Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-07-05


neighborhood. They have no taste for
healthy news. but for the scraps and
peelings thrown out of the scullery in
to the back yard they have great avid
ity. On the day when there is a new
scandal in the newspapers they have
no time to go abroad. On the day
when there are four or Ave columns Of
delightful private letters published in
divorce case she stays at home and
reads and reads and reads. No time
for her Bible that day, but toward
night, perhaps, she may find time to
run out little while and see whether
there are any new developments.
sataa's Dominion.
Satan does not have to keep q very
sharp lookout for his evil dominion in
that neighborhood. He has let out to
her the whole contract. She gets hus-
bands and wives into a quarrel and
brothers and sisters into antagonism,
and she disgusts the pastor with the
flock and the flock with the pastor, and
she makes neighbors who before were
kindly disposed toward each other over
suspicious and critical, SO when one of
the neighbors passes by In carriage
they hiss through their teeth and say,
"Ah, we could all keep carriages if we
never paid our debtsv'
When two or three whisperers get to-
gether, they stir caldron of trouble,
which makes me think Of the three
witches of Macbeth dancing around
a boiling caldron in dark cave:
Double, double, toll and trouble,
Fire burn and caldron bubble
Fillet Of fenny snake
In the caldron boil and bake;
Eye OF new. and toe Of frog.
Wool OF bat and tongue OF dog,
Adders FORK and blind worms sting,
Lizards leg and owlet's wing
For a charm of powerful trouble,
Like hell both boil and bubble.
Double, double, toll and trouble.
Fire burn and csldron bubble.
Scale Of dragon, tooth Of wolf,
Witches mummy, NAV and gulf
OF the ravin'd salt sea shark;
Make the cruel thick and stark:
Add thereto tigers chaudron
For the ingredients of our caldron-
Double, double, toll and trouble,
Fire burn and caldron bubble;
Cool it with baboon's blood,
Then the charm is firm and good.
would only change Shakespeare In
this, that, where he puts the word
witch" would put the word "whis-
perer" All, what a caldron! Did you
ever get taste Of it? l have more re-
spect for the poor waif Of the street
that goes down under the gaslight.
with no home and no God-for she de-
ceives no one as to what she is-than
have for these hags of respectable So
ciety who cover UP their tiger claws
with fine shawl and bolt the hell Of
their heart with diamond breastpin!
Masculine whisperers.
The work of masculine whisperers Is
chiefly seen in the embarrassment OF
business. Now. | suppose. there are
hundreds of men here who at some
time have been in business trouble.
will undertake to say that in uine
cases out of ten 1t was the result of
some whisperer's work. The whisperer
uttered some suspicion in regard to
your credit. You sold your horse and
carriage because you had no use for
them, and the whisperer said: "Sold
his horse and carriage because he had
to sell them. The fact that he sold his
horse and carriage shows he is going
down in business"
One of your friends gets embarrassed
and you are little involved with him.
The whisperer says: II wonder IL he
<,@o fnfS
think he is going down. think he will
have to give up" You borrow money
out of a bank and director whispers
outside about it, and after awhile the
suspicion gets fairly started and it
leaps from one whisperer's lips to an
other whisperer's lips until all the peo-
pie you owe want their money and
want it right away and the business
circles come around you like a pack of
wolves, and, though you had assets
four times more than were necessary
to meet your liabilities, crash went
everything! Whisperers! Oh, how
much business men have suffered!
Sometimes in the circles of clergy
men we e-discuss why 1t is that great
many merchants do not go to church.
will tell you why they do not go to
church. By the time Saturday night
comes they are worn out with the an
noyances of business life. They have
had enough meanness practiced upon
them to set their whole nervous sys-
TEN a-twitch.
The Meanest Taiebearer.
think among the worst of the whis- |
the harsh things that have been said
about you and bring them to you-all |
the things said against you, or against |
your family, or against your style Of
business. They gather them all up and
they bring them to you. they bring |
them to you in the very worst shape,
they bring them to you without any of |
the cxtenuatlng circumstances, and
after they have made your feelings all |
law, very raw. they take this brine,
this turpentine. this aqua fortis, and
rub it in with coarse towel and rub
It In until 1t sinks to the bone. They
make you the pincushion in which they
thrust all the sharp things they
have ever heard about You. Now,
dom: bring me into scrape. Now.
don't tell anybody told you. Let 1t be
between you and me. Don't involve
me in 1t at ALL" They aggravate you
TO the point Of profanity. and then they
wonder you cannot sing psalm tunes.
They turn you on spit before hot