Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-05-13

"nlcn OrOered the company to Day
the men two days wages extra.
Peshke Koedt, Danish merchant,
has written such meritorious arti-
Gle in favor of free trade that the ex-
ecutive committee of the famous Cob
den Club, by unanimous vote, has
translated parts of it for publication
in the English free trade papers.
German and French economists have
also published extracts from the ar
ticle, which is said to be the most
convincing free trade argument which
has appeared in print for good
many years.
NORWAY.
Says Verdens Gang: Immigration
is no doubt our greatest question at
the present time. 1t must at last be
obvious to all thinking persons that
If the current keeps on gliding along
as it does now it will soon mean a
2deathblow to our people. In some
settlements there are scarcely any
young people left. In Oksendalen,
Nordmore, for instance, the houses
are tumbling down; on one farm, not
single load of hay was cut last
summer, and the weeds grew luxur-
iantIy from the dung-pile up the wall
of the stable. Old men must take
charge of the farms a second time
because their sons have left the coun-
try. Even prosperous farmers leave
everything. The ranks of the army
are thinning out, our technical
schools are educating artisans for the
American factory. We again refer
to some dreary figures: Almost 10000
people left us last year, and the pros
poets are that the number will reach
100000 before the end of this year, or
10000 in two years. In other words,
one-thirtieth of the population of the
country emigrate in two years. The
number of births is about $4,000
year, the number of deaths $4,000,
leaving surplus of $4,000. Last
year emigration swallowed up nearly
all of this surplus, and this year the
population of the country may de-
crease by 7,0o0!"
DR.. de Laval, the noted Swedish in
ventor, has started zinc furnace
near Kristiania His electric meth
cd is employed, and the power is
furnished by the Hafslund falls.
Norway has just commenced to ex-
port zinc for the first time in her
history.
Do you know that the most prog
ressive writers in Norway write the
word best in the same way as the
same word in English? The old way
is 'bedst,' the d having been kept to
show that the word is closely con-
nected with "bedre," better. The d
is kicked out because it is never pro-
nounced anyway.
The northern part of Norway had
fine weather when people were freez-
ing to death by the score in Ger
many.
Captain Otto Sverdrup has declar-
ed that he is not going to conduct
another Arctic expedition because he
thinks he is too old. He holds that
the problem of reaching the North
Pole has finally been reduced to a
money question. If some one will fit
out three or four vessels and have
them start out from different points
L1lc COdSU VI olOC4 Id OAC "a
more of them will be very apt to
drift across the pole or so close to it
that it can be reached by a we'll
equipped dogand-sleigh expedition.
The Norwegian-Norwegia society
is providing for a translation of the
Old Testament into pure Norwegian.
The charitable oatmeal-and-milk
stations in Kristiania received $4,000
in gifts last winter, and 100000 por-
tons were served out to poor people,
a majority of whom were children.
The average cost of each portion was
almost exactly one and half cents.
There is a balance of $500 in the
treasury. Similar stations were
operated in other cities and towns.
1t is proposed to use Norwegian oats
next winter and this will be ground
in the old manner, by which the
shells go into the meal.
The New Testament in Norwegian
Norwegian is a curious phenomenon.
There are thousands upon thousands
of grown Norwegians who strike a
host of words in this book which they
do not understand. And the excuse
for turning out this translation was,
that it would be more easy for the
people to understand than the Nor
p wegian-Danish version!
King Oscar is going to dedicate the
Ofoten railway July IA, and imme-
diately afterwards he and the Princes
!. Carl and Gustav Adolf and Princess
Ingeborg will make visit to Lotto