Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-02-18
NORWAY.

The people of Norway are showing
marked interest in the discussion in
the United States in reference to a
'Mndgave" or memorial gift from Nor
wegian-Americans "Gamle Moder
Norge" (Old Mother Norway in 1914,
when she celebrates her centennial.
The idea of making such a gift or
iginated at a 18th of May celebration
at Minneapolis some three years ago,
and was hailed with general approval
both in America and in Norway. The
matter has been kept alive, and last
year a large committee, representing
the principal Norwegian settlements,
met at Chicago to organize and de-
eide upon the form of the gift.
There were all sorts of suggestions,
but majority of the committee final
ly decided that the best thing to do
would be to erect a great sanatorium
for consumptives and a hall for the
Normandsforbundet at Christiania.
Since then, however, great opposi-
ton has developed to this plan, it be-
ing held that such gift would not
be appropriate, and it seems certain
that the committee will be obliged to
hold second meeting and reopen the
matter, in which event it is more
than probable that different sort of
gift will be decided upon.
A report from Copenhagen says:
The posthumous edition of Henrik
Ibsens hitherto unpublished writings
to be issued March Is, is going to be
a decided schock, according to per-
sons in Copenhagen who have seen
the proof sheets; to interpreters Of the
authors writings all over the world.
The trouble is there have been so
many different interpretations that
they can't all be right, and now it is
to be shown from the papers Ibsen
himself left, just what his own inter-
pretations were. Many critics are,
therefore, sure to be put in the wrong.
Perhaps all of them will.
The new volume will really contain
no new work at all. 1t includes mere
ly drafts of the books he has already
published, together with keys to num-
bers of the riddles with which they
are filled. To students of everything
Ibsenesque, it is said, the publication
will be one of the most interesting
ever given to the world, as revealing
in the finest detail the great writer's
methods of literary workmanship.
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ly remarkable to them in the illustra-
tion it gives of the care he exercised
Fin the choice Of his ideas and ex-
pressions, a single paragraph often
being the only one he would accept
from hundreds of pages of preliminary
writing.
The following special dispatch deals
with the trouble over the pasturage
rights of the Laps in northern Nor
way, about which | wrote two weeks
ago:
The decision of the Swedish gov
eminent to refer to arbitration the
question regarding the ancient rights
of Swedish Laps to summer pasturage
in Norway, as was provided by the
karlstad convention, In case of mu-
tual agreement was not arrived at.
has been dictated by the necessity of
getting the matter definitely settled,
1t was found that notes Of evidence
taken by the Swedish and Norwegian
sub-commission on the spot differed SO
widely that the decision to be taken
by the mixed commission on them
might possibly be prolonged indefinite.
ly. 1t was thought preferable, there
fore, to have recourse to arbitration
without further delay, in order to
enable the arbitrator to investigate
the matter and come to a decision be.
fore the term of the existing agree
ment was over. The Norwegian gov
eminent semms to share this view.
The commission pursued it's work
last year in northern Norway. This
year the investigations were to be
carried into northern Sweden. Nor.
wegians maintaining the view that the
Laps are able to find pasturage for
RENDERS on the Swedish side of the
frontier during the period preceding
June Is.
One of the articles of the Karlstad
treaty confirmed the ancient right OF
the Swedish Laps to summer pasture
in certain parts of northern Norway
though it was stipulated that the,
should not cross the frontier before
that to fix an earlier date would be
detrimental to the stationary popula
ton and to their cultivated lands.
SWEDEN.