The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1899-07-07

. The fact is that one man or woma
set on fire of this hellish spirit wi
keep a whole neighborhood a-boil.
does not require any very great brain
The chief requisition is that the WON
an have small family or no family a
all, because If she have large famil!
then she would have to stay ut HON,
and look after them. 1t is very impor
tant that she be single or have no chill
dren at all, and then she can attend Il
all the secrets of the neighborhood al
the time. 4 woman with large fam
lily makes a very poor whisperer.
It Is astonishing how these whisper.
ers gather up everything. They know
everything that happens. There are tel
ephone and telegraph wires reaching
from thci ears 10 all the houses In the
neighborhood.. They have no taste FOR
healthy news, but for the scraps and
Feelings thrown out Of the scullery into
the back yard they have great ayidity.
On the day when there is a new scandal
in the newspapers they have no time TO
go abroad. On the day when there are
four or five columns of delightful pri-
vatc letters published in 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 de-
velopmeLts.
Satan does not have TO keep very
sharp lookout for his evil dominion in
that neighborhood. He has let ext to
her the whole contract. She gets hus-
bands and wives into a quarrel and
brothers and sisters into antagonism,
and she disgusts the pastor with the
flock and the flock with the pastor. and
she makes neighbors who before were
kindly disposed toward each other over.
suspicious and critical. so when one of |
the neighbors passes by in a carriage |
they hiss through their teeth and say: |
"Ah, we could all keep carriages if we
never paid our debts!"
When two or three whispcrers get to-
gether they stir n caldron OF trouble,
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 or a fenry snake
In the caldron boi. and bake;
Eye OF newt and toe OF frog.
Wool OF TAT and tongue OF dog.
Adders fork and blind worms sting,
Lizza-d's leg Md owlers wing
For charm OF powerful trouble,
Like a hell both boil and bubble.
Double double. boil and trouble
Fire burn and ca,dron bubble,
Scale OF dragon. tooth Of wolf
witches mummy, nav and gu.f
or the ravin'd salt sea shark:
Make the Cruel thick ard stark;
Add thereto a tigers chaudron
For the Ingredients OF our calcron.
Double, double. toll and trouble,
Fire burn and caldroE bubble;
Cool II with a babboon's blood
Then the charm is firm and good III
l would only change Shakespeare In i
his. that where he puts the word q
witch" ! should put the word 'whis- /
erer." All, what caldron! Did YOU |
yer get taste of IL? I nave more re- Z
'ect for the poor waif Of the street h
nat goes down under the gaslight with I
o home and no God--for she deceiyes :
, one as 10 what she is-than | have n
r these hays of respectable society '
no cover up their tiger claws with "A L
he shawl and bolt the hell of their a
art with diamond breastpin. y
The work of masculine whisperers is e
RELY seen in the embarrassment of q
sincss. Now. ] suppose there are d
ndreds of men here who at some time q
We been in business trouble. will a
A. p a n n hat In, -, |
ten il was the result OF some whisper s.
5 work. The whisperer uttered some b
'picion in regard to your credit. You g
d your horse and carriage because G.
u had no use for them. and the whis- |;
rer said: sold his horse and car u
ge because he had TO sell them. The
4 that he sold his horse and carriage IN
'ws hs is going down in business" o
)ne of your friends gets embarrassed. &c
! you are little involved with him. II
c whisperer says: Il wonder IL he &C
! stand under all this pressure? m
nix he is going down. think he will an
re to give up" You borrow money pr
of bank. and the director whispers I'll
side about il. and after awhile the "
plcloH gus IdiTlg stdTlcu, ana IL 4 ~
ps from one whisperer's lips TO an ce
er whispcrer's lips until all the peo- ia
you owe want their money and want eli
light away, and the business circles re
ne around you like pack of wolves, ia
!. though you had assets four times OF
re thnn were necessary to meet your III
'ilties, crash went everything.
isperers! Oh, how much business 20
D have suffered! as
Dmetimes i'm the circles OF clergy SCI
] we discuss why IL is that a great W.
ny merchants do not go to church. II
ill tell you why they do not go to co
rch. BY the time Saturday night IN
les they are worn out with the an W.
ances of business life. They have io'
enough meanness Practical upon ue
m to set their whole nervous system s s~
witch. su
think among the worst of tbs whis- MI
srs are those who gather up all the no
sh things that have been said about DC
and bring them to yp,-aJ the 70,
gs said against you, or against oe'
r family. or against your style OF '@
ness. They gather them all up. and
bring them to Won: they brinp ~"