Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, October 17, 1903, Page 7

| | | } | | | — | | | 1 ‘ 3 4 i. 'y SHOCKED MR. HERTZ. After an Investigation of Five Weeks He Says We Are Barbarians. A fresh young sprig from Sweden, John Hertz by name, who visited New York city five weeks ago in order to study American life, has published the results of his profound study in a Gothenburg newspaper. It is a re markable article, so remarkable that Robert S. Bergh, United States con- sul at Gothenburg, is to have it trans- | * mated and published in the American newspapers. Mr. Bergh, by the way, honors John Hertz to the extent of becoming very indignant over the ar- ticle. “Americans are barbarians, women »as well as men,” writes this profound scholar, “and the more so as they be- lieve themselves to have a monopoly of the world’s culture. In the schools they teach the children very little, which is excusable, as they know but little themselves. ject taught in the schools is lower mathematics—the higher is not need- ed for jobbing in stocks on Wall street American geography and American history. “The American morale is but an ex- pression of the same elevating prin- cipe as the Jesuits once taught: the end justifies the means, or in more ‘ correct Yankee speech, everything for money. The American woman is a remarka- ble variety of the race. She is a com- bination of all the most striking col- ors that ever roused the primitive love of color in an uncultivated race. They resemble the American flowers. They have sharp, strong, often brilliant col- ors, but spread no perfume. “America is the country where no flower breathes perfume and no heart beats warm.” And this was written enly half a | «year after the “Yankees” had sent hundreds of thousands of dollars to the famine sufferers in Sweden and their kinsfolk in Finland and Norway. STRINBERG IS SARCASTIC. * Says There Are No Literary Men in the Academy. August Strinberg, Sweden’s greatest literary genius, has turned his sharp- ly pointed pen on the Swedish acad- emy, which is patterned after the French academy of immortals. He ridicules the pretensions of every member to a seat in the academy of literateurs. There are, he says, two royal recorders, one antiquarian, a librarian, several professors, three bishops, some historians, one envoye, in all the academy only four who are )* literary men, and these only in their ¢, idle moments. There is not one who has devoted his life to literature. The poets and authors of Sweden have been crowded out in favor of histo- rians, political writers, scientists and dictionary makers. He even denies that the members of the academy read literature and keep in touch with the greatest writers of the world such as Zola and Ibsen, and declares it to be highly absurd that the Swedish academy should sit in judgment in awarding the Alfred No- bel prizes for literature. His article has created a great stir in Sweden, but the public quite agrees that his criticism is just, NORRLAND IN BAD WAY. According to information received from Arjeplong, Norrland, Sweden, by | the communal authorities at Lulea, » t,there has not, in the memory of man, been such a failure of crops in the mountain districts as has been expe- rienced this year. Manured high ground gives 50 per cent and natural marsh land 25 per cent less than av- erage yield, but on all hard natural meadow land there is a total absence of growth, as all the vegetation has been destroyed by insects. The earth looks like it had been worked with a harrow. The animals have no other food than the birch leaves, and there is not enough food even for half of the last year’s greatly reduced stock possessions. From Elsby it is re- Anorted that the crop is less than last year’s. The natural meadows mostly lie under water, and, where the crops were not harvested before the over- flow, they were washed away or de- stroyed by water. WANT STATE LOTTERY. In Norway they have long been fig- uring on establishing a state lottery. The Norwegians, like other people, are disposed to try their luck at plz as they do not have a lottery in their own country, they satisfy their de- sire in this direction by patronizing foreign lotteries. 