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Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1909-07-29

There seems to be just about enough
auto hogs-with apologies to the rest of
the hog family-to keep under pretty
good cultivation a serious prejudice
against the automobile.
The owners and drivers of machines as
class are gentlemen and apparently peo-
pie of sound judgment. They recog nize
that the horse has had the undisputed
right of the country highways from the
time they begun and is naturally rather
inclined to question the right OF way of a
powerful locomotive. They are in SYM
patty with these conditions and do
everything within reason to familiarize
the horse and aid its owner in getting &C
quainted With the new order of things.
Then, just as everything is getting well
adjusted, along comes some fool automo-
bilist, who is not fitted for the RESPONSE
bility of pushing an empty baby carriage
across the lawn, and through his reck-
lessness team is wrecked or somebody is
killed or frightfully injured aud the care
full work OF education and Cancellation by
80 previous automobiles is destroyed
and a most natural antagonisM created
that may exist for years.
The automobile owners ought to be the
very first to insist upon severe punish
ment for any Of their number who disre-
CARDS the rights of others, either through
recklessness or any other cause. Such a
position would not only be of great bene-
fit to the cause o. the automobiles but oil
incalculable value to people generally.
Mort hfieId News.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1909-07-29
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Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1909-07-29
Murdered by JeaIous Soldier.

Miss Minnie Charbonneau of Essex
junction was shot and killed in Capt.
Charles N. Murphy's home in Fort Leav-
enworth, Kan, July 20, by Private
Charles O'Neil because OF jealousy.
O'Neil had threatened to kill the girl
and as he was under guard on the steps
Of the house, waiting for her to identity
him, he drew a revolver, which be had
concealed, and fred four times under the
lieutenant's arm before be could be over
powered, killing the girl.
Following the shooting, O'Neil was
placed in the guard house with the other
soldiers who we're confined there for
different offenses. Watching his oppor-
tunity. while being taken to the black
smith shop to have shackles fastened on
him, he made q dash for liberty and es-
capped to the thick woods and underbrush
along Sheridan drive.
general alarm was at once sounded
and two battalions were rushed out Il
search for him. The 500 men were
formed in a long line, and every foot Of
the country was searched. The soldiers
were under orders to kill O'Neil il he
showed any signs OF resistance.
After a hunt of five hours, he was seer
sneakiDg along to the lake. When pur
sued, be jumped into the lake and made I
pretense at drowning himself, but at thu
point of q revolver be was compelled e
come out and march to the guard house
The soldiers came in on the double-uuicl
and gave hearty cheers over capturing tn
murderer. They are exceedingly bite
against ONeil for the disgrace he ha
brought on the uniform aud paid Mis-
CharbOnneau's funeral expenses and sen
her body back to her parents in Esse1
Junction.
The slain woman went to Fort Leaven
worth four months ago with the family o
an officer Of the Fifteenth cavalry from
Fort Ethan Allen. She worked in th
family OF an officer there before going L
Fort Leavenworth. She was rs years old
Shortly after she went, Private O'Nei
began paying her attention. Il is sal
that the girl tired OF his company and
became jealous.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1909-07-29
Or. J. A. Mead . Candidate.

DR.. Mead, or to be formal, Lieutenant
Governor john A. Mead OF Rutland, is a
candidate for the Republican nomination
to the governorship in 1910. This is the
one certain thing in the state politics Of
the hour. There is nothing new about
this. he has been q candidate for the
Office from the moment he defeated the
Hon. Willard F. Barnes OF Addison in the
Republican convention OF 1908 for nom
ination to the Office he now holds. Men
who served him then have been under
waiting orders ever since for the larger
service now invoked. These men camped
in Burlington Tercentenary week. 1t
was a good time to be in Burlington, too;
there was q good show on; the westher
was fine and ''the goose hung high"
What did the bunch do for their candi-
date Nothing much. A state senator
or two of the last inglorious legislative
session promised to hand over their coun-
ties in the DOCTORS behalf, something
they will be able to do about the time the
circle is squared" the North Pole dis
covered, Hades frozen over, and the
"fourth dimension made the favorite
subject of conversation at Sunday school
picnics, and when q few other events of
kindred nature transpire. Others of the
encourage fraternized with Democrats or
consorted with the,elements of unrest and
reported progress. This procedure made
a pleasing diversion, but in these times it
doesn't make governors; that is, it does
not carry them far enough to warrant
/ giving an order for a portrait to be hung
] in the executive chamber.
1 With DR.. Mead candidate, it is prop
er to inquire what he represents. First
of all he is q man in advanced years
whose ambition includes the governor
ship Of Vermont. His business record is
good. His Civil war record is creditable
and he is said to be in an alliance often
sive and defensive with PercivaI w.
Clement. Wealth, ambition and mean
ingful alliances make him a candidate
who is bound to cut something of a fig
ure in the coming contest. Give his
campaign organization and skilful man
agement, and opponents will know that
he is running.
Against DR.. Mead there is no man
formally in the race, but, tentatively,
there are many. To those who have
studied the situation, the list is growing
smaller day by day. The man who will
combat the movement already crystalliz-
ing around the doctor may come from
Bennington county, or from Chittenden.
or from franklin, or from LamoilIe.
Certain it is that the list is now reducibIe
to men from these four counties. AR-
gressiveness now on the part Of any one
man in any one of these counties would
be decisive factor in the choosing.
II also follows that with the doctor
militant and with his supporters in the
saddle, delays in all OF the quarters above
mentioned are dangerous.
There is 8 man in Bennington county,
there is a man in Chittenden county.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1909-07-29
Lunatie Tried to Wreck Train.

