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News of Scandinavia INFANTS' CLOAK. Principal Happenings of the Week in the Scandinavian Countries. *?-s "Hub

Four officers of the Swedish navy The central committee of the Swed have cuased a great hubbub in the ish suffragettes called on Premiei press of Sweden and Norway. The Lindman to find out whether the gov­ officers in question were hunting in ernment is contemplating the drawing, the mountains around Storlien, a sta­ up of a woman's suffrage bill. H« -ski tion near the boundary line, on the old answered that this matter is undei •%sP. railway running across the peninsula consideration; but it was his opinion from Trondtijem, to Sundsvall. A Lapp that nothing ought to be done by way living on the Norwegian side of the of extending the voting franchise un­ line, and himself a Norwegian subject, til the new law granting that privilege Induced them to pursue some wolves to a new c^ass of men be thoroly into the mountain districts on the Nor­ tested. wegian side. The local authorities J. Vallin, of Vattensta, Hokhufvud, took the Swedish officers to be spies, was out fox hunting the other day. and the sheriff at Gudaa took their He was fortunate enough to come rifles and grip, and also made them across a fox, and fired at him. Mr. pay a fine of $27. The Swedes main­ Renard fell down as if stark dead. tain that the officers were hunting in The lucky hunter picked him up. But good faith, and that there was no just at this juncture the fox swiftly The baby's clothes have no season! 3 sense in the harshness with which turned around and ran his sharp teeth ;nd one needs a cloak as much ini they were treated by the Norwegians, into the hunter's hand, at the same lummer as in winter, so that the! while the Norwegians are loath to time locking his jaws so that the hand lame model may be kept on hand fori '•S.-I give up the idea that they were spies. could not be released until the jaws lifferent times. ' The illustration' Some Swedish newspapers show much had been pried open by main force. thows a simple sacque cloak, the* 111 feeling, and the position of the Nor­ The new law for closing the cigar ileeves being plain and the upper part* wegians in this trouble seems to be a stores during certain hours cut down imbellished by a cape finished with a weak one. the receipts of those establishments •uffle. Of course this cape can be< very materially, sometimes as "much imitted or made detachable if pre­ DENMARK. as 30 per cent. At the same time the ferred. These cloaks are made of sale of cigars increased at the restau­ •oft merino, cashmere and of many] The woodworks industries of Den­ rants and cafes. Mr. Hasselquist, who ither woolen fabrics. They may be* mark are threatened with a bitter is a member of the riksdag, and presi­ nterlined if it is thought necessary. ' labor conflict. . dent of the cigar and tobacco dealers' The pattern (5330) is cut in one The London Daily Express claims ilze. To make it will require 2%j association, is going to introduce a 1 that Germay is contemplating an in­ bill in the riksdag for prohibiting the rards of either 36 or 44-inch material vasion of Denmark. md 2% yards of braid. and her shoulders sale of cigars'in cafes and restaurants The receipts of the street railways during the hours when the cigar stores stooped. But her To procure this pattern send 10 cents of Copenhagen for the past year were are closed. o "Pattern Department," of this paper.! happy spirit never $1,870,000, which was an increase of *SA/?AH Bl/SH JL/S/COJLft left her; she had B. Beskow, who died a short while JVrlte name and address plainly, and be $100,000 in one year. ago in Gbteborg, tried his hand at «re to give size and number of pattern* A a word of cheer for all her neighbors. Mrs. Margarethe Bose, a young lady forty different kinds of trades, and in HE history of every great man, from Roskilde, has accepted a position most of them he did well. A few of declares a well-known writer, be­ Stories are told of as professor of chemistry at the new his trades may be mentioned as sam­ NO. 5330. - SIZE •••'••••a gins at his mother's knee. Be­ how she visited the sick and comforted university of La Plata, Argentina. ples, showing their great diversity. hind every great endeavor and Three brothers named Thomsen unselfish deed, every noble ca­ them, and how, when At different times fie was bookkeeper, her neighbors were went out fishing on Limflorden New gunpowder maker, founder, brewer, reer of every illustrious man Year's Day. They never returned, but will be found a woman—the frail in difficulty, her ten hostler, dairyman, tenant farmer, STREET ANTJ NO and gentle creature whose name, der heart was their boat was found thrown upon the quack doctor