Pike County Democrat, Volume 30, Number 9, Petersburg, Pike County, 7 July 1899 — Page 3

TO GOSSIP IS A SIN. Dr. Talmage Denounces the Practice of Whispering of EviL Classes It Amo|g the World’s Greatest Villainies—More Harmful Than Oven Slander—A Destroyer of Good Xaates. (Copyright, 1899. by Louis Klopsch.) * Washington. July 1 In this discourse Dr. Talmage vigor- | ©usly arraigns one of the great evils that have eursed the world and urges generous interpretation of the characters of others; text, Romans 1:29, “Full, of envy, murder, debate, deceit, j malignity—whisperers.” Paul was here calling the long roll of the world’s villainy, and he puts in the midst of this roll those persons known in all cities and communities and places as whisperers. They are so called beea^e"they generally speak undervoice and in a confidential way, theii hand to the side of their mouth acting as ji funnel to keep the precious information from wandering into the wrong ear. They speak softly not because they have lack of lung force or because they are overpowered with the spirit of gentleness, but because they want to escape the consequences of defamation. If no one hears but the person whispered unto, and the offender be arraigned, he can deny the whole thing, •for whisperers are always first-class liars! Some people whisper because they are hoarse from a cold or because they wish -to convey some useful information without disturbing others, but the creatures photographed by the apostle in nay text give muffled utterance from sinister and depraved motive, and sometimes you can only .-hear the sibilant sound as the letter “s” drops from the tongue into the listening ear, the brief hiss of the serpent as it projects its venom.

wmsperers are mascuunc anu ienunine, with a tendency to majority on the side of those who are called “the lords of creation.” Whisperers are heard at every window of bank cashier ^and are heard in all countingrooms as well as in sewing sdcieties and at meetings of asylum directors and managers. They are the worst foes of society, responsible for miseries innumerable; they are the scavengers of the world, driving their cart through every community, and to-day I hold up for your holy anathema and execration these whisperers. From the frequency with whicFTSul speaks of &iem under different titles I ■conclude that he muet have suffered somewhat from them. His personal presence was very defective, and that made him perhaps the target of their ridicule, and besides that he was a bachelor, persisting in his celibacy down into the sixties—indeed, all the way through—and, some having failed in tiieir connubial designs upon him, the little missionary waspujt under the ' raking fire of these whisperers. He was no doubt a rare morsel for their scandalization, and he cannot keep his patience any longer, and he lays hold •of these miscreants of the tongue and gives them a very hard setting down in my text among the scoundrelly and the murderous. “Envy, murder, debate, de- * ceit, malignity—whisperers.” The law of libel makes quick and stout grip of open slander. If I should in a plain way, calling you by name, charge you with fraud or theft or murder or uncleanliness, to-morrow morning I might have peremptory documents served on me, and I would have to pay in dollars and cents for the damage I had done your character^. But ^ these creatures spoken of in my text ■ </ are so small that they escape the fine tooth comb of the law. They go on, and they go on, escaping the judges and the juries and the penitentiaries. The district attorney cannot find them, the sheriff cannot find them, the grand jury cannot find them. Shut them off from one route of perfidy, and they start on another. You cannot by the force of " moral sentiment persuade them to desist. You might as well read the Ten 'Commandments to a flock of crows, expecting them to retreat under the force 1 -of moral sentiment. They are to be found everywhere, these whisperers. I think their paradise is a country village of about 1,000 or 2,000 people where everybody knows everybody, but they also are to be found in large quantities in all our cities.

They have a prying disposition. They look into the basement windows at tho tables _of their neighbors and can tell just what they have morning and night to eat. They can see as far through a keyhole as other people ean see with a door wide open. They can hear conversation on the opposite sido of tj»e room. Indeed, the world to them is a whispering gallery. They always put the worst 'construction on everything. Some morning a wife descends into the street,, her eyes damp with tears, and that is a stimulus to the tattler and is enough to set up a business for three or four weeks. “I guess that husband and wife don’t live happily together. I wonder if he hasn’t been abusing her? It’s outrageous! He ought to be disciplined. He ought to be brought up before the church. I’ll go right over to <p my neighbor’s and I’ll let them know about this matter.” She rushes in all out of breath to a neighbor’s house and says: “Oh, Mrs. Allear, have you heard the dreadful news? Why, our neighbor, poor thing, came down off t^e steps in a flood of tears. That brute of a husband has been abusing her. Well, it’s just as I expected. I saw him the other afternoon very smiling and very gracious to some one who smiles back, and 1 thought then I would just go up to him and tell him he had better go home and look after his wife and family, who probably at that very time were upstairs crying their eyes out. Oh, Mrs. Allear, do have your husband *o over and put an end to this

