St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-08-05

double. c0uoie, toll ana trouble.
Fire burn and caldron bubble;
Cool It with babboon's blood.
Then the charm il nrm and good.
would only change Shakespeare 4
this, that where he puts the wor,
witch" / should put the word '.whis
perez" All, what caldron! Did yo
ever get taste of it? have more re
spect for the poor waif of the stree
that goes down under the gaslight witt
no home and no God-for she deceive
no one as to what she is-than / hav
for these hags of respectable societ,
who cover up their tiger claws with ,
fine shawl and bolt the hell of thei
heart with q diamond breastpin.
The work of masculine whisperers 1
chiefly seen in the embarrassment o
business. Cow, l suppose there ar,
hundreds Of men here who at some tim
have been in business trouble. vii
undertake to say that in nine cases on
er's work. The whisperer uttered som,
suspicion in regard to your credit. Yo,
sold your horse and carriage becaus,
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 you- friends gets embarrassed
and you area little involved with him
The whispeier says: II wonder il ht
can stand uIlder all this pressure? ]
think he is going down. think he viii
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 il
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 aroundsyou like pack Of wolves,
und, 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! s#$E
Sometimes in the circles Of clergy
men we discuss why it is that great
many merchants do not 60 to church.
| will tell y0n 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 tneanness practiced upon
them to set their whole nervous system
a-twitch.
l think among the worst Of the whis-
perers are these who gather up all the
harsh things that have been said about
you and bring them to you-al 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 ron; 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 FORTS, and rub it
in with coarse towel, and rub il in un-
til it sinks to the bone. They make you
the pincushioh in which they thrust all
the sharp things they have ever heard
about you. snow, 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 it at AL"
They aggravate you to 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 spit.
Peddlers of night shade! Peddlers Of
Canada thistle. Peddlers Of nux vom-
ica! Sometimes they get you in = cor
ner where you cannot very well 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 60 away. leaving the
place looking ike a barnyard after the
foxes and the weasels have been around;
here wing, ard there claw, and yon-
der an eye, and there a crop. How they
10 make the feathers fly!
Rather than the defamtion Of good
names it seems:to me il would be almost
IS honorable ard useful if you just took
! box Of matches in your pocket and :
razor in your hand and 60 through the
streets and see how many houses you
IAN burn down and how many threats
vou can cut. That Is not q much worse
business. The destruction of mans
name is worse than the destruction OF
his life. A woman came in confessional
o priest anG told him that she had
,een slanderiny her neighbors. The
priest promised her absolution ON con-
lition of her performing penance. He
rave her d thistle top and said: You
nm take that thistle and scatter the
eeds all over the field" She went and
lid 50 and came back. Now" said the
'riest. ''gather up all those Seeds" She
aid: Il can't.H "Ah," he said, Il know
'ou can't. Neither can you gather up
he evil words you spoke about your
leighbors. Ali good men and al good
vomen have sometimes had detractors |
fter them. John Wesley's wife whis-
cred about hsm, whispered all over |
England. kept ON whispering about
hat good man1-as good man q ever |
ivcd-and kept:on whispering until the
relation was dissolved.
jesus Christ had these wllisperers
fter Him, and they charged Him with
too l7uch and keeping bad |!
ompany. "A wine bibber and the
riend Of publieans and sinners" You
IKE the hest nan that ever lived and /