Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-03-13
FROM ACROSS THE WATER.
A BRIEF RESUME OF THE NEWS OF THE
EASTERN OR OLD WORLD.
Belgium's 10Th Anniversary as Kingdom
Wagner Festival in Berlin Turkey Prepares
for War Making the Blind 10 see-British
Navy Expenses Starving in Dalmatia.

ing the Iiast week IN Samarh, RUSSIA,
causing hundreds of deaths. Horses
drawing sledges have returned TO viii
lagos with the passengers frozen to
death. The village bells are rung
nightly to enable travellers to find their
way to shelter. Many persons have
been frozen TO death within the vii
lagos while searching for the doors OF
their own homes.
The tenth anniversary of the begin
ming of the work of the Trans Siberian
railway occurred last week. With "A
length of about 3, 700 miles, the rail
way has cost already Sl92, 100000 in
GLIDING the first order of rolling stock.
Appropriations have been made of Sl7,-
100, coo to reinforce means of transport;
So, 100, 600 for griver and harbor i'm
provements; Sl5, 800, 600 for colouiza-
ton purposes and about $500, coo for
gold mine surveys, medical relief, etc.
The car is president of the company.
1t is reported that Grown Prince Fer
dinand of Saxony whose wife recently
eloped with her children's tutor, will
marry Princess Margaret Maria. sis
ter OF Princess Louise. The courts of
Saxony and Tuscany have arrived at an
agreement by which the former Crown
| Princess may remove TO Austria In May
and deliver her newly born child to the
Saxon court. She will then be per-
mitted to see her other children every
summer, and satisfactory financial
arrangement is also made for her.
In 1903 Belgium will celebrate with
great pomp in Brussels and all the
chief towns of the country the 10Th an
niversary of her erection into king
dom and of the accession of the family
of SAKE Coburg to the throne. Brussels
is to be transformed for the occasion.
The palaces will be enlarged and trans
formed and works of a gigantic nature,
the inception of which is due to King
Leopold, will be carried out in Brus-
sells. The exhibition to mark the an
niversary year, will be held at Liege
There will be large Wagner festival
in Berlin next October in connection
with the unwilling of a monument to
Richard Wagner Emperor William is
the patron of the festivities Nine.
Nordica, as representative American
singer. is to be one of the information
al committee of honorary patrons. The
monument was designed and executed
by Professor Eberlein of Germany.
The separate figure is the part of the
monument designed personally by the
emperor, which epresents the minstrel
Wolfram Won Eschenbach.
Turkey is making war preparations.
including the purchase of large sup
ply OF smokeless power. Reservists have
been ordered to join their regiments.
Turkish forces seized the monastery on
ST. Peters, near Rodzde in Macedonia
last week tortured the prior and all of
the monks who were suspected OF har-
boring political suspects. The Turks
devastated l3 villages in the neighbor-
hood of Pest, and mastered q Chrls-
tians there. The only result of refor-
nation by the powers has been the IN
creased persecution of Christians IN Eu-
ropean Turkey.
Prof. Peter Stems of Paris alleges
that he has discovered means of re-
storing sight to the blind. His dis
coverv has been tested on DR.. Gaze
who publishes an explanation of it. 1t
is claimed also to give vision to those
who have never known it. DIR. Gaze
could see with the apparatus fixed
about his temples, but when'lt was re-
moved. he was in total darkness. Prof.
Stems holds that man does not see
with the eye. but with the brain. the
eve serving only to receive the image
which the optic nerve transmits TO the
seat of perception. If, then, the I'M
age can be transmitted to the brain
without eyes, a blind person can see
as well as anybody else. The protes-
sorts apparatus has the same scientific
basis as the telephone, with the sub
stitution of light for sound.
Joseph Henry Shorthouse, the au-
thor of John Inglesant' and other
novels, died in Birmingham. Eng,
Thursday, aged 90. John lnglesant'
was published in 1881. Others of his
books were: 'Sir Percival, The
Countess Eve and THE Little School
master Mark - 1t is over 20 years
since John lnglesant" was published
but the book is still widely read The
religious problems which 1T discussed
are of perennial interest, and, accord
inp to the opinion of many of the alb
lest critics, the book will live as long
ms the English language Moreover,
If furnishes one of the finest pictures
of life in the troublous times of the
English Civil War that was ever pro
duced. Much of its fame is said 10 be
due to Mr.. Gladstone, who liked the
book and whose portrait, In which he
was shown with a copy of the book I'M
der his arm, was widely distributed.
Pekin advices say that a Boxer out
, break is regarded by many as immi-
nent The empress dowager is said to
be issuing edicts commanding reforms
on western lines while secretly order
ing viceroys and governors to prohibit
the Inauguration of foreign methods.
She is also said to be secretly aiding
Fung Flu Hsiang, who with his army,
is escorting Pu Chun, son of Prince
Chun, to Pekin. On their arrival
Kwang Hsu, the present emperor, Is
to be made away with, says the report.
The representatives of the various for
eign powers and all foreigners in the
capital, as well as in the provinces,
are to meet the same fate without dis
tinction. Leung Kai Chow, who has
recently arrived in Victoria, B. c., is
said to be trying to raise funds by sub
scription and to arrange for the ship
ment of arms from the Pacific coast to
China. The secession of the southern
provinces from China is urged.