The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-11-07
Massachusetts Senator's En-
thuSiaSm for Rural Life.
LOVED FIELDS AND WOODS
Deep in Statecraft, He Was Very Fond
Of the Country and Believed in It's
Beneficial Work ~ Anecdote
That Proves His Keen Wit

a side q the late senator George
Frlsbie iloar's character with which
those who knew him only as a states.
man and scholar are unfamiliar was
his enthusiasm for country life, says
the Boston Herald Rarely have the
advantages and attractions Of boy life
on a Kew England farm been express
ed more poetically than by Mr. Hoar in
short speech introducing Senator
Lodge at the Inauguration Of Carroll D.
Wright as president of CLARK college At
Worcester oct 0, 1902, IN which lie
showed how great was bis colleagues
misfortune III being city bred
During his many years Of public life
senator Hoar found time to be out Of
doors a great deal in the summer His
home in Worcester is separated from
the neighboring houses by broad lawns
and many trees, SO that the outlook
from the house Is suggestive Of the
country During recent years the sen
ator took great pleasure during the
summer ID long drives through the
beautiful billy country surrounding
Worcester and often enjoyed the seen
cry from a seat III trolley ear He ex-
pressed his feeling about the country
when he said:
There was never better gymnasium
for body and intellect and soul; there
was never filter preparation for col
lege or university or for the greater
university OF the world than the life.
from the early settlement of the couns
try down to day most Of US can re-
member, on a New England farm.
What an education IN the old days.
when the thick wood came up close to
the village when the boys school
mates were the hawk and the owl and
the racco0n and the muskrat when he
was schooled in the lore Of wood and
pond aud river: when lac went bare.
foot from tile frost III the spring to the
frost in the autumn. and thawed oui
tho pump and shoyeled out the path
through the snow In the winter morn.
ing. and had
Every moral feeling of the soul
Strengthened and braced BY breathing in
content
The keen ana wholesome air Of poverty
And drinking from the well of homely life
'sIn those days when d boy wanted
to have a thing done for him he had
to do 1t himself He had to keep his
eyes and his ears open to natures con
slant challenge from wood and field
and river and pond. The pickerel in
the pond and the muskrat IN tile river
and the hawk In the sky and the wood
chuck In bis hole and the gray squir-
rel on the tree top We're calling to him,
Get me If you cang He went out to
his days work with an exhilaration
that nobody but ChaHeer. the poet Of
the morning and Of joy could ade-
quately describe unless. perhaps we
except Gray. who has told as the story
Of English country life ana Of ours IN
poem, every line Of which IS gem
more precious than the Kohinoor
'.Oft did the harvest to the sickle yield.
Their throws OFT the stubborn giebe
has broke
HOW jocund aid they drive their team
aaeld.
How how'd the woods beneath their
sturdy stroke
Il account it a great misfortune to
any man to have missed that school 4
Senator Hoars wit, harmless rs d
dove among his private friends, was as
keen as a stiletto when welded in the
legislative chamber. might mention
a few instances in point says writer
in the pittsburg Dispatch
Senator Ben Tilman can be a bit
prudish on occasions in the use Of good
English. Ex-senator Allen of Nebras-
ka, less careful in the nieeties Of tie
language. was noted is the longest
windea debatcr iii the senate 4 fact
which lends point to this instance
III the course Of 4 senate colloquy
Tilman and Allen disputed over the
pronunciation Of the word situs the
South Carolinian contehding that the
'i'' should be long while his opponent
stuck 10 the short sound The question
was referred to lloar as authority in
good English
frhe senator from South Carolina st