Show scandinavian SUMMARY OF IMPORTANT HAP IN FAR OFF NORTHWEST ITEMS FROM THE OLD HOME resu resume M e of the most important events in sweden norway and denmark of inter interest e st to the sc scandinavians I 1 in n A america mer ca NORWAY having visited chiner hall at the tha C exposition a nen nevis paper man falls into the fol follow loiNing me reverie here ere ne me come to the conc conclusion luion thit that BO can h nothing without ishou t in achiles but ba b means of machiner tho lie electric power pomer which has lain in wait front tile the creation of the world can accomplish almost anything this power which is ue new to us lighta warms and transforms our old coun try tr eb entirely tirel ve IN e see how this po power er in n in instant calls up large cities in the Nilde wil deit qt blackest blick est mountains and the new nein cities beam with nith a pro pros spent perit and glor the equal ot of neleh no never sann but it makes us feel somewhat some whit uneas our loft moun talus our swift ahers which formell for merl shut out pro and shed the gloom of mel an upon our settlement ett lemenO now offer ui lill all the riches of the world as though our fair tales became A 1 realla re allt and ci cier or one of us m were ere spell bound anxiously Anxious li we a e ask how carl can we pass from our bovert to the balth of an industrial nation 7 can call wa nis stand the transition without perish ing we are seized with tear while we rejoice on account of the great ress ushered in b the manufacturing industries and we ue ask our ourselves ourse seles hes this question can we ine subdue the rua me chines or are the machines and the capitalists going glinc to subdue us usa the haugesund Hau Ilau gesund avis has raised enough money tor for a monument to captain scott at binse finse a famous mountain resort contributions were nere made by members of the cabinet the stor thing and the geographical coclet and by other prominent men in all parts of the country countr the monument is to be a rough granite shaft bau fasten 20 feet high the names of scott and his companions are to be cut into the stone and the other in script ions will be the south pole januar 1913 and erected b N Isor semen the monument will be reada read this summer and capt roald amundsen is expected to aneil it IL many interesting relics irom from the stone age hake haie been di cohered at bakken Nor dmore A few objects were ere found at the same place in 19 and this led to more excavations escalations esca lations there are 40 stone axes of different sizes ten net sinkers ham mers parts of grindstones and three arrow heads all of which seem to belong to the older stone age there ore are also flint scrapers flint augurs frag ments of potters potter an annular piece of soapstone Boap stone and an arrow airov head from the arctic stone age ord halt half of 0 the ground has baa been worked this rich find is remarkable remar kible because Nor dmore lies has been considered poor in antiqua rian relics front from the stone ages L 1 A rusian ru sian protest against claims made in SpItz spitzbergen bergen b ler hoel who nho is subsidized by the has been received from a russian corn coin pan by the norwegian foreign do dc apartment part ment the protest claims that mr heel and his companion named hane hae claimed no less than thirteen parcels of ground cohering coal gold iron fossils and perhaps diamonds in other words nords everything worth north occupying in the vacant terri herrl tor tors of spitsbergen the russian compan states that it cannot sane tion these claims inasmuch as they are located in a territory orv which has not been worked gulfport Gulf port miss alis loss at sea of the nom norwegian egian bart barl ingebjorg which nelch sailed irom from this port for or rosarlo rosario ar gentina two tino months ago has been retorted here according to the report the storm battered nessel lessel was nas set on firo fire after captain hansan and tho the crew had been taken off by the brit ish steamer hawkhead west bound tor for san francisco the ibe cargo con elsted alsted pall of lumber and was nas at 20 A religious sect known as the bar lanB lans hane haie had a convention in one of 0 the features ot of their cult is the belief in the gift of tongues the founder of the sect a as an englishman named barrett who for a time was anas a methodist preacher but mas aa by his brothers othera br on account of his uc ties there mas a tremendous rush ot of people to the convention and ninny many countries were represented the tolen tree free church in christi ania Is one ot of the poorest con grega eions in it Is supported by private contributions exclusively the income is ia about five be thousand dollars a year it is doing such euch splendid work that many rich people ih hi ing in other parts ot of the city contribute regularly to its funds 0 0 the No Nor eglan total abstinence as so clation hlll hold bold its annual cia conven tian in drammen dragmen august 69 6 9 tho the delegates are expected to visit the chr enla cx exposition position in a body |