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er. Meantime the pore little preacher
was settin' thar in the pulpit with his
eyes walled back in prayer like he was
gittin' ready to fling a At. But when
the perfane aidge Of language In the
argument he riz, stretched out his
hands an said: Brethren, take 1t to
the Lord In prayer Let US pray!"
Have you ever saw two ightin' boys
snatched up an sot down all Of a sud-
den right before their daddy7 Eff you
have. you git some idea Of the way,
preachersdrug 'em up before the throne
of grace an lowed ''Let us pray!'si
Everybody bowed their heads sorters
shamed an humble but Adeline. When
she seen the eacon was goin' to Lead
she Jest stiffened up right straight am
glared at him while he let on about the
awful condition OF things In old Zion
church to his Heavenly Father. He1
pinted out the wilfulness Of youth, the
same as IL God never made nothin' but.
old daddy saints like him. an he called
especial attention to the danger of that
church gittin' identified with the heath
en- wayso OF the world at the rate things
was goin'. Finally he ended with q
right smart pathos as how the Lord
would not permit His sacred place to
be vi'lated by the wicked sounds of n
music u
But jest as he got to his amen we!
was all astonished to hear a woman'a
tribble voice take up the prayer. Now.
no woman had ever prayed out loud in
that church before and we opened u
eyes to see who had dared do such a
thing on this important occasion. And
thar, standin' in the amen corner was
Adeline, with her eyes shet, her faces
lifted, looking like a fat biddy angel.
a prayin' for guidance. She lowed in,
the %softest, sweetest voice you ever
heerd that hit wasn't fair for the Lord
church from the tattlin' Of a man as
had been aggravatin' Him for favors
more'n forty years, but hadn't done
nothin' for hisself or family except
shirk doctrines on 'em for bread and
the organ of the same as ef she ex-
pected the archangel Gabriel hisself to-
bring hit. An she wound up by tellin1
y how she had worked hard all her Nfer
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From the Minneapolis Journal

From the Minneapolis Journal.
Ihe people of Norway have approved
the action of the Norwegian govern
ment in calling Prince Karl of Den
mark as king. Prince Karl will. it is
said, take the title of Haakon VII, as
the successor of the last independent
king of Norway, Haa.eon vi.
Genealogists give him three lines OF
descent from Harald Haarfagre (the
Fatrhaired), who first united Norway
under one rule, but none are in the
direct male line. The first line is
through his grandfather, Christian TX,
king of Denmark, who is descended
through a female line from Fredrik V.
The next is through his grandmother,
Queen Louise, who was a princess of
Holland. Then he has a third line of
descent through Hans, the younger,
duke of Schleswig and Holstein, a son
of Christian III. All these lines united
of the house of Harald. the Fairhaired.
Prince Karl is also a descendant
from h Norwegian Bernadotte line,
his mother, Crown Princess Louise,
being a daughter of Karl or Charles
XIV, king of Sweden and Norway and
brother of Oscar II.
AS Prince Karl and his consort.
Princess Maud, are first cousins, the
princess also has the blood of the yik-
ing kings of Norway, but she is even
more directly descended. Ordulf, duke
of Saxony, married Ulfhild, daughter
OF st. Olaf of Norway, and from this
union descended the royal house of
Saxony and Brunswick, whose mem
bers In a direct line recently sat on the
thrones of Hanover and Brunswick
and still rule Great Britain. The late
Queen Victoria. grandmother of Prin-
cess Maud, was OF the house of Ham
over Princess Maud can also trace
her lineage through her grandfather.
the prince Of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, to
st. Olaf.
Including the Oldenburg kings who
f,,rpfcIo1 ta, ry,lace po, -,
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HowelIs on the English.

In the November number of the North
American Review, Mr.. w. d. Howells pub
fishes the first part of a very interesting
study Of English 1diosyncrasies." The
most marked of the superficial English
characteristics observed by Mr.. Howells
during his s~ojourn In England is the low
seems to have the quality of a sort Of re-
lgious principle. Even the English Social
lists would consider 1t ~illmannered to cen-
sure the king or any of the royal family.
OF a part with the loyalty to the king ia
the perfect acquiescence in the aristocratic
forms of society which hedge the king with
their divinity, and in the regime in which
the government of affairs in q practical
democracy, as England is, is left In the
hands OF a comparatively few leading fam.
lilies. Under these conditions, MI. Howells
observes, he snobbishness which abounds
IN england, as it is beginning to assert IT.
self In this country, is not surprising. Mr..
