Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1898-03-01
have been coming thick and fast from


states that the storthing was opened
on that day, and that the kings speech
referred to the ''unforgetable proofs Of
affection" received from large Sec
ton of the Norwegian people in con-
nection with the 25th anniversary Of
his coronation. Another of Feb. IL,
says: The ministry has resigned, and
several of the ministers will seek APP
pointments to other offices. And a
third one. of Feb. Is. brings the very
important news that the king has ap.
pointed ex-Premler Steen to succeed
Hagerup as premier of Norway. Steen
was the candidate of the politicians
in the liberal party, while those who
thought more of the welfare of their
country than of their party We're in IA
vor OF konow. a vicious feature of
the candidacy of Steen was the fact
that he was favored by the most pro-
nounced opponents of the policy of the
liberals, which makes it appear as
though the conservatives think Steen
will be less apt to carry the liberal
policy to successful contamination
than Konow would have been.
The king will stay in Kris:iania un-
til about March 5.
Mr.. Torstensen, spiritualist, has
stirred up regular hornets nest in
Skien. He published an article in the
papers, and the church people were SO
scandalized that they held excited mass
meetings and threatened to start new
paper in case similar articles appear
again in the existing papers.
According to the latest advices. S.
Nielsen's health is so poor that he will
not be able to occupy his seat in the
storthing.
An English schemer named Jansen
ordered about 500 reindeer in the
northern part of the country, and the
people went to work to fill the order
on the supposltion that United States
Commissioner Jackson was connected
with the deal. This was not the case,
however. and it now looks as if the
buyers as we'll as the sellers will have
nothing but their trouble for their
pains.
The managers of the Thomas Angel
fund have sold twenty tim Der farms in
Nordland to their occupants for $4,000.
Mr.. Menier, chocolate manufac-
rurer in Paris has ordered 800 reindeer
from northern Norway. He proposes
to plant them on an island in Lawruue
bay, where he may hunt them in the
course Of time.
Sarntiden will have an Ibsen edition
on the occasion of the roth birthday Of
the poet. The leading contributors
are King Oscar, Georg Brandes, Drach-
mann, Snoilsky, Jonas Lie.
Tolstoi, the great Russian author and
philan thropist, complains that he does
not understand lbsen.
A number Of shipowners have signed
protest against the use of the pure
Norwegian dag; but an analysis of the
signatures disclosed that out of the
nine only one was a Norwegian, the
others being Swedes, Germans, etc.
DENMARK.
An author advocates the appoint
ment of liberal cabinet, and defends
his position as follows in Tilskueren:
"A liberal ministry would mean that
the government would be confded to a
two-thlrd majority of the people, in
Guiding all farmers as a class. This
would dou btless strengthen us as a ma
ton. When the farmers boys fought
side by side with men from other class
es down on the we'll known battle
fields in Slesvig they were considered
worthy of the right to vote. But when
those farmers boys, as independent
for
saw fit. the academicians were Offend
ed and pushed them aside, and since
that time the farmers have not en-
joyed political equality with the rest
of the citizens. 1t is true that the
farmers for thirty three years past
have not paraded with loaded rifles in
front Of German armies. But they
have done something greater and bet
ter. They have realized the MOTTO:
What is lost abroad must be recovered
at home What the national liberals
lost in Slesvig has been recovered by
the farmers from sand hills and heaths
and boys and moors. When the criti-
cal times came and crippled the agri-
cultural interests of other countries
most seriously. our farmers rallied.
They introduced new methods in their
work. They vanqulshed their COM
'petltors in the English markets, and
became the champions of the world in
their particular. field of activity-the
only Danish branch which ranks as
NUN Der one in the world. This class,
therefore, seems to deserve some rec
IGNITION from the other classes
"Hegnet," the new womans club in
Copenhagen, is growing fast, its men,
bership already being counted by the
hundreds.
NJ. Pineau, Frenchman, made a
special study of Danish ballads, and in
the course Of time became such an add
mirer of this peculiar literature that
he treated it in a large book, which
has just appeared. The book contains
some of the choicest Danish ballads,
accompanied by creditable French
translations. The author is now so
familiar with the quaint old Danish
ditties that he ventures to suggest COR
rectiOns in some cases.
Hotel Fenix in Copenhagen will soon
pass into the hands of a syndicate.