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Accepting, as an argument, a length]
statement denying the existence of
money trust and charging the co-oper
ation among financial Interests to th
"weak hanking law," framed by Henrj
P. Davison of J. P. Morgan & Co., th«
house money trust committee closet
for the time being Its Inquiry.
H. F. Davison, managing partner
the firm of J. P. Morgan & Co., told
the Pujo committee In Washingtot
that the trusts are a great blessini
to the country and would be a stili
greater blessing if they were not in
terfered with by the courts and thr
law.
As the result of a general canvasi
of the U. S. senate, announcement wai
made that in all probability there
will be no general public reception to
President Wilson following his inau
guration on March 4.
Attorney General Wickersham hat
Informed congress that It will cost
the government $20,000 to Investigate
the condition of the Crow Indians Is
Montana, as proposed in a resolution
adopted by the senate a few days ago.
Secretary of War Stlmson has ap
proved the plans for a reunion of the
Union and Confederate Burvlvors ol
the battle of Gettysburg. The reunion
is to be held on the battlefield next
July in celebration of the fiftieth an
niversary of the battle.
After a Becret session of the Pujo
committee in Washington It waB de-Kan.,
cided that the chairman and Samuel
Untermyer, the committee's counsel,
must go to Palm Beach, Fla., after the
work of the committee In Washington
Is concluded and there determine
whether or not It will be safe to ex
amine William Rockefeller as to what
he knows about the copper corner.
Domestic
Twenty-six persons were injured
when the Daylight special of the lilt
nois Central was derailed near Melvin,
111. Representative Frank Ryan, Dem
ocratic candidate for speaker of the
Illinois house, was seriously Injured,
and Harry Woods, Democratic secre
tary of state-elect, and Edward B.
Shurtleff, former speaker, were slight
ly hurt
Electrocution was substituted for
hanging as the official form of capital
punishment In Vermont when Gover
nor Fletcher signed a bill to this ef
fect.
The assembly of the Nevada legists,
ture passed the woman suffrage
amendment by an overwhelming ma
jority.
A bill prohibiting the intermarriage
of negroes and whites, Caucasians and
Mongolians and Mongolians and ne
groes In Kansas was passed by the
house of representatives at Topeka.
Strong resolutions denouncing a
plan to locate the Western college of
Macon, Mo., a negro educational insti.
tute, in Kansas City, were adopted at
a mass meeting at Kansas City.
Despondent over the loss of a $100,
000 fortune in speculation, Samuel
Newberger, once a prosperous jeweler,
ended his life in the balcony of a down
town theater In New York during the
performance. He drank poison.
James Darling, a young student at
Hackensack, N. J., found a pair of
gloves belonging to John D. Rockefel
ler. He sent them by parcel post to
the magnate. Mr. Rockefeller* replied:
"I trust that you will always be able
to make right decisions where mat
ters of honesty are concerned."
The United States Steel corporation
and the Bethlehem Steel company par
ticipated for four years in an interna
tional pool in armor plate which di
vided up the business of "neutral mar
kets," according to William E. Corey,
former president of the steel corpora
tion, who testified at the hearings In
New York in the government's suit to
dissolve the corporation under the
Sherman anti-trust law.
Eugene V. Debs, Socialist candidate
for president of the United States In
the last election, was arrested at
Terre Haute, Ind., on an Indictment re
turned against him in the federal court
In Kansas., Debs was charged with
obstructing justice.
When Secretary Charles D. Hllles
opened the White House mail he
gasped with astonishment on reading
a frank and free confession from a
Washington woman that she had
"broken into" the White House recep
tions for years under false colors.
Lieut. 3. H. Tower, U. S. N., com
manding the navy aviation camp at
Guantanamo, Cuba, has reported to
the navy department that the camp
is well established and that already a
strenuous program of winter praatlM
|i being carried eett
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Walters agitating a strike found
their plans anticipated at one of the
large Broadway hotels in New York
when the Hotel Knickerbocker man
agement discharged every one of the
250 waiters in its employ.
Nellie Hills, aged twenty-three,
charged with strangling Jesse McCune,
was convicted by a Jury In Evansville,
Ind., of murder In the first degree and
given a life term in the penitentiary,
The evidence showed that she took
the lives of two sixteen-year-old girli
within the space of one week to covei
up her white slave operations.
