Reply to Anti-Cholepa.

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 1, Issue 64, 5 September 1890, Page 2

Reply to Anti-Cholepa.

TO THE EDITOR. •: i

Your correspondent who signs himself “ Anti-cholera ” says that he has been annoyed lately by “a most ancient and fish-like smell” somewhere befcvveen the town and the dwelling of a “ Heathen Chinee:” Pity for Ms heathenism, but the rather florid compliments which the writer lavishes upon him reminds us of Byron’s line, “ a-fellow-feeling makes us, vyondrous kind.” If the "writer of this absurd letter can be quite sure that .the.stink is “ exhaled,” as he calls it, from some object exterior to himself, that He does not carry it about with him, let’him follow his delicate nose when next it is offended. It will lead him to the body of a rotting, dog-torn calf. This dead beast lies on the property of a “ leading citizen,” a : gentleman who would at once remove any nuisance from his premises if he knew .of its existence. But this gentleman is not the “ offender ” so delicately alluded to by the writer. But why did not this daintynosed gentleman go to the Inspector of Nuisances, and complain to him ? Perhaps a prudent instinct warned him to “ fight shy ” of an officer whose duty it is to detect a “ nuisance.” Your correspondent is evidently, and with reason, afread of cholera. Let him be warned. That disease is doubly more contagious and dangerous when the beastly poison of fear, or any other base or malicious passion has already corrupted a naturally timid : and feeble mind. I am, &c., •