Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, August 4, 1900, Page 6

“WAR IS HELL ‘SAID THE VETERAN GENERAL SHER- MAN, A REAL HERO. Give Us War and the “Strenuous Life” Says the G. 0. P. Leader of 1900—Roose- welt Aftermath—The St, Paul Commer- cial Club a Victim of Misplaced Confi- <dence—Echoes of the National and State €<ampaign—Continued Favorable Out- look—Reform Press Note and Comment @£ the Week. Reform Press Bureau, St. Paul, July 39, 1900. Aftermath of the Roosevelt ‘‘open- img” of the national campaign has but added tothe dismal character of the event, from the standpoint of Repub- tican benefit, proof of which is abun- dant in Republican authority. A sur- prising feature, however, is the discov- ery that, thanks to the Republican con- trol of news sources and news circula- tion, such real character has been but slowly discovered throughout the coun- try, and in many sections is doubtless sot yet known. So much’ was this the fact that even the press buréau of the @ational committee did not have the in- formation, having relied on the daily press, until the same was taken there ‘by National Chairman Senator Jones, -when he returned to Chicago from St. Pani The press bureau chief, Mr. Ab- ‘bot, then sought the facts, and they will be given the country as well as may be, through friendly and truthful pepers. Mr. Abbot learned, after the close concealment of the facts was less rautious, that the St. Paul committes -on transportatioz, which certified the tickets of those from Minnesota and neighboring states, so as to secure them the reduced rates for the grand occa- sion, that actually 256 persons so ai- tended. Also that national league dele- gates who were expected to be the same im number, having the same basis of cepresentation as national party con- *wentions, actually had a convention of 410, including proxies. Mr. Abbot also ‘earned that the St. Paul Commercial tind raised something like $2,500 to make it a local sugcess, and that the tlub figares that it could better have paid men $5 each outright, to attend the Roosevelt affair, for twice as many coulti have been secured for the same money. ba In addition to features mentioned a week ago the bad effect of the Roose- welt speech, asjto the sentiments pro- mulgated, is more and more marked. Yhe ‘strenuous life,’’ “knock-down- ‘and-drag-out”’ and “‘I-kin-lick-you”’ ar- sument and talk, is daily more and more distasteful, tosay nothing of its -andignified and unstatesman-like char- acter. Never before was a supposed udel so quickly smashed as Roosevelt has been in the North Star state. If you don’t believe it wait till he is billed bere again for another ‘‘opener.”’ “The fact that the Roosevelt ‘“‘stren- mous opener” has been followed by the &illing of an anti-imperialist in Min- aeapolis, in a discussion of the ‘Rough | Rider” sort, will have a tendency to set a good many people to thinking. The most prevalent criticism of Roosevelt is that war and the spirit of war surrounds most of his utterances. War, war! Howmany people there are who fail to appreciate what war really ts. The generation that saw a real war does, but too many see only the glit- tex and show, are stirred by the noise and enthusiasm, but know nothing of ‘the horrors and waste of the reality. General Sherman, after four ‘years of sur bloody Civil war, in which he was ane of the most brilliant and conspicu- wus characters—after the hardship and agony that he knew were but memo- gies, and when he was in full glamour of popular adulation—calmly and _ so- ‘erly summed up the whole wretched | ‘business in the one heartrending sen- | fence, ‘War is hell.” ‘Theodore Roosevelt knows nothing of war in its reality. He was present in gne little brush with hostile forces; a gontest which in the experience of Sherman would have been lost sight of esa mere skirmish. He knowsnothing of the awful havoc of real war. In his ehallow-pated way he rides his hobby and flourishes his tin sword withall the wmock-tragic earnestness peculiar to the Darktown fire brigade. And this is the pseudo hero whom the people of @bis country are asked to put on a ped- estal—to fall down before and worship as the ideal of its national life! Shades of Abraham Lincoln pity us! Apropos, what they do say in whis- pers about the ‘Rough Rider’’ record at San Juan is that colored troops are entitled to the credit which the ‘Rough Riders”’ got. They say that there is a fieutenant in the service who com- manded the colored troops, who, when not officially in danger of being over- heard, states that upon his honor when he and his troops reached vhe top of San Juan hill there were just seven of the “Rough Riders’’ there, and Roose- welt was NOT one of the seven. Speaking of the administration, it certainly does seem as if the wily “heathen Chinee’”’ got our American emperor in a tight place when he got hhim to rush in and accept tke same in- -vitation to ‘mediate’ that the China- man had éxtended to the other em- perors. Well, if William cannot medi- ate he can meditate. a And after November he can have as much