Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1905-08-31

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EDITORIAL NOTES.
Peck doesn't measure up very large
"Trusties" are not always to b.
trusted.
Yellow fever is one notch beyond
yellow journalism.
Evidently, somebody got things
mixed as between Windsor and Water
bury
tits mere matter OF dollars and
cents that the Japs and Russians are
! quibbling over, though the cents don't
figure very much.
The cars grant OF a representative
assembly is chiefly notable tor what it
doesn't grant. 1t may serve as a very
thin entering wedge, though.
We forgot to mention the very latest
wrinkle introduced BY the Northern
Baseball League. They mobbed the
umpire at Rutland the other day
The president will not have to form
his opinion OF the submarine at second
hand. His plunge in the Planger gave
him the best information obtainable.
The Burlington News thinks the
'cross-state railroad ought to be a
trolley line, which might answer if
passenger traffic and not freight were
the principal consideration.
The cooler weather OF the past few
days is due TO the rarefied atmosphere
into which this edge of the county was
tipped by the assembling at Newbury
Of the New England Fat Mems club.
Il may have been just an oriental
custom that prompted the sultan of
Sulu to offer his hand to his guest, the
presidents daughter, but such Jokes in
this country often lead 10 breach of
promise trials.
Come to think OF it. that proposition
of Japan to take six hundred million
dollars of Russian money for the north
ern halt OF Sakhalin island, a bleak
tract worth about thirty cents, did look
a good deal like sell.
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Time was when howl would have
gone up had the president OF the
United States carelessly risked his life.
as in the opinion Of many, he did last
week. But that was before our pres
ent president was president.
Russia tries TO arouse American
prejudice against Japan by predicting
that before long the laps viii seek to
annex the Philippines. Russia will
have to pinch our people in a more
tender spot than that TO produce the
desired effect.
Editor Stiles remarks that Editor
Harry Parker is the only publisher in
he state unfortunate enough to own
IN automobile. He forgets Brothers
McCuen Of Vergennes and Ullery of
but perhaps theirs are not
IF the unfortunate" kind.
Queer, isn't IL? Some OF the very
newspapers that four years ago had
plenty OF excuses to offer because Nc
Jullough wouldn't commit himself on
he liquor question when it was very
i've issue now find fault because
Fletcher Proctor hasn't declared him
self anew on the same question. though
/ does not bid fair to be an issue at all.
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Once more it appears that the only
INIT OF Vermont's summer industry is
hat OF suitable accommodations for
hose who would be our guests and
patrons. Probably more people than
ever before have visited the state this
,ear, and they are leaving with firm
determination to come again. Let's
bid them welcome and prepare for
more OF them.
II is not too early to retract a part.
It least, Of the criticism We made at the
lime OF the Batchelder interview with