The arrest of Richard Frederick!
and Irving Sevel, the latter a news
boy in Wall street, New York, by post
office inspectors disclosed vast thefts
of postage stamps In New York and
other cities, which are believed to
have amounted to at least $2,000,000.
Both were held under heavy bail.
"We have Just passed through 60
days of the tightest money we have
had since 1907 and if anything had
blown up, if if anything had happened
to frighten the people we would have
had another panic," declared David R.
Forgan, president of the National City
bank of Chicago, at a dinner of the
New York Credit Men's association.
No matter what might have been
the motives behind the United States
Steel corporation when it absorbed
the Tennessee Coal & Iron company
Ave years ago. Theodore Roosevelt, as
president, would have sanctioned the
deal, as he was dealing with a panic.
He so testified at a resumption in
New York of the hearing in the gov
ernment's suit to dissolve the so
called steel trust
The court of appeals at Albany has
dealt a severe blow to the so-called
"loan shark" business. It held Illegal
the practice of exacting additional
sums from borrowers under the guise
of payments for expenses incurred in
drawing up papers and examining
titles to property.
Fire which destroyed a large part
of the business section of Larned,
caused a loss of $200.00. Seven
buildings in the main street were de
stroyed.
An agreement by which the wages
of 2,000 employes in the shops of the
Wabash railroad are increased six to
ten per cent, was reached at a con
ference held between E. E. Needham,
superintendent of locomotives and
cars of the Wabsh, and other officials
of the road and committee represent
ing the shopmen at Springfield, 111.
Within seven hours after he had
shot and killed Chief of Police Charles
Dickey at Gulfport, Miss., Percy New
kirk, a negro, who had been trapped
by the officer in the act of robbing a
store, was indicted, tried on a charge
of murder, convicted and sentenced to
be hanged in one month.
William Coogan, a laborer, fell down
an elevator shaft from the twenty
ninth floor of the Union Central build
ing at Cincinnati, and died nine hours
later.
Col. Schuyler, Crosby, veteran of
the Civil war and former governor of
Montana and a noted Indian fighter,
narrowly escaped death in New York,
when he was attacked by S. Iwamoga,
his Japanese valet, whose mind is said
to be affected.
Detective Peter Hart of Chicago
was shot through the heart and killed
by a man identified as Robert
("Teddy") Webb, when he was seek
ing to arrest as an automobile bandit.
The shooting occurred in a flat where
the detective had gone to obtain in
formation about the bandit
Personal
Mrs. Jennie Wilson Woodbridge, a
first cousin of President-elect Wilson
and wife of Rev. Dr. Samuel I. Wood
bridge of Shanghai, China, a Presby
terian missionary, died in Johns Hop
kins hospital In Baltimore from a can
cerous growth.
At the annual awarding of medals
by the American Museum of Safety in
New York the new Rathenau medal
was awarded to Thomas A. Edison for
the beat electrical device for safe
guarding life and health.
An appraisal of the estate of Prof.
Alexander Agasslz, the scientist and
explorer, who died in 1910, filed in
New York, shows an entire personal
estate of $2,126,252.
Finley J. Shepard and Helen Miller
Gould were married at the.summer
residence of the bride at Irvington-on
the-Hudson.
Foreign
The largest and most powerful bat
tleship afloat, the Brazilian super
dreadnaught Rio de Janeiro, was
launched from the slips at Elswick,
England. She displaces 17,500 tons.
Nazim Pasha, the former war minis
ter and commander of the Turkish
army, was shot dead during demon
strations in Constantinople, which
preceded the resignation of the cabi
net. The ministry resigned at the ^be
hest of the war party, which was fu
rious at the terms of peace agreed on
by the government.
Politics
United States Senator William 8.
Kenyon was re-elected on the Joint
•allot of the Iowa legislature.
VOLUME 18. 12 PAGES WILLMAR, MINNESOTA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29, 1913
THE
OPTIMIST
By MARY PARKER DEANE
Mr. Plum was a pessimist, his wife
an optimist. Many were the argu
ments they had over something Mrs.
Plum averred would happen some day
or other to lift them out of poverty, en
able them to live more comfortably,
clothe the children better and make
them generally happy.
"In the first place, Maria," Mr. Plum
would say, "nothing ever comes from
rainbow chasing. In the second place,
if a hundred thousand dollars were
suddenly dumped upon us we wouldn't
be auy happier than we are now."
