New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-11-26

its Il, 100000 and 35 per cent behind Germany
with her 100000 and actually SURPRISES
France. with her 3s.000,000, while she Is so lar
ahead of all other maritime Powers as to be
beyond comparison with them. Nor Is the pros
perity of Norway confined to shipping. Inc
value of property in Christiania alone Is IN
creasIng Mt the rate Of nearly S1oOooOoo
year-great figures for n city OF only 2OO,ooo
population At Frederlkstadt is one of the
greatest brickmaking centres of the world
eleven large new yards having been started
there last year. all the product being for domes-
tic use The manufacture Of carbide of calcium
is another great industry, the output being
many thousands of tons yearly. Other rap
idly growing industries are glass works, woollen
mills fishhook factories. rice mills, macaronl
works. iodine factories and photographic estab-
lishments, showing the country to be one OF
industries as varied as they are vast
If we turn TO Sweden we find there an equally
prosperous state of affairs. The taxable valua-
tion of the country has about doubled In twenty
five years. and deposits In commercial banks
have increased threefold and in savings banks
seyenfold The production Of cereals has more
than trebled the value of foreign trade has
doubled and the worth of manufactured goods
has risen from less than S35,0O0,OOO to more
than S125,OOO,O00. That is a fine record for n
country of only 100000 inhabitants. AS In
Norway industries show n great variety. 1nere
are Of course lumber mills and wood pulp fac
tories. There are also brickyards and glass
works and now bulbs for electric lamps are be-
ing made In vast quantities and exported to all
the world. The country is being gridironed with
railroads and new mines being opened in
many places. Emigration, at one time very
large, has now almost ceased, the population Is
increasing in an increasing ratio, and in brief,
there are all the indications of substantial pros
perty and growth.
Beyond doubt the Scandinavian people are
not to be classed among Lord Salisbury's dying
nations" They are very much alive and they
show convincing symptoms Of lasting vital en-
ergy. In fact, they alone Of all the world pre-
sent the spectacle of a really promising renas-
cence. Greece. Italy, Poland and all other ma
tons that once were great and fell are strug-
Cling to regain their old estate, but with indif-
ferent results. Not many have fallen further,
politically. than Sweden and Norway. The lat
ter's sea rovers were once the lords or the
ocean. The former was once one of the chief
territorial empires and military Powers OF the
Continent. With the fall of Charles XII and
the shearng away Of Courland, Esthonia, Pom
erania Livona, Poland and Finland, the sun OF
Sweden seemed to have set forever. But 1t mad
not There is freshness of life in the Scandi-
navian stock that makes itself felt for the re-
iuvenation of the realm. The lost territories
are probably lost forever though hope or re-
deemng Finland is not yet abandoned. But the
lost wealth and general prosperity Of both the
kingdoms are being restored, and more than
restored, in world surprising measure