The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1907-12-19

side of the palace great crowds stood
with bowed heads and fearful eyes
long after the announcement came of
the death Of the well loved sovereign.
Naturally enough the whole country
IS bowed down with grief, for King
Oscar was not only a kind and con-
slderate ruler, but had endeared him
self to his people almost as an in
innate and personal friend would have
done. When the flag on the palace
was dipped to half mast there was
moan Of anguish from the multitude
and many Of them cried "Our dear old
king is dead.'' The report of King
Oscars death has caused profound
grief the world over, not the least so
In America, where thousands of his
former subjects mourn him as a man
whose rule was kind and considerable
and one which brought the best inter-
ests Of civilization to the foreground
so far as Scandinavian civilization is
concerned. Many are those in the
great northwest who we'll remember
the kindly expression in that good old
face and many more are those who
shall silently bless the good work
which he has done. The last hours of
the expiring monarch were passed in
Inconsistencies and up to the end he
gave no sign of recognizing those
about him. The queen was grief
stricken because he could not bid her
good bye. In the death chamber
knelt the heart broken queen and
gathered about her were her children,
grandchildren and great grandchildren
praying for strength to bear this great
afHiction. The church bells began to
toll and the minute guns doomed. All
Sweden mourns its great loss. At 1
o'clock in the afternoon King Gustaf
took the oath Of office before the
cabinet and court assembled in the
grand gallery. The oath was admin.
istered by Minister Lindman. Then
the princes Of the blood swore al
)egiance to the new king, who en-
braced them, giving his favorite broth
er, Carl, hearty slap on the back.
Gustaf V has published a proclama-
ton addressed to the administrative
and ecclesiastical authorities inform.
ing them of his accession to the throne
and a further proclamation addressed
to the people of Sweden, in which he
refers in eulogistic terms to their late
sovereign. In the latter he says:
providence richly endowed that mag
unanimous prince with great and bril-
liant qualities. His sense of duty, his
respect for justice and his love for
right and his unceasing regard for the
welfare Of his subjects-these were
the traits of character in the late king
which we shall always remember with
gratitude and regret" The proclama-
ton refers briefly to the material prog.
ress of Sweden under Oscars reign,
and then Gustave addressed himself
personally to the people, saying among
other things; "Our aim will always be
to unite our people for the common
work for the fatherland. Recognizing
fully that to this end we must look to
the continuous cooperation of all
classes, we expect the loyal aid of all
our subjects. Only when the Swedish
nation as whole recognizes it's re.
sponsibility toward the fatherland can
success be attained" SWeden's home
and foreign policy is likely to be little
changed under the new monarch, who
is regarded strongly constitutional in
character and inclined to dispense
with some old formalit1es and cere-
monials of court. Certainly as far as
the Norwegian question is concerned
there will be no changes.
The five Nobel prizes, founded with
his vast fortune by Alfred Nobel, the
inventor of dynamite, to reward each
year those who have aided humanity
by scientific or medical research, by
idealistic literature and by the promo