Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1909-12-31
SWEDEN.

WHlle IL is true LuaL LnST0 are mduy
generous hearted men and women ct
means who have and are about to don.
ate large sums of money to charity in.
stitutions and the poor generally, there
is much poverty at present in Stock
holm, and not there alone, judging from
rather dark reports that come from
the suburbs where there are so many
people living, rather merely existing,
and who will soon be threatened with
starvation if something is not done for
them speedily. Thousands of families
are without food and proper clothing
and are walking aimlessly about the
streets in these suburbs. In IIaga-
lund, where there are at least 5000 peo.
pie, the conditions are described as be-
ing particularly distressing and whole
families are down with typhoid fever
and have nothing to eat. The charity
societies are doing everything in their
power, but the supplies do not begin
to reach. A nurse, Miss Agnes ALL
berg, who has been conducting rigid
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 even
now in the month of December. 4
Stockholm writer asks: '.If such Is
the condition already in the month of
December, what will it not be when
the cold whether sets in in earnest in
January and February?"
Experiments of considerable import
ance to American farmers have been
conducted recently in Sweden, and are
also to be taken up in Denmark. The
experiments concern the dairy indus
try. The Scandinavian dairies use
large quantities of oil cake as feed.
and this important export trade from
the states has been threatened by the
soya bean, 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 of
oil and, it's main product lis the cake
left after the oil is extracted. It is
found to be very cheap feed, but ex.
periments made by DR.. Rosengren of
the Swedish government experiment
station at Malmoe, have shown that
when fed to dairy cattle the soya cake
gives the butter disagreeable "by
taste or flavor. Even when fed in
small quantities, as one pound day,
the taste is found. The taste has not
been noticed in milk. The commercial
danger from the soya bean has attracted
attention in Washington and Julien s.
Brode, a special agent of the depart
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 to
Gothenburg and Malmoe, to see and
judge for himself.
There is a generous heart in the per-
son of Grosshanlandlare e. Cederlund,
who, when he drew up his will the 9TH |
er day, donated over quarter million
crowns to various charitable purposes.
To the Swedish Anti-Tuberculosis so
ciety he donated $4,000 crowns, to the
Stockholm Commercial college he gave
$4,000 crowns and to the Sofia hospi. !
tai he gave 10000 crowns. The Char
fty society in Stockholm received 90
600 crowns and the King Oscar and
Queen Sofia Wedding Anniversary
Fund, received 10000 crowns, the Ma.
t1onal Museum received $4,000. Thus it |
is that the charity and educational in.
stltut1ons of Sweden are placed in the
vanguard, owing to the many charity
minded men and women who are from
time to time providing these institu-
tons with money.
10 show how desperate some men
become who are out of work is the
p1tlable scene that was presented to
number of spectators the other day
near the Bromsten's station. A man,
apparently about forty years old, sud-
denly threw himself in front of a slow.
y moving passenger train, aiming to
De cut in two at once. His left leg
was cut Off, but the train stopped at
'nce and he was dragged out alive. He
shouted Let me die for I have 40
work. He was taken to a hospital
where he died two days later. The
poor man prior to his death related
hat he could secure neither bread nor
work and that he tried to end it all by
hrowing himself in front of the loco.
motive. He succeeded.
John swanberg, the great Swedish
unner, will not return to America as
vas announced some time ago. He j
as located in Stockholm, where he ,
Vii at all times defend the Swedish /
championship, and it is believed that j
e would like another go with Al /
red Schrubb. s,
Suicides are many and desperate in I
haracter In these days In Stockholm.