The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1912-05-30
NORWAY.

A new peoples high school is to be
started at Lofthus, Hardanger.
Norway has $4,000 fruit trees,
and the average return is $1.3C for
each tree.
A strike in the S%tavanger canneries
has caused a serious disturbance in
that industry.
A young peoples society in Trond-
hjem has taken steps to open a farm
ers' house" in that city.
V~esteraalen is to have a cannery at
a cost of $4,000. This will be the
northernmost cannery in the world.
A gift of honor of $500 has been
raised by people of Kristiania for
Oscar Mathiesen, the champion skat-
er.
A march in honor of Road Amund-
sen has been composed by Ingebret
Haaland-a fine tribute to the con-
queror of the south pole.
Ole Indset, an old resident of Roros,
but who is o living at Lillehammer,
has donated $4,000 to Roros for the
benefit of poor people receiving no
public aid.
About 900 men are working on the
northern portion of the new Dovre
railway line, and the force will soon
be increased to 1900. The line will
be completed in 1916.
Macmillan Harden, publisher Of the
Zukunft, a German periodical, lectured
against militarism in Kristiania, and
for a day or two he was lionized above
everybody else in Norway.
The first section of Captain Amund-
sens book has appeared. Among the
photographs is one of the point sup
posed to be the south pole at which
Amundsen raised the Norwegian flag.
Roald Amundsen, d%iscoverer of the
south pole, has notified friends that
he will reach Kristiania in September
and will deliver his first lecture be-
fore the Royal Geographical society.
He will then make a tour of Europe
and will speak in all the principal
cities.
About 10000 voters took part in the
first of May labor demonstrations in
Kristiania. In former years the pc.
lice used to conflscate banners bear
ing inscriptions hostile to established
public institutions. But public senti.
ment has changed, and this time the
police authorities did not seem to
notice such notices as, down with
| Militarism!" and Death to Militar.
ism!" Last year the Conservatives
laid stress on the fact that the lookup
was crowded with DRINKS in the even
ing of labor day. This year the mum
Der of drunks were not above the
average, and those who were there did
not belong to the labor unions.
The storting has granted a subsidy
for a national exposition to take place
in K%ristiania in 1914, in connection
with the celebration of the Tooth ami
versary Of the independence Of Nor
way. One question remains to be set
tied, and that is whether or not il
shall be allowed to sell wine and alec
holic liquors within the grounds. The
exposition committee finds it neces
sary to have this license granted il
order to make ends meet, but prohibit
tionists, who are numerous, insist tina
it shall be a temperance exposition
The exposition will not be interna
tional. The intention is merely Il
show the conditions Of industry ant
art in Norway and show what pro
gress has been made during the las
100 years.
K%ristiania is being insited by a
epidemic of %infantile paralysis. I
attacks principally children and younl
people, and is very deadly in it
course, over SO per cent of the pa
tients dying from it's effects. TIL
number Of infected is steadily grow
ing and it seems as if the medical al
thorities are at a loss to understan'
the origin of the -contagion, each ind
vidual case having no plausible COZ
nection with any other.
Many leading Free Church peopl
in Norway are dissatisfied with tn
existing normal school, and they ma
start n of their own