DONT SLANDER YOUR NEIGHBORS.
No, don't! It's wicked. He may be innocent of the charge alleged against him; you may have condemned him upon circumstantial evidence, and it is never safe to render a decision upon such evidence. Be sure you are right, before you undertake to go ahead. Your neighbor may be poor, and have no friends; if so, by kind words and charitable deeds, make yourself his friend; instead of, by harsh words and arbitrary display of the power with which wealth invests you, crushing an already humble heart, and bringing misery upon one, on whom it would have been just as easy, and far more natural to have bestowed comfort and happiness. The one upon whom you would vent your malice may be a widow or an orphan—one deprived of her benefactor, or guardian; then be thou a benefactor, and suffer not the breath of calumny to taint the fair fame of an unblemished character. If there remains one feeling of humanity in the bosom of the slanderer, how doubly keen must be his remorse, when the amount of misery he has occasioned forces itself upon him. When slanderous reports reach you, whether you believe them or not, don't give them any greater publicity. It is bad enough to talk nonsense, but infinitely worse to talk slander. Don't do it. —Fort Madison Argus.