Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-07-03

| hood should be disturbed in this way
It's awful"
The fact is that one man or woman
set on fire of this hellish spirit will
keep a whole neighborhood a-boil. It
does not require any very great brain.
The chief reCuisition is that the wom-
an have small family or no family at
all, because if she have a large family,
then she would have to stay at home
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 to
all the secrets of the neighborhood all
the time. A woman with a large fami-
~ makes a very poor whisperer.
IL is astonishing how these whisper
grs gather up everything. They know
everything that happens. There are
telephone and telegraph wires reaching
from their ears to all the houses in the
neighborhood. They have no taste for
healthy news, but for the scraps and
Feelings thrown out of the scullery in
to the back yard they have great avid
ity. 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 private 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 a little while and see whether
there are any new developments.
Satan's Dominion.
Satan does not have to keep very
CI,o hi tn
that neighborhood. He has let out 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 WhiSperers get to-
gether, they stir 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 OF 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,
Lizards 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 sea shark;
Make the Cruel thick and stark;
Add thereto tigers chaudron
For the ingredients of caldron.
Double, double, toll and trouble,
Fire burn and cadron bubble;
Cool it 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 "whis-
perez All, what caldron! Did you
ever get a taste of it? I 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-
ceives no one as to what she is-than
have for these hays of respectable So
ciety who cover up their tiger claws
with a fine shawl and bolt the hell Of
their heart with a diamond breastpin!
Masculine Whisperers.
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
Tine have been in business trouble. l
will undertake to say that in nine
cases out of ten it 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
hem, and the whisperer said: "SOld
lis horse and carriage because he had
% sell them. The fact that he sold his
horse and carriage shows he is going
lOwn in business"
One of your friends gets embarrassed
Ind you are little involved with him.
The whisperer says: 81 wonder If he
AN stand under all this pressure? I
hink he is going down. think he will
lave to give up" You borrow money
,ut of bank and a director whispers
outside about it, and after awhile the
gets fairly started and it
caps from one whisperer's lips to an
,ther whisperer's lips until all the peo-
Die you owe want their money and
want it right away and the business
.ircles come around you like pack Of
wolves, and, though you had assets
our times more than were necessary
o meet your liabilities, crash went
Whisperers! Oh, how
much business men have suffered!
Sometimes in the circles of clergy
nen we discuss why it is that great
many merchants do not go to church.
will tell you why they do not go to
hurch. By the time Saturday night
ONES they are worn out with the an
loyances Of business life. They have