time for meditation as his great @) prototype at St. Helena. Speaking of the state campaign, Bixby is back from the East, and the political gossips do say that the “‘wad’”’ he brings from Hanna is not as big asa hhogshead. In fact the gossipis that Hanna has only lent him a few thon-, sand ‘‘plunks” which have to be re-- urned before Minnesota gets any more. In very truth Tams gives it out cold|. that the goppite state campaign has got to ran itself. And speaking also of the goppite campaign, they do say that every day is State Printer Whitney's busiest, as the artist depicts. “Might makes right,”’ in the Roose- velt, G. O. P. doctrine, whether it bo in conquering unwilling peoples, as in tbe Philippines, by bloody war, by overturning a state government by hired murderers, as in Kentucky, or by striking a neighbor down to death, in political discussion, by a blow of tho fist, as in the Minneapolis case. “Might makes Right.” Speaking of prosperity, all the great railway companies of the Twin Cities have made greater or less reductions in the forces of their shops—especially tho transcontinental lines, which have laid off thousands of mechanics. It is said that no class of business has suffered more in McKinley ‘‘prosperity”’ than insurance, the shrinkage in all lines being enormous, and especially in the fire companies, big fire losses being always an indication of poor general business. The Insurance Budget of the — Pa as TE ey Ea tiak A TOLERABLY BUSY MAN Twin Cities gives the totals of such losses for the first six months of the year as $103,293,900, as against $65,699,- 750 for 1899. This ‘corresponds with the big losses from commercial failures, recently shown to have been the largest in number and amounts of any six amonths of which there is a record. There have been, including the great St. Paulfire of last week, close to 20 fires in the country in six months, where losses excecded $500,000. Closing the first full fiscal year of the reform: administration of Governor Lind, the Minnesota cash box has a clean balance of $15,000,000! Will some one please call this to ‘the atten- tion of cus good friend Colonel Tom Lowry, who predicted that ‘grass would grow in streets of Minnesota cities’ as well as financial ruin follow the election of Lind! Of course the gentlemen who have had so much to say about never pulling down the fiag, will make it perfectly clear what they would doin the China case. Or, have our brave boys been fighting at Ten Tsin without any flag? The State Republican league is be- hind the uniforming of G. O. P. clubs in tle khaki or Roosevelt suits and hat. Let the goppites have the foreign uni- forms; the military feature is entirely appropriate. Plain old Uncle Sam in- signia and sentiments ar3 good enough for the Democracy. Signs that old soldiers of the Twin Cities will be found in the Liberty party this year are too plain to be mistaken. Itis so allover the country. In the recent Peoples Party-Democratic con- vention of South Dakota, 180 old sol- diers were delegates, and celebrated approval of Bryan and the state action by seizing flags and marching around for minutes, singing the old patriotic songs of the Constitution and the flag, and of their battles for liberty a genera- tion ago. The incident, however, has been very carefully suppressed by the goppite press. Ag 3 The Globe tells stilla new story. on William Henuery Eustis in the cam- paign of two years, that over in Wil- mar, when Eustis was addressing a large audience of farmers, he laid it down strong that it was not the cheat- ing of the farm -rs by the elevator rings, through thé state grain department, that was their trouble, but the trouble was that farmers did not use good judg- ment in marketing the grain. In fact, he said, the matter with them was ‘up here,” pointing to his forehead. Pretty soon this spread around and whena Kandiyohi farmer was asked if he was going to vote for Eastis he simply re- marked that Eustis was all right, ‘‘ex- cept up here,’’ pointing to his forehead. Eustis will soon be out making speeches for Van Sant, and the farmers, remem- bering his remarks two years ago, will not take any move stock in them now. The red, white and blue will every- where be thé Democratic campaign in- signia this year. The goppites are wel- come to a foreign uniform (khaki) and somebody’s old Lat. The red, white and blue cap, and perhaps the red, white and blue umbrella, may be quite generally introduced asthe marching emblem for Bryan and Stevenson. Pouring through the citiesand towns in parades, or under streams of red fire, the solid phalanxes under the national colors will recall the days of the Lin- coln Wideawakes, as well they may. Is the fact that Ilion. M. J. Dowling abruptly refused to act as a secretary of the late Republican league conven- tion due to ‘light’? he has seen on “imperialism?” One might think so to read-the series of letters he is writ- ing of what he saw in the Philippines and of the brave little people struggling there for liberty against American im- perial soldiers. McKinley’s acceptance