Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-02-27

mitted by the government to export
100000 tons Of ore a year besides
the 100000 tons exported every year
by the way of the harbor of Norvik,
Norway The rumor had no founda-
ton in fact, but the stocks of the COM
pany jumped several points, to the sur
prise of those who were fooled.
NORWAY.
The people Of Kristiania are in the
midst of a great religious excitement,
which is so many sided that it has a
fair chance to get into the homes and
haunts Of all sorts of people. To be-
gin at the top, the theologians are di-
vided into two camps, liberal christ
ianity' being the watchword in one Of
them, while the other is strictly ortho-
dox. Both parties are giving series OF
lectures in the churches. But they do
not attack each other directly, they
only explain the religious questions ac-
cording to their own views. Prof.
Brandrud, for instance, has declared
that confirmation halls from the Ana
Baptists, hence it is Ana-Baptistic. A
few months ago a minister refused to
pared for confirmation, and, since that
incident the question Of confirmation
has become "burning" one in the
church of Norway. It may be that con-
firmation, not communion, will be the
great issue in the future. Rev. Stor-
johann and other preachers Of the old
school are assailing Bible criticism
with great vehemence. Storjohann has
published a book which he calls 'The
Bible on the Rack" Many public
school teachers have protested against
bible history as it is taught in the
schools because 1t conflicts with the
history Of the world. Now, the above
controversies are carried on in what
may be called the higher strata Of
society At the same time religion is
stirring the masses Of the people even
more profoundly. The religious preach
ers are vying with each other in get
ting the ears and hearts Of the common
people. The Salvation Army is reap
ing a particularly rich harvest Cen
eral Booth himself spoke few even
ings ago in the National theater, and
low-rate tickets were sold as If it had
been a variety show. Rev. Barratt, a
Methodist preacher, and Erick Ander-
son, a lay preacher, have commenced
to cooperate, and their talk is so ex-
citing that many of their hearers have
fainting spells. The noise at their
meetings is deafening. People scream,
Come, Lord Jesus! Come Lord
Jesus!" They utter disconnected, I'M
Ineligible words and produce sounds
which are more like barks and yells
than human speech, and not a few
minds become seriously unbalanced.
In the recent tilt between the cabi-
net and the storting Mr.. Konow, a
member Of the latter and ex-member
of the cabinet, shouted to Premier
Nicholson, quoting the words of the
button -moulder in Peer Gynt, 1--WE
shall meet at the next crossroads,
Peer!" BY this was meant that there
will soon be another contest between
the storting and the cabinet, and it is
surmised that the issue will be the
status Of the pure" Norwegian Ian
guage on the one hand and the Nor
wegian-Danish on the other. If the
cabinet is beaten, which is not at all
unlikely, Mr.. Lovland, the present min
lister Of foreign affairs, may be called
upon to form new cabinet.
The strength of the cabinet has been
tested in the storting A committee is
to do a good deal of preliminary work
before a safe plan can be evolved for
raising a national invalid and old age
insurance fund. The cabinet wanted
to appoint this committee, but a strong
faction in the storting wanted the
committee elected by that body. The
matter was discussed with consider
able animation for three days, and the
vote was 63 to SO in favor Of the cabi-
net. This, however, does not indicate
the full strength of the cabinet in the
storting. The cabinet would have re-
signed if it had been defeated in this
contest.
An automobile club has been organ
lied in Kristiania.
A monument Of Henrick ~wergeland
is to be erected in Kristiansand.
It is $50 years since mail service
was put into operation in Norway.
An organization which may be
called the International Norwegians'
Union Is making considerable Roadway
in Kristiania.
Edward Gr1eg is going to give con-
cert in Berlin April IL. The whole pro-
gram will be made up Of Griee COM
positions.
At Kristiansund there has been such
a demand for help to prepare the her.
rings for sailing that an expert girl
could make, as much as $3.50 day.
Ole Berge, a hotel keeper, and his
daughter drove with a reindeer across
the Jotunheimen mountains. It took
them about six hours to 70 from
Turtegrod to Elvesater, a distance Of
about 40 (English) miles.
The storting resolved by a. vote of
81 to 40 to coin 10000 souvenir two
kroner GA cents) pieces for distribu-
ton among the conscripts who were
stationed along the. Swedish frontiers
in 1905.
General Booth was received in audi
ence by King Haakon, and the CONVEX
sation lasted about half an hour.
A movement is on foot to start a CO.
operative packing house in Voss.
While Julie Dybdal, an old woman
living near 9Trondhjem, was building
a fire in her heating stove her clothing
caught fire. Her screams brought
some Of her neighbors to the scene. but
when thew arrived her clothes ~uaro on