Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1910-08-12

his annual summer cruise along the
coast Of Norway He usually spends
q month, going as far as the Arctic
circle, and visits some of the great
fjords, such as Hardanger and Sog-
nefjord. He has made many personal
acquaintances among the natives and
never fails to see them again every
year. In Bergen several years ago he
took lonely walk outside the city on
a hot, sultry day and, getting thirsty,
he entered a modest little house,
where lived an old umbrella maker
and his daughter. He asked for
glass of water and was served with
the ordinary Norwegian hospitality,
the people not recognizing him as any
thing but a German tourist. They
could both talk little German and
the emperor entered into a prolonged
conversation with them, during the
course of which the good umbrella
maker brought out a bottle of old
Rhine wine and invited the kaiser to
drink. He finally left them without
disclosing his identity and it was not
until the next year that they discov-
cred who their guest had been, for he
did not fail to turn up again and visit
his old friends. Since then he never
comes to Bergen without spending an
hour or two in friendly conversation
with his friends, the umbrella maker
and his daughter.
There is a movement on foot to or
ganize so called Countrymen's party
in the stOrthing. The conservative
AGRICULTURAL members of the storthing
took up the question at recent meet
ing and determined to ask the liberal
minded Venstre party to aid them,
which it is expected it will do. An
interesting session is promised in the
storthing when it reconvenes.
There was a mass meeting of wO-
men in Stavanger the other day at
which the question of women's SUI
frage was taken up, causing an ami
mated discussion. A number of wO-
men took the position that no woman
should be allowed to vote until she
had become proficient in the art of
cooking and the care of children and
the household.
The great international regatta at
Kiel brought a fine victory for old
Norway and naturally the NOrwegians
are very proud of their showing. The
first and second prizes were carried
No ID cd hTy Alfred
Larsen of Christiania, and the Brand
", constructed and built last year by
Johan Anker of Christiania.
The Northern Employment associa-
ton held it's third annual meeting in
Christiania July s. There were about
100 delegates in attendance, of whom
sixteen were from Sweden, three from
Finland, nine from Denmark and the
remainder from Norway.
A dignified oak, more than 1000
years old, stands on the shore close
to a little bay near Bore, in Jarls-
berg. The height of this oak is only
seventeen meters, but at the base it
is more than twelve meters in diam
eter.
By a majority of seventeen votes
the storthing has decided that clergy
men hereafter are exempt from mill
tary duty. The clergymen appreciate
this accommodation on the part of the
storthing in their behalf.
From Christiania comes the report
that the governments cash on hand
at present amounts to 26,0OO,0OO
crowns. Last years surplus amount
ed to over 100000 crowns.
Lieutenant William M. Gown, the
American military attache at Stock
holm, visited the field maneuvers of
the Second brigade in Hakadalen last
month.