The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-06-14
NORWAY.

the radical portion OF the Norwegian
people began to demand the removal
of the Union Sign" from the Norwe-
gian flag. EARLY il The morning of a
18th of May some thirty years ago the
good people of Drammen were shocked
to see a pure" Norwegian flag wav-
ing in the wind above the DraAamen
bridge. A rush was made for the res
olutionary--no, hold on!-the ana1-
chistic piece of canvass But at the
foot of the flagstaff stood Emilius
Eriksen, broad-shouldered and defiant.
he sWOre that the flag WIS to remain
n the air as long as hs could swing
an ak. and he actually held shining
ak in his hand. No one had cause to
find out whether he was in earnest
and as Emilius Eriksen remained at
the spot all day the 'p1re' flag had
nothing more serious 10 deal with
than the tickle May-day breezes.
Those who took part in that flag con-
trovarsy some thirty years ago are
wondering themselves how they could
impuce such tremendous Importance
to the pure" flag squabble. Even in
the mind Of Emilius Eriksen himself it
is gradually changing from a tragedy
to a COMEDY.
How to get rich by trading in
horses. A farmer at Viborg wanted to
buy ? horse very badly. But he had
very, very little money. Finally he
ran across horse that he could have
for So. He made up his mind that this
was the horse FOR him, and he bought
it. To clinch the bargain he and
the former owner of the horse went In.
to a saloon to take a drink. They
were in no great hurry to get out
again. When they finally did come
out the horse was dead. Now, this
really seemed a streak of very bad
luck. But our man did not become
discouraged. He went to a man who
was in the habit of turning all sorts
of uncouth material into cash, and
this man paid 81 for the dead horse.
So the man who was supposed to have
sustained loss actually made one
dollar that the former owner of the
horse might have made II he had
known as much as the owner number
two did.
special stock census was taken in
Denmark last February. The returns
nave been compiled suffi ciently to
bring out the following figures: There
were $4,000 horses and colts, az
against $4,000 in May last year.
There were 100000 head of cattle,
as against 2,416,O00 a year ago. This
made a decrease of $4,000 in about
r'ne months. From July, 1914, to
May, 1915, the decrease in the mum
Der of hogs was 100000. The low wa
ter mark seems to have been reached
at the latter date, for there was an in
crease of $4,000 from May, 1915, to
February, 1915. In the number OF
sheep there was tremendous slump
from 533,o34 In May, 1915, to 254 $3.50
in February, 1916. All these figures
are misleading, for the May census OF
1915 included hundreds of thousands
of animals just born, while the Febru
airy census this year came before the
setting in Of the spring births.
The isolated system of narrow
mountain valleys and fjords known as
Sogn has always been one of the most
romantic nOrt;Onc nc Noru,o~, "a.
pie are witty and smart, but they lead
typically rural life, Now a radical
change is coming The immense
water power of the locality is RESPONSE
BILE for all this. Hoiangsfjord, which
has been quiet rural community
from time immemorial, will soon have
town of at least 1000 inhabitants
and by the time the industrial plant
Of the valley is completed the popula
ton is expected to swell to about 5000
In Aardal the plans call for industrial
establishments on a still larger scale
The existing factories at Vadheim will
soon be enlarged. Still other estab
lishments are planned, one of which
is said to control several hundred
thousand horse power
X
The Observation-Disclosures line has
deciued to have all it's steamshipa
which sail between America and Nor
way enter Kirkwall voluntarily for in
spection of their mails in order tn
avoid complications arising from at.
tempts to evade the British authorities
by taking more northerly course.
The company has purchased a tramp
steamship of 1900 tons to bring Amer.
lean coal to Norway for it's vessels 50
that they will be less dependent on
English bunkers. The steamship Der.
genstjord. which sailed from New York
May 10 for Bergen, has arrived safely
by way of Kirkwall, where all it's mail
was removed and detained by thu
British authorities.
Tytteberries Swedish "lingun") arr
not supposed to keep long, and fol-
That reason they are generally rushed
to the market in the fall of The ear