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Henry Cabot Lodge could estimate the
value of the whole discussion with the
nice precision of the Puritan. The son of
lyric and the venerable DR.. Edward Ev-
erett Hale pour a genial balm upon all II
the discussion waxed warm.
And as it is today it has been practi-
cally throughout the history of the city.
The salons of Washington may have had
in the main a political basis. but they
were never without the grace Of letters.
When DR.. Gamaliel Bailey was editing
the National Era and the cause of the
abolitionists was becoming the all-absorb-
ing topic the contributors to his paper
from 40 to 81 were such men and women
as Whittier, Lowell, Sumner, Salmon P.
Chase. Wendell Phillips, Henry B. Stanton,
Gail Hamilton, Mrs. L. M. Child, Mrs.
Stowe Grace Greenwood, E. 2. Hale, Alice
Cary, Mrs. E. d. E. N. Southworth and
John Pierpont. 1t was in 81 that Bailey
first published Mrs. Stoves Uncle Tom s
Cabin" Naturally while it would not be
just to claim all these people Wash
ingtonians. many were and others came
from their New England homes for at
least brief periods to affect the social and
educational life Of the capital. Dr. Hale
today, chaplain of the Senate in his
dotes of what he found in Washington In
his early twenties
A special quality of the atmosphere
writers make for Wac hinston ID it's scien-
titic tang. 1t has the stimulating vigor OF
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students enroll themselves on the pages
of local literary indices. but no group Is
more interesting than the women. No doubt
Mrs Burnett occupies the most conspicu-
Gus place in public attention. but there
are almost inexhaustable lists of women
who have done exceptional work in history.
sociology, fiction and poetry. One does not
need to recall Mrs. Southworth. Grace
Greenwood, Mrs. Sarah A. Soul, Kate
Foote. Mrs. Anna Hanson Dorsey. There
are today a host of women here who are
doing work eagerly sought by publishers
There is for instance. Mrs Juliet Schayer.
Ella Lorraine Dorsey. Alice Fletcher.
Mary Inlay Taylor, Molly Elliot Seawe!l.
Mrs Gould Lincoln, Mrs. J. H. James. who
was Alice Archer SewaH the daughter of
DIR Sewall who is a.so an author of note
n has not been long since Helen Hay
Whitney was among the set OF younger
women who are rising to prominence lot
their delicate verses and fine TRANSACTIONS,
Miss Arms, Miss Thurston. MISS Wilson,
Mrs Drummond and others.
In fact there are many women who,
like Mrs Senator Hansbrough, divide their
social interests with attention to letters
that there is no gathering in Washington
society which has not its note of literature.
The day was when Boston was the seat of
the muses. In this practical age the divine
nine are said to have taken up their abode
in New York in order to be near the pub
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Capital city foreign countries have from
time TO time sent their strongest diplomats
who have been famed In letters as in
courts.
1t was long the American habit to send
abroad as It's ministers men who had gained
fame In letters, and these men, like the
late Secretary John Hay, brought recogni-
ton to both American diplomacy and litera-
ture.
In like manner Europe has found many
OF its most skillful plenipotentiaries among
the students of bellies lettres Today the
French ambassador Is without equal even
in this country in a scholarly appreciation
OF the critical development Of English lit
erature. NJ. Jusserand has produced .
series of mastery appreciations of various
periods of English literary history that
place him among its most authoritative
interpreters.
II one but considers the number of men
in political or diplomatic life here In Wash
ington at the present time 1t can be easily
recognized that the after-dinner CONVERSE
ton of the men during the winter need
by no means depend Tor vitality on the ~di-
rect reasons for their presence in the city.
The President might lead on with de-
nunciation of animal psychologists but
with Maurice Francis Egan, late of the
Catholic University and now at the court
of Denmark, he could discuss Irish sagas
with some authority. NJ Jusserand could
accurately detail the influence of the sagas
on early fourteenth century literature. and
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- INCE the days when Samuel Harr-
son Smith started the National In
teligencer in the fall of 1900 or
~ possibly one should say since the
DAYS, as early as the spring of 1896
when Benjamin More was editing the Ga
xette up To the present Washington has not
been without newspaper enterprise; and
recording not merely the news OF the day.
in It's all-embracing national political i'm
portance the papers reflected In no small
degree the early literary interests of the
city.
The peculiar characteristic of Washing
ton has always been the breadth of It's
literary interests. Administrations have
varied greatly IN character some Presl-
dents, like Washington. Jefferson and
Roosevelt, being consciously craftsmen
In letters others writers of dignifed Eng
lish. such as Lincoln's and Grants, rather
by nature than art; but at all times there
have been elements in the city's life which
have been STEPPED in the aroma OF books
II has not been merely that Congress has
from time to time produced men whose
forensic oratory has been stamped with
tho seal OF literature or whose legal acumen
has produced monuments OF law. Clay.
Webster, Calhoun, Chase and others
here pronounced great periods which the
fully nurtured zeal. AS the youth grows
he will learn a more real admiratioa- OF
the great utterances which have given the
country from Washington a proud volume
~ political literature. But here In the
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Tragedy Of Being Lowly Born.

