The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1899-07-07

band and wife don't live happily to-
gesher. wonder n he hasn't been
abusing her? It's outrag agcous. He
ought to be disciplined. lie ought to
bo brought up before the church. I'll
so right over to my neigbbors and III
let them know about this matter" She
rushes in all out Of breath to n neigh
boris house and says: "Oh, Mrs. Allear,
have you heard the dreadful news?
Why, our nclghbor, poor thing, came
down or the steps In food Of tears.
That brute Of q husband has been
abusing her. Well, It's just rs eX.
pectcd. saw him the other afternoon
very smiling and very gracious to some
one who smiled back, and l thought
then I would just go up to him and
tell him he had better go home and
| look after his wife and family, who
probably Mt that very time wero up
| stairs crying their eyes out. Oh, Mrs
Allear, do have your husband go over
and put an end to this trouble. It's
simply outra sous that our neighbor-
hood should be disturbed in this way.
It's awful"
The fact Is that one man or woman
| set on fire Of this hcllish spirit will
keep n whole neiGhborhOo1 a-boil. 1t
does not require any very great brain
The chief requisitiOn is that the wOm-
an have n small family or no family Mt
al. because If she have Il large family,
then she would have to stay ut home
and look after them. 1t is very impor-
tant that she he single or have no chill
dren Mt all, and then she can attend to
oil 90 lao ntsrI, oil
the time. A woman with n large fami-
ly makes n very poor wbispercr.
1t is astonishing how these whisper
ers gather up everything. They know
everything that happens. There are
telephone and telegraph wires reaching
from their ears to all the houses in the
neighborhood. They have no taste for
healthy news, but for the scraps and
pcelings thrown out Of the scullcry in,t
to the back yard they have great avid
ity. On the day when there is n new
scandal In the newspapers they have
no time 10 go abroad. On the day
when there are four OF five columns of
delightful private letters published ip,
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 little while and see whether
| there are any new Developments.
satnn's Dominion.
! Satan does not have to keep very
sharp lookout for his evil dominion in
that neighborhood. lie has let aIt TO
her the whole contract. She gets hus-
! bands ana wives into n quarrel and
brothers and sisters iGt2 nntagonism,
and she disgusts the pastor with the
flock and the flock with the pastor, and
she makes ncighbors who before were
kindly disposed toward each other ov,b
suspicious and critical, so when one o
the ncighbors passes by In 4 carria.ss
they hiss through their teeth and sSJ:
! ! "Ah, we oaulG Gil keep carriages IL we
never pa;,;L. our debtss'
| When two or three whisperefs got ~
gethcr, they stir caldron o. ttfouDie'
| which makes me think Of the three
witches Of Macbeth" dancing around
! q boiling caldron in n dark cave:
Double double, toll and trouble
Fire burn aud caldrop bubble.
| Eillct OF a fenny snake
In the cadron 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 owlet's wing
For charm Of powerful trouble,
Like a hell both boil and bubble.
Double double, toll and trouble,
Fire burn and caldTon bubble,
Scale OF dragon, tooth OF wolf,
| Witches mummy, nav and gulf
OF the ravin'd salt shark;
Make the Cruel thick and stark;
Add thereto a tigers chaudron
For the ingredients Of our caldron.
Double. double toll and trouble,
Fire burn and caldron bubble;
Cool it with baboon's blood,
Then the charm is hrm and good
| would only change Shakespeare in
this, that, where he puts the word
witch" / would put the word "whis-
] perer." All. what n caldron! Did you
ever get taste Of 1t? 1 have moro re-
| spect for the poor waif Of the street
that goes down under the gaslight,
| with no home and no God-for she de-
| ceives no one as to what she is--than
have for these hags Of respectable So
| ciety who cover up their tiger claws
with n fine shawl and bolt the hell Of
their heart with a diamond breastpin!
| SIasculine whisperers.
The work of masculine whsperers 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 whsperer'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 whisperer said: "Sold
his horse and carriage because he had
| to sell them. The fact that he sold his