"Wouldn't we? I'd just like to try it
once!"
"You can bet your bottom dollar that
unless 1 work hard and you run us
cheaply we won't even keep up to what
we're doing now, let alone putting on
airs."
"Do you mean to tell me there's noth
ing in luck?"
"Mighty little. At any rate, no great
piece of luck like an unexpected wind
fall will ever happen to more than one
person in a million."
"But haven't we got just as good a
chance to be that one person as all the
rest?"
Dan Plum shrugged his shoulders,
but did, not reply to this argument. He
went to his work every day, as usual,
and his wife pinched and saved. One
day when he came home in the even
ing he found her in a wild state of op
timism.
"Oh, Dan," she cried, "did you ever
have a grandmother. by the name of
Prendegast?"
"Not to my knowledge," was the so
ber sided reply. "Why do you ask?"
"Because there was a man here this
morning who asked me If you had."
"What did you tell him?"
"That I didn't know."
"Did be say why he wished to
know?"
"No, but I'm sure your grandmother
is dead and has left us a lot of money."
"Oh. Maria, you make me tired! I
couldn't have a grandmother much less
than a hundred years old. and women
of that age don't often have fortunes.
If they have their descendants are
spread out like a fan and none of 'em
gits more than a few dollars."
"I don't care. I believe we are on
the verge of some great blessing."
"I'll tell you what I'll do, Marie. I'll
make a bargain with you. Whatever
this blessing is, I'll turn it all over to
you on condition that you never say
the word 'windfall' to me again."
"Done."
"Remember, I give you all that comes
in this case, and if nothing comes you
are still bound by your side of the
agreement."
"That's right."
They had scarcely struck this bar
gain when there was a ring at the
bell. Mrs. Blum went to the door and
ushered a man into the sitting room.
"This is the gentleman who called
this morning," said Mrs. Blum.
"Your wife," said the visitor,
"couldn't answer the questions I asked
her, so I concluded to come back when
you were at home. Did you have a
grandmother named Prendegast?'.'
"Not that I know of. And I didn't
have a grandmother by the name of
Foote or Stedman or Williams or Hun
kins either."
"Did you ever hear of any of your
progenitors named McDermot?"
"McDermot? Why, yes! My grand
mother on my father's side was named
McDermot."
"Her name was Sarah. She mar
ried Enoch Prendegast. They had
one daughter who married Thomas
Follansbee, and they had a daughter
who married Daniel Spooner Plum."
Mr. Plum's eyes were growing large.
"I've got this by searching the rec
ords of some property owned by a
Mrs. Prendegast. who had recently
died In the John Brown hospital, aged
ninety-two years. I figure it that she
was your grandmother."
"If I've had a grandmother living 1
didn't know it."
"Nor she. She came to the hospital
before you were born to be treated for
some disease. When she got well her
memory had left her. She didn't know
who she was or where she came from.
She was allowed to stay there and
lived more than fifty years there and
in that condition. Just before she died
her memory came back to her. She
said she was Sarah McDermot Pren
degast. Deeds to property were, found
where she had kept them in a trunk.
The hospital put them into the hands
of a lawyer, who* says they came down
to Daniel Plum through Ellen Fol
Jansbee and Julia Plum."
"How much is it?" gasped Mrs
Plum.
"it's a house and lot that fifty years
ago was on the outskirts of the town.
It is now on the biggest shopping
street and is worth a mil"—
"You, Dan," cried Mrs. Plum—"you
make a deed of that property to rae!"-
And within six months he did. But
he says they must have dreamed it all.
Thus far the optimist has the better
of the argument. A hundred thousand
dollars was dumped doAvn upon the
couple, but it remained to be seen how
much happiness was to be added to
the Plum family.
Mrs. Plum had always desired to as
sume some social position. She bad
some friends whose incomes were thou
sands to her hundreds. They took her
up and introduced her. It was the old
story of the earthen and iron pot in a
stream. The Plums were soon bank
rapt.
"I told you so," said the pessimist.
HOBBERS OPEN HUE ON TAXJ
PRESENCE OF MIND OF DRIVER
FRUSTRATES HOLDUP PLAN.
Two Women Passengers Were in the
Car on Their Way to
Wayzata.
