Milford chronicle., 1905-12-01
LINCOLN CITY NOTES.


Well. we can't tell stories or lies-as less dig
nified people call them, nor can We tell some-
thing that we know nothing about. But what
shall we write about
know some reporters do send things the
papers that are not true,but your Lincoln re-
porter tries not say anything about you that
is untrue. Talking Of sending things to be
published that are exaggerated and untrue re-
minds me Of story 1 once heard about
telegraph operator who was sending some
sews from q reporter. The reporter seemed
to be a very important person. The story
was about the tearing down OF very old
building. All went well until the reporter told
about cat being found between the walls
Il had been there six years and when the
wall was torn away it was found alive and
In good condition. They say cat is hard to
xiii but no one could believe this story and
is +: any wonder that vixen he came TO this,
the operator forgot the code This is just
ike some people thought don't mean some
! [ mean nearly all OF us We all exagerate
things. When we hear story we add some
thing to It which we think improves It, and
we tell 1t to someone else and so on.
For Instance suppose someone should pass
a house and see the owner giving his son a
much deserved thrashing, when telling some
one else about It, they would say "Mr. Smith
/ yearly killed John this morning" and when
the next one told It they would say "Have
you heard the news They think Mr. Smith
killed Jonnie this morning" The mex: story
gouls be that he had killed him. Then some
one would say "He ought TO be lynched, or
At least tarred and feathered." And think
now surprised Mr.. Smith would be II some
one should tell him that he better not go to
town Saturday afternoon for the people were
linking seriously Of lynching him for kill
ing his little boy And maybs even JoDnie
had forgotten about the thrashing. II the
people who say these things knew they would
result in a story like that ,ofcOurse they never
would have said anything about 1t, but we do
not know we say things that we do not mean
too 1 was talking to a certain person the
,tber day and he said he thought II girl
wanted a fellow very badly, she ought to ask
him II he would have her for he said, II
would not be very gallant for the fellow to
.ay mo" and the girl would get the one she
wanted. He also said "a great many girls
say "nO" and a great many say "yes", they
| say ''yes" when they ought to say mo, for
they know when they say "yes' that they do
not mean IT," Then why do they do it,
asked And the answer was 20 just to make
the fellow believe they like him, and all the
time the girl knows she CONT"
Words travel very far, sound travels fir,too
| but words travel further than the sound OF
iur voice, for they are caught up by other
| people and sent on again. So we see how
careful we should be what we say, or, If we
| all only had more control over our tongues.
rhe tongue has probably reused more suffer
Ing than any other instrument in the world
1t can sting; 1t can bite; It can cut. Probably
| .omeone will say something about someone
that will hurt them more than the worst
severe cut they could have that would not
prove fatal, and maybe those words would
cause them so much suffering that they
would wish it had been cut by knife In
stead OF by the tongue.
Let us try harder to have more control over
our tongues. II we cannot talk without say
ing something about someone that we would
not like said about ourselves, let us not say
anything. "Silence is golden" Wellit would
be hard for us not TO say anything and Of
course we couldn't do it but let us try and
try harder to have more control over our
tongues and we shall all be better off