Connecticut western news., 1899-07-06

which makes me think Of the three witches of Macbeth" dancing around a boiling caldron in a dark cave:
 Double, double, toll and trouble,
 Fire burn and caldron bubble.
 Fillet of a fenny snake
 In the caldron boil and bake;
 Eye of newt and toe of frog,
 Wool of bat and tongue of dog,
 Adders fork and blind worms sting,
 Lizard's leg and owlet's wing
 For a charm of powerful trouble,
 Like he'll both boil and bubble.
 Double, double toll and trouble,
 Fire burn and caldron bubble.
 Scale of dragon, tooth of wolf,
 Witches mummy, maw and gulf
 Of the rayin'd salt sea shark;
 Make the gruel thick and stark;
 Add thereto tigers chaudron
 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.
 I would only change Shakespeare ir this, that, where he puts the word witch" I would put the word "whis perer." An, what a caldron! Did you ever get taste of it? I have more re. spect for the poor waif of the street that goes down under the gaslfght with no home and no God-for she de elves no one as to what she is-than have for these hags of respectable SO :iety who cover up their tiger claws with a fine shawl and bolt the hell of their heart with a diamond breastpini
 zMascuIine whfsperers.
 The work of masculine whisperers is chiefly seen In the embarrassment of business. Now, I suppose, there are hundreds of men here who at some time have been in business trouble. will under take to say that in nine cases out of ten 1t 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 seli chem. The fact that he sold his lo,se and carriage shows he Is going down in business"
 One of your friends gets embarrassed and you are little involved with him. The whisperer says: 'I wonder if he can stand under all this pressure? think he is going down. I think he will have to give up." You borrow money out of a bank and a director whispers outside about 1t, and after awhile the suspicion gets fairly started and 1t leaps from one whisperer's lips to an- other whisperer's lips until all the peo- pie 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 liabilities, crash went everything! Whisperers! Oh, how much business men have suffered!
 Sometimes in the circles of clergy men we discuss why 1t Is that great many merchants do not go to church. I 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 practtced upon them to set their whole nervous sys- tenn a-twitch.
 The Meanest Talebearer.
 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 business. 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 turpentine, this aqua fortis, and rub it in with a coarse towel and rub 1t in until 1t 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 a scrape. Now. don't tell anybody told you. Let 1t be between you and me. Don't involve me In 1t at all" They aggravate you to the point of profanity, and then they wonder you cannot sing psalm tunes! They turn you on spit before 6 hot fire and wonder why you are not ab- sOrbed in gratitude to them because they turn you on a spit. Peddlers of night shade. Peddlers of Canada this tie. Peddlers of nux vomica. Sometimes they get you in a corner where you cannot very well 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, faIk foIH tol fo1 A n bfI khox go away leaving the place looking like a barnyard after the foxes and the weasels have been around; here a wing, and there a claw, and yonder an eye, and there a crop. How they do make the feathers fly!
 Rather than the defamation of good 1t seems to me 1t would be al- most as honorable and useful if you just took box of matches in your pocket and a 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 much worse business. The de- struction of a mans name Is worse than the destruction of his life. A came in confessional to priest and told him that she had been slan- dering her neighbors. The priest prom lsed her dissolution on condition of her performing penance. He gave her a thistle top and said, You can take that thistle and scatter the seeds all over the field" She went and did so and came back. "Now," said the priest, gather up all those seeds" She said, T can't" "Ahw lie said, q know you can't! Neither can you gather up the evil words you spoke about your neigh bors." All good men and all good wo- men have sometimes had detractors after them. John Wesley's wife whis- pered about him, whispered all over England, kept on whispering about that good man-as good a man as ever ived-and kept on whispering until the connubial relation was dissolved.
 Even Jesus Assatled.
 Jesus Christ had these whisperers liter him, and they charged him with too much and keeping bad .omnanv "A wine hihhQr and the