Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1910-06-09

sen says in a recent interview in the
Minneapolis Journal: "He was lion
lied as no monarch ever has been in
the Norwegian capital and the decora-
tions were more general and elaborate
than for members of the royal family
of Europe His Nobel peace prize adj
dress. which | had the pleasure of
hearing, was received with the deep
est attention. II made a profound inn
preston. ! am sure that his Wis t has
given the Norwegians a much higher
appreciation of America and Amer
leans. Chrstiania was a most peculiar
place during the first week OF May.
During the first three days the entire
city was heavily draped in black for
the funeral Of BjOrnstjerne BjOrnsOn,
the greatest man of the nation Dur
ing the next three days the black
drapings were replaced by the gay
cOlOrs Of the Norwegian and Amer
lean flags I'm honor Of Colonel ROose-
welt and on the seventh day the SOM
Der black was again displayed for the
death Of King Edward, father Of the
queen Of Norway" DR.. Sivertsen Wis
listed Lauritz S. Swenson, minister to
Switzerland, in his home in Berne
While in Vienna, where he studied
medicine at the university, he found
about 100 American physicians and
surgeons, among them DR.. Soren p.
Rees of Minneapolis.
So many different opinions have
been expressed regarding the late
Bjornstjerne Bjornson's religious
views that it would be futile to begin
to enumerate any of them here. Many
of the religious papers both in Amer
lea and abroad believe that he became
a radicalist in matters appertaining to
religion during his last years and that
indeed seems rather evident. At any
rate, the consensus of opinion in the
various reviews appears TO be that
the famous author was given to a
great deal Of speculation, but that he
attempted TO deliberately mislead his
admirers does not seem to appeal very
strongly to the critics. So marked, in
fact, was Bjornson's break with the
official church in Norway that Rev.
! Herman Lunde did not hesitate to
touch upon this delicate matter in his
| funeral sermon over Bjornson, saying
! in part. "At this bier | cannot re-
frain from admitting that there is
much In our church which tends to
scare people away And not only in
the church, but in Christianity as it
appears among us. For narrow mind
edness, heartless denunciation and
heresy batting and scant appreciation
Of real spiritual development on the
basis of honest research-behold, of
this am sorry to say there Is not a
| little In our churches and free meet
| ings and II often looks as II every one
! thinks more of what belongs to him
| individually than he thinks of the
great characteristic of the disciples of
Christ. mutual love-"
That the American journalists who
accompanied Roosevelt during his
visit in Christiania were treated
shamefully. is the opinion of the "Ver.
dens Gang" of Christiania. According
to that paper they received great
deal better treatment In Stockholm,
where the City Press club did every
thing to make their stay in Stockholm
pleasant and did as much as possible
to secure them the news that they
were after. In Christiania the case
was different. There, says the "Ver-
dens Gang" the American journalists
were placed In such position during
the Roosevelt lecture that they were
not able to listen to what was going
on, while the Norwegian journalists
occupied places close to the distin-
guished speaker. where they could
listen to every word that he spoke.
The result was, of course, that the
American journalists did not send in
any detailed account of Roosevelt S
visit and his speech to the American
papers. And" says the "verdens
Gang" in conclusion, "our country Is
not so large or so well known but
what we need the good will of those
who are to give their opinions about
us abroad"
The building trades strike has been
increasing in strength every day and
now there are about $500 men out of
employment in the city of Christiania.
Everything Is being done to bring
about a settlement between the fac
tions. but thus far efforts in this direc-
ton have been fruitless.