Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-11-21

Alfred Nobel. Swedish engineer and |
inventor of high explosives. He d.
rected that the income of large sum
Of money should be divided each year
into hve prizes--in physics. chemistry,
physiology or medicine, literature, and
In work toward the establishment of
peace. His purpose was ito com.
pensate those who in the previous
year have been most useful to hu-
mainly" regardless of their national
ity. 1t Is said that the value of each
prize is $4,000. The prizes have
been awarded annually since 1901,
when Behring received the prize in
medicine for his discovery Of diphtbe-
ria antitoxin. Among the recipients of
this prize are Pawlow, Koch, Laveran,
Finsen. Erich, Metchnikoff and Koch
or. It has not been found practicable
to follow to the letter the direction of
the founder to give prizes for the most
eeding year. this direction being In
tsrpreted to mean achievements. Pre-
vious to this year two Americans have
received prizes, A. A. Nicholson OF
the University OF Chicago In physics
and Colonel Theodore Roosevelt for
his efforts to establish peace between
japan and Russia. This year for the
first time the prize in medicine comes
to this country.
A study OF Swedish statistics has
brought to light the fact that 10000
persons have committed suicide In
that country during the last thirty
two years. This would mean SIS an
nually and, reckoning the population
at 100000. 1t would mean that one
out of every 5000 ends his life with
his own hands every year. The re-
port unfortunately goes on to say that
this class OF crime Is on the increase.
In the country about eleven and in the
cities about twentythree out OF every
100000 commit suicide Tin Stock
holm over thirty-two). With regard to
sex, twenty-five women to 100 men are
guilty of this crime. With respect to
age, 1t seems that the years from fifty
to ffty-fve are the most productive
of this evil. In Sweden the census OF
the people is almost entirely kept by
the state church, and there are said to
be $4,000 children recorded on the
church books who have not been hap
tized.
Says an editorial writer In one OF
the great American dailies: Two OF
August Strindberg's plays have just
been translated into English. They
ara said to be typical and of his
strongest. Strindberg's strongest means
horror, despair, weakness, final trag-
edy. But such are his qualities they
are likely to affect the literary fash.
ion from now on. Strindberg bids fair
to become the literary vogue for a
time. He succeeds Tolstoi. Ibsen,
Bernhard Shaw. The Swedes have
recognized the fact, as the Norwegians
did concerning Ibsen, that Strindberg
| is their greatest national asset as re.
CARDS the attention of the world"
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The cod fishing industry is amons
the greatest in Norway, indeed it may
be said to be the countrys leading
industry. A conservative estimate
places the total value of the cod and
his byproducts at $10,0O0,000 ann ,
ally. The cod prefers rocky or stormy
banks, richly supplied with fauna. He
is Matched in two or three weeks and
INN adiately gets busy preparing him
self for market. He has a voracions
appetite and eats everything that he
sees. In years time he is about
one foot long and from now on he
joins the tribe In its migra tions until
finally he winds up his career of three
or four years either on the Banks OF
Newfoundland or somewhere along
the Norwegian coast. To begin with
only the fish proper was placed on
/ the market, but 1t was not long before
everything, from the head down and
In, was utilized. The head is used
either for cattle food or fertilizer, the
roe is put into use as bait, while the
Oil from the liver appears upon the
table wherever there Is any one suf-
fering fiom scarcity of fat. Pro-
lessor Sars describes the huge shoals
OF cod that annually approach the
coast of Norway as mountains of
fish, This is very effective way of
expressing the wonderful sight, espe-
cially If you think of the mountains
| as standing on their heads, the base"
at about eighty fathoms underneath
the surface and the tops" extending
to depth of 200 fathoms. About 100
fathoms seem to be the Gods most
popular depth, and here the "moun-
tain" is thickest At times the fisher
men strike an exceptionally fine
ground as for instance last winter
when a Finmarken fleet brought In
100000 cod, weighing $1,000 900
pounds, after an absence of only three
weeks, but ordinarily latch of 80 1000
for each man is regarded as good
seasons work. This means that the
average amount a cod fisher earns
annually is about $500. At the bank7
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