Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-09-06
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Interesting Notes From Across the
+ ! Ocean. "
HAPPENINGS In THE FATHERLAND.
Principal Events that Have Occurred In
the Old Countries About the
North Sea Within . Week
or So just Past.
NORWAY.

part OF the address OF BjOrnsOn to
the delegates of the interparliament-
airy peace conference reads as follows:
''Falsehood is SO intimately interviewer
with what we call politics that a mod
ern historian, who was the foreign
minister of a great people and must,
therefore, have experience, recently
wrote that dishonesty and falseheod
are some of the most necessary feat
ures of the art of ruling men, Notice
this IN particular, not simply necessary,
but the most necessary features of
the art of ruling men! A prominent
politician, the son of q great states
man, recently said in the full parlia-
ment about matter which the peo-
Piles of the North have at heart: "A
country cannot always be governed
according to the moral CODE But l
confidently answer in the name of this
assembly: Until the countries are gov
erned according to moral law, until
dishonesty and falsehood shall cease
to be necessary for the government of
men, there will never be an end to war.
Here, then, you have your enemy"
The drouth around Skien is assuming
the character of calamity. The po-
tato vines are drying up, the grain
crop is a failure and there is no such
thing as an aftermath on the mead
OwS.
The latest authentic information on
the flag law is the following from
Verdens Gang for Aug. 5: 'The gov
eminent is finally moving" Which,
however, does not go very far.
Three of the Norwegian gunboats
have been temporarily disabled by ac-
cidents. No wonder the naval officers
are subjected to. unpleasant criticisms.
Two farmers in Wage, Gudbrands-
dalen, shot two old foxes and their II
young ones as they came out of their
den.
A two-year-old boy in Raade man
aged to get away from home. He
walked four English miles and spent
one night in the woods before he was
found.
Good beef cannot be had for less
than 80 cents a pound in Kristiania,
and the supply is so limited that those
who are bound to have meat must be
on the market square early in the
morning. Many butchers have actu-
ally closed their shops because they
cannot procure meat. Good butter
costs IS cents pound.
A Norwegian steamer is back from a
two weeks fishing trip to Iceland, and
the returns are most satisfactory.
Part of the fish was put on ice and the
balance was kept alive in the hold Of
the ship. This is the first attempt of
the kind and may lead to a new field
for Norwegian enterprise.
The king is kept busy nowadays, his
program reading thus: Aug. 25, jour
ney by special train from Sweden to
Sarpsborg, where he is to distribute
banners to the five battalions of mill
tia which are taking part in the field
maneuvers; thence he. proceeds to
Hafslund, which will be his headquar-
tiers for five days; on Aug. 80 his head
quarters will be removed to Rakkestad
station; on Aug. 81 he will dismiss the
troops and take a special train to
Skinnarbol, where the queen has been
stopping for several weeks; and on
Sept. he is to be present at the open
ing of the National theater in Kristi-
ania.
A Swede managed to insert an ugly
challenge to Bjornson in the Kristiania
Morgenbladet. The proprietor of the
paper did not know anything about it
until it was too late. The challenge
was written in French and was intend
ed for the foreign members Of the in.
terparliamentary conference. But it
only seemed to make Bjornson the
more popular at the conference.
SWEDEN.
The parties that are grinding ont
counterfeit one hundred kronor (S27)