Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1907-04-04
SWEDEN.

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the riksdag a proposition that the state
acquire an interest with mining rights
in three of the largest iron ore de-
posits in the kingdom, situated in Lap
land and controlled by private COM
pany. If the plan is adopted the state
will hold half interest in the mines
for twenty five years, with an option
to acquire another third after thirty
years, without payment, if it SO de-
sires. In consideration Of this conces-
sion to the state the company would
in the meantime be permitted to ex-
port practically unlimited quantities
Of the ore annually The government
has hitherto so limited the exports of
ore that the proprietors of the deposits
have claimed that there was no profit
in working them; hence they are will
ing to accept the government owner
ship. Premier Lindnan said regard
ing the business venture for the state
that he was very proud of the govern
ment's victory in acquiring these pur-
chase rights from mine owners, de-
scribing it as the best arrangement
ever made for the financial interests
of Sweden. Although the company
was forced into an acceptance Of the
governments terms by the restriction
on exports, the premier said he did
not think the company had been I'M
fairly treated, as with the enormous
export now permitted it would be able
in twenty-five years to earn a vast
amount Of money.
Elsa Torne, a lady who has written
two remarkable books, has also criti-
cized somebody else's book in a man
ner which attracts more attention
than the book itself. She says, among
other things, that it is a. pity that
there is only one word for love while
there are two distinct kinds. zone
kind of love is strong, sound, simple,
the result Of which is life and har-
mony; the other is a seething, burn
ing, life-consuming one, which is never
satisfied but always hungry. There is
an abyss between the two; but only a
few short steps may carry us from
the pure atmosphere surrounding the
former into the agitating, dementing
circle of the latter. Nor do we have
more than one word for thirst, one
for the healthy, natural craving which
is Stacked by a drink of cool spring
water, and another for the sickly, ex-
citing one which only for brief mo-
ments can be quenched by liquor. But
we have at last learned to put the latter
thirst in the same class as abnormal
tiles, vices and public disasters. 1t
would be we'll If we could advance
equally far with reference to abnormal
love. But no-love is the common
name. and few are those, especially
among the young people, who can draw
The line between the two"
Swedish exporters complain that the
Swedish railways do not rush the
| transportation Of fresh fish to Trelle-
| borg fast enough, and the result is
| that the exporters do not dare to ex-
port the goods directly to Germany by
| way Of Trelleborg and Sassnitz but
| prefer the Danish Gedser- Warnemunde
| line as the safest and most rapid
| route.
! The government has authorized the
| construction Of a. railway from Upsals
to Enkoping. .-.&
The Skane Farmers Cooperative
Peat Manufacturing Company ha
bought the "Svenske Myr," a sever
thousand-ac peat bog on the line be.
tween Skane and -Smaland, for $45,000
and operations have already com.
menced. ..-...s.. II. 49,, E..
| The government has announced tina
| the stations on the Kjafinge ant
Barsebacks railway shall be named
vestanhog, Hojsmolla, Lodde- Ropinge
Barsebacksby and Barsebackshamn.
| The Ferna estate, in Vastmanland
has been sold to Johan Nordenfalk, o
Elfvestorgs, for $432,OO0. But the dea
is not valid until it is approved by tn
king.