The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1909-12-30
SWEDEN.

SWEDEN.
While it is true that there are many
generous hearted men and women q
means who have and are about to don
ate large sums OF money to charity in
situations and the poor generally, there
is much poverty at present in Stock
holm, and not there alone, Judging from
rather dark reports that come fron
the suburbs where there are so many
people living, rather merely existing
and who will soon be threatened witt
starvation if something is not done 70,
them speedily. Thousands of families
are without food and proper clothing
and are walking aimlessly about the
streets in these suburbs. In Haga
lund, where there are at least S. 900 pco
pie, the conditions are described as be
ing particularly distressing and whole
families are down with typhoid feve.
and have nothing to eat. The charity
societies are doing everything in thei,
power, but the supplies do not begir
to reach. A nurse, Miss Agnes ALL
berg, who has been conducting a rigio
investigation for one of the charity so
cieties, claims that most of the disease
originates from hunger and that there
are actually hundreds of families who
are at present on the point of starving
to death. Such is the situation ever
now in the month of December. \
stockholm writer asks: If such Is
the condition already in the mouth q,
December, what will it not he when
the cold whether sets in in earnest j,
January and February?"
Experiments Of considerable import
ance to American farmers have beer
conducted recently in Sweden, and arr
also to be taken up in Denmark THE
experiments concern the dairy indus
try. The Scandinavian diaries use
large quantities of oil cake as feed
and this important export trade from
the states has been threatened by the
soya bean, a Manchurian product, now
being raised extensively in England
and going into other countries. This
bean, which resembles the common
pea, yields only about ten per cent o,
OIL and Its main product is the cake
left after the oil Is extracted. It. j:
found to be very cheap feed, but ak
periments made by DR.. Rosengren NJ
the Swedish government experiment,
station at Malmoe, have shown tina.
when fed to dairy cattle the soya cak.
gives the butter a disagreeable by
taste or flavor. Even when fed in
small quantities., as one pound a day
the taste is found. The taste has no,
been noticed in milk. The commercial
danger from the soya bean has attracted
attention in Washington and Julien $
Brode, a special agent of the deparr
ment OF commerce and labor. has been
In Europe making Inquiries He has
been IN all the leading Scandinavian
cities and as soon as he heard of the
Rosengren experiments. he hurried tt
Gothenburg and Malmoe, to see and
judge for himself
There IS generous heart in the Der
son of Grosshanlandlare f. Cederlnnd
who, when he drew up his will the 9th
er day, donated over Il quarter mil1t,
crowns to various charitable purposes
TO the Swedish Anti-Tuberculosis so
c1ety he donated $4,000 crowns, to thz
stockholm Commercial college he gave
$4,000 crowns and TO the Sofia hosri
tai he gave 10000 crowns The Char
lty society in Stockholm received 20.
QUO crowns and the King Oscar anc
Queen Sofia Wedding Anniversary
Fund, received 10000 crowns. the M
nonal Museum received $4,000. Thus J,
is that the charity and educational in
situations of Sweden are placed in the
vanguard. owing to the many charity
minded men and women who are from
time to time providing these insti1u
lions with money
To show how desperate some mer
become who are out of work is the
p1tiable scene that was presented tt
a number of spectators the other Ola,
near the Bromsten's station. A man
apparently about forty years old. SUD
denly threw himself in front of slow
fS~oSNAASSl IL
be cut in two at once His left les
was cut off, but the train stopped at
once and he was dragged out alive. He
shouted: Let me die for l have nc
work" He was taken to a hospital
where he died two days later. The
poor man prior to his death related
that he could secure neither bread nor
work and that he tried to end it all by
throwing himself in front Of the loco
motive. He succeeded.
John Swanberg. the great Swedish
runner will not return to America as
was announced some time ago. He
has located in Stockholm, where he
will at all times defend the Swedish
championship. and it is believed that
he would like another go with Al
fred Schrubb.
Suicides are many and desperate in
character in these davs in Stnckhn,m