THE STANDARD BY C. C. KNAPPEN,

8ISSETON, SOUTH DAKOTA.

NEWS Of WEEK SUMMARIZED OIGE8T OF THE NEWS WORTH

, TELLING CONDENSED FOR

BUSY READERS.

Washington Notes. Tlio new national pure food law re­

quiring accurate labeling of food products has gone into effect and the department of justice is preparing for a campaign in enforcement of the statute.

By direction of the president Will-lam F. Duviill has been appointed to be major general in the army, vice Mnj. (Jen. William McCaskey, the pres­ent commander of the Department of the Dakotas.

Attorney General Bonaparte had a long conference with Assistant Attor­ney General Purdv, at which the in­vestigation of the Standard Oil com­pany was discussed and a number of other pending matters reviewed,

President. Roosevelt has been pre. sented with a handsome jeweled .Japa­nese sword. The presentation was ar­ranged for by Ambassador Aokl and' made by Tnniemon 11 itaehi vama, the! champion wrestler ot .lapan, who is on a sightseeing tour of the 1'nited States

A new record has been made in wire­less telegraphy by the navy. The wire-' less telegraph station near Savannah, ' (la., has picked up a message from the cruiser Pennsylvania while approach­ing San Francisco from Honolulu. The best, previous record was made by the Washington navy yard station several months ago, when it received a message from the naval wireless station at Los Angeles, Cal.

Herr Woolfling, formerly Archduke Leopold Salvatore of Austria, Is en gaged to marry Maria Ritter, the daughter of a humble Silesian.

The entire section through which the Chinese Eastern railroad runf has been officially declared to b€ threatened with cholera.

A conflagration destroyed foui blocks in the business section of Port Llmon, entailing a loss of $G0.000 and resulting in the death of several per­sons.

A dispatch from Stockholm says that the Swedish Yacht club has for­warded a challenge to the New York Yacht club for a series of races for the America's cup.

The Russlon government has decid-sd to dismantle the naval fortresses at Libau, Sveaborg, JlJsdvinsk, Kertch and Batoum, as they are not required under the reduced navy.

There have been four deaths from the plague at Oran and twelve cases are in the hospital. All of those af­flicted are said to be recovering. The contagion was brought there by ships from India.

Forty-two persons, including thirty Japanese soldiers were killed or in­jured by the derailment of a fi.^rth-bound train from Seoul, Korea. The responsibility for the wreck has 1101 been located.

Torrential rains have flooded the valley of the Canaro. near Turin. Crops have been ruined, stock drowned, bridges swept away and railroad com­munication interrupted. The popula­tion is in great distress.

A signed document bv high officials and the commanders of the army has been presented to the shah of Persia to the effect that unless the sovereign accepts without reserve and will net according to the demands of a consti­tutional government they will resign In a body from the service.

Crimes. v. Frank J. Constantine, recently con­victed or the murder of Umise Gen-' try in Chicago, has been denied a new , trial by Judge Kavanaugh, and In ac­cordance with the verdict of the jury! was sentenced to Hie imprisonment. I

Seven more graft indictments in the capilol prosecutions were returned by the Dauphin county grand jury at Har-rlsburg, Pa. Every man named In the prosecutions has now been indicted and there are still twelve cases to be considered.

Adelbert Schatier, a well-to-do manu­facturer of New York, who had just returned from a hunting trip in Maine, committed suicide, apparently because of the death of his pet setter dog, which he had accidentally shot during his hunting trip.

With the gas turned on Mrs. Mar­garet F. Bukelow, Madison, Wis., who professed to be a cousin of Senator La Follette, was found dead in her room In Washington. As there was an ugly bruise under one eye and other evi-dences of a possible struggle, the po­lice suspect foul play.

* Personal. >; Maj. Gen. Sir John Charles Ardlagh. ex-director of military intelligence at the British war ollice, died at Carnar­von, Wal03.

M. J. Brunchorst, the Norwegian minister ut Havana, has been appoint­ed minister of public works In succes­sion to K. D. Lehmkuhl, who has re­signed.

The Ohio friends of Lieut. Gen. Cor. bin, retired, are urging him to accept the Republican nomination for con­gressman from the Sixth congression­al district in that state.

