Show scandinavian NEWS SUMMARY OF IMPORTANT HAP IN FAR OFF NORTHWEST ITEMS FROM THE OLD HOME resume of the most important events in sweden norway Nor and denmark of interest to the scandinavians I 1 in n A america merica mutual danger with which S sweden and norway norual feel threatened f from rom the east cast has before anyone thought bought t possible pos at the time the old union n was mas dissolved nine bears ears ago aeo arau drau drawn n both the countr countries iLs nearer to bac eich h of other her again there Is hove however er no question ol of another union the t two 0 coun countries tries maintain their inde f pen dence ho however holever uever affairs can be ar ran ranged g d so that in else of 0 need they can be of as assistance sistan c e to etch each other after tile the dissolution of the union tb the e two tuo nations looked at each other with distri distrust t and each made its own oun arrangements norway to the west b means meang ot of a guarana gu arant of her integ rity nty which dahich was for the purpose of 0 safeguarding against a surprise at tack by sweden and sweden b means of an agreement with the baltic powers concerning the exist ing boundaries bound irles tries with its neighbors on the north sea rea during the period of union defens defensive he arrangements along the swedish frontiers had not been considered until the conflict between the two tuo countries became so acute that norway decided it t needed fortifications on the to consider itself sate safe sweden set up its defenses with the thought that pos possible sibl the two tuo nations would be come enemies it was said that in the anent ot of a rupture batu between T n E england aga d and german m which aich in might I 1 g h I 1 baue a q a general european conflict circum stances possible poss pos lol sibl would lead sweden and norway to make different allf ances the consequence of which would not be in their pov pon er to pre vent cent now the tension between eng land a and nd germany has relaxed but there Is a danger of a break between russia and austria with consequent danger to the scandinavian peninsula As a result the bitterness so 90 acute at the time the union was di dissolved soliel has haa been lessened A new neu generation is now grow growing ing up and the general feel ing Is ih much friendlier SWEDEN walmar hjalmar nilsson Is chairman of a committee on which are john lind aaron carson carlson I 1 and C E swedish connul which will consider a plan tor for a S swedish american steam arhip line that it Is proposed to put into operation by 1916 henry financial agent of 0 the compa comparin riv Is in america A line direct from new nem york to gothenburg gothenberg Got henburg that with ith four ships would maintain a seven daa da schedule Is planned it Is expected that can be raised in the form orm of subscriptions in fit the united stat stats states s and that minneapolis with its large swedish population will u III contrib contris ute ite an important part ot of the sum it was mentioned I 1 in n a former issue that do doctor c ter akerblom in of falun balun re stored t the he eyesight of blind emil who aho was born blind and Is thirty years year s old it was also mentioned that the kind of objects that frail recognized b tight bight was a tree later it was vas found that he could rec colors different colors made different diff prent impressions even eien on his bis blind ebes and when he saw sau those colors he also experienced the same sensations as before the doctor was greatly surprised when uben emil looked at the bedspread and said there Is the red bedspread his eyes are so 0 o sensitive that he must stay stal in a dark room most of the time the electra electrification cation of the rall wai the northernmost in the world is completed the power sta tion at poulua porjus is not finished jet et so the steam eleam power station at kirana kiruna must supple eberg tor for the time being 0 0 0 it Is ib proposed that the national gov buy the Jung trun virgin island in the sound of kalmar and turn it into a national park before it Is too badia disfigured b the work going on in stone quarries on the island 0 a a infantile tile a much dreaded disease has brol en out in ed parish Angerman land the epidemic broke out at the same time and place last year 41 swede suede who ullo has lived in australia for 30 bears ears hab opened headquarters in gale tor for the purpose of burril turning ag as maae man swedish emigrants as possible to australia it mans oatfield in hall hallad md h hive een cen to so badly d imaged damaged by drought drough t that alj ahr stock block has been turned loose on them to eat what has not been burned burnad up many farmers hap made ap ther minds to sell bell all their stock except one cow cou which they will viii keep during the coming ear 0 knut IN na ilenberg allenberg one of Sw edens leading busl nebi men paid the denees benses of the membra members of the swedish dig who visited the na dional exposition in norway in the early part of july |