Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-10-25
NORWAY.

NORWAY.
At Akrehavn, Karmoen, near STAY,
anger, it is proposed to build the
largest harbor in western Norway.
Mr.. Leegaard, an engineer, has pre-
pared the plans, and the work is so
far advanced that it may be completed
in the fall Of 1913.
Grimstad.-The drouth continues.
and the conditions in this part of the
country are almost terrible. There is
almost no water in rivers and lakes.
The Rykene factory is idle. Work is
done only few hours a day at the
Fevik shipyards. We have electric
light only from twilight to midnight.
and the light that we have gives only
One-third of the ordinary volume. Since
early last summer we have had rain
one forenoon. During the day it is
warm as in summer, but a little COOL
er at night. Unless we get rain soon
and it takes four weeks of ceaseless
rain-everything will be at stand
still, and we may be in pinch even
for drinking water.
One of the interesting facts that
came to light at the Centennial cele-
bration of the University of Norway
was the intimate knowledge of the
Norwegian language on the part of
many foreign scholars. It proves the
immense influence exerted by the
greatest writer's of modern times,
Bjornson and Ibsen. When the dele
gates filed before the rector and
through their spokesman brought
greetings from their institutions, Pro-
lessor Krause. Of Prague, surprised
everybody by delivering his speech on
behalf of the universities of eastern
Europe in excellent Norwegian. Pro-
fessor Verrier, Of Paris, on another &C.
casion, made very witty speech in
Norwegian. Verrier is professor of
Scandinavian languages at the Univer-
| sity of Paris, and one of the best con-
tributors to La Revue Scandinavia, the
excellent French magazine treating ex-
er foreign scholars who we're present
at the celebration and handled the
Norwegian to perfection were Lord
Salversen, chief Justice of Scotland;
Professor Ker, of Oxford; Professor
Baer, of Amsterdam; Professor Logger
man, of Client; Professor Sturtevant,
of Kansas.
! Rev. Barratt, the half-crazy English
revivalist, made a great catch when
he converted Anna Larsen, a very gift.
ed and very popular Danish actress.
She went with Mr.. Barratt to Kris
tiania, and her power for good in that
city Is unquestionaDle. She reads
stories and gives religious lectures,
and her artistic skill does not forsake
her. She transports the public by her
grace and her charming delivery. And
she has many admirers in the capital
from the time that she was the star
in circle of eight Danish actors who
spent whole winter In Kristiania,
making us understand tc what height
scenic art has attained in Denmark.
We did not expect her to return as a
lay preacher. But still she can de-
pend on. public that otherwise would
not attend religious gatherings, and
she adapts her readings and lectures
accordingly. She reads Hans Chris
! tian Andersen's "The Most Beautiful
Rose in the World and "a Mother"
and to this fiction she adds her re-
marks, which have a beneficent inf1u-
ence upon her spectators and hear
ers. It is plain that her influence is
far better than that OF Rev. Barratt
himself. Barratt stirs up the fire and
frenzy of fanaticism, but Anna Lar.
sen calls forth the teArs when she
speaks about the "Most beautiful rose
in the world, which sprang from the
blood of Christ on the cross He
never dies who sees this rose, the most
beautiful in the world Today Anna
Larsen is filling the meeting house in
Calmeyergaden, the largest auditorium
in Kristiania.
The Norwegian young peoples so
cieties number 700, and their aggre'
gate membership is $4,000. The so
cieties own property worth over $780,.
900. Over 80 societies have night
schools for young people. Many SO
cieties devote some time to sports.
and some of them make it a rule to
plant trees in the spring.
The Cumberland Mining company,
(which has been mining iron ore IN
Nordland, is in need of motive power
for its reducing mills, and applica
ton has been made to the national
government for the rent Of water pow.