The report that Prince Francis of Teck will shortly be formally engaged to the beautiful Miss Margaretta Drexel of Philadelphia has spread over London during the past few days and Is being generally discussed.

Miss Mary Q. Burdette, sixty-six years old, sister of Robert J. Burdette and for many years corresponding sec­retary of the Baptist Home Missionary society, died in Chicago at the Baptist training school. She suffered from cancer.

Mme. Anna Gould's possible en­gagement to Prince Helle de Sagan is being discussed by those in the inner circles of French-American society in Paris. Despite denials that they will marry, Prince de Sagan continues his attentions to the American woman.

Capt. Marcus M. Drake, one of the best known men on the Great Lakes, died at Buffalo, N. Y. When Grover Cleveland was elected governor of New York. Capt. Drake was elected by the common council to fill out his un­expired term as mayor of Buffalo.

pr ? v. A'' ^ * Foreign. The etorm center in the South ot

France has shifted eastward to Tou­lon. The grape crop there has been entirely destroyed.

The epidemic of cholera which broke out in Russia early In August is spreading rapidly, and already twelve provinces are affected.

The authorities at Marseilles admit that a death from the plague occurred on board the Italian steamer Armonia, which is now in quarantine at that port, and another case of the disease had been taken to the quarantine hos­pital, but the health officials declare that all danger of infection is over. • firl ot seventeen was one of the

fiercest resisters in a gang of bandits recently overpowered near Jojarevats, gervla. She had fled from her home to -Join her sweetheart, who was one ot the band, and declared she fought so stoutly in order to make sure of being pat tn prison with him,

Accidental Happenings.

Three men were killed and two were fatally injured by the collapse of a new building In Spiekard, Mo.

John Fry and John Neer wore In­stantly killed by the falling of a boiler under which they were working in the Big Four shops.

With a roar like that of a cannon a big meteor fell in the mountains back of Elizabethville, Pa., setting Are to the forest and frightening hundreds of people.

Hugo Coltlni, aged seven, was in­stantly killed at Houghton, Mich., by the accidental discharge of a single-barreled shotgun, which he was car­rying from one room to another.

Mrs. John Gilbert, a member of a prominent family at Grlnnell, Iowa, was run down and killed %t the Rock Island crossing. Death was Instantan­eous, the body being badly mangled.

Fire destroyed the office and salt and coal sheds of the Nye-Schneider company at Eagle grove, Iowa. The elevator and part of the lumber yard was saved. Ix>ss is estimated at $8,000.

While cruisipg on Lake Independ­ence, at Marquette, Mich., in a yacht carrying too big a sail John Paradis and William Glvens were thrown into the water when a gust of wind upset the craft. Paridis was drowned.

News reached El Paso, Tex., of an­other slide in the Mexican Central quarries near Victoria, in which many laborers were buried alive. Sixteen dead and eleven fatally injured have been taken out. It is known >^at many others are buried under the tons of earth and rock, with no hope of being rescued alive.

General News Items.

The supreme court of Illinois has decided the new primary election law unconstitutional.

J. M. Barr, director general of the Jamestown Exposition company, who recently resigned that office, finally declines to withdraw his resignation.

The Eighteenth United States in­fantry started from Fort Leaven­worth last week for the Philippines, where it will be stationed three years.

Minneapolis men are interested in a $1,800,000 company which has applied for Incorporation for the development of a gold mining proposition in the Cook City district in Montana.

Mr. and Mrs. William Jennings Bry­an recently celebrated the twenty-third anniversary of their arrival in Lincoln, Neb., by giving a dinner to neighbors and friends known as the Farmers' club.

The dairymen of Marquette, Mich., have raised the price of milk from 8 cents to 10 cents a quart. The Increas­ed price of grain and hay is given as the reason, but the formation of a trust is suspected.

An oil painting of J. Pierpont Mor­gan, which was recently seized by the customs authorities of New York be­cause the financier refused to pay a $25 duty on It, has been sold at auc­tion for $35, the purchaser being T. J. Wallace, a saloonkeeper, who will hang it in his saloon beside a stuffed monkey which he bought at a sale in the appraiser's stores.

