Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1909-01-21


that are very interesting to the
Swedes. Said company is financially
interested in several Swedish oil
companies, and the exact figures are
submitted. Of the Skanska petro-
leum stock company the Standard
holds stocks to the amount of $780,
900, or 60 per cent of the total, and
of the Svenska petroleum stock COM
pany it holds $4,000 stocks, or Is
per cent of the whole. The Stand
ard is also interested in two other
Swedish oil companies to the extent
of rs and Is per cent of the capital
stock, respectively.
NORWAY.
The Kristiania Morgenbladet has
celebrated the Goth anniversary of
it's establishment.
The Swedish congregation in Paris
is going to build new church. A
Norwegian architect named Herlof
sen and three French architects
were asked to furnish plans and
specifications, and the work prepar-
ed by the Norwegian was accepted.
An eighty-three-year old man
named Hansen, left his home In
Bergen late in the afternoon, one day,
but did not return. A search was
made, and he was found dead in a
creek his face turned down. He was
supposed to have fallen down from
the steep bank and to have been rem
dered unconscious by the fall. His
face happened to be in the water
when he came to rest, and the water
must have stifled him before he came
to again.
A Norwegian-American wanted to
stop long enough in Kristiania to
take in the sights of the town, and
he rented a room. He had about
$3.50 in cash. AS he did not care to
run the risk of keeping the money on
his person he left it in the stove with
out telling anybody about it. When
cupying his room, and brisk fire
was burning in the stove. The Nor
wegian-American could barely trace
his pocketbook and his money in the
ashes.
The weather was damp and foggy
in Kristiania during the Christmas
holidays. But in the uplands and the
mountain valleys there were snow
clad hills and fields, and bright sun
shine, and all the young people who
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the interior of the country, where
skiing and coasting on the mountain
sides and eating and drinking at the
pleasure resorts constituted the main
part of the program. The railway
department had to order extra trains
to Gudbrandsdalen, 1.-The champion OF
the valleys of Norway" The most
daring among the young people went
as far as Jotonheimen, the vast noun.
tain region in the heart of the coun-
try.
Welhaven, one of the greatest
poets produced by Norway, was a
dreamer and sentimentalist. But he
was also bitter and sarcastic, and
the longer he lived the fewer be-
came his friends. Welhaven died
lonesome and forsaken man. Pos
terity has also neglected him. A few
years ago a movement was started to
have a monument raised in honor of
his Tooth birthday anniversary, Dec.
%, 1907. But no enthusiasm could
be aroused in the interest of such a
monument, and it took another year
to complete it, and put it in its place.
The unwilling of the monument final
ly took place a year later, Dec. 70,
1905. 1t is bronze statue represent
ing the poet seated on a granite
rock, in a park in the capital of Nor
way There was considerable
gathering at the unwilling of the
monument Prof. Gran made an ad-
dress in which he said: "Welhaven
was lonesome in his younger days,
when he raised his hand against
everything and everybody, lonesome
in his old age, when no one would
listen to him. And yet he was the
Wittiest and wisest man in Norway.
He was also lonesome and homeless
after his death. Sluggishly, almost
reluctantly did the people rally
around his memory. Last year, when
his one-hundrdedth birthday ami
versary was celebrated, there was
silence around him; and today the
unwilling of his monument came
very near taking place in secret.
And yet he is we'll worth remember
ing. At the bottom of Welhaven's
nature there flows a sobbing, melo-
dious rivulet which bears an
eternal message about the purifying
power of human sorrow. Indeed, he
did not rank among the greatest
minds. He did not command the
storm of the mighty ocean. There
was something akin to the inland
lake about him. But in this lake was
reflected the marvellous Norwegian
nature. What Welhaven was lacking
in breadth and grandeur, he made
up in depth and intensity. He was
a man, man in his sorrow, in his
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