Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-07-24
Sofia Grows from Village to Modern
City.
WILD COUNTRY NOW PUBLIC RoAI
Prof. Vincent Has Found an AntidOtC
for Typhoid.
KING A SEEKER FOR KNOWLEDGE
Dying Miser I'm bordeaux shoots and
Kills His SON who Calls on
Him in Response 10
Message.
BY PAUL vILLIERs.


BY PAUL VILLIERs.
PARIS, July 2S.-(Special Dispatch to
The Bee 1.-THE recent visit to Paris of
King Ferdinand of Bulgaria with his queen
recalls that while the car of the Bulgars
was a German princeling before he was
called to the Bulgarian throne, he is really
a member of the House of Orleans and his
training was largely French. lie was the
younger son of Princess Cementine of
Orleans, and it was largely due to her
efforts that he was given the Bulgarian
throne when Prince Alexander was de-
posed.
Four and twenty years ago Ferdinand
figured in the court set of Vienna and the
Hungarian society of BUDAPEST as
brilliant and very handsome cavalry Of
ficer, voluptuous, something of a petit
maitre In his love of material elegancies,
and only serious as a botanist and ornithol-
ogist.
He was a member Of the brilliant but
dssolute circle of which Crown Prince
Rudolph was the center He has since de-
veloped into a wise statesman and has adj
vanced Bulgaria from a Turkish province
to an independent kingdom.
King Ia a Builder.
Twenty-three years ago Sofia was
sordid village; it is now fine modern
capital with public buildings that would be
a credit to no matter what great city.
The wild country has been covered with
roads, and mountain gullies are being
damned to store water for irrigation. The
peasantry thrive greatly. They pour into
Sofia on their ox-drawn wains to bring
their farm and garden produce to the
markets there.
The king is a seeker after knowledge.
His visit to the rose garden of Bagatelle
With the queen was at once made for
pleasure and the good of his people. One
Of their staple trades is rose culture for
the making of essence. He kept a secre-
tary busy through his long visits writing
down the questions he put to the head
gardener and the answers. His botanic
garden at his place near Varna covers
nothing less than a territory, and has
many distinct climates. Ferdinand aspres
to make it a wonder Of the world and will
doubtless do it.
Particular pains were taken to show at
tention to the king and queen while here
not only because he Is a son of France
but because 1t is generally recognized that
he is the most dominant force in the
Balkans, and it is not beyond the realm of
the possible that he will in time prac-
tlcally rule that country.
Marriage May Fail.
As to the tallxed-of marriage of a daugh-
ter OF the eX-sultan and Prince Alexander
of Servia, there are still difficulties In the
way. He could not be converted to the
Koran, and there is great fear that
were she to go from STEAMBOAT the bride
of giaour, the common people might rise
In rebellion against the union and progress
committee. One OF the reasons why they
and their stepmothers were removed from
the villa serving as the fallen sultan's
prison is that he used to test his medicines
on them. If they showed symptoms OF
poison he had made up his mind to discard
the pills. powders or draughts the chemist
might have, on Doctors prescription, sent
in to him.
AntidOte for Typhoid.
Prof, H. Vincent of the Val de Grace
Military Hospital seems TO be on the high
road towards a discovery which will be of
the utmost Importance to mankind if in
deed he has not already achieved 1t. A
faithful disciple of the great Pasteur he has
been devoting particular attention to pro-
phylaotics against typhoid fever. Ever since
Nine chantemesse and Vidal started on
this path number of savants, including
wight l<oibhindul, GIelIIer, and Koch
have followed in their track
They employed vacclnes from dead baciu
but there was manifest drawbacks, Then
recourse was had to live baciIli, but even
in an attenuated form they proved to be
dangerous. even going so far as to pro-
duce typhoid In subjects which happened
to be predsposed to it. The problem,
therefore. remained extremely puzzlinR.
There ought to be some solution, but In
what direction did 1t lie2
This is a question to which Prof. II.
Vincent claims to have found an answer,
and he has developed II in an important
communication which he has made to the
Academy of Medicine, of which he is one
Of the youngest members.
Crime of a MIser.
A grim village tragedy was reported in
Bordeaux recently. An old man of 70,
named Drouot, was dying in his cottage
at Seloncourt, and sent for his three sons
so that he might he said, divide his money
among them.
The old man was known TO be a miser
and two of the three sons ignored the
message sent by their father They re-
fused TO go 10 his deathbed but the third
son went. As he entered the room the
old man raised himself In bed, drew a gun
from under the Clothes shot his son
through the heart, and blew out his own
brains.
In the mattress of the dead mems bed
were found notes and gold to the value
of over $4,000.
Lane Wins sixty.
Princess Ghika, who is better known as
Nine. Lane de Pougy, has been awarded
$50 damages against man and two women
who made rude remarks about a hat she
wore some months ago at 81. GERMANS.
The prinoesss lawyer telegraphed the news
TO his client In these words, You win the
hat stake, So"