Negro voters were excluded from participating in the Louisville Demo­cratic primary election for governor In January. This action was taken by the Democratic state central commit­tee, which declared the measure to be "the purpose and intent of the primary election law passed a year ago."

Rev. John Royer of Switzerland county, Ind., was tried by a committee of nineteen Methodists on charges of kissing a member ot his congregation against her will and was suspended from the ministry for one year. The charges were preferred by the presid­ing elder of the circuit. -

SHOUT SLOGAN OF DEEP WATERWAYS

MEMPHIS THROWS WIDE HER

GATES TO WELCOME CHIEF

EXECUTIVE.

fAVORS RIVER IMPROVEMENT

"BE SURE YOU ARE RIGHT, THEN

GO AHEAD," PRESIDENT SAYS

TO CONVENTION.

Memphis, Tenn., Oct. G. — With

bands playing, children singing and enthusiastic men shouting the slogan of deep waterways, Memphis threw wide h<T gates yesterday afternoon to President Roosevelt, a score of gov­ernors and many other distinguished personages of the Mississippi valley.

The president arrived on the steam­er Mississippi shortly after 1 o'clock. Tin1 biuft's overlooking the river were packed with spectators, who gave the chief executive a warm welcome.

Immediately following the steamer Mississippi was the steamer Alton, carrying visiting governors and other notables. When all hail landed the prssident was conducted to a carriage by Gov. Patterson of Tennessee and Mayor Malone of Memphis, and an im­posing parade was begun.

Mass of Color.

The president was continually cheer­ed throughout the march. The city was a waving mass of color. When the president's carriage turned into Main street he was saluted by a regi­ment of Confederate veterans who. from that point, acted as a bodyguard.

The president rose and warmly greet­ed the grizzled warriors. Despite a lively downpour of rain, which lasted until noon, the streets were jammed with citizens.

Arriving at the Auditorium rink, where the deep waterways convention is being held. President Roosevelt alighted and after chatting with sever­al friends ascended the platform.

Praises Confederates.

The huge structure filled up rapidly, and when Gov. Patterson arose to pre­sent the president an Immense assem­blage greeted him.

President Roosevelt departed from his printed speech in several in­stances. The Confederate guard of honor, he said, was a touching sight, especially as these old Confederate soldiers carried the flag of the Union. If any one wanted to know how they would fight for that flag let him ask the boys in blue how they flight against it. He said with emphasis that he was as much the president of the South as of the North. He said he was half a Southerner, and when he told of two or three of his uncles hav­ing worn the gray he was tremendous­ly applauded.

Favors Crockett's Motto.

Speaking of a deep water channel from the gulf to the lakes, the presi­dent said he favored rapid improve­ment of the Mississippi river.

"Like Davy Crockett, the great Ten-nesseean," he said, "I favor the motto, 'Be sure you arc right, then go ahead,' and this deep water problem is almost up to the 'go-ahead' stage, but we want to be sure about it."

When the president closed his ad­dress he was driven rapidly to his train at the Missouri Pacific railroad station and departed at 5 o'clock for Lake Providence, La., for a hunting trip.

AMBASSADOR TOWER TO QUIT.

Asks President to Relieve Him From Duty in Berlin Next Spring.

Berlin, Oct. 6.—Ambassador Tower has writted to President Roosevelt Roosevelt asking that he be permitted to retire from the diplomatic service next spring. Mr. Tower's reasons are understood to be that he has been abroad for nearly eleven years and desires again to live In his own coun­try in order to have a home there for his sons, who are now nearly ready to go to Harvard, and to give his per­sonal attention to his extensive finan­cial, mining and railroad interests that have been left to the supervision of others.

As the lease on Mr. Tower's house in Berlin expires next spring, it is pre­sumed he will remain as ambassador until after that time. Mr. and Mrs. Tower and two young daughters are at present in Baden Baden. They in­tend to return here the end of this month.

Mr. Tower's retirement will remove from the diplomatic list one of the most experienced of the American rep­resentatives in Europe. He has been continuously minister and ambassador longer than any other diplomat in the American service.

120,000 FARMS GIVEN AWAY UNCLE SAM HAS BEEN GENEROUS

WITH HOMESTEAD SET­

TLERS.

