The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1899-07-12

she makes EelghoorS VINO pcio!e "el0
kindly disposed toward each other over
suspicious and critical so when one CT
the neighbors passes by IN carnage
they hiss through their teeth an say,
All, we could all keep carriages II we
never paid our debts!
When two or three whisperers get to-
gether, they stir a caldron Of tloubie'
which makes NE think Of the three
witches of Macbeth dancing around
boiling caldron in dark cave:
Double. double, toll and trouble,
Fire burn and caldron bubble.
Fillet Of fenny snake
In the calGron boil and bake:
Eye OF newt aud toe Of frog,
Wool Of bat aud tongue Of dog,
Adder's fork and blind worm 5 sting,
Lizard leg and owlet's wing
For a 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 gulf
Of the ravin'd salt SEE shark:
Make the cruel thick and stark:
Add thereto 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 firm and good.
would only change Shakespeare in
this, that where he puts the word
witch should put the word "whis-
perer. All, what caldron Did you
ever get taste oft? l 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 deceives
no one as to what she than | have
for these hags of respectable society
who cover up their tiger claws with a
fine shawl and bolt the hell of their
heart with diamond breastpin.
The work Of masculine whisperers is
chiefly seen in the embarrassment OF
business. Now, | suppose there are hun
6re6s 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 whis-
perers's work. The whisperer uttered
some suspicion in regard toyour credit.
You sold your horse and carriage be-
cause you had no use for them, and
the vhisperer said: 'Sold his horse and
carriage because he had to sell them.
The fact that he sold his horse and car
riage shows he is going down in busl-
ness.
One of your friends gets embrassed,
and you are little involved with him.
The whisperer says: i wonder It he
can stand under all this pressure? l
think he is going down. [ think he
will have to give up" You borrow
money out of oank, and the director
whispers outside about it, and after
awhile the suspicion gets fairly started,
and it leaps from one whisperer's lips
to another whisperer's lips until all the
people you owe want their money and
want it right away, and the business
circles come around you like pack OF
wolves, and, though you hada four
times more than were necessary to
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 that great
many merchants do not go to church. l
will tell you why they do not 60 to
church. By the time Saturday night
comes they are worn out with the an
noyances Of business life. They have
had enough meanness practiced upon
them to set their whole nervous system
a-twit:h.
think among the worst Of the whis-
perers are those who gather up all the
harsh things that 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 b1si-
ness. They gather them all up, and
they bring them to you; 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
aqua forts, and rub it in with 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 the
scrape. Now, don't tell anybody | told
you. Let it be between you and me.
Don't involve NE in it at all. " They
aggravate you to the point of profanity,
and they wonder you cannot 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 this
tie! Peddlers of nux vomica Some
times they get you IN corner where
you cannot very we'll escape without
being rude, and then they tell you all
about this one, all about that one, and
all about the other one, and they talk,
talk, talk, talk, talk, talk. After
awhile they go away, leaving the place
looking like barnyard after the foxes
and the weasels have been around; here
a wing, and there claw, and yorder
an eye, and there crop. How they
do make the feathers fly!
Rather than the defamation Of good
names it seems to lne it would be al
most as honorable and useful if you just
took box of matches in your pocket
and razor in your hand and go through
the streets and see how many houses
you can burn down and how many
throats you can cut. That is not a
much worse business. The destruction