Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1913-12-25
SCANDINAVIAN NEWS
SUMMARY OF IMPORTANT HAP.
PENINes IN FAR OFF
NORTHWEST.
ITEMS FROM THE OLD HOME
Resume Of the Most Important Events
in Sweden, Norway and Denmark
OF Interest to the seandlnavIans
In America.
sMEnEN.

SWEDEN.
Sweden has endeavored to hold
strictly neutral relation and. without
taking part in either one or the other
of the political combinations of great
powers, has tried TO maintain friendly
relations with all It's neighbors The
neutrality policy that has been ex-
pressed more than once in several
propositions, that Sweden should be
accepted as one of the fundamental
and permanent neutral states, is pre-
scented with special force by the pres
ent government in harmony with the
political ideas that have always been
held to be of vital importance by the
liberals and social democrats. But the
majority of the conservatives agree
to this also and the conservative gov
ernments have acted accordingly.
Only small group of the conserva-
tives without political importance and
representing only minority of the
party would like to substitute an alli-
ance policy for the neutrality policy.
The alliance would be with Germany.
They hold that the greatest risk for
small country is to stand alone against
a great power. But the answer to
these arguments has been that in an
alliance WHY a great power, no mat
ter which, there is always the danger
that the small country be inveigled
into adventures. The alliances are es-
pecially for the great powers that
have wide interests to protest, but
country that has only its own liberty
to protect is best served by remaining
outside of all alliances and building its
defense On its own strength and what
support lt can expect on account of
the international Importance Of its
unmoved position.
What ings are buried in the burial
moundsAt Upsala? To be able to an
swer this question correctly would be
of immense interest Prof Burger Ner-
man has discussed this subject at
length in an essay which has just been
published. The mounds were excayat-
ed long ago, but the results are sur
prisingly meager There were a few
burnt bones, couple of ornaments.
but no weapons. The ornaments, how
ever, fixed the dates of the mounds.
Odin's mound, the largest one. dates
from the fifth century, the other two
are about 200 years younger. Now 1t
is supposed that Snorre, who lived In
the early part of the thirteenth CEN
fury, perhaps was right In stating that
three Swedish kings were buried at
Upsala, namely, Aun. Egil and Adils.
From the fact that the time indicated
by the ornasaants agrees with that
given by the great historian. it is not
unreasonable to assume that those
three kings were actually buried in
the three mounds In question.
Miss Albertina Appelqvist of Solder.
koping has Just completed her nine
tieth year But she takes long walks
In the open air, she can read and sew
with ease, and she is interested in
what takes place in the world at large.
She has Just finished a tablecloth
which is as nice as IL made by high
school girl. 1t Is not a plain affair,
you must understand, but 1t is beau
tifully embroidered.
The western world was astounded to
hear from Stockholm that the Nobel
prize for literaturo<nad been awarded
to the Bengali poet Rabindranath Tia
gore. Not only had the committee
gone far afield seeking out, for the
first time in the years that thiD great
honor has been awarded, man Of the
Orient, but more than this---the au-
thor 1t named is practically unknown
in the occident.
Captain Sagen. an officer in the Nor
wegian army, who openly attended
Swedish maneuvers in Norrland last
summer in spite OF tho protests OF the
Swedish officers, was sentenced to i'm
prisonment for 90sdays by the district
court. But the supreme court cut this
down to 80 days. He was dismissed at
once because he had been detained
over 30 days before the case reached
the supreme court
At recent meeting of the Olympic
Games society Knut Nyblom, a trainer,
proposed that the first of June be set
aside as holiday among the athletic
fraternity of Sweden in commemora-
ton OF the dedication Of the Stock
holm stadion June 1. 1918.
OF the s4,50O,O00 which was sub
scribed by the people OF Sweden for
new ironclad 100000 has already
been turned over to the department
OF the navy and about 100000 is de-
posted in banks.
A machinist employed by the South
ern Street Railway company of Stock
holm and his wife have had fourteen
children in sixteen years. The Oldest
child, a girl of sixteen, is working to
assist her father in supporting the
family. while the other thirteen are
either attending school or are too
young to do SO.
Great interest is shown for the plan
TO build a railroad 10 Kapellskar with
ferry connection to some point on the
Finnish coast, so that Russian traffic
can be routed over Sweden to England.
The government has paid damages
aggregating $4,000 on account of the
railway disaster at Malmslatt A con-
siderable part of this amount was paid
to foreigners Annuities amounting to
several thousand dollars a year must
be paid for many years to come to rel
atives OF persons who were killed al
the accident.
A. strike at Karskar turned out to
be a failure, the strikers having re-