Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-07-21
SWEDEN.

The following was wired from Ber-
lin June 20:
Queen Victoria of Sweden. while re-
turning from visit to her mother,
the grand duchess of Baden at Karls-
ruhe. stayed over for a day in Ber-
lin and was shown conspicuous at
tention by the German empress and
other members OF the royal family.
On her arrival at the capital the
queen was given a great ovation by
thousand Berlin students.
The queen joined in the singing of
Deutschland Ueber Allies" and on re-
ceiving the leaders of a torehlight pro-
cession. said:
My sympathy is with Germany.
You may announce this to the world"
This shattered too much of politics.
SO the next day the following came
from Stockholm:
Queen Victoria today authorized an
official denial of the statement that
while in Berlin recently she declared
she sympathized with Germany and
was willing TO let the whole world
know it The statement was printed
in the Berliner Tageblatt and caused
the queen much embarrassment.
A very old farmer OF East Narike
went TO Orebro to make purchases for
tie season. The man does not lay
great stress on being dressed up TO
date. In fact, one might have sup
posed that he wore clothes inherited
from his grandfather. When he came
TO the store the statesmen sized him up
as a poor, pitiable fellow. AS he or
dered one expensive piece Of goods
after another they began to look at
each other and wonder what this
meant. But he kept on ordering. Fl.
nally one of the statesmen ventured to
ask him whether he really could pay
for the goods or not A broad grin
passed over bis face, and he pulled
out an old, ragged pocketbook contain
ing number Of one thousand kronor
bills. and repeated the old Scandi-
navian proyerb, You must not judge
a dog by his fur
The Art gallery Of Sweden in the
Fine Arts palace at the Panama-Pa
cifie international exposition presents
an intellectual treat. 1t pictures in
joyful line and brilliant coloring her
thousand lakes, rivers. mountains and
| sky. One interprets one part of Swe-
den, one another, or all in differing
manner the varying moods Of its land
and life Each paints in truly indi-
vidual manner, although all show de-
cided influence of the modern school
Of art. One is impressed with the
original treatment Of the themes and
with the feeling of the soil and life OF
Sweden.
Letters have been turned over to
the foreign office, showing that first.
class mail on board the Swedish ship
Bjoern, which was seized in the North
sea and taken into a German port
had been opened by the German cen
sor. 1t is expected that Sweden will
protest to the German government.
The Swedish consul at Archangel
has been warned by his government
that the Arctic ocean has been sow
with mines by the Germans with this
object of preventing the arrival of mu
nitions for Russia.
England has put heavy hand or
the foreign trade OF Sweden. and
many prosperous Swedish business
firms have already gone to the wall
on account Of interference from that
quarter.
The government has paid a subsidy
Of $2,700 TO the Skanska Cement com.
pany in order to enable it TO make ex.
periments in extracting oil from alum
shale.
The prices of meat are going up, in
stead Of down, as is usual this time OF
the year. The poer condition of the
pastures is largely responsible for the
rise.
England has agreed with the Swe-
dish Cotton Spinners' association 10
permit 10000 bales of American cot
ton to reach Sweden monthly.
The dry weather has been too much
for the rye and the wheat in southern