Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-09-08

help to cast passing glance over the remains OF
the vile vagabond, the Poultney man"
This genus homo has been misinformed.
Thanks to kind Providence, Bartlett still lives,
aud +" Bobolink' that is the name he assumedl,
if he had ordinary Capacity. would not inter that
q man is dead because the independent and its
brood of correspondents sec up u exile over him.
As the man of letters is ple-horic in advice,
shall offer little to him, though it be useless
If you intend to make 1t business to write for
the newspapers, you will need to improve your
STYLE and make better " choice" of Sc language"
unless Won continue TO write solely for the Lpde
pendeat. Ii you do, further improvement will be
unnecessary. II your design Is to Wear yourself
out as missionary IN the temperance cause, you
certainly have good spirit in view, and L Wish
you success ; but should have more confidence
in your good faith and earnest purpose, II you
would labor nearer home. Within two miles Of
the limits of your own town, you Will hnd rum
enough to swim in. Taking the Independent
you may not like that kind Of bath; but II Il
nearer home, is a broader field than PoulFney
offers and If you should be successful, the result
would be more glorions
A Middletown correspondent appears. This
gentlem4 an was evidently more familiar with tbs
schoolmaster in his younger days although this
familiarity might have only educated his intel
lect and not improved his heart than the Claren-
don man. He writes over the signature of +" Good
Templar."
He commences by an egotistical proclamation
of his love of s'order and good government" an
nounces himself as an Earnest opposer of intern
perance," publishes his great solicitude for tbs
sister village of PoultDey, and then walks ints
| Bartlett of the Poultpey House with little more
ak,n h,t NTH the same anirDrs the OF hers
If this gentlem EMS real object is to promote the
cause of Temperance, he, too can fiud ampl'
scope for the exercise of his philanthropy an'
| literary skill nearer home thon Poultney. 81
might turn his at ention to what is known II
| MIddletown ss Spring No. 7, the waters OF which
the Independent would say are neither healing
nor ..medicinal' mot mineral unless adult ed)
| are Kept IN casks and bottles, and, as the must
clans would say, produce discord rather than har
| mony when taken in everdoses. 1t Is SAID that
| charity begins at home" and see no good re-
son why Shis temperance missionary should not
also b. gin his work at home.
But he says ''thls man Bartlett has been vic
lent and interruptions enemy of the place Mid
dletownl and the Springs. he has sought b.
misrepI esentatiOD, entreaty, cal lery and bis ut
most endeavOrs to prevent visitors coming here
All which is false. My own interest would mas
me friend of the place and springs. Any one
knowing my locality would see at once that the
more business there is in MiddletoWn the more
1t " i'll give me business,
Good Templar takes his leave of the HERALI
correspondent, X. y. e., in the following choice
language: HE esp used a rotten cause, aud II
the further stirring stinks in the rIs OF his
client, 70 he 1T" l have mo- employ ed attor-
ney TO write for me. nor do intend to, and L an
yet IN blissfut ignorance as to the real name Of
tx. y. e"
I will agree to let any sensible Temperance man
"a reader of the IHdependent evou-toke the
whole batch of editorials aud corresppudeI G.
which have been devoted to my humb self, from,
time TO time, and decide whether he Will 10.
therein find more evidence Of moral putref faction
in the hearts Of the writers than in the person
written about.
Farewell, gentlemen; write what you please
ami publish it in the LtdependeHt, but don't send
me the paper. Yours, respectfully,
D. b. BARTLETT.