Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-07-13


and say: "Ah, we could all keep car
riages if we never paid our debts!"
When two or three whisperers get
together they stir a caldron of trouble,
which makes me think of the three
witches of Macbeth dancing around
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 newt, and toe of frog,
Wool of bat, and tongue of dog,
Adder's fork, and blind worms sting.
Lizards leg, and owlet's wing
For charm of powerful trouble,
Like a hell both boil and bubble.
Double, double, toll and trouble,
Fire burn and caldron 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 a tigers chaudron
For the ingredients of our caldron.
Double, double, toll and trouble,
Fire burn and caldron bubble.
Cool it with baboons blood;
Then the charm is firm and good
l would only change Shakespeare in
this, that, where he puts the word
witch l would put the word "whis-
perez" All, what a caldron! Did you
ever get taste of it? | have more
respect for the poor waif of the street
that goes down under the gaslight,
with no home and no God-for she de-
celves no one as to what she is--than
have for these hays of respectable
society who cover up their tiger claws
with fine shawl, and bolt the hell
of their heart with a diamond breast
pin.
The work of masculine whisperers
is chiefly seen in the embarrassment
OF business. Now, l suppose, there
are hundreds of men here who at
some time have been in business
trouble. / will undertake to say that
IN nine cases out of ten it 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 a little involved with him.
The whisperer says: Il wonder IL he
can stand under all this pressure? |
think he is going down. | think he
will have to give up" You borrow
money out of bank and a director
whispers outside about it. and after a
while the suspicion gets fairly started,
and it leaps from one whisperer's lips
to another whisperer's lips, until all
the people you owe want their money
and want it right away, and the bust
ness circles come around you like a
pack of wolves, and though you had
assets four times more than were nee
essary to meet your liabilities, crash.
went everything. Whisperers! Oh,
how much business men have suffered.
Are any of you given to this habit of
whispering about others? Let me per-
suade you to desist. Mount Taurus
was great place for eagles, and
cranes would fly along that way, and
they would cackle so loud that the
eagles would know of their coming,
and they would pounce upon them and
destroy them. 1t is said that the old
cranes found this out, and before they
started on their flight they would al
ways have a stone in their mouth so
they could not cackle, and then they
would fly in perfect safety. o. my
friends, be as wise as the old cranes
and avoid the folly of the young
cranes Do not cackle.
If there are people here who are
whispered about, If there are people
here who are slandered, if there are
people here who are accused in any
circle of life, let me say for your en-
fragment that these whispers soon
run out. They may do little damage
for a while, but after awhile their de-
traction becomes eulogy and people
understand them just as well as
though some one chalked all over their
overcoat or their shawl these words:
Here goes whisperer. Room for the
leper Room." You go ahead and
do your duty and God will take care
of your reputation. How dare you dis
trust him? You have committed to him
your souls. Can you not trust him
with your reputation? Get down on
YOUR knees before God and settle the
whole matter there. That man whom
God takes care of is well sheltered.
Let me charge you, my friends, to
make right and holy use Of the tongue.
II is loose at one end and can swing
either way, but it is fastened at the
other end to the floor of your mouth,
and that makes you responsible for the
way 1t wags. Xanthus, the philoso-
pher, told his servant that on the NOR
row he was going to have some friends
to dine, and told him to get the best
thing he could find in the market. The
philosopher and his guests sat down
the next day at the table. They had
nothing but tongue-four or five