Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-04-22
SWEDEN,

lOClery.
The workingmen are not going to
join the anti-whiskey strike by sign
ing the total abstinence pledge, but
they recommend abstinence from
whiskey as a hint to the government
and the riksdag that the new whis-
key tax is obnoxious to them.
The famine aid committee has dis
tributed $4,000 in Jentland.
A new society for cooperation be-
tween students and workingmen has,
been organized in Upsala.
DR.. Klopsch of the New York Chris
tian Herald, who has been travelling
in northern Sweden, speaks very
highly OF Governor Bergstrom Of
Norrbotten. Says DR.. Klopsch: "Dr.
Bergstrom is the best business man
have met on my trip. AS president of
some great American railway system
he would be worth $4,000 a year."
He also says: "What splendid people
the Swedes in America are! l have
four Swedish girls in my house. When
I told them that l was going to Swe-
den they burst out crying"
A farmer in northern Skane wanted
better COW than the one he had, so
he took this to the market and sold
it for a reasonble price. The next
thing he did was to treat his friends
to a good drink. Then he started out
to buy new COW, and after a lengthy
search he struck a cow that he took
a liking to. He bought it, paying
$40 more than. he received for his
old cow. But when he came homo
what did his wife explain to him?
It was the same old COW!
More potatoes will be planted in
Skane this year than ever before.
This is due largely to the arbitrary
methods resorted to by the sugar
manufacturers, making potatoes safer
and more profitable than sugar beets.
Kristina Tobiasdotter of Morup,
Holland, rounded off the first CEN
fury of her life March p. Her mind
and body are in fine condition, and
she does some house-work every day.
Malmo, which has only two-thirds
as many inhabitants as Gothenburg,
is the second manufacturing city in
Sweden.
The central committee of the social
democratic party has issued state
ment to the effect that the inaugural
ed suffrage reform movement may
not accomplish results that are salts
factory to the laboring classes, and
the labor unions are warned to be
prepared for another national strike.
When the suffrage reform bill shall
have been presented to the riksdag
the social democrats will hold ma
tional convention to discuss this mat
ter.
The Swedish almanac for 1904 will
contain an essay on the preparation
and use of peat as fuel. Engineer
ALT. Larson has been engaged to
write the essay.
August Lindberg has made great
hit by reciting Ibsen's "Peer Gynt'
at public entertainments. His rem
dering is so mastery that it makes a
deeper impression upon the hearers
than performance by mediocre
actors.
It is seriously proposed that the
national government erect dwelling
houses for the employees and function
aries of the national government in
Stockholm.
Many Swedes whose names end in
''son" are changing them to some
thing more characteristic. But as
the government objects to the adop-
ton of the we'll known family names,
they have to choose something I'M
usual. There are three samples of
names recently adopted by Johans-
son, Person and Hansson: German,
Lydow and Heindow.
The Turkish government desires to
hire two Swedish officers to have
charge of the gendarmeries in Kos
sowo, Monastir and Saloniki, Mace
donia, for three years. The salary Of
fered is about $1,000 year for each,
besides expenses, insurance, etc. If
the offer is accepted the officers shall
not be required to fight the Bulga-
rians.
Sweden had 10000 manufacturing
establishments in 1901.
The Norwegian storthing raised
the tariff on rubber goods, the law
taking effect April first. No less
than three carloads of rubber goods
were exported from Malmo to Nor-
way in one day just before tho
I above date.
The school board of Vexfo has re-
ceived donation of $500 from Carl
j. >Appelman, a Swede residing in
Iowa. But neither the principal nor
the interest shall be touched until 200
years from now, by which time tho
school board of .Vexio will have .
snug SUM Of about $a,ooo, ooo.-Sma-
landsPosts1t ~ u.s. !. IL.