speech con- sisted of above $,000 words, one-half of which was devoted to the money ques- tion. Toimperialism he devoted 300 words, to protection but 126, while the great Chinese disaster and danger re- ceived but 52 words, and he devoted less than that number to each of the subjects, Hague conference, the late Spanish war, Cuba and ‘plain duty”’ Porto Rico. And how many words do you suppose he devoted to the trust subject? Not a single one. Next May is the time now set when the administration will withdraw the troops from Cuba. The promise in this case is certain of fulfillment, for there will be a man in the White House then who will see that there is no further monkeying with the imperialistic band | wagai G. S.C. ‘i ‘yf by mm UA) Mya () : clan i! a Ue oF ZAR ETg WO urre kU Is State Printer C. C. Whitney, Editor Marshall Messenger, Chief of Goppite Press Bureau, Secretary G. O. P,' State Central Committee, Republican League Treasurer, etc., etc. SIGNIFICANT. SIGNS Anent the Discussion of Min- nesota Railroad Consol- idations. While State Officials Prosecute Newspapers Decide Case in Advance, i Theo N.wP.-St. Paul and Duluth Case—State and National Politics. : The most significant feature in con- rection with the State Railroad and Warehouse Commission's efforts to est the legality of the consolidation of the. Northern Pacific and St. Paul & Duluth railways is the sudden ap- yearance of leading Twin City papers n the role of judge and jury, deciding he case in advance. The articles we so alike in their strenuous advo- zacy of the legality of such consolida- ion and in the treatment of the case *s to warrant the assumption that hey are inspired from the same source. The Minneapolis Times’ article (edi- corial) in that paper of the 18th inst., serves as a fair sample of all ‘the irticles. Without taking up space by’ ‘uoting the editorial verbatim it may ye stated that the chief argument ad- venced—the one unaffected by time or! thanging conditions—is this; that, under the necessity of traversing two sides of a triangle while the St. Pau & Duluth only traverses one side the ‘ormer cannot be regarded as parallel- ng the latter for business purposes and cannot be regarded as a com- oeting line. Now, however plausible this sort of . conclusion may be, when based ipon pure theory, it falls to the zround with a dull thud if it can be shown that two other lines showing as great a disparity in the length of their hauls do agetually engage in sxompetitive busincss between two ~iven voints. Such a case is not far ‘o seek. The distance over the C.. M. & St. P. reilway from St. Paul to Winona is 102 miles. The distance between thesetwo points over the lines of the Northwestern system—via Kasota—is 213 miles, being something more then twice a8 great as that over the Mil- weukee road. These two lines do make exactly the same rates between these two points on all classes of rcors governed by the Western classi- fication and are in active competition and have been so for years. And, yet, the disparity hetween the dis- tances in this case is much greater proportionately than in the case of the Northern Pacific—St. Paul & Du- luth. This ought to effectually dis- pose of the assertion made by the “Times” that the latter two roads are not competing. Should there still remain any doubt as to the fact however the declaration of the inter- state commerce commission to the effect that they are such ought to have some weight. Should the scale still refuse to incline toward the con- clusion that they are competing the fact that the Northern Pacific did have competitive rates in force between the Twin ‘Cities and the head of Lake Superior until after the consolidation had been effected and ‘that it then withdrew them—showing a change in conditions effected by the change of ownership—might be regarded as hav- ing some further tendency to balance up the mere assertion of the “Times.” But if all this evidence does not serve to convince the impartial judge (this is not an attempt to convince the ‘‘Times”) that the two roads are competing lines the statement, in writing, over the signature of the third vice president of the Northern Pacific to the effect that they are such ought to compel the scale to come down against the Times’ assertion. When to this is added the statement in writing by the general counsel of the Northern Pacific solemnly back- ing up the statement of the first named officer and adding ‘the weight of his great ability, eminent learning and high character thcreto the scale ought to stay down where the facts above stated have brought it: N. B.