From the Outing Magazine.
Nine-tenths Of mans felicity depends
upon being wel-born; in London a bit more
than nine-tenths. In the upper classes Is
per cent of the children die before reaching
the age OF five years but In the lower
classes-say Of St.-George s-in-the- East-the
average death rate is twenty-nine years OF
age. So by the mere fact OF being born out
of the nobility and gentry the Londoner Is
stripped of twenty seven years OF the life
that might have been his. oh. OF other
things. too. he is shorn. His short life is
bare of comfort or delight. Nor can he
take pride IN tit Is at once. too dirty and
too sad: all by that chance OF birth too far
eastward Pain and hunger and helotry-
the empty belly and the overburdened back
are his heritage. He and his woman
pair of lean, warped animals-snk together
through the grayness Of life, u, IT the iron
laws. And in blows and oaths they find a
certain JOY in gin-whch is white water
and runs helishly hot down the throat and
smokes in the brain; find. too. in the pewter
pot of heavy-wet certain sleep which Is
better than waking: go thus through life
till the iron law of averages knocks them
on the head al twenty-nine.
An inexorble law decreeing that one OF
every four Londoners shall die In work
house. hospital, jail or lunatic asylum-One
out of four.
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for long time a guiding and stimulating
force.
In its own quiet way, however, probably
no other organization has cemented the
friendships of Washington writers to q.
greater degree than The Literary" There
are few who have written who as members
or as guests have not enjoyed the discus
sions where President Garfield used to be
heard and where Dr. Harris, formerly COM
missioner of education; DR.. Gallaudet of
Kendall Green, Ainsworth Spoford, John
Hay and his co-worker, Nico .ay. Alice
Fletcher. Richard Hovey and dozens of
others expressed themselves independently
and significantly.
Washington with it's various clubs and
societies has public life which brings into
association many types and personalities,
but there has always been also an exclu-
sive and purely social phase of its life
which has had character not to be found
in any other American city. The attrac-
tons of the place have been such that
there has always been lure here for liter
airy birds of passage. Tom Moore once
said some uncomplimentary things about
Tiber or Goose creek but others have
found the city charming for lone admin
istration,' If not longer. Mrs. Frances
Little Lord Fauntleroy' was Wash
ington boy. Richard Hovey, Bliss Car
man, Walt Whitman, Charles Roberts.
James Lane Allen, Edna Proctor Clarke and
George Kennon are identified with the town,
and Thomas Nelson Page, Maurice Egan,
Mrs. Van Rensselaer, Kruger. Sara King
Wiley now belong to the city.
At all times the constant ebb and flow
in Washington life have given zest to its
social life, but there have been salons in
the city which the ambitious today would
give much to duplicate. There is the circle
of the Washington Academy of Science,
and there is the group of earnest men that
gather about Alexander Graham Bell; the
National Art Society has its literary affil-
iations but 1t is difficult to point out to-
day houses where culture and letters lend
grace to social functions as in the days
of Mrs. Madeline Vinton Dahlgren.
Perhaps the most interesting fact of
Washington literary life is the stimulus Il
offers the women. Politicians, statesmen,
presidents and members of their cabinets,
foreign ambassadors, scientists and educa-
tors historians and c!ergymen, lawyers and
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research. The influence of the Smithsonian.
the National Museum. the bureaus OF
ethnology, education, standards and others
has brought together body Of seekers
after truth that not to be eXcelled in
any old world capital. When out Of their
laboratories the greater number of these
men are to be found at the Cosmos Club,
and the proof that their scientific interests
have not made them insensate to the
beauty Of pure letters is the fact that no
local organization has given a greater
stimulus to architecture. sculpture, painting
and national art in general.
Among the scientific writers are Bache,
Henry, Baird, Hassler Maury, Schoolcraft,
Gilliss, Peirce Fremont, Nicollet. Hayden,
PumpeEy, King, Powell, Hilgard. Dutton,
,Newcomb. Billings, Mallery, Riley. Langley,
Goode. Newcom, Call, Gill. Raymond Gree
ly. Bell, Gannett, Walker, MCGEE, Holden.
Harris, Ward, Coues, Humphreys, Wright,
Wheeler, Walcott, Day, Wilson. Mason,
Ridgway Able, Emmons, Hague, Hail. Va
sey, Thomas, Blake, Otis, Howard, Clarke,
Sternberg. Taylor, Nourse, Rhees. Wood
ward, Dali, Mooney, Homes, Gushing. Ter
rel, Merriam, Merrill. North. Cross. True,
Wines, Bigelow, Willis, Becker. Hodge.
Hyde, Wiley and host Of others.
Naturally in city so completely national.
the adopted home of the leading statesman
Of the country and the site Of so many
critical events there is a constant interest
here for historical students. The old Ban
croft house was long a center for the as
sembling of men determined to get down
to the impartial truth of American affairs.
Perhaps Ainsworth Spofford of the Con-
gressional Library could tell better than
any other man. as he was a lifelong
friend of Bancroft the story Of the gather
ings at the home of the great historian.
Elizabeth Bryant Johnson, more than any
other woman, has contributed to the con-
stantly growing mass Of historical infor-
nation which this city supplies. Her study
of the life of George Washington became
in a way the controlling devotion of her
life, and her monumental volume on the
portraits of the first President and her in
teresting book, George Washington From
Day to Day" entities her to high place in
the halls of the city's famous ones In the
Columbia Historical Society and the Daugh-
tiers of the American Revolution she was
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fishers. but the question may very properly
be asked whether Washington is not the
new literary Athens of the nation.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1907-04-05

