Show POLYGAMY rOLI GANY IN the little kingdom Xing dom of sweden and norway is on the verge of civil war the nation is divided into two hostile camps the one of which composed of liberals is fitting in favor of the adoption of polygamy while the conservatives Tes who are in the minority aro arc strongly opposed to any question of plurality of wives strange to say the women of scandinavia have bave all ranged themselves under the liberal banner and one of the most mast eminent divines a M nissen who is president of tle the national temperance union has placed himself at the head bead of them the crusade the movement is a distinctly popular one and has already become so deep rooted and mal that the government itself unable to stem it king the ither th day to show his di eap by withdrawing a subscription frow from his privy purse to a student corporation at stockholm which has just ranged itself under AL eissens Nis sens banner sot so great was the outcry however throughout the country ahat the king was forced to reconsider his hig determination and continue his subscription the leaders of the polygamist forces assert chati in proportion as civilization has bas advanced the capacity for the procreation of the human gracd diminished and they claim that nothing but a plurality of wives can save humanity from eventual extinction meanwhile scandinavia is flooded with literature professedly profus sedly bear ing on the su subject and of tho the most realistic nature in fact cerezola eZola to te migrate to scandinavia av at the present moment lie would be deemed quite a milk and water rabelais 11 new york world |