—In order that no mistake be made it might be well to emphasize the fact that “this is not an attempt to convince the Times.” It is ad- mitted without argument et the And All on One State Salary! i | dogmatic, the Northern Pacific railroad being | tangibility which is expected to have “weight” with the Times. G. 0. P. RAILROAD COMMISSIONS. The manner in which the railroad candidates for railroad and ware- house commissicners is received by the people is shown by the follow- ing. Says that tried and true Re- publican paper, the Anoka Union: “HUNDREDS OF REPUBLICANS ALREADY DECLARE THEY WILL NEVER PUT A CROSS OPPOSITE THE NAME OF IRA B. MILLS FOR RAILROAD COMMISSIONER.” Anent which the Fairmont Sen- tinel well says: ’ And yet Mills is a bouquet of gera- niums beside that of Miller tor the same Office. Miller is notoriously a cheap tool of one of the most iniquit- ous railway combinations in the coun- try. He has not the first quali- fication in the world for the office, and his election, together with that of Mills, would completely turn over the grain and warehouse business of the. state to a combine that would make ex-Inspector Clausen’s record glorious by comparison. “Mills and Miller were nominated as a sop ‘to the elevator ring and the railroads. Their names on_ the ticket probably means a_ hundred thousand dollar contribution. to defeat Governor Lind. Whether the people will ratify the corrupt deal remains to be seen.” But not only these two nominees are bitterly criticised, but even Can- didate Staples, the third candidate, and that too by a home neighbor, the Northfield Independent, whose editor, Hon. C. W. Carpenter, formerly re- sided in the Staples bailiwick. As primal objections to Staples, the In- dependent gives, that he is ‘arrogant, egotistical, over-bearing, supremely selfish,” in fact totally lack- ing in qualities for the discharge of he peculiar duties of the position. Staples’ success in his home county, due to ability as a political manipula- tor, the Independent asserts, and that he is now scheming through Twin City Republican papers to secure Democratic endorsement. Accustom- ed to trading off a whole county ticket for himself, he would, says the Inde- pendent, trade off his whcle_ state ticket to elect himself. “On the whole,” says the Inde- pendent, “the Republican candidates for railroad commissioners are three good men to leave at home, and. per- haps Staples is a little the best of the three for that purpose.” DISMAL TEDDY. Sioux Falls Press: At St. Paul this prophet of evil broke out with a ery that if McKin- ley had not been elected it ‘‘would have meant fearful misery, fearful disaster at home,” and ii he is not elected again it would be still worse. What a petty appeal to ignorance! Further on in his oration Teddy said ‘tho election of Bryan would cause “economic and financial chaos,” such as to “reduce the whole country to a condition of fearful and acute distress.” In the same paragraph he predicted that the men Bryan would appoint to cabinet positions world “inevitably bring the country to the brink of ruin.” The most depraved anarchist would not go further in try- ing to arouse the passions of men by empty nothings. And again, in Milwaukee, this dis- mal predictor of dire calamity, re- ferring to the Democratic candidates. said that “if we should put them into power you would see such a chaos of black mistry and distress in this country as a century and a quarter of life has never seen.” Words cannot express the utter contempt in’ which every true and patriotic American ought to hold one who dares go about the country ut- tering these calamitous prophesies without .a shadow of foundation for them or any regard for truth or the interests of the people. + If they are intended to be a prophesy their author is a dangerous agitator; if they are a threat from the class Teddy represents they are criminal. / NORTHWESTERN “GOLD DEMO- CRATS.” The average sentiment of the North- western gold Democrats is well ex- pressed by Mr. Robert B. Blackmore of Fargo, in a letter to the St. Paul Globe. Mr. Blackmore was chairman of the Northwestern delegation to the gold Democratic convention at Indian- apolis in 1896, and he shows the Globe ‘that it has no grounds to stand on, /from any point,of view; that whether the position of the gold Democrats then, of standing for the gold stand- | ara was right or not, has yet to be above facts: are not of that degree of! proven by a test of the financial legis- lation which their votes for McKin-' ley helped to secure.“ They think they did right then, and while the experi- ment is being worked out they can af-~ ford to be magna: s.and take high grounds, and recognize the fact that their old party has assumed, on other vitally important issues, a patriotic ard American attitude which all can approve, the chief of which is that of imperialism and plutocracy which all Republican tendencies favor. Gold Democrats believing in plutocracy and imperialism, if tnere be any, will vote for McKinley, representing the Repub- lican tendencies. Those believing in Democracy will vote for Bryan, who stands for the opposite tendencies. Tendencies are all at this time that men can vote for. , But Mr. Blackmore’s “clincher” on the Globe is this: The gold standard issue which was the paramount one four years ago, is barricaded by legis- Jation, and thus cannot be the para- mount issue now. Hence the Globe’s own words convict it when it says that “no sane man could endanger the paramount issue for a minor one, knowingly and in good