Show THE PST PEST or OF A COMMUNITY what the grasshoppers grass hoppers and crickets are arc to crops talebearers tale bearers and mi mischief makers tire are to the welfare elfare of a community there are arc am among ong mankind too many who acom to take delight M in bli blighting C biting 0 chartters cha raters brda breaking king friendships and despoiling 0 homes thero there are thoe who are never in their element so much as when they are detailing or exaggerating some misunderstanding or placing their own peculiar 0 emphasis upon 0 sonic some statement carelessly made there are in this city whose first thoughts in the morning are those of mischief and who stat start t upon the day with their eyes peeled for something they can build a scandal on and their cars pricked for some story they can misconstrue and interpret to some ones injury or distress they never think of tho the consequences or if they do J are utterly indifferent about them there is is a woman in in logan 0 neither old nor single who has this trait de eloped to a remarkable extent not long 0 since she heard a remark dropped carelessly quite harmless ii if left alone she saw a chance to twist its deanin meaning into ia ethia offensive and exclaim exclaimed led 1 I would 0 give anything 0 to tell this she did tell it without an object in the wide world savo save to do mischief and it did sever bonds of friendship th that at had bad existed for a dozen years nor did the estrangement tran gement she brought about benefit her in the least unless the ghoulish satisfaction sati faction she may have felt in her jer work of mischief did her e enough good to compensate for the I 1 loss of the respect of all parties concerned tale bearers and mischief ma makers ker have bave ever been the bane of so society biety they never accomplish any good but are liable to do 10 much harm the worst feature about them is that they try to do evil they do not ignorantly stumble into it nor innocently but wilfully maliciously and with a full knowledge of what their malignant efforts will result in yes with not only that knowledge but a desire to injure and destroy such people cannot flourish long while they are children their folly is overlooked but when they marry they will by such a course make inake themselves disliked dislike their helpmeets help meets unpopular and even their own relatives suspicious of them what woman can expect her husband to hold his job when her tongue is 13 doing the business in which lie he engages engages 0 0 an injury what man can expect to thrive when either cither he or his wife raises his tongue against everybody nor can such people remain happy they seldom have a good thought of any one actuated by envy or jealousy or a natu raly evil disposition they look upon the world with jaundiced eyes and are arc irritated when they seu others happy they may be good wives wives or husbands or housekeepers house keepers but there is something wrong their hearts are shrivel shrivelled led up and the wrinkles will eoon appear around their eyes |