Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1899-07-06

w npn TWO OF three NulSpereTS get TO-
gethcr, they stir cadron of trouble,
which makes me think of the three witch
cs Of Macbeth" dancing around boil
ing caldron in a dark cave;
Double, double toll and trouble,
Fire burn and csldron bubble.
Filet Of fenny snake
In the cadron boil and bake;
Eye Of newt and toe OF frog,
Wool Of bat and tongue Of doa,
Adder's fork and blind worms sting,
Liznrds leg and owets wing .
For charm of powerful trouble,
Like hell both boil and bubble.
Double double. toll and trouble.
Fire burn and cadron bubble.
Scale Of dragon. tooth Of wolf
Witches mummy. NAV and gulf
Df the ravin'd salt sea shark
Make the Cruel thick and stark;
Add thereto a tigers chaudron
For the ingredients Of our caldton-
Double. double. toll and trouble.
Fire burn and caldron bubble,
Cool IL with a baboons blood.
Then the charm is firm and good.
would only change Shakespeare In
this, that where he puts the word witch"
I should put the word "whisperer." All,
what cadron Did you ever get taste
of il? ! have more respect for the poor
waif Of the street that goes down under
the gaslght with no home and no Cod
for she deccives no one as to what she is
than I have for these bags of respecta-
BILE society who cover up their tiger claws
with fine shawl and bolt the hell Of
their heart with a diamond breastpin.
The Masculine whisperers.
The work OF masculine whisperers is
chiefly seen in the embarrassment of
Y ~ h,,,,
dreds Of men here who at some time have
been in business trouble. | will under
taxa to say that in nine cases out Of ten
it was the result of some whisperer's
work. The whisperer uttered some sus-
picion in regard to your credit You
sold your horse and carriage because you
had no use for them, and the whsperer
said: sold his horse and carriage be-
cause 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 z little involved with him.
The whisperer says: IL wonder if he can
stand under all this pressure? think he
is going down. l think he will have to
give up" You borrow money out Of
bank, and the director whispers outside
about it. and after awhile the suspicion
gets fairly started, and it leaps from one
whsperer's lips to another whisperers
lips until all the people you owe want
their money and want it right away, and
the business circles come around you like
a pack OF wolves. and, though you had
assets four times more than were neces-
sary to meet your liabilities. crash went
everything Whisperers. Oh, how much
business men have suffered!
Sometimes in the circles of clergymen
we discuss why it Is that a great many
merchants do not go to church. l will
tell you why they do not go to church.
BY the time Saturday night comes they
are worn out with the annoyances Of
business life. They have had enough
meanness practiced upon them to set
their whole nervous system a-twitch.
l think among the worst of the whis-
perers are those who gather up all the
harsh things that have been snid 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 then to
you without any OF the cxtenuating cir
cumstances, and afte- they have made
your feelings all raw, very raw, they take
this brine, this turpeGtne, this aqua
forts. and rub it in with coarse towel
and rub it in until il 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
brisg me into the scrape. Now, don't
tell anybody l told you. Let it be be-
tween you and me. Don't involve me in
it at all" They aggravate you to the
point of profanity, and then they Won
der you cannot sing psalm tunes! They
turn you on a spit before hot fire and
wonder why you are not absorbed in
gratitude TO them because they turn you
on spit Peddlcrs of night shade Ped
dlers of Canada thistle Peddlers Of nux
vomlca. Sometimes they get you in a
corner where you cannot very well es-
cape 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, talk.
After awhile they 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 yon-
der an eye, and there a crop. How they
do make the feathers ny!
| Destroying Good Names.
| Rather than the defamation OF good
| names it seems to me it would be almost
rs honorable and useful II you just took a
box Of matches in your pocket and a
razor in your hand and 60 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 husi
ness. The destruction Of a mans name
| is worse than the destruction of his life
A woman came in confessional to n priest
and told him that she had been SANDER
ing her neighbors The priest promised
her absolution Oh condition OF her per
forming penance. He gave her this
tie top and said, YOU can take that this
tie and scatter the seeds all over the
field" She went and did so and came
back. "Now," said the priest, gather uI
all those seeds" She said Il can't
"Ah," he said, II know you cant. Nei
ther can you gather up the evil words you
spoke about your neighbors" All good
men and all good women have sometimes
had detractors after them. John Wes
ley's wife whispered about him, whisper
ed all over England, kept on whispering
about that good man-as good a man as
tver lived-and kept on whispering unit
the connubial relation was dissolved.
Jesus Christ had these whispercrs afte
him, and they charged him with drinking
too much and keeping bad company. -
wine bibber and the friend Of publican
and sinners" You take the best ma
that ever lived and put detective on hi
track for ten years, watching whore h
goes and when he comes and with de
termination to nisconstr,e eyerythjn