Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1901-04-17

Scratch me and I will scratch YOU. ~
seems to be the principle followed by
many country members Of the present
storthing. One man from this noun
tain valley and another from that one
has a neat little job in the form of a
new stub of railway line, and he saws
to his fellow members, ''Vote for nv
scheme and 1 will vote for yours" BY
employing these methods the present
storthlng is voting tens of thousands
OF dollars for new railways above and
beyond the original budget proposed
by the government.
The society for the fitting up of the
E1dsvold building procured, in the
course OF the past year, paintings of Is
OF the members of the constitutional
convention of 1914.
A new whisky distillery will be built
In Romsdal at cost of about $25, 900
The plant will be finished next fall.
Henrik Ibsen announced through the
press that he was too sick to receive
callers on March 20, his 73d birthday.
Capt. Borchgrivink, the South Pole
explorer, recently lectured before the
geographical society and was banqueted
by its members
The Scandinavian Benevolent society
of London was organized for the pur-
pose of furnishing aid to poor Scandi-
navians. For years the society had to
rely chiefly upon Englishmen for con-
tributions. But the contributions from
the Scandinavian countries have been
increasing from year to year, and the
receipts from this source exceeded $1O,-
900 for the year 1909.
An x-ray institute has been estab-
lished in Kristiania for the accommo-
dation of the medical fraternity
The managers of the Roros copper
mines announced that the wages of the
employees would be reduced 10 per cent,
and the latter quit work. Attempts
will be made to operate the mines with
new men.
Bjornstjerne Bjornson has been re-
quested to deliver the main speech at
the unwilling of the Tordenskjold mon
ument in Kristiania on the Seventeenth
of May.
Georg Brandes has written a fascin-
ating newspaper article on the subject
OF modern nationalism, pointing out
series OF inconsistencies on the part of
those who are Dragging of the nation
atty of their great men, the purity of
their own nationality, etc. Only few
OF the most glazing inconsistencies of
the nationality racket will suffice to
give the reader an idea of the charac-
ter of the authors effort. The English
have borrowed even their name from a
far-off country, and the present ruler
of England is the son of a German
prince. The French have also borrowed
their name, and Napoleon, their great
pride, was foreigner. The Prussians,
the leading ''Germans" of our day,'are
really Slavs, not Germans. The Rus
slams have borrowed their name from
Scandinavian ''rowers'' who crossed the
Baltic in boats to settle in Russia. and
the ruling Slavonic nation is of mon
golian mixture. The most striking
paragraph in the article is that which
refers to the Jews. Many European
nations have for centuries been fighting
against the baleful influences of the
Jews, overlooking the fact that for al
most two thousand years the most pow
erful, religious and moral forces oper-
ating in Europe came from the Jews.
The crew of the lodging ship petit
toned the minister of the navy for
natural butter" to their bread, instead
of the customary oleomargarine. They
met with a fiat refusal. So they went
to work and got some fun out Of their
misery by calling Marineminister Mid
delboe ''Margarineminister Middelgo"
(midling good).
The Scandinavian society of Copen-
hagen has offered the teachers of the
public schools of the city instruction in
the Swedish language and literature.
The original intention was to extend
the offer to all teachers; but the at
tendance became so large that only the
teachers of the public schools and two
private schools could be accommodated.
Postage stamps have been in use just
so years in Denmark
Gustav WED has written a new FIVE
act play called ':Tummelunsen.' The
play was performed for the first time
at Folketheatret, and it was very ia
vorably received, the actors being called
out repeatedly.
-Four of the very largest shipbuilding
firms in the country have combined for
the purpose of resisting the demands of
their workingmen for higher wages.
A German window polisher stole
three rings at Thorvaldsen's museum.
He confessed his guilt and returned
the rings as soon as he was arrested.
The Copenhagen Samaritans, or lunch
counters for poor people, have just
closed the winter season.
FIELD AND HOTHOUSE.