Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-03-01
SCANDINAVIAN NEWS
Interesting Notes From Across the
Ocean.
HAPPENINGS IN THE FATHERLAND.
Principal Events that Have Occurred In
tho Old Countries About the
North Sea Within q Week
or So just Past.
NORWAY.


for $16,00o
The stakes at card party in Eidsvold
last Christmas amounted to $50.
new paper called Norges Blad Nor
ways paper) has been started in Ber-
gen.
A man in Fredckstad is said to have
Invented flying machine. He spent three
years on his continuance.
The attendance at the Bergen naval
academy is 113.
The late Chr. Friele. conservative of
conservatives. receives the following
posthumous notice in a leading liberal
daily: when Friele withdrew as editor
in-chief of Morgen Cladet. in 1898. after
an uninterrupted service of forty years, it
was the oldest representative. the great
est Journalistic capacity, the strongest
will of the Norwegian press that retired
from the political arena. He had a potliti-
cal conviction that proved strong enough
to assure the fanatical adherence of a
whole party to the opinions advocated by
him. AT most he was inclined to be
sentimental. But he curbed his natural
bias. and through his pen the world
learned to know only his critical negative
traits His feelings found expressions in
the form of indignation. his sentimentali-
ty in satire and venomous insinuations
which offended and wounded on the one
side. and elected admiration and applause
on the other. He knew the weak and
strong points of his contemporaries, and
he was more inclined to unveil the
frailties of a scraWny conscience than to
put the good qualities of public men in
strong light. His observation of the de-
Velopment of political life at close
quarters and from behind the scenes
changed the whilom jolly and witty So
ciety man into pessimist who lost con-
fidence in everybody but his political
allies. and who looked askance at every
thing called democracy and democratic
progress. He UNDERSIGNED the saying,
Orthodoxy is my opinion, hetrodoxy is
the opinion of Others" He cherished the
faith of superhuman being in the unity
and indivisiblity of truth, even in affairs
political, but forgot or overlooked that
the light of truth in human KNOWLEDGE
and human efforts plays in a thousand
broken rays. His development resulted in
a literary activity and personal conduct
which came to be looked upon as naughty
and insulting. AS a journalist he was
rich in fresh resources; he knew where
to find the right man for any branch of
work: he knew how to start discussion
of some public problem at the right
moment; in short, his journalistic instinct
was as keen as the scent of first-class
bloodhound. And in his weary toll from
year to year, from decade to decade he
never spared himself. So completely was
the man absorbed in his paper that he
would use men and sources which he
abused in the same number of the paper,
AS to conscientious devotion to his call
ing he might serve as a worthy example,
An Interpolation regarding the North
Schleswig expulsions was introduced in
the reichstag Feb. 8, by Deputy Gustav
Johannsen. Danish member from Flens-
burg. Sleswig-Hostein. On the other
hand the nationalist party held a meet
Ing at Kiel the same day and expressed
strong approval of the governments
policy with reference to Danish agitators,
resolving to present an address of thanks
to Superior President Koeller of Sleswig-
Holstein for his zeal in carrying out the
orders of the Prussian government
The minister for the interior announced
in the Falkething that the United Steam
SHlp NOupdIly lldu IOl UoCluGu 10 close
its traffic between Denmark and Sweden,
and that the government had no reason
for taking action in the matter,
The times are so "beastly prosperous"
In Denmark that the threatened strike at
the Titan iron works in COPENHAGEN has
been declared off.
The sheep and the goats kept apart
A few days ago Prince Bernadotte in
vited number of people from different
walks Of life, including several officers of
the army, to prayer meeting at his
house. The meeting was conducted by
the host and Rev. Fjader, a missionary
whose wife was drowned in Norway last
year. and who set many tongues wagging
because he had her life insured for s., OO0
After rousing appeals had been made to
the guests, those who were saved" were
ordered to step to one side of the room.
and the 'unsaved" to the other side. This
practice is no longer uncommon in ultra
religious circles in Sweden But one au-
thority adds that in this particular case
those who were saved" were asked to
remain for supper, while the "unsaved"
were permitted to leave the place. And
the waggtng of tongues goes on more
merrily than ever.
The Swedish papers use very guarded
language in speaking of the strained re-
lation between Finland and the Russian
bear for fear that they may arouse the
latter and do their Finnish kinsmen more
harm than good. Indeed. so meager are
the Swedish papers on this subject that
the facts given in the following lines had
to be CLEANED from a Norwegian paper
The national legislature of Finland con-
vened to an extraordinary session Jan
uary "a for the purpose or acting upon a
proposition of the Russian government
to harmonize the military laws of Fin
land with those of Russia. The intended
'harmonizing" is quite radical. The army
of Finland is to be deprived Of it's ma
tional character and placed under the
command of Russian officers; the re-
cruits of Finland are to be drawn into
Russian ranks: the term of military
service will be increased from three years
to five years; and these changes will in
crease the military burdens of the people
very materially. The people are strongly
opposed to the proposition, and it may be
rejected. But what will happen if it is
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