MANURES. Bs 
points to the other and wonders why no one 
is found to make use of this valuable com- 
modity which now goes to waste, but no 
one takes hold. “The Romans reverenced 
Cloacina, the goddess of the sewers, and 
the statue which they found of her in the 
great drains of Tarquinius was beautiful as 
Venus’s self; but they honored her, doubt- 
less, only as a wise sanitary commissioner 
who removed their impurities, and, so doing, 
brought health to their heroes and loveliness 
to their maidens. They only knew half her 
merits; but in Olympus, we may readily be- 
lieve, there was fuller justice done. Al- 
though weaker goddesses may have been un- 
kind—may have averted their divine noses 
when Cloacina passed, and made ostentatious 
use of scent-bottle and pocket-handkerchief 
—Flora, and Pomona, and Ceres would ever 
admire her virtues, and beseech her benign 
influence upon the garden, the orchard, and 
the farm. But the terrestrialsnever thought 
that fex urbis might be /ux orbis, and they 
polluted their rivers, as we ours, with that 
which should have fertilized their lands. 
And we blame the Romans very much in- 
deed; and we blame everybody else very 
much indeed; and we do hofe the time will 
soon be here when such a sinful waste will 
