Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-07-19
NORWAY.


most $4,500.000 In 1910. This breaks
all former records, and It is taken a.
an index Of the growing Industrial &C
tivity In the country.
A member Of the cabinet has been
studying the canning industry in Sta.
vanger with q view Of preparing law
for preventing the use Of a poor quail,
ity Of nsh for canning purposes.
Valentin Kjelland has signed 4
contract for making a statue Of Az.
b5orn Kloster. the Norwegian temper.
ance apostle. The monument is to be
erected in Stavanger. Mr.. Holsters
home.
The steamer Thor was wrecked on
skerry near Haugesund in 1905.
About so men were working on board.
and most Of them were lost. The
widow Of one Of the deceased sned
the national insurance Office. demand.
Ing pension for life on the ground
that her husband lost his life while
engaged In an industry which was nm
der legal obligation to pay her pen,
sion. The municipal court OF Kris.
tlan1a decided In her favor, and now
1t is reported that the supreme court
has sustained the decision.
An exiled Russian killed himself IN
the woods near Egeberg, Kristiania.
and Egede- Nilsen, member Of the
storting, spoke in Norwegian and Rus,
sian at the funeral. A Russian spy
was present, and ho reported to hia
government that member Of the
storting had used offensive language
about Russia. Egede-Nilsen answered
by publishing his address, which doe,
not contain anything Objectionable
about Russia. This incident brought
out the disagreeable part that Russia
does keep spies in Norway.
Not until very recently has Il BEEN
publicly known In what situation Can
tain Amundsen's expedition really was
when he suddenly decided to give nm
his intended trip to the North Pole
and make q squirt for the South Pole.
The change Of the plan was announces
by Capt. Amundsen when he arrived
at Madeira, and when the Fran lefe
that place for South America the cash
funds on hand had shrunk to about
twenty dollars. Now the truth ha,
been let out. for ample funds have
been secured. Don Pedro Christopher
sen. Norwegian residing in Buenos
Ayres. has offered to nay all the ex.
penses Of the expedition from the time
Of the arrival Of the Fran at Buenos
Ayres. April Is. until the ship, with
Capt. Amundsen on board, arrives at
San Francisco. The amount needed
will be about $4,000. It seems as
though the expedition would have
been the --LATEST failure but for the
prfncely generosity Of Don Pedro
Christophelsen.
The Boston Transcript says about
Johan SEVERN Svendsen, the Norwep
CLAN composer. who died short time
ago: A formal ranking Of svendsen
at his LIES end IL neither possible nor
necessary. His works must undergo
the sitting Of the years. Comparisons
are mostly unjust; precious few in.
structive." Still. II he must measure
to the figure nearest him, 1t would
be that Svendsen was more ambitious
than Grieg and less successful. Again
we are confronted by the question OF
nationality. Only few Of the great.
est are able to transcend 1t, and even
they not altogether The lack Of It
has repeatedly been urged as the one
thing which ails American music.
And the presence OF It has certainly
not hampered meE of tho stature Of
Rachmaninoff and sibelius, who open
~ acknowledge their racial debts
Properly used. these may serve the
ends Of the artist. Surveying the
works Of Svendsea. one cannot help
feeling that they might have Been
made to serve him more than they did,
and that IL they had, his work would
have been more memorable. s..
At q funeral in a Trondhjem ceme
terry It was whispered that 1 wrong
coffin had been brought. The CONN
was loaded down with flowers; but It
was decided to raise the lid and look
into It. The surprise WIS correct
The coffin contained a wrong person,
and the contents OF several collins hac
to be examined before the right one
was found.
The Opda1 congregation, near Trond
HEM, rejected the Blk hymn book ~
q vote Of PSI to 120. The Blix hymns
are written in the Norwegian dialect,
% opposed to the Norwegian.Dknish
book language.
At the beginning Of this month Nor.
way put into operation It's nov com.
r',lsory sick insurance Law, which en-
titles workers 70 FREQ medical attend.
ance. medicine AMI surgical appliances
for themselves and families. and ..
money allowance when totally inca.
pacitatsd for work. All workers .oves
13years Of age eceiving pay. amvount
Ing g les than $685. : ysar Il The
country. and $3.50 g : town, ars On.
dtled TO the benef. 4 8 q lepso 1.
borne proportionat1ly tie vulr 5.
the employer. - losal
and Tie aeaAe