Howells makes particular mention Of the
personal independence which the English
man enjoys. and he refers to the courtesy
with which public servants. such as rail-
way officials, treat ever poor and insight
fcant patrons. Mr.. Howells says:
THE greater and greatest mobiles are
established in a fear which is very like
what the fear Of God used to be when the
common people fear Him; and, though
they are potent political magnates, they
mainly rule as the king himself does,
though the secular reverence Of those be-
meath them for their titles and the visible
images of their state. They are wealthy
men, of course, with Sc much substance
that, when one now and then attempts to
waste 1t. he can hardly do so; but their
wealth alone would not establish them In
the popular regard. His wealth does no
such effect for Mr.. Astor in England: and
mere money, though 1t is much desired by
all, is no more venerated in the person OF
its possessor than it Is with US. 1t Is an
cestry, II is the long uncontested primacy
OF families first in their place, time out Of
mind. that lays its rasistless hold upon the
fancy and bows the spirit before 1t. BY
means Of this ome the sovereign effect in
the political as well as the social state; for.
though the people vote into or out OF
power those who vote other people. into or
out OF. the administration, 1t is always-or
so nearly always that the exception proves
the rule-family that rules. from the king
down to the least attache Of the most un-
important embassy"
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her. an she'd light In to make all the
fuss she could spankin' the chil'en and
f1ingin' things about.
Nor thar hain't no tellin' but they
might q got to tolerate one another eff
hit hadn't been for the dispute about
buyin' a organ for old Zion church.
Thar was a right smart opposition
amongst the older members, but he
younger ones made up the none an
lowed they would have hit. Adeline
fined in with 'em an went SO far as to
have her Oldest gal teached music so
she could be the organfst when they got
one. But the deacon was plumb sot
agin' hit. He believed the devil was in
every kind of music instrument an
he argued that way from his own feel
FMS. He lowed as religious a man as
he a he couldn't pass Squire Sim.
mons when his boy Buck was playin'
the fiddle without his knees twitched
an feeling sorter gay. AS for Buck, he
considered him a limb Of satan, because
he could scrape more fun out OF that
wicked old fiddle in five minutes than
he'd ought to have in q lifetime.
Adeline eve said nothin'. She Just
went on sendin' her gal to git the music
lessons. An the community was mighty
wrought up a bettin' which would win
out when they seen how matters stood
between them two perversed pillars Of
h church. As for me. I was ready to
put up wv to n In favor of Adeline,
for I knowed how plague take 1t con-
trailer a woman is than a stubborn a
an I calculated how much more AIDE
line was than Jest ordinary.
When her gal had been takin' lessons
about six months an had got so she
could pick u a tune for herself on the
organ. Adeline begun to get restless.
an say hit wus time they knowed what
they was a-goin' to do about havin' the
organ. The young folk was Jest wait
In for her to give the word, an SO next
meetin' day hit was e out thar
would be a church conference that
night to decide about the organ.
Well, sir, I wish could "a seen that
meetin' house at SHUTDOWN. Everybody
as had so much as a jackass to ride
was thar, an hit was jam full of mad,
sweatin' folks. The preacher was
mighty young, a n he acted so timid in
the pulpit you'd a thought he was
afeerd some of them ALFRED saints
out thar in the congregation would
reich up, lketch him by the legs an
sling him agin the wall same as they
would xii a young rabbit. But he was
alters fer pourin' his lie on our troubled
waters. An so he tool his text about
'peacemakers." But the spirit didn't
move him none an his sermon was
correspondent.
After he sot down, the moderator ex-
planned about the organ, called the
meetin' to order an flung hit open for
discussion. An then, I be blamed ef
the sperit didn't move with a VEN
geance! Fust on one side an then
tother they'd rise an argue about that
organ. Every mar had his neckfeath-
ers up. an the women bobbed their
heads like they was peckin' one aEoth-
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PRINCE CHARLES OF, pENMABM

head that he cleft it through to the
shoulders. Thoralf then killed ALT.
Er1ks sons and the Danes fed to their
ships. The slaughter was terrific. In
off his mail, was pierced in the arm
by an arrow.
The blood could not be stanched.
He saw that his end was near and set
course for Aalrekstader, his own estate.
but was compelled to land at Haakons-
hallen, where he was born, and there he
died. This was in 961, and he had then
relgned twenty-six years.
On his deathbed he said that had he
lived he would go to a Christian land
and do penance for his sins. but If he
died there in h~eathendom his chiefs
should give him the burial they thought
pest. So they took his body to se1m
In Nordhordland, threw up a big mound
and there buried the king In full armor.
