The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1899-07-07

( connubial reIation was dissolved. -
Jesus Christ had these whisperers
after Him, and they charged Him with
drinking, too much and keeping bad
! company. "a wine bibber and the
| friend of publicans and sinners" You
| take the best man that ever lived and
| put detective on his track for ten
wears, watching where he goes and
| when he comes and with a determine
ton to misconstrue everything and to
think he goes here for a bad purpose
and there for bad purpose, with that
determination of destroying him, at the
end of the ten years he will be held de-
spicable in the sight of a great many
people
If it is an outrageous thing to despoil
a mans character, how much worse is it
to damage a woman's reputation? Yet
that evil grows from century to cen
tury, and it is all done by whispers. A
suspicion is started. The next whis-
perer who gets hold of it states the sus-
picion as proven fact, and many good
woman, as honorable as your wife or
your mother, has been whispered out of
all kIiIl.l " sg-ssoclaIlo2ls, and whl.Pered
into the grave. Some people say there
is no hell ,Jut if there be no hell for such
a~spoiler of womanly character it is
high time that some philanthropist
build one! But there is such place es-
tablished, and what time they will
have when all the whisperers get down
there together rehearsing things!
Everlasting carnival of mud. Were it
not for the uncomfortable surroundings
you might suppose they would be glad
to get there. In that region where they
are all bad what opportunities for ex-
ploitation by these whisperers. On
earth, to despoil their neighbors some
times they had to lie about them, but
down there they can say the worst
things possible about their neighbors
and tell the truth. Jubilee of whisper
ers. Semiheaven of scandal mongers
stopping their gable about their dia-
bolical neighbors only long enough to
go up to the iron gate and ask some new
conner from the earth: what is the
last gossip in the city on earth where we
used to live?"
Now, how are we to war against this
iniquity which curses every community
on 6dTln 9 E1ISlS Oy ISAucAbB " 4lStCh
to or believe whisper. Every court of
the land has for law and all decent
communities have for a law that you
must hold people innocent until they
are proved guilty. There is only one
person worse than the whisperer, and
that is the man or woman who listens
without protest. The trouble is, you
hold the sack while they fill it. The re-
ceiver of the stolen goods is just as
bad as the thief. Anancient writer de-
clares that a slande1er and a man who
receives the SANDER ought both to be
hanged-the one by the tongue and the
other by the ear-and ] agree with
him.
When you hear something bad about
your neighbors, do not go all over and
ask ss4naygt it, whether it is true, and
scatter it an. spre4d it. You might as
we'll go to smallpox hospital and take
a patient and carry him II through the
community, asking people if they rsaiTy z
thought it a case of smallpox. That
would be very bad for the patient and
for all the neighbors. Do not retail SLAM
ders and whisperings. Do not make
yourself the inspector of warts, and the
supervisor of carbuncles, and the COM
missioner for street cutters, and the
holder of stakes for a dog fight. Can it
be that you, an immortal man; that
you, an immortal woman, can find no
better business than to become a gut
ter inspector?
Beside that, at your family table al
low no detraction. Teach your children
to speak well of others. Show them the
between a bee and wasp-
the one gathering honey, the other
thrusting a sting. ] read of family
where they kept what they called y
SANDER Book" and when any SANDER
ous words were uttered in the house
about anybody or detraction uttered it
was all put down in this book The
book was kept carefully. For The first
few weeks there were great many
entries, but after awhile there were no
entries at all. Detraction stopped in
that household. 1t would be a good
hing to have SANDER book in all
households.
4 Heaven Furnishes The bad and proves
he best Dryden.