The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-08-18
NORWAY AND SWEDEN.
Interesting Account of Summer Life in
 Scandinavia.

 instead of landing at one of the Eng fish, German or Dutch ports. :,I
 It is strange how soon the voyagers get acquainted on board steamer. ya-l rious deck games are participated in on | the voyage, some excellent music was | frequently heard in the saloons and | several nights dancing on deck was en- I joyed. Thus pass the merry days all l too soon. |
 The first land sighted was Rockall. a mountain peak" extending some sev- enty-fiye feet out of the ocean, and iy- l ing some two hundred miles off the l Scotland coast Its only inhabitants are birds and there are nlyriads of them. ~*
 The Hebrides were sighted early the following morning and soon We were passing the green hills of Scotland. By noon we found ourselves sailing be- tween the Orkney Islands, the verdure on shore seeming to thrive under cold
 bracing air.. much like that of bright
 November day. At one of the islands the birds were so thick as to give the impression of snow storm. There must have been millions of thenn. f,s~
 1 Now leaving the welcome land behind with we'll nigh winter temperature, we crossed the North sea and into the l Skagerraek, and awaking early the l next morning, we found ourselves fol- lowing closely the bold mountainous lcoast of Norway. Words of pen seem inadequate to express the grandeur of the many fiords and mountain peaks .l lJxy1ns oh finally sailoing into the beautiful harbor of Christiansands we beheld vista upon
 vista not even equalled by the Bay of l Naples. 4.s ,..->. j. .l Christiansands. a quaint little town of some thirteen thousand people, was l where many of us disembarked. Eve rything here seemed curious. The houses are small. many of them but one story high, but at each window hand
 made curtains were seen often very beautiful and valuable. The horses are hardly larger than ponies and many of
 them yellow in color. Our delegation took possession of the market place for time, almost everything being. sold
 there from fish to vegetables. We en-
 joyed the large strawberries and ex-
 eellent cherries. ..... X
 X The saloons and drinking places here
 are closed from 5 p, m. Saturday until
 a. m. Monday-not even cigar to be sold on Sunday. Members of the Sal-
 vation Army are held in much esteem.
 King Oscar, I'm told, favors their work greatly and the queen, a very religious
 woman and one of extensive means, is , to leave her entire wealth upon her
 death to the Salvationists. ss4
 Sunday evening left on the English line for Christiania, the capital of Nor way. It was after midnight when l re- tired and then it was hardly darker than twilight: in fact the sun had be- gun to rise. The fjord into Christiania tor harbor as we would say) Is sixty
 miles long and dotted with many is- lands, with little fishing Settlements along the shores. while in the back
 ground is invariably the high pine-clad
 mountains.
 Immediately upon arrival we wit
 messed the return of thousands of the
 troops. They all looked overworked
 and underfed. But in the evening many of them attended the "Tivoli," an outdoor vaudeville garden, and quite a
 transformation in their appearance had taken place.
 l The palace where the king spends ] several months of each year was vtsi-
 ted The ball room with its gold and mirror effect, the billiard room, the cut
 glass chandeliers, the paintings and ta-
 pestries were all admired.
 A viking ship, thousand years old
 Is perhaps the most interesting thing ir the city. In it were found the bones oi
 king and articles of household neces-
 sity. The picture gallery contains some
 good paintings by Norwegian artists
 while the National Museum is valuable
 for it's antiquities of Norway and Swe-
 den Gols kirk, eight hundred years
 old, with it's curious architecture, one oi
 the relics of the days of Catholicism, is
 carefully cherished, but not for reli,
 gious reasons, as are many of the altar
 pieces, old collins, Bibles (150o), &c Al
 Byzdo sea bathing resort. heard a
 remarkably fine orchestra from Rome and as soloist Norway's great opera tenor Hagman. The evening was 6
 rare treat. In these gardens supper is served while the band plays, and in this way the well-to-do residents spend the long twilight hours of the night. Ere
 quently lights are not turned on until eleven. <%'
 One afternoon took a mountain rail-
 way up to Hoilemkollen, north of Chris. tiania, where superb panoramic view
 of the city and surrounding mountains I ous country was obtained. The wealth
 CT. while clear, was little cold most oi the time, but when one remembers thai Christiania is of the same latitude as ~ Greenland, they then will not look foi the torrid days of New England. #
 . Eight hours by rail brought me to
 TrolIhaetten, Sweden, where are the grandest rapids and falls in Europe For over mile this raging torrent car
 be seen from the window of my hote room. Many pleasant walks and !, mountain climbs are made from here
 It is at this point that the eight or ter $ locks of the Gotha canal can be seer
 operated This to me was very inter. ' esting. By means of these locks steam. ; CTS are lowered or raised several hun , dred feet. s Gothenberg, some two hours south was a charming seaport city of one