Show slanderous sayings THE eh is compelled to refer to the evil of slander again and to confess that provo is the head center for gossip which illy befits the pretensions the city makes in the way of education and refinement the slander bearers are the subtle element of society one might as wall chase the zephyrs as to chase the slanderous rumors concerning himself with the hope of finding their he can narrow them down to mean very little but he can never locate the or ignator for example a young gentleman works in one of the saloons his wife with a companion brought him a late supper and was seen coming out 0 a side door of the saloon by slanders suspected evil motives and began to wonder who the were they told their suspicions to others who also became suspicious and asked what kind of dressea the ladies wore this waa toll them and with a knowing wink they said they suspected so and so the rumor spread other names were brought into the scandal end soon it became certain that about a dozen young ladies had been seen coming out of an assignation house at unusual hours of the night that is the rio and growth of one lecent alan doras traced by WM were asked to look the matter tha fat her ot a young lady who 13 attending the brigham young academy whose in acme mysterious way became associated with the slander she is a very estimable young lady the beloved daughter of a respected family and is here in aur city for culture what shall we say of a state of society thai will thus besmirch character certainly it cannot be denounced in too strong terms we might give other rumors fully as gron adlesa and fraught with as much evil but on is sufficient the evil lies in the avidity with which these slanderous reports are received by men in prominent positions who should not countenance them for one moment A certain strata of society in all communities is adapted to the circulation of gossip just as the gravelly strata of our mountain soil is suited to the general circulation of water the minds of that strata of society are filled with very little else they are tha novel readers the castle builders the star gazers of society their minds are and light rumors touch the very chords of their natures it suits their shallow souls those men whose minds ara occupied or filled with solid matter will not gossip any more than the impervious soil will sub strata water soma men with empty minds may have been pushed beyond their natural position and from their prominence help for a time to give force to slanderous report but they will surely get down after a time to their true level in society the social world is made up with as much exactness as the material world the different strata of which can toe read in our massive mountains when society is studied it will be found that the gossip bearers belong to the lowest strata |