The heather rites were performed and
showed him to Valhalla. His saga is
e~ntertainingly told in Snorre Sturlas-
sons famous Heimskringla, where ne
Is called Haakon the Good.
Erik's sons now la the field to
themselves and ravaged the country
far n wide. In one of their raids
two of the brothers, Harald and Erling,
surrounded the house where Sigurd
Jarl was feasting and burned it to the
ground with all the guests.
S1gurd Jarfs son was Haakon Jarl.
For thirteen years he carried on a
bloody warfare with Erik's sons. Once
he was forced to flee to Denmark.
where he was protected by Harald
Gormson. There he set the king and
his nephew Guild (Gold) Harald against
each other, but pretended to he the
friend Of each. Guild Harald was sent
to Norway to conquer Harald Graafeld
(gray pelt), the strongest of Erik's
sons. He succeeded and killed the Nor
wegian king. As Guild Harald was re-
turning victorious and with rich booty,
Haakon Jarl met him with a stronger
force, killed Guild Harald and pos
sessed himself Of all his ships and
riches. Erik's two remaining sons fled
to the Orkneys with their mother, Cum
hid, who had been the real ruler be.
cause she ruled her four sons.
Haakon Jarl was now master Of the
greater part of Norway and continued
to rule until $685.. when he was mur-
dered. In his tempestuous reign. he had
many lights with the Jomsyikings
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KNOWN, but there were at least twenty
Tor he had many wives which seemed
to be quite proper in those pagan
times.
one son was Erik Bloodaxe, who fully
lived up to his CORY name by killing of
MS and their supporters. Be-
Iore his death Harald had sent his
young son Haakon to England, where
ne a a foster brother OF King
Athelstane and embraced Christianity
Haakon is often known ns Adalsten-
fostre, from his relations with the Eng
lish king.
Erik's cruelty caus> the people to
revolt and he was forced to flee. Haak-
on, the a lad of Is, set sail from Eng
land and wa received as king at Trond-
hjem, then called Nidaros. He bore a
striking resemblance to his famous ia
ther. Although a good viking. he pre-
lerred peace and encouraged 1t among
his followers when he took the throne.
Many wise laws he gave his people and
tne country advanced rapidly. His at
tempts to Christianize the people were
met with resistance n contempt by
the peasants and aroused in the king q
most unchristian wrath. Several times
ne was forced to sacrifice to heather
gods in order to retain his throne.
Haakon the Good, fought his last
battle on the Island of Stord, at the
opening of 'Hardanger ford. He was
feastlng at Fftjar with his men and the
peasants thereabout when word was
brought that warlike vessels had APP
peared In h offng. All knew that
Erlk's sons with a large army of Danes
had come to give battle. The invading
force was greatly superior, some skalds
place the numhpr at six to one. but
Haakon n his mon were undismayed
and elected to give battle.
Haakon put on his helmet inlaid with
gold and his mighty sword, Kvernhit,
and sailed forth. BY his side was
Thoralf, the Strong, and these two We're
the stoutest of all. Oyvind Skroya and
Alt Askmand, uncles of the Erik sons,
We're The champions ora their side. The
battle ragged fiercely and King Haakon,
easily distinguished by his glittering
helmet. was the target for a shower Of
arrows and ear Seeing this an at
tendant threw a cloth over the helmet.
Hides the Norsemen's king or has
he flown?" shouted Oyvind, and rushed
forward with his brother.
Come forth you who challenge lie
you will find the Norsemen's king"
shouted Haakon, and pressed forward
with Thoralf at his side.
The champions clashed. Oyvind
aimed his sword at the king, but
Thoralf raised his shield and at the
same time Haakon swung his truaty
Kvernbit with such force at oyvind's
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not havin' nobody to help support her
and the chinen, an how now in her ola,
age she WANT to be blamed eff She
wanted a little sweet music of a Sun
day to rest her nerves
Well, sir; the folks begun to hollerr
amen" before she got half through
Some of the women peeped up am seem
the tears streakin' down Adeline's face
an then they let in to sobbin' an goir'
on until old Mis- Polly Strut got happy
am shouted. This made Adeiine end
her prayer am open her eyes. But
when she sat down Brother Hooper rizs
an lowed he felt as how God had,
answered Sister Adeline's prayer am
he moved that they git the organ. Eff
the deacon didn't like hit he could go,
outside while hit was a playin'. Some.
body seconded the motion an hit was.
carried by a overwhelmin' majority.
Adeline came ON home as peaceful
as a oma alters is when she have
had her say. She lowed that prayer
she prayed helped her'a sight spiritual
~. An the first Sunday in July her gall
played the new organ. But the deacon
wanna thar. He jest took to his bed
an died OF pure contrariness. Adeline
waited on him as patient as a saint to
the last. But l hatn't q doubt she
would "a driv him from the house ef
he'd a had his way about the organ.
