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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1893-12-29
Something which the japanese Cannot
Understand.

There are few of our society novels that
japanese student can really comprehend
and the reason is, simply, that English
society is something of which he is quite
unable to form a correct idea. Indeed, not
only English society, in special sense,
but even Western life, in general sense,
is a mystery to him. Any social system of
which filial piety is not the moral cement /;
any social system in which children leave
their parents in order to establish families
of their own; any social system in which
it is considered not only natural, but right,
to love wife and child more than the au-
thors of ones being: any social system in
which marriage can be decided independ-
emily of the will of parents, by the mutual
inclination of the young people themselves
any social system in which the mother-in-
law is not entitled to the obedient service
of the daughter-in-law, appears to him of
necessity a state of life scarcely better than
that of the birds of the air and the beasts
of the field, or at best moral chaos. And
all this existence, as reflected in our popu-
lar fiction, presents him with provoking
enigmas Our ideas about love and our
soicitude about marriage furnish some of
these enigmas. TO the young japanese,
marriage appears a simple. natural duty,
for the due performance Of which his par
ents will make all necessary arrangements
at the proper time. That foreigners should
have so much trouble about getting mar
ried is pulling enough to him; but that
distinguished authors should write novels
and poems about such matters, and that
those novels and poems should be vastly
admired, puzzles him infinitely more,-
seems to him every, very strange
My young questioner said strange for
politeness sake, His real thought would
have been more accurately rendered by the
word ''indccent." But when ! say that to
the japanese mind our typical novel ap-
pears indecent, highly indecent. the idea
thereby suggested to my English readers
will probably be misleading The Japan
ese ale not morbidly prudsh. our society
novels do not strike them as indecent be
cause the theme is love. The japanese
have a great deal of literature about love
No: our novels seem to them indecent for
somewhat the same reason that the Script
IRE text, For this cause shall man leave
his father and mother, and shall clcave
unto his wife, appears TO them one of the
most immoral sentences ever written.
L0fc0djo H'0ru ga the Drccmbcr Afi1utir.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1893-12-29

What is the most popular novel among
American readers? \ poll of all the prn-
cipal Libraries in the United States which
appears in the December Forum, shows
that David Coppertield" leads in popu-
larity every work Of fiction. The nine
most popular novels, in the order of their
popularity, are as follows: David Cop
pertield," "Ivanhoe," The Scarlet Let
ter "Uncle Toms Cabin" "Ben- Hur, "
adam Bede,' VANITY Fair" Jane
Eyre, 1.-THE Last Days of Pompeii." This
is complete refutaton Of the notion some
times expressed, that Dickens, and Scott,
and Thackeray have lost their hold. Our
own greatest novelist, Nathaniel Haw-
thorne, comes high up in the list, and
"Uncle Toms Cabin appears likely to
hold its own for all time.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1893-12-29

by the boiling torrent. Some OF them
plunged in to get to the other side, but the
moment the water laid hold of them their
heels were whirled into the air and they
disappeared helplessly down the rapids.
Samson was hours going up the noun
tain but only seconds in coming down.
There was one mingled shrek which
made itself heard through the sullen roar
of the snow, then all was silence. The
hemmed-in waters rose high and soon
forced their way through the white barrier.
When the remainder of the regiment
dug out from the debris the bodies of their
comrades they found a fixed look of the
widest terror on every face except one.
Samson himself, without an unbroken bone
in his body, slept as calmly as if he rested
under the blue waters on the coast Of Brit
tany.-RobcH Barr IN the Ncr York
SiWddy sun.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1893-12-29
Genius Appreciated.

Say said the business man to the de-
tective, "some fellow has been running
around through the country representing
himself as a collector of ours. He has
been taking in more money than any two
of the men we have, and | want him col
Jared as quick as you can"
"All right. I'll have him in Jail in less
than a week.
"Great Scott, man! don't want him
put in Jail. want to hire him. "-Mdian-
dpOiS journal.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1893-12-29
Where the Ocean isFour Mne. n.eu

Proceeding westward from the Irish
coast the ocean bed deepens very gradual
ly; for the first go miles the gradient is
but six feet to the mile. In the next &c
miles the fall is over 5000 feet, and so pre-
cipitous is the descent that in many places
depths of 1900 to 1000 fathoms are en-
countered in very close proximity to the
100 fathom line. With the depth of 1900
to 20O0 fathoms the sea bed becomes a
slightly undulating plain 1900 miles wide.
The greatest depth in the Atlantic is 300
miles or so northward of the island of St.
Thomas, where soundings of 1919 faith
oms were obtained, or nearly four miles in
depth.-NdtioHdi MdgdzHe.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1893-12-29
MISCELLANY.



