Omaha daily bee., 1905-06-17
OTHER LANDS THAN OURS.

does not occur in the list of Swedish kings
until 1s44 when oscar l. mounted the
throne. He was the son of Bernadotte
who, to please his Swedish subjects took
the name and style OF Charles XIV. (John)
| on becoming king. oscar l. was born when
his father was simply General Bernadotte.
in 1923, and his name was selected for him
by Napoleon, who was an intense admrer
of Ossian and the Ossianic literature cf
which oscar is one OF the heroes. Napo-
| Icons approval gave the name a great
vogue. 1t is to this day not uncommon
| In France, and has been eagerly adopted
by Morse people IL there was an Oscar of
flesh and blood, he was Irish. for in Ire
| land is the scene of the Ossian poems, not
only those of Macpherson, but the ruder
lays and fragments of epics on which the
| Scotchman builded. Possibly 1t is Morse
| in its root, however. for the Morse people
were once dominant in the dim and
shadowy Ireland of the remote past
A bill has just been submitted to the
| Belgian Parliament, providing for COM
| plete reorganization of the defences of Ant
werp and immense Improvements in its
| port accommodation. The total cost of the
| military works is estimated at more than
| $200O0,O00. In the port itself there will be
| an immense increase of the quay space
and warehousing accommodation, one
| branch Of the river being locked off and
converted entirely into a long canal dock,
while many other docks wet and dry, are
to be constructed. OF the latter there will
| be group placed close together OF vary
! ing size, one at least having an effective
length Of $50 feet, capable of receiving the
largest vessels. For these magnificent har-
| hOr XUnrlxs No ho 90 10
are to be appropriated, and the total cost
of the land and of the works is estimated
at more than s36OO0OOO. The state expects
TO recover enough by the resale of land
| to reduce this expenditure by $4,000 600 or
| so, and the town of Antwerp will defray
the cost Of the dock canal, estimated at
| about $9,00o,0O0. so that the total expense
to the state for these commercial improve
ments is likely to be something less than
$20,00OO0
| The latest reports from the scene of the
Arab insurrection against Turkish rule are
! of great interest The area of successful
| revolt has spread so far south that only
| one place of Importance in the interior Of
| Southwestern Arabia, Tais, remains in
! Turkish hands, and that is now blockaded
by the rebels. Ibh and other places be-
l
their hands, so that should Tais be forced
to surrender the territory controlled by
| them would become conterminous with the
British Alden Protectorate An attempt to
relieve Tais is to be made by force from
| Mocha, but 1t is doubtful whether the
| European Albanians and the troops from
| the uplands of Anatolia will be able to
! operate during the intense heat of the
Southern Arabian summer. The sultan is
| said to have resolved TO reassert his au-
| thority at all hazards, and has ordered an
army of 100000 men TO be sent into Yemen.
Apart from the difficulties of climate and
| transport which such force would have
| to overcome, 1t appears that the murder
| of some Italians in coast towns of that
province has given the Italian government
a pretext to afford indirect encourage
ment and assistance to the rebels by send
ing a considerable force of war vessels to
the Yemen coast to enforce the claims of
| their subjects. 1t is far from Yemen to
Tripoli in Barbary, but it may be safely
| surmised that If the moment Is deemed IA
vorable the incidents that have brought
about italian action in the Red sea will
| furnish the opportunity for the long con-
| templated descent upon Tripoli. Signor
Tittoni's last speech on the unsatisfac-
tory attitude of the Turkish authorities
toward Italians of Tripol and Barca was
of itself sufficient indication of this.
|
London dispatches say that King Edward
| in one of his neatest after dinner speeches
recalled for King Alfonso's benefit the time
when the latters father was a cadet at
| Sandhurst, the British military college.
| Probably the dignity of the occasion pre-
vented King Edward from referring to
made to learn at Sandhurst that there is
a democracy in even a British military
school that chastens the pride of a royal
cadet When King Alfonso was a new
conner at Sandhurst one of the senior
cadets asked him by what name he would
like to be known to his associates. Alfonso
responded by giving name of Castilian
length and dignity. With profane emphasis
the British cadet said that would never
answer. Don" was too topping and
"Asturias" not to be thought of. III tell
you what We'll do" said the mentor.
wen call you Squad Spain " Squad
being the comment hurled every minute at
the beginners by sergeants was short
easily remembered and suited the condi-
tion of the sufferer. Squad Spain" was
the nickname OF Alfonso as long as he re-
mained at Sandhurst.
, A correspondent Of London journal de-
clares that all the difference between Aus
tria and Italy could be settled quickly If an
end could be put to the mutual distrust
which exists between the two nations. He
, therefore attaches great Importance to the
confidence which Count Goluehowski and
; Signor Tittoni seem to have in each other
There is special need OF it just now, wher
the question OF founding an Italian univer-
sity, or at all events an autonomous Italian
law school, in Austria is again under con
sideration. The bill for establishing the
, Italian law school at Roverto, In the Tren'
tino, has been read a first time in tho
} Reichsrath, and, after some debate. re-
, ferred to the Budget commission Its fate
of course, is very uncertain, The only bit
terness shown in the debate was introduced
! by German radical and pan-German depu'
ties. DR.. Erler, the German radical poll
tician, who was responsible for the diS
turbances at Innsbruck last November, de-
nounced the idea of establishing any
italian faculty or college in any part OF
Austria as an abomination and danger
to Germanism. He solemnly appealed tc
all Germans OF all countries to rally round
their brethren in the Tyrol and to supper
d them in aveTting such a peril. 1t appear
, | that an anti-Italian an-Cermaf