nc\c Tobey’s Lcctunc
?<• On Cbe Cattlcn 4*
If there are any dogs in the
house, let them remain, but raise
every widnow to its highest notch,
for my lecture tonight is on a sub
ject that needs plenty of cold air.
I am going to talk to you about
tattlers, and when we talk about
tattlers we ought not to object to
the company of dogs, for there is
more respectability in a mangy
dog that spends half his time
scratching fleas than there is about
a common tattler.
There are some subjects which
your Uncle Tobey can't discuss in
temperate language, and the ani
mal known as a tattler is one of
them. Not even Paul, the apostle,
could do it. Paid, educated man
that he was, and inspired of (iod,
had to stop a moment to think of
a word strong enough, and yet
respectable enough, to go thunder
ing down the ages describing and
naming the tattler. “Whisper
ers!” It was not enough that they
were envious, murderous, deceit
ful and malicious, but they were
isuch cowardly assassins of charac
ter that they “whispered" their
poison into the ears of otheas.
There are male tattlers and female
tattlers. They keep whole com-1
reunifies in commotion. They
“whisper. ” They speak softly
and ceutiously. Why! Because!
they want to escape the conse-j
quences of their defamation their
murder of character and theft of
reputation. They will unhitch the
plow or leave the dishes and hurry
away to spread their newly-imbib
ed poison. Talk about rum, war,
pestilence and famine! These vile
scavengers are worse than all com
bined. They are the greatest foes
to society. They spread their
poison in your homes, darken the
lives of the innocent and steal
away your happiness.
The tattler can do a very large
business on a very small amount
of capital. A wife in tears, a word
spoken in a loud tone by the hus
band or a frown by either is
enough to keep their slimy,
tongues going for a week, while a
thoughtless indiscretion of an in
nocent young girl is a sweet mor
sel for them to roll about in their
mouths for months. “Now, don’t
mention it, dear; or if you do
don’t tell who told you.” Cow
ards! What have they done but
“mention it?’’ What have they
done but told all they knew about
it, and a good deal moie! \\ hat
have they done but condemned
themselves by asking you not to
do the very thing they have done!
Hear them talk!
“1 saw Mrs. Black stop on the
streets the other day and speak
with Mr. Brown. 1 do wonderj
what they were talking about. 1
listened with all ears, but they
talked so low. and were so far
away, 1 could not distinguish what
they said. Isn't it just awful i If
her husband only knew how she
was carrying on there would be
trouble in that family. Some one
ought to go and tell him. He
ought to know it. 1 saw Mr.
Brown smile, and you know what
that means, dust look out for a
•scandal there, dear, but don’t say
a word about who told you. 1 was
standing at the window, and
couldn't help seeing them. And
they are not all the ones in this
town that’s acting so scandalously.
It was only last Sunday that 1 saw
.Sadie Meeks riding in a buggy
with that Will Bentley, and it just
getting dark, too. They had been
out in the country somewhere, the
.Lord knows where. It’s just aw*
ful the way some girls act nowa
days. But don’t mention my name
dear, for 1 don't want to have any
trouble. ”
Oh, the cowards, thieves, assas
sins!
They know everything that hap
pens in a neighborhood, and ten
thousand things that dont happen.
The devil has but little to do in
1 a neighborhood that has a
i moderate supply of tattlers. Fre
quently he lets out the whole con
■ tract to one woman, and when he
does she never fails to till it. She
can stir up more strife than all the
courts and churches cat settle. She
. makes trouble between husbands
and wives and sows the seed for a
good crop of divorces. She can
scatter more hell than the flame
tailed foxes of Philistia did fire.
The tattler has no taste for
I healthy news. They seldom read
j a good book or magazine. They
must feed on carrion, tilth, slan
der. They are like the mosquito
that spreads the yellow fevertthey
imbibe the slanderous poison
themselves an 1 spread it wherev
er they go.
The work of the masculine slan
derer is chiefly in regard to busi
ness. He possesses the venom of
envy. Some man is mounting the
ladder of success more rapidly
than he, or sometimes the power
of a bank or mercantile establish
ment “whispers” a word of dis- ;
credit about a rival. Oh, the lit
tleness of it.
Your Uncle To bey can find no
words sufficiently strong to express
his contempt for slanderers, both
male and female—the foul, forked- ■
tongue sneaks. No language is J
strong enough to describe the I
Mephistophelian meanness of their !
hearts. No words can picture the1
blackness of their ghoulish souls
as they revel in the swill tubs of
their own slime. The thief who:
steals y our money is an angel com
pared with the one who robs you
of your character. The man or
woman who goes into your house,
arid, b.v foul mouthed slander,
steals your home happiness and I
poisons the minds of your family,
is a thousand times worse than he
who steals your money . Thief,
assassin, liar and coward me too
mild terms to apply to the tattler, j
No matter if he or she does sit in
the amen corner and kick high the
straw in religious revivals. Their
hypocrisy only deepens the hell
dyed hues of their sin-blackened
hearts. It may be only a whisper,
anil given in the disguise of friend
ship or pity, but it goes out on
swift wings to pierce an innocent
! soul.
Your Uncle Tobey has seen so
much of the effects of the tattler’s
tongue that he can’t speak about i
•them with moderation. lie is the
sworn enemy of the tattler,the med
dlesome breeder of trouble and vile
character assassins. They are a
menace to society, and traces of
their slime have folowed many
pure women to their graves. Dear
friends, take Uncle Tobey’s ad
; vice, the best he has ever given
you: don't tattle.
-From Home and Farm.
BITS OF WI soon.
(From Bryan’s Commoner:)
The real Christian does not have
to tell it.
Life is what we make it—death !
! . , !
the way we take it.
An honest constituency is the
best cure for graft.
Some men mistake their moral
dyspepsia for religion.
You can always see good bar- |
gains when you are broke.
Some men are sorry for the!
poor only when their own pockets j
are eraptv.
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The man whose creed excuses I
our shortconrngs is always a wel- j
come evangelist.
The world judges a man's suc
cess by what lie makes; (rod
judges it by what he does.
People who look on* life as a
joke seldom see any laugh to it j
when the real point comes.
The man with millions can nev
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