To dress to call to dine. to break
No canon Of the social code,
The little laws that lackeys make
The futile de 'alogue Of mode
How many a soul for these things lives,
With pious passion, grave intent!
While Nature careless. handed gives
The things that are more excellent.
To hug the wealth We cannot use
And lacl; the riches all may gain
O blind and wanting wit to choose,
Who house the chan and burn the grain
Aud still doth life with starry towers
Lure to the bright divine ascent!
Be yours the things ye would, be ours
The things that are more excellent.
TIL grace Of friendship, mind and heart,
Linked with thei fellow heart and mind;
The gains of science, gifts of art;
The sense Of oneness with our kind;
The thirst to know and understand
large and liberal discomfort:
These are the goods in Lies rich hand,
The things that are more excellent.
William Watson.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1893-12-29
The Great Yukon River.

1t is almost impossible, writes Frederick
Funston from Alaska, for one not ac-
quainted with the vast extent of this north
western country to realize the great dis
tances between the outposts Of civilization
and the enormous volume OF these Alaska
rivers. 1t will surprise the average citizen
who reads in his Old dog-eared geography
that the Mississippi is the largest river on
the North American continent, TO learn
that it is actually a babbing brook beside
the mighty Yukon, which, next to the
Amazon and the Nile is the largest river
in the world. The Tanana, river which
very few people in the civilized world ever
heard of, is a solid mile from bank to bank
with a current like the 81. Lawrence at the
rapids. The Koyukuk, another unknown
tributary of the Yukon, is larger than the
Ohio, and the Porcupine is larger than the
Hudson. ! venture the assertion that the
Mississippi below st. Louis. if turned into
the Yukon below the mouth of the Koyu-
kuk, would not raise the stream six inches.
and have been up and down the Missis-
sippi good deal myself.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1893-12-29
DeIicIous but Dangerous

"Isn't that delicious, uncle?" enthusiast
tically cried the young girl; "did you no.
tice that lovely strain?n
EYES," hoarsely muttered the old man,
as he anXiously watched the pianist sway
ing back and forth, "but eff he makes err,
nuther strain like that be burned eff he
don't break his back. "-AtldRtd ConStitu-
fioD
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1893-12-29
Engaged on the spot.

Lady of the house TO servant girl apply
ing for a situation were in the ser
vice of my friend, Baroness X. Why were
you sent away?"
Servant-"Please, ma'am, for listening
at the doors !"
Lady-"Ah! then will take you; only
you must promise to tell me all you heard. 4"
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Sample copy, 10 cents
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BUILDING LorS-

AN now ready TO sell lots of a size 10 sui,
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thesa az o 40 10 rols deep. Shall build GA one of
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Nature.

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aspects of nature in r SOS Itsh l.I Can
ada. ar" promised hy ,s Thomas rad
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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-09-27

z SAMPLE,
ATTORNEY s. COUNSELLOR AT LAW.
Office over First National Bank,
Medicine Lodge, Kans.
VIII practice In the courts OF this and ajoin-
ing counties.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-09-27
RumeLINos From TIE RAILS.


THE COCO miles OF railroads in In
diana are assessed at $3.50, o00, 900.
In seven months of this year 100 per-
sons in Chicago have lost their lives at
railroad crossings. In Brooklyn the
deadly trolley is striving to excel Chi
Cages record.
THE ordinary number of trains leav-
ing Waterloo terminus daily is 700,
with some 100000 passengers. From
no other London terminus do so many
general and heavy trains leave in the
twenty-four hours.
A SURVEY for a new railway which.
when built, viii draw the trade Of
southeastern Mexico and northern
Guatemala to British Honduras or
Belize has been made The road will
open up immense forests of mahogany
and other valuable woods
A RECENT cyclone in Iowa followed
the route of railroad for many miles.
Deliberation on this fact has convinced
"a Keol1ull theorist that it is possible to
conduct all the cyclones out into the
open sections of the country, where
they can do little harm, by having rail
roads convenient for them to travel on.
MAKING a mountain stream run over
and above a railroad track is unique
piece of engineering that the Southern
Pacific railroad is shortly to commence
near Wright's Station, in the Santa
Cruz mountains, in California When
completed it will probably make the
largest artificial cataract in the world.
EVERY railway should have its sur
geon. He is necessity as much as it's
lawyer, its president, or even it's super
intendent. The professions of both
law and medicine are now necessity
for the proper management and con-
duct of a railway The railway sur
geon came, perhaps, last. but he has
come to stay, and no railway of any
Importance can now dispense with this
officer.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-09-27
ANCIENT COINS.


