Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-06-20

uliecleu out OF regard Tor hlnS U.s.
cars personal feeling. The situation
has no historic parallel, but it is con-
sidered as quite natural that King Os-
car should not permit member of his
dynasty to assist at the coronation of
his successor in a portion of his form
er kingdom.
NORWAY.
Richard Nordvaak, the composer of
the music to Bjornson's great national
hymn, ia, vi elsker dette Landet,"
died forty years ago in Berlin, at the
early age of twenty three years. He
was buried in that city, and only three
men attended his funeral. On May II
last, red granite bantasten was I'M
yelled on his grave. Bjornson himself
made the address. No more suitable
speaker could have been found for the
occasion. BjoTnson and Nordraak were
bosom friends and understood each
| other before the public understood
them. A few of Bjornson's utterances
| were so significant that they are given
below: Il wish to begin by reminding
you of great and joyous thing which
| happened to us as a people: far above
| all Of us that melody has scared and
which we all feel soaring now above
this grave. 1t takes the breath of a
whole people and has taken part in
making preparations for the great mo-
ments. When we hear that song, it is
with the same feelings as when we
| look up the mountain, the chest ex-
pands. . # he had one listener
which young people must have-the
| conversation with him was a fest. He
would come through the doorway and
say, I have only two minutes to spare
but it happened that he stayed for
four hours. Nordraak's death
changed my plans. At that time I
walked about full of Norwegian-Ice-
landic sagas and ballads. 1t is rich
material, which I would have treated
in cooperation with him. We know
and admire the great lines in Wagners
music; but his treatment Of the origin
al sources and, at the same time, of the
original characters of the Germanic
tribes, is misleading, and it would have
been good to introduce something from
| the North. Do not believe that it will
be, added after this; that which does
not come at the right time never
comes.''
| DJOIIScu SApltSotu 1l1lIlocll Vcly
frankly about Henrik Ibsen as follows:
$50 much will be written about him
by all the famous men all over the
world that I can really only repeat
| what I once said in lecture: Ibsen's
works are like lighthouses; they show
where one must not sail, and they are
the first things one sees upon ap-
preaching Norway I would also say
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work. I do not know whether 1 can
say that he is the greatest poet of his
times, but he is the greatest master
builder. Take The Wild Duck for in
stance! There is not one super1uous
reply; every word has a purpose, it is
absolutely miraculous. But then he
spent two years on drama without
doing anything else. 1t is the art in
1bsen's pieces that makes them i'm
perishable.''
The Norwegian government has paid
the Swedish government about $500
of claims due to the dissolution of the
union.
A fishing fleet of $50 motor boats
and steamers will meet the King and
the queen at Veblungsnes and accom-
pany them to Molde.
Five cutters from Aalesund caught
5000 seals in one day in the Arctic
ocean. The catch was worth about
$4,000.
Peculiar ulcers have broken out on
Bjornsen's hands and he is being sue
cessfully treated at the Finsen light in
Etitute, Copenhagen.
inc fo tot nv
Bjornsen, Ibsen suffered terribly fol
years before he died, and he only
wished to die.
The Kristiania Verdens Gaug, a pa
per which is in close touch with the
Norwegian government, comments or
the incident in this spirit saying that
Swedens absence in the circumstances
is not a symptom that she is unwilling
to retain cordial relations with Nor
way.
We make no apology for devot-
ing SO much space to Henrik Ibsen ir
this issue. So much ink has already
been spent on him by people who evi'
IDENTIFY had no business to tackle thu
subject that expressions by first.
class authority ought to find a place
in the American press.
The city of Kristiania had 226,47:
| inhabitants at the close of the yea
{ 1905. AS compared with the census o.
| the previous year the increase for 100;
seems to have been 4,099. But it il
supposed that this result was obtained
largely by means of a more accurate
count in 1905 than in 1904.
r There has been great activity in tn,
lumber trade this season. From Marcel
/ to May Is Kristiania and neighbor
? ing seaports exported over 100000
, feet of lumber and timber.
: Bishop Hille, of the diocese Of Hama1
, has retired from service on accoun
of old age, and he is to draw a pension
of $1,000 a year.
? When some one said to Bjornson tina
Ibsen's death would leave an empt,
space in Norway, the former said:
think not. Remember that as a poe
> Ibsen has been dead for five years
But a; great name is gone, and an
> sorry for the sake of his wife. Sh
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