Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1909-03-11
NORWAY.

1t will take about three months to
repair the Fran and make it ready
TO- Capt. Roald Amundsen's next
north pole expedition.
The NOrWegians seem to have out
done the world in celebrating the
birthday of Charles Darwin. The
great founder of the evolution theory
has obtained very strong footing il
Norway, and practically all the news
papers and periodicals of the country
united in paying homage to him on
his one-hundredth birthday. From
al! the chairs of the institutions of
learning his name was mentioned with
| thanks. His name was not heard in
the churches; but on the other hand
no objection was made to the un-
stinted and universal praise of the
great revolutionist in the scientific
world. The celebration connected
,, with the university was the queerest
OF all. Prof. w. c. Brogger, president
of the university, introduced the pro-
gram with a few remarks about the
triumph of the theory of evolution in
Norway. Thirty years ago, he said,
the word "Darwinist" was employed
rs an epithet Of abuse, an revolution
ist' had made himself unworthy of
general respect. What a change in
those thirty years! A man who re-
jects Darwinism is locked upon as
an impossibility" in our day. Prof
Schreiner next took charge of the pro-
gram. The lights were shut of, and
a life-sie picture of the great nat
uralist was thrown upon a screen.
This was followed by CHASTITY array
of prehistoric beings which are sup
posed to have led up to animal life as
We see it around us. The hall was
crowded, still there was absolute ST.
lence as the uncouth animals of the
different geological periods passed
across the screen. A reporter states
that particularly impressive was the
transition from the semi-ape to ape
man" When this unique seance was
over Prof. Schreiner rose and ex-
planned what we have lost and what
we have gained by the development
irto man."
A movement has just been started
tn organize new political party in
Norway. About a year ago twenty
four Leftist members of the storting
we're shut out from the Leftist union
because they were opposed to the rad
ical wing of the party, which, never
theless, was strong enough to over
throw the Lovland cabinet and put
the present (Knudsen) cabinet into
power. Now those tabooed Leftist
members Of the storting and their
sympathizers are trying to organize a
national party which is to follow the
golden midway" in Norwegian poll
tics. At the head Of the movement
are found the most popular men in
the country, as, for instance, EXPIRE
mier Nicholson, Fridtjof hansen.
Ernst Sars, the historian, Konow, Arc
lander Abraham Berge, Ole Arvesen
and host of lesser lights. In the
preliminary platform of the new rarty,
considerable stress is laid on personal
Hherty,-political, religious and social.
- &c also worthy of note that Low
land and Aarrestad are left out: Low
md, the leader of the language re-
formers, and Aarrestad, the leader of
the temperance people. It would seem
that this may drive the latter group
into a crowd by themselves, and If
this should happen the new party will
have all the fighting that they can
wish for. - s
During the discussion of the speech
from the throne in the storting Rev.
A. Eriksen, the leading Socialist, fair
w stunned the members by stating
that Castberg, the most energetic
member of the cabinet, appealed to
the Socialists for support when the
Lovland cabinet was overthrow to
giro place to the present one. It had
tcoa understood that the present cab
inet was entirely Independent of the
Socialists
August Behel, the great leader Of
the Social Democratic party. II 50
riously Ill.