The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1900-09-26
SCANDAL M0NGERs.
A Scathing Deuunciation of the Most De.
spisable of Human vuItures.

Aaih iS cneap. MS Is the 0n-year |
IN politics and the spell-binders will
soon be entertaining the dear people at
the court houses. at the crossroads |
and the big spell binders, such as
Bryan and Roosevelt, will meet their
audiences in the great auditoriums and |
open air meetings. OF course each
side putting their best light upon their
own principles and policies, the other
side doing the came for theirs, and
both magnifying the faults and bad
policies Of the other. 1 don't believe
much that one politician says about
another politician of different politics
from himself. Really, I dom believe
much [ hear 'no.how." Like Bill
Nye when he was caught snoring. A
gentleman punched him and said,
Wake up, your snoring disturbs us"
Bill replied, II was not snoring" The
man replied, "You were snoring. sir"
Bill said, "How do you know was
snoriDg?" 81. heard you,'' said the
gentleman. Law" said Bill, "you
cant believe half you hear these days"
| am by politics like / am by scan.
dal mongers. You CAM make heap
of allowance, and then, as the negro
says. low some more before you
get it straight Saint James said,
1.-THE tongue is an unruly evil and full
of deadly poison and setteth on fire
the whole course Of nature and it is
set on fire of hell" The average per-
son does not weigh his words or ap-
preciate what he says. 1t is also true
that the average hearers do not give
much weight to words and assertions.
A hog at his slop, the dog eating bo-
logna sausage, a vulture at work on the
carcass are so much higher animals
than scandal mongers that they ought
not to be mentioned in the same week,
or the same year, or the same decade.
Tbs scandal monger is sometimes male
and sometimes female, and sometimes
just plain ct" I don't know
whether they belong to the genus homo
or not. They are no more like decent
people than a buzzard is like bald
eagle. think some people talk too
much because they have got nothing
else to do. I think some people talk
because they are on such q low plane
that they would like to talk other peo-
pie down on level with them. Nine
ty-nine times in hundred scandal
mopger is talking about his betters or
her betters. I would rather be
scratching when l was not itching
than to sit down and listen to a scan
dal mouger, and as rule the one who
listens to scandal is no better than the
one who does the talking. 1t is as
true to-day as ever, the purest charac-
ters have suffered mostfrom this tribe
Of vultures. Each community has
some noble wife, some good mother or
daughter that has been the prey Of
these scandal mongers. They are to
be Stunned, avoided, despised and
will finally be damned.
| The devil is going to be dissatisfied
with some Of the gang that is put off
on him, in my judgment. To think
the devil wants. some folks that
know he is going to get would lower
my estimate Of him, his intelligence
and his sense Of what decency demand
ed. 1 don't believe the devil will get
anybody that he ought not to get; but
l do believe that he is going to get
some that he wonid uo: have been
sorry if he had missed. Behold how
great q matter little FIRE kindleth.
If Mrs. Snipes tells Mrs. Scroggins
that she saw Mary Jane Brown wink
at Billy Smith, that is foundation
enough. The next you hear Of Mary
Jane Brown she has lost her virtue,
wrecked her character and blasted her
life, when the real foundation for the
beginning Of the report was that Mary
Jane Brown batted her eyes because
it was her nature to. If there is any
body I love TO run after and associate
with it is the people who keep their
tongue from evil and their lips from
speaking guile, who baokbite not with
the tongue nor do evil TO their neigh
Dor. Some people will lie down in
hell at last conscious Of che fact that
their tongue damned them, and If they
had not talked they might have made
their way to heaven; but after all |
lie will run mile while the truth is
putting on his boots; but a lie never
stops unlilit has run itself to death,
but truth comes along by and by and |
sees the dead carcass by the wayside |
and walks on with the consciousness
that she shall live forever, that the |