'trouble! It’s simply outrageous that our neighborhood should be disturbed in this way! Itfs awful!” The fact is thjat one man or woman set on fire of this hellish spirit will keep a whole neighborhood a-boil. It does no’ require any very great brain. The chief requisition is that- the woman have a small family or no family at all, because if she hav*» a large family then she would have to stay at home and look after them. It is very important that sha be single or have no children at aH, and then she can attend to all the secrets of the neighborhood all the time. A woman with a large family makes a very poor whisperer. It is astonishing how these whisperers gather up everything. They know every thing that happens. There are telephone and telegraph wires reaching from the! ears to all the houses In the neighborhood.. They hove no taste for healthy news, but for the scraps and peelings thrown out of the scullery into the back yard they have great avidity. On the day when there >a a new scandal in the newspapers they have no time to go abroad. On the day when there arc four or five columns of delightful private letters published in a divorce case she stays at home and reads and reads and reads. No time for her Bible that day, but toward night, perhaps, she may find lime to run out a little while and see whether there are any new developments. Satan does not have to keep a very sharp lookout for his evil dominion in that neighborhood. He has let out to her the whole contract. She gets husbands and wives into a quarrel and brothers and sistefs into antagonism, and she disgusts the pastor with the flock and the flock with the pastor, and she makes neighbors who before were kindly dispoSfcd toward each other oversuspicious and critical, so when one of the neighbors passes by in a carriage they hiss through their teeth and says “Ah, we could all keep carriages if we never paid our debts!” When two or three whisperers get together they stir a caldron of trouble, which makes me think of the three witches of “Macbeth” dancing around a boiling calflron in a dark cave:

Double, double, toll and trouble, ! \ Fire burn and caldron bubble. Fillet of a fenny snake In the caldron boll and bake; Eye of newt and toe of frog. Wool of bat and tongue of dog, Adder’s fork and blind worm’s sting. Lixsard’s leg and owlet’s wing For a charm of powerful trouble. Like a hell both boll and bubble. Double, double, boll and trouble, Fire burn and caldron bubble. Scale of dragon, tooth of wolf. Witches’ mummy, maw and gulf Of the ravin’d salt sea shark; Make the gruel thick and stark; Add thereto a tiger’s chaudron For the ingredients of our caldron. Double, double, toil and trouble. Fire burn and caldron bubble; Cool it with a babboon’s blood. Then the charm is tirm and good. I would only change Shakespeare in this, that where he puts the word “witch” I should put the word “whisperer.” Ah, what a caldron! Did you ever get a taste of it? I have more respect for the poor waif of the street that goes down under the gaslight with no home and no God—for she deceives no one as to what she is—than I have for these hags of respectable society who cover \ip their tiger claws with a fine shawl and bolt the hell of their heart with a diamond breastpin. The work of ‘masculine whisperers is chiefly seen in the embarrassment of business. Now, I suppose there are hundreds of men here who at some time have been in business trouble. I will undertake to say that in nine cases out of ten it w’as the result of some whisperer’s work. The whisperer uttered some suspicion in regard to your credit. You sold your horse and carriage because you had no use for them, and the whisperer said: “Sold his horse and carriage because he had to sell them. Th'e fact that he sold his horse and carriage shows he is going down in business.” One of your friends gets embarrassed, and you are a little involved with him. The whisperer says: “I wonder if he can stand under all this pressure? I think he is going down. I think he will have to give up.” You borrow’ money out of a bank, and the director whispers outside about it, and after awhile the suspicion gets fairly started, and it leaps from one whisperer’s lips to another whisperer’s lips until all the people you owe want their money and want it right away, and the business circles come around you like a pack of wolves, and. though you had assets four times more than were necessary to meet your liabilities, crash went everything. Whisperers! Oh, how much business men have suffered!

