The Burke County news. [volume] (Morganton, N.C.) 1899-1901, 1899-07-21

band go over AID put an end to this
trouble. It's simply outrageous that our
neighborhood should be disturbed In this
way. It's awful
The fast Is that one man or woman set
On fire OF this hel'ish spirit will keep a
whole neighborhood a-boii. 1t does not
require any Tery great brain. The CHIEF
requisition is that the woman have n small
family or no family at all, because II she
have a large family, then she would have
to stay At home aud look after them. 1t is
very important that she be single or have
no children ar all, and then she can attend
to all the secrets Of the neiShborhood all
the time. A woman with a large family
makes n very poor whisperer.
1t Is astonishing how these whisperers
gather up everything. They know every
thing that happens. There are telephone
and telegraph wires reaching from their
ears TO all the houses in the no,ghborbood.
They have no taste fer healthy news, but
for the scraps and peeling thrown out OF
scullery into the back ard they have great
avidity. 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 five olumns OF delightful pri-
vate letters published in a 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 q little while and see whether
there are any new developments.
Satan does not have to keep a very sharp
lookout for bis evil dominion in that
neighborhood. He has. let out to her the
whole contract. She gets husbands and
wives into a quarrel and brothers and sis.
ters into antagonism, and she disgusts the
pastor with the flock aud the flock with
the pastor, and she makes %neighbors who
before were kindly disposed oward each
other over suspicious and critical, so When
one Of the %neighbors passes by in n car
| rage they hiss through their teeth and
say. "Ah, we could all keep carriages ii we
never paid our debts,'
When two or three whisperers get to.
| gether, they stir a caldron Of rouble,
which makes me think Of the three witches
OF Macbeth" dancing around d boiling
caldron in a dark cave:
Double. double, toll and trouble,
Fire burn and caldron bubble.
Fiiiet Of a Jenny snake
In the caldron boil aud bake;
Eye Of newt and toe Of frog.
Wool OF bat and tongue Of dog.
Alder's fork and blind worms sting,
Lizard leg and owlet's wing
For a charm OF powerful trouble
Like Il hell both boil and bubble.
Double. dOubie. toll and trouble,
Fire barn and caldron bubble.
Scale OF dragon, tooth Of wolf.
Witches mummy nav and gull
O?the ravintd salt sea shark:
Make the Cruel thick and stark;
Add thereto II tigers chaudron
For the ingredients OF our caldron,
noHble, double toll and trouble,
Fire burn and caldron bubble;
Cool it with q babobn's blood,
Then the charm is firm ard good.
I would only change Shakespeare in
this, that, where he puts the word witch.
l would Iut the word 'whieperer." An.
what a caldron! Did you ever get a taste
OF it? ! have more respect fer the moor
waif OF the street that goes down under
, the .ns!icht. with no home and nc God
for she deceiHes no one as to what she is
han l have for these hags Of respectable
society who cover uptheir tiger claws with
. fine shawl ard bolt the hell OF their
heart with II diamond breastpin!
The work OF masculine whispererA is
chiefly seen in the embarrassment Of bust
ness. Now, | suppose. there are hundreds
in business trouble. l will undertake to
say that in nine eases out OF ten 1t was the
re ,u t 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 wnisperer 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 II he can stand
uUNeI uii t1lS tIcSSuEe: L tniuk Q0 IS gong
down. think lie will have to give up"
You borrow money ont a bank and n direc-
tor 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 people
you owe want their money and want It
rigIt away and the business circles come
around you like n pack OF wolves, and.
though you had assets for times more
thau were necessary to meet your liahtli-
les, crash went everything, Whisperr,s,
Oh. !tuW much busjne>S men have suffered
thiuk among the wort OF the Wits.
perers are those who gather up all the
Marsh things that bave been said about