Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-09-21
NORWAY.

The postponement of the necessary
steps towards the establishment of a
separate consular service for NORWAY
is causing ill-concealed discomfort in
Norway.
A. number of Henrik Ibsen's letters
will soon be published in Berlin and
Copenhagen. The Neue Rundschau
contains interesting fragments from
his letters to Feorg Brandes, and these
are discussed by the German press.
The Berlin Lokalanzeiger says that
they complete the picture of the great
man and poet as he appears in his
dramatic works, and they also give
some new features. The Berlin Tage-
blatt claims that the letters will cause
a greater stir than a new Ibsen drama
would have done. In these letters
lbsen appears with ''his minds glaring
lucidity, with his uncompromisinp
honesty IN handling great questions
and with the careful refinement of the
man Of the world, behind all of which
there is warmth of feeling" Friends
and foes alike must admit the earnest.
ness of his thoughts and the monu-
mental clearness of his expressions.
The letters embrace the time from / 500
to 1898, and illustrate the development
of the poet during that period. In
one of the letters 1bsen says; II ex-
perience the sensation of continual de.
velopment. Where 1 stood when /
wrote my different books there now
stands tolerably compact multitude. :"
In letter dated Muenchen, 1888, the
following occurs: "The national con.
seriousness is dying out, and in it's place
comes tribe consciousness. I have at
least passed through this development.
l commenced by feeling like Norwe-
gian; have developed into Scandi-
navian, and now am a member of the
Germanie tribe" In letter dated
Kristiania, 1897, he writes: 81 would
like to settle down near Oresund, at a
free and open place, where could see
all the sails Of the ocean. Where am
staying now, all channels are closed.
in the different meanings of that word.
and all sources of disturbance are
plugged up tight, My dear Brandes,
a man does not live in vain twenty
seven years out there among the
achievements of great, liberal and
liberating civilization"
Consul Thorbjorn Wage exported
60, 600 barrels of herring from Stavan.
ger and Haugesund to Archangel, Rus
STA, during the past season.
A woman living in Konggaden,
Drammen, was anxious to keep a pig.
But this could not be permitted on &C.
count of the sanitary rules of the city.
Then she wrote strong letter to the
king, asking him to interfere in be.
half of herself and her intended pig.
The king sent the letter to the local
authorities, and when they had made
an investigation they returned it to
the writer with the information that
there was no remedy for her case. This
is the way she found out that the king
is not so strong as she took him to be.
The stockholders of the Krag-Jor.
gensen rifle company was dissolved by
a unanimous vote. This step was due
to the fact that the United States GOV.
eminent no longer procures Krag.
Jorgensen rifles : : 4 =
The work of excavating the remains
of the Viking ship at Jonsberg is pro.
crossing, and the search Of the burial
chamber is completed. Among the
most interesting objects found are two
posts, on which heads of animals are
carved.
Captain Ingebrightsen, who has Just
returned from whaling expedition
to the Arctic seas, caught 70 whales,
|. Such enormous quantities of sprat
have been caught lately that the
Stovanger canneries are unable ia
consume the fish. Herring, on the
other hand, is scarce.
The dwelling house at skjaggemoen,
Vuku,> north of Trondhjem, burned
down in the night. The fire started in
the second story. Two bed-ridden
women on. the first floor were taken
out of the house first When tho turn
came fol: two children who were II sleep 11
ling upstairs the flames had made such
headway that the unfortunate one,
could not be reached, and they were
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