Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1891-07-16
NOTE AND COM MENT.

NOTE AND COMMENT.
Iowa doesn't propose to be left behind
by Ohio in the race for the position of
honor in the Republican column. Both
states have put up winning tickets and
it appears as if both of them would get
there in good style.
The steamer Dunholme and the
steamer Kinloch collided off Dover at 2
O'Clock yesterday morning, and the Dun
holme sank two minutes afterward. The
steamer Kinloch picked up part of the
crew of the Dunholme and landed them
at Gravesend. Seventeen of the persons
on board the Dunholme at the time of
the collision are missing.
There has been no official announce
ment, but the statement seems of general
acceptance that the special legislative
session will occur in the last week in
be an acceptance of the direct tax for
the state, and St. Albans empowered to
cede land to the government. "A short
horse" it should be " soon curried.''
The much commented on inability of
weak woman to throw with any degree
of accuracy or force, is well championed
by the New York Tribune which cites
female base ball clubs doings in Wash
ington, Ohio, in refuting the SANDER. 1t
states that the first basewoman in throw
ng the ball down to second struck a
spectator behind the backstop who was
rendered unconscious for half an hour.
This ought to end any argument, surely.
With all friendly solicitude we COM
mend to Brother French of the Brattle-
,boro Phenix perusal of the biblical
quotation "Beware of vain repetition"
That full-face paragraph which appears
so regularly Of late at the head of his
editorial column instructs nobody; inter-
ests nobody; deceives nobody. The Phe-
nix is too old and should be too self-re-
specting to drop to the level of the ANA
teur publication or the blowhard city
daily. No charge.
The little republic of Switzerland has
long furnished an example of almost
absolute democracy and new law makes
the government still more democratic in
form. Whenever $4,000 of the people
of the country are ready to recommend
the passage of any measure, the govern
ment must introduce this bill in congress
to take its place in the regular order, and
be discussed and disposed of on its
merits. This right of initiative applies
to proposed amendments to the constitu-
ton, as well as other matters, and so
brings that instrument into closer touch
with the people.
1t is popular with some to blackguard
the millionaires because of their money,
and yet, deep down in the heart of every
man is the feeling which ex-senator In
gals expressed when he said: "The
only reason why l am not millionaire
is, that | don't know how to make the
money" There is no doubt that many
of our wealthy men obtained much of
their money by methods that would be
repugnant to an honest and conscientious
man; but the fact remains that every
one of us is struggling all the time to
make money, and that none of us would
raise any serious objection to being the
owner of million dollars.
Providence seems to be on the side of
the American farmers this year. Abun-
dant crops are the rule throughout
America, and the fact that the cereal
crops are almost failures in Russia and
India, which have been referred to as
Europe's granaries, makes it certain that
the American farmers will be able to get
big prices for their products. The far
mers are to be congratulated; they have
had hard time for several years, but
the turn has apparently come at last.
Republican legislation did not make the
big crops, but by enhancing the price of
farm products it enabled the farmers to
get the full benefit of those big crops.
Sir William Thomson calculates that
the number of molecules in a cubic inch
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