The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1899-07-08

Fire burn and cal1rOl bubble, !
Fillst OF a ;enuy snake
In the caidrou boil and bake;
Eye Of new and toe OF frog.
Wool OF bat aud tongue OF dog,
Addsrs fork and blind worms sting,
Llzzsrt's leg and oSlet's wing
For a charm OF powerful trouble.
Like n hell both boil Ind b1bbls.
Double. double. boil and trouble.
Fire burn and caldron bubble.
Scale OF dragon. tooth o: wolf.
Witches mutEmy, NAV and gulf
OF the ravin'd salt sea shark.
Make the Cruel thick ard stark:
Add thereto d tigers chaudron
For the Ingredients Of our ealdroa.
Double. double. toll and trouble,
Fire burn and caldros bubble,
Cool Il with a babboon's blood.
Then the charm Is firm and good.
! would only change Shakespeare In
this, that where he puts the word
witch" should put the word "whis-
perez" All. what a caldron! Did YOU
ever get a taste Of IL? have more re-
spect for the poor wait of the street
that goes down under the gaslight with
no home and no God-for she deceiyes
no n as 10 what she is-than ! have
for these hays Of respectable society
who cover up their tiger claws with a
fine shawl and bolt the hell Of their
heart with a diamond breastpin.
The work Of masculine whisperers Is
chiefly seen in the embarrassment OF
business. Now, / suppose there are
hundreds Of men here who at some time
have been in business trouble. / win
undertake TO say that in nine cases out
Of ten IL 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-
perez said: Sold his horse and car
riage because he had to sell them. The
fact that he sold his horse and carriage
shows hA 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 under all this pressure? l
think he is going down. l think be will
have to give up" You borrow money
out Of a bank, and the director whispers
outside about Il, and after awhile the
suspicion gets fairly started. and 1t
leaps from one whisperer's lips to an
other whispcrer's lips until all the peo-
pie you owe want their money and want
II right away, and the business circles
come around you like a 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 hat 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
noyanoes 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-
psrerS are those who gather up all tile
harsh things that have been said about
you and bring them TO you-all the
things said against you, or against
your family, OF against your style Of
business. They gather them all up. and
they bring them to you; they bring
them 10 you in the very worst shape;
they bring them to you without any Of
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after they have made your feelings al
raw, very raw, they take this brine, THU
%turpentine, this aqua FORTS, and rub 4
in with a coarse towel, and rub II In un
I'll IT sinks to the bone. They make yol
the ~pincushion in which they thrust al
the sharp things they have ever heard
about you. "Now, don't bring me int
the scrape. Now, don't tell anybody
told you. Let II be between you ant
me. Don't involve me in II at all
They aggrayate you 10 the point Of pro
family, and then they wonder you can
not sing psalm tunes! They turn yo,
on a spit before a hot fire and wondet
why you are not absorbed ia gratitId,
10 them because they turn you on a spit
Peddlers Of night shade! Peddlers o.
Canada thistlel Peddlers Of nux yom
zeal Sometimes they get you In a cor
ner where you cannot very well escap,
without being rude, and then they tel
you all about this one, and all aboul
that one, and all about the other one
and they talk, talk, talk, talk, talk talk
After awhile they 90 away, leaving tn,
place looking like a barnyard after IN,
foxssHnd the weasels have been around
here a wing, and there a claw, and yon
der an eye, and there a crop. How the
do make the feathers hyl
Rather than the defamtlon Of goot
names It seems to me II would be almos
as honorable and useful II you just tool
u box Of matches In your pocket and
razor in your hand and 20 through tn
streets aud see how many houses yol
can burn down and how many throat
you can out. Tint Is not 4 much wors'
business. The destruction Of a man
name IL worse than the destruction o
his life. A woman came In confessions
TO a priest and told him that she ha,
been slandering her neighbors. Tn
priest promised her absolution on con
dition Of her performing a penance. III
gave her a thistle top and said; "Yol
can take that thistle and scatter tn
seeds all oven the field" She went an,
did 80 and came back. "Now," said tn
priest, gather up all those seeds" BIZ
said; ~ eau't" "Ah," he said, II know