The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1909-03-19

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: as he begins to do things. The New
= York Sun has greeted him with al
: effusion, but it so greeted his prede
cessor. We know how we'll tn,
Sun liked Col. Roosevelt at the enc
. of his term. Will history repeat
itself with this administration?
The German newspaper and the
. New York Sun seem to differ in
their estimate of Roosevelt. All Of
which brings to mind the familiar
quotation which heads the Elk
change column of the st. Adams
Messenger.
at is sometimes pleasant enough
to consider the different notions
which different persons have of
the same thing. Addison
A Savannah paper makes the sug-
gestion that the way to eliminate
Mr.. Bryan from the next campaign
is for the South to drop him. The
north and west dropped him long
ago, and should the South discard
him there wouldn't be any ere
mains" for a political funeral.
But the South has been true, oh,
so true, that it will hardly prove
faithless at this late day.
At last we are having music
taught in our schools. Under the
present arrangements it is an extra,
supported by the scholars. 1t
should be a part of the regular
curriculum and provided for the
same as other subjects. We are
fortunate that we have a teacher,
fitted by special study, for this i'm
portant work.
How the salary-grab echoes and
re-echoes down the aisles of time
The Bellows Falls Times says:
g" Representative Brown of Ludlow
has turned his portion of the salary
grab, $92, over to the Ludlow
band. Is this an instance of an
accusing conscience, or a bid for a
reelection" or is it simply sue
cumbing to the pressure of public
opinion.
A first edition of Poe's Gal
Aaraaf" has Just brought $1,000
There is a something in every man
that makes him want his work to
live after him, but he likes to ga
his pay for it himself. Poe fey
he was lucky indeed if he got 4
forty-eighth part of the price paid |
for one of the first edition for the |
original manuscript.
New Hampshire has up for con-
sideration the expenditure of a
million dollars for permanent roads.
At a recent hearing not one voice
was raised against the measure.
New Hampshire appreciates that
good roads and summer tourists
go together. She knows she gets
her millions out of her visitors to
defray the expense.
Speaker Thomas G.. Cheney has
been approached to see how he
would like to be the next candidate
for governor, Remembering the
story of the early bird, he, probably,
thinks of that luckless early worm,
and, not caring to be the same early /
worm, he just smiled and said he
hadn't decided the question. It's
too early, anyway.
DR. Walter c. klotz, the new
head of the Pittsford Sanitarium
for tuberculosis, seems to be a man
of eminent ability to fill this inn
portant position. 1t is a great work
and may well enlist the hearts and
hands of the most skillful physi-
clans.
The young man, who has been
in the habit of jumping on and off
trains came to the usual
end, the other day. And the
obituary notices of these Late"
smart alexis do not deter the next
one from taking the same chances.
Some people get their rewards
here below. Editor Whitehill of
the Waterbury Record who has
doomed his home town early and
late is now the mayor" of that
nustling village. He'll make a good
one.
The Vermont is now home and
settled in the Charlestown nave
Yards, where she is getting put ty
rights after her trip of 2,303 mileso
After such a trip as that, it is no.
wonder that she needs a little look
ny after.
Matrimonial and political ven
lures in the Bryan family late years
nave not proved successful The
divorce Of Mrs. Ruth Bryan Lea
witt from her artist husband has
been granted.
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