for physical and mental perhaps, remains obscured be­ moved and she beach. diseases, sailor, hunter, tourist, organ hind the glory of her son, but streams. And when spring came they dug the helped them as best Captain Brenth, an officer of the grinder, miner, fireman, machine who began to teach him high hard, stony ground and planted wheat and she could. English army, who is serving a term mounter, glazier, tinner, cooper, black­ thoughts and ideals and to lisp corn. Her life was hard. in a German prison as a spy, is said to smith, chimney sweep, street sweeper, LADIES' ONE-PIECE DRAWERS. Hie words of "Our Father, which art in heaven." Thus four years passed—four years of hard But there was cause have visited certain fortifications in cobbler, rifle barrel borer, factory Abraham 's career began at the toil and hard living—and then for joy in Nancy Denmark before going to Germany. hand, designer, publisher of calendars, ltnje of Nancy Hanks Lincoln, his mother. -It died. Not Icng afterward the mother, worn Lincoln's life. Little C. Jacobsen, the Copenhagen mil­ etc. He writes about himself that he " as she who taught him to read from an old with toil, iollowcd; tho brothers and daugh­ was her con­ lionaire brewer, once built a fine was always healthy and cheerful, and Lib'te he came to know so well, who told him ters married, and Nancy, leil alone, was taken stant delight. At marble church and furnished it at his that he enjoyed his work; but his pay the fctories in Accop's fables and helped him in by her Aui't Luc\— a sist3r of her mother, night, when her own expense. Some time ago he of­ was small and his food poor, and his tj finely the " Perceptor." who had married Richard Berry. This home work was over, she fered to put a spire on the Frue quarters were often of an inferior It v. as sho who taught him the letters of was a happy one ar.i Nancy grew up, cheerful would open the "pre­ Church, but the church department character—occasionally holes in the tho a'.placet and first trained his hand to and pretty ceptor" book and declined the gift. ground, coalbins, cowstalls, holds of c \«\ them. It was she who instilled .In him When Nancy's father died he left a will. It teach the two chil­ Henrik Andersen, a native of Copen­ ships, and once a coffin. He was born a r-t.'ci! of slavery and by her own gentle is still on the records of the Bardstown clerk's dren the letters of hagen, was employed on a steamer in in 1837, and in 1878 he took up the !o\,;' proud heirass of one heifer, a pet called Peidy. what tenderness and sitting on the railing to take a rest he fairly successful. Nancy Hanks Lincoln, one or tns^BMSt The quaint wi.l, which was probated May 14 love she must have fell into the sea without being ob­ 1793, runs: 1 resident s historians declares, was "Istoop- watched them as served by anybody. Being a very NORWAY. shou'dorcd, thin-brsasted, sad—at times mis­ "In tho name of God, Amen. I, Joseph chells, Shipleys and Berrys, Nancy's cousins, they studied—so hard to memorize the A's, B's strong young man, he immediately erable;" a mantle, kind, uncomplaining wom­ Hanks, of Nelscn county, state of Kentucky, relatives and friends from the country round­ and C's—and with what doting fondness she took up the battle of life by keeping The city of Stavanger exporteo an. A\ho=o life had been one of hard labor, being of sound mind and memory, but weak about. In a pit near the house a great fire must have trained little Abe's tiny hand to himself at the surface of the water. goods to America for more than $1,- w'uh few enjojments, and who died before her in body and calling to mind the frailty of all was built, over which a sheep was placed and trace the letters on a slate! Five and a half hours later he was 350,000 in 1910. Most of the exports prime. This was Nancy Hanks Lincoln, who human natvre, do make and demise this my barbecued. During the morning it roasted, seen from an English steamer and last will and testament in the manner and Dearly loved the Bible, and were canned fish of different kinds. lay on her deathbed, tired and worn, her face / covered by green boughs, and after the wed­ there were readings from the sacred book; saved. Several times it looked as if wan. her thin, bony hands clasping those of a form following, to wit: he would be swallowed by alligators, About 31,000 persons belong to labor The more simple the garment the in\ ding it was cut and served for dinner. There there was told the old, old story. And these unions whose contracts with their em­ nine-year-old lad, whose deep-sunk eyes were "Item: I give and bequeath unto my son were venison, too, and wild turkey and rlucks. and he kept them away only by means more likely is one to undertake the; stories Lincoln never