Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1914-03-26
NORWAY

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lion Of the day. In the face of pow
erful and persistent opposition he sue
ceeded In landing the great Marconi
contract for establishing wireless con-
nections between southern Norway
and New York. Then came strike
which threatened with strikes and
lockouts involving 100000 men. For
weeks it looked as though the jubilee
year was to be devoted to an indus
trial war that would shake the whole
social structure of the country to its
foundations. Again Heftye was called
upon. Tens of thousands of men were
paraded on paper by the contending
parties. Heftye looked at the papers
and smiled sort of mysterious Mona
Lisa smile. Next he turned around
from the paper legions to the men
themselves. The men spoke and spoke
on both sides. Meanwhile Heftye said
nothing. But he was a hard listener.
When the leader of both parties fin
ally grew weary of words he suggest
ed that few of the leading men on
both sides meet with him for talk
on his part. He made some very
plain and clear suggestions; in fact,
SO clear that everybody could under
stand them at once, and what was
still more important, so fair that no
party dared to draw upon itself the
odium of an excited nation by making
serious objections. And in few
hours the flag of truce went up as do
the Marconi masts near Stavanger
United States Senator Knute Nelson
says in an article on the modern
Norwegian emigration to America:
while the scholars and historians
of Norway have given much attention
and study to the ancient vikings, they
have given but scant attention to the
vikings of the nineteenth century, who
have from time to time invaded and
effected permanent settlements in the
new world, and who have impressed
themselves and their character more
or less upon their environment. Their
saga, in it's entirety, full scope and
bearing, remains to be written by
some future historian of the Nor
wegian people. Though much valuable
data has already been contributed by
Anderson, Holland, Flom and others,
no history of these people will be com
plete without the saga of these vikings
in modern times designated by the
palmer and less euphonious term OF
emigrants. Their struggles and their
trials on sea and land have been no
less adventuresome, no less strenu-
GUS and no less heroic than that of
the ancient vikings, though less bar
barous and more In harmony with the
spirit of the age.
At Funesdalen, Swedish frontier
settlement near the Norwegian boun-
Diary, an interesting archaeological
find has been made. AS farmer was
digging ditch near his house he
struck four human bodies at depth
Of is inches. Close by were some
arrowheads and some coins from the
time of King Olaf Kyrre, when this
locality belonged to Norway The find
was reported to Stockholm, and the
place was investigated by Prof. Hall
strom, who found 16 more bodies. In
former times this locality was used
only as summer pasture grounds. A
strange feature of the find was that
a wooden stake had been driven
through one OF the bodies into the
ground below.
The large chemical factories which
are In process of construction in Fred
rixstad will furnish metallic sodium
for the gold mines Of South Africa
and chlorate of potash, according to a
new foreign patent. The production
will be so large that the home mar
ket will be supplied, and there may
even be some for export. The build
ings will be ready late In the spring.
This important enterprise is backed
by Norwegian capital exclusively, and
it is managed by Moltke Hansen, an
engineer.
Cuxhaven, Germany. - Thirteen
members OF the crew Of the Nor
wegian bark Tasman perished yes
terday in the North sea when the bark
capsized. News of the disaster reached
here last night when fishing steam
er came into port bringing six sur
vivors.
A railway laborer at oiestad found
three Roman coins from the time OF
Emperor ClaLdius. They were struck
at a depth Of several feet and are
badly worn. Claudius was Roman en-
peror during the years 41-S4 A. D.