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IBSEN’S BROTHER,
A FAILURE. POOR,
DIEDjNAMERICA
Ancient Tombstone in lowa
Source of Pathetic, Ro
mantic Tale.
Bu United Press
ESTHERVILLE, la., March 18.—
While his illustrious brother, Hen
rik, accepted the plaudits of a liter
ary world, Nicolai Ibsen was going
through poverty and near starvation
on the western plains of lowa.
This was disclosed recently when
workers in an old Norwegian ceme
tery near here discovered an ancient
tombstone. It was cleaned of de
bris and the following inscription
found:
“Nicolai Ibsen.'*
“By Strangers Honored and By
Strangers Mourned.'-’
Brothers Educated
A little investigation disclosed the
following romantic tale of the almost
poverty-stricken brother of the fa
mous dramatist and poet.
Henrik Ibsen was born in Norway
in 1828. His brother Nickolal was
born in 1834. The family was me
dium wealthy and both boys were
educated.
The older brother, however, im
mediately took up playwriting which
did not meet with the good graces of
the father. The younger brother —a
hunchback —went into business.
Nicolai Ibsen failed. His father
reestablished his son in business and
a second time Nicolai failed. That
night he left his home in Norway,
rather than face his father, and
came to America.
In Middle West
He worked as far west as Chicago,
and there ran short of finances. He
sold his- gold watch and gained suf
ficient money to get to a Norwegian
settlement in Wisconsin where he be
came a sheep herder. From Wiscon
sin he went to lowa on a 40-acre
farm he had obtained through trad
ing, and later came here as a sheep
herder and farmer of very little
means.
Only once did he disclose his
strange story and his relationship to
the famous Henrik. That was when
an advertisement was inserted in a
Norwegian newspaper that his
father had died and a search was be
ing made for Nicolai Ibsen so that
he might share in the estate. Mich
ael Berlow found the advertisement
and told Ibsen of it. Ibsen refused
to answer the advertisement.
When he died, notification was
sent to members of his family in
Norway and it was learned they
thought he was dead or wandering
about Europe. His funeral expenses
were paid by neighbors.
CURIOUS ERROR IN
MARRIAGE LAWS
Man Cannot Take Brother’s
Son’s Widow as Bride.
Bu United Press
I LONDON, March 18.—A curious
oversight in the law of England
makes it illegal for a man to marry
his brother’s widow.
This was revealed in a ruling by
Magistrate Clarke Hall after study
ing two “marriage problems” put be
fore him. They were: “Can I marry
the widow of my brother’s son?” and
“Can I marry my late wife's moth
er's sister?” The questions were
,asked by two men, each of whom in
sisted lie was deeply in love with the
woman in /lueslipn. The magis
trate ruled:
“These marriages are forbidden
uhder the old law as set out in the
tables at the end of the Book of Com
mon Prayer. The prohibited degree
of relationship has been modified
comparatively recently by the Acts
-as T 907 and 1921, whereby marriage
Is permitted with a deceased wife’s
'"t-r and a deceased brother’s
widow. Apparently it never occur
i a to the Ltgislature in passing
these acts to extend them to what
is a far more remote relationship,
namely a brother’s son's wife.”
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ELKHART LAKE, AVIS., March
18. —Most men are agreed that when
they reach the age of 30, they’ll do
little besides sit around the Are and
keep warm. Not so with William
JTremy, who for forty years has
been a resident of the town, and
•till has the skates he used when he
first came to America.
Almost daily, Fremy can be seen
at the skating rink, strapping on his
ancient skates, and doing fancy
twists and twirls for the edification
of the younger generation.
His activities do not stop at skat
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woman, whose body was found in
a ravine at Goldtliwaite Park at
Marion after she had been miss
ing for three weeks. A bottle of
poison was found beside Ler. Mrs.
Amelia Strauffle, who found the
body, said it had been revealed to
her through a vision. Mrs. Kerri
gan had suffered a nervous break
down following the death of her
husband.
PRINCE AT NAVY SCHOOL
Bu United Press
TOKIO. March 18. —Prince Taka
matsu, a youngeh brother of the Em
peror. vvill be graduated from the
Naval Torpedo School in July, after
which he will become a member of
the crew of a training squadron that
will visit a number of American
ports, on both the Pacific and Atlan
tic coasts. The squadron will con
sist of the cruisers Iwate and Asams.
After his return to Japan, in the
spring of 1928, Prince Takamatsu
will leave for England to enter a uni
versity, probably Oxfard, where he
will be in residence for one or two
years.
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SUICIDES AMONG
YOUNG PERSONS
SHOWDECREASE
Statistician Declares Decline
Continues Despite Recent
Student Flurry.
Bu Times Special
NEW YORK, March 18.—The gen
eral tendency of the suicide rate
among young persons has been dow-n
---ward for the last sixteen years, in
spite of the recent flurry of suicides
among students, according to Louis
I. Dublin, statistician of the Metro
politan Life Insurance Company.
“Suicides among minors consti
tute a very small fraction of the to
tal numbers of suicidal deaths in
the United States,” said Dr. Dublin.
"In childhood, that is, at ages under
fifteen, there is no problem at all
in this country. During the two
years, 1923 and 1924, only seventy
eight suicides out of the total of
23,348 In the United States registra
tion syea were those of children;
that is, only three-tenths of 1 per
cent of the total.
Figures Show Decline
Between fifteen and twenty years
suicide does assume some numerical
importance, with about 3 per cent of
all the deaths from this cause In the
general population of the country.
The Metropolitan's experience
among about tw-o million young peo
ple at these ages, Industrial policy
holders, has shown that the trend
of suicides since 1911 has been down
ward. To illustrate by figures: 4he
rate from this cause among white
boys at ages fifteen to nineteen, in
1911, was 6.7 per 100,000; 6.6 in 1912
and 7.3, the maximum, In 1913. Last
year, as well as In 1925, the figures
was only 8.9; that is, about one-half
the rate of fourteen years ago.
For girls the Improvement has
been even greater. The highest sui
cide rate during the period 1911 to
1926 was 10.1, recorded in 1911, and
and the lowest rate 2.9 in 1925. Last
year the figure was 3.4 or only one
third of the 1911 rate.
For the first month of the current
year, our records show only two
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BETTER BUILDING
FOLLOWSQUAKE
Two Russian Armenian
Cities Experience Boom.
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ERIVAN, Russia, March 18.—Len
inakan and Erivan, devastated by
an earthquake which took 360 lives
in November, are being rebuilt Into
beautiful garden cities along modern
city planning lines. A building boom
followed close after the earthquake
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After the earthquake both cities
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general will grow Into a number of
centers connected by circular boule
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I NEW YORK, March 18 —The most
| rampant bulls in Wall Street have
nothing on Uncle Sam, who is liter
ally picking up thousands of dollars
worth of gold out of the air in the
financial district.
An ingenious system of mechan
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tune each year by recovering gold
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Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes,
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