Omaha daily bee., 1899-06-03
OTHER LANDS THAN Ours.

oil the NOlkSStlm1ne, nad ueCldTeu lhdt ne
was the responsible party and has actually
obtained permission to be exempted from
his parliamentary privilege in order that
proceedings might be taken against him, the
court refused to grant the appeal, on the
ground that the previous sentence contained
no mistake of law. Here is another Illus
tration of the notorious fact that law and
justice are not always the same thing,
English merchants in Constantnople are
about to call the attention of the British
Board of Trade to the campaign that Is
being carried on by the Turkish censor
against trade marks and advertisements
entering the country. The assertion of the
Turkish official is that he exercises his legal
function at the custom house so that moth
ing shall pass that can possibly offend the
religious or political susceptiblities of the
subjects of the sultan. Two recent exam
ples illustrate the scope OF his control. a
firm designed a trade mark for use in Tur-
key in which the star and crescent formed
a part. The design was forbidden. Another
firm, profiting by the advice OF BRUSH
consul, had the advertisement and directions
that accompanied it's goods-a special
brand of soap-translated into Arabic. The
translation was done in London, and in the
phrase, which in English read "Soapmakers
to Her Majesty the Queen" appeared title
which in Turkey Is only applied TO the sui
tan. When the first consignment was eN-
amined by the censor he offered the I'M
porter the alternative of returning the soap
to England or removing the obnoxious label.
In the meantime British merchants are
warned against sending any goods to Tur-
key bearing trade marks or circulars which
could by any stretch of the imagination be
in any way connected with Islamism or the
sultan.
Considerable anxiety is said to have been
caused in Denmark by the operations OF the
Prussian state aided societies whose object
is to colonize North Schleswig with German
farmers. 1t appears from report published
in the Hamburger Nachriehten that society
has been formed in Denmark to counteract
the German societies by assisting Danish
farmers who are in difficulties and tempted
to abandon their holdings, and by helping
others to secure vacant farms on easy terms.
The subscriptions already published amount
to 2,5OO,0 900 kroner, of which 100000 kroner
have been given by NJ. Jacobsen, a wealthy
brewer in Copenhagen. The comment which
the Nachrichten makes upon this is that the
Prussian diet will have to vote larger
sum for its "colonizng'' work in its next
budget. In the Polish provinces the work or
colonization" has been more successful
and extensive tracts have been bought up
from impoverished Polish mobiles. The
Wielkopolanin, Polish nationalist organ,
utters bitter lament over the Teutonlzlng
of whole districts in which 1.-The sweet mel
ody of the Polish tongue" is no longer heard.
1t urges the necessity of supporting the Fol
sh land purchase societies, whose object is
to increase the class of Polish peasant pro-
prietors and thus safeguard the national
character of the country.
It has recently been brought home to the
Russian government by the petitions from
various scientific societies that the direful
effects of the recent famines in the agricul-
tural districts of the empire might have been
averted in many cases II the farming mad
been conducted ON more modern principles.
The minister of the interior now has the
matter under consideration and it Is believed
that certain reforms will be introduced and
the land owners forced to aid the govern
ment in a reorganization Of the agricultural
system before next autumn. The Novoe
Vremya declares that the immediate estab-
lishment Of agricultural schools and colleges
is essential. 1t is to be feared however,
that the expense which the adoption of this
course would entail would be very consd-
cradle. 1t is shown that the funds at the
disposal Of the minister CT the interior must
be seriously affected by the impossibility OF
recovering from the peasants the sums ad-
vanced The journal points out that years
must inevitably pass before the peasants are
able to repay fraction of their debt, since
it would obviously be defeating the end FOR
which the advances were made IL every peas
ant who sup,eeded in extracting himself
from the condition of want into Whlch ne
had been plunged by the famine were COM
To h{nnealf again and lose all
hope of permanently improving his position
by forthwith repaying the whole, or even
a portion of the money advanced.
News of what Is considered as a death
blow to the aspirations of the Carllsts mas
just been published by the Madrid press.
week or two ago Cardinal Sancha, arch
bishop of Toledo and primate of Spain, ad-
dressed to the clergy in the diocese what is
considered a document OF great Importance
under the present circumstances. The pas
toral letter ca1ed upon Spanish Roman
Catholics in the name of the holy father to
accept the form of government as at present
constituted. Amy act contrary to this appeal
was deemed direct disobedience to the pope
and consequently a grave sin. The letter
added that the Spanish Catholics ought to
initiate the Catholics of Belgium and unite
on the ground of the constitutional system,
which Is the regime established In spain
Certain journals in Madrid with Carlst pro-
clivities doubted the authenticity of this let
ter and either stated this disbelief or re-
fused to publish it. They appealed to Rome
for advice. The vatican, in its response,
emphasized the fact that Catholics who do
their duty viii conform their actions to the
advice of the prelates and that the publica-
ton of the pastoral letter, which interpreted
faithfully the thought of the pope, would be
viewed with much satisfaction. 1t Is said
to be the intention of the vatican to address
presently another long letter direct to those
provinces that contain strong Carlist ele-
ments, advising them that 1t is the earnest
wish of the pope that they Loyalty support
the present regime
The new railway just completed from
Beira, the East African port, to Salisbury, in
Mashonaland is of two-foot gauge, but
win soon be widened to three and one-half
feet. This road will facilitate the importa-
tion of mining machinery into Northern
Rhodesia, where gold is already being pro-
duced in considerable quantities. Another
narrow gauge line. 40 miles long, is to be
built to the tcoal fields near Victoria falls
on the Zambesi, the completion OF which
will quicken gold mining by providing the
fuel tbat 10 co lacking in the gold neldS. Ar