Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1909-12-30


ta, City-AIi Members OF othe,
Families Are Reported Dow w,th
Typhoid Fever-cond't'ons Peeu
harry Distressing.
ef SWEDEN. m
While it Is true that there many
generous hearted men ana hen ci
means who have and are aDou 10 don
ate large sums of money TO chitv I'm.
stitutions and the poor generali there
is much poverty at present lntock.
holm, and not there alone Judgh from
rather dark reports that conn from
the suburbs where there are s'uany
people living rather merely Citing,
and who will soon be threatene win
starvation IL something is not &c Tor
them speedily. Thousands of miles;
are without food and proper ching
and are walking aimlessly aut the
streets in these suburbs. Haga.
lund, where there are at leas 900 PEG.
pie, the conditions are descled as be.
ing particularly distressinend whole
families are down with jhoid fever
and have nothing to ea'The charity
Societies are doing evehing in their
IL power, but the supplido not begin
to reach. A nurse. IS Agnes Ahl.
berg, who has beersnductlng a rigid
investigation for oof the charity so.
cieties, claims Utmost of the disease
are actually idreds OF families who
are at preston the point Of starving
to death. ich is the situation even
now In tamonth Of December. 4
Stockhff writer asks: IF such is
the odtion already in the month of
O - Dec5er, what will it not be when
the cold whether sets in in earnest IL
January and February"
Experiments of considerable import
ance TO American farmers have been
conducted recently in Sweden. aud are
also to be taken up in Denmark. The
experiments concern the dairy indus
try. The Scandinavian daiiics use
I large quantities of oil cake as feed
sd this important export trade from.
4 the states has been threatened by the
soya bean, Manchurian product, nov
being raised extensively in England
and going into other countries Thls
bean, which resembles the common
pea, yields only about ten per cent Of
oil and its main product is the cake
left after the oil is extracted 1t IS
found to be very cheap feed, but cv.
periments made by DR.. Rosengren ri
the Swedish government experiment
station at Malmoe have shown that
when fed to dairy cattle the soya cake
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 nor
been noticed in milk. The commercial
danger from the soya bean has attracted
attention in Washington and Julien s.
Brode. 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 generous heart in the per.
son OF Grosshanlandlare E. Cederlund.
who, when he drew up his will the 9th.
or 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 CAV
$4,000 crowns and to the Sofia hospi
tAl he gave 10000 crowns. The Char
ity society in Stockholm received 90,
900 crowns and the King Oscar and
Queen Sofia Wedding Anniversary
Fund, received 10000 crowns, the Ma
tional Museum received $4,000. Thus Il
u 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 institu-
lions with money.
To show how desperate some men
become who are out of work is the
pitiable 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 m front of slow
1y moving passenger train, aiming to
be cut In two at once. His left leg
was cut off, but the train stopped at
once and he was dragged out alive. lie
shouted: Let me die for I have no
work" He was taken to a hospital
where he died two days later. The
poor man prior to his death related
that ne could secure neither bread moi
work and that he tried to end ii all b.
throwing himself in front OF the loco
motive He succeeded.
John Swanberg. the great Swedish
runner, will not return TO America a.
was announced some time ago. Fl,
has located In Stockholm. where h
will at all times defend the Swedish
Championship. and 1t Is believed tina
he would like another go with AL