Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1898-08-31

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and religious matters. We hope that
henceforth Cuba and the Philippines
will be accessible to the progress of
civilization and evangelical Christian
ity. the latter being the foundation of
all sound civilization" "
The great drilling squadron will
visit Leith, Scotland, but not Copen-
hagen, as formerly stated.
The coffee pavilion at the Bergen ex-
position is quite an attraction. and
about thousand cups of coffee are
sold a day. A cup of coffee there
means that the purchaser gets both the
coffee and the cup containing it.
A cooper in Dimmelsvik imports sew
eral million oak slaves a year from
America.
The potato vines in Sogn were slight
~ frostbitten in the latter part of July.
Ellef Rhymes, Amrnd Ringnes and
Axel Heiberg, all of Kristiania, have
contributed S13, 500 each to Sverdrup's
North Pole expedition. The state of
Norway furnishes the ship Fran, and
also paid 81, 500 for repairing it.
The minister at Horton chose to have
no religious services in the church one
Sunday forenoon because the audience
was composed of one lone person. 1t
often happens that his audience num-
bers only from six to ten persons, but
in all such cases he bravely goes
through the regular performances.
The fourth annual meeting of the
Peace Society of Norway, at Bergen,
was not we'll attended.
There is powerful and determined
party in Kristiania which Is in favor
of having certain new street car lines
built and run by private companies;
but the chances are that this party
will be beaten by those who favor pub
lie ownership.
Holger Drachmann's magnificent
poem, War and Drunkenness" has
stirred up hornets nest and created
special literature. His defenders do
not cover SO much ground as his de-
tractors, however. In fact, they carry
on their war orally over glass of beer
or wine. while the detractors make
themselves conspicuous in the press.
Even the very paper that printed the
tamous-or. perhaps, rather Infamous
poem in huge type in the middle Of
the first page has been compelled to
print columns of invectlves against the
great Danish poet. One of the most
noteworthy contributions to this war
and-win controversy was written by
Chr. Collin, who not only touches upon
the immediate cause of the contro-
versy, but assails the free love. anti
family tendencies of the writings of
Drachmann and of his world-f famed
countryman, DR.. Georg Brandes. Says
Collin: ''Dr. Brandes and other writ
ers of the same school for years have
propagated the idea among a large
number of readers that free research
and zeal for social and political re-
forms are closely connected with an
ideal of love which in the course of
time would lead to the dissolution of
family life. But what good would free
research and all other progress do if.
at the same time, the foundation of al.
farther progress, namely, family life,
were destroyed? Family life, with all
its faults, is the quintessence, as it
were, of the progress of hundreds of
thousands of years. Compared with
ohS P'OSASSS CSCAICu NY 4dlul1y
life, all reforms which we may expect
to achieve in lifetime are IN ere
trifles.''
Premier Steen is spending his sum-
mer vacation in Gudbrandsdalen.
Southern Cross, the steamer with
which Captain Borchgrevink is to
make his next trip to the South Pole
regions, left Kristiania for London
Aug. 3.
A general strike on the Kristiania
electric street car line was temporarily
settled Aug. 3, with the understanding
that wages would be raised Aug. Is.
The attendance at the Bergen expo
sition is still large.
Several cases of carbuncle around
Kongsberg are giving the farmers. as
we'll as the public authorities, of that
locality much trouble. The most pro-
voking feature of the pest is that it is
not limited to any particular neighbor
hood, but suddenly appears at differ
ent places which are some distance
apart.
DENMARK.
Miss Valborg Anderson has gone to
Paris to complete her studies for the
stage, and next fall she is to sing at
different theaters in the United States.
It is prOposed to connect Iceland