Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-09-08
OTHER LANDS THAN ours.

Socialism has succeeded in establishing IN
France a legal Sabbath. which neither
Romanism nor Puritanism was able To do
The Boston Transcript translates an inter-
estlng article from lie Gigaro. giving an
account Of this law and some OF the DIM
cultes which are threatened by its enact
ment II makes cessation from labor on
Sunday compulsory. with certain definite
exceptions intended to provide for those
cases in which. In the judgment OF the
lawmakers cessation from Sunday labor
would be prejudicial to the welfare OF the
public or compromise the normal workings
OF an establishment. In these cases some
other day in the week may be substituted
and not. as we understand II. the same
day for all employees Among these excep-
tions are included hotels liquor saloons,
hospitals, drug stores, newspaper ofices.
water. gas and electric works and transpor-
tation companies. The objection to the
law came. according to lie Figaro, chiefly
from the small shopkeepers:
"A portion Of the population of Paris fire.
quehts the shops only on Sunday. work.
man or a clerk, busy all the week, finds
that day the sole time when he can be at
leisure TO purchase the clothing or house,
hold utensils he needs. The big stores can
close without doing themselves harm, for
do, and can get time to make purchases on
week days. with the small retail Dealers
however and especiall. with those In poor
districts, Sunday Is usually the day when
the most business Is done; so much so. in
deed. that many OF those houses are doomed
TO certain ruin 10 they must be closed on
| that day"
German papers and periodicals have OF
late generous space devoted to discussions
Of Egyptian affairs in the light Of British
occupation. The latest contribution to the
discussion appears in the Schlesische Eel
| tung. journal in close touch with official
circles.
According to this paper efforts are about
to be made by England to limit those spe-
cial privileges which European powers en-
| joy in the cspitulations. Germany, It is
remarked. will do we'll in the course Of the
negotiations which must necessarily pre-
cede any changes in the judicial system of
Egypt. to insist on measures for protecting
its industries there. which at present labor
against the keenest competition. Germany
assented to the arrangement OF 1908 between
France and England, so far as Egypt was
| concerned. because II secured most
favored-nation' treatment for thirty years
| The Schlesische Zeitung hopes that in the
negotiations regarding the further regula-
ton Of Egyptian affairs, which must sooner
or later take place. German diplomacy will
| remember the interest which German trade
has in maintaining the open door, and will
press this point more than was done two
years ago At the present time the Journal
observes. Germany is practically excluded
from the great state contracts in Egypt
and II is quite possible that In twenty
] ofe t.
span in the life of a naton-the door may
be completely closed against It,
|
Spain has a population of beggars, '
writes Eleanor Franklin in Lesle's Weekly
There are so many of them that 1t is i'm
possible TO understand how they can make
\ their industry lucrative. and II It were not
for the crowds of tourists who have to pay
them for the privilege of seeing the pic
turesque remains of the country's past, 1
don't believe they could All southern coun-
| tries are similarly beridden 1 know, but
l have never been in any other land where
| beggary assumed so many surprising dis
guises or so many unsightly forms. There
Is nothing unusual about the dirty, shrill-
| voiced children, the unkempt old women
and the ragged, filthy. blear-eyed men who
follow one In the streets, imploring one. in
the name of God TO save them from freez-
ing or starving. some other dire, i'm
probable thing; but to be stopped by a
we'll dressed, respectable. even aristocratic-
looking person. and asked for aims in terms
and tones that would grace the conversa-
| ton Of any circle, is an experience startling
enough to be placed In the category Of the
decidedly unusual"
London newspapers have Just printed
with great satisfaction the annual report
of>the board of trade on the accidents on
English railways in 1906, for II shows pri-
marily, that in the thirty-one years ending
In 1904 only one passenger was killed on the
average in every 36,464.Ss2 journeys, and
one injured in every 1,127.464 as compared
with one killed in So.7O5,179 and one in
jured in S,o2S,ss6 respectively in 1906 The
risk, tie report says, is really less than
these figures indicate. since they take no
account of the travels OF season ticket
holders While this is an astonishingly
low figure, 1905 was an unusually bad year
for accidents. more passengers being killed
than In any previous twelve months since
1883. Thirty-eight OF the thirty-nine deaths
through accidents were attributable to four
collisions or derailments. In 1904 only six
passengers were killed in wrecks. 1t seems
the number of injured in 1906, 3s6, was less
than the average of late years Turning to
the total figures for deaths and injuries.
which include train hands, trespassers. etc.
l'Oss persons were killed and 6,45s were in
jured by accidents due to the running Of
trains or the movement of railway vehicles.
The average figures for the previous nine
years were l,l4s and 6.661, respectively.
|
One hundred and sixty lives saved is the
record OF M. jacques Bommelaert, one time
chief pilot Of Dunkirk. twenty years can
tain OF the local lifeboat. and now deputy
mayor OF Malo-les-Bains, France He be-
gan the work of rescue at the time of
the Crimean war; when cruising in a shin
on Gibraltar he personally rescued thr.c
OF crew belonging to a British three
master.
His greatest achievement, however. was
when captain OF the DoSakirk lifeboat Susan
Gray, which had been presented to the
French town by the mayor OF Margatc.
One frightful night the three-masted bark
Vesterle from Sweden struck on a sand
bank In the Dunkirk roads The sea was
running high and wild. and BommeIaert
mustered the crew and they went out into
the tempest. So high was the sea that the
iifeboat was struck by the heavy surf and
overturned. Two OF the crew were drowned
and Bommelaert had three ribs smashed