Last Thursday afternoon, two attempts
we're made to wreck the Montpelier d
Wells River train near Plainfeld. In the
first instance, a roll OF fence wire was
placed on the track and the train was
brought to a halt without damage. La
ter, an inspector discovered a log lying
on another section Of the track. Had a
train struck the log, a serious wreck
would have resulted. After removing
the obstruction, officers were sent out to
search for the would-be train wrecker.
1t was learned that Charles Getchell,
unidentified and considered harmless,
who escaped from the state hospital for
the insane at Waterbury last week Mon
day while assisting the farmer in spray
ing potatoes, had been seen in that vicin-
ity and after several hours hunt the off,
GERS found their man walking on the
track above Marshfield. He told several
rambling stories as to the places where he
had spent the night, but they differed in
many respects and the officers were at a
loss to determine his whereabouts during
the time be had been at large.
\ Getchell took TO his heels when the
man was at the other end OF the field,
and headed toward Montpelier, from
which city he was sent to the asylum in
1908. He escaped about two years age
and was sent back.
Getchelrs latest escapade seems tc
show more serious tendencies than had
been suspected.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1909-07-29

The Standard Oil company celebrated
John D. Rockefeller's birthday BY issuing
the first roll of 3 new idea in butter,
namely, petroleum. butter, or as they call
il "petroli' butter. Petrol butter is
made from petroleum by process of
benevolent assimilation. The factory is
at Alton, Illinois. Petrol butter, we as
sumo, is for human consumption and is
designed, it is said, to put the useful COW
out OF business. II "petror' becomes rs
popular as other products of the Standard
Oil company, it is likely that the COW in
the future will be but q landscape orna-
ment. The new product is reported to be
about the consistency Of ordinary butter
OF commerce. but is q delicate shade OF
brown. 1t is said to preserve its youth
better than the boarding house butter of
which humorists write. II does not be-
come rancid and does not require weights
to restrain its activities when IL reaches
the age OF discretion. This new vasehne
butter is said to 60 nice ON the humble
and plebeian pancake Of ancient memory.
/ 1t is safe to say, however, that not in
this day or generation will there be g de-
cline in the demand for Vermont butter,
made in the good old way, on account OF
the advent of this new-fangled "petrol''
onglomeration.-Enos burg Standard.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1909-07-29
RACE ISSUE AT HOME.

The coming OF a negro cavalry regi-
ment to Fort Ethan Allen has brought
the race issue right home to the people Of
that section OF the state. From reports it
appears that the colored troopers do not
meet with the glad hand at all times and
places, even in this old Abolit:onist state.
White people refuse to sit with them at
restaurants or ride with them in cars,
when there is any other way. There is
even talk of putting on "Jim Crow
street cars for their accommodation.
All this is very strange and queer up
here in Vermont, where the negro used to
be deihed. II shows, however, that, la
ment it as we may, and thunder against
it as We will, people are not so very
different North than South. The most
bitter and unreconcilable negro haters in
the South are Northern whites who 90
there and see the negro as he really is,
not as Uncle Toms Cabin pictured him.
In their violent overturn of prejudice
they iy to the other extreme and can see
nothing good in the blacks.
1t is undenisbly true that with the
passing OF the generation which, in their
honest sympathy for the negro and their
adherence of slavery, overlooked his
weaknesses and patiently m.nistered to
his needs-with the passing of that gen.
Grafton, we Of the new one are taking q
largely different, though not necessarily
a better, view. When the negro fails to
measure up to our ideas, we condemn
him, draw away from him, leave him to
his fate and go our own way.
The colored soldier in the service OF
the United States has been a success
when there was work cut out for him.
We whites are very glad to know what
he did in the Civil war, in the Spanish
war, in the Philippines, on the plains,
but we forget this W hen asked to sit be-
side him at the theatre or hotel. Then
he is just plain niger and our noses &c
up in disgust.
1t would be as bad in Vermont as it is
anywher else IL we had as many of them.
1t is race feeling. 1t cannot be ex.
planned. 1t cannot be justified. 1t is just
so, and until Anglo-Saxon feeling
changes it cannot be different. And we
expect that the residents of the territory
surrounding Fort Ethan Allen, where
these troopers are, will become more and
more insistent for separate service and &C.
} commodstions. 1t is not that the con.
duct of these troopers is worse than that
OF the white soldiers who have sometimes
} terrorized that locality and always been {
; difficult proposition for the authorities
but it is because they are negroes.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1909-07-29

