Willmar tribune., 1909-11-03
News Of Scandinavia
Principal Happenings Of the Week
In the Scandinavian Countries.
DEN MARK.

DENMARK.
The exposition at Aarhus was Wis
tied BY $4,000 persons. including 49,
900 who used free tickets. The man.
ayers expect small deficit.
The old milestones along the roads
will soon be supplemented by stones
marking kilometers. instead Of miles.
The old milestones will be protected
as historical relics.
Copenhagen, Oct. 19.-The father Of
Knud Rasmussen has received a let
ter from his son, who lived for many
years among the Eskimos and who
speaks the language perfectly. In the
letter Rasmussen says he will arrive
at Copenhagen from Greenland, Nov.
l, bringing conclusive evidence in fav-
or Of DR.. Cook as against Commander
Peary.
Public sentiment may be summed
up as averse to granting the request
Of the National Geographical society
Of the United States that the Univer-
sity Of Copenhagen waive claim to
first examination Of DR.. Cooks north
pole data. Professor Torp, rector Of
the University Of Copenhagen, re-
ceived the request today, and person
ally appears disinclined to the Ameri-
can view.
About $4,000 persons in Copenhagen
signed a protest against keeping ]. c.
Christensen as minister of war and
marine, their objection being that he
is too badly tangled up in the Albert
scandal. When the King received the
document he mildly criticized the pc.
titioners and defended Christensen.
But brief cablegram states that the
king has accepted Christensen's resig-
nation after all.
Count Holck Winterfeldt, of Mar
gretenland, near Fakse, South Sjel-
land. lost his life in a shocking man
ner. At midnight he rung the bell in
his sleeping room, and when his maid
came his bed was wrapped in flames.
A burning candle had tipped into the
bed and set fire to the bedclothes, and
the count was too feeble to get up and
escape. The fire was soon put out, but
the count was so terribly burned that
he died at seven o'clock in the morn
ing. He was born in 1916, and was
single.
The Danish rigsdag convened Oct.
4. Most Of the members of the cabinet
and the rigsdag attended divine SER
vices in the Marble Church. Rev.
Henry Ussing preached the sermon,
In which he referred directly to the
present religious, social and political
life of the Danish people. He would
ask, he said, whether Denmark can
really be called Christian country
In our day. There are indeed many
who still remain in the faith. But in
the sciences there is no longer any
place for God, in the fine arts people
ask for beauty and not for moral
ideas, and in politics the aim is made
to justify the means. And the press,
especially that of Copenhagen, treats
Christianity as something old-fash-
toned, and makes the people indiffer-
ent
The national budget for 1910 and
1911 calls for expenditures aggregat-
Ing about $31.600,000. while the re-
ceipts are estimated at only about
see, 100000. An increase Of about $4,-
100000 in the expenditures is to be
divided equally between the army and
the navy. One Of the most interest
ing items of expense is $2,700 "for es.
tablishing more definite connections
between. the foreign department and
the press" This means that it will
be made somebody's special duty to
watch the leading newspapers Of the
world in order to keep the government
abreast Of public opinion and to en-
able it to make prompt correction of
Injurious mis-statements. Among 9TH
er interesting items may be mentioned
$3.50 for Scandinavian fisheries ex-
position, and an international motor
exposition in Copenhagen, in 1912,
$270 for seamen's homes in foreign
seaports, $1,000 for participation in
the Brussels worlds fair in 1910, and
$500 for geological congress in
Stockholm next summer. About $780,
900 will be used for the construction
Of two submarine boats or torpedo
boats.