Show 4 AAAAhAAAAAAA AAA In Norways Old Capital lghts of Christiania Will Repay Traveler for Time Taken in Journey to the North Special Correspondence L regret for the loss of pleas 113 in lovely Stockholm with proved for tho joys of a town un Ipatlon It solid nights ride across ItIII with a III e three emerged from the try we la i rr wide awake to tho Interest er capital re Cvelty Norways novelty of ant led fr Its busy shipping port heiJ Iiu ed fair harbor of long arms and Its beauty un I which lend a dents 9 tj amid the glories of this earth dtths cd Crown Prince paid us a visit dot e miles away the country flock the rl I for city Peasant and farmer the Ifel IV in till sidewalk and curb cd humanity racked with surging to pa floated from palace and cot I a tho booming of cannon the rat hoofs and tho advance of tho t proclaimed the noble en I guard Keay S ladles held a charity ba mfcl I The in his honor and radiant signs etj led out their greeting The great a ti never had more than push dun moreowds for the crowds which loom has lot on to this Interesting center esi ss ways fairest girls arrayed In na md allured tho buyer to al emblems in all ti Ir dainty booths which named In Irs gay stalls outside satisfied I coarser taste for fries for yards I sausage and schooners of beer OS Ltl Ihln the buyer could choose from I till 1st that Included an Iced cake or art wheel Many of tho heavier Eds took their chances being loan In las advertisements by the city gad chants And a mint of money b 1 I made in lotteries This was the them heglan magnet It riveted the Eron till she was dragged away depleted Kroner after Ih purse Iner she passed over to tho begull Y Was I maid who encouraged her weak ice s as she took just one more therl t Ince deep down in the wellfilled > latil fcrn or In the revolving wash mane ma-ne to draw up only a blank Then I fere one In scores might find arouse a-rouse glc number t h el wn Rich In Relics he > town was rich in relics and Matron browsed in odd corners wu fished up twisted candlesticks tau brass and wooden flatirons three t long guided by a crank which man st have slid over tho table like a felloi wshoe while Its deep carving of rote scenes was imprinted in the r thing Pewter plates depicted des never before dreamed and Matron will go mourning to tho he dfr Hare for a certain grand platter I mil Hrred In luxury and stabbed with on for He date 1784 which grinned at her graph Behind closed glass just before train le All Christiania has an Idle en tt Bfcy of locking its doors and going me to dinner between 2 and 4 The ly Is practically dead No power i earth could uproot a proprietor ers to this trying hour sho spied thee the-e inning figures which exulted with ridlo rdonlc Joy In their antiquity Howe onage > How-e beat and clamored at tho easeful Irdens ease-ful How she longed to smash the ccom ass window How she sees today always see that battered pewter 1th Its giddy scenes and staggering Hires on the margin 1784 lstenl who ondrous Viking Ship III be But If ones soul Is lost to such amble e one a-mble what sentiments must over helm the beholder as he stands be re that wondrous viking ship whose story runs back 1000 years whoso Irdlng bs and thwarts and rudder defied ie lapse of ages as they lay wrapped 1 yon r centuries In their mantle of blue i ay Now exhumed tho ragged ww dges read us ancient history The Street Corner In Christiania fcrnlty out of Lethean slumber that mighty Samson who pulled down The Pillars of Society yet stood firm as the rockbased mountains amid the social devastation While accepted theories swung back and forth like cobwebs caught In those tottering pillars he stood like a battering bat-tering ram lunging again and again his hardheaded front Into the face of mock modesty of cowardly sham of giltedged hypocrisy He was fearless fear-less and terrible he was scathing anJ shocking but he was honest and Iwo I-wo loved him for his loyalty his courage before conviction his right about face to duty as he saw It Many a craven who had long bent the neck to the yoke of societyasltis knew that the mighty Ibsen had uttered ut-tered truths long ringing In his own heart The head had reasoned them but the cowardly self had not dared speak them It was Ibsens wont at midday to read the papers and sip his coffee at tho Grand unless curious eyes became be-came too many In which case ho shied away for Intermittent spells He does not like publicity or scrutiny and the trio was warned that he had the manners of a grizzly bear He would not speak nor be spoken to by the hoi polloi i But the general had an Irresistible way of her own and fearlessly fear-lessly would shoo walk up to the cannons can-nons mouth or beard the lion in his den In very pretty words sho aired her summers study of the Norse and I f 1 e 1j t l as = t f lr d f rt Ll 11 th rvs ih rrYt ° 4r µ + F l J + 3d li2r tR t F a rA Karl Johan Gade I Id hersekers dashed through the wa err main eaded 7 with their foaming dragons hC for foreign n shores They 44 hipped hey Z up the sea with fury and lack PlIIaged In 800 all In tholr lath Far I the or the Beat Charles wept caov > ea w hnvoc which these northern kings Enfoni HIs would bring to Southern rte were Prophecy was fulfilled iheg grim and hardy pirates foam foall1neCIed tea the flock01 adventurers and Ter tt wild life of sea Bobbing was his the loLunrturdir viking chief was laid iclor rest In torn wJ the brave craft which bad tho have on Wild waters To ua d Watched swift greyhounds bout Iklpplng bv ° yachts how clumsy and gling Life Bungling seems this relic ol the seas quire sCrved sail ho time nnd need The was rigged to the central Wit th i ick ut Itho rudder clung s teendrier to the rlglit old 1ged Into rough lank We wore n side of GOd Z ° plank < Wo should ttt pity the wild man who sot c < forth on stormy seas today In such a clumsy contrivance but 1000 years back this same contrivance was the proud queen of the waters the easy conqueror on a mighty main and tho lesson she reads us of past power and present progress alone Is worth the northern trip even though the tomb chamber which burled the viking king was pillaged of Its hero and Its treasures In remoter cen turles The Mighty Ibsen Two mighty monuments an ancient and a modern has Christlanla and at dally noontide the trio hovered In tho salon of tho Grand Hotel for but a glimpse of that Goliath of modern times whose weighty sledge hammer nailed to the walls of The Dolls House a verdict which startled mod ff < f a Y t td t r t y vy 1 111 ro buttonholed the mighty Ibsen quite and her equal as If ho were should bo honored by the greet slips In her ing With quaint halting speech she told that literary had written and lion how well he his stories his language how well she liked and himself The his country guage before the Professor stood aghast brazen effrontery The Matron was bravo and retaliated mute Tho victim was tallated with othor kindly speeches general that her which assured the did credit to in tho language skill and die had See Ibsen America and rivaling bean the slogan of the trio vnllns the memory of Christiana of the many harbor one glorious In the world beautiful views most Uawored shattered above the memory at the dismembered viking ship of con and tunes past Is the Goliath oC modern oC thnt towering literature |