The Washington weekly post., 1899-07-04

Fer charm q powerful trouble.
Ike hell both boil ard habole
Double double toll and troubls
Fire bura and esIdron bubble.
scale Of dTsEoa. tooth O. volf,
Witches MUMMY. nav ard sgE
ci the rsyin'a selt-ses STARK,
Make the Sras thick aas sisrk.
Ada thereto tigers ehAudroa
Fur the ingredients az our CAldrn
Double double toll and trouble
Fire Agrn aaa csldr0n bubble
CScl u sits bahceus bloci
Thea the charm Is arR and soos-
II would only change Shakespeare IN
this, that where he puts the word witch
would put the word whisperer An,
what csldron, 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 deceives no one as tc what
she is-than / have for these hags OF re-
spectacle society who cover up their
tiger claws with a fine shawl and bolt
the he'll of their heart with a diamond
treastpini
The work OF masculine whisperers is
chiefly seen in the embarrassment OF
business. Now, there are hundreds Of
men who at some time have been in buSi-
ness trouble / will undertake 10 say
result of some whisperer's work. The
whiSperer uttered some suspicion in re-
gard 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 20
sell them. The fact that he sold his horse
and carriage shows that he is going down
In business
Debtors Want Their Money.
"One of your friends gets embarrassed
and you are little involved with him.
The whisperer says: L wonder If he can
stand under all this pressure? | think he
is going down. | think he will have 10
give up You borrow money out Of a
bank and director whispers outside
about il. and after a while the suspicion
gets fairly started. and it leaps from one
whispereT's lips TO another WhiSperer's
lips until all the people you owe want
their money. and want it right away,
and the business circles come around
you like pack of wolves. and though
you had assets four times more than were
necessary TO meet your liabilities. crash!
went everything. WhispeTers! Oh, how
much business men have suffered. Some
times in the circles OF clergymen We dis
cuss why 1t Is that a great many mer-
chants do not go to church. | Will tell
you why they do not go 10 church. BY
the time Saturday night comes they are
worn out with annoyances of business
life. They have had enough meanness
practiced upon them to set their whole
nervous system a-twitch-
II think among the worst OF tho whis-
perers are those who gather up all the
harsh things that have been said about
you and bring them to you-all the things
Saf nj
or against your style of business. Ihey
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 WITH
out any of the extenuating circumstances,
and after they have made your feelings
all raw, very raw, they take this brine
this turpentine, this aqua foTtis, and rub
! ii in with a coarse towel AMI rub II N
| until il sinks 10 the bone. They MAKE
you the pin cushion in which they thrust
! all the sharp things they have ever heard
/ about you. Now, don't bring me into a
| scrape Now, don't tell anybody ] told
you. Let il be between you and me.
| Don't involve me in 1t at all
Turn You on u Spit.
"They aggravate you to the point or
profanity, and then they wonder you can
| not sing psalm tunes! They turn YOU on
| a spit before a hot fire and wonder why
| YOU are not absorbed in gratitude 10 them
| because they turn you on a spit. PedlerS
OF nightshade. Pedlers of Canada thistle.
| Peders of nux vomica. Sometimes they
| get YOU in a corner where you cannot very
| we'll escape without being rude, and then
! they tell you all about this one, and all
| about that one, and all about the other
| one, and they talk, talk, talk, talk, talk.
| talk. After awhile they go away leaving
! the place looking like a barnyard after
| the foxes and the weasels have been
/ around; here wing, and there claw.
/ and yonder an eye, and there a crop.
| How they do make the feathers fv!
/ Rather than the defamation of good
| names, 1t seems to me, II would be al
/ most as honorable and useful II you jus;
| took box Of matches In your pocket and
| a razor In your hand and go through the
| streets and see how many houses you can
| burn down and how many thrOats you can
| cut That is not much worse business
| The destruction of a mans name IL worse
than the destruction Of his life. The a.
! sassnatiOn of character is the worst kind
| of assassination. A woman came In con
! fessiOnal to a priest and told him that she
/ had been sandering her nsighbors. Ihe
| priest promised her absOlutiOn on condl-
ton of her performing penance. He
| gave her thistle top ana said: You can
take that thistle and scatter the seeds a!
over the field She went and did so. ana
| came back. Now said the priest, 'gathe.
up all those seeds She said, I can't
| 'Ahp he said, i know you can't; neither
can you gather up the evil words yol
| spoke about your neighbors All good
men and all good women have sometimes
/ had detractOrs after them. John Wes-
| leys wife whispered about him; whis
pered all over England, kept on whisper
ing about that good man-as good man
| as ever lived-and kept on whispering
until the connubial relation was dissolved
They DespoiI Characters.
Jesus Christ had these whisperers az
ter Him, and they charged Him with
drinking too much and keeping bad COM
! pany. a uine-bibber and the friend OF
! publicans and sinners You take the
best man that ever lived, and put a de-
| tective on his track for ten years, watch
ing where he goes and when he comes
and with determination 10 mlscOnstruc
/ everything, and 10 think he goes here
for a bad purpose, and there for a bad
! purpose. with the determination Of de.
! stroying him. at the end Of the ten year,
he will be held despicd bic In the sight 0t d
great many people.
If IL is an outrageous thing TO despOi
a mans character how much worse is j
TO damage d Woman's reputation? Yt
that evil grows from century 10 century
and II is all done by whisDerers. \ sus
piciOn is started. The next Whispere
who gets hold OF IL states the suspicion
as proven fact, and many a good wO
man, as honorable as yoc- wife or you
mother, has been whispered out Of al
kindly associations, and whispered int
the grave. Some people say tbcr. j. n
hell. but IL there be no hell for such
despciIer OF Womanly character. IL u hizl
time that some philanthropist built one,
But there is such a place established
and what time they will have when al
the Whisperers get down there iOgethe
Tehearsins things, Everlasting clTnlya
OF mud. Were II not for the uncOmfOTta
bic surroundings, you might suppose the.
! would be glad 20 get there. In that Tsgiol
where they are all bad. wnat ODDOrtuni
ties for exploitation by these NhispfTefs
! on earth. 20 de-poil their neighbOrs. some
4 times they had to lie about them; b,I
! down there they can ray the worst tHius
! possible about their neighbOrs. and lei
I the truth. Jubilee OF Whispercrs. Gran
I gala day Of backbiiers. Semi-heayeu O