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Show JOHN A. HEN-DRICKSON HEN-DRICKSON Writes from Norway, tells of the people, The country, and its attractions. i f Chrlstlanla, Norway, March 1st. Norway Is picturesque in tho summer, sum-mer, but somewhat cold looking in the winter. The Interior during tho winter Is cold. Its coasts, w hero the bulk or the people uslde,hae an atmosphere at-mosphere as mild us Utah. Norway's Immense barriers- of mountains, her monstious glacleis, thousands of square miles or deep glistening snow and Ice.numberless waterfalls descend ing irom ciius or a thousand feet.glorl-ous feet.glorl-ous line forests covered with thick frozen layers of snow, quaint little villages of logs, seated In deep valleys and glens skirted with evergreens and added to these the enjoyment of slelgh-rldlng, snow-shoe skating down tho mountain sides, arc tho tourist's winter attractions In Norway. The summer has Its lefreshlng rains and mild cllmato, long days, mountain rc-sorts,lts rc-sorts,lts thousand fjords whoso beauty Issald to surpass the scenery up the Rhine, her Interior fresh water lakes alive with llsli, and with these we must not oerlook her boating and bathing facilities, or the sun In the North which at midnight rcseniDles a ball of lire. Thousands upon.thousands of people from the world over visit this country In the summer sca.son.Tho tourist season-Is from the latter part of May to the close of Septem her. In the North there Is no night during May, June or July, the midnight sun being visible at Ilaimnerfest from Marlfith to July no. roi'in.ATio.v. Norway has a population of ..'i,ooo There aie some few foreigners. Entr- llsh, Swede, Germans and Jews. Many English girls are married to Norway boys and vice crsa. The two conn-tries conn-tries are friendly and do much busi-ness busi-ness together outside the matrimonial business. The country's extreme length extending as It does to the North Cape (Just this side or the North Pole) Is 800 rnlles long by IMSO miles wide at its widest point. Itsaieain square miles is about the same as Utah but 0 per cent or the land can be cultlvated.tho remainder is mountain forests and lakes. TIIK KINrt AND KINGDOM. Norway is a kingdom but unlike manv others has a king Jointly with another kingdom. King Oscar, "the good old man" is king or Norway and Sweden. The relationship of tho two countrlcsare not generally understood. H is usually believed tho peninsular Is one kingdom In every sense of the term. The facts arc they are entirely separate outside or a joint king and an Inseparable alliance against outside attack. Each have their law making departments, statesmen, navy and army, collect their respect he taxes, pay their own bills and hae their own government railroads. They Jointly keep up the king's household and Norway's yearly proportion is in tho neighborhood of 9117,000 in American Ameri-can money. OAIIS AND UOIITlNO. The expense of building railwajs Id this country is enormous. In that regard re-gard sho Is another Switzerland. Rut she has a Hue smooth, sale roadbed. There aie three classes or cais and fines. The lli-stand secondare supo-nor supo-nor to our American common class The street car service In the large cities Is good. Tourist clectilc cais, none belter In Paris.Rerllnor London. Christiana Is a city of -,ooo and the care will carry you from one end to tho other for :!c rate. There aie also sub-urban sub-urban electric lines extending out to mountain icsoits. MONKV IN STIIKirr OAII HVSTK.M. The street car systems aie as a rulo owned and contiolled by tho municipalities. munici-palities. One or the lines of this city Is owned by a corporation whose franchise fran-chise oxplrcs this year. The terms of the franchise weie such that at Its termination, the entire system becomes be-comes the property of the city. The company now deslies a lease or 30 years on the system and are offering the city 70.000 kroner (about $18,000) per annum Tor such 11 lease. Evidently Evident-ly there Is money in Itat.Jca fare. 1 am here reminded that Logan owns her own water system, will own her own electric lighting plant, and what a line thing It would be, If, when sho has a streetcar system, It might bo owned and controled by the city for the welfare or Its citizens. Do you believe mew lien I say neaily all the stieet ear systems of cities on the continent aie owned by the lespectlve municipalities. CLEAMNKSS OK HTIIKlCTH. The stiects of this country aie swept dally. Hundreds of men are kept busy sweeping the stieets dur-lug dur-lug the summer and duiinglhe winter Sovollng, sweenlnir and hutillnirsnnu- At times, over looo men can be seen clearing away the snow and slush ar-tfrastorm. ar-tfrastorm. Veiy often men, who aie out or woik, aie put on the streets simply to provide them labor. Concluded in our next. |