The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1899-1900, 1899-07-05

that neighborhood. He has let out tc
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 a carriage
they hiss through their teeth and say:
'Ah, we could all keep carriages if we
never paid our debts!"
When two or three whisperers get to-
gether 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 owlets wing
For a charm of powerful trouble.
Like hell both boil and bubble.
Double, double, boil 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 tigers chaudron
For the ingredients of our caldron.
Double, double, toll and trouble,
Fire burn and CaldrOn hubble.
Cool 1t with babboon's blood,
Then the charm is firm and good.
l would only change Shakespeare in
this, that where he puts the word
witch" | should put the word "whis-
perer." All, what ealdron! Did you
ever get taste of it? 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 deceives
no one as to what she is-than / have
for these hags of respectable society
who cover up their tiger claws with a
fine shawl and bolt the hell of their
heart with diamond breastpin.
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 whisper
er'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 whis-
perer said: sold his horse and car
riage 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: Il wonder if he
can stand under all this pressure? 1
think he is going down. l think he will
have to give up" You borrow money
out of bank, and the 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 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 discuss why it is that a 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 system
a-twitch.
] think among the worst of the 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 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 eXtenuating circumstances, and
after they have made your feelings all
raw, very raw, they take this brine, this
turpentine, this aqua fortis, and rub it
in with coarse towel, and rub it in un-
til it sinks to the bone. They make you
the pincushion in which they thrust all
the sharp things they have ever heard
about you. Now, don't bring me into
the scrape, Now, don't tell anybody
told you. Let it be between you and
me. Don't involve me in il at all"
They aggravate you 10 the point of pro-
family, and then they wonder You can
not sing psalm tunes! They turn you
on spit before hot fire and wonder
why you are not absorbed in gratitude
to them because they turn you on a spit.
Peddlers of night shade! Peddlers of
Canada thistle! Peddlers of nux vom-
lea! Sometimes they get you in cor
hNA WIN lOu SdluOl very Ntll tSCdpt
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 barnyard after the
foxes and the weasels have been around;
here wing, and there claw, and yon-
der an eye, and there a crop. How they
do make the feathers fyl
Rather than the defamtion of good
names it seems to me il would be almost
as honorable and useful if you just took
a 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 mans
name is worse than the destruction of
his life. A woman came in confessional
to a priest aud told him that she had
been slandering her neighbors. The
priest promised her absolution on con-