Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-09-10
Communications.
rn.,aPr,,. Problem" once More.


In these. to a Democrat, sad and trying
DAYS. il may seem unkind in me to say any
thing that will further grieve the already
sorrow stricken Defrmer boy; but as that
gueless youth has seen fit in the last number
of the Defamer, to insinuate some things at
variance with the truth in regard to that prize
problem, I feel it my duty, in justice to my
self, to again refer to the subject through the
columns Of public newspaper Therefore,
il you will allow me space, Grandmother,
will present my side Of the case. The first
hole that the editor of the DCfdmer tries to
crawl through-and il is hole 80 small that
no one but a man thoroughly trained by long
practice would ever think of attempting to
crawl through it's that, If l didn't call at
his office and get the prize it was nobody's
fault but my own. Well | was occasionally
in the Defdmer office soon after that time, and
| didn't suppose it was necessary for me to
dun the boy for what he had promised, through
the columns of his paper, to pay. How
should know but what he was an honest
man / wasn't very well acquainted with
him then. To be sure, | knew that it was his
habit to abuse everybody far and near, and /
ought to have known that lit takes rogue to
catch a rogue" That's the reason | have
found him OUT Then, again, the two other
persons that l mentioned in my first letter
who were caught the same way rs myself
both understood the matter just as | did, and
said if Davenport was small enough to cheat
them out Of the prize unless they asked him
for it, then he might. They are still on the
anxious seat.
young man came to me few days ago
and said his sister solved the problem, and
carried her answer into the Reformer Office
Her name came out in the next issue of the
paper as being one of those entitled to prize
She expected like the rest of us poor sinners
that she would get it as soon as Davenport
could rake up enough TO pay it but after
waiting about six months, and not hearing
anything from it, she concluded she had bet
ter be scratching around little, or she would
lose it entirely. Accordingly she called on
Mr. Davenport, and he, finding he couldn't
browbeat her of, finally paid her the dollar
and was turning away, when she called his
attention TO the fact that there was a years
subscription to be thought of and as it re-
quires more cheek than even Davenport
possesses TO refuse lady in such q case, lac
added her name to the subscription list If
Charles wants the names of these parties, he
can have them by calling at my Office.
In regard to the young mans impression"
or fellow might say-it is a pretty hard
matter to argue with him on that point, he
has so many queer impressions - but, that
there may be no mistake about this, l will
say thht never nave received elther the uol-
lar or the paper and he has never offered me
either, other than ns l said in the first place
that is told me that l was entitled to it
and he would see that had it. However, il
he thinks didn't want the paper-and that
is very natural impression" for him TO
have-but wanted money in the place of it,
he can keep on thinking 80 l shall not quar-
rel with him about that. In making over the
bill to Grandmother. | lad to call the paper
something, and put it at the regular subscrip-
ton price. If it is too much, presume the
old lady would discount some rather than not
get it at all L. p WHITE