Minneapolis.— A futile attempt
to hold up a taxicab driven by Emile
Dobbleman, 1612 Stevens avenue, and
containing two women passengers on
their way to Wayzata, was made by
four men near Taylor's saloon on
Nineteenth avenue north. They fired
four shots after the taxi as it sped by
them, piercing one of the side lights,
but injuring no one. Sheriff Langum
and two of his deputies are searching
for the men.
After Dobbleman had left Taylor's
saloon behind he noticed four men
ahead of him walking in the same di
rection. They acted strangely and the
chauffeur, suspecting they were up to
something, threw his clutch into the
high gear and passed the quartet with
great speed. They shouted at him to
stop, but Dobbleman ignored the com
mand. He noticed one of them had a
shining object in his hand and no
sooner was he by than he heard four
reports and the whistling of bullets
around him. One of the bullets passed
through one of the sidelights.
The driver continued to Wayzata,
and from there telephoned the police.
The sheriff and his men immediately
started out over the same road, but
were unable to locate the highwaymen.
They continued their search until
early morning.
Dobbleman has his stand outside
the Dyckman hotel.
PLEADS FOR MERCY.
Three-Year-Old Hawley Boy Remains
With Judge While Sentence
Is Pronounced.
Mankato.—P. J. Hawley has pleaded
guilty to the charge of attempting to
commit grand larceny, and received
an indeterminate sentence to Still
water prison. The charge is based on
the allegation that Hawley attempted
to persuade Carl Otto of North Man
kato to indorse a draft for $500 on a
bank at Texarkana, Ark., in which he
bad no funds.
After coming to Mankato last fall,
Hawley became engaged to a daughter
of Mr. Otto within a week, and told
afterwards that he did it'In order "to
try to get her father to indorse a draft.
He then had a wife and child in the
city. The wife was arrested on a
charge of passing a worthless check,
but has been released on her promise
that she will go to Minneapolis and
take employment in charge of Rev
James Parsons of the Home for the
Friendless. Hawley is one of the two
prisoners who ten days ago broke jail
and was apprehended at St. Cloud
when he went there to Join his wife.
A touching scene occurred in court
Tuesday, while Hawley was making a
plea for leniency. His 3-year-old boy
toddled to Judge Pfau and began to
talk with him, and stayed there while
sentence was pronounced on his fa
ther. It was with some difficulty that
the judge was able to control his feel
ings.
John McKloskey, who broke jail
with Hawley, returned to Mankato and
was apprehended and locked up again.
He said he had intended to give him*
self up, anyway.
Rescued From Roof.
St. Paul.—Two young boys and a
young woman were rescued off the
roof of a burning building at State
and Eaton streets early this morning
by firemen. The fire started in the
North Star Pickling works. Robert
Schrimer, the owner, and his wife were
away on a visit to relatives and his
three children, Annie, 22 years old,
William, 14 years old, and Robert, Jr.,
12 years old, were in their home next
to the factory and did net awaken until
their escape by the door was cut off.
They climbed to the roof and were
rescued.
Fire At Pipeetene.
Pipestone.—Fire Tuesday aftemooa
destroyed the Pipestone Dry Cleaning
works, the Prosser & Hunt music store
and the. local headquarters of the
Singer Sewing Machine company.
The fire was caused hy a gasoline
explosion in the cleaning works.
Lockjaw Fatal to Babe.
Maiden Rock, Wis.—Lila, the two
year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
A. Brommer, living east of Pepin,*
died after intense suffering of tetanus
caused by a slight wound in the foot
made by stepping on a sail while at
play.
Mankato Babe Fatally Burned.
Mankato.—The year-eld hoy of Mr.
and Mrs. Samuel Remington waa fat
ally horned Thursday when his cloth
ing took fire in some unknown waf
during the absence the room ol
his mother.
8ick Woman Hurled From Bed.
St. Peter.—Dashed from a bed hi
which she was lying ilL Mrs. Lot
Nason of Kasota was thrown across a
room in her home and slightly in
jured. She met with this extraordin
ary experience, when three freight
cars on the Milwaukee road Jumped
from a siding and crashed into the
dwelling. A freight train was switch
ing in the Kasota yards and shunted
a string of cars into the siding. When
they left the rails three of the can
ran across a street, and collided
she dwelling.
NmsunncxED
AWAKENING TO FIND HOME I
FLAMES, It STRUCK ON
THE HEAD,
HOUSE
mm IN RUINS.
«ov. Mr. Ekeland of Lake Shore Town
ohlp Has Received Threatening
Utters of Late—Life
Threatened.