Washington, Oct. 6. — Uncle Sam gave away in the neighborhood of 120, 000 farms to homestead settlers during the last year, according to the report of the commissioner of the general land office. The acreage taken under the homestead and other laws aggre gated 17,853,030. Divided into 16C acre tracts, this would make 117,40€ farms. But in many cases the home­steaders took less than 100 acres, so the officials say that the total home­steads will run close to 120,000.

Homestead settlement took place in all the public land states, with the ex ception of Louisiana and Wyoming. According to the figures, Louisiana has 5.4-1G acres more public land now thaii it had last year. The ofliejals say the only way to account for it is that homesteaders have been relinquishing claims in those states and taking them elsewhere. Alaska reported no home-stcading at all.

The commissioner ot the general land office has issued a pamphlet showing the unappropriated lands of the I'nitod States on July 1 last. Ac­cording to it. .Minnesota still has 2.151.-

acres of land subject to homestead entry. North Dakota has 2,899.685 acres. South Dakota 7,S30,765 acres and Wisconsin has 10,210.

OIL CRIEF TOLD FALSEHOOD.

Federal Grand Jury Declares Mr. Mof-fett's Statement Unfounded.

Chicago, 111.. Oct. fi.—That. President James A. Moffett of the Standard Oil Company of Indiana, recently fined $29,210,000 by Judge Landis, had no knowledge justifying a statement ascribed to him in a circular widely distributed in an attempt to show that the Standard Oil company had not been guilty of acts that were not com­mon to many shippers and that the statement was without foundation, were the conclusions presented to Judge Landis yesterday by the grand jury.

Statement at Issue.

The particular statement in (he pamphlet to which the jury was in­structed to call the attention of Presi­dent Moffett was as follows:

"Thousands of tons of freight have been shipped from these points (Whit­ing, Pullman, Hedgwisch and South Chicago) during the past fifteen yeary under the same circumstances as the Standard shipments, and if the Stand­ard is guilty in this case so is practi­cally every other shipper in this great manufactur'ng territory. Is there a purpose in selecting the Standard as a victim?"

Has Omnibus Contract. New York, Oct. 5.—An omnibus con­

tract, whereby the Standard Oil com­pany obtains from every steamship company operating between New York and all ports in Africa a rate for lubri­cating oil that is about one-half what its competitor, the New York Lubricat­ing Oil company, pays, was produced yesterday in the hearing of the federal suit against the alleged oil combine.

Tarbell on Stand. W. W. Tarbell of Philadelphia, treas­

urer of the Pure Oil company and of the United States Pipe Line company, related the difficulties his companies had encountered in competition with the Standard. Mr. Tarbell stated lhat the business of the Pure Oil company was placed in districts selected with a view to avoiding business relations with certain railroads whose rate dis­criminations were more feared by the company than the opposition of the Standard.

WINE DINNER HAS A SEQUEL.

Plenty of Big Game. Marquette, Mich., Oct. 6.—Big game

hunting in upper Michigan will be plentiful this fall according to land-lookers and others familiar with con-ditjons in the woods. Deer are re­ported plentiful, notwithstanding the havoc wrought by wolves. Black bears, too are numerous. While wolves are present in almost every district of the peninsula, they appear surprisingly large in number in Me-lominee county, considering that the egion is more extensively settled han any other. , , . r . , » .

Carousal Indulged in by Washington Society to End in Divorce Court.

Chicago, Oct G.—Carousals at Wash­ington, D. C., at a popular resort where wine was served in pitchers until those present were in state of joyous forgetfullness; flirtations in which married men went down before the be­witching smiles of pretty women, and other similar escapades will form a part of the story that Winfield Scott, a descendant of Gen. Winfield Scott of Mexican war fame, will tell to Judge McEewen next week when he asl<§ for a divorce from his wife, Eda Scot.t.

Scott is an official in the federal bu­reau of statistics in Washington, but retains his residence at Chicago, al­though he and his wife have resided at the capital for eight years.

Among the names mentioned by Scott is that of George S. Hanniford of Chi­cago, who. during a recent wine sup­per. is said to have carried Mrs. Scott in his arms while her husband was at home minding the babies.

Attorneys for Mr. Scott have filed in the superior court the depositions of several witnesses taken in Washing­ton.

