Show BE CAREFUL HOW YOU SPEAK here is an article vi inch is going ii alic rounds of the press and it hag boon credited to the memphis scimitar if the origin of the greata grea tc troubles alio most disagreeable episodes the scented and long continued in ton milage or community were it would be found in perhaps alie majority of cacs eliat light idle gossip fc were the cause of moro unhappiness and more than all ather c iusco put together if it were considered how arc it is the injun done by evil speaking tattling and silly gossip all but the hopelessly niah gant exercise the care over their relates to alio good name of others thinking lightly uno might suppose that alio ill deeds would reach further and sanke deeper thin ill words but it not so an ill deed w only the skin but an ill word may sink its barbi into the van heart tho light idle word has embittered more liscs wrecked moro home and excited more angry passions than lias the bullet and is constantly the caubo of alic heartburning heart burning trouble distress and despair to innocent of throng doing 01 wrong intent cm y malice arc wilful murderer but the light word spoken thought or evil intent is sf deadly blunderer thit often strikes deeply and fatally in the back of a friend it is egotism and acl fishiness fish ness of the basest sort that causes us to bo vindictive and impatient at seeing anyone else attain deserved success or well won joy alic jealous leer malign is the instrument that littleness and vanity uc u c in casing their ov n chagrin and dis ip in all tho wio maxims of la none deeper insight into perfect human nature than this in the adversity of our friends v 0 often find something that is not exactly so is that thought eliat the author himself alie maxim in tho blind edition of his book yet how con true it is there is no ilung more detestable than deliberate that springs from envy and malice because it so often over and because it usually bears an unmistakable brand apon its face it does harm than docs mere of leaking eliat good nature lends wings and curiosity an of talking and meddling in the affairs of others a debiro not to ignorant of aliat is going on among other people continually impel alio adlo and thoughtless to let slip from their tongues poisoned words that their judgment not sanction acro it consulted and aro incapable of tlc alc injure eliat slander cm do shallowness and are incapably inca pablo of es ingui tint gander can alo alie know not the inestimable value of a good re put altion nor how i a tiling it is and iio easily injured gossiping and the habit of detraction come largely from sire to talk when alic mind is empty and the and things with which shallow sl allow persons aro alic best acquainted arc neighbors and doings but such ako the malicious kind is usually recognized at once and thus loses its fangs it is the man or woman the community and who ordinarily speaks carefully but now and then inadvertently drops an unkindly or careless word of another who docs most harm for his or glicr utterance utter ince is taken as an unquestionable fact it is lie who lias character and reputation of ins ow n eliat be most careful of liow he speaks of others very many men attain a wide reputation within alie malo circle of their acquaintance of being good fellows when tho men themselves know that it is undeserved and that alio term bid fellows would more nearly fit taci r case of bounso there aro hosts upon hosts of men fir more alian the world at large knows of who are in good fellows in k every of the word but it is a fact nevertheless that in numerous instances the designation applied to men whose only litlo thereto is won at tho cost of and anxiety at home and among friends and possibly of brokon hearts and ruined lives viewed from merely ami standpoint a i otma man cannot ablord to bo known as a good fellow as tho term is commonly understood much acsa to bo one in inq proper sense of being an agreeable companion everyone to bo such and the first place in to show tins good fellow ship n alio homo ex |