Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1916-07-06
IN FAR NORTHlAND
important Events in SiAeden,
Norway and Denmark.
BRIEFS FROM OLD COUNTRY
Interesting Items From the Three
Great Kingdoms Of the North, Sc.
lected for Scsndlnsviana and
Their Descendants.
BY MARTIN w. oDLAND.

tHSF descendants.
BY MARTIN w. oDLAND.
Denmark.
Relative 10 industrial conditions In
Denmark as result Of the war,
Copenhagen correspondent says that
Danish industry and farming are
booming Copenhagen city, always the
liyeliest Of Scandinavian capitals, IL
planning new hotels, thenters. picture
shows. bank buildings and "Tiyoli" en-
tertniHments. The building industry,
sure Index OF prosperity and Of the
money market, IL busy. the reason be-
ing that "gotilash barons" and otheys
who are making money Indirectly
from the war are building villas
among the beeches OF Zealand and Jut-
land. The Jntland farmers who sell
TO Germany at three marks pound
butter which they formerly sold at
quarter of the price. are turning into
country gentlemen. They demolish
their picturesque timbered CARDS"
where their families have lived for
generations. aud run up model brick
dwellings with the latest labor-saving
appliances, Just now they are max.
ing contracts, 10 be executed after the
war, for the delivery OF the best Eng
aish prize stock In cattle and horses.
Norway.
In an interesting dispatch from
Stockholm q weli-known correspond
ent speaks ms follows Of Norway's
nresent-day war prosperity: The
Stockholm Dagens Nyheter Ii publish.
ing revelations about the Norwegian
prosperity boom. This boom depends
absolutely on the continuation Of the
war. Tho boofDsters are classed as
six month"; men" and zone years
men, or two years men," according
an they need war Of these durations
to complete their deals and make
their piles" The new insurance cor
p0ration is for their benefit A man
who needs years war to finish his
enterprise will insure himself against
wars ending before the spring OF
1917, A SPECTATOR who In bcarlna war
stocks VIII insure himself against its
lasting no long. In Norway just be-
fore Christmas Russian subject com
mitted suicide because he had beared
a bergen steamship companys stocks
under the belief that the war would
be over before 1915, aud that stocks
would suffer panic collapse. The
stocks went up, and the bear saw no
way out. Al another place the same
correspondent says that the govern
ment and banks are frightened by the
prosperity. The government is trying
to temper the shipping boom by spe-
ciAl tax on tonnage (Sweden has n
similar plan) the banks refuse to lend
more than 30 per cent on the market
quotations OF even the oldest.estah-
lishcd shipping stocks: and the ship.
ping company promoters arc aban.
doning the old practice Of allotting
stocks In new issues to persons who
apply without n preliminary payment.
This practice led to spectators buy.
Ing UP oil the old issues, paying moth
linz down, and selling 10 the public at
100 per cent profit before the first day
at payment, Premier Knndsen threat
ems to Introduce drastic laws of a
sumptuary kind to check the gam
Hing and extravaganza mania and re-
turn the nation 10 sanity The nation
does not wish to be returned to sanity,
The boom IL a genuine one: Its solid
base IL real money from the umlpcky
M zfu Ia,
hoom will continue without panic
until peace comes.
An order has been issued prohibit
ing both officers and men Of the Nor
wcgian' American line from using In.
toxicating liquors. while on board ship,
Relative to this prohibition n Swedish,
editor had an interview with Captain
Ircens OF the liner Rergensfjord while
the ship was detained by the British
mt kirkwall. The editor noted that nj
dinner with the British commander
at kirkwall the captain drank water
Instead OF liquor I'm toast to the
health Of his guest. II always drink
water" said the captain In reply ID
nm Inquiry. If drink to the health
or one, must drink to the health OF
another, II Is best To leave II alone
altogether. | have also been Of tht
npinion that ON board ship none of tn,
crew should be permitted to use intox
acating liquor. aud my company ha,
therefore, by my request issued tn,
nrier, effective on the eight vessels
bf the line, prohibiting the drinking oil
alcoholic liquors., including beer ant
wine, by the crew. from deekhanas I,
officers, | have noticed" added th,
captain, "that my passengers fee
more secure when they sue that
never touch liquor"
II Ii reported from Christiania tina
me miikmen and the dairy cows o
Norway have been compelled to yiel,
their opposition to the proposition /,
advance the clocks Of the country on
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