Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-11-27
soOLDiNs wa1sPEREHs,
DR.. TaImage Singles Cat One
Word as n Text frOW st. Paul.

Ztn verse OF tue urbb naptt VI NO
mans, is my text" said DR.. Talmage,
Paul puts in the middle of the long
roll of the worlds felony those per.
sons known in all cities and in all
communities as Whisperers. They are
SO called because they generally speak
under the voice and in a confidential
way, with the hand at the side OF the
mouth acting as a funnel to keep the
precious information from wandering
into the wrong ears. Whisperers
are always first class liars, and sre
masculine and feminine, with a ten
dency to a majority on the masculine
side. From the frequency with
which Paul speaks OF them under
different titles il is evident that he
suffered from them His personal
presence was very defective, which
made him the subject OF ridieule. he
remained a bachelor until after sixty.
and some who had failed in connubial
designs upon him slsndered him, he
was cut to the raw, laeersted with
scandals, and be lays hold of these mis-
creants Of the tongue, and gives them
a good setting down. He enumerates
them among the scoundrels and the
murderers, where he speaks of envy,
murder, deceit, malignity and whisper
lag.
You might as well try to persuade a
Aock of erogs 10 remain away from q
cornfeld as 10 restrain these whisPerers
BY a moral sentiment. Some morning
a wife descends to the street, her eyes
dimmed with tears The whisperer
sees her and at once imagines her hus-
band has been unkind to her. Then
the whisperer runs and tells the stOr,
to the neighbors. The eness become
a story. Another neighbor says;
That just wnaIl expected. l saw
him the other evening very smiling
and courteous to some one who was
smiling back, and | wanted to tell him
to 20 to his home where his poor wiir
was doubtless crying her eyes out
Oh, Mrs. All Ears, do let your hus
baud 60 and put a stop to this out
rage The general requisite for a
femsle ~whisperer is that she should be
a single woman. A woman with 8
large family makes a poor whisperer.
S.tan does not have to keep a very
sharp lookout for his dominiOns il
some ueighborhoOds. he has let out
the whole contract to the female
Ehisperer. She gets husband and
wife into quarrels; brother and sister
into antagonists; disgusts pastors
with hocks and hocks with pastors.
Perhaps nine times out of ten 3
mans failure in business may be
traced to the Whisperers. You may
borrow money from a bank, aud a di
rector whispers it outside. Suspicion
is excited. One whisper after another
is repeated, until all the people you
owe want their money. Although
your assets may be worth four times
your liabilities, crash goes everything
"As for the gadabouts, tale-bearers,
scandal mongers, whisperers, ano
everlasting snoops, | hate them with
increasing vahemenoy, and | ask Goo
to give me increasing intensity with
wEich to hate them. | think among
the worst Of the whisperers are those
who gather up all the malicious thing:
that have been said about you, and
bring them to you without any o.
the exteuuating circumstance Aitel
they have made your feelings all raw
they will take this brine and turpen-
tine and aquafOrtis and rub it with :
coarse towel until it sinks to the bone
They make you a pineushioD in which
to thrust all the sharp things they
have heard about you, and then the
whisperer adds: Don't get me into
the scrape; don't tell anybody | told
you Oh, these peddlers of night
shade, Of Canada thistle, Of nux Fom-
lea. Sometimes they get you in a
hcOrner, where you cannot very well
escape without being rude, and they
talk, talk. talk, talk, talk. After
a while they go away, leaving the
place looking like a barnyard-here
a wing aud there a claw. Oh, how
they make the feathers fi Yet
the destruction Of a mans name
is worse than the destruction Of
his life. A woman who confessed to
her priest that she had been slaoder
ing her neighbors, wRa told az a pen
ance to go aud scatter the seeds Of a
thistle, She did so, and when she
came back she was told TO 20 aud
gather them up. She said the task
was impossible, because they had been
scattered by the 6ind. The priest
replied to her: Neither can you
gather up the evil words you have
spoken Of your neighbors.'
MANY ss good a woman as your
wife or mother has been whispered
out of all study association into the
grave. Some people say there is nc
hell. Il there be no hell for such
despoilers Of woman's reputation, il
is high time for some philanthropisl
to build one.
There IS one person worse ever
than the whisperer, aud that is tn,
man or woman who listens Withou.
protest. He holds the sack while th,
Whisperer fills il"