Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1881-11-10
DOING AMERICA.
The New Favorite Pleasure Tour of
Cultured Engiishmen.
London telegraph.

SuttuTeO CnSiiSnH1en.
London Telegraph.
Once confined to men of business
like American" Henry, of Manches-
ter, the trip over the "Atlantic ferry
has of late years become one of the
favorite pleasure tours of Englishmen.
1t is said of a poetical peer that he
once excused himself for not going to
the United States by the plea that if he
once got there he should never be able
to get away. Perhaps all Englishmen
are not quite SO enthusiastic on the
subject of American institutions as
the venerable nobleman alluded to-.
and mayhap are more curious than ap-
preciative; but whatever the cause may
be, the result is patent that year by
year more of our countrymen turn
westward when the session of parlia-
ment is over, and they have couple
of months at least at their disposal.
Americans who once complained that
the affairs of their country occupied
scant space in the newspapers of
Europe, and that nearly all the Europe
ans who came to the great republic of
the west, did so because they were
"played out" in their own country,
have now at least one grievance less.
Not only are the United States largely
visited every year by Englishmen, but
by class of our countrymen eminent
ly fitted to comprehend and appreciate
the character of the new institutions
growing up on the other side of the
Atlantic. Among the number of in
tending passengers to America, who so
crowded Liverpool last Friday night
that the principal hotels were filled to
the roof, were many Englishmen of
rank, fame, and reputation in the
world of politics, religion and culture.
Year by year the eyes of Europe are
turned with increasing interest toward
America. Little thought is taken of
the wheat fields of the Ukraine now
that Minnesota and other grain grow
ing regions of the far west exercise a
powerful influence upon English prices.
Instead of looking narrowly at local
supplies, the farmer looks anxiously
toward America and endeavors to an
ticipate the result of her-we have al
most written dreaded-harvest. New
granaries are opening in the north
west, far beyond Manitoba and Lake
Winnipeg, in the great valley of the
Saskatchewan. Now that it is an af.
fair of only eight or nine days to cross
the ocean, ambitious lawyers, and
popular clergymen, as well as mighty
hunters and hard dheaded men of bust
ness, think it but a small matter tC
cross the sea, push into the regions of
the far west, and see for themselves
whether the marvels told of its fruit.
fulness be true. In such a trip there is
not, perhaps, to the elegant scholar OF
the old school, the delight to be found
dallying among the ruins of antique
Rome, or in studying the marvels OF
the renaissance in. Florence, Genoa, OF
Venice. The new world displays an.
other class of phenomena, the impact
of civilization upon the wilderness, the
advice of the genuine colonist in the
rear of that grim skirmisher, the "bor
der ruffian," the putting OF the steam
engine, and the scream of the railway
whistle amid the forest primeval.
No more favorable poriod could be
selected for travel in America thar
the season called there "the fall
Bountiful nature has poured forth hel
abundance of fruit and grain, the
woods are dressed in their gala livery
of bright and startling colors, and the
"ine fall weather" is as deliciously re
freshing as that of Alpine valley OF
Scottish moorland. When the more
keen or purposeful observer turns
aside from these to the study of the
people themselves he will require fal
more than the space of a long vacation
to do them justice. He will find il
the Dominion of Canada, among {
strenuous race of Scotch and English
emigrants, the old French hGbitdns, q
survival of France before the revolu
tion, with old customs and language
and even the Gallican church as it wa!
before ultramontanism became domi
nant. In the cities of New England III
will encounter a highly-cultured anC
critical society, partly educated il
Europe, and by its luxury encoura gins
the great body of the people to study
the gospel of getting o." In New
York, again, he will see city purel,
cosmopolitan, in which are an old aris
tOcracy composed of the descendants O.
Dutch settlers, a new aristocracy O
people Of every state in the Union
and not few Irish and Scotch;
Jewish section, with its magnifcen
club and society of its own, German
population preserving its own Language
and customs, and the great ebbing ant
fowins tide of transient America. Il
the basin of the Mississippi he vii
meet the western man-quite a note
worthy parsonage and the dominan
factor in American politics-and il
the south he may contemplate tn
spectacle of a nation of slaves strug
Cling to achieve real as well as tech
nical equality with their former mas
} tiers. All these subjects and man
} more will present themselves to tn
social and political student who, if b
have leisure, may acquire curious side
lights on the management of popula
. politics, and will learn in time to di:
tinguisb between the true and false i!
sues of party contests. 1t is necessary
however, to guard against hasty COZ
clusions and clumsy generalization
and to recollect that not much wisdor
can come of doing eight and tbirt
states in thirty days.
; The Frog Swallowed the Snake.
Toronto Globe.
While passing a pond near his bar
recently, a Malahide man says he sa'
commotion in the water, and on Close
observation discovered snake and fro
| in mortal combat each nna fruinn