Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-12-10

negligence in the accident on the Milwaukee
road near Parker, Oak, defends himself.
| The net profits of the Minneapolis
/ exposition are shown by the official
financial statement to be $25 1929
| Bobby Adams, the Minneapolis post
Office thief, has been held by the Chicago
authorities
| John Darson, a prominent farmer
living near Flandreau, Oak, was frozen to
death.
| Dwight Green a craftsman of Boze-
man, Mont, committed suicide by shooting.
The Mississippi river is frozen at La
Crosse SO that teams cross on the ice.
The cold wave of the past week
| was universal all over the country
At St. James.
Geo. W. Smalley, the well known
American Correspondent in. London, {
writes as follows in arecent letter: : ~
'What about the American miister?''
''Oh, great deal about him if you
had room. Wezncver had a minister,in
England who has done his work better
than Mr.. Phelps. His negotiation of
the extradition treaty with Lord Rose
berry was thes successful Solution of
what had long been regarded as an in
soluble diplomatic problem. Then
came his conduct of the fishery negotia-
tons, and the two together have given
him a diplomatic reputation hard to
match. The British foreign Office dis
covered, with some amazement. in this
Vermont lawyer jurist capable of
handling broadly broad questions of
international law. His communica-
tons to the foreign minister, embody-
ing elaborate arguments on difficult
questions, are, l know, regarded by the
official people at the +. OF. 0. is
English for foreig otfice-as papers of
most unusual weight and force. If
may use another English phrase, he
has 'bowled over his English adversa-
ries on the Canadian business" t:ss'sd
'How does he compare with Mr.,
Lowcll?'
THAT would be delicate question,
if it were necessary to compare them.
But it is not. 1t would be easier to
draw a contrast than parallel between
the two, and each would come out of it
equally we'll. -
Mr.. Lowell's popularity in England
is proverbial. but some of his country
men totally misunderstood his. real re-
lation to English society. They speak
of him as if he had made some sort of
concession to English sentiment The
truth is no American in England was
ever more American than Mr.. Lowell.
His patriotism was,-well, will even
say pugnacious. He was renowned in
England for aggressive Americanism.
I once heard an English lady say she
did not dare assert in Mr.. Lowelrs
presence that American women were
fond of candy. He would take up amy
challenge, and he gave many. He
was liked, nay, beloved, in spite of his
disregard of some English conventionali-
ties. His winning manner and incom-
parable talk and sweetness of nature
enchanted the Englishmen-ycs, and
the English women, .,,. +:
Mr.. Phelps has won his fame in Il
different way. Not whit less Ameri-
can than Mr. Lowell, he has different
ways of showing it. He has many OF
the qualities which the English admire
in thcmselves-dignity,s reserve. force
and acertain restraint in speech-which
add weight to what he says. Then. as,
most things are known in London
drawing rooms, it is perfectly we'll
known that Mr.. Phelps has in his
official work held his own, and more
than held his own against their. best
men. His speeches, too, have been
heartily liked And, since the wife of
an American minister is a public
parsonage, I will take leave to add that
Mrs. Phelps has char med all London,
and has made the American legation
or rather their own house in Loundes
squarc-homelike to Americans. And
with that let me end, for nothing l can
tell you about London will leave Il
pleasantcr memory than the perfume
of this pure American life in the midst
of English society," ~ xzs -