Madison.—Rev. E. Ekeland of Lak
«hore township, this county, waa
awakened by the smell of smoke at
•o'clock Monday morning. His firsi
thought was of letters he had received
from time to time in the last sia
months, threatening his life and the
destruction of his property, if he did
inot leave "the community. Rev. Eke(between
(land jumped into some of his cloth
ing and honied downstairs.
The house was full of smoke. He
ran to the front door. It was locked,
jHe hurried to the rear door and felt
for the key. Something struck him
on the head. He staggered and groped
for his assailant. Another blow and
he fell unconscious on the kitchen
floor.
Recovers Just in Time.
How long he remained in that con
dition. Rev. Mr. Ekeland is not cer
jtain. It was not more than ten min
utes. When he opened his eyes he
saw flames fast approaching him
[Forcing himself to his feet the clergy
iman opened the kitchen door and
(walked unsteadily into the fresh air.
It seemed to revive him. He saw his
barn, too, was burning. The two
buildings being doomed. Rev. Mr. Eke
gaad thesght to save what possessions
|he eaald. He hurried into the barn
and cut the ropes that held his team
•f horses and cow ra their stalls. They
ran Into the open.
Powerless to Save Property.
A vato attempt was made by the
pastor to save seme of his furniture.
jKe stood by and watched the work of
his enemy destroy nearly aH the prop
erty ho Owned. Them neighbors cams
and offered Mat consolation. One
icalled a physician, who dressed a so
lvere wound oa his head. The sheriff
and county attorney were notified and
are seekinfcevidence. Meanwhile Rev.
Mr. Ekeland is being cared tor by a
pJ^SjUoner.
Just what differences exist between
the clergyman and the person under
suspicion, neither he nor the officials
X6T9 willing to say. It is known,
though, that about six months ago
Rev. Mr. Ekeland received the first
of several threatening letters. It told
him to move away from the commun
ity with his family, or he would lose
everything he possessed. He paid lit
tle attention to the warning in fact,
it did not lessen his. determination to
remain in Lake' Shore as pastor of the
Minnesota Valley United Lutheran
church.
Last Missive Threatens Life.
A second and third letter quickly
followed. These, too, were read and
torn up. A short while ago Rev. Mr.
Ekeland's family left for Norway on
a visit. Soon after their departure he
received another letter. It was more
malicious than the others. Not only
was his property in danger, but his
life as well. Last Friday he went into
his barn to find his team of horses and
cow missing. The ropes had been
cut. A new harness was lying on theby
barn floor, slashed in many pieces.
Rev. Mr. Ekeland found the animals
soon afterwards in a nearby pasture.
The sheriff and others are confid
ent of finding the guilty person. It
was said tonight that an arrest prob
ably would be made tomorrow.
Filings Closed at Winona.
Winona.—Filings have closed for
nominations for office for the city pri
mary election, Feb. 11, when nomina
tions will be made for the municipal
election to be held on April 7. The fil
ings are as follows:
Republican Treasurer, E. A.
Brown assessor, J. P. Ross alder
men, Christ J. Clausen, Arthur Bohns.
Democratic—Mayor, E. S. Muir
treasurer, Archie M. Brown, John W.
Ebertoski assessor, H. W. Posz al
dermen, Henry C. Ahrens, T. J. Green.
William Werner, F. L. Cierzan.
Non-partizan—Municipal judge, S.
H. Somsen, Robert E. Looby, William
Burns special municipal judge,
Tames J. Fitzpatrick
200 Pupils Are Menaced.
St. Peter.—Marshaled by their
teachers, 200 pupils in the Lincoln
school building marched in safety out
of the structure when it was burned
Friday. Even when they discovered
that the fire drill was not simulated,
there was no confusion and not a
single child was injured. The fire
broke out a half hour after school
opened, a wall in the basement near
the furnace igniting. It was discov
ered when a girl of 6, a pupil in the
primary room, noticed smoke is
suing from the floor in the lower
Ball.
Driven Out At Night By Flew.
Bemidji.—Forced to flee from their
cottage in their night clothes was the
experience of Mr. and Mrs. Perry- W.
