Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1910-08-04


This Country, Discusses Conditions
at Home--Head Of christiania Insti.
tuition Arrested on Charge of Cruel.
ty to Patients-Kaj Nielsen, Danish
Sculptor, Seriously III in Paris.
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DR.. p. p. Waldenstrom, leader of
the so called Mission Friends In
Sweden and who is at present tour
ing the United States visiting com
munities where his followers have
settled among the Swedes in this
country, said among other things In a
recent address at Willmar, Mimi:
Sweden is the oldest kingdom in
Europe. Politically the country has
been for ten years and is today
stirred as 1t seldom has been. There
are three great parties, the Conserva.
tive, the Liberal and the Social-Demo-
cratic. The last named has made
tremendous gains the past few years.
Ten years ago there was no Social.
Democrat in the riksdag. Today
there are thirty-fve. But OF late a re-
action has been noticeable and thou
sands Of laboring men have left the
party. This was brought about by
disastrous results which came from
the general strike, when the laboring
people of Sweden suffered defeat
through bad leadership on the part OF
the Social-Democrats.
I'm a religious way Sweden has
changed wonderfully during the past
fifty years. Religious intolerance has
given way to federation and there is
greater freedom OF worship than
ever before. The Free Church move
ment was perhaps responsible for
this. At present there is a strong RAJ
tionalistic element within the state
church, led by a good many profess
sors at the theological seminaries and
adhered to by many students and
churchmen generally. but II IL TO be
hoped that the movement is only
temporary one.
Agriculture is receiving more at
tentlon today In Sweden than ever be-
fore and as result the gram yield is
now three times as great as it was
fifty years ago and the acreage has
increased fourfold. In dairying the
country has also made great strides
and Sweden has today more cows In
proportion to the population than any
country 10 the world.
"Of course Sweden, like all coun-
tries, has good many problems to
solve, Perhaps the most serious just
now are the heavy emigration and
the reluctance with which young peo-
pie enter matrimony. There are to-
day fewer marriages in proportion to
the population than In any other coun.
try in the world and the birth rate Is
the lowest In Europe next to France"
A dispatch dated Winnipeg, July 25.
says Martin Rosendahi of Stockholm.
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information bearing on the fate of S.
A. Andree and his two companions,
and Fraenkel, who started
In 1897 by balloon from the northern
part OF Spitzbergen in an attempt to
reach the North pole. but who after
wards were never heard from. Rosen-
dahl is we'll acquainted with e. A. An
dree, the brother of the lost aeronaut.
1t appears that X. A. Andrse Is very
much interested in story published
last winter to the effect that remnants
of balloon had been found by Eski-
mos in the Far North.
The potato sickness" is a new dis
ease which Swedish authorities are
attempting to check in the southern
part of the country. The disease Is
prevalent in Germany in an alarming
degree The gems of the disease
are supposed to be found In the pota.
to. AS soon as certain amount of
scab appears on the potatoes the au-
thorities have ordered that they are
to be destroyed at once. in order to
prevent people from eating them and
thus getting the SO called potato
sickness"
A beautiful mirage appeared In the
north heavens at Stockholm about II
o'clock the other evening. 1t showed
. beautiful forest and large lake
with beautiful shores. The phe.
nomenon lasted only about six or
seven minutes.
Sweden's minister to Buenos Ayres.
Uarald Bildt. has been chosen as
8weden's representative at the Inter.
national Scientists congress. which
convenes during the latter part OF this
month In Los Angeles, Cal.
There were at the end OF May g.
7S5 prisoners In Sweden. OF whom
eighty-four Are serving their term for
life.
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