Cross Brothers, the leading granite
firm in Mortified, has been incorporated
with a capital stock OF $780, 900. This con-
Germ now includes five brothers. Two of
them started in at Northfield about seven
teen years ago with little else than their
han aners and chisels to work with. Yes,
there was something else-pluck, good
Judgment and practical knowledge OF
their business. With these concomi-
tants, almost without capital, they start
ed in a very small way in q little rented
shed. As they worked on, things came
their way, as they have q habit of doing
to the deserving, and it was not long be-
fore they had to enlarge. Step by steI
they pushed on, finally acquiring largs
amount OF real estate, at an almost nomi
nal price, in the very heart OF Northield
with valuable water power connected
Later, they introduced everything mod
ern in machinery and are able to compet'
on even terms with the largest firms ia
Barre. The Cross brothers are all gooC
fellows, personally and socially, and hav'
borne leading part in the growth o.
their town. They deserve all that hai
come to them and their outside friend
rejoice in their prosperity.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1909-07-29
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Vermont People Are Pleased
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Done.

It's pretty hard to attend to duties
With a constantly aching back;
With annoying urinary disorders.
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They cure backache.
They cure kidney ills.
]. W. Ford, of A No. Main ST., Ran
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this account, could hardly attend to my
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cures for this complaint but did not
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using Doan's Kidney Pills. / procured
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can say that it acted exactly as repre-
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Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1909-07-29
Color Line In Vermont7

Even before any provocstion had been
given them some Burlington people have
snubbed members Of the colored troops
which are now located at Fort Ethan Al
len, showing their displeasure BY leaving
restaurants when the negroes entered.
There have also been hints that "Jim
Grow" cars between Burlington and the
U. s. post might be acceptable. This
latter statement we believe to be little
more than fanciful, and il made at all,
was probably made BY q silly person.
White people may leave restaurants il
they wish to but no community in Yer
mont should 60 50 tar as to countenance,
or even think of introducing, separate
cars for troopers who are colored. 1t
might be good plan II separate cars
were maintained for all troopers, white or
coiored, who are on their way home from
revels in Burlington's low districts, and
the plan would be very pleasing to other
patrons Of the electric road who have
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1909-07-29
Those Entranee Exams.

II is reasonable to assume that IS per
cent OF the boys and girls from the rural
districts who took the high school en-
trance examinations recently in West
Brattleboro could pass a satisfactory test
IL the questions we're confined to the in
structions received from the text books.
Some OF the questions were absurd, sny-
way, for such an examination. aud il
was not q square deal to give the children
q mental gruelling on subjects which had
not been brought to their attention. II
is understood thst in physiology the
questions conformed to the text books
and that q large percentage OF the papers
were satisfactory. The policy of our
schools ought to be one OF encourage
ment. rather than OF repression OF sup
preston. The children should be guild
ed and encouraged to continue in school.
Barred from the high schools by too
stringent tests they are likely to drop ont
OF school life altogether and to go to
work at q time when they should be pre-
pairing themselves for mature life by
study. We are likely to lessen the quail
tY of our future citizenship by driving
boys and girls in their early teens out OF
the schools il absurd examinations like
those recently held in West Brattleboro
are -Brsttleboro Phoenix.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1909-07-29
PRess NOTES.
Thex,re Comma, Fsther WIIIIan,.

