Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1899-07-08

ers gather up everything. They know
everything thai happens. There are
telephone and telegraph wires reaching
from their ears TO all the houses in the
ncigll,orhood. They have no taste for
healthy news. but for the scraps and
Feelings thrown out of the scullcry in
to the back yard they have great avid
ity. On the day when there Is Il new
scandal in the newspapers they have
no time 10 80 abroad On the day
when there are four or five columns of
delightful private letters published in
divorce case she stays ut 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.
Sutnn's Dominion.
Satan does not have To keep very
sharp lookout for his evil dominion in
that neighlorhood. He has let out to
her the whole Contract. She gets hus-
bands and wives into Il quarrel and
and she dis%usts the pastor with the
flock nj the flock with the pastor and
she II likes neighbors who before were
kindly disposed toward each other over
suspicious and critical, so when one Of
the neiglibors passes by in carriage
they hiss through their teeth and say,
"Ah. we could all keep carriages if we
never paid our dcbts!!'
When two or three whiSpercrs get to-
gcther, they stir Il caldrun Of troublS
which makes me think of the three
witches of Macbeth" dancing around
Il boiling c;lldron in Il dark cave:
Double, double toll and trouble,
Fire burn aud caldron bubble
Fil!ct Of u Jenny snake
In the caldron hoi and bake;
Eye of newt and toe Of frog,
Wool OF bat aud tongue of dog.
Addcrs fork and blind worms sting.
Lizards leg and owlet's wing
For Il charm of powerful trouble.
Like hell both boil and bubble.
Double. double toll and trouble.
Fire burn and caldron bubble.
Scale OF dragon, tooth OF wolf,
Witches mummy. NAV and gall
OF the rav.nd salt SEA shark;
Make the Cruel thick and stark;
Add thereto tigers clIaudron
For the ingredients OF our cadron.
Double. double. toll and trouble.
Fire burn and cadron bubble;
Cool il with baboon's blood.
Then the charm is firm and good.
I would only change Shakespeare In
this, that. where he puts the word
witch" | would put the word wills
perez" All. what a caldron! Did you
ever get Il taste Of it? have more re-
spect for the poor waif of the street
that goes down under the gaSlight,
with no home and no God-for she de-
ceiyes no one as to what she is-tllan
have for these hays OF respectable So
cicty who cover up their tiger claws
with n fine shawl and bolt the hell OF
their heart with Il diamond brcastpin.
Masculine WhIspcrcrs.
The work Of masculine whispcrers 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
will undertake TO say that III nine
cases ont of ten 1t was the result OF
some whispcrei''s work. The whlSperer
uttered some suspicion in regard to
your credit. You sold your horse ana
carriage because YOU had no use for
them, and the whispercr said: sold
his horse and carriage because he had
to sell them. Tie fact that ne sold his
horse and carriage shows lie Is going
down in business.
One of your friends gets embarrassed
and you are a little involved with him.
The whispcrcr says: II 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 of IL bank and Il director whispers
outside about it. and after awhile the
suspicion gets fairly started ana 1t
leans from one whsperer's lips to an
other whispcrers lips until all the peo
nle Won owe want their money and
want it right away and the business
circles come around you like Il pack or
wolves, and, though you had assets
four times more than were ncccssa J
to meet your liabilities. crash went
everything! Whispercrs! Oh, how
much business mcu have suffered!
Sometimes in the circles of clergy
men we discuss why it is that Il 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
noyances of business life. They have
had enough meanness pfacticed upon
them to set their whole nervous sys-
tenn l-twitch.
The Mcancst TnIebenTer.
I | think among the worst OF Tie WINS
nerers are those who gather up all
the harsh things that have been SAID
about you and bring them to you-ai!
the things said against you, or against
your family. or against your style OF
business. They gather item all up and
they bring them to you. they DrInS
them to YOU in the very worst shape
they bring them to you without any or
the extenuating circumstances. and
after they have made your feelings all