Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1894-01-06

the three. and he made COS al smile when
he most cmphatically stated: "TO the
Vctors belong the poll but the Amer.
lean ministry IN Stockholm ought TO
always belong to Mr. Thomas. ] will
tell Cleveland all about Il when / see
him"
do not know Il the gentleman has
"scen Cleveland and told him AL about
IT," | suppose the President has a will
of his own, aud Is not very easily in.
iluenccd even by more prominent politi'
Cilns than our New York merchant
Even 10 King oscar himself should ask
for Mr.. Ihomass retention, as "a rumUT
here says he has already done, ! believe
that Cleveland would care very little iuI
Ills Malssty's wish, u he had made ur
his mind 90 appoint some other man iui
the position. The hope Of everybody
here IS. that Minister Thomas Will be hia
own successor There Is no doubt that
President Cleveland would gain MANY
friends both IN the United States and in
Sweden by retaining him.
have Interviewed great many Other
American travellers on the subject and
have also tried TO get the opinions of
natumlized SwciIsh-Amcricans. They
have all agreed in expressing their be-
lief that per ON who Is more ~ TO fc'
present the United States 10 Stockholm,
docs not exist As one Of them put u.
Thomas b the right kind OF man iol
that poiion. lie never enquiries
whether a man IS Democrat o. Il Re.
publican. An he wants TO know Is that
he Is an American, 4.ooo miles away
from home, aud he will Immediately
oder him his hospitality and slndly
services
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The Stockholm dH6RjadrI quotes
the following from a private letter by
Andcrs Zon, the celebrated painter aad
Swedens ART commissioner at the
Worlds Fair, to one Of his artist irien S
In Stockholm. 81 DO not say too much
II declare that never before has the
Swedish ART celebrated such triumphs as
IN Chicago. All European nations were
represented by the best works their art
had produced. and then Sweden sends
only one and hall hundred paintings,
and comes out victorious, | have not
been asked to make amy report, bu,
other commissioners have sent reports
TO their governments, and as ! have
heard, IN favor OF sweden. Lectures
on Swedish art are now being held both
IN New York, Boston and Chicago.
would have preferred 10 write ON this
subject IN the newspapers, but | ana too
umid 10 see my thoughts "a print.
There Is an aueeJlte about lola, A.
phunse Daudct and The Loncourt bro.
ihers once coming In q dispute about
the importance OF a name. Daudei,
always idealisi, proposed to demonstrate
practically that Il was not the name Of
The author but the work itself, which
decided It's success. lie sent anony-
mously one OF his novels 10 his publisher,
but the manuscript was returned. Other
publishers treated Il In the same man
ner. The novel was sent back by every
one, seldom read, always refused. lie
did only need to put his name on the
front page, and the publishers tried to
outbid each other in order to obtain the
right OF publishing the work.
A variation OF this theme was recently
discussed IN a newspaper article pup
lished IN the magazine ont och nut
Words and piCluTesl. The article, the
author OF which Is Mrs. Helene Nyblom,
one of Sweden's most prominent female
writer's, treats very delicate subject.
Mrs. NyblOm asks namely IN iull earn.
est, whether HenrcS lbsen Is poet or
not, and she answers the question with
no, insisting upon mat many Of his latest
dramas would not haye been published,
had anybody with less famous name
than lbsen written them How she arrives
at the conclusion-Well that would take
several columns 20 relate. Enough may
be said, however, that Mrs. Nyblom
gives many god reasons for her opinion
| which undoubtedly Is shared by many
people who do not take the trouble VI
| studying closer the most mysterious and
ineompTehensibe oi modern authors,