500,000 crowns leave Norway eve ear for this purpose. Those who are endeavoring to establish a Norwegian national lottery argue that the reali- | vation of their plan would reduce the large loss on the national wealth to *shis extent. The government now has the scheme under consideration. Hamlet's “Family Name.” Cleo de Merode, the Parisian foot- light favorite, recently visited Hel- singor, Denmark, to offer tribute at the grave of Hamlet, the prince of Denmark. The burial mound which bears the simple inscription “Hamlet's ‘Grav” held the attention of the famous | actress for some time. When all ob- servers thought that she was thfilled with the deepest emotion, she turned “to her manager and naively inquired | if “Grav” was Hamlet's family neme. The principal sub- | and, | It is estimated that | AMUNDSEN IS WELL. Left Godthaab on July 31 on His Sci- entific Mission. The Royal Greenland company re- ports the receipt of mail from Green- land giving information about Capt. Roald Amundsen and his expedition. The “Gjoa” reached Godthaab on July 25 and sailed away on July 31. All was well, Capt. Amundsen is seeking to locate the Northern magnetic pole. Death Claims’ a Diplomat. Otto Lovenskjold, second secretary in the Swedish Norwegian foreign de- partment, died at Stockholm Sept. 21, at the age of thirty-two. After his graduation from the university he en- tered the diplomatic service, being stationed at Berlin and Paris as at- tache with the Swedish and Norwe- gian legations. He entered the for- eign department a year ago, and last May wes promoted to the second sec- retaryship. Gave te Charity. The late Michael Berentsen, a wealthy shipowner of Stavanged, left an estate inventoried at 700,000 kro- ner. In addition to several smaller bequests aggregating 68,500 kroner, he willed 10,000 kroner to working- men’s ajd fund, 11,000 kroner to the outing committee, 6,000 kroner to the deaconess’ institute and 30,000 kroner to the Stavanger tuberculosis fund, in all 125,000 kroner for charitable pur- poses, Some Chilly Coal. The coal expedition to Spitzbergen has returned to Bergen with 565 bush- els of coal which were mined out in eleven days. Experiments will be made with this coal by the Bergen Steamship company and the iron works, and if the showing is satisfac- tory mining will be begun next sum- mer on a large scale. School Teacher Banished. Carl Johan Myrsten, director of the agricultural school at Soderkulla, Fin- land, has been ordered to leave the country by the Russian officials. He declares that he has taken no part in the anti-Russian agitation and neither by word nor deed has he done any- thing to merit expulsion from the country. Change the Marriage Laws. Dean Personne of Linkoping pro- posed at the Swedish church confer- ence that civil merriages be insti- tuted. His motion was that the pres- eat marriage laws be so amended that the only legal marriages be by civil authorities, though those desir- ing a church wedding should have the privilege. The King in Norway. King Oscar arrived in Christiania on Sept. 21 and was joined the next day by Queen Sophie, who has been spend- ing some time at Skinnarbol. The queen will probably remain in Chris- tiania until a new ministry has been formed, Merger in Books. The two largest publishing houses in Denmark, Gyldendal and Det Nor- diske Forlag, have been merged under one management. The capital of the new concern is 2,400,000 kroner. It | handel, Nordiskt Forlag. Death Rather Than Drill. Vilhelm Auchenberg, a Danish print- er, committed suicide a fortnight ago in order to avoid military service. The drill was very irksome to him, | and everything connected with mili- tary life was highly distasteful. MEN ARE CHEAP. Therefore, Ship the Horses, Was the Order. : After it had been settled that the post to another, an inquisitive citizen | asked an officer how it was planned to do it. “The orders from headquarters are ply. “Pretty long march under the cir- | cumstances, isn’t it?” was asked. “Oh, stand it.” of it, then?” “Well, hardly. The cavalry marches, too.” | “But the horses—” “Oh, the orders are to ship the horses and march the men.” “The horses ride and the men walk?” “Certainly. That’s the usual way.” “But why should—” “A new horse would cost the goy- | ernment money,” interrupted the offi- | cer—Brooklyn Eagle. To Save Gas Bills. A North Broad street man who has a passion for reading out of town | newspapers, and also for answering | many of the advertisements he finds | in them, tells this on himself: | The other day he answered an ad- yertisement in one of the New York | papers stating that for $1 a method for saving gas bille would be sent. In two days he received a printed | slip by mail, which read: | “Paste them in a scrap book.”