The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1899-07-07

N Canada thistlel Peddlers OF nux ,o
IL lea! Sometimes they get you In G,
II ner where you cannot very well esc,,
a. without being rude. and then they 4
l. you all about this one. and all add
4 that one, and all about the other q,
y and they talk, talk. talk. talk, talk IN
e After awhile they go away, leaving n
= place looking like a barnyard after n
J. foxes and the weasels have been arounl
o here wing. and there n claw, and va
i der an eye. and there crop. How thl
= do make the feathers fyl
Rather than the defamtion OF COL
names IL seems TO me IL would be alnc,
' as honorable and useful IL YOU lust ed
= "a box of matches in your pocket and
, razor in your hand and go through N
streets and see how many houses yd
: can burn down and how many throo
YOU can cut. That is not much wor,
business. The destruction of a mani
name Is worse than the destruction \
his lie. \ woman came IN confessionI
To n priest and told him that she M,
been Slandering her neighbors. IN,
priest promised her dissolution on COD
dition pt her performing d penance. If
gave her thistle top and said: "Yol
can take that thistle and scatter tlI
seeds all over the field" She went mn
did SO and came back. "Now," said nd
| priest, gather up all those seeds" SID
said: II can't" All" he said, "IknoJ
! you can't. Neither can you gather al
I the evil words You spoke about yo,l
ncighhors.' All good men and all cool
women have sometimes had detrac,o a
after them. John Wesley's wife whil
| pered about him, whispered all oye|
England, KEEP, ON whispering about
that good man-as good man as eveI
lived-and kept on whispering until thl
Connubial relation was dissolved,
Jesus Christ had these whispered
after Him, and they charged linn viii
drinking too much and keeping bad
company. "A wine bibber aud md
friend of publicans and sinners" YoJ
take the best man that ever lived and
put detective on his track for ted
years, watching where he goes and
when he comes and with "A determinat
tion TO misconstrue everything and ID
think he goes here for bad purpcsd
and there for bad purpose, with tina
determination of destroying him. at thsI
end of the ten years he will be held de
spicable in the sight of a great mann
people
Fit is an outrageous thing to despoiI|
a mans character. how much worse il hi
10 damnug "A N,.orpausS r,,,,,..t..o y.
that evil grows from century TO cen.
fury. and il is all done by whispers. Al
suspicion is started. The next wills.
pcrer who gets hold Of il states the sus.
picion as proven fact, and many a good
woman, as honorable as your wife or
your mother. has been whispered out OF
all kindly associations, and whispered
into the grave. Some people say there
is no hell, but IL there be no hell for such
a despoiler Of womanly character itA~l
high time that some philanthrop.
build one. But there is such place -
.ablished. and what time they WI
iave when all the whispersrs get dbwr
here together rehearsing thing
carnival OF mud. Wtrci' ,
lot for the uncomfortable surrounding ,
rou might suppose they would be glao !
o get there. In that region where ihey ,
ire all bad what opportunities for cS
,loitation by these whisperers. o. T,
arth, TO despoil their ncighbors some ,
lines they had 10 lie about them. bui
lown there they can say the wont
Kings possible about their neighbors !,
81 I. Inl af NJ is
RS. Semiheaven of scandal mongers
topping their gable about their dia.
,olical neighbors only long enough O.. !
70 up to the iron gate and ask some new
omer from the earth: what is the
asst gossip in the city on earth where we
Ised 10 liye?" +,
Now, how are we TO war against this |,
niquity which curses every community
N earth? First, by refusing to listen !
o or believe a whisper. Every court Of
he land has for u law and all decent :,
have for law that you
aust hold people innocent until they !,
re proved guilty. There is only one :
erscn worse than the whisperer, and
nat is the man or woman who listens d
tkbDul DTOAthls Inc NiOublt H. you L.,
old the sack while they fill IL. The re- !
liver of the stolen goods is just as n,
ad as the thief. An ancient writer 3e- !
ares that a slanderer and a man who
,ceives the Islander ought both 10 be-
lnged-the one by the tongue and the =,
her by the ear--and ! agree with y,
m.
When you hear something bad about ="
,ur neighbors, do not go all over and
* about il. whether IL IL true, and Z,
after 1t and spread il. You might rs o.
ELL go TO a smallpox hospital and take -
patient and carry him all through the III
asking people IL they really =,
ought IL a case Of smallpox. That "
Duld be'very bad for the patient and "
r all the neighbors. DO not retail sian.
RS and whisperings. DO not make 10
urself the inspector of warts. and the ID
pervisor of carbuncles, and the com 90
ssioner fc- street cutters, and the ~
lder of stakes for dog fight. Can il .
that you, an immortal man; that
u. an immortal woman. can find no DC
tier business than TO become a gut 81
; inspector? pc
Beside that. at your family table al le'
v no detraction. Teach your children 9