The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1881-03-11
Thls offer Of the Herald and Globe d


a perfectly fair one, and demands some
notice from us. We will state the facts !
of the matter. and then leave il with
the public.
On the morning OF Feb. IS, the cdi-
tor of this paper obtained his copy of
the Herald and Globe at the agents,
aud going to his Office, opened aud
glanced over the paper as usual. In an
editorial on the second page, under the
heading OF Fernando Wood" the fol-
lowing sentence caught his eye, ode
mortui nil sine bonum is good gene
raj motto" Mindful of the many at
tacks upon college education which had
appeared in the Herald and Globe, this
variation upon the ordinary apologize
phrase, "Dc n,oytuis nihH niSi 6onun,"
struck us as rather ludicrous, aud we
in five or ak line notice gave the
Herald due credit for 1t. We thought
nothing more Of the matter, until we
were astonished to see in the Herald
and Globe of the following Thursday
denial that any such phrase had
appeared In Its columns. We at once
made search for our copy from which
we had taken the expression, but it
was missing. Application at four diff
ferent places In town where files of the
Herald are preserved revealed the re-
markable fact that, while every other
number of that week was 10 be found A,
the number for Feb. IS was missing.
We finally found copy, in which the
Latin phrase did not appear. The
phrase IN our copy had been seen by
others; and inquiry showed that seve-
raj of our citizens had seen it In other CO.
pies. Some Of them 30 affirmed positive
ly,while Others had only strong impress
sion of the fact. The inference we drew
was the perfectly natural one, that when
the type forms of the Herald of Feb.
Is were put upon the press the Lstii,
phrase was in the place where we read
1t, but that before many copies had
been printed the bunder was discov-
cred and the editor concluded to con-
fine himself to turgid English In cor
recting it, instead of running any fur
thur risk in handling language which
is taught in college. Had we any idea
that the phrase did not appear in the en-
tire edition of the Herald we most as
suredly would have retained our copy,
but having no knowledge of the change
we thought no more about 1t.
These are the simple facts of the mat
ter. We are not subject to mental hal
fluctuations, and we believe those who
know us will hardly accept the Her.
AIDS charge of deliberate lying on our
part, or that we could have been guilty
of such stupid act as to coin sense
less phrase and ascribe 1t to a paper SO
widely read as the Herald. We pre-
sume some of those who have assured
US of having seen the Latin phrase In
question in the Herald would allow us
to use their names In substantialion of
our assertions, but we shall let the mat.
ter rest so far as they are concerned, if
they prefer 1t SO. We presume, too,
that Notwithstanding the inexplicable
disappearance Of so many copies of the
Herald of Feb. 10 from regularly kept
d'es In this place, there may be
some among our readers In this or other
towns who have copies of that date
s,"taiuIng the phrase ABOVE quoted, tn
which case they will find 1t worth theil
while to communicate with 10. For
the present we will leave the matter as
| IL stands.