Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1901-04-24
NEWS
{ interesting Notes From Across the
Ocean.
HAPPENINGS IN THE FA1HERLAND,
Principal Events That Have Occurred
IN the Old Countries About the
North Sea Within a Week
or So just Past.
NORWAY.

or So just Past.
NORWAY.
The hunting trip of the crown prince
to kongsberg turned out to be a COM
plete tiasco, and the newspapers are ac-
tually wicked enough to say so. But
as he attended a splendid exhibition of
ski-running at Torespladsen, he saws
ne is amply rewarded for the trouble
OF his trip anyway. T.
The company organized in Trond-
mem for mining coal in Spitzbergen
has come to naught because the neces-
sary capital was not Forthcoming.
Rev. Klaveness writes about divorces
among Norwegian society people: 1T
Is gliding into our consciousness that
marriage rests ON love, but love is
changeable, therefore marriage is
changeable. The conviction that mar
ried people are in duty bound to be
faithful unto death is passing away. It
seems perfectly clear to me that the
views which are gaining ground
through the divorces that are taking
place around US must wholly change
the character of marriage if those
views prevail. Instead of being a cove
nant for life it becomes a union while
the contracting parties are in love with
each other. Instead of husband and
wife we shall have lovers. What will
the result be, especially to the women?
a woman ages much faster than man.
a 5O-year-old man is a presentable
lover, and even one of 10 wears NAV
score success. But a woman fades at
the early age of 40. AS an old-fash-
Toned housewife she maintains a fine
and esteemed position. But as sweet
heart she will be hopelessly beaten by
the girls of 20. Dissolve the bond of
marriage in the laws and in the con-
sciences, and you may be sure to have
large number of respondent women
who are pushed aside by younger rivals,
now that the roses on their cheeks are
whitening. And we have the oppres-
sion OF women in a worse form than
ever before. When hear women who,
following in the steps of Ellen Key,
shout: Free divorce. free love- l say
to myself, Those geese..'"
The bear which the crown prince was
to have shot near kongsberg was with
in the encireled territory. But bruin
had concealed himself so completely
under the snow-covered twigs of a small
spruce tree that the hunters could not
detect him, though they walked past
the place within a few yards of the
tree The bear himself has not been
seen, only the tracks from his hiding
place.
The king and the crown prince ar
rived in kristiania April ,. and in Karl
.Iohan street they were greeted by the
cheers of large concourse of people.
Premier Steen gave a dinner to the
king and the crown prince in the even
ing. The king spent the Easter holi-
days at Voxenkollen, and the crown
prince made a trip to Vinstra and the
surrounding country.
The Swedish Jerusalem society en-
joys the protection of King Oscar and
the some of the Swedish bishops. The
aim of the organization is to establish
educational and benevolent institu-
tions which are to regain the Holy
Land for Christ. Each member pays
81 cents a year into the treasury of the
society.
The London Times recently gave an
account of the operations of the Edison
Ore Milling syndicate, which has just
purchased the Cumberland mining
lands. The syndicate is composed of
81 members, only three of whom are
not English capitalists. About three
years ago some of them became inter
ested in the Edison ore crushing meth
cd. on which Edison himself is said to
have spent $4,000, 900. They made a
contract with the inventor, who joined
the syndicate and engaged expert ge-
ologists, metallurgists and mining en-
gineers to inspect the iron deposits OF
western Europe and the north coast of
Africa The most promising field
they found was the Cumberland valley,
which contains the most extensive beds
of iron ore in Europe: Only eight
months ago Edison succeeded in solv.
ing the problem of extracting the iron
glance, which is very abundant in the
Norwegian iron ore, and shortly after
wards the syndicate obtained posses
sion of the Cumberland valley district.
, BY the employment of the Edison
method two tons of this ore will yield
over one ton of rich Bessemer ore,
which contains an average of Is pei
cent of metallic iron 1t is calcu-
lated that these mines will supply the
demand of England for series OF
years
SWEDEN.
Bergsjo has been visited by a fire
which completely destroyed a bicycle
factory, bank and a business block.
/ Seventy 1aborers are engaged in com.
pleting the double railway track be-
tween Lund and Eslof.
The Nordenskjold South Pole expe
dition will not be abandoned, although
the king failed to recommend an ap
preparation for that purpose, private
/ parties having subscribed the 4neces,
sary amount. The expeditionysin leave
for .Buenos Ayres with the Antarctic
in December. next. Among the crew
will Be an photographer. one geologist
two biologists, one natural philosopher
one physician. The expedition may
! not return to Sweden until March, 1903
Twenty-fonr ontSof the liz student.
at the Malmo school of technology
quite unexpectedly organized them