Sometimes in the circles of clergymen we discuss why it is that a greet many merchants do not go to church. I will tell you why they do not go to church. By the time Saturday night comes they are worn out with the annoyances of business life. They have had enough meanness practiced upon them to set their whole nervous system a-twitch. I think among the worst of the whisperers are those who gather up all the harsh things that have been said about you and bring them to you—all the things said against you, or against your family, or against your style of business. They gather them all up, and they bring them to you; they bring them to you in the very worst shape; they bring them to you without any of the extenuating circumstances, and after they .have made your feelings all raw, very raw, they take this brine, this turpentine, this aqua fortis, and rub it in with a coarse towel, and rub it in until it sinks to the bone. They make you the pincushion in which they thrust all the sharp things they have ever heard about you. “Now, don’t bring me into the scrape. Now, don’t tell anybody I told you. Let it be between you and me. Don’t involve me in it at all.” They aggravate you to the point of profanity, and then they wonder you cannot sing psalm tunes! They turn you on a spit before a hot fire and wonder

I why you are not absorbed in gratitude j to them because they turn 3-011 on a spit. | Peddlers of night shade! Peddlers of | Canada thistle! Peddlers of nux vomica! Sometimes they get you in a corner where you cannot very well escape without being rude, and then they tell you all about this one, and all about that one, and all about the other one, and they talk, talk, talk, talk, talk talk. After awhile they go away, leaving the place looking like a barnyard#after the foxes and the weasels have been around; here a wing, and there a claw, and yonder an eye, and there a erop. How they do make the feathers fly’! * S~ . Kather than tlie defamtion of good names it seems to me it* would be almost as honorable and useful if you just took a box of matches in your pocket and a razor in your hand and go through the streets and see how many* houses you can burn down and how many throats you can cut. That is not a much worse business. The destruction bf a man's name is worse than the destruction^ his life. A woman came in confessional to a priest and told him that she had been slandering her neighbors. The priest promised her absolution on condition of her performing a penance. He gave her a thistle top and said: “You can take that thistle and scatter the seeds all over the field.” She went and did so and came back. “Now,” said the priest, “gather up all those seeds.” She said: “I can’t.” “Ah,” he said, “1 know ' you ca'n’t. Neither can you gather up the evil words you spoke about your neighbors.” All good men and all good women have sometimes had detractors after them. John Wesley’s wife whispered about him, whispered all ovei England, kept on whispering about that good man—as good a man as evei lived—and kept on whispering until the connubial relation 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'a detective on his track for tei years, watching where he goes anc when he comes and with a determination to misconstrue everything rind t< think he goes here for a bad purpost and there for a bad purpose, with thai determination of destroying him, at the end of the-ten years he will be held despicable in the sight of a great many people

it. is an outrageous unug xo aespon a man’s character, how much worse is it to damage a woman’s reputation? Yet that evil grows from century to century, and it is all done by whispers. A suspicion is started. The next whisperer who gets hold of it states the suspicion as a proven fact, and many a good woman, as honorable as your wife oi your mother, has been whispered out oi all kindly associations, and whispered into the grave. Some people say there is no hell, but if there be no hell for such a despoiler of womanly character it is high time that some philanthropist build one! But there is such a place established, and what a 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 f.or exploitation by these whisperers. On earth, to despoil their neighbors sometimes they had to lie about them, but down ^here they can say the worst things possible about their neighbors and tell the truth. Jubilee of whisper ers. Semiheaven of scandal mongers stopping their gabble about their diabolical neighbors only long enough tc go up to the iron gate and ask some newcomer 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 earth? First, by refusing to listen to or believe a whisper. Every court of the land , has for a 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 receiver of the stolen goods is just as bad as the thief. An ancient writer declares that a slanderer and a man who receives the slander ought both to be hanged—the one by the tongue and the other by the ear—and 1 agree with

When you hear something bad about your neighbors, do not go all over and ask about it, whether it is true, and scatter it and spread it. You might as well go to a smallpox hospital and take a patient and carry him all through the community, asking people if they really thought it a case of smallpox. That vtfould be very bad for the patient and for all the neighbors. Do not retail slanders and whisperings. Do not jnake yourself the inspector of warts, and the supervisor of carbuncles, and the commissioner for street gutters, 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 gutter inspector? Beside that, at your family table allow no detraction. Teach your children to speak well of others. Show them the difference between a bee and a wasp— the one gathering honey, the other thrusting a sting. I read of a family where fhey kept what they called “A Slander Book,” and when any slanderous 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 a great many entries, but after awhile there were no entries at all. Detraction' stopped in that household. It would be a good thing to have a slander book in all households. Heaven punishes the bad and prove* the beet.—Dryden.