Mrs. Scott filed a formal denial of all the charges. The trial is expected to bring out the names of several men who are prominent socially at the cap­ital.

PRIZE IS DEATH'S AGENT.

IN IKE SCANDINAVIAN NORTH Gleanings o f Important News of Norway, Sweden

and Denmark, with Occasional Comments.

By MARTIN W. ODLAND.

NORWAY.

! Pennsylvania Boy Kills Brother With Revolver Won at Fair.

Oxforfd, Pa., Oct. 6.—Edward Kuuff-man, nine years old, was shot and in­stantly killed at Nottingham, near here, by his brother Harry. The old­er boy recently won a revolver at the county fair. Armed with the weapon, he went to meet his brother on his way home from school and pretending to be a highwayman held the little fel­low up. The weapon was discharged and Edward was killed.

The Duke of Orleans will go on an elk hunt on Vestfeldet (the West mountain) this fall.

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Over 1,000 crowns were realized from a single strawberry patch in Drobak last summer.

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The authorities of Lardal and Holme have voted large donations to­ward the building of railways.

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Mrs. Serine Jeretniassen, a widow, has bequeathed a legacy of 20,000 crowns to the poor and sick children of Porsgrund.

* * *

An elderly man, who wishes to re­main unknown, has contributed 7-1,000 crowns to the treasury of the China mission society.

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A Christiania couple has 17 children. 11 boys and G girls. They are doubt­less sorry that Theodore Roosevelt is not king of Norway.

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While the crops were not good this year, on account of the cold, wet weather, the forests of Norway have grown faster than ever.

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The report of the Christiania labor office for 190G has been made public, and it shows that during the year 13,-904 positions were filled, 12,062 in the city.

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The city of Christiansund will pre­sent as a gift to the royal couple a large painting of a landscape hi Sond-more, to be made by Amaldud Niel­sen, who has spent considerable time in that district making sketches.

• » » Mr. Grimnes, an agricultural engi­

neer, has completed a remarkable re-"'ef map of Jaederen, the result of twenty years' work. The map gives all the physical characteristics of the country, and will be of great value.

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Eidsbugaren, the famous country estate of Aasmund Olafson Vinje, the poet, which he purchased with the $20 he borrowed from Consul Heftye, has been sold for 10,000 crowns. The new owners expect to make use of the place as a tourists' resort in the win­ter, intending to stock it with rein­deers, which they will use in pulling sleighs loaded with sightseers over the mountains of Jotunheim.

• • •

A Danish horse dealer was enter­tained at lunch by King Haakon and Queen Maude at their summer home, and the unfortunate man had a rather embarrassing mishap. He had never been in such polite society, so when he was handed a salt cellar, he mis­took it for a glass and thought it was in order for him to dring a toast to the royal pair. In getting up, his coat got caught in the table cloth and the dishes were dashed upon the floor with a dreadful clatter. But however embarrassing all this was to Hansen, it was still more so to the royal couple.

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Col. Morten H. Magnus, a well known Norwegian officer, enjoying great popularity, was recently sent to America by Premier Michelsen to use all honorable efforts to persuade Norwegian immigrants to return to their fatherland and help build it up. This action of Premier Michelsen shows how keenly is felt the annual loss of thousands of Norway's most energetic sons. On his arribal in Chi­cago, Col. Magnus submitted to an in­terview in which he said:

"My mission in the United States is to sound Norwegians as to their de­sire to return to Norway. I know that most Norwegians are happy in their adopted country and will never return, no matter what inducement their fath­erland may be able to offer them. But there is a large number of Norsemen who would return if assured of equally good economic and social conditions in the land of their birth. It is to this class of people that my appeal mainly will be made."

It is quite certain, however, that Col. Magnus' mission will prove a fail­ure, as the Norwegian immigrants in America are almost without exception prosperous and contented with their lot. Those who would accept the offer to return are the less fortunate ones, who have not shown much energy or enterprise, and such would be of little help to Norway.

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SWEDEN.

A new bank, the Swedish Peasants' bank, is to be established at Malmo, with a capital stock of 10,000,000 crowns.

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The house famine in Stockholm, about which I have frequently written in these columns, still continues, and if not abated when the cold weather starts, will cause untold distress.