faith.” “If that advice is good from you to Mr. Bryan,” says Mr. Blackmore, “then I believe it equally good from the Democratic party to you.” “GET INTO LINE. #YOU CAN NEVER PUT INTO EXECUTION DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPLES BY LEADING A MI- NORITY, OR FOLLOWING A REPUB- LICAN.” ‘Exactly the same line is followed by the Chicago Chrionicle in arguing against nomination of any more tick- ets, addressing and speaking for the gold Democrats. Such gold men, it shows, gave McKinley his majority in 1896, and have been rewarded therefor by higher tariff, the malign policy of foreign conquest and militarism, and government expenses raised to over $700,000,000 annually. Then the Chron- icle says: “There are, but two real candidates for president, William J. Bryan and William McKinley, representing oppo- site opinions in regard to public policy. The paramount issue is imperialism and all which it implies. “Imperialists will vote for McKinley as the striking representative of their belief. Anti-imperialists will vote for William J. Bryan, the representative candidate of the forces that oppose im- perialism. “There is nothing for which gold Democrats can honestly vote on a sep- arate ticket. They are Democrats or they are Republicans. If they are Democrats they will vote for Bryan; if not, they will vote for McKinley. No honest end is gained by confusing the issue. . THE NEW DIXIE. Freemen, hear your country calling; Liberty is strangled, falling; Come away, come away, come away to Bryan! Jefferson’s and Lincoln’s voices Tell the people where their choice is! Come away, come away, come away to Brydn! i Wave no- dollar-breech sebanner Borne by order of Mark Hanna! Come away, come away, come away to Bryan! Spotted o’er with Cuban booty, Tagal loot, and lost “plain duty!” Come away, come away, come away to Bryan! Come. join the people’s army! Hurrah! Hurrah! By Bryan’s side to stand with pride, Americans and freemen! Come away, come away to fight and win with Bryan! Come ‘away, come away to fight and win with Bryan! GOLD MEN FOR BRYAN. The course of W. B. Haldeman, Henri Waterson’s associate in the Louisville Courier-Journal, in publicly withdrawing from the gold Democrats, and declaring for Bryan, is most gra- ifying to Minnesotans, and numerous letters of thanks and congratulations were sent Mr. Haldeman. and espe- cially for his magnificent tribute to Mr. Bryan in which, giving his reasons for his act, he said: “We cannot, we must not encourage a weak and corrupt administration to barter free institutions and civil lib- erty in a combination with the most autocratic, arrogant and selfish power in all Europe. I am compelled, with a sense of what is due to the free American that I love to earnestly and actively support an American whom I ‘| believe loves his country, and whom I believe to be the highest and best type of an American citizen, and thus be- lieving, I shall vote for and support William Jennings Bryan.” Thus Mr. Haldeman stands with Carl Schurtz and others of the anti- imperialists, who were in the gold movement of 1896, and are now for Bryan. Apropos, our advices are that the national imperialist organization will without doubt declare for Bryan at the coming Indianapolis convention? A GREAT CAMPAIGN BOOK. ‘We are more than glad to receive from Hon. A. W. Thomas of the CRi- cago bar, who is by no means unknown to Minnesota readers, evidence of what he. has recently been doing, in a book, “The Philippines and the Pur- pose,” of some 250 pages, which is certainly the most complete and con- vineing publication yet made, show- ing our national policy of conquest and wrong against the Filipinos. It gives all the important official documents contained in “Document 62,” and brings to light many official documents hitherto suppressed by the administra- tion. The administration’s hand in national legislation carrying out its clear purpose of conquest, and destruc- tion of republican independence, is fully disclosed, as well as ‘our truck- ling policy toward England, and able \} legal and constitutional exposition is madesof the Democratic position, and the whole, a grand campaign book, is brought down to the Kansas City con- vention. It states the attitude of our great national leader and the party most clearly. In short, Mr. Thomas gives the country a great work, and his book should be in the hands of every campaigner. It is understood that the first edition has been taken by the National Committee, but an- other will be out at once. Address Hon. A. W. Thomas, Chicago. Pub- lished by the Jeffersonian Democrat es Company, Washington, In Far Northland ‘Tid-Bits ef News for Seandina- viens. NORWEGIAN SALOONS. They Are Unworthy the Name in the Eycs of the Toper. It is probably well Known to all Americans that a liquor store, such as the American saloon or the British tap-room or public house, is unknown in Norway. Liquor is sold, of course, and in quite respectable quantities, but the Norwegian “saloon” would shock and sadden the American round- er. A writer in the Advance telle the following story of his first visit to a Norwegian “saloon:” “We hardly knew we were entering a liquor shop. The place was small, scrupulously neat, with nothing out- side or in to attract, and, for a sign only a small board indicating that th was a shop of the Bergen Samlet (company.) There was not a place to sit down. There y nothing alluring about the place. A small, narrow counter ran along part of one side of the room. On it were a number of small glasses, into each of which was etched or ground the letters ‘B. 8.’ standing for ‘Bergen Samleg.’ The glasses ‘wre accurately graduated. : though without graduation mark nd only out of these glases may spirits be sold. This enables each sale to be ac- counted for,_as the nickels given on cur electric cars. must be accounted for. Thus there can be no stealings of liquor. “The men behind the counter were about such a class of men as would run a locomotive on our railroads— somewhat of a workingman’s type, but of superior intelligence. . strong, clean f: i - mediate and with strength. During our stay two or three persons came in and bought drinks. I never saw liquor sold in any such V It was as decorous and or- derly as though it Lad been the most serious sort of a business transaction. And once the tiny glassful had been swallowed, the buyer turned on his heel and was gone. “Al the only thing on the walls of this place was a framed copy of the rules governing the shop. The explaired to u They were ex ingly terse veyed ideas like these: i rs at 8 and clo: reopens at 1:30 and closes at 8, except nights before Sun- days and holy da when it closes at 5Z ‘Only the com Fa) may be used in selling.’ ‘It is not permitted to treat the bartender.’ ‘No one ean buy on credit here.” ‘When you have drunk go out.’ ‘There may be here no impreper language or disorderly con- duct. ‘No one under eighteen enter this place.” ‘It is not permi to sell to any person giving the least sign of intoxication.’ “At the head office of the conrpany all liquors are carefully analyzed, and only the purest sold. Those with the least alcohol in them are given the precedehce. Employes are held striet ly to the rules. Salaries are on a fixed scale. Promotion is on civil service principles, and one’s getting on will be hindered rather than furthered by his making large sales. We saw some proctical illustrations of all this. The shops also have a black list of those riven to drunkenness. I saw such a man leave one of the shops as if the police were after him on the merest word frem the seller who refused him drink. “All through the country, which we traversed overland, from Bergen on the West to Christiania on the south west, we gathered a continuous series of testimonies from fellow travelers, from residents, from business and pro- fessional men, all in one direction. The incidental and undersigned testi- monies were as effective as the more formal ones.” A GREAT SUCCESS. The Rockford Sangerfest a Delight to Those Who Attended. Minneapolis, Chicago, Joliet, Elzin, Aurora, Janesville, Bloomington and several other cities were represented at the sangerfest of the American Union of Swedish singers at Rockford, Il The fest was every whit as successful as the one given by the Norwegian “sanger brode’ at St. Paul. The solo- ists were John R. Ortengren, bari- tone; Miss Ragna Linné, soprano, and Miss Martina Johnstone, the well known violinist, who toured wits Sousa for two seasons. The great event outside of the con- certs was the picnic at Latham Park, to which people were brought in hun- dreds by special trains and steam- boats. Bernard Anderson of Chicago was the festival orator. “The large chorus of the Swedish singers, 250 voices, which\has for years rehearsed and sung the best chorus songs of the Swedish composers, was the especial feature of the meeting. It has proved itself a fine choral body. fully sustaining the reputation it has gained in previous years. This chorus is heralded as having achieved pro- - nounced triumphs wherever it has ap- peared, the concert at the World’s fair, in New York in 1897, being among the most notable in which the chorus has taken a leading part. Dr. Flom’s Courses at Iowa City. Dr. George T. Flom, instructor in Scandinavian languages and literature at the Iowa State university, announc- es five courses for the first year, as follows: First, elementary course in modern Norse; second, elementary course in old Norse and old Icelandic; third, Swedish literature of the Nine- teenth century; fourt, modern Danish literature; fifth, Norse literature since 1814. For the year 1901-1902 he will add an advanced course in old Norse and old Icelandic, and a course in old. Danish and old Swedish, lectures on the history of Scandinavian languages and lectures on the Scandinavian in- fluence on English. In this. latter course will be considered the English influence on Scandinavian, methods of investigation and loan-word criteria. Dr. Flom’s plans have mapped out twenty-four hours’ work a week in the class room, and he to haye ap- portioned them in a iatitect: ory manner, Doe as 7 —