A GALLANT CAVALIEB 44 THINK him the rrobodim. at of chhrI airy and gallantry,” said Ethel Hunt, j I enthusiastically. She was a dark-cheeked, dia aond-eyed . girl of 18, with braids of blue-black hair j coiled around the back of her sm 11, Greekshaped head, and a color as rich and velvety as the side of a July peach. “Humph!” said Aunt Sara, “I've heard girls talk so before, and it generally ended in one thing.” “For shame! Aunt Sara,” cried Ethel,coloring up to her eyelashes. “I only mean, of course, that he is an agreeable companion.” Now, this Aunt Sara was no spectacled spinster of an uncertain age, nor portly,.pil-low-shaped widow, with the photograph of her dear departed husband, worn, locketshaped, upon her bosom—but a pretty young woman of four or five and twenty, with bright blue eyes and hair all streaked with golden gleams, who was engaged in the congenial occupation of making up her wedding clothes. “An agreeable companion — of course,” said Aunt Sara. “Look, Ethel, do you think white Maltese lace or French blonde, with a heading of Roman pearls, would be prettiest for this berthe?” Aunt Sara knew* when to drop a subject and when to hold to it. But while Ethel was stitching the quilting of French blonde on to the white silk dress her young aunt's I mind was busy upon the topic she had apparently abandoned. “The disagreeable fellow,” thought Aunt Sara. “He has somehow heard that Ethel has money, and he is determined to win it. If she could only see him in his true light. But I know what a perverse tiring p woman’s heart is. ’Just as sure as I attempted to tell her what he really is, she'll make up her mind that he is the finest and least ap- | preciated personage on the face of the earth. And I did so want her to keep her heart whole until Everard Grafton comes to be Charles’ groomsman! Everard Grafton is worthy of a princess!” And Miss Sara Martell sat and sewed away in absorbed silence, without speaking a word for the unprecedented period of fifteen minutes. “They say he is perfectly intolerable at home,” she said to herself. “Clara Waters was there once and 'heard him rating his sisters fearfully because the beefsteak for his late breakfast was a little overdone. If only I could manage it that Ethel should see him in his true light.” 1 She sat and thought awhile longer—and suddenly the color bloomed into her cheek, the dimples into her chin. She started up. “Ethel,” she said, “I’m sure you must be tired of sitting over that everlasting stitching. I’veigot to go over to Susy Morand’s to borrow a pattern; it will be just a pleasant ...it ”

“To Miss Morand’s?” Ethel was vexed with herself, but she could not help" the telltale blood that surged into her cheeks. , “Isn’t it rather early? Only nine o’clock!” “Early? Not a bit. Susy and I are so intimate we don’t mind curl papers and calico wrappers. Get your hat and come along, quick.” But, in spite of her exhortations to speed, Sara Martell smiled to herself to perceive that EthebHunt lingered long enough in her own room to change her black lace breastknot for a becoming little but terfly bow of rose-colored ribbon and to arrange the dainty tendrils of silky black hair that drooped so caressingly over her low, broad s forehead. “She thinks we shSl see Julian Morand,” she thought to herself. “Well, perhaps we shall. I am putting myself entirely in the i hands of luck and chance.” But when they reached the Morand man- : sion, instead of ringing formally at the front 1 door, Miss Martell went around to the back porch, a pretty little entrance all shaded I with honeysuckles and trumpe vines. | “I always go in here,” she : aid, nonchalantly, ito reply to Ethel's remonstrating i glance. “Sue Maraud and I ire like sisters.” Sue Morand, a blooming girl of 18, was in the kitchen, making apple pies. “The pattern? Of course, yuvr shall have it!” she cried. “Just wait a ninute until I get it.” “I’ll go with you,” said Sara. “Ethel, you’ll not mind waiting for us here?” '“Not in the least,” said Ettcl. And she sat down by the window, vhere ivies, trained in bottles of water, were creeping like green jewels across the crystal panes of glass. “Sue! Sue!” She started as the voice of her preux chevalier of the evening before came roaring down the back Flairs. “Confound you all down there, why aren’t my boots blacked? Sue! Mother! Nell! what’s become of my breakfast? You must think a man has nothing to do but lie here and wait all day for you lazy folks to stir around!” -v There was no reply as he paused, apparently expecting one. “Mother” was down in tlie garden under the big green sunbonnet, gathering scarlet-cheeked tomatoes for dinner. “Nell” was in the front yard picking red-veined autumn leaves. “I know there’s some one down there!” he shouted. “I can hear ycu breathe and your dress rustle. Just like your ugliness not to answer a fellow. Do you hear, Sue? Black my boots, quick. I’m waiting for them!”