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from h Baltic and the Sons of Erik
who dashed across the North sea when
ever they could get the men.
Haakon Jarl was baptized in Den
mark. He had been summoned by
King Harald of Denmark to Mors is
Emperor Otta (Otho). The latter pre-
vailed upon Harald to be baptized and
Harald compelled Haakon Jarl and all
his men to follow his example. A num-
Der of priests and churchmen were
sent with Haakon to baptize all the
Norsemen. but when the Jarl was
ready to sail he drove the entire priest
ly crew ashore and sailed home without
them.
Then one day came Olaf Trygvasson
from England. AS a babe in arms he
had been pursued by Gunhild. who
sought his life. His mother fled from
place to place and eventually to
Sweden. While a mere lad he was sold
in slavery in Esthonia, discovered by
his uncle, then a mighty chief in Gar
darike (Russia). There Olaf became q
great warrior and viking and eventual
ly started out as an independent chief,
marrying the coasts OF the Baltic for
years. Then he went to the British
Isles and fought and plundered Scot
land and Ireland and neighboring isles
-four more years.
Finally he went to Norway and vas
we'll received. Haakon Jarl fed to Gull
dalen with his servant Kark. One night
kark murdered the earl, cut off his
head and carried it to Olaf Trygvasson
for a reward. Olaf promptly ordered
the faithless Kark beheaded. And thus
ends the saga of Haakon Jarl. the
mighty.
Olaf Trygvasson now ruled without
opposition. He was killed at the sea
fight at Svolder, east Of the island of
Rugen in the Baltic sea. He had been
to the and of the Wends on one of his
cruises. He returned and was accom-
panied by the J~omsvikings IN eleven
ships, but they did not know Of he
battle until 1t was too late to take
part.
Olaf had sixty vessels, including his
mo Ormen Lange (Long Serpent).
The lighter ships, being faster, went
lar ahead and so it happened that when
Olaf unexpectedly encountered the
Olaf, 'Svea king, and Erik Jarl of Nor
way at Svolder, he had only eleven
vessels, but they were his largest. Pru-
dence would ave dictated flight, but
the doughty Ola commanded battle
n insisted on Ormen LANCE being in
front.
1t was a bloody contest. When the
attacking vessels came within reach,
Olaf's men threw their anchors on
board to hold the ships together, and
fought hand to hand with sword
and AK.
One of the sturdiest fighters on Or
men Lange was Einar Tambeskielye.
whose strong bow did awful execution
that day.. Erik Jarl commanded Finn
his best bowman, to shoot Einar. hut
the arrow struck the latter's bow and
cut it in twain.
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Fish Farms-A Future Industry.
From an Exchange

-T A al We S. Ara
Its meat. fresh, dried. OF salted,s.
said the professor, forms one of the
staple foods Of the world. It's tongue.
among h French and other more epi-
curean nations, is held to be as great a
delicacy as h truff1e. Its bladder gives
us a pure quality of isinglass. Its oil
makes nj of the most valued medicines
in the pharmacopeia. The Norwegtans
feed Its head, chopped. with fodder, to
their cattle, thus increasing the yield
OF milk, and iss bones make a good dog
climates, used for fuel.
This remarkable creature.n he con-
tinued, lis capable OF producing annu-
ally 9,00O,0O0 young, and, since 1t feeds
itself n houses itself, its maintenance
costs nothing.
Suppose a chicken was like that. Civ
ing 100000 little one q year. costing
nothing to keep, yielding a half dozen
important valuable products-and no.
n was a chicken farmer. Then, OF
course, the first man to take up the
business would SOC become a million
aire.
Well, the creature rye been ta,k,nr
Is not farmed. Why, then, doesnsts
some become q plutocrat by farm
ing It?
Answer: Because It sisSa fish. Il -
the d But mark my words. nsll,s
f~arms-aboye all, goldfish farms-will3 ~
an important industry OF the future
Man, as the earth becomes over.cu{t54
waited. VIII begin to cultivate the pea
Then the cod. the caroline, the stuTlsS
geon. the cuttlefish. the sole, Willie.
raised on enormous water reservatsuf1
Just az sheep and cattle are now rafee6
on Y praaTs ya.iansS nNarA
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Take my bow" shouted King Olaf
and threw it to him.
Einar Dent it beyond the end of the
arrow.
Too weak, too weak is the c~hieftain's
bow" he shouted, and throwing it
away, seized his shield and sword and
plunged into the fray.