forgot. When, in after ployers expire in the course of the making of it, and no drawers pattern filled with tears, and v/ho, when he later be­ Thomas one sorrel horse called Major. Item: The wedding was remembered for years. life, he electrified the world by his eloquence, of kicking the beasts with all his present year. It is expected that in lan be found easier of construction Si came "a liberator of a race of men," declared: I give and bequeath unto my son Joshua one "There was no hint of future glory in the bis mastery of pure and perfect English and might as soon as they came within "All that I am or ever hope to be I owe gray mare Bonny. Item: I give and bequeath reach. most cases the employes will refuse to than the ones illustrated. These draw* wedding or bringing home of Nancy Lincoln," his tempestuous oratory, he retold the samf renew the contracts. This means that ers are cut as shown in the small dla> to my mother. Blessings on her memory." unto my son William one gray horse called wrote Nicolay and Hay. "All accounts repre­ stories—the stories he heard at his mother's^ Gilbert. Item: I give and bequeath unto my labor conflicts are apt to disturb the rram. The center of the front is laid From hi a mother Lincoln once told his sent her as a handsome young woman of knee. FINLAND. manufacturing industries on a large on a fold of the goods and the ma* friend and law partner, William H. Herndon, son Charles one roan horse called Tobe. Item: twenty-three, of appearance and intellect su­ Life was not prosperous with the father. He I give and bequeath unto my son Joseph one scale. terial is slashed up a short distance he believed he inherited his power of analy­ perior to her lowly fortunes. She could read left Kentucky and went prospecting in Illinois, According to preliminary reports md the edges faced. The curved side sis, his logic, his mental activity end his am­ horse called Bald. Also the land whereon I and write—a remarkable accomplishment In where he took up land on Little Pigeon creek, from the Finnish elections the Social Miss Anna Olsdotter, of Alfsdalen, now live containing one hundred and fifty attended a wedding at Falun New Is trimmed with edging and a little i i. bition. Her memory remained wfcix Js]^?, one her circle—and even taught her husband to in Spencer county. And again the hard-worked Democrats polled 315,432 votes, the Lab at each end is left plain. Here a of the dearest things of his life—"a noble type acres. form the letters of his name. He had no such wife was called upon to move her home. Old Fennomans 172,840, the Young Year's Eve. On her way home late valuable wedding gift to bestow upon her; he at night she wanted to make a short button and buttonholes are placed of good, heroic womanhood." "Item: I give and bequeath unto my daugh­ With their furniture packed in a wagon and Fennomans 114,532, the Swedish Peo­ and the leg is held in place by thess I'. Nancy Hanks was five years old when her ter Elizabeth one heifer yearling called Gentle. brought her to a little house in Elizabethtown, their cow behind, the family started on their ple's Party 106,289, the Agrarians 61,- cut thru the woods. J3he lost her way, m where he and she and want dwelt together in and tho she tried her best to keep only. The long edge is the back ol parents sold their farm in Virginia and went Item: I give and bequeath unto my daughter long pilgrimage in 1816. During the winter of 614, and the Christian Labor Party the garment. pioneering westward toward Kentucky. Nancy Polly one heifer yearling called Lady. Item: fourteen feet square." 14,545. moving she froze to death in the 1816 and 1817 the family lived in a camp. The The pattern (4562) is cut in sizei was the youngest of a family of eight chil­ I give and bequeath unto my daughter Nancy For two happy but needy years the couple winter was rigorous. course of the night. Her body was dren. Her father was Joseph Hanks and her one heifer yearling called Peidy. Item: I give found the next morning. 22 to 32 Inches waist measure. Me» lived in a log cabin on the banks of what was Uncomplainingly the tender, gentle woman SWEDEN. flium size requires 2 yards of 36-incb mother Nancy Shipley, a daughter of Robert and bequeath unto my wife Nanny all and then known as Mill creek. Picture to your­ bore her lot, but her health slowly gave way, Dr. Oskar Nissen is dead. He was Shipley. Nancy was born February 5, 1784. singular my whole estate during her life, after­ of an impetuous nature. He went material, 4% yards of edging, 2% self that home of the young bride—a single her face became more wan. A rough cabin was The number of business failures In yatds of beading and 3% yards at The journey westward was a perilous one, ward to be equally divided between