And bang! bang! came the usetui articles of wear in question down the winding stairway that led into the kitchen. Poor little Ethel! She half rose up, then sat down again, piteously undecided what to do—and even while she hesitated, with color varying like the red and white of the American flag in a high wind, the door at the foot of the Stairs flew open and in stalked Julian Morand, sallow and disheveled, with unkempt hair and beard, fretfully curved mouth, and a most unbecoming costume of a soiled Turkish dressing gown, faded, pearl-colored nether garments, and stockinged feet, thrust into dirty red morocco slippers. ‘1 say, you!” he snarled out; “why don't you—” And then, perceiving to whom he was actually addressing himself, he started back, turning fiery red. “Miss Hunt!” And, with a downward glance at his toilet, he fairly turned and fled, the skirts of his Turkish dressing gown floating like red and orange meteors behind him. And, mortified and terrified though she was, Ethel, Hunt could not resist the temptation to break into a peal of hearty laughter. She told it all to Sara Martell when they were safe at home. “Aunt Sara,” said she, “I am thoroughly disenchanted.” “1 could have told you as much before,” said she. “‘fhese Adonises are like cheap calico—they will neither wash nor wear! Wait until Everard Grafton CQires.” “And who is Everard Grafton?” “The nicest young fellow in the worldafter my betrothed husband.” When Mr. Grafton came he to far justified Aunt Sara's encomiums that Ethel really did like him. And Aunt Sai a was willing to leave the rest to fate.—N. Y. Daily News, • .. • • \ - •• t

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An«/w 1998, edition,entirely SOUTHERN „„ cond,ll<>„v HOMESEEKERS’ ^ of ““ rewritten, and giving fact* liiBMiMSpM _ut _ .1 Jute, of tL_ Central’s Southern GUIDE Romeseekers’ Guide, has jusi'been issued. It is a 264-page illustrated pamphlet. contaips.it large number or letters from northern farmer* now prosperously located on the line of the Illihois Central railroad in the stales of Kentucky. Tennessee, Mississippi and Louisiana, and also a detailed ^rite-up of the cltlee, towns and country on and adjacent to that line. To horaeseekers or t hose'in search of * trnfs farm, this pamphlet will furnish reliable Information concerning the most accessible and prosperous p-rtlon of t he South.. Free copies can be had by applying to the nearest of th* undersigned.' Tickets and full Information aa to rates la connection with the above can be bad of agents of the Central and connecting Hites. Wm. Mpkray, Ditr. Pass. Agt., New Orleaa*. John A. Scoter. Dty. Pass. Agent, Memphis, 8. Q. Hatch, Div. Pass Agent. Cincinnati.' F. ft. WHEELER, O. P. A T. A., I.<3. R.R., Evansville, lad, A. H. Hanson, O. P. A- Chicago. W. A. KELLON D. A. G. P. A., LoulSTilka 90 YEARS* EXPERIENCE ATENTS Trade Mams Designs - Copyrights Ac.nuuiuitr. vvuiiuuuiod Handbook on Patents eent free. Oldest agencj for securing patents. Patents taken throes a itiunn A Co. receive special notice, without cftarge. tn the yvvnws iwvsvvi w « uuww v;(jo, ***, sue Scientific American. A handsomely lllustreted ueel eolation, of any seienttfio Sow .. >nths, $t Sold by aH newsdealejr* four moot ekly. rnal. Largest cirw Terms. fS • _.36tB9wdw»yNewYoi1[ Branch Office, 6% V BA, Washington. li. C. Skin Diseases. .-V* -meat enro ot tetter, salt rheum sad ecsema, Chamberlain’s Eye and Skin Ointment is without an equal, it relieves the itching and smarting a most instantly and its continued use ejects at cure. It also cures itch, barber’s: scald head, sore nipples, itching chapped hands, chronic sore granulated lids. Dr. Carr’s horses are fixe best toate, Wood and vermifqge. Print, w cents.