Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 1858 — Be Careful How You Speak. [ARTICLE]

Be Careful How You Speak.

Hush! why should you speak against the character of a ferrpile! It is all she has to depend upsn in this world. Just give the impression wings that she is not so good as she should be, and it will fly to every nook and corner of the town 1 . The story you whisper will return in tones of thunder, to astoffish even yourself, wilio was the first guilty wretch to repeat so base a story. A wopd has often proved the ruin-of a virtuous soul—a word thoughtlessly spoken, it may be, but reported by an evillmind. Suppress any thought which, if uttered, might injure the character or feelings of another. A hought may be stifled at fits birth, but at word spoken may never be lost. Weigh everything you utter so that none may misconstrue your language or receive a wrong impression. Above all, never, even in jest, whisper words, which, if true, would throw a blight upon a spotless reputation. -05” An old woman named Mary B.Myres, in Franklin,•"Johnson county, in this State, has declared a war of extermination upon all dram shops in her neighborhood. She marches to the attack of these rum fortresses alone and unsupported. She recently demolisbed the stock in trade of one dealer while he was at dinner. She marched to another, the proprietor of which attempted to defend it, for which he teas fined twenty dollars! She then proceeded to assail two other establishments in a similar manner. For all the women, Myresj was fined one cent and costs. The liquor dealers finding’ she has law and public opinion on her side,! are yielding to her threats; and giving up the business.— New Albany Tribune. is a hen sitting lon a fence like a cent! Because she has a head on one side, and a tail on the other!. lady residing near Washington, last week presented her husband a bouncing boy,] who had a full, bushy pair oif whiskers.