The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1890-01-04

say II as a compromise AZ IL il neither
ell she nor all he-just now we are
more concerned with the man scoid
than with the woman scold. We have
him every where; and everywhere that
we have him he is an excrescence and
q nuisance.
You will find him in the church-in
the nave az well as pulpit; you will
in journals get a diurnal or hebdomadal
dose of him as the case may be; the
patient pupil plodding painfully for
praise will instead have poured upon
his devoted head the Walls Of a never
varying wrath; the judge among the
members OF his bar will find the advo-
cate of visage ever vinegar; In the
club, cen where tired man withdraws
from jars and jams. the common scold
obtrudes and makes OF life a misery
and a fraud; the home, that precinct
sacred to the rosy god of love, where
none but words of kindness and con-
sideration should fall, there, too, we
find the fretful and morose, the cynical,
the hypercritical. the over.fasiidious,
the grumbler and the growler-the
common, the everlasting, the meyer
ending scOld; the mesnest man that
walks upon and cumbers mother earth;
and he may be seen and heard upon
the farm, in the office and the shop,
aud scattered here and there all along
the line.
To define him would be hard TO do;
he has many phases, but all OF them
unlovely. That he is u selfish brute
goes without saying. His manners
are unkempt, even though his hair be
as sleek as a ribbon. just as likely 90
not he may have the habit of saying
that he Ia a candid man, "plain- spoken
AMI honest How many sins of boor.
ishness have not been unloaded upnn
the shoulders of this virtue, candor!
Ito aspires to be a critic. There are
few subjects upon which he Is not
sufficiently az fat to justify him In a
sneer at whatever others try to do.
He is ever at hand to point out the
faulls of men and women-no human
being ever heard him praise a contem-
porary or u neighbor lest, perchance,
some OF his " c~oruscations Of genius
might fail TO be seen and appreciated
Good words tor others are foreign
to his tongue; charity Is a thing
unknown - If q bad motive can be
found for the acts OF Others no good
one can be supposed to have obtained.
Preaching Christ, publishing high
standards, invoking ~ju.tice, amid social
repose or the business Of life, here
should be the heaven of love there in
him rests forever and for aye the hell
of hate.
Where found in the church he is q
hypocrite, because all the teachings of
the meek and lowly Nszsrene tend TO
love, and gent!eness and charity and
CONSIDERATION LOT Ot0erB.
Where found upon the press he Is q
disgrace and a detriment TO the pro-
fession, az respect Tor It must soon he
lost II there 10 no discrimination in
criticism, aud no care in making un.
justifable, cruel statements, where
there is, practically, no means of re-
dress. The newspaper whose edito-
rial page is ever blaming, whose stock
ia trade Ia malice, aud which never
praises even when Lraise 10 due; whose
every effort IL to seek for mean things
to say, aud never tor good, loses The
respect of the people, as 1t should, and
with 1t any influence II might other.
wise gain. The public IL discrininat-
Ing In its judgment, and, while IL de-
sires fulsome eulogy OF none, demands
that Justice may be done. The liberty |
Of the press cannot safely be construed
into u license TO become y common
scOld.
In the school, In The law In the club,
on the farm. in the office, tho shop or
the home, the common scold Is 10 be
more dreaded than war, pestilence aud
Each of these iaiier are said
have useful functions To perform,
bat no man. living or dead. ever had
The monumental c%ffrontory Ia allegr |
there was Il use for the former.
Il you know him, avoid him, shun
him, loalhe him; pity his vile and
condole with his neighbors.
II you ARE he! Great JoveI what
shall We say? TO, be tied to u duck
ing stool and drown? But, no!
Reform. Bite OF the end OF your
and spit it out. Mayhap the
is In the end. Learn to be
charitable, cease 10 find fault. Praise
Try 1t on your wife. II
she iaints the first time, persevere;
she will like 10 faint from such a Sell
II II don't quite kill you, speak
Il kind word OF ON neighbor. The.
listeners will be astonished, but never
mind that. In sOme retired spot spew
out yonr venom, swea il O,it. any way
9 as io get II out. then with n Turkish
bath or Two, II tooth bath administered
with Il scrubbing brush, aud all abject
confession and repentance yon may
live TO become 4 neetnl aud an Orna.
citizen.
IN this year OF our Lord eighteen
hundred and ninety let us pray that
the common scold may recant. or let
us petition our legislative solons TO
give us back a dncking siool-"for
men only"
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Judge Silas Woodson, concurred
,uith hv the attorney. general upcidea