all my room, with a huge fireplace, where logs burned begun in the spring and life opened anew. Land to Denmark to fight against Germany children. It is also my wish and desire that Sweden during the past year was 961, ribbon. • III. and it is said Nancy was stolen by Indians in winter; an iron pot suspended from a crane, was cleared. plied his trade in 1864, and to France to fight against the whole of the property first above be­ as against 1,532 for the previous year. To procure this patters send 10 cents while her parents were on the way. Roads rough chairs hewn by the carpenter husband among the scattered inhabitants of the solitary The authorities of Limhamn have Germany in 1870. For years he was to "Pattern Department." of this paper. were bad; in fact, there was only a footpath queathed should be the property of my wife of logs, a number of crude benches, a bed region. They began to prosper. But the life the leading character in the temper­ during her life." resolved by a unanimous vote to have Write name and address plainly, and bi through the wilderness, where passed the long made of rough trees from which the bark had had been too hard for the tender, loving wife the place incorporated into the city of ance work in Norway. When that lure to give size and number of pattern procession of women and children on horse­ Here, too, can be found a record of the seed not been removed, a spinning wheel by which and she sank under the burden. Malmo. movement became so strong that he back, men trudging behind driving the cara­ which budded so nobly in Joseph Hanks' the industrious wife sat and wove the mate­ was no longer absolutely indispens­ One day in October, 1818, as she lay in her i The new Swedish minister to the NO. 4562. BIZE vans. grandson. Joseph Hanks, unlike most of the rial for clothing; a room lacking in comforts, bed in the little cabin, she called her two chil­ United States, Count Albert Ehrens- able he became a leader in the ranks Picture to yourself the procession, de­ pioneers, owned no slaves. When Nancy typical of the pioneer cabins of those daysl dren to her. vard, who has been transferred from of the Socialists. Now that he is gone scribed by Justice Robertson—"through pri­ Hanks later married Thomas Lincoln they with an qpening above into a loft, reached by "She took the hands of Sarah and the thin, The Hague, arrived on the steamship friend and foe alike are willing to vations incredible and perils thick, thousands bought no slaves and never owned any. a ladder, where things were stored. serious-faced boy. "Be good to one another," Moltke. admit that he was an extremely un­ •* Nancy's life while she lived with her Aunt *s- of men, women and children came in succes­ There, one day in 1807, Nancy's first baby she said, brokenly, with infinite tenderness. The circumstances point to serious selfish man. His body was cremated. STREET AND NO *3 sive caravans, forming continuous streams of Lucy was happy. She grew into a young miss was born. It was a little girl, and was called Then she closed her eyes. The wonderful Prof. Alfred Torp has written a book of unusual beauty and became the belle of the labor conflicts in Sweden at an early human beings, horses, cattle and other domes­ Nancy, after the mother. Later the little girl's smile deepened. The sunlight faded into even­ "' Zrf. "^i countryside. She learned to read and write, date. The tension in the building and in which he applies caustic criticism tic animals, moving onward along a lonely name was changed to Sarah. That was when ing, and little Abe, leaving Sarah kneeling by shoe making industries in Stockholm to the radical elements in Norway. ~%4 and homeless path to a wild and cheerless and was considered exceptionally accom­ Thomas Lincoln married his second wife, Sa­ ?-p the bed, crept away and climbed the pegs in the is becoming more and more marked. His batteries seem to be trained in all Passing of a Lumber Town. ,pf land. plished. When she married Thomas Lincoln rah Bush. wall to the garret, where he flung himself on she taught him to spell the letters of his name. A pensioned engineer formerly in directions with equal ease and equal The other night at 12 o'clock thj -p "Cast your eyes back," he continues, "on Thomas Lincoln owned a farm near Buffalo, the mattress of leaves. energy. The radicals have driven There are but few and meager descriptions the service of the Dannemora and Pine Creek hotel, in the village oj -* that long procession of missionaries in the which he had bought in 1803. During the two Night fell, and from the loft came a stifled Harg railway was permitted to re­ classical learning out of its former Cammal, closed its doors for all time) •«-# cause of civilization; behold the men on foot, of Nancy Hanks. One learns that she was years he lived on Mill creek he cultivated the stronghold. The result is, that poor •».»