Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-08-26
PLAIN TALK FOR PLAIN PEOPLE.
Crisp and Breezy Comment on Mat
tiers in the Public Eye.
written for the Reformer.)

tiers in the Public Eye.
written for the Reformer)
Worse and worse. My neighbor
Fairfield of the Rutland News says
the ball team of that city viii cost
about $4,000 for ten weeks playing,
or about $500 for each home game,
The sporting editor Of the Herald,
who must be a real vanilla and lee
cream soda plunger, proceeds 10 re-
mark: AS long as we are getting the
ball ana somebody pays for II, what's
the use OF Worrying" There's tin
horn sport for you. Never mind what
crazy exuavagances winning ball calls
for, don't object If the game is ever
astingly queered from business
standpoint, somebody's paying for 1t!
In Plattsburgh, the angels behind
the team are the Weirs, There's
pair of redhot highrolers, all right
Good losers. good winners, back OF
the team every minute. players that
couldn't win for them ought TO be
pounded with bat. They used TO
come over with the team from the
burg and bet their good wealth
against ST. Adams and Burlington, II
they won, It was Gold Seal for the
crowd. II they lost, II was lager. and
q" Sail right, boys. Do better next
time" If Plattsburg had few more
Weirs, they'd have an American
| league charter and half the other
teams backed OFF the map!
|
! Personal kidding is no fair After |
recommending that every man who /
fathered ten children should be placed |
on the governors staff. the ex-M. +. /
exhorter who edits the Barre Tele- /
gram. remarks: "Brer. Hindley would
look eXcelently well with the gor-
geous uniform of the governors staff
across his capacious breast. II Is said
that a certain Vermont statesman
once declined a position as a guberna-
torial colonel for the reason that his
breast was not wide enough for two
rows of buttons. But our genial con-
temporary would adorn the position.
Let's hear from him that he Is a can
didate on the above specified basis
pass. Although disbeliever in
race suicide, I'm not a fanatic about
the thing, and / don't want TO be a
blooming Kernel anyway. Whatever
honor and emolument may be equalled
By three -tenths of a colonel. how
ever | am willing to shoulder Ought
10 bring me along with the bloody
lootenants," should think. And
only 10 remember that people like
Greene of the Messenger have both
the three tenths aud the title to start
with!
That injured husband" from Port
Henry, n Y, cut rather a poor figure
in the arrest OF his erring wife and
her lover at Pittsford last week. Her c
name is Minnie Mercure and the I
press dispatches don't give him any a
name but Mister. Frank Fish is the \
villain. Mercure played the sleuth {
and located them. Did he send the /
woman home to her family and rib I
bonize Fish with a gad@ No he had
them both arrested. Ultimately they
viii 60 to states prison under the
law And what's gained?
Mercure's self-respect isn't re- y
stored because he has sent his chill L
fren's mother To a CELL If he had Q
loved Minnie, he would take her back. 4
II he didn't love her why didn't he Il
simply say: Now. you two, I've h
found you out You, Minnie. never e
,et foot In my house again; and you, a
fish. keep her. If you don't, there's I,
ail for you both" Could Vermont Il
aw impose so deadly punishment as Il
hat9 But, the law, Heavens. what
lilly travesties are played under the
lame Of law every day we live!
Modern law Is principally applied G
o the protection of those who don't II
Deserve protection aud the punishment Il
# those who can't protect them ts
elves. W
h
That nasty adjective, "cowbird,' APP a.
lied BY the Free Press to the pro- u
ressive wing of the Vermont press, 9
arks back to the time when two or %
hree newspapers furnished the en- ~
ire political argument for the state. w
Il that time the Free Press was IT, Ok
Is opinions and those of the st. Al
ans Messenger made history The
liz ones led and the little ones fol-
owed The Free Press hasn't vet
called that the world has moved ca
long and that now no one looks TO "
for single thing except news. Two ia
ne fellows. Southwick and Bigelow bl
o the active work for that paper a
What pity that a busted tradition tn
hould make monkeys of good men! st
OF
II seems that those high -salaried a.
tars on the Burlington ball team 81
ave been toying with the neuras- ~
lenic cocktail and the logey lager. | l.
ever saw but one man who could ~
ooze and play ball and he's dead.
he two things don't go together any
lore than rum and prize fighting.
ozers and ballplayers who follow
,ainers rules. are the most moral wi
zen alive. And vice versa. #
81
Burlington always was a hard town sa
NJ sober baHplayers. | can re- tn
lember at least two first-class col TO
.ge pitchers fellows Just as good as nc
like Lynch, the 5000 dollar beauty. -
9th of them all to the bad with booze.
ne young lad, a fine figure of boy,
good twirler, never amounted TO
ngle thing in college on account of
rum habit formed at the high school. tie
once umpred a game when he MI
itched and after the first three in tn
ings he simply went to pieces. TT
eemed as If | could see him crump- pc