The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-02-27
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lose his grasp of descriptive English,
says the Washington Post, Three score
and eleven himself. his allusion to old
age In a recent debate Is too good to be
buried out of sight In the COMPRESSION
al Record. Mr.. Lamar of Florida, a
much younger man, who nevertheless
has gray hair and, as Colonel Hepburn
remarked during the debate, an excess
Of manner, had, as alleged, misauoted
President Rooseyelts speech. For this
the incisive Iowan belabored him mer-
cilessly.
THAT kind Of garbllng Of authority
or misquoting the president" asserted
Colonel Pete aggressiYely, lis tolerable
and exeusabie in the boys Of the pro
fession when they are getting their
stage legs, when they are before that
great tribunal, as it seemed to us many
years ago, the country justice. But IN
later days, when we are old" he added
In a fine Shakesperean vein, when the
hose are a world too wide for the
shrunken calves, when the eyes weep
amber, when the head is white as the
driven snow by the flight Of time, when
we are old men, as | and the gentle
man from Florida, we ought not to in
dulge IN that kind Of reprehensible
practice"
A prolonged outburst Of laughter and
applause rewarded the sage Iowan for
his splendidly worded criticism.
''Ah, for a saucer of that old maple
strip Of my childhood Compounded
OF the glorious sunshine Of the hills Of
old New England and the sweet water
Of mountain rills The rich offering Of
the virgin forest Brewed in natures
secret retortI The benson of bountiful
nature to the palate Of
Point Of order!' cried voice, and
Senator Platt Of Connecticut awoke to
the fact that he was becoming poetical
on the floor Of the senate, says the Chi
cago Inter Oceans Washington repre-
sentative. This isn't allowed.
Mr.. Plat had been carried back to
the days Of his boyhood on farm By
the debate on pure food. He had op-
posed any law to render maple strip
uniform.
'AIas,r he began, ait IS almost i'm
possible to obtain the pure, delicious
maple strip OF our childhood. That
which we get from Vermont" he said,
"is so etherealized and sublimated that
It's worthless"
The other senators sympathized, but
had to agree that he was right.
Representative Sidney Mudd Of
Maryland has a small boy who goes t.
public school says the Washington
representative Of the New York World
A few days ago Mrs. Mudd met
the representative at the door when h'
came to dinner and told him, in horri
fed tones, that she had discovered tht
son and heir of the Aludd family
matching pennies with some ragamuf
fins on the street.
"Son,' said Representative Mudd
bringing the small boy before the sterI
bar Of the paternal justice. is It trul
l that you have been engaged in tina
gambling game known as matchins
pennies n
"'Deed l have. daddy" replied th'
Mudd youngster
Al think" said Mr.. Mudd that it 1
my duty to give you sound whipping
for this act, for you know how bltterl.
opposed / am to such a species OF gam
bling"
eWell, father said the boy, i know
1 ought not to have been matehini
pennies, but Ill go you head Or tail
for two whippings or none"
May the saints preserve ye, sal
an old woman in Washington who hai
been given quarter by Representatiy
Cooper Of Wisconsin, says the ". Loui
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