the scrape"
They aggrayate you to the point of pro-
| family and then wonder that you dent go
| off singing psalm tunes. They turn you
on a spit before hot FIRE and wonder that
you are not all absorbed in gratitude to
them for turning you.
Peddlers OF Nightshadei
Peddlers of Canada thistle! Peddlers of nux
yomica! They sometimes get you in cor
ner and you can't without rudeness escape,
and they tell you all about this one and all
about that one and all about the other one,
and they talk, and talk, and talk and talk
| and talk, and they at last go away leaving
the place like barn yard the night after
foxes have been down; here a wing and
there claw and yonder an eve. aud here
crop. How they do make the feathers fly
Compared with the defamation of good
name it would be quite an innocent and
commendable business to go round with
box of matches in your pocket and razor
in your hand to see how many houses you
could burn down and how many throats
you could cut. A woman at confession told
the priest that she had been guilty of SLAM
derng her neighbor. The priest gave her
a thistle and told her to 60 and scatter 1t
on the fields and then come back. On her
return the priest said go now and gather
up all those thistle seeds. When she de.
clared she could not, he said to her:
Neither can you gather up the evil words
| you have spoken" There is hardly man
or woman on earth but has had the detrac-
| tor after him or her.
But if it is wrong to despoil mans
good name, how much worse TO
Damage n woman's Reputation:
That style of infamous work is going on
from century to century and always by
whispers. One whisper starts suspicion.
The next whisper tells the suspicion as an
established fact. And many a woman as
honorable as your mother or your wife has
been whispered out of all kindly associa-
ton and whispered into the grave. Now,
there are people who say there is no hell.
But if there be no hell for such an accursed
despoiler OF womsn's good name then it is
high time that we take up collection and
have one built. There is such q place al
ready established, and what a time they
will have when all the whisperers get
together to rehearse things down there.
What an everlasting carnival OF mud! II
| it were not for their insufferable surround
| ings they would enjoy the new opportunity
| in that realm of the outcast. All the bad
being there, what rich and rare field for
| exploration by .whiSperersl On earth they
| had often to belle people in order to des-
troy them, but now they can say all the
bad things possible about their neighbors
and still speak the truth. Jubilee OF
whisperers.
Grand Gala Day OF Back-Biters!
Semi-heaven for scandal mongers. Only
stopping their gabble about their diaboli-
cal neighbors long enough to ask at the
| iron gate some new conner from the earth
what is the last gossip from Brooklyn;
Now, how are you to help quell this
great iniquity2 First, by refusing to lis
| ten or believe anything against anybody
| till it is positively proven. BY all laws OF
courts and all common decency, let every
one be supposed innocent till he or she Is
proved guilty. / do not commend my way
| to You, but / tell you what almost al
ways say when hear or read anything de-
famatory OF anybody, Il guess that is
lie" The only person that is worse than
| the whisperer isthe person who, without
I protest, accepts and believes the whisperer.
The trouble is you hold the sack while
| they fill it. The receiver of stolen goods is
| Just as bad as the thief. An ancient a1-
! thor said that those who uttered slander
| and those who believed il ought both TO be
hanl ed, one by the tongue, the other by
| the ear. When you hear anything about
your neighbors do not go about asking
| questions concerning the charge made and
SO spread it. Don't bemean yourself by be-
coming
Inspector OF Warts
and supervisor Of carbuncles and commits.
sioner of cutters and the holder OF stakes
at a dog fight. Allow no defamation at
your breakfast or dinner or tea table.
| Teach your children not to speak i'll OF
| others. Show them the difference between
bee and q wasp.
| Ny friend let your tongue which God
bath so wonderfully constructed as the
| instrument of taste, as the instrument OF
| degluation, as the instrument OF articula-
tiOn be employed for making. Others happy
| and in the service of God. IL you whisper,
whisper good encouragement to the dis
heartened and hope to the last. The time
| will soon come when we will all have to
whisper. The voice will become feble in
the last sickness, and, though we once shout
and sing and halloo until the forest answer
| ed in echo, we can only whisper comfort to
those whom we leave behind, and whisper
about our hope OF heaven. While speak
there are hundreds whispering their last
| utterance. In that solemn hour which will
soon come to us all, may IL be found that
we did our best to serve Christ and cheer
| our comrades in earthly struggle, not only
our hand but our tongue censecrated TO
God, and so the shadows about our dying
| pillow shall not be the evening twilight OF
gathering night. but the morning twi-
light Of an everlasting day.