The battle continued bitterly, but
went steadily against Olaf Trygvasson.
When all was lost he leaped Overheard.
The Jarls men tried to capture him,
but he held his shield over his head.
and weighed with armor sank in the
waters. Every man On Ormen Lange
followed his example. This was on
September 9, 1000.
Fifteen years later there came to the
throne of Norway, Olaf Haraldsson, called
the st. Olaf of history, patron saint of
Norway. He went on his first viking
cruise as a boy Of IL. He was Riven a
kings name though he ruled over no land.
He harried the coast of Sweden out of re-
venge for the death Of his father, then to
Finland and later to Denmark, every
Where winning battle n wealth. He
fought the English at London and Can
terbury, captured the places and was ever
Victorious. He gave Normandy a touch of
the high life Ganger Rolf had given II In
the previous century.
Ola was only Of medium size, but very
strong and active in mind and body. Olaf's
saga is by far the longest Of Snorre's
chronicles, more than half as long as all
the others together. 1t would take a book
to recount all his deeds. His efforts to
make Christians Of the Norwegian vikings
were hardly successful. They aroused
much enmtty; the peasants rose against
MIN. In those lays there was only one
way to settle disputes-that was to fight.
1t came one day in July 1880 at sukle-
stad. h peasants. according to saga,
mad l4,4oO men. It was a bloody battle
and continued a long time. Olaf fought
boldly and him the blows fell
The peasants were sturdy fight
ers and pressed eagerly Onward. Thor
Stein let drive at the king with his axe
and struck him over the left knee. He
supported himself on a rock and then
Thor Humid (Dog) drove the spear into his
body under his cat OF mail. Kaly Arne-
son next dealt the king a blow on the
neck. He died on the field Of battle.
Christianity was defeated, but Olaf
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Denmark during their union, Prince
Karl can lay claim to having the blood
of twenty-one Norwegian kings in his
Veins, while Princess Maud has the
same royal blood with the addition of
tnat OF st. Olaf. These figures do not
include various petty kings who ruled
over smaller parts of the country.
Among some of their famous ances-
tors were Harald Haardraade, Olaf
kyrre, the peaceful; Magnus Barfod
SBaretoot), Haakon Sverresson, sHaak-
Y: Magnusson of the Harald line.
christian w, the greatest of the Dam
ish kings and one of the leaders OF the
Reformation, as well as his more or
less famous predecessors and success
Sors.
It would be eminently proper. when
Prince Karl assume the title of Haa-
ikon VII, if his queen should take the
name of her ancient ancestor, Princess
Ulfhild.
Prince Karl will AXE the title Of
Haakcn VII, some ~chronologies of the
kings of Norway enunerate eight
Haakcns since the days of Harald the
Fairhaired tHaarfagre), who founded
the long line of viking rulers that
retgned over as much of Norway as
they could conquer and until Haakon
- 5ASAI b vi "
the female line of Haakon ", the last
or the race of Harald. If Haakon Jarl.
VINO, py force of arms, ruled most of
Norway from $40 to 995, and Haakon
Magnusson, who ruled over a consider
able part of the country for the short
period of q year, are recognized as real
kings, Prince Karl will become Haakon
TX.
Haakon Jarl, as his name indicates.
was only an earl and nominally a vas
sal of. King Harald Bluetooth (Blaa-
tand) of Denmark, who assisted him in
conquering Norway. Moreover, he was
never crowned as king. Harald Mag
nusson was not in direct line of sue
cession and in his short reign was not
recognized much beyond Oplandene and
Trondhjem. Many historians exclude
these two monarchs and 1t is safe to
assume that the next king will be
known as Haakon VII.
1t is an Interesting story how Harald
Haarfagre made himself master of Nor
way. From his father, Halfdan Svarte
(the Black) he Inherited a petty king
dom about h head of Christiania
ford. He paid court to Gyda, daugh-
ter of King Erik of Hordaland. She
proudly sent back word that when he
for her a had conquered all Norway
and ruled ove 1t as King Erik in Svea-
land and King CORN in Denmark she
would become his bride. Then Harald
sWore never &c cut or comb has hair
until he ruled over the entire country.
Harald literally waded in blood to the
throne. UP and down the country he
went, defeating n petty king after
another. Blood flowed everywhere, but
Haral6 Frowzlehead, as he really was
called, was ever victorious. One OF his
enemies was Gange-Roi (Rollo the
Walker), who later became Jarl in Nor.
mandy and was an ancestor of William
the COnqueror of England. How many
sons Hasald Haarfagrs had is not