The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1873-09-25

Bay state q few wears ago and wss iar a
time active partner ~ J p Wood "a
manufacturing humber 10 rgra lie then
had waller power, a. De now las road on
the brain. ltsoon became known What
De wanted to purchase Ira Cochran
owned 81 chat time a 55.scrp rancho q
little eut VI the village east of East Dor
SCI, and by pFospcs.ing carefully he found
lhe very thing he took Nj Brown ap
to il and showed him de site. There
was d good place to build one dam on
several, Bat there was nothing 81 any
account 20 dam except The surplus waters
q a neighbor's spring aud The cxpeeta-
lions Of showers and dew, Bat FORUM
ately Mr. Brown had sn imagination
which could create, multiply and magul-
~ the objects o. his hearts desire, As
his sight rested on lra's site, bis mind
was filled with a great variety OF ideas,
brooks then ran tbst never tsu before
Aad brooks shai always ran, ran there che more. p
Chieopee aud Lowell and a road down
the stream TO the village Of East Dorset,
thronglng with unwashed operatives,
passed before bis minds eye. He talked
Of cotton mills, aud in case DO bought
should put IN three or four az least, and
Mr.. Cochran then aud there promised ia
case he did TO favor his road. This was
all the encouragement that was ever
given. That Mr.. Cochrau's head was
clear and cool on that occasion, his pulse
regular as usual, aud bis promise guard
ed, is evident from the fact that Mr.
Browns friend had not quite cheek
enough to leave his whopper unsodiGed,
but added the phrase ain case lac started
a good business" The said cotton mills
are not yet M, The trade was made aud
Mr.. Brown, Ia addition to the usual priv
ilegcs, had the additional one of bringing
water to his new possession "by spout or
otherwise"
Again it is asserted in this sentence
that William Brown has started good
business on the land bought Of Ira Coch-
ran. This is not true. Sarah Brown has
started and carries on there quite pretty
little business; and she, and not William
Brown, is the man who sis doing more
to-day for the benefit of the place than
any one man in this part Of the town"
She gives steady employment TO cod
Mig" and Mr.. Brown, and employment
most of the year to another man. "Trot-
ter is excused from drudgery, and stands
most of the time in his cool little stall
over the stream, fighting flies. Occasion
ally he is taken ont for quick trip or
put upon the track in an adjoining town
to take the coneeit out Of gentlemen who
imagine they have got somsthing fast
Sarah Brown buys grain by the car load,
and grinds it and sells it at least ten
cents hundred above the prices of A.G.
Clark & Co., and thereby she, and not
East Dorset, gets gain, We have called
her business pretty, but if weighed in
the balance with that of either OF our
merchants, it would be found wanting
And to compare it, individually, to our
marble interest, which builds a railroad
and tenement houses and employs scores
of men and many trains and shipped 120
car loads Of marble in the single month
Of July last past, is to compare small
things with great. SO bic jacct again.
Mr.. Browns friend is again at fault in
the seventh sentence. No one or two
mills have ever been built cat a great ex-
pense" in East Dorset, solely OF mainly
as grist mills, and were never at any
time so used. I'm the last part OF the
eighth sentence he again tells whopper.
In the last part Of his ninth sentence he
asks, "Why not give him (Mr, Brown a
hearty supper?" Because, my dear sir,
we don't support our business men,
Cochran, Kent and Freddy, etc. They
support us Business men are the very
men of all others that are most abundant
" able to take care Of themselves. The
tenth sentence contains an insinuation
that is totally false, but we pass it by,
merely remarking that if Mr.. Brown is
the victim "of some petty feud, some
childish pque," he should search dill
gently for the cause. If successful in his
search, ten to one be will find the cause
very near his own door; and right there
is the spot to apply the remedy instead Of
attempting to doctor the effects through
a public journal while the cause remains.
Having traced and nailed most, but not
all, of the seventeen whoppers that Mr.,
Browns literary friend has told in ten
sentences, we pass, lastly, TO his classical
allusion. Here he is not clear or happy.
So long as he stuck to his whoppers he
was clear, but IN the very first and only
sentence in which tiNre is no whopper,
bis meaning is past finding out. How
we, who are now behind the times, can
go ''back a few years" and then sleep
twenty without progress like Grip Van
Winkle,n and at "lhe awakening day"
"bc better PREPARED to so ahead with the
times" we confess we cannot see. We
suppose Mr.. Browns literary friend and
eulogist sees clearly, but TO us it is as
clear IS mud.
OUR BOOK TABLE.
We have received from Seribner, Arm