the exhibit at jamestown will
ship from Montpelier and Rut.
land the quarry products, which
have been gathered from all parts
of the state and which represent
practically every kind of granite,
slate and marble quarried in Yer
mont. This exhibit fills freight
car. 1t was sent by rail and will
be at Norfolk by April ). Prof.
G. Fl. Perkins of Burlington,
state geologist, will go to Norfolk
today to remain a week or more
and superintend getting this ex-
hibit into shape. In the historical
arts building will be placed one
of Vermont's exhibits which the
commission decided to forward
at an early Sate. This will con-
sist of rare and valuable manu-
scripts, photographs and oil
paintings which have been col
lected by the authorities of the
university of Vermont and Nor
witch university and old colonial
furniture contributed by individ-
uals. In this collection will be
included the first printing press
ever used north of Mexico, which
has for many years been in the
rooms of the Vermont Historical
society. The glass case in which
this press has been kept will also
be shipped. The commission has
1 800 square feet of space in the
states exhibit place. Here it
was decided to exhibit the agri-
cultural products and agricul-
tural machinery of Vermont and
in the fall to include a hOrticul-
tural exhibit of apples, pears,
plums and other fruits. In this
will be included finished
specimens of every kind of wood
grown in Vermont and 200 spec
linens of Vermont fora prepared
by Prof. L. r. Jones of Burling-
ton. The work of constructing
the Vermont building is well I'M
Ter way and the contract calls
for its completion on or before
April 81.
Full details are now available
n regard to the proposed dam
across the Connecticut river, six
niles south of BrattleborO, the
construction of which was as
,ured by the passage of an act
the charter of the Con
lecticut River Power Co., by the |
New Hampshire legislature. The
lam will be constructed of crush
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We DO JOB PRINTING.
UNION VILLAGE.