• slight of figure, that her hair was pale golden, sound of sobbing—sobbing repressed, checked, cover the iron dropped into the sea But one other hotel remains in Cam! -St with their trusty guns on their shoulders, driv­ farm, improving the ground, and there he restrained, yet so poignant, so keen, so heart- where the iron from Dannemora is young men, no matter how gifted, can­ mal. Four years ago there were foui ing stock and leading pack horses; and the almost flaxen, and her eyes were blue. Her moved the spring following the birth of Sarah. 4? wit was nimble. forlorn that the father, returning home, paused loaded on vessels, in the harbor of not afford to acquire a thoro education, hotels there and all of them doing i women, some walking with pails on their In their life of Lincoln Nicolay and Hay write: hearing it, his heart sinking. He knew the sun­ Harg, and during the past year he leaving the interests of higher educa­ flourishing business. 0, heads, others riding with children in their Suitors thronged the parlor of Aunt Lucy's «#t "Thomas Lincoln settled down in this dis­ light of the boy's life had departed. fished up iron for $375. tion at the mercy of mediocre and in­ But the forest and the woodsmen <•£ laps and other children swung in baskets on farm. But Nancy lost her heart to none; she mal solitude to a deeper poverty than any of The municipal court of Stockholm ferior minds that are backed by a are gone, more than two-thirds of th« -mMjfe> horses, fastened to the tails of others going laughed gaily at their protests, parried their Many years afterward people wondered at his name had ever known; and there, in the the sorrow moulded indelibly on the face of has found no foundation in fact for long purse. The more noise a man former population of Cammal has left; "3gs before; see them encamped at night, expect­ importunate proposals with jest and was so midst of the most unpromising circumstances makes nowadays the more sure he is »SE good natured, so mirthful and funny about it Lincoln—like agony graven on a figure of stone. the claim made by the everlastingly and the rows of empty houses, built ing to be massacred by Indians; behold them that ever witnessed the advent of a hero into irrepressive Landstingsman, P. A. of being looked upon as a man of In its palmy days, speak eloquent^ 4s in the month of December, in that memorable that all remained her friends. Before the next December Thomas Lincoln this world, was born on Feb­ married Sarah Bush Johnston, a widow, who, Johansson, that a woman known as sterling worth, while thoro culture of the spirit of decadence that mark! season of unprecedented cold called the 'hard Nancy often went to the farm of Joseph ruary 12, 1809." must take the back seat. The temper­ the history <.2 the one time "metropo winter,' traveling two or three miles a day." it Is said, had rejected him many years before. Helga da la Brache handed certain let­ Hanks, at Elizabethtown, where she saw her The family, however, could not have been ters to Crown Prince Oscar II, proving ance movement has degenerated into Us of the Pine Creek region," with its And imagine little Nancy Hanks, spindly- cousin, Thomas Lincoln. Thomas was a car­ In later years, when Lincoln, again shrouded extremely destitute, for, we are told, they had in sorrow, sat by the bedside of his little son, that she was a daughter of the de­ a bigoted, fanatical tyrannical, etc., population of nearly 2,000, its ponder legged and golden-haired, shivering as she penter, and if the records are true, the best in a cow and a calf, milk and butter and a feather posed King Gustaf IV. Johansson, propaganda, which is doing more harm DUB sawmill, big wooden pipe works* snuggled under blankets, pursuing the road the country for many miles. Willie, who was dying, he cried in despair: bed. What wealth! When Abraham was four "This is the hardest trial of my life. Why is however, did not acept the verdict as than good. It is evident that the writ­ Its two log railroads and its trad* of the pioneers. In the child who was to He not only hacked and hewed and chiseled the family moved again—this time to a cabin, final. er is a most fanatical conservative. with the lumber camps in the BIac| become the mother of Abraham Lincoln was it? Why is it?" A nurse who had lost her hus­ wood with skill, but he did what none others situated on Muldraugh's hill. There a third' Experiments have proved that a Forest, where several hundred mon now developed a courage and perseverance child was born, which died when a few months band and children told him of her loss, adding, The statistical bureau has published had succeeded in doing—chiseled his way into "But I trust In God. I rely upon his will." Lin­ mixture of peat and coal can be used men were engaged cutting timber.