Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1898-10-19
SCANDINAVIAN NEWS
Interesting Notes From Across
the Ocean.
HAPPENINGS IN TIE FAIHERLAND.
principal Events that Have Occurred In
tho Old Countries About the
North Sea Within u Week
or So just Past.
SWEDEN.

" vi account OF his recent peace
MANIFESTO. 1t also suggests that when
the prize is awarded the second time. it
ousnt 10 go to Count Douglas the Swed-
isn-Norwegian minister for foreign af-
LARS lars because he has announced his will
llhsness to join the great peace move
Aueht proposed by the car at the earliest
practical opportunity The Hessleby
crown park in J0nk0pine lin has been
selected as site for one of the three SAM
.arlu1ns Tor tuhercular diseases which will
oe punt and equipped by means of the
S'oo'ooo jubilee gift to the king.
Lieutenant G. T. Lysander. the first
mate on the steamer Rex, which plies be-
tween Sweden and Germany has been
oHered professOrship at the lnterna-
tlonal Correspondence School in Scranton
rem. The pay attached to this profess
sorshlp is large, but Lieut.. Lysander has
CHOSEN to remain at home on much
smaller salary.
The new electric lighting plant in Trel-
leoorg has been running since Sept. 9.
Last spring the temperance organizers
Oh Gothenburg passed resolutions in fav-
or OF closing the saloons on Sundays and
mondays; and now the clergy of the see,
assembled in official convention. Bishop
Rohde presiding, have passed resolution
10 the same effect, and also directly urged
upon the authorities to take formal &C
ton in the matter
Bishop Ekman, of Westerns, in his first
pastoral letter, holds that it would be
terrible calamity to separate the church
from the state, but he treats the separat-
lists in conciliatory spirit. His remarks
on the labor problem are significant, and
read as follows: 1T is our duty to en-
deavor to maintain and promote good
feeling between employers and employees,
TO work for that love which fills the
chasm between rich and poor. When
we are ordained for our calling, we min
listers are urged to be the friends of the
poor. Those who carry the burden and
heat OF the day in the depth of the mines,
IN the workshops, in the fields. or else
where. ought to enjoy themselves and
have leisure for mental culture. 1t is
also desirable that they. by means of
their work, may acquire of earthly goods
some more than what suffices for a spare
living. For it is necessary to the moral
education of man that he should have
some property. which he is to manage ac-
cordinS to his conscience and with re-
sponslbility TO God alone. The employ
ers. therefore, must curb their desire to
make the greatest profit on the work of
their employees"
Now that the American Baptists have
ceased sending contributions to Sweden,
except for the support Of the two oldest
professors at the Bethel Seminary, the
accounts have been closed, showing that
since 1888 the American Baptists have
spent over $780, 900 on missionary work in
Sweden.
General crop report of September 6:
The hay crop is abundant. and the oats
promise a good yield: warm. dry weather
IN the latter part of August saved the rye
crop, but it's quality is not good; the
wheat fields look fine; the barley will
share the fate of the oats: the potatoes
will yield very poor crop. except IN
Skane: the change in the weather has
improved the sugar beets. but the yield
will surely be far below the average.
A Malmo nursery raised 10 bushels of
stand up wheat to the acre last summer,
and the papers justly call this yield Co
lossal."
Langmans Doustion Fund, which was
established by E. ]. Langman. of Hels-
ingfors, and which is to draw interest un-
til it amounts to 1000 900 kroner ($27,-
000000), when it is to be devoted to Swed-
ish interests, has now reached the sum
of 2.s000 900 kroner (sG20 000). the increase
for the past year being about $1,000
Several inches of snow fell at the Stor-
lien station Sept. %.
G. P. Braa an employer in Hofvid
took all his employees and their families,
about 300 persons all told. to Sundsvall;
gave all of them free tickets to the thea
tire; invited them to supper at Tivoli; and
just before midnight he hired steamer
to carry them home again.
The journeymen blacksmiths' strike in
Malm0 is settled the employers having
raised the wages about ree-fourths of
one cent per hour.
Count Carlo Landberg and a number Of
followers were to set out an expedl-
ton to Arabia one of the last DAYS Of
September.
The grain ripened so unevenly in the
southern extremity of the country that
while some fields were green, the grain
from other fields was being hauled into
the granary, or even threshed. In fact
reaping, hauling, threshing, and even
blowing, was going on at the same time
in the same neighborhood. The most be-
lated fields were not ripe for cutting I'M
til about the first of October.
The bee hives in southern Sweden gave
from twelve to fifteen pounds of honey
apiece last summer. This is an average
crop in Sweden.
Lieutenant A. Kuylenstjerna. who has
been writing exceedingly interesting
newspaper correspondence from Arabia.
intended to proceed to Armenia: but the
government in Constantinople has re-
solved to exclude all newspaper men from
that part of the Turkish empire, compen-
ing him to abandon his plan.
NORWAY.
Verdens Gang maintains that Norway
ought nave d SpeCldl representative at
the peace conference which it is expected
the cars manifesto will lead to. Strange
to say, even Morgenbladet, that ancient
bulwark of conservatism in the realm of
Norwegian newspaperdom, has expressed
itself in favor of Norwegian representa-
tive to the peace conference.
The talk about making Prince Carl
king of Norway has passed way beyond
its semi-secret stage by the publicatio
in the London Daily Chronicle of letter
from Bjornstjerne Bjornson to Sir
Charles Dixie. In the letter Bjornson
says: 1.-The Norwegians find that the
union defeats its object, ana becomes a
danger instead of a protection. They are,
therefore, thinking Of changing the union
into a confederation, with King Oscars
second son, Prince Carl, as king of Nor
way. He Is married to Danish prin-
cess. The new dynasty would thus unite
two dynasties which have ruled in Nor
way. and thereby guarantee peaceful in
tercourse and a firm alliance
Tn Finmarken fine hay crop has been
secured and the potatoes are exceptional
" fine, hut the staple berry crop, multer
3(cloudberries). is poor IN most places.
L Stockholms Dagblad contains a clarac-
teristic article by Prof. Hjarne, of Up
3aala. The article is condensed history
- tho struggles between ENGLAND and