Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-01-21
NORWAY,

Inc AflSLlana naLlOna1 Cheater has
been criticized for presenting a play
which smatters very strongly of the
character of a sermon. The play is
drama called "Crossroads," and it's
author is Helene Dickmar, whose
name is not widely known. The hero
inc of Crossroads" is wealthy lady
who is 3S years old and is vacillating
between love and duty. Her duty is
to save an eighteen-year-old son who
has inherited a passion for strong
drinks from his father. If this son is
left alone it is the opinion of the au-
thor and the heroine that he must
perish. Consequently the heroine must
give up the man that she loves. The
following lines are among the most
. characteristic:
Sigfried (the young mani: II can
not stand anything, I tell you. If I
drinh only a glass or two am gone.
This is the shame of it, you see. Do
you understand me?"
Fru Mathilde (his mother): "What
do you mean?''
Sigfried: II mean that it is a great
misfortune to have been born with
this. Much greater than you realize,
to young man in my position. And
it is not my fault.'
The above expressions give the key
to the play, and they remind us very
strikingly of Ibsen's 'Ghosts." The
determination of the mother is ex-
pressed in these sentences: 'Dr.
Rein has said that my boy can be
saved. I must save him. Never
leave him. Sacrifice everything,
my happiness, my love-" Her
friend Lutzow observes that she
is standing ION the threshold of the
cold, while land of ascetisism." But
; though she cloves him from the
depth of her soul'' she leaves him: in
the home is her work, her life.
Several days of mild weather left a
crust on the snow in Finmarken, and
it will be difficult for the tame rein
deer to break this crust and reach the
| moss on which they live during win
ter.
The seals are doing great damage
to the fisheries around Tromso.
Telephone connections have been es-
tablished between Narvik, Norway,
and Kiruna, Sweden.
The weather was exceptionally fine
| in Norway just before Christmas.
There was excellent sleighing, but too
little snow for ski running.
The celebrated Ranheim property,
at Strinden, near Trondhjem, has
changed owners, the consideration be-
ing $4,000.
The city council of Bergen, by q
vote of 40 to IS, has rejected motion
to establish a municipal pension sys-
tenn. The majority was composed of
the Conservatives and few Liberals.
The volume of the Christmas trade
was below the average, and the goods
| sold were chiefly of the cheaper
grades. The sale of books was about
as large as in former years. The trade
was more satisfactory in Trondhj em
and Kristianssund than in: other cit
les.
There are three ''mush stations" in
Kristiana, that is, places where poor
people may eat oatmeal mush and
milk free of charge.
The Kristiana electric street rail-
way company offered 1000 new shares
for sale to the old stockholders, and
the total number of shares subscribed
for was 1868. The face value of each
share is $54, and the rate paid was
$3.50. The money raised by the issue
of the new stock will be spent for
the construction of a new line to Fro
guer and an extension of the Bygdo
line.
SWEDEN.
The Skane and Smaland railway
company has foated bonds amount
ing to 100000; and they are endorsed
by the city of Helsingborg.
At Goinge, Skane, is a farmhouse
most of the furniture of which is
made of oak and is several hundred
years old.
About 100 sugarbeet growers held a
convention at East Tomarfs, Skane,
and resolved that the price of beets
next fall ought to be 1884 cents per
100 pounds for fall delivery, and 28N
cents per 100 pounds for winter deliv-.
cry. ~
John Carbon, Swedish business
man at Grimsby, has advised the
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