— -which was to be inherited and which after­ the heart of Nancy. old. v statistics on the consumption of al­ Wllliamsport Correspondence Phils- ward marked one of the greatest of men. coln shook his head sadly. for the ordinary locomotives, but the cohol in Norway during the years 1814* Thomas Lincoln had a varied career. He Of the life of Nancy Lincoln at this time proportion of peat must not exceed aelpbia Record. The family settled in Washington county, was strong as an ox, temperate In his habits, On the day of the funeral he asked the nurse 1909. In 1850 the consumption was Ky., in winter. Hard work confronted them, nothing has been written. Of his boyhood and some friends to pray for him. "I will try fifty per cent. According to instruc­ an attendant at church and was bitterly op­ Lincoln himself seldom spoke. But one can 3.75 quarts per inhabitant. A maxi­ even privation. Trees had be be felled, a log to go to God with my sorrows," he said. "I wish tions from the railway department two mum of 4.9 quarts was reached in 1875. No Bald Heads in This Penitentiary 4M posed to slavery. Both he and Nancy agreed imagine the patient woman, alone and unas­ If you want to go through life wStl cabin built, and shelter erected for the stock. in that. The couple entered into a marriage I had that childlike faith you speak of. I trust types of freight locomotives have been During the years 1876-1887 the con­ Little Nancy, with her sisters, Elizabeth sisted, performing the work of her household, God will give it to me." constructed for the exclusive use of plenty of the "downy" on top of you bond on June 12, 1806. On June 14 the couple tending the cows and milking them, making sumption dropped to one-half, but rose and Polly, helped their mother, cooking and were married by a Methodist preacher, the Then his memory traveled back over the peat. head, if you don't want to be pointed butter, cleaning the meagerly furnished cabin to about 3 quarts towards the close of out by every mother in the city as i sewing and preparing the rude home, while Rev. Jesse Head, who besides being a clergy­ years and his first loss by death came to his The new business of the Swedish the century. From 1902 it dropped the brothers, Charles, Joshua, William, Thom­ man, was an editor, country judge and car­ in which the family lived, cooking and spin­ mind. He told of his mother's confident belief Life Insurance Company for the past horrible example of the devotee U ning cloth of which she made the garments for to 2.2 quarts in 1905. Since 1907 the the pace that kills and fills the fron] as and Joseph, went about with the father, penter. in the wisdom of God. "I remember her pray­ year amounted to $4,700,000, which consumption has been increasing, and clearing the land for cultivation in the spring. her husband, little Sarah and Abe. ers," he said in a low voice, "and they have was an increase of $800,000 as com­ rows at musical comedies, and if 701 And a wedding it was—with merrymaking Nancy Lincoln's beauty faded; the roses at the present time it is supposed to They hunted animals and fished in the cold and feasting. There were present the Mit­ always followed me. They have followed me all pared with the record for the previous want to be able to look every ton fled from her cheeks, her body became wasted my life." year. The policies in force aggregate be about 2.5 quarts of alcohol per in* sorial artist in the state in the faot $33,000,000. habitant. and tell him to go to—see somebod] A Christmas tree at Rau's Planta­ The results of the recent census else, Just break some one of the lawj wrote a sonnet is becoming the cry of fui that they are are absolutely taken Women Need the Trivial half the sex. "Deliver us from count­ feminine life be were it suddenly tion, nea^ Helsingborg, caught fire, have been published. The population of the state, get in bad with the judsj at their word. It is to be observed swept bare of the trivial! Nor, madam, and the two hundred children who and draw a sentence to the Ohio pen! «— ing the wash. Save us from afternoon that Marie Bashkirtseff produced a of the country is 2,390,000. The in­ How Barren Would Be Most Feminine ing to work today! Why, we've teas, preserve us from knitting and Is the trivial to be sneezed at "The were in the room were seized with a crease for the past ten years was be­ tentiary. For there isn't a bald head number of fine canvasses though she sum of life is in trifles," says the ed convict in the big prison. Most d Life Were It Swept Clean planned to go shopping!" "Marie, put crochet work! So shall our souls