Rathbnn. They had retired for the
'•ightiWhen they were awakened by a
'crash in the kitchen. Mr. Rathbun
went to investigate but was driven
hack by smoke and flames and the
Itwo were barely able to escape from
the house. Mr. and Mrs. Rathbnn
were married in June and lost all
their wedding presents and the furni
taan which they hoaffctf9t tfaafcr
The Hamburg-Austrian steamship
company has ordered four new freight
steamers to be built at the Vulcan
iron works.
English-speaking patrolmen are
kept in the center of Berlin. Their
distinction is American and English
flags on their sleeves.
A Berlin airship company has fail
ed. The liabilities amount to more
than $100,000. Another company is
expected to buy the equipment of the
defunct company and continue its
business.
General Conrad von Hotzendorf,
head of the general staff of the army
of Austria-Hungary, visited the capital
of Rumania, and the attention paid to
him indicates the friendly delations
the two countries.
The list of Americans, as prepared
by the American embassy, who were
presented at tae kaiser's Schleppen
cour January 16, was unusually short
and was composed largely of the mem
bers of the embassy staff who arrived
during the past year. Among them
were Captain Alfred W. Bjornstad,
military attache, and Mrs. Bjornstad.
The only Americans of an unofficial
character presented were Rear Ad
miral F. E. Chadwick, TJ. S. N., re
tired, and Mrs. Chadwick, and Miss
Sloane, daughter of Professor Wil
liam M. Sloane, Columbia university.
Tens of thousands of soldiers in the
Austro-Hungarian army had to spend
the Christmas holidays away from
home. A national subscription was
taken up for the purpose of sending
them presents and providing for a
pleasant evening for them. All kinds
of people and institutions took part
in the movement, excepting the Slavs,
the Bohemians as well as the Slavs
living farther south. These people
managed to show their feelings by
withholding their contributions. From
the start the Slavs of the dual mon
archy have been opposed to the posi
tion of Austria-Hungary on the Bal
kan question. For this reason the
government has kept mainly German
regiments in the field during the war.
A novel ferry boat has been com
pleted for the port of Hamburg. It is
provided with a movable deck, which
has lifting power sufficient to raise a
load of six freight cars, three on each
side, to a height of 16 feet. The ves
sell is of 47(Hons gross measurement
and is 116.47 feet long, 50.85 feet in
breadth and 12.46 feet deep. It has
two triple-expansion engines of 640
indicated horsepower. There is a high
steel superstructure, on the top of
which is the officers' bridge, from
which point all the operations of load
ing, unloading and navigation can be
directed. A ferry service of this char
acter has become necessary because
of the great extensions which are be
ing made to the port. The berth in
which the vessel enters and receives
Its load is completely inclosed, so that
it is not influenced by the current of
the river or the movement of passing
steamers. The movable deck is in
dispensable as there is a tidal varia
tion in the water tevel of about 6.56
feet in normal times, and considerably
more in abnormal periods.
Under the regime of Charlemagne
Tower the brightest social stars of
America lent their luster to the court
feasts of Berlin. Pretty American
girls were presented their majesties
the wife of Ambassador Hill,-girls
and young matrons who charmed the
emperor and empress by their re
partee and their natural charm. Cul
tured women they wereT of course
women who represented the wealth
of America, it is true, but who shone
principally by virtue of their own per
sonal accomplishments and distinctive
American personalities. Unknowingly
and through the intermediary of cle
ver American diplomats, these repre
sentative women became the most elo
quent advertisements of noble Ameri
can womanhood at the most brilliant
court of Europe. Now all is changed,
and the gentlemen of the court are
wondering. If the emperor should ask
Countess Brockdorf, who is her ma
jesty's friend and adviser, she might
know that Mrs. Leishman, wife of the
American ambassador at Berlin, has
been unable to entertain since she
entered the embassy nearly two years
ago and that Ambassador Leishman,
who enjoys a life of quiet and con
templation, has received but very few
requests for introduction at court.
This really explains the situation.
Under the regime of Mr. Tower,
Americans of birth and breeding
flocked to Berlin and enjoyed them
selves splendidly. When Ambassador
Hill held office the embassy was gay
with the doings of society under the
leadership of Mrs. Hill. Royal auto
mobiles swept into the courts of the
big hotels and princes left calling
cards in the ante-rooms of American
visitors. Plain girls from the United
States shone like crown jewels in the
ballrooms of the palace, dancing min
uets and the courtly lanciers with
dashing officers of the guards and be
having themselves like queens born to
the throne.
