Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-04-10
FROM ACROSS THE WATER.
A BRIEF RESUME OF THE NEWS OF THE
EASTERN OR OLD WORLD.

Coffee Cure for Alcoholism Bulgarian Up
risings = The Morocco Ferment French
Monastic Orders Must Disband- Ireland Il
be Developed-Un Of European Countries
Necessary.
The bubonic plague has %reappearec
in some parts Of Egypt. Cholera is re-
ported at Alexandria.
A commercial crisis is said to threat
en- Tien-Tsin. Foreign banks have
been refusing credit to several native
exchange shops and this combined with
a scarcity of specie has led to the sui
eide of 10 Chinese bankers. They end.
ed their lives by the usual Chinese
method, by taking opium.
Orders to disband are being served
on the monastic orders throughout
France. These orders affect 25 teach
ing orders having 1850 branches with
Is, 964 members and % preaching orders
having 3,O40 members. Failure to dis
perse within the time given will result
in prosecution by the police in the To-
cal courts.
One of the most interesting exhibits
of the International Agricultural En-
position, which will open at Vienna
this month, will be perfectly preserved
specimens OF mummified Egyptian bees,
estimated to be 5000 years old. The
exhibit shows that the ancient Egyp.
tians were far advanced in the art of
making these insects productive.
The temperance people of England
and the Paris Anti-Alcoholic League
welcome the suggestion of DR.. Maui
rice Springer, the ~well-known London
physician, who makes short people
grow tall, that n of the best, If not
the best, cures for alcoholism is coffee.
He says that a coffee-drinking people
lose all appetite for alcoholic drinks.
He backs up his claim by reference to
those countries where coffee is a gen.
eral beverage and contends that in
them drunkenness is comparatively
rare.
The House of Commons at London
April l adopted Irish Secretary Wynd-
hams motion to grant 1925, 600
ally for developing Ireland. He said
there is a genuine industrial revival
in that country, and that Lord lveagh
of Dublin and Alderman Pirrie of
Belfast are prepared to provide the
n necessary for developing the
Irish transportation facilities. Mr..
Wyndhani closed by saying: There
has been nothing so hopeful, patriotic
and businesslike in Ireland since the
eighteenth century"
The Bulgarian wal cloud is assuming
menacing proportions. The discomfort
has extended to many sections, several
new uprisings being reported, and the
movement OF Turkish troops TO the
scenes of danger continues. Thirty
Bulgarian villages near the Macedo'
MAN border, mastering 5000 men,
have risen under their bishop who has
been preaching a holy war. Bulga-
rian bapds and Turkish troops in the
Okhrida district fought a battle Fri
day in which LOCO men were killed or
wounded. The railroad bridge over
the Annista river near Drama has been
blown up by Bulgarians and all the
telegraph wires in the vicinity cut.
James W. Langerman. the st. Louis
fair commissioner, who has Just re-
turned from Morocco. says the hight
ing among the tribesmen and pillaging
of caravans reported by cable have no
connection with the revolution started
by the pretender, Blu Hamara. All the
trouble was started through the Sui
tan trying to open the country to In
dustries, which is opposed by the peo-
pie, who are largely fanatics. He did
build a short line Of railway from his
castle, which was torn up by noun
~taineers. The Sultan told Mr.. Ian
german he would give every encourage
ment to the introduction of American
enterprises in Morocco.