Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-08-31
NORWAY,

Halle Stensland, of Madison, Wis,
celebrated his 18th birthday by donat,
ing $1,000 to Selskabet for Norges Vel,
national improvement society. The
wish OF the giver is, that the interest
on the money be used as prizes for
the encouragement of farming on a
small scale in the neighborhood of his
birthplace, Vikedal, Ryfylke.
Owing to heavy rains many land
slides made the Bergen railway i'm
passable. The Bergen train from Kris
tiania had to stop at Honefos. Land
slides also occurred on the Randsfjord
and Kroderen railway. On the latter
road a gravel train rolled down a fit
teen-foot enbankment at a place where
the track had been undermined by the
water, and the conductor and laborer
were killed.
A man in Kristiania who knows what
he is talking about, says: "'Those who
are endeavoring to find out why so
many people leave the country, do not
like to mention the chief cause. But
it must be looked for in our palsied ad-
ministration, which shuts out all
chances for the common man, this
regime Of impractical people who can
boast of nothing but their school edu-
cation and their diplomas, but who
have no knowledge of practical life. 1t
is this arbitrary bureaucracy, the mill
tary system, and the taxes that drive
our farmers out of the country, leav-
ing our mountain settlements uninhab-
! tied. II we could make our govern
ment practical and elect our own Off
Gals the prospects would be brighter
in our country"
DR.. Georg Brandes, the great Danish
critic, has been decorated with the Or
der of St. Olaf. A Norwegian minis
ter publishes a protest against this
use Of the decoration, and the Kris
tiania Orebladet chimes in with the
following ,self-explanatory epistle:
''The Order of st. Olaf is named after
the patron saint Of Norway. It rep.
resents state and church, the existing
social organization, the existing en-
bodiment Of moral law and order. It
represents monarchy by the grace of
God. It represents Norway. In short,
| the Order of st. Olaf represents every
thing that DR.. Georg Brandes, during
his whole life, has prosecuted with the
| most venomous shafts of hate and
mockery. To give the Order of St..
Olaf to such gentleman is simply to
canonize inconsistency"
The Good Templars seem to be los
| ing ground in Norway. During the
past year the membership of the Kris
| tiania district lodge dropped from $3.50
to 5000. Over $4,000 was spent for
missionary work, including 1000 lee
lures to 175,000 hearers. But there
was a striking lack Of admission of
new grown members all over the coun.
try. Thirty-two lodges were dropped.
In burial mound at Myklebust,
North Egero, near Egersund, was found
a stone chamber containing some hui
| man bones and remains Of objects Of
bronze. The find is supposed to be
about 3,400 years old.
| Macmillan Harden, a German jour
nalist of international fame, has writ
ten an article on the idea that Kaiser
Wilhelm may get Nobel peace prize
The piece is written in a jovial vein,
but there is a peculiar undercurrent
which indicates that the writer does
not consider it absolutely impossible
that the nation which once gave the
prize to the man with the famous "bis
stick" may also give it to Kaiser Will.
helm.
The Norwegian authorities have &c.
cided that the Lapps Of Tarma. Swe.
den, must pay for damage done By
their reindeer In Norway Il 1909.