The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-07-05
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German Army. in a Bad; way.--The ac-
the 'Degeneracy of the German Army, ;"
in the July number iof the. North Ameri-
can Review, is appalling. Gaming and
betting and hard drinking are INDUCED in,
DR.. Won Sutherland says, to an Ienor-
NOUS extent and for the extrayaganc
which has led, in not a few cases, to
ruin and disgrace, DR.. Won Schierbrand
holds the kaiser responsible, because Of
the example which he has set, in eXpen-
sive court festivities and lavish personal
display. The efficiency of the army has
been seriously undermined. In every post
of Importance are untried men,. The tao
tics used in ,naneuVers, while highly spec
tacular, are adjusted to the conditions Of
the past, and are such as in actual war
fare would invite complete annihi]a ton.
| Not the least significant symptom Of de-
| terioration is the abuse of power by Of
| flcers and on-commissioned officers to-
ward the rank and file, not a few cases
! having occurred within recent years in
which private soldiers have been done to
death.
! A wealth of other good reading will
be found in the Review. Archibald R.
/ Colquhoun discusses China in Trans
formation and the War. q" Hamilton W.
! Mabie considers the conditions under
which Nathaniel Hawthorne developed
his gifts. Prince b. HOukhtomsky presents
| a Russian view regarding 1.-THE British
in Tibet Ida Hustled Harper explains
| why Women Cannot, Vote in the United
States" Brigader General P. c.. Hams
| U. S. A, analyses 1.-The Labor Problem on
the Panama Canal" w. H. Blumenstein
| describes the plants and arserials where
are manufactured farms and Ammunition
in Japan" And these are by no means
| all.
| The shrInkage of Great Salt Lake.
/ Charles Alma Byers says in the Scientific
American for July Q; statistics indi-
cate that Great Salt lake, the Dead see
of America, is doomed-that it is grad
/! ually drying up. The opinion now al.
most universally prevails among scien
lists that this mysterious body of water
1 located at an altitude Of 4,210 feet above
sea level and 1000 miles inland, and which
has but single rival, the Dead sea O.
Palestine, is certain within the course o
| half a century toEdisappear from the map
Some scientists, who have made care
full study of the fluctuations of the lax,
4 for the past several years, even sdeclar,
3 that it will be dried up within a quartz
of a century, 4t
The Lamp.-The July number Of thi
review and record of, current literature
contains much of general interest, as fol
( lows: "a Friend of Keats, H. G. Shell
ley; "A Disinteresteds Publisher" surpris
ing facts about the work Of the govern
. ment printing office, Mary Tracy Earle
ION Some -Grotesques by Da Vinci," A
F. Gallatin; "a Child's Impressions o
Whittier" Martha Hale shackford; 9TH
Influence Of Jews in Recent English Lit
erature,' J. M. Bulloch; "An American
Farmer" Herbert Croly; Smyrna, tn
Home, of Homer. Professor Rufus 3
Richardson. with reproductions of recen
Photographic views;a"A Forgotten Nat
uralist,'' Elizabeth Howe; "Mr Horna
J days Natural History. review of tn
81 new "American Natural History" Ernes
Ingersoll; 1.-THE First Sonnet in English,
Walter Littlefeld. Il
Theodore Roosevelt as PresIdentls
candldate.--In the Review of Reviews TO
July the feature of chief interest is tn
sketch of Theodore Roosevelt as Pres
. idential Candidate contributed by 4
delegate to the national republican con
vention. This writer pays his respect
to various elements in the two great par
ties in series of pungent characterize
lions that make excellent reading in thi
4 rather quiet opening month of the cam
paign. In this connection, the Reviey
!, publishes the& principal parts of ex-Secre
4 tary Root IS mastefIS 81 convention kspeec
= on the republican party's' record sfor tn
: past four years. 1.-THE Triumph of Ma
Istional Irrigation ssthe subject of an i'm
! portant article by William b. Smythe.
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