Morris tribune., 1910-10-28

NorWeoi ian-American STEAMSHIP p Com.
pany to Begin Business Shortly.
Copenhagen Alarmed Over Russian
Cholera Situation.
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A committee of experts appointed
for the purpose of ascertaining the
cause of the decadence of tenant
farming in Sweden has come to the
| conclusion, after making careful in
| vestigation, that special instruction in
| farming on small scale ought to be
| given to those who are interested in
| husbandry. It is a remarkable fact
| that the young men and women in
| Sweden are beginning to take little or
| no interest in farming and are all the
time turning their eyes to the city to
enter other avocatiOns. Farm life to
| most of them has become a great
drudgery and they see such small re-
turns in it, especially the way that it
has been conducted and is conducted,
that it is a difficult thing to make
them see it in any other light. 1t is
just this element that is all the time
turning it's eyes on America and Can
ada, which countries have been we'll
advertised to them in the Swedish
American newspapers and through
their relatives. When relatives come
home to visit, it does not matter from
what part of the United States that
they come, they at once tell the folks
at home what splendid opportunities
young people have in America and it
| does not take very much coaXing to
| have them make up their minds to
! leave the mother country. The gov
ernment is really at loss as to what
! to do to make people stay on the
! farms of Sweden. 1t is not so bad in
! the southern part of the country, for
! there they have better farming meth
! DDS and better soil, but in the north
ern sections of the country it is vast
ly different. There, a renter of a
! farm has only a small show to make a
living, for the rentals are too high and
the soil yields but comparatively lit
| tie. In the timber country the lum-
Der companies have by far the best
of the situation, for they have bought
up the pine forests long ago and, ac-
cording to a law in Sweden, a man
who has sold the timber on his land
is not allowed to pasture his cattle
| there. So the conditions are not at
all favorable and that is perhaps the
! best reason why so many Swedish
people seek homes in America and
Canada.
Owing to the prevalence of cholera
in Russia the Swedish importing or
! ganiZations have concluded not to i'm
! port any more fruit from Russia. This
has been an exceedingly poor fruit
year in Sweden and therefore large
quantities of fruit have had to be i'm
ported from Russia. The importers
have, however, come to the conclusion
that they will cut short all fruit i'm
ports because of the rapid spread of
| cholera in all parts of Russia. Profess
sor Alfred Peterson, a medical au-
/ thority in Stockholm, declared that
there can really be no danger that
the disease can be carried in fruit, but
there has been such a protest among
| the people in general in Stockholm,
| because Of the fact that importers
have taken their fruit from Russia,
that it has been decided best to cut it
off altogether.
Bishop Personne, the new bishop Of
Linkoping diocese, was installed in
| his new position during the latter part
of last month. The installation serv-
ices were held in the Upsala cathedral
and were very impressive. The in
stallation address was delivered by
/ Archbishop Ekman. Among those
present were the minister of foreign
| affairs, Count Taube, and Governor
Hammarskield, together with a num-
Der of high functionaries from Stock
holm and Upsala. The professors and
students of the Upsala university at
tended in a body.
Professor A. !. Sefve will make a
trip to South America in the near fu-
ture, where he will engage in some
extensive geological research. He
will at first spend some six months in
Bolivia and will afterwards visit Peru
and the Argentine Republic. He con-
templates to be absent from his ma
tive land about three years. He and
his companions are we'll equipped for
| the journey and some interesting geo.
logical data will undoubtedly be forth
coming when he has finished his trip
| Herr Martin Rosendahl, secretary
for the King Oscar II. travelling Ii
brary, returned a few days ago to
| Stockholm after trip through Can
ada and the United States. He will
write a series of articles on his trip
in the States for one of the daily
newspapers and has also agreed to
write a sketch of Swedish-American
farm life for one of the magazines.
| Attorney Romanus is seeking a par
don for the notorious murderer, Al
| fred Ander A number of Ander's