Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-02-18
EaIsehoods and Suspicious

A very excited correspondent writes
me an article about the trouble that fol-
lows lies, and bearing false witness in
court, etc. 1t is too personal to publish
but can say in this place that liars are
about as bad as murderers in some par
ticular instances.
| Eternity alone can sum up the evils
which grow out of lying and bearing
false witness in the courts of the land
| The wrongs that follow are sometimes
Iirreparable this side of the judgment
/ bar of God. There have been stains
| fastened on the regulations of innocent
people by scandal-mongers that nave
been worse than murders because the
innocent walked through life unaware
that their good name had been tarnlsh-
ed and they could not even know why
they had been Stunned and sighted, so
insidious were the falsehoods and 50
cIeverly were these charges fastened on
the injured ones, without their knowl-
edge.
| The charity that beareth all things
and hopeth all things is completely at
the mercy of envious and malicious peo-
pie.
When 1 was but a small girl, remem-
/ her hearing of a case that l have never
forgotten, where a young lady was talk
! Ell about in a scandalous way by some
person who started a rumor. She was alb
| sent on a visit to relatives in neigh
boring state and was absent some months
owing to the long distance and no rail-
roads, so the story was more difficult TO
clear up than usually happens in SUCH
instances.
The scandal might have still been Nv
| ing in the minds of those who survive
now over so years ago, but for the Meme
sis which sometimes tracks along be-
hind the evil minded and perjurer.
! When the young lady finally reached
her home and brought no bastard child
with her. some of the busy bodies, VINO
had incautiously talked in the presence
of children found themselves brought up
standing to give the author of the story
iof the long visit made for concealment,
etc, etc.
One word brought on another until the
whole affair got to dangerous condition
for there was blood on the moon, so
! to speak as well as court trial 1or
Islander about to begin.
| The gossips then FASTENED to clear
their skirts" or clear their own state
ments before the angry brothers Of the
young lady, and the scandalous story
was finally traced to young woman In
good circumstances, and of supposed
young lady, so cruelty wronged by her
envy and malice. There seemed TO be no
! other motive in the world for this at
tempted defamation of character.
| In less than three years, however, the
slanderer so well exposed and well de-
spised, failed to make such visit away
from home for herself and the commu-
nifty were shocked to be convinced or
her utter lack of virtue or decency and
could understand why she had attempted
to destroy the good name of an innocent
companion in such a fearful way. She
brought untold woes on her own inno-
cent family and got back In fun meas
ure what she had attempted to fasten
on a pure, sweet girl, in this later expose
of her own unworthiness.
If she had been a little more cautious
she might have escaped detection and the
sweet girls reputation might not have
been fully established by her friends, be-
cause you must be able to make start or
at least get acquainted with what is being
buzzed around by gossips to know what to
meet, etc.
Girls who indulge the idea that they can
flirt and go fast" to make themselves
popular and attractive. may take a little
| lesson from this true story of what oc-
Cured when 1 was a small child. They.
would do we'll to understand that fast
ness means risk If not danger, like fast
railroad trains, fast automobiles. etc, and
| while they may be as pure as an angel.
| they can become targets for envy and