Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1875-12-17
"a SAVIOR Of pastry and pies
Arising from st, Gore's butteries

Arising from st. Cores bu,teries."
Said authorities claim full pay, of the in
habitants OF that street, for the cost of bring
ing this suffering upon them on the ground
that they, the inhabitants, have received an
equivalent for the money expended. In
this hour of afIliction and suffering, fellow
"Citiz9n," his breath almost stopped, his
lungs laboring with vile gas inhaled from
the clothing of the inhabitants OF North
Main street-has held up appealing hands
for relief and sent forth his complaint of
the drainage system as applied 10 his bank
account by the balliffs, and the Windham
County court. The only public response
TO his appeal 10y two authors may be fifty
compared to a wet blanket, or the friends
of the most patient man, alluded to in West
minister Catechism, when burst forth from
suffering lips, miserable comforters are
We all 2" This lesson will not deter us from
laboring for the good of our neighbors, but
never, after tn is lime, will we tell our pri-
vate sutferngs TO a Brattleboro audience.
Far better, in silent resignation,
'Rnow how sublime a thingiis
To suffer and be strong"
Men prefer to be their own judges of their
needs, therefore good is not acceptable
when forced upon man with a demand
for payment. The indignation of the forced
recipient of a good would, in most in
stances render such recipient an unfair
Judge of the good claimed, and his testmo-
ny respecting the matter not of the most
desirble characte +. In the days of "Know-
nothingism," triumphant in Massachusetts,
a smelling committee was sent forth by the
legislature, and caricatures of said COM
mitlee, examining converts, looking under
beds, etc., were on sale at periodical stores.
The circumstances seem 10 demand COM
mittee of like character for this village.
None but those having large noses should
be selected. Let them first smell through
North Main street, and instruct them to be
sure and smell something, If II Is requisite
to call for all the clothing of each family
using Nam street sewer.
At this period appeared "Z'-lhe author
of a former reply 10 "Cllizen." In reply
TO our ceusure for his unfair, one sided at
tack upon "Citizen," he said, at is true /
made some omissions and mistakes and
perhaps you had better make 1t right in
your article" l mentioned over 30t. as
the distance between well and cess pool
but have since learned it is over 60 #.
The unfortunate landlord of the double
tenement house on High street neglected
TO put traps on his sink pipes and some
time after using the sewer one of the ten
ants ascertained this deficiency and obtain
cd a water trap at his own expense. Evil
IDENTIFY the people of that street are deter
mined not 10 give the sewer a fair trial.
They have but little head from Western
aqueduet TO wash out their pipes, and gem
orally, II not universally they neglect to
conduct the rain water thereto from their
dwelling roofs. In the second article by
"C,tizen" we can ask for no better testimo-
ny in favor of public sewerage. He quotes
from authors who tell us how awfully con.
taminated is the soil OF Rome and cities in
Hindostan. Proper sewerage would pre-.
vent all this. Travellers in Oriental coun-
tries have universally testified TO the un-
cleanliness and foul carnations from de-
caylng matter in those localities from
whence have originated the most frightful
diseases humanity has ever experienced.
YERIrAs.