* • * Russian capitalists have, great faith

in the Swedish sugar industry, and are contemplating the investment in it of 250,000,000 crowns. The well known manufacturer, Carl Hagman:

who recently visited Malmo, says th it the plans of Russians to erect sugar factories in Sweden, entertained earli­er. have not been abandoned.

A new industry is to be organized at Nora, with a capital stock of from two to six million crowns. The com­pany will own and operate saw mills, farms and engage in other industrial pursuits.

• • *

The new Strindberg theater In Stockholm has decided to present no less than seventeen of Strindberg's plays, and the theatrical world is anxious to know how the public will take this big dose.

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A writer in Dagens Nyheter, who visited the Jamestown exposition, does not think very highly of the showing made there in the naval demonstra­tion, participated in by the powers, of the Swedish armor-clad cruiser Fylgja.

* * *

Chiefs of the first and second divis­ions of the Swedish army, Major Gen­erals Matcrn and Uggla, have applied to the government to ask the coming rigsdag for a law forbidding the emi­gration of any men between 17 and 20 years of age, with loss of inheri­tance rights as a penalty and also for severe laws against emigration agents.

• * * Some time ago I mentioned the anx­

iety created in Lulea, one of the sea­ports of Sweden, by the mysterious visit of a Russian torpedo boat, which acted rather suspiciously, as if it were spying. Later there have been other suspicious incidents, aud the officers in charge of all fortifications are more vigilant than ever in guarding against spies.

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There is to be a tourists' exposition at St. Petersburg and Sweden will participate. Col. Biilc having visited the ilusK'an capital to make the nec­essary preliminary arrangements. In this connection it may be stated that a plan is being considered to establish a permanent tourist, and athletic museum at Stockholm, with a hall and a park in connection for the holding of expositions and athletic carnivals.

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Some of the Swedish papers are not enthusiastic over the visit of Prinoe Willielm to America. They hold that nothing of value to Sweden will result from it. as he did not visit the Swed­ish-American centers and come in coontact with Swedisli immigrants, and it was those people he should have seen in order to influence them to return to their fatherland. Instead, he went no farther than the Atlantic seaboard, where there are but few Swedes.

* * *

The time for the lobster fishing having arrived, the Swedish govern­ment has dispatched ships to the Grisebaaerne to send boats in among the rocks in the Skagerack, there to keep watch upon the Norwegian fish­ermen and prevent them from ap­proaching too near Swedish territory. The Norwegian authorities have taken no corresponding action, in the hope that the question, which is one of the few problems surviving the separation, would shortly be submitted to arbitra­tion.

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A dispatch from Stockholm says: "The thirty-fifth anniversary of the

accession of Oscar It. was joyously celebrated throughout Sweden. All stores and banking institutions wra closed and the streets of Stockholm were one mass of bunting and flags. During the day messages of congrat­ulation from all the rulers of Europe were presented at the palace by the members of the diplomatic corps.

"King Oscar succeeded his brother. King Charles XV., Sept. IS, 1S72, and was crowned the following May. He was born in Stockholm Jan. 21, 1S29, and was destined for the navy. He took the course in the university at ITpsala, where he was graduated doc­tor of philosophy.

"The people of Sweden claim that not only is he the most learned king to-day, but is the best-traveled man among the royal scions of Europe."

* * * DENMARK.

t iTJ5 * IV

There are to-day 1,892 churches In Denmark, one seventh of which are new—that is to say, built since 1860. Since that date thirty-five new churches have been built in Copen­hagen, and three are now in process of construction, and five more are be­ing planned.

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King Frederick will make a tour of the Danish provinces this fall. He has proven himself an active traveler, having but recently returned from Iceland. Having an attractive per­sonality and being democratic in his manners, he does much to win the friendship of the people by his, travels.

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King George of Greece will buy a private villa opposite that of Dowager Empress Dagmar and Queen Alex­andra's new summer palace, Hvidoere, for his son Prince George and Prin­cess Bonaparte. Thereafter the road from Copenhagen to Elsinore along the sound will be a regular interna­tional royal avenue, passing the sum­mer palaces of King Frederick, King George, Empress Dagmar. Queen Alex­andra and Prince George, a** art ̂ ̂