The budget of the kingdom of Prus
sia contains an item of $175,000 which
is intended as a means of keeping
first-class German works of art in the
country. The desired appropriation
will be used for competing with rich
Americana in tne field of art. Of late
years the museums of Prussia have
not been able to compete with the
Americans, but if this appropriation
is granted there will_.be a change in
this respect
The Schuhan iron works in Elbing
has received orders from the Russian
government for two cruiers and nine
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DENMARK.
The Scandinavian horticultural ex
position in Copenhagen gave a sur
plus of $3,400.
An aviator named Birch took a man
named Clausen with him for a spin on
his biplane. Clausen is 83 years old,
but he enjoyed the trip as if he had
been a boy. He said he was very glad
to have lived to enjoy the experience
iOf flying.
Superstition. When an old house
was torn down at Kolding a slip of
.paper was found concealed with great
care in a beam. The paper had evi
dently been put there as an -, or
talisman, to protect the house and its
{occupants against evil powers. On
the paper appeared three rows of let
ters and signs of planets, that ol
Venus being duplicated. Below the
.letters were the words: "Amen,
Amen, Amen, Jesus does it." On the
other side of the paper was written,
"Written by Michael."
SWEDEN.
The government has set aside $2,000
for killing seals in Swedish waters.
The business at the Stockholm ex
change was $85,000,000 in 1912, or 70
iper cent more than in 1911.
Malmo has 92,250 inhabitants, 2,540
more than a year ago. Lund has 20,
420 inhabitants, the increase for the
year being 80.
The national subscription to the
Olympic games is carried on with
ardent interest About $30,000 has
been collected.
The sugar beets in Ostergotland
averaged about 12 tons to the acre.
In 1911 the yield was less than 10
tons to the acre.
The reports of the fire insurance
companies doing busines in Sweden
show that their losess for the year
1912 were about $2,400,000.
Prof. Lofstedt of the university of
Upsala has received a very flattering
offer from the university of Breslau,
Germany, but he is going to remain in
the service of his own country.
A. F. Berg has hauled the'mall from
Mantorp to Ulrika, Ostergotland, for
32 years, and during that time he has
covered ioorood English miles. The
route was abolished the first of the
year. It is claimed that Mr. Berg
never missed a single trip.
The new lying-in hospital in Stock
holm was dedicated in the presence
of the king, the crown prince and
crown princess, and the duke of Sod-dren,
ermanland. The entire corps of phy
sicians and 400 others had been in
vited. The king spent about two
hours at the institution.
The question of the incorporation of
inebriates will be brought before the
present riksdag. The minister of
justice is of the opinion that it would
not be wise to pass a radical law for
confining drunkards. The law ought to
be tentative, so that new features can
be added as experience may suggest
Great damage was done by fire at
the Sundberg tannery in Valdemors
vik. The origin of the fire was
peculiar. The ground outside the
building was flooded. Some water
leaked through the wall and reached
some unslacked lime, which became
so heated that it set fire to the build
ing.
Mrs. Erika Siler, of Ljustorp, Medel
pad, knitted a pair of hunting mittens
and a pair of slippers, which she sent
as a Christmas present to King Gus
taf. The king was highly delighted
with the unusual gift and as a visible
token of his feelings he sent his
thanks and five dollars in cash to the
giver.
A young man at Odeshog noticed
a fox sleeping on a ledge of rock near
the shore of lake Vattern. The man
had no rifle with him. But he ran
home to get one, and returned to the
spot before Mr. Renard had finished
his nap. In fact ho never finished
it, for the young man proved too
handy with his gun.
A black grouse cock flew with such
force against a window at Fagersta on
Christmas eve that he broke through
two lights and dropped down on the
floor. He was stunned for a few sec
onds,' and the housewife was on the
point of fainting. Beth of them 8Qpn
recovered, however, and the woman
had presence of mind enough to kill
the huge bird before he had time to
escape
Is it advisable to let minors per
form military service? The minister
of war has recommended an investiga
tion as to effects of military service
upon very young men. He would like
to have these questions answered:
Can they stand the hardships of mili
tary life? Would it be advisable to
reduce the age for military service
fixed by existing laws? The fact that
such' questions are asked in all seri
ousness is taken to indicate that the
government is contemplating a redud
tion of the age for young conscripts.
At the opening of the riksdag the
government asked for a credit O
$175,000 for the purpose of the Swed
ish participation in the Panama-Pacific
exposition at San Francisco. In his
message the king announced that a
bill will be presented for general in
surance against old age.