ROMAN colonial coins bore number
of banners corresponding to the num-
Der of the legion whose veterans had
occupied the country
TIE Indians of the Ohio valley made
coins of anthracite coal. These tokens
were always engraved with figures
supposed to Indicate the value.
No REPRESENTATION of the face of
man was ever stamped on a coin until
after the death of Alexander the Great,
who was regarded as divinity.
THE mite mentioned in the Gospel in
connection with the widows contribu-
ton to the treasury was Il Greek cop
per coin weighing eighteen grains.
THE first European coinage was is
sued by Pheidon, king of Argos, who
coined copper and silver. The best
authors place his reign at b. C. 783.
THE piece of money taken by Peter
from the mouth Of the fish in order to
pay the government poll tax was an
imperial slater of silver worth about
twenty-five cents.
THE she'll coins used by the Indians
were manufactured in such enormous
quantities by the Dutch at New York
that the value of the currency was
greatly deprecated.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-09-27
sEv1N sooLDH}a VINES.


HAZLITr's wife cared nothing for his
abilities aud kept him in hot water BY
her temper.
BoswELLs "Uxoriana' IS a collection
of bis wife's sayings to him, which
does no little credit to her abilities as
scold.
Ben JoXsoN's wife went to the inn
after him if he staid too long and
brought him home, tongua-lashing him
all the way.
+ FARQUHAB, the dramatist, thought
he was marrying a rich, talented and
amiable girl and when asked about her
declared that he had got "a scold, who
carried her wealth on her back and
her intellect on her tongue"
JEAc; PAUL RicHTrRs wife was ieal-
Gus and was constantly on the watch
to catch him in some Irritation. She
generally succeeded and when she did
always threatened to leave him. he
told her to go and she never did.
ADDIsoY's wife, the dowager countess
of Warwick, would not allow him to 80
to the inn at all unless he sat by the
window where he was in plain view
of her from her front room. Every
absence from his post had to be &C
counted for
DANTE was married to Gera f3lc
Donati, a woman of stern, imper4ous
temper. He was hectcred and bullied
day and night until his exile, which
was, in this respect, for him FORUM
ate occurrence. He does rot mention
Comma ia any of his writings.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-09-27
QuEeR poINes OF PEoPLE.

THE mobiles of Spain claim the right
of appearing in the presence of the
king with their hats on, to show that
they are not SO much subject to him as
other Spaniards are.
In some parts of Ethiopia men pre-
sent themselves entirely without
clothes before person to whom they
wish to pay especial reverence, in order
to show their humility.
GREEKS, on the loss of d relative, alb
stained from wine and agreeable food,
took off all ornaments, dressed in
coarse, black stuff, shaved the head
and rolled in the Inire or ashes.
THE Dajakese, of Borneo, never bury
dead melaber of their tribe until a
slave can be procured, who is behead-
ed at the intcrnent or cremation. to
attend The deceased in the next world.
PLEDeIye ones health was formerly
done by the Iaan next TO tie drini5er
standing up beside him with drawn
sword, in order that no one should stab
him willie his hands were holding the
cup.
Ar ancient british feasts each guest
had his portion placed before hi1n in
little wicker baslzet. The most Eo1-
ored or noble guest had the biggest
piece, and, taking it in his hands, tore
it to pieces with his teeth.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-09-27

LONDON music halls are more pros
porous than ever. Theaters droop, but
music halls flourish
STREET bands are not permitted in
Germany, unless they accompany pro-
cessions. Ia Vienna the organ grinders
are allowed TO play only between noon
and sunset.
BJoRNsTJERNE BJoRNsoN uses music
for his amusement. but when he wants
real recreation he goes digging in his
garden and fields. The Norwegian
novelist is no j.
THE pianoforte upon which Wagner
received his earliest teaching in
counterpoint and composition from
Theodore Wenilig, of Leipzig, has been
added to the objects in the Wagner
museum in Vienna.
VERDI is writing another opera, and
has invited the italian singer, Emma
Bellincioni, to create the leading role.
Your youth and beauty" said Verdi,
at his first meeting with her, will
compensate for all the faults and fail
ings in the composition of my old age :"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-09-27
COMMERCIAL NOTES.

PARIS fruit dealers color their green
wares to make them appear ripe.
No DAYS OF grace are allowed in Paris
on bills payable ut sight, as is the Gus
tom in this country.
As AN Indication of how the slave
trade survives in africa, it is stated
that last summer caravan of to,C00
canels and 1900 slaves left Timbuetco
for Morocco.
WtTu the ratio of silver TO gold in
creased to 20 to /. 200 silver dollars,
it Is estimated, wonld weigh almost -
pounds, as against.s pounds for LOGO
of the current edift5n.
GERMANY has 81 9,o08 sepositors in
savings banks: T's. nee. Z, scr, goo. 6 eat
Britain, 3,I5o,00o. taly, /. e70, eco; 1us-
tFia, 1850, goo; S. itzsrland, 1,6oo coo;
Sweden and Norse :. i.57o.e0a.
THERB is $685. SIS loaned by Trust,
safe deeasit, rs rance and other
noneyed corPorl. ms, trustees OF es-
tates and private in6ividrals on real
estate in the city New York.
CATTLE shippes FROM Chicago to
Philadelphia have been denied water
during tAe whole trip. On their ar
rival in the Quake city, just before be
ing sold, they are yiyeu all the water
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-09-27
INDUSTRIAL AND sTATIsTlcA.


