The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-07-03


- Z Tire burn and caldron bubble,
Scale q dragon. tooth Of wolf,
Witehel mumny, NAV and gulf
OF the ravind nlt No shark;
Make the Cruel thick and staxkS
Add thereto tigers chaudron
For the Ingredients Of our caldron,
Double. double, toll and trouble
Fire burn and csidron bubble;
Cool 1t with baboon's blood.
Then the charm y firm and good.
I would only change Shakespeare In
this, that where he puts the word witch"
l should put the word "whisperer." All,
what caldron! Did you ever get taste
Of III l have more respect for the poor
wait of the street that goes down under
the gasIight with no home and no God
for she deceives no one as to what she IL
than have for these hays Of respecta-
BILE society who cover up their tiger claws
with fine shawl and bolt the bell OF
their heart with diamond breastpin.
The Masculine Whisperers.
The work of masculine whisperers Is
chiefly seen In the embarrassment Of
business. Now, suppose there are hun
dreds of men here who at some time have
been in business trouble. 1 will under
take to say that in nine cases out OF ten
it was the result Of some whisperer's
work. The whisperer uttered some Ms-
picion 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 be-
cause 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 II he can
stand under all this pressure? l think he
is going down. l think he will have to
give up" You borrow money out of a
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 another whisperer's
lips until all the people you owe want
their money and want 1t right away, and
the business circles come around you like
a pack of wolves, and, though you had
assets four times more than were neces-
sary to meet your liabilities, crash went
everything. Whisperers! Oh, how much
business men have suffered!
Sometimes in the circles of clergymen
we discuss why 1t is that great many
merchants do not gW to church. will
tell you why they do not 60 to church.
BY the time Saturday night comes they
are worn out with the annoyances Of
business life. They have had enough
mennness 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 cir
cumstances, and after they have made
your feelings all raw, very raw, they take
this brine, this turpentine, this aqua
forts, and rub it in with coarse towel
and rub it in until it sinks to the bone.
They make you the pincushion in which
they thrust oil the sharp things they
have ever heard about you. "Now, don't
bring me into the scrape. Now, don't
tell anybody l told you. Let it be be-
tween you and me. Don't involve me in
it at ALL" They aggravate you to the
point of profanity, and then they Won
der you cannot 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! Ped
dlers Of Canada thistle! Peddlers of nux
yomica Sometimes they get you In
corner where you cannot very well es-
cape 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 barnyard after the
foxes and the weascls have been around;
here a wing, and there claw, and yon-
der an eye, and there crop. How they
do make the feathers fly!
Destroying Good Names.
Rather than the defamation of good
names it seems to me it 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 threats you
can cut. That is not a much worse bust
ness. The destruction of a mans name
is worse than the destruction Of his life.
A woman came in confessional to priest
and told him that she had been SANDER.
ing her neighbors. The priest promised
her absolution on CONDITION of her per-
forming a penance. He gave her this
tie top and said, "You can take that this
tie and scatter the seeds all over the
field" She went and did so and came
back. "Now," said the priest, gather up
ALI those seeds" She said, Il can't
"Ah," he said, II know you cant. Mel
Their can you gather up the evil words you
spoke about your ncighbors." All good
men and all good women have sometimes
had detractors after them. John Wes-
ley's wife whispered about him, whisper
ed all over England kept on whispering
about that good man--as good man as
aver lived-ard kept on whispering until
the connubial relation was dissolved.
Jesus Christ had these whisperers after
him. and they charged him with drinking
too much and keeping bad company. "a
wine bibber and the friend of publicans
and sinners" You take the best man
that ever lived and put detective on his
track for ten years, watching where he
goes and when he comes and with de-
termination to misconstruc everything
and to think he goes here for bad pur.
pose and there for bad purpose, with
that determination of destroying him, at
the end OF the ten years he will be held
despicable in the sight Of great many
people.
II it is an outrageous thing to despOil
a mans character, how much worse is 1t
to damage woman's reputation? Yet
that evil grows from century to century,
and it is all done by whisperers. sus-
picion Is started. The next whisperer
who gets hold Of it states the suspicion
rs a proven fact, and many a good wo-
man, as honorable as your wife or your
mother, has been whispered out of all
kindly associations, and whispered into
the grave. Some people say there is no
hell, but If there be no hell for such Il
despoiler of womany character it is high
time that some philanthropist built one!
But there is such a place established.
and what time they will have when all
the whisperers get down there together
rchearsing things! Everlasting carnival
of mud. Were it not for the uncomforta-
bic surroundings you might suppose they
would Ia. ,I,H IN got thorn In TINT rapinu