Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-05-20


lean mowers and reapers was recent
ly landed at Malmo. There is ten
per cent advalorem duty on this kind
of goods, and many Swedes are ask
ing themselves why the Swedes can
not supply their own market with or
binary agricultural implements.
NORWAY.
A new freight steamer for a firm
in Brazil has just been completed at
the Nyland iron works, Kristiania.
The storting has voted subsidy of
$500 to Rev. Hognestad in order that
he may go abroad to study before he
enters upon his duties as professor
at the theological seminary which the
orthodox people are going to estab-
lish.
A prominent labor union in Fred
rikstad has withdrawn from the ma
tional organization, and many other
local unions are ready to follow in its
wake. The national organization is
controlled by the Socialists, and the
leaders of this party need so much
money that the labor unions are get
ting weary of the heavy contributions.
This sign Of disintegration of the So
cialist party may lead to important
consequences in Norwegian politics.
Peter Aulestad has worked for
Bjornson exactly thirty years. Mr..
Aulestad expressed himself as follows
in an interview on his boss, the great
poet: 'He has always been good to
his horses, but he was bound to ride
fast. He is a matchless fellow, he is
so good to all of US. Well. and his
wife, too. He is strict about the
work and must know all details When
his son Erling was in America had
to report everything to him every
day."
Andreas Hankland, young author,
is one of the most gifted poets among
the rising men of Norway. But the
moral standard of his works is low,
and for that reason the storting left
him out in voting subsidies for young
poets and artists. Rev. Alfred Erik
ssen, the Socialist leader, proposed a
subsidy for Hankland, arguing that q
genuine poet should be rewarded ir-
respective of the moral tone of his
works. The Socialists were support
ed by Prof F. Stang, the able leader
of the Conservatives, and finally Prof
Brogger, the rector of the university,
made an address in favor of Hank
land. But the storting resolved that
this poet should have no subsidy, the
vote being 62 to 80.
The Verdens Gang contained the
following editorial on the visit of King
Edward to Norway: ITO the British
nation it may seem of but slender
Importance what we may be under.
taking. A nation of but 2,330,000 souls
cuts but an insignificant figure among
the great states of the world, and in
ternational relations are but little at
fected by the direction in which our
cultural and commercial intercourse
may tend to develop. But what may
seem of little significance at the mo.
ment, may not necessarily always re.
main so. The great extent of Norwe-
gian territory will, under modern con-
ditions, no doubt, permit long con-
tinued increase of population, and the
circumstance of our country possess
ing the greatest waterpower in Eu-
rope must, necessarily, in time to
come, increase the economic import
ance of Norway. At a time when the
races of the earth are struggling for
elbow-room in new fields, the posses
sion of the Scandinavian peninsula,
with it's great geographical extent and
it's vast possibilities of industrial de-
velOpment must necessarily be of con-
siderable concern to the race embrac.
ing alike Britons and Germans, and the
attainment on the part of close kins.
men, like the Norwegians, of safe
and unassailable position, cannot fail
to awaken lively interest in the
English people. In the interest OF
peace we attach great political sig.
nificance to the visit of British Roy
atty to our capitol. 1t will, as it were,
lend official character to the fnstinc-
tive and traditional personal SYM
pathy from time immemorial prevail
ing between Britons and NorWegians,
and which perhaps was never more
apparent than during the Napoleonic
wars of 1S07-1S14-when the two gov.
ernments were at enmity, and which
has ever since attracted constantly
increasing stream of English tourists
to our fjords and valleys, where, &C.
cording to their own testimony, they
feel more at home than anywhere
else outside the British Isles, because
of the similarity of the popular char
acter to that of their own nation"
King Edward said in a toast at the
Norwegian court that many English
men go to Norway for the peaceful
purpose of angling salmon, and he was
in hopes that this sport will forever
remain an emblem of peace between
Norway and England.
The geological museum at the Uni
versity Of Norway has been removed
to a new building erected for that
purpose at Toien, Kristiania.
The rotating snowplow on the Der.
gen railway got stuck in snowdrift
on the Hardanger mountain plateau
April "a.
Orje is the name of one of the forts
that Norway had to raze according
to the Karlstad treaty with Sweden.
It is now seriously proposed to use
the buildings as home for inebriates.
The home will eventually be in charge
Of the Norwegian medical associa.
ton.