George Johnson has cut his hand
quite badly on a saw.
Homer Martin was in White
River Junction one day recently.
Breton Clarke of Boston has been
spending few days at home.
Rush Newcomb and wife of
Salt Lake City are with Mrs. New
comb.
Miss Cynthia Waterman is in
Lyme helping care for the sick.
Will Waterman spent few days
in Manchester last week.
M. S. Pierce and family were at
White River junction Thursday
night to attend a play.
W. G. BALKAN of Norwich is
pressing hay in this vicinity.
Mrs. Arthur jerks of Connecticut
recently visited Mrs. NJ. jerks.
The Ladies' Benevolent Society
will hold a social at NJ. S. Pierce's
Saturday evening.
Charlie Sawyer is gaining and the
nurse went away Monday.
George Chase has moved to Mrs.
j. E. Waterman's farm.
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1t was nine years ago that AID
miral Dewey was the nations
idol for a few months. During
that time the American people
presented him a home on Rhode
Island in Washington, which he
accepted. This home was the
cause of the first dulling of the
keen edge of our hero worship,
for he had the poor taste to deed
it to his wife on their wedding
day. Now this home will have a
similar effect upon the remnant
of an hero worship left, since they
move out of it and go to live in
his wife's home as they prefer the
location, and lease the gift house
to other parties. To be entirely
fair, we are ready to admit that
the post of hero is not an easy
one to fill, but we must also say
that this Vermonter has not come
up to the mark set by other occu-
pants from our own state of the
same exalted position.
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RULES ONE SHOULD FOL-
LOW NOWADAYS.

After the repeated shocks which
have been dealt to the nerves OF
the public at large, the following
few simple hygienic memoranda
for the public and domestic guild
ance.
ON RISING IN THE MORNING.
Rule first. Don't wash or take
a bath unless you are sure the
water has been properly dis
TILED; treated with barium chic
ride and permanganate of potas-
SUM, and redistilled over X. II.
S. o.. to fix any ammonia. If
the housekeeper does not possess
this elementary chemical knowl-
edge, decline to wash at all, and
take an air-bath.
Second. Use a new tooth
brush, or else have a fresh set of
false teeth each day-whichever
you think less dangerous.
Third. Do your hair with your
fingers; brushes and combs are
deadly bacillus traps.
Fourth. Keep your soap,
sponge, and shaving material I'M
der an air-pump, to choke off the
microbes.
Fifth. If impossible to follow
above rules stay in bed.
AT THE BREAKFAST-TABLE
Rule first. Don't read the morn
ing paper or open letters until
they have been baked, saturated
with a disinfectant, and put
through the mangle. The postal
officials are most careless with
mail.
Second. All bills should be
promptly sent into unlimited
quarantine.
Third. Refrain from eating
any bacon, fish, kidneys, etc,
over which an inquest has not
been sat upon by a cOroner's jury.
Fourth. Keep your mouth
closed throughout the meal.
ON GOING TO BUSINESS
Rule first. Refuse all change
that may be offered you by street
car conductors, etc. If you do
not care to lose such sums, insist
on having newly minted coins
handed you, wrapped up in ster-
ilized cotton.
Second. If you are compelled
to 90 to a refreshment-stand,
take your own filter, glassware,
and crOckery with you, also as
sorted repartees to any comments
made by the barkeeper.
Third. Stay, if possible, at
home.-Harper's Weekly.
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Connecticut River Farm
FOR SALE.

The farm belonging to the Estate
of Milo R. Jenkins is hereby offered
for sale.
This farm is pleasantly located on
the Main road midway between the
villages of Bradford and Fairlee, and
consists of about $50 acres. One
third of this is excellent tillage land
under a good state of cultivation;
the balance pasturage, woodland and
growing timber.
Parties wishing to buy can learn
further particulars by addressing
H. M. JENKINS, Admir-, 90 Robin
ST., Providence, R. 1.
Feb. l, 1907. 1Stf
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1907-04-05

