Willmar tribune., 1909-12-15
NORWAY.

stopping in Chicago for the purpose
of buying provisions for his next Arc,
tic expedition. He is to spend about
$4,000 for canned goods. To an in.
terviewer he said: Il propose to
leave San Francisco in July, 1910.
The Fran, which was used by the
Sverdrup Arctic expedition, has been
placed at my dispos@l by the Nor
wegian government, which financed
my enterprise" The party will pass
through Bering strait an; enter the
ice pack, which is expect<A to carry
them north, and then soutI ::etween
Greenland and Spitzbergen. The trip
is to last from five to seven years
When asked what reason he had for
expecting the ice pack to behave in
that way, Captain Amundsen answer
ed: I'VE have much evidence. k:f!tt-
wood has been picked up on The
shores of Greenland that undoubted.v y
was carried by currents through the
Arctic sea. Floating substances cast
aside by north polar expeditions up
on one side of the basin have been
found several years later upon the
other. Similarly cask thrown over
board from a whaling vessel north of
Alaska drifted ashore in Norway"
A publishing house has issued in
four volumes, complete collection OF
the posthumous writings of Henrik
lbsen. The volumes contain a great
deal of verse, biographical material,
and sketches of the plots and morals
of Ibsen's plays, as we'll as the text
of the plays as first completed, the
last showing the great Importance
1Sben attributed to careful planning
OF his plays in advance, and to
through revision of them. One of the
editors tells story which illustrates
1bsen's attitude on this question. A
young dramatist came to him and
begged him to read his play. 'Show
me first the plan,'' said 1bsen. There
is no plan," answered the author
proudly. Il wrote it from scene to
scene, following my inspiration. Ib-
sen thereupon refused to read the
play, declaring that writer who did
not make an orderly plan for his
drama did not know what a drama
was and could not possibly write one.
The preliminary sketch of Nora ~
put to paper in Rome on Oct 19, 1878,
shows how clearly the figure of Nora
and her history stood out to 1bsen be-
fore he had written a line of the play,
of the moral of which he speaks as
follows: "There are two kinds of
spiritual laws, two kinds Of con-
science, one for men and quite diff
ferent one for women. They do not
agree; but in practical life the wom-
an is judged according to the law Of
the man, as if she were not a woman
but man. A woman can
not be true to herself in our modern
society, which is an exclusively male
society, with laws written by men,
and with accusers and judges who re-
gard women's actions from mans
point of view." The volume contains
a number of aphorisms dealing with
many sides of life, of which the fol-
lowing are characteristic: Men of
science should not be allowed to tor
ture animals to death. Let them be-
gin with journalists and politicians -
Unfortunately, our best thoughts
have been thought by our worst ras-
cals." "The conscience is not some
thing stable. It varies in different
individuals and in different ages. 1t
is between the out-of-date and the
up-to-date conscience that party strug-
giles are Waged." There will be a
new nobility. Not the nobility of gold
or of money, of talent, or of knowl-
edge. The nobility of the future will
be the nobility Of courage and of
will"