Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1893-06-02
FLYING FEATHERS.

THE FIRST patient here in Brattleboro Of the
"Morrell Cure graduated Yesterday, and we are
informed by parties whose word We cannot doubt
that men were hired TO get this first patient
drunk Just as soon as he was through the treat
ment. That there was an effort made to make
him fall on Decoration day, we ourselves know
He has resisted all temptations and il very happy
because Of the change ia his life and his wife OF
course shares his Joy.
is 1T POSSIBLE that any Of the better class
OF our citizens want 70 Join hands with those who
are not content with going TO ''the bad" them
selves. and are not willing that those who want
to be free from bad habits, should have that
priviegel
SAID A LADY in Hinsdale last Monday.
Don't brag any more about Brattleboro being
a temperance town when so many Of your Young
men come down here Sundays and get so drunk =
One might as well say that because Brattleboro is
town where few people are poor, therefore we
have no need Of a poor farm. or because few peo-
pie become insane here, we ought not TO have an
Asylum here; as well say that as to say that be-
cause we are temperate people we ought not
to help those few among us and in our adjoining
towns, who are not temperate RATHER, let us
say, We are temperate people, there is but
little OF vice and evil here, compared with other
places but We have much in the way of
temptation near our doors and because we are
so free from evil, THEREFORE we are lust the
people who should put their shoulders to the
wheel and give hearty lift to the poor fellows
who are now struggling under burdens that none
can know save those who have borne the same.
10 is high time that the people rho beliete in
BrdttlebOro and cant 10 Keep il clean and maxi
II eten better than IL NOR is, should rise and er-
tend their hand TO those irho need their holm
As to the fact that man can be entirely cured
from the love OF liquor, IL is far too tate in The
day TO doubt that LETTER from Ware Mass
says OF one patient. He says that he could sIrjD
IN liquor and not let a drop into his mouth -
Another one says "Ihave never been SO free from
liquor since / lrds sir months old" Another one
had the ''Tremens' when he started TO take the
Cure and has come out all right, Hundreds OF
people stand ready 10 tell just what II has done
Tor them. Does any one suppose that the man
VINO for years has felt as though he was ..oU
hrodt and that throat was red hot and ali
the time calling More More t'-can such a man
not know when that appetite is entirely gone
NOW as TO the ''indiscrimnate dosin0r We
want TO say word. Each applicant is erdD,inrd
as JuHy and carefully as If he were a candidate
TOT ME insurance, and an application blank filled
out that shows all that can have a bearing ON his
treatment and none are treated that IL would he
IN any way unwise or ''inhuman" TO treat and
further than that, there is no sore arm in This
treatment and in short no bad HinO about IN
MorreH treatment, except in the sight of those
VINO are averse 10 making men free from rum
anu an ltS harms. All we ask Of those honestly
matter. - 'e "ioie
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