Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-07-23

POSITION as an occupation IN Germany, In
1895 the agricultural population was $780,
900, and in 1907. 17,6S0,OO0 In the same per-
iod the number engaged in mechanical
industrial pursuits increased from %, 80 900
to %. $4,000. The loss in agricultural popu-
lation has been more than balanced by Inn
proved agricultural methods This is
strikingly shown In the statement that
with 100000 less population than in 1882,
there was harvested in 1905 100000 more
tons OF cereals and 25,OO0,OO0 more tons OF
potatoes than a quarter Of century ago.
The productive output OF the farms has
been doubled with less manual power and
the value Of the output greatly enhanced.
Commercially the writer shows that Ger
many's exports and imports In 1898 were
worth, in round numbers 81, 200 900, 600, and
in 1908 $500. 100000, In the last named
year the balance of trade was $500 900 900.
According TO the writer, Germans com
mercial success is largely due to the per-
lection Of the organization of syndicstes
by which products rather than manufac-
turing establishments are controlled. The
syndicates secure the trade, fix the prices
for the merchandise and distribute the or
Gers among the various mills and factories.
He does not say that cost of production
Is materially less In Germany than it is in
Great Britain, but emphasizes the fact
Of important economies affected through
commercial cooperation and system.
Every effort" he says, lis made to avoid
waste and overlapping and the economies
affected are stated to be very great"
The life of the dethroned shah of Per-
STA is not as distressing as that which usu-
ally befalls monarchs forcibly routed out
of a job. With a snug annual grant of
money from the Persian treasury the fallen
successor of Xerxes and Darius occupies
a palace at Odessa surrounded with
chosen society whose varied conversation
pleases and instructs him. The shah is now
studying Russian, and 1t is said is already
able to read Tolstoy, DostoievsN and
Cork In the original He attends the Rus
sian law courts and sees with more OF sad
ness than surprise that the czar's judges
are corrupt as were his own magistrates
in Persia. He is attending course at the
University Of Odessa, and has entered into
the study Of medicine, counting upon win
ming a diploma as doctor. If his former
subjects do not recall him he intends, it
is said, to practice this dangerous art at
tachlng himself to some hospital. He has
already operated on some of the members
OF his household. 1t is thus that he will
preserve the privilege accorded only to alb
solute sovereigns and to physicians, the
dispensation of life and death.
Despite the professions Of zeal in the
cause Of race perpetuation, French laws
place a greater value on animal life than
on child life. A writer in the Paris Matin
reveals o distressing aspect of rural life
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miles from the nearest town, where fifteen
children died OF diphtheria within a short
space of time. The peasants are poor, and
call a physician from the distant town only
In cases of extreme urgency, mostly when
it Is too late. But" says the writer,
suppose a peasant has a COW which he
supposes has got tuberculosis, what hap
pens? He gives notice to the village burgo-
master; the latter passes it on to the pre-
feet, and the project orders the veterinary
surgeon Of the nearest town to examine
the animal. What does the peasant have
| to pay? Not cent. The veterinarian
draws his fixed Sc visit from the state.
What is even better, IL the COW has to be
destroyed the farmer gets a compensation,
sometimes exceeding the value of the beast.
ITO save diseased cow" the writer ex-
claims the official machine works at full
speed, but to save a French child not a
dollar Is sacrificedl''
The two cities in this country which were
deprived of their elective mayors recently
might profit by the example Of a German
community. The city of Madgeburg wants
an expert to manage its affairs and goes
about getting one through the business
medium of advertising. This advertisement
| appears oonspicuously in German news
papers: The place Of mayor of MadRe-
burg is vacant. The salary is 1900 marks
| ($5, 800 a year, including the rental OF a
dwelling In the city hall. Besides his
salary the incumbent will receive 1900
| marks $1,000 for his official expenses
Candidates should apply before September
l." The practice OF hiring expert officials
wherever obtainable Is no novelty in Ger
| many, where sometimes two cities bid in
competition with each other for a par
ticularly capable man. The MadgeburR
case attracts special attention, as il is the
| first large city to advertise in filling SC
prominent an office. The retiring mayor
DR.. Lentz, was lately promoted to be Prus-
sian minister OF finance.
In these days when partisans sound the
|
are permitted to save the empire" and
landlords escape taxation, an unexpected
Job of gloom is thrown into the melancholy
situation by one of the noble lords" who
has not hitherto taken high rank as a
humorist. This noble pillar Of the empire
has risen to assert that unless the fine old
sport of fox hunting across country is
kept up, the kingdom is doomed, But the
I noble lord seems to have been unfortunate
in the occasion of his statement for an
opposition paper, In referring to his speech,
makes the conciss comment that he was
obviously In his element at the puppy
show OF the Wilton hunt" at which the
speech was given.
A new source of radium supply has been
discovered In Turkestan. Radium bearing
uranium ore has already been obtained In
considerable quantities. The native miners
have found that cuts and other wounds
take long time to heal, In other mines
are very quickly cured by applying a