It is certainly shocking to and that
there Is a shortage Of candidates for the
position OF supervisor OF the census in
this state. Has Brattleboro failed since ii
was damned Have the Thracians OF
Lamoille forgotten the scent Of battle
and the earthquake voice of victory to
them Of yore the breath of life Are
Burlington patriots grown pot-bellied
and moribund in Snug contemplation oil
the profits OF the Tercentenary Is
Montpelier gIutted by its rake-off from
one hundred days Of legislative session
Oh, dream of dreamsl Is it true that al
last an Office is seekingR man in old Yer
mont ? We think not. There is rustl
ing in the underbrnsh, from the grave
yard of Essex Junction to the beseiged
damp spot in Vernon. They are coming
Bill. They'll be with you presently
-BenningtOn Banner.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1909-07-29

and landed at Dover in England Sunday,
Is quite the most striking one thus far
achieved by navigators Of the air. Yep
peIin's dirigible has travelled many miles
further, and the Wright aeroplanists have
outfown this one but not in q single
straightAway course, and especially not in
such a spectacular and politically impor-
tant way. Englishmen, who have been
shivering lest their ''tight little isle'
should some day be at the mercy OF foes
IS HON their naval broadsides could not
repulse, awake now to the actual reality.
II Frenchmen, or, worse yet, the dreaded
Germans, can tiy over and land on their
domain in a single night, what use is
their billion dollar navy and what pro
lection is there against the invasion that
has been the nightmare of Britons for
generations One might reply by say.
ing that it is no further across to the con
tinent from England than the other way,
and that British skill should provide avi
ators able to invade as well as Francs
and Germany. But the British are thu
far backward in aerial navigation aud Dc
not take to it readily. They somehow
seem to feel that any progress in that di
rection means a loss of prestige and pow
err on the sea. Now their distress will b,
sad to witness.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1909-07-29

One thing is sure, the voters of this
state do not approve the way the senators
from Vermont voted in raising the duty
Of paper from 81 to "a per ton. This is
one Of the infant industries that do not
need protection and a tax on knowledge
is always odious. Vergennes Vermonter.
This statement may be trife mislead-
ing. The present or Dingley rate on
news paper is IS per ton. The Payne or
House bill reduced it to 81. The Senate
looked the matter over and thought 81, or
q one-third reduction from present rate,
would be fair all around. At this writ
ing it is quite likely there will be . COM
promise on 60 per ton, which would be 8
so per cent cut from the DinRley duty.
II seems to be conceded that heavy re-
duction should be made. The increasing
scarcity Of pulp wood and the high pro-
lection given the manufacturers have re-
suited, under the operation Of big trust
in control, to raise the price of paper ma
terially. II it were possible to secure
Canadian paper when the home price i,
unreasonably high, it would be q greai
boon to the buyers. The publishers can
not advance their rates as raw materials
go up, but must stand the squeeze. Con
gress seems disposed to favor them to thu
point OF lowering the duty as much as .
can without bringing ruin upon the yer!
I large paper making industry.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1909-07-29

been forced to stand the conduct Of some
obnoxious members of the garrison. 1t
would be wrong, however, to make dis
tinction between white end colored
troopers. So far as known the eolored
troopers have not shown aDy greater mis-
conduct than the bites, il indeed they
have been guilty Of any acts which might
be considered Objectionable to the general
public of Burlington. Before leaving
restaurants in a huff and intimating sepa-
rate conveyances be provided for the
negro troopers Burlington people would
do we'll to treat the newcomers as gentle
men until they are proved to be other
wise-Barre Times.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1909-07-29
Pointed Words to consressmen.

Since the Dingley law went into effect
twelve years ago the working man who
can afford to pay only $40 to s12 for
suit of clothes has gotten for that money
net better value than he could for 81 be-
fore. Now II the Aldrich crowd is al
lowed to pass the pending tariff bill in
the shape they are trying to, it means
that $40 or S12 salt will he cut another
quarter in actual value and will be worth
no. more than a suit that could be bought
for s5 to 50 twelve years ago. The mid
die class aud poorer people OF the whole
country are icing sacrificed to help the
worsted mills of Rhode Island. II is
claimed to be for the benefit of the wool
grower but the truth is that the wool
grower would be abundsntlv protected
with the duties reduced one-half, while
the average citizen throughout the coun-
try would be benefited from $40 to $50 a
year. according to the size Of his family
by reduced duties in these schedules. 1t
Is not yet too late to write to Senators
Page and Dillingham; and Congressman
Foster and Plumley. The combined
power Of protected monopoly is back of
the Aldrich combine with which the two
Vermont senators have identified them
selves and it viii take something Of jar
I from popular opinion TO force them "a
come over onto the side OF the public.
I With Congressman Foster and Plumley il
ought not to be so difficult. They are
coming up for. reelection next year and il
they will do their duty now, no matter II
they have to break with some of then
social friends in Washington, the voter,
OF Vermont will stand by them wher
they need help.-Bennington Banner.