Moving pictures were.to be exhibit
ed in the Good Templar hall in Pitea,
and- just before the hall waa opened
for the public the fllm,caught fire. At
tempts were, made to put outf the fire
by means of water, but tho'interioi
of the building was destroyed
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The telegraph department has pub
lished an opinion as to the right of
women to remain as telegraphers after
they have been married. The depart
ment is in favor of keeping women
after marriage if their husbands are
in the same service, but they, are to
rank as substitutes, not as regular
telegraphers. But if women tele
graphers marry men who are not.con
nected with the service, such women
shall be discharged. These sugges
tions were dictated in the interest of
the secrecy of the business handled by
the telegraph service.
NORWAY.
The export of dry fish to northern
Russia ia increasing from year to
year.
The fish wardens at the waters
along the Swedish frontier have boon
withdrawn.
The Christmas traffic on the Bergen
railway was twice as heavy last time
as in 1911.
The Prince of Monaco has donated
$13,500 to Captain Roald Amundsen
for oceanographic apparatuses to be
used on his north pole expedition.
The young people's social demo
cratic clubs, "in national convention
assembled," have resolved to agitate
in favor of a military strike, and to
oppose religion.
Claus Berg, United States consul in
Trondhjun for 35 years, has resigned,
and his successor is H. O. QppedaL a
journalist who spent a great many
years in America.
Ola Mossefln, a violinist who had
a great reputation among the common
people, died at Voss at the age of 84
years. Many years ago he gave popu
lar concerts among his countrymen in
America.
Mr. Hansen, the depot agent at the
Hangsund railway station, has handed
in his resignation. He has been in the
service of the railway department
since 1854. No other man.in Norway
can point to such a record.
The new municipal packing house
of the city of Kristiania has been
opened for business. The cost of the
plant is $500,000, and it is equipped
for disposing"of^Offjanlmals a day.
This means that it is able to supply
500,000 people with meat
Ole Gundersen, an employe on the
Skien canal, and his wife, Helga, cele
brated their golden wedding a few
days ago. They have had seven chil
five of whom are living. One
of the others lost his life at sea, aad
one was killed by an accident
On the basis of investigation made
at the university of Norway a pam
phlet has been published with regard
to the use of coffee and cocoa as a
popular beverage. The conclusions
are summed up in the following sent
ence: "From a sanitary a3 well as an
economical point of view it would be
of considerable advantage if cocoa to
some extent were to supplant coffee
among the common people and it
would be very desirable if coffee could
be dropped entirely as a drink for
children and rather weak cocoa with
milk put in its place."
It is proposed that.garrison service
he established at Kristianssand, im
the extreme south. In that part of
the country it is of great importance
for the young men to be able to finish
their military service at an early age,
and garrison duty makes this possible.
In some localities more than half of
the young conscripts have been some
years in America. Some of those who
return stay in the country, but mili
tary duty scares many of them away
again. It is figured out that if they
could finish their service in 180 days
many of them would return and stay
in the country for good. A garrison
at Kristiassand would also be a safe
guard to southern Norway.
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Sam Eyde, an engineer who is in
terested in a number of large manu
facturing plans, writes in the current
issue of the "American-Scandinavian
Review:" "The new industrial Nor
way is hardly ten years old. When
one considers the future in the light
of the changes which have taken place
in this short period, no gift of pro
phecy is required to see a new Nor
way, transformed and awakened to
new life. The wave of emigration will
turn back, and the ceaseless stream of
fresh hood, which has flowed from our
fatherland to the United States, will
stop. People will remain at home, a
blessing to the motherland. Those
who have gone forth to seek their for-*,
tunes in foreign lands will probably
turn back, with keener intelligence and
broader vision, to help us in our work
for Norway. Our authors musicians,
artists and explorers have been
recognized as world leaders. The time
is now ripe for Norway to come forth
from her retired position and take her
place' as a power, not alone in art
and literature, but also in the world of
industry."
The commune of Evindvik voted
down a proposition to buy two chan
deliers for the church. Then a mem
ber of the town board wrote to the
king asking him for chandeliers.
Having found out from the pastor that
they were badly needed, king Haakon
actually sent the desired chandeliers lv^-jJl
as a present, and they were in place h'J
at the Christmas service, to the
and gratitude of the large, congrega*J^
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