The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1885-12-18
AS to Backbiters and Tale.
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Let O rule be here laid down which
ought never, under any circumstances
to be departed from:
Never listen to one who proposes to
tell you something a frier | has said
to your prejudice, you pledging your.
self never to speak to your friend on
the matter. Here you have come
across the basest and most cawardly
of all backbiters and mischief mixers;
likewise the vulgarest. Your course
here is plain. Say to the cowardly
talebearer, ~ warn you that if YOU
say one word, / shall GO straight and
tell my friend that you told me this
story, and see if it is true" DR.. Cal
mer's mother always met any spite
full tattle with words to this effect
1t was pleasing to see how the mis-
chief-maker FASTENED to back out o
the story. And the mischief-make
did not come back to Mrs. Chalmer,
a second time, unless a greater foo
than common.
A little organization has gone OF
smoothly for years, it's member
trusting one another and workin
tremendously together. But in a
evil hour the mischief-maker is admit
ted to that small society. Soon thel
is suspicion and drawing off; possibl
the thing blows up. Each has bee
secretly poisoned. No doubt eac'
ought to have cut the mischief maxim
short. But not all had the wisdom
and frmness to do sc
You remember, / doubt not, hov
the mischief maker once off red, "fron
a sense of duty" to relate to yo,
circumstances which tended to max
you doubt your best friend. H
wished to caution you" You Gu
him short finally. But what if tina
whisper had got hold of you? O
course you Fould have asked you
friend about 1T, and things wouldhav
been cleared ZIP. But some folk;
dread a scene aid avoidit. And sucl
leave a painful impression. The repe
tltion OF them ends in alienation.
One has known human beings muci
perplexed to know why, after bein,
made a great deal too much of in Ger
tain places, they were suddenly
dropped. A modest man would say
Because / made a bad impression; ,
disappointed people," Years after i
came out that it all came of the skill
full Misrepresentation and innuendoei
of a clever and lin the main) gooc
man. But he could not bear to SCI
your promotion. The frantic tenacisI
with which some men keep hold o
some trumpery privilege is ever ex
ceeded by their frantic terror lest AM
neighbor should get hold of it too.
When falshoods are systematically
told by a man mot designed to keeps
neighbor back or down., his purpos
generally is to make himself o
consequence. He is influential; hold
ing strings in his hand; play
ing off one against another. Privately
tell A that B abused him; privately
tell B that A abused him. Ii they bl
vulgar souls they will listen to you
And no doubt you are asreakingtale
bearer; yet you have a certain infu
ence which possibly you could get il
no other pay.
When falsehoods are Systematically
told by a woman; if old, she is spiteful
She wants give pam and make mis-
chief. If mindle-aged, things are not
SO bad. Her main desire is to be talk
ing about herself. She is always tht
heorine of her fibs. And she would
talk of herself forever. She would
rather tell evil OF herself than tel
pothing. Hence the attraction OF
many women of the irregular comics.
sional of some ANGLICAN churches. II
is a great opportunity for a womantc
talk at much length about herself
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