Show scandinavian djs SUMMARY OF IMPORTANT HAP IN FAR OFF NORTHWEST ITEMS FROM THE OLD HOME resume of the most important events in sweden norway and denmark of interest to the scandinavians in america thousands of glans and swedish are marooned on the aNtin peninsula ind and are in III urgent need of assistance s q lid iid ednard hines the chicago lumber man mr arid and mrs nines hines reached london after aiding in I 1 ellef N work ork for americans amei leans in stockholm we organ iced on the same lines is as those thos 1 adopt id ed b americans in london said mr 1 I NN was as chairman of a commit tee 0 of volunteer workers we took oft off our coats aud and within i i lev fea das dais hid bid converted concerted chaos into order and hid had lifted a heave burden from the minds of our stranded compatriots I 1 went nent to norway and itt aft er getting in exo two sons aboard a ves nes sel chartered chirt ered the NorN norwegian egian steam ship sterling on this boat with fill 70 americans Americ ins three fourths of whom were women nomen we traveled to mencas tie the onla of our pis pas was x as due to the tear fear of mines 1 I shall try to have hae an officer under instructions from assistant secretary breckenridge go to the scandinavian countries to take charge of the refu gees problem the jubilee exhibition in attracted a multitude of norwegians Norwegia ns from america and the vi crisis upset their financial eaten lations public opinion in sweden sneden since the outbreak out breal of the war fur alscies interesting study at farst miny many thought that the time had bad come to strike the eer eNer pressing enema enem on the east cast let us fight tor for Gerr german naw urged these persons then came the news that england regarded german s mill tari method as a peril to european liberty and had declared war viar on the fa tb ther erland laud the prestige of british dem ocran received a marvelous marv clous il lustra tion lion swedish an Mn pathy instants shift ed from gelman geiman and now nom three weeks after this awful affair begat the swedish whole share the belief of the other western Ne stern na eions of europe no ia scene could be more moving than the flight of rus sian refugees through stockholm the swedes behaved gloriously tor for getting politics in their simple hu manit these poor ru russians had been dragged across germany german and flung out penniless many ot of them had been taken to berlin from the eastern german frontier and sent away from tile the country countr nort northward hiNard a distance all told of more than 2 miles III old did haggard and the poured into stockholm and the citizens of the capital fed and nursed them it is little wonder vonder that the czar dis patched an impassioned message of 0 thanks it is to be hoped hop e d that his ma jesty will not forget how box the swedes acted toward bovard the russian fugitives in a time lime of unparalleled trial SWEDEN the Soder telie watering establish ment earl can boast of a regular summer bummer customer inhofe whoso one hundred and see sec ond birt birthea birth hda dav has just been celebrated at that place it Is mrs anna kris una tina hasselstrom she Is attended by her daughter miss hilda hassel strom who inho Is seventy vears ears old she takes a walk malk in the park every da dav and her mind and boan are in a N won on darful state ot of preservation tor for a per sort son of 0 her age she has hag spent all her life in stockholm the roy boy scouts have hai e been urged to render what aid the can in the work mork of mobilizing the army an appeal has also been made to soung a omen thomen to attend a course offered bv b the gov to a omen nomen who nho are willing villing to serve berve as nurses for the arav in case SN sweden eden should bs be draa drawn a into the N war ar the house in stockholm has been opened for the work ot of the red hed cross liberal contributions prove that this movement is backed bv the people A bov bo caught a salmon that weighed is 18 pounds with his hands at forst fors N aster norrland the salmon jumped out of the water mater close to the shore bhore and unfortunately landed among some rocks close to the water vater the boy was quick enough to grab him before he be had time to wriggle himself into the water vater again 4 the government in summing up the crop from different par parts ts of the country comes to the sion blon that there is no general failure in an adv localio lo calit but the spring crop Is generally poor the winter grain is of a tine fine quality 1 the I he hay crop Is very N cry light nil fill over the country ossean ossia a well known and popular author joined tho the ranks as a i volunteer olun teer when ahen the waa nas mobilized at Hals ingborg the theaters are a needless luxury in sweden and the actors and actresses ell hardly tell how they are going to make a livina w the stone dri seang establishments in Ble longs hive banc b en cn elod clod this inkins inc ins that 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