Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-08-29

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stricken people of India.
About 100000 crimes were commit
| ted in Sweden during the year 1905
This means that out of every sixty,
three persons one is criminal
The industrial and commercial prog
ress of Sweden during the past year.
despite strikes and labor troubles, has
been considerable. AS evidence OF
such progress may be mentioned the
large number of companies that have
been organized during the past few
weeks. among which are these:
The Swedish Sugar trust, with
capital of 134,0OO,OOO crowns; the
Electric Power Company of Stock
holm, with a capital OF 13,OOO,OO0
crowns: the Swedish-Argentine Trad
| ing and Banking company, capitalized
at 100000 crowns; the East African
Trading company, with a capital OF
100000 crowns. Besides, a sky
scraper, costing 100000, has just
been started at Stockholm.
The sugar trust has received special
permission to erect ten-StOry, steel
| framed building, with a street front OF
Dbout 700 feet and with room for 4,00O
laborers. The Argentine company is
| to open offices at BuenOs Ayres and
will handle a large supply of Swedish
goods. The Stockholm Power COM
pany is building a power station that
| is to have a capacity of 100000
| horsepower. The East African com
pany will maintain a steamship line
| between Sweden and Africa and dc
much to promote trade with the great
Southern continent.
The Swedish branch of the 1nterna
tional Harvester company has more
than doubled its exports OF SWedlsh
implements to Russia, and the Swed-
| ish government in the hope of still
further promoting trade relations with
the cars empire, is contemplating
the subsidization of a steamship line
between Stockholm and Russian ports.
| A OWGUlSu
ten an interesting account of the great
| Northern museum at Stockholm
which was recently formally opened
by the crown prince, as related IN
these columns. 1t will be one of the
leading "show places" of Scandinavia
like the celebrated Thorwaldsen muse
um at Copenhagen, and it is well for
northumberland to become ia
miliar with it's history and character
We quote from the correspondent In
question as follows:
LAS you know, this museum is one
of the finest ethnOgraphical collections
in the world. Many, many years ago,
| DIR. Arthur Hazelius began collecting
old dressers. furniture, household i'm
elements, ETC., from the different prov
| inces in Sweden, mostly from the peas
ants, with the idea of preserving what
still could be saved from the life OF
the passing centuries. The work he
undertook was tremendous and diff
| cult beyond words, because he had NO
funds to speak of and had to beg and
caiole for all he was worth to get what
he wanted. Very often people laughed
at him for collecting such "old rub
bish," but he was not disheartened
He travelled all over Sweden, Norway
and Denmark and ransacked every
house from cellar to garnet, and be
fore the Swedish people knew it he
| had brought together collections Of
the wonderful examples of Swedish in
| dustry and art from old times.
AT first the collections were housed
in temporary hired premises, but
through the exertions of Hazelius, the
state sanctioned a lottery, the pro
| ceeds of which were to be used fol
erecting a building where all the col
! lections could be exhibited in a wa!
worthy of them. This building, which
from an architectural point of view is
a very fine specimen of Swedish art
stands at the entrance of Djurgarden
| the great park in Stockholm, and al
| the treasures collected by HaZeliuS
and his assistants are placed there. L
| is a monument of rare kind and any
nation might be proud of it.
/ Inc NISlIOI WA1O SOCo ChCiC wall w
| able to trace the life of the Scandina
Wan nations in their home surround
ings through the centuries up to this
| lay. AS the collections are now to be
| seen. you can, for instance, study the
| houses and costumes of the peasant
| population in all the different Swedish
| provinces. You can also see how the
upper classes lived from the beginning
of the sixteenth century up to 1907
| there being rooms from all the differ
| ent periods, where not only the furni
| ture and the costumes are real, bu
| also the rooms themselves, including
| floors. ceilings, walls, fireplaces, every
! thing are taken from characteristic
| old houses and put together here
| Such a department as that which con
| tains the textile specimens is a won
| der in itself and will repay the SUDDEN
| who goes there to see what Swedish
| peasant women could produce 20(
| wears ago. In connection with thu
| celebrated Skansen, the wonderful
open air museum, also the creation Of
| Hazelius, it is one of the creates
| of human achievements in it's way
| and has and will certainly continue tt
| help Swedes to understand and love
| their country"