THE daily consumption Of needles all
over the world is estimated TO be $780,
oO0
STATISTICS show that the Chinese live
longer than the people of any other
nation.
IT has been computed that about
3G,G00,00o babies are born into the
world each year.
SOMETHING like $50. goo square miles
of looking-glass are manufactured an
nually in Europe.
THE total amount of bog land in Ire
land is 2,s30.O00, acres. The average
depth of an Irish bog is twenty-six
feet.
FRANCE was very much disturbed by
strikes last year. An official return
shows that in twelve months there
were close upon SEQ trade disputes,
affecting 100000 worknen.
ONE of the largest wire cables ever
made has been completed by a Liver
pool firm. The rope has a continuous
length of four and a>laalf miles and
weighs over twenty-five hons.
AUSTRALIANS ara great meat eaters
The annual CONSUMPTION of meat in
Australia averages 29e pounds per in
habitant; in Argentina, 1863; in the
United States, $50; in Great Britain,
rs; in France, II; in Germany, Ga; in
Austria, 81; in Russia, 81; in Italy, 80
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-09-27
lN UNCIvlLIZep LANps.

THE practice of using eggs at Easter
is of Hindoo origin, the egg being in
India an emblem OF Immortality.
MARRIAGE in Abyssinta is mere
temporary arrangement. and it appears
that priests aid is rarely called in.
THE heaven of the Eskimos is land
of warm sunshine, with glowing fires
overhung with pots of boiling whales
blubbcr and easeful touches Of fur
scattered here and there.
ACCORDING to the Talmudists, Satan,
whose real name is Sarnmael, or Eblis,
was originally an angel with six wings.
He is also known as the Old Serpent,
the Devil, Beelzebub, the Unclean
Spirit, Leviathan and Asael
AMONG the hill tribes of Burrnah the
four cardinal virtues are: To kill a foe,
to fall in battle, to become priest or
to offer oneself as a sacrifice to the
earth goddess. The sins are: Getting
into debt, bctraying public secrets,
breaking an oath, refusing hospitality
and skulling IN time of war.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-09-27
FIGURES.


HALF a million lives are daily de-
pendent upon the efficiency of iron and
steel wire ropes.
WATCH is said to tick f57, csc, GOO
times in year and the wheels travel
3,55s4 miles per annuIm
THE Croton aqueduct Is forty miles
long, having sixteen tunnels and a col
lecting reservoir of 5000, 600. GOO gal
Ions capacity.
IT has been figured that in the
United States the average life for farm
ers is Ga years; for lawyers, 81; mer-
chants, As; mechanics, Al; seamen, IS;
laborers, A.
THE average weight of 10000 Boston
men was lac pounds; women, 125
pounds. At Cincinnati the average OF
the same number of men was 1874
pounds; of women, 13l.
A CARPET which had been used for
seven years on the floor of the coming
room in the San Francisco mint was
recently burnt TO ashes, and the resi-
due yielded $500 worth Of gold.
AT the crematory at Fresh Pond, l..
J., 1,010 corpses have been burned-650
men, go women, SO boys and 35 girls.
Of these persons so were Germans, 335
native Americans, 81 English, and the
rest from other countries. There are
IS crematorfes in the United States.-
Catholic Review.
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Ins Fasl.


Tx first ship was brerGht fren
Egypt to tirssaee by I1anaSs - 1880 3 c..
The frs dauh le-fleelsea ship was built
by the Tgriaus 785 q. Q.
Tx FIRST Glass bottle in the world
was made 5g the RonaEa abolt. tbe
yer 70 4. y. The first made IN Eng
land appeared about 1865.
TEE FIRST playbill was Issued from
DTury Lane tlleater On april 5, 1868,
and tlse piece represented was the
s'fgupcroua Lieutenant
Tux first wooden clothing made in
England was manufactured about 1880,
though It was not dyed and dressed by
orr cot1tTyIaen until 1861.
THr frst voyage round the world
was naaa in the Vitteria, q ship which.
formed part CT The expedition thGs
sailed uzssier Magellan in i5La-
TIE rIat street parcel IN London Ter
the ago q loot passengers was York
street. laae*ag Isln tae north SIDE OF
- a aaF9 g geTErra street.
Tsf ssaals originated Il 1861.
TIA asr 81 ere penEy being exacted
fer cvcrg sosl that passed through 2
rerta5a snaror II Mort cumberland
1'HE Erst trousers IN tEeir present
shape were Introduced into the British
army IN 1878, ard tolerated as leriti-
mate portion OF evening dress IN 1916.
-