—Phil- | adelphia Public Ledger. will bear the name Gyldondalske Bog- | command was to be moved from one | for the men to march,” was the re- | ; but I guess they can “The cavalry has a little the best Nineteenth Century. where it is a favorite remedy. it is. ADMIRAL SCHLEY _ ENDORSES PE-RU-NA. — Pe-ru-na Drug Co., Columbus, Ohio: Gentlemen:—“I can cheerfully .say that Mrs. Schley has taken Pe- ru-na and I believe with good effect.’’—W. S. SCHLEY, washington, D. C. _DMIRAL SCHLEY, one of the foremost, notable heroes of the A name that starts terror in the heart of every Spaniard. A man of steady nerve, clear head, un- daunted courage and prompt decision. Approached by a friend recently, his opinion was asked as to the efficacy of Peruna, the national catarrh remedy. slightest hesitation he gave this remedy his endorsement. It ap peared on later conversation that Peruna has been used in his family, Without the Such endorsements serve to indicate the wonderful hold that Peruna has upon the minds of the American people. the question that so great and famous a man as Admiral Schley could have any other reason for giving his endorsement to Peruna than his positive conviction that the remedy is all that he says It is out of The fact is Peruna has overcome all opposition and has won its way to the hearts of the people. The natural timidity which so many; people have felt about giving endorsements to any remedy is giving’ way. people to give public testimonials Gratitude and a desire to help others has inspired thousands of. for Peruna who heretofore would not have consented to such publicity. Never before in the annals of medicine has it happened that so many men of national and international reputation have been willing to give unqualified and public endorsements to a proprietary remedy. No amount of advertising could have accomplished such a result, Peruna has won on its own merits. phase or location in the human body. notable and unique endorsements. Peruna cures catarrh of whatever This is why it receives so many Address The Peruna Drug M’f’g Co., Columbus, Ohio, for free literature on cafarrh. HOW_SHOCKING! Parisians Horrified at American Girls’ Indifference to Matrimony. “How can married women be dis- tinguished from single ones in Amer- ica?” This is the pointed question asked by Hughes le Roux, a_ well-known French writer, who has been spending some months in the United States. The American girl has astounded and shocked him. She wears such mag- nificent jewels, he declares, as are only offered to a French woman on her marriage. She gowns herself, too, in the heavy velvets and silks only known to women of forty in France. But in the third and last proof of the absence of the “jeune fille” element in the American girl which Mr. Le Roux cites is her indifference to marriage. Very often she believes in having a good time, he says, and refuses to consider the subject seriously at all. “This,” observes Mr. Le Roux, “is not to be wondered at where the moth- er and father neither advise nor hurry marriage, and where it is not preached from the pulpit on Sunday as a duty.” —Paris Correspondence to the Pitts- burg Dispatch. Still Another Case. Franksville, Wis., Oct. 12th—Many remarkable cures are being reported from all over the country, but there is one right here in Franksville which is certainly worth publishing, and which has not as yet been given to the public. Mrs. Louis Markison of this place had been a sick woman for quite a long time and could not find anything to give her any help. She suffered all the painful symptoms of what is gen- erally known as female weakness. Every woman who reads her story will understand these distressing con- ditions which combine to make the lives of many women one long burden of weakness and suffering. Mrs. Markison chanced one day to hear of a new remedy called Doda’s Kidney Pills, that was said to be a splendid medicine for women’s weak- ness. She determined to try some and soon found herself getting bet- ter. She kept on with the pills and was cured. Speaking of her case, | Mrs. Markison says:— “I can and do praise Dodd’s Kidney Pills as a remedy for female weakness. They are the best medicine I have ever known, and have done me a great deal of good.” | Just Like His Wife. | “That was an unlucky thing that | Peck, the engineer,, done,” said the | brakeman. “They gave him one of them new engines yesterday an’ he | named it after his wife.” “How was that unlucky?” esked the trackwalker. “Why, the blamed thing blew him up this morning.”—Catholic Standard and | Times. A man usually makes a virtue of the means he uses to conceal his faults. The thought that the other man is @ lot worse off doesn’t help much. It | is his fault, not yours. 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