The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-08-14

haha and stately Hiwatha quite pos
sible. But the ravine bristled with
sign boards threatening $500 fine'i
for every imaginable offense, and the
trail of the watermelon beer bottle
equipped tourist was over it all.
From Minneha ha we drove to Fort
Smelling which i; not nearly so pretty
IA Fort Leavenv orth, and is the most
utterly deserted looking place 1 ever
saw. Everybody was in summer en-
canipment. The small boy of the par
ty kept wailiny where are the SOL
der? You SD we should see sol
der and hav ut seen one" Meth
er did we, and for all we could see, we
might, with the assistance of the hack
man, have captured the cannon and
shelled Minneapolis and st. Paul with
out let or hindrance.
The United Scandinavian Singers of
America held Sangerfest the week
we were in Minneapolis which was
quite as big as its name. The concerts
were given i'm the Coliseum belonging
to the Northwestern University-quite
an imposing structure by the way.
The singers badge was white cap.
After hand to hand struggle last
ing nearly an hour, on the street car
leading from our hotel to the Coliseum
we, with about one hundred other peo-
pie, emptied ourselves from a car with
seating capacity of fifty and entered
the Coliseum gay with the flags of two
nations, and iestooned with blue, yell
low and our national colors.
The immense circular platform was
turbulent with white caps; from under
them one thousand yellow moustaches
and two thousand blue eyes confront
ed us. The other two hundred were
diversified in manner of beard and col
or. When those twelve hundred men
lifted up their voices and sang togetb-
er, there was some noise i'm the air. II
am not one of the musical elect and
may not be good judge but it seems
to me their music lacks the vivacity
and grace of ours. There is a good
deal of thump In it. Still the concert
was well worth the hearing, and they
were a fine body of men.
Afterwards we visited ST. Paul, but
as Kipling says THAT is another
story" I have been very sketchy, but
to be concise would involve too many
columns of the REGISTER.
COMMENTS.
We take advantage of the editors
absence to print few of the comments
upon his letters.
One would think that 50 much has
been written about sea voyages that
nothing more could be said that would
be read. But Charley Scott's letter
TO the lola REGISTER, describing his
trip across to Europe, is fresh, original
and interesting.-7Opeka Lance.
The lola REGISTER published last
week a series of letters from Chas. +.
Scott, its editor, written on board the
"City of Chester" while OH his way to
Europe. Although transatlantic vOy-
ages are very common now, the letters |
are very interesting reading, and are a |
true description of "a Gland lubber'sn
life on the ocean wave. If these let
tiers had been written by anyone else
than a Kansas editor, they would have
attracted wider attention. We regret
that the lack of space pre-
vents us from publishing them.-Bron-
son Pilot.
Charley Scott beguiled the tedious
transit along Cheapside. London, by
telling his cabby the simple story of
Jack the Ripper" which John pro,
fessed never to ave 'eard. Thus does
sweetly "scatter the seeds of
wherever he gOes.-Ld,O-
renee Record.
Charlie Scott has "doner London to
the Kings taste, and has writted it up
for his paper in something better than
the Queens English.-Cldy Center Dis
patch.