Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-01-31
SWEDEN

SWEDEN
The sugar factories of Sweden con-
sumed 1SO,666 tons Of beets in De-
cember
The government collected taxes on
16,5oo,ooo pounds of crushed malt in
1905, as against l7,350.000 pounds i'll
1904. In spite of this decrease the
number OF breweries increased. from
ZIG to 223 during the year.
Inc new sugar factory at Linkoping
produced 1880 tons of sugar from
$500 acres.
Swedish woman's congress has
Just been held in Norrkoping. Moth
ing is known about the proceedings
at this writing, excepting that some
OF the sessions We're held behind
closed doors.
Olof Hogberg, the Norrland poet
who was "discovered" by writing
The Great Wrath" made a trip to
Stockholm, where he was greatly an
noyed at first because everybody
seemed to know him from his pictures
In the newspapers. He was constant
~ pelted with There goes The Great
WRATH" That's Ole Hogberg,'' and
similar expressions. In a humorous ac-
count OF his experiences he says ne
made an interesting discovery. At
hrst he was veSed at the remarks
maze about him. But in a few days
ne became so familiar with it that he
dld not care and, strange to relate:
almost before he realized it this uni
versa1 attention became a necessity.
he continues his reasoning in this
way: THE art Of feeling ones self
to be an object Of attention is not so
difficult as you believe, ladies and gen.
tlemen! The monkey masters this art
IRON his birth. And now it has been
demonstrated that a Shy Norrlander
can acquire it in one month";
Provisions have been made for sup
plying the Boden- Karlsborg artillery
regiment with skis because it is To-
Gated SO far north. Skiing will be
made part of the training of this
regiment.
There will be an exposition in Lund
next year, and $4,000 has been sub
scribed to the guarantee fund.
The government is operating o,64e
(English) miles of railway tracks. No
new lines were built in 1905.
Erik Ohlsson. a merchant who owns
the Keisarkronan block in Stockholm.
employed some men to construct an
alle,j through the block by means OF
blasting. One drill hole was charged
too heavily, and the blast sent a
shower OF rocks into he
! had retired to what was supposed to
he a safe distance. Of The six me:1
who We're struck, two died at once,
one more is expected to die, and the
| three others were severely injured. 1t
was estimated that ten pounds of dy-
Mantle would have been sufficient for
| the work required, while the quantity
actually used was eighteen pounds.
The king drove to the place the next
day and had the accident explained
to him, and the people gave him an
| ovation.
The proclamation in which King
Oscar announced the four days of spe-
cial prayer in the course of the pres
ent year touches upon many topics
and would fill tWo-thirds Of this COL
umn. The dissolution of the union
j is referred to with sadness and thank
fulness; with sadness because it oc-
Cured at all, with thankfulness be-
cause 4 destructive war was avoided.
The Swedish people is urged to de-
! velop the resources of the country,
/ thereby making up for the loss due
to the dissolution of the union. The
crops of the soil were satisfactory last
year, and labor was amply rewarded.
;
to in rather cautious way, and
! recommendation to be charitable and
patient and self-sa sacrificing in that
connection must be aimed at the en-
ployers, who kept a great labor con-
| fict going on during the union crisis.
The general increase Of infidelity is
! deplored, and a passionate appeal is
made to the Swedish people to trust
in God and lin Him who on earth
most perfectly revealed Gods holiness
and love- The four Sundays set aside
by the proclamat ton for THANKSGIVING.
1astlhg, penltence and prayer are
| March 4, May 10. July 8 and October
| Z. The proclamation is countersigned
| by Fridtjof Berg, minister of ecclesi-
astical affairs.
: The Waterman at the Ulriksdal
summer palace left the palace on New
Years eve for trip to gay, beautiful
| Stockholm, leaving the doors I'M
locked. When he returned he was ter
! rlhed to find ugly tracks on the Brus-
sci carpet, and he went in search OF
=; something that might lead to the iden-
tity of the irreverent intruder. He
| finally found a visit card on which
was printed: Peter Paul Walden
! strom, former member of the second
| chamber of the riksdag, and professor
! at Gafle.' The great preacher. Doli-
tician, author reformer, etc., had a.
,, tually been there AS soon as Walden
strom came home he sat down and
wrote King Oscar a letter whose tenn
perature did not tally with the season
Of the year.
| The Swedish government is looking
| way ahead. In a recent communica-
ton to the riksdag the revenues or
| the government for the year 1907 are
| put at $4s,375,900
| Sweden is divided into 2,499 politi-
! cal divisions known as consumers
! Their aggregate Indebtedness is s8S.-
325,S67.7S, and it has been inc1easine
at the rate of $6,500.000 a year. The
! Indebtedness Of the city of Stockholm
! is about one-third of the whole
I amount.
i Sheep raising was on the decline for
many years in southern Sweden. But
, the high prices of wool and mutton
| have again put new life into this in
| dustry, and many farmers are rap,dIy
| CT NJ fhoS1 1,01I