The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-01-06
NV nluER N NORWAY
PRINCE GUSTAV ADOLPH, HEIR TO
DOUBLE CROWN, STIRRING
UP TROUBLE
HOT WATER HEATING FOR HIM
A Little Light on the Royal COndi-
ttOns--NOrweGians Think More
of Oscar, the Younger
Brother.

Crown Prince Gustav Adolph, heir to
the double crown of Sweden and Norway,
is in the king business just at present,
and the chances are that it will eventual
ly get him into trouble. His aged and
an1iable father, King Oscar, TO whom he
bears a marked resemblance, IS III ard
feeble, and Gustav has been appointed
regent. The king has so many ailments
that 1t is thought probable that ne will
never sit upon the throne again.
When Prince Gustav becomes king in
name as well as in fact the world will
begin to hear about him straightway, not
because he is brilliant and daring, but
because he is going to get into hct water,
which is now in process of heating for
him.
The new regent is forty, and cookbook,
ing, withs g. strong will He has rigid
views upon justice, but lacks any great
talent for diplomacy, as veil as that Pc
culiar magnetism that marks the present
king of Norway and Sweden In 1859 he
married Princess Victoria of Baden
Baden. He already has been regent
twice during indispositions Of the king.
The members of the storthing are lying
in wait for the prince. not only because
he took sides against them in a recent
crisis, but also because of certain pas
Sages at arms which they have recently
been having with the king In token o.
thu union of the two peoples, part of
the colors Of Sweden were added to the
flag OF Norway, and this act met with
no favor from the Norwegian nation
The storthing passed three bills abolish
ing it. and each Of them the king vetoed,
and by virtue Of the triple passage the
kingly position was overturned. The
crown prince not only openly espoused
his fathers views. but observed that pos.
sibly a march of Swedish troops through
the Morse country would have a salUtary
effect He has always been known to
favor Sweden more or less.
Should the king die trouble would GER
tainly follow between the new monarch
and his people unless Gustav changed his
ideas to suit those Of the two countries,
says a London correspondent of the New
York Press. The crown prince is GER
orally credited with having the welfare
OF his people at heart but he is an ardent
admirer Of the emperor Of Germany,
and has also made military matters a.
study, and it is no secret that his policy
as king probably would be along the lines
Of William the Second to None. Norway
and Sweden are not fond of the idea of
being launched as military power.
Gustav's younger brother, Oscar, is FAR
more popular than he Oscar is the
prince who gave up his prospects Of
succession to the throne in order to mar
ry Ebba Munck his mothers pretty maid
of honor. Incidentally Oscars mother,
Queen Sophia, has made will leaving
to him all her money, some $4,000, 900.
Poor Gustav will be lucky If he inherits
more than pittance of $5,0OO,OOO from
his father.
1t is possible that Oscar may yet be
king. His mothers fortune came from
the gambling tables of Wiesbaden,
which were a source of great revenue to
the house of Nassau.
Ebba Munck of Fulkila is a Norwe-
gian of a descent which the people of
Norway. where even the peasantry are
descendants of vikings. look upon as far
to that Of King Oscar H.,
the grandson of the private OF marines
who afterward became Marshal Berna-
dotte in the first Napoleon's armies and
then king of Sweden and Norway. The
forcing of Prince Oscar to give w all