Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1893-01-06

James Parton wrote so many books
which come home directly to all Americans,
that one of the most interesting features in
the January magazines to most readers will
be the Rev. Julius II. Wards fine study of
his work and character in the January New
England Magazine. Mr.. Ward is a man of
letters who has been fortunate in his liter
airy friendships, and he has a memory as
excellent as his style. AS literary editor
of the Boston Herald, Mr.. Wards intima-
cies include the best men of all creeds and
professions, from Phillips Brooks to Par
ton, his intellectual pole. This number of
the New England Magazine presents a wide
variety in its table of contents, which will
appeal to an widening circle of readers.
Deaf and dumb asylums, according to
DR.. a. NJ. Tanning, are filled with persons
who in early childhood completely lost their
hearing, and consequently their ability to
talk, through neglect of their ears during
an attack OF measles, scarlet fever or diph-
liberia. The great majority of all forms of
deafness result from affections of the nose
and throat, and many cases reach an adj
vanced stage before being noticed Among
long residents in the vicinity of New York
it is a rarity 10 find a perfectly healthy nose
and threat, and in a recent experiment in
a large eye and ear hospital not more than
five out of % patients were found to have
perfect hearing. Care was taken to select
only those who had never suffered from any
defect of hearing, yet four tifths of these
patients were partially deaf without sus-
pecting 1t.
Mr.. Howells, the novelist, is summer
resident of New Hampshire, and therefore
int 4 in In
the forests of that state as any one can be.
Yet he does not overlook the fact that
those who are appealing to the owners of
those forests not to harm them may be
asking a greater individual sacrifice than
can be expected. In view of that he
writes the secretary of the New Hamp-
shire Forestry commission: 1.-THE state
must buy your woodlands and hold them
forever. 1t is neither reason nor Justice
to expect their preservation from the pr-
vate owner. He must get the most he
can for his timber, and if the state will
not buy his trees and keep them standing
in the interest of beauty, health and pros
perity, then the owner must cut them
| down." This is point to be considered
by those who are blaming forest owners
for the depredations of the past.
one OF the most prollta0le and least de-
serving forms of beggary in this city, says
the New York Sun, is that piled by those
miserable looking creatures that crouch on
the corners of fashionable and busy thor
oughfares playing cheap and wheezy mu-
steal instruments. They muster strongest
in cold weather, and at all times they seem
to respect one anOther's territory. Some
of them have died worth thousands of dol
I l.. Ill
shopping hours and in the holiday season,
when thousands of country folk, to whom
the theatrical misery of these mendicants
is unfamiliar, drop pennies, dimes, and
even larger coins into the waiting cup.
When death or voluntary retirement takes
one of these beggars from profitable ter.
ritory the vacancy is at once filled by an
other forlorn object. Any observant per
son may detect beneath the rags of many
professional beggars evidence of abundant
warm clothing.