Show E Ullt snillillllMI LHTllll llr NOIIIII Ilea Marled fir Ilic Nurlli liliSn ilfiiV Nrttluil llulll urnrgiaii llnUlcnls Inkui lo UL If a rIch Paper broci IIOLII June 16 Special i Whell you my reader urn looking throw h this letter Dr Nansen wil proljably ba on his way to Ihe North poleA prominent JournilM oho Inlur viewed him Ihe other day at his hOlllu I wriieo In Iukr near lhnlinIJ jout hit slid as follow IC He I lr Namen met me nt the depot told me that ho had given up smoking and drinking entirely In order 10 loin hlmulf for Ihe Impending hardship Nlnleu wife ia petite lively woman ol dark completion who love sport on leo 1 than ha r husband Ills sludy Is furn shed with rare old furniture On a large I anil pie labl a trrwwrillnf machine Hnd nundlea of 1rI and maruscrlpt ware lo be found papers There were also letters from all pnrupl tin world from people who wanted to parlldpare r71 hfeo rxpedttlon I There WM n letter written byn Irnch I lady l who seat tired of the end I intended to enter a convwil but lheved It would be better and more prudent to smke out for the North pole The bread which 1 w ill be the pilncl pat 1 nourMimentf of Nan en and his people during the expedition Is a kind ol blsculu large and round white and my compact The ration ul each man Is 10 consist ol four bicult a day Silk OWlfr be axed a the most luliable material for tents as It thut out the cold better than anything elM The cabin I of Frm I Horward U heated by mean of an I uRUilinttio leum stove which cunsnmes three liters ol petroleum a day As the explorer acuhliclent ha taken along with him a sufficient supply of this fuel 10 last him eight or nine years there will be no back otthoat Ing material nit llbraiy of line expedition cofisUls of looo books hall of which are mien tide works and Ihe other half novels poetry etc The crew of the sh n will numbers twelve men who together will I occupy Ihe m01l1 Ich manures only thirteen feel square Here they are going lo dwell eat and work Nanse intend to lake typewriting machine along as he believes that his eye will be strained Its If he onliU using a pen during the long and dark days Ibsen I one uf the crew as well 54 the cxploror him elf will wear A certain jrju of suit which cannot be penetrated by water A NEW JIS1V LINO IN Mat bill llncl I U Ihe nom il I artiste under whlctl a young Swedish s < ng lrei has made her I surcestful debut In IVtrls Her real name la I Gertrude Sparrman and the can boast o btlng relative of the great jenny lhl I < I The prominent lournal Ie Oiulon and Le Matin sjwak of her voice n one of rue timbre and cultivation and tho former piper stales that he created a formal sensation by her singing At a soiree the oilier il < iy II A NATIONAL IIOLUIVV Hitherto oM I Sweden In not hAt any national holiday of the same significance and Ij In the name cone as the fourth I ol holy U I one wherever loyal Ametlcan meet or the 1711 of Mir where Nor weglin come together Why should lllol Snetlen celebrate her day of liberty as well aa any oilier whhti counter It l the question whleli up to recently has been asked 1 many limes over and over again being alway answered In the affirmative 1Ildll the matter ha bon thoroughly dlscut ed in I the pnas but It was not until a few weeks am that opinions united as Ion certain IA day of celebration Midsummer evening the ijrd of June UIl rJIo dI selected J wa Ml at this day and WAS I chiefly on account vf Its Importance to the bwediih people aa n day of jold idol leitlvil I I on which they used t to adorn their homes with llowos and pUnts and dance merrily around the may pole but also by many reasons of historical significance file Sr1 cf June It nlllld as day of I famii In Ihe history of Ihe three Swedish heroes of utterly fngtlbrckt Cu avils OM and Gustavus I Adolpliu s It I wis that day i In 1311 t on which Hngellirekt ond his Dalecartlans arose again the Danish Ling who was Iou the ruling trgenl of Sweden and It was on a mid Mummer night In ISM that Gnstavu Vasa ended his war uf liberation by forcing Stockholm I defperately defended defend-ed 1 by Ihe Danes lo capitulate and at the he id of Ills victor loin army nuking his entry In the eapital And I last but not leaslmav be remem bared another i event whirs nklngplira Ion I-on the same date In 1jo IWCHIIH an epoch In the liKlory of rrotesbmtUm and utheranisin I the landing of Coast vu Adolnhiu and his army on the stand of Ituegen and 1 Sweden fornul urtlclpatlon m the Thirty loan war No wonder then that the eople 1 of Sw eilen have stampeil l their approval l ol the jrd I of June as a fit holiday ol the whole nation NOM IAN TIIRKAT A slmrmlKHilers union of Chrlsllanli pitsod the Inllowlng resolution I t u Uw day ago rhe present pohtlcit out lookaa well In general nn hi jMtllcol ir seem to ilenuml lint ever Norwe iltti slurpiiauter ohM he ready to light fur taw future ol N jrw ly 8lelllI BY AN u1OiIhAN7 It sounds Incredible neverthetes it i o nil is be iron I lint ling 1 n female I elo I pliant I In the oologicil garden of Cip nhagen recently came lo her dutli liv connnilting suieide rite animal was whirring honl contraction of tho bowels alit I one day while set on by the IMins oho was wren to deliberately throw her b a knead against one of the Immense Iron peg attached I to time upper parts of the walls in the elephant I I lul hoofs The > eg penetrated the held injuring the log 1 III with the result thai the anlmil died shortly afterwirds The verdict of hue iur > who made tho toot mortem examination wallo the end that dcecawd while sick and despondent committed auicide bv hiimuoriug an iron peg Into tier head NOKWRI IAN KMIILXLS TVkKN TO TASK The dissolution of live union between I Sweden and Nurwiy would without loubl bring the result that Kntsia would seiie n portion nf Norway in olr nhNI1ewUo order lo be blor to reach the North beo The Norwegian radicals who Insist upon this diasoluilon of parlnerahlp scent 10 dove fiiind no sympiihiilng lends hN any lureign country except YI uotNiti Russia Not even in l I lance notwllh lauding that power friendly relation 10 the Russian empire 10 I there n point cianwho approves ol the doctrines of tho 1 Oe I11r pelt 1 hu roinlneni i Parisian paper Journil lies 1 Debits take the Norwegian radi coIl greatly to task and rails their politic a politics of sold Ir 1 he paper regards It as highly probable Hint In cae of the diMoliitlon l nf the union between the bctndlnavlm kingdom Kuala will put her heavy f Hit onrome pal in Norlhrrn Norway for the purpose I pur-pose of obi lining one or several 1 Ii ir Lon on the coast The Iuasin pram speaks ver > nliln In regard to these supiiosiiion rim a laskwn piper argued only 0 few days ago that wi the lime to fully the work of Inter the Great mid tike pus 1 ieston uf such hnrbors o icii e ull 11V KusMn admin > i tin 0 u + liu l M lfI r nlnoun is tin rich I Ind tllllh i i Hot it 11 r I m i ir CIA CI-A perhaps lnuwu scent 01 hhlo iI I Nurw man I r iril reiUvor u f ran i felting H h irlior on Ihe Norwce + in eoast lo RiiMii olnnlBrily I lot 1 my part I am thoroughly con oJll Vlnced u rt should this Fin ever lake i place Russia would sooner or later imagine she were In need of the whole Scandinavian peninsula i i |