The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1895-07-27
4 HEARD and THEY SAY"

One day this week several visitors
called at this Office and during the gem
eral run of the conversation one OF them
was heard to use the st%ereotyped ques-
ton Il heard" ''they say" They were
not only used once, but several times.
and finally the user of the 81 hear and
they say was asked if she knew the
story she had related to be a fact, and
she replied. sob, no, Il. heard it, On
being asked if she remembered who
told her what she had said, she replied
that she had forgotten, but still she
was able to say, not knowing whether
1t Was the truth or not, Il heard So"
and is still, no doubt, repeating the
story to all who will listen.
The following is not intended for any
one IN particular, but we think that all
may be benefited thereby.
Did you ever stop to think what a
figure this saying cuts in your life?
Did you ever stop to think the injury
you do your friends and neighbors when
you judge them by what you hear,
''they say" and l hear "they said?"
Did you ever stop to think that you
are the victim of a jealous and venom
GUS nature that visits your home in the
garb OF a friend, and then works on your
own weak points, by telling you some
petty gossip that friends have said about
you, something their own vicious, vindi-
citave nature planned to tell you, be-
cause they had a feeling of hatred for
that particular person, and wanted to
cause them all the trouble and annoy
ance they could, and at the same time
cause you all the bitterness and i'll feel
ing they could. Perhaps this particular
person, has been your friend in time OF
trouble, or exchanged many little acts
of courtesy with you that should at least
have won your gratitude, that you are
Judging. But the fact remains the same,
that you, with your weak, suspicious
nature fall an easy prey to this little
tattle, not realizing that it is crushing
out every spark of manliness and wo-
manliness from your W. life, and eaus-
ing you to meet your friends with a
frowning face and suspicious look.
While they, with their smiling face and
unsuspicious natrue look ut you in won
derment when they give you their hearty
''good morning" or show do you do"
and are met with such a cold reception,
and you, poor weak mortal that you are,
cannot tell for the life of you why you
feel SO ugly, only you heard" some
thing they said about you. Do you sup
pose they ever heard anything you said
about them? for surely you must say
something when you hear so much, or
at least are a very good listener. All
my friend, the plain common sense view
OF the matter is, that you are wicked at
heart and prefer to think all the evil
you possibly can instead OF the good.
Has it ever occurred to you that you
are simply the echo of a more SUSPECT
Gus and designing nature than your
own?
Every town and hamlet has its male
and female t%attler, and they always
know where the good soil is, that will
absorb their gossip and take roo
Why is it, ii you are possessed OF n
good trait OF character, that you have
never judged your friends by the way
they have always treated you, instead
OF the way their enemies choose to
speak OF them to you. Simply because
you have no character, it is all borrow
ed and you are nothing but a piece Of
putty in the hands OF some scandal
monger, and being weak and false your
self, you think everybody else the same.
When you have been worked up to
the highest notch by Il heard they said
SO and So" Did you eve stop to think
that a tattler is always a liar, and were
you to try and compel them to prove
their latest would they not look at you
in perfect establishment, and with,
~"really | don't know, | could not say
for sure, but / believe | heard some
thing, but don't implicate me in the
in the matter and etc" and there the
matter drops, bat the poisonous dart
has been thrown, and the sting has been
felt. But still You are so cowaroly and
suspicious yoarseIf, that you dare not
trace the SANDER up, for lear yon will
make tronbie or prove the trpacIlerg of
this pretended friend, that drops in all
hpurs e., nar, "a liI;'r chat with yoa, On,