Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-06-06

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FINLAND.
Efforts on the part of the Danish
royal family to arrest Russian ty.
ranny in Finland have come tc
naught, owing to the opposition OF
certain of the czar's advisers. When
the dowager empress of Russia, who
IS the sister of Crown Prince Fred.
erik OF Denmark, was visiting the
Danish court recently, the crown
prince, who is married to Princess
Louise OF Sweden and Norway, and
follows the events in Finland with
great grief, requested the dowager
empress to use her influence with
her son, the car, in favor of the
F1nlanders when she should return
to Russia. Her majesty undertook
to fulfill Prince Frederik's wishes,
but her unpopularity with the in
f1uential members of the cars en-,
tourage resulted in the de,
feat of her purpose and marked
GOODNESS between herself and her
son. Advised of the result, Prince
Frederik, who is the favorite uncle
of the car, wrote an affectionate
message to his majesty, pleading
the cause of the Fins. Nicholas and
Prince Frederik were bosom friends.
and when the car was heir appar-
ent he kept up a long correspond
ence with the Danish crown prince
concerning western culture and So
cial progress. Frederik succeeded
in. making a great impression on the
mind of his imperial nephew, and
for some days it seemed as tho his
majesty's attitude on the Finish
question would undergo a change.
At this critical juncture the uncom-
promising adherents of absolutism,
headed by Pobiedonostzeff, procura-
tor general of the holy synod, again
took the field against Finland. Pob-
iedonostzeff warned his majesty
that he was about to commit a sin
against Providence. He reminded
the car that according to the Rus
sian national confession of faith the
greatest blessing to any country
was that it be governed by Russia
and that it's absolute rule was by
divine right. Nicholas was advised
by Pobiedonostzeff that to deprive
any part of the empire of this bless
ing would be wrong and would be
certain to entail disastrous conse-
quences to the dynasty. The pro.
curator prevailed and the car wrote
Prince Frederik a letter full of me.
Citation on the divine right OF
kings. Prince Frederik, having
read the czar's epistle, exclaimed:
Its all over, Finland as a nation
will disappear.'
Ex-senator Hechelin, who is now
residing at Stockholm, has beer
served with an order from General
Count Bobrikoff, governor of Fin.
land, forbidding him to return tc
this country.
Maxim Cork, the noted Russian
novelist, fairly fays his countrymer
on account OF their political meth
DDS. Below is part of what he
wrote to the Frankfurt Kleine
Presse: 'The cultivated classes OF
Russia are crowd of cowardly
slaves, ready to accept every lie to
save their ease and comfort. These
hppocrites, with the name of God
on their lips, who preach in Russian
society hatred of the Jews, Armen-
ians and Films today heap base and
cowardly calumnies upon the corpses
of those killed thru their influence,
and they shamelessly continue their
hateful work of poisoning the mind
and feeling of the weak-willed Rus
sian society. Shame upon their
wicked heads! May the fire of con-
science consume their decayed
hearts, covetous only of lackey-like
honors and slavishly cbsequious to
power"
SWEDEN.
Miss Anna Nilsson of Vestervik
may justly be called foot artist.
She was born without hands. But
she can thread the needle as easily
with her toe as dressmaker can do
it with her fingers. She can handle
scissors, put on her spectacles, make
tapestry and pearl ornaments and
write a fine, easily ligible hand
One of her most noted efforts is an
ornament on the covers of a book.
It took her seven weeks to perform
this work, and she used $4,000
pearls.
The lady clerks at the Stockholm
post Office have organized them
selves into separate union because
they think the old union, which is
composed of members of both sexes,
has neglected the interests of the
lady members.
One of the chief aims of Rev. Ev-
ers in revising the venerable hymn
book of the church of Sweden, which
has been IN use since 1919, seems
to have been to make it more ortho-