Every one who visits the Canal
zone is pleased with the progress
on the ditch. Congressman Eos
ter has just returned from a trip
down there, and he is enthusiasts
tic. Sanitary conditions meet
his approval as everything known
to this science is being done to
protect the lives of those engaged
in the work. Hospitals are finely
equipped, homes are well built,
amusements are provided for and
there are Y. NJ. G. A. buildings.
He found Chief Engineer Stevens
the most popular man in the zone
and they were sorry to lose him,
but Mr.. Stevens's health is on the
point of breaking as he has con-
fined himself so closely to the
work in hand. We are building the
canal, and it is an undertaking
which has wrecked many for
tunes and regulations before we
took hold of it, but it now looks
as if we might be able to COM
plete the task with honor.
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ed stone and cement and will be
located at what is known as
Cooper's point between Vernon
and Hinsdale, N. FL. A bend il
the river at that point makes 6
neck of land, and it has been de
cided to cut a canal across the
neck of the land and to construct
the dam at the Vernon end of the
canal and an electric power sta
ton at the Hinsdale end. In
this way considerable extra fall
will be gained, making a total
fall of 26 feet. The site has sew.
eral advantages over the site for
merly selected directly opposite
BrattleborO, not the least of
which is that the foundation is
of solid rock, whereas at the form
er proposed site borings were
made to a depth of over 80 feet
without striking rock. The dam
will have a roll-way of 800 feet.
Careful estimates fix the amount
of power which the 26-foot fall
will develop at 5000 horse power
continuously and 10000 horse
power for ten hours a day. The
water was set back as far as the
suspension bridge two miles north
of BrattlebOrO village, and it will
flow many farms on both sides
of the river besides twenty-five
acres of the BrattlebOrO retreat
meadow. Most of the land which
will be flowed has been acquired,
but in three or four instances
condemnation proceedings have
been begun. The expenditure on
the dam, power plant, and equip
ment will aggregate $1,OOO,OOO.
The money will be furnished
largely by New York capitalists
represented by NJ. G. Chase, of
Providence, r. l., and Henry l..
Hartman, of Hyde Park, Mass,
both of whom are financially in
terested. The charter is held by
the Connecticut River Power Co.,
and under the terms by which
outside capital will build the dam
a certain amount of power will be
held in reserve for a specified
time for the needs of BrattlebOrO,
Vernon, and Hinsdale, N. H., and
all the power possible will be dis
posed of in those towns.
The April issue of The Ladies |
World is a particularly attrac-
tive number, full of interest from
the title page, where the beauti-
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1907-04-05

full Easter verses, "The Garden
err" written by Edith Livingston
Smith, are charmingly illustrated
by Louis f. Berneker, to the final
pages, which are devoted to Talks
on dressmaking and Fashions and
their accompanying illustrations.
Two brilliant stories, one by
Anne Warner, the other by
Charles G. D. Roberts, are CAPT
tally illustrated by George T.
TObin and Frank Verbeck. I'm
der the title, "The War on the
Birds" w. G. FITZGERALD pre-
sents many interesting facts re-
garding Fashions responsibility
for the slaughter of the birds;
the illustrations are from photo
graphs. The fourth installment
of the "StOries From the Operas"
series is devoted to Tannhauser.
Florence Morse Kingsley's de-
lightfuI story, "The Princess and
the Plowman," nears it's conclu-
sion and the interest in her orr
ginal heroine grows deeper. The
small folk will be entertained by
the story, GLOW Brownies Paint
the Easter Eggs" Practical talks
are given on Spring Millinery
and its kindred subject, Becom-
ing Hairdressing, and the House
hold and Needlework depart
ments, the "Observances of So
ciety" and "Good Looks" columns
are full of interesting and valu-
able information. New York:
Fifty cents a year,
VIZ No Ton Dp1Nrrr1Nr
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No Chance Games In Montana

Helena, Mont, April 2.-The Griffin
gambling law, which prohibits all games
of chance. went into effect yesterday
and for the first time since 1865 faro.
roulette, poker, dice, card games of all
kinds and even slot machines are for
hidden in Montana
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Says Canal Cost win Be Heavy

Washington, April 2.-Ra presenta-
tive Mccall of Massachusetts. who has
just returned from Panama, says the
canal will cost much more than was at
first estimated. He further says that he
witnessed prodigious display of Amer
lean enterprise on the isthmus.
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Madam Emma Games, who in
private life is the wife of Julian
Story, the artist, was one of the
few actresses credited with a hap
by domestic life. Yet this fallacy
is now exposed to view, for she
is suing for a divorce on the
same old grounds.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1907-04-05

The English speaking prelates
have asked the Pope that they be
given a more adequate represen-
tation in the College of Cardi-
nails. They have right and justice
on their side, looking at it from
this distance. The English speak
ing Catholics far outnumber the
European Catholics, they have
intellect and their money bears
a large part in the support of the
Holy Catholic church. Is it any
wonder that they are beginning
to chafe under the rulings of an
italian College, most of whom
have never seen America if they
have England and almost none
of colonies. The Catholic church
has certainly outgrown the con-
fine of Rome in government as it
has in territory.