Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-07-20
Wool Of bat and tongue of dog.


For the Ingredients OF our caldron,
Double, double, toll and trouble,
Fire burn and caldron bubble;
Cool 1t with baboon's blood,
Then the charm is firm and good.
would only change Shakespeare in
this, that, where he puts the word witch.
would Put the word "whisperer Alb,
what q caldronl Did you ever get a taste
OF itP I have more respect 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
fine shawl and bolt the hell OF their
heart with diamond breastpin!
The work of masculine whisperers Is
chiefly seen In the embarrassment of bust.
ness. Now, suppose. there are hundreds
OF men here who at some time have been
In business trouble. I will undertake to
say that in nine cases out of ten it was the
result Of some whisperer'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 horse and carriage
shows he is going down in business"
One Of your friends gets embarrassed
and you are a little involved with him. The
whisperer says: IT wonder If he can stand
under all this pressure? think he is going
down. think he will have to give up.''
You borrow money out bank and n direc-
tor whispers outside about 1t, 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 people
you owe want their money and want 1t
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 liabili-
ties, crash went everything! Whis sperers!
Oh, how much business men have suffered
think among the worst of the wbis-
perers are those who gather up all the
harsh things TINT 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 pand they bring them to
you, they bring them to you in the very
worst shape, they bring them to you with
out any of the extenuating circumstances,
and after they have made your feelings ali
raw, very raw they take this brine,
this turpentine,' this aqua fortis, and
rub 1t in with a coarse towel and rub 1t in
until 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 scrape.
Now, don't tell anybody told you. Let it
be between you and me. Don't involve me
in it ut ALL" They aggravate you to the
point OF profanity, and then they wonder
you cannot sing psalm tunes They turn
you on spit before a hot fire and wonder
why you are not absorbed in gratitude TO
them because they turn you on n spit. Ped
dlers of night shade. Peddlers OF Canada
thistle. Peddlers OF nux vomice- Sometimes
they get you in corner where you cannot
very we'll 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.
After awhile they go away leaving the
III, Al
foxes and the weasels have been around;
here wing, and there claw. and yonder
an eye, and there crop. How they do
make the feathers fly!
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 Il determination
to misconstrue everything, and to think
for bad purpose, with that determina-
tion Of destroying him, at the end of ten
years he will be held despicable in the
sight Of Il great many people.
II 1t Is an outrageous thing to despoil a
mans character, how much worse is it to
damage woman's reputation? Yet that
evil grows from century to century, and 1t
is all done. by whisperers. A suspicion is
started. The next whisperer who gets
hold OF 1t states the suspicion as proved
fact, and many good woman, as honor
able 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 il
there be no hell for such a despoiler
of womanly character 1t is high time
that some philanthropist built one.
But there is such place established, and
what time they will have when all the
whisperers get down there together re-
sing things! Everlasting carnival OF
mud. We're 1t not for the uncomfortable
surroundings, you might suppose they
would be glad to get there. In that region
wbere they are all bad what opportunities
for exploitation by these whisperersl On
earth t. 1espoil their neighbors some
times th5y had to lie about them, but
down there they can say the worst things
possible about their neighbors and tell the
truth. Jubilee OF whisperers. Grand gala
day of backbiters. Semiheaven Of scandal
mongers stopping their gable about their
diabolical neighbors only long enough to
go up to the iron gate and ask some new
conner from the earth, "What is tho last
gossip in the city on earth where we used
to live?'
Now, how are we to var against this in.
iquity which curses every community on
earth? First by refusing to listen to or
believe whisper. Every court of the land
has for law, and all decent communities
have for law, that you must hold people
innocent until they are proved guilty.
There Is only one person worse than the
whisperer, and that is the man or woman
who listens without prot lest. The trouble
is you hold the sack while they fill 1t. The
receiver OF stolen goods is just as bad as
the thief. An ancient writer declares that
a slanderer and a man who receives the
slander ought both to be hanged-the one
by the tongue and the other by the ear.
And 1 agree with him.
Oh, my friends, employ the tongue
which Ged so wonderfully created as the
organ OF taste, the organ Of deglutition,
the organ Of articulation to make others
happy and in the service of God! II you
whisper, whisper good-encouragementt to
the fallen and hope to the lost All, my
friends, the time will soon come when we
will all whisper! = The voice will be en-
feebled in the last sickness, and, though
that voice could laugh and shout and
sing and halloo until the forest echoes an
swered, 1t will be so feeble then we can
only whisper consolation to those whom
we leave behind and only whisper our hope
OF heaven.