Omaha daily bee., 1910-08-13

tor Of emperors was born, August 1S 1880
none OF the rulers OF today had yet seen
the light With the exception OF President
Diaz OF Mexico. barely six weeks his
junior, the president of France, the king
of Greece and the sultan OF Turkey, none
Of the present heads OF great states was
alive even when Francis Joseph reached
the throne in 1s4s. His reign OF sixty-two
years, in the record of modern monarchs.
is second only to that OF Victoria, and IL
he lives until July OF 1912 he will have sur
passed Victoria's record of sixty-three and
half years. No less notable is the
splendid physical condition of the emperor
on the threshold OF his ninth decade. An
exponent Of the strenuous life, he demon
strated for the youthful exemplar, Theo-
dore Roosevelt, what an elder could do
when occasion offered. The Vienna pro-
gram arranged for the ex-presidents visit
included getting up at midnight and reach
ing the grouse hunting ground at sunrise,
and the aged emperor beat the strenuous
hunter from Africa to the post. More re-
Gently the emperor paid royal visit to
Servia and Herzegovina and went through
the various receptions and social functions
arranged in his honor without apparent
fatigue. Long formed habits of early ris-
Ing, living in the open air as much as pos
slble and frugal eating are the sources OF
his long life and are now accounted the
fountains Of his youthful spirit
Lord Curzon, lately viceroy Of India, in
his second and last paper on British
Rule in India" in the North American
Review, attributes the growing discomfort
in that country to two reasons. 1.-THE In
dian movement" he says, rs part of that
uprising of natural sentiment in favor of
self-governing institutions which has run
like tide throughout the east ever since
the victory OF Japan over Russia, and has
been equally visible in China, India, Persia
Turkey Russia and Egypt. In India it
takes the form not merely of a demand for
greater share in the government of the
country and for some approach to parlla-
mentary institutions, but In its cruder and
more violent shapes appealing to ill-bal-
anced intellect, fed upon the rhetoric of an
hitherto uncontrolled press, or attacks
upon the instruments of an alien rule
eliminating in the assassination or at
tempted assassination Of high officials of
the government-often (such is the unrea-
soning faulty of the preparatory of those
who have been most conspicuous for their
service to the native cause. A second rea-
SON has been the general belief that there
has been some lack of firmness and con-
sistency in the policy of the government,
which has attempted the difficult and WE'LL
nigh impossible task of running Cancellation
and repression, 50 TO speak, in double har-
ness, with the result that the coercion has
usually been too late to Tighten and the
cancellation too fortified to appease"
Photographs forwarded by the American
consul at Jerusalem to Secretary of State
Knox. show in a striking manner how the
advance of modern invention has reduced
lowly occupations the Arabian thorough
bred horse and the once Sacred Camel.
One picture showed a stately camel yoked
up with a humble COW, engaged in the
prosaic pastime of blowing a rough field.
In an explanatory note the consul says
camels are still the chief beasts in the
Holy Land, although the railroads are
slowly replacing the caravan routes, nota-
bly, in the case Of the Mecca railway. where
heretofore thousands of camels were~em-
ployed, In transporting the pilgrims. The
camels are the single-hump variety, and
are raised only by the BedoulnS There
are two breeds, the ordinary large variety
for work purposes and the kind used for
riding, which are slender and agile. One
of these can, with ease. out, distance a
horse. The Bedouins who ra1st and use
this variety are as careful to keep the
breed pure as other tribes are in respect
to their horses The Bedouins eat the flesh
of the camel, and as mark Of distinction,
slaughter camel where a noted guest visit
them. Camel flesh also eaten by Moham-
medan peasants and the poorer classes in
Jaffa and GAIA The skins are used as
rawhide to sole shoes worn, by peasants.
Egypt is the best market for camels and
many are purchased there by the govern
ment for military purposes.
Modern progress continues shaking up
the dry bones of old Jerusalem. Railroads,
telephones and electric lights have settled
there, and next comes waterworl1s, for
which contractors are bidding. Abundant
water" comments the New York Post,
may mar the picturesqueness of Jerusalem
for those who put the flavor Of antiquity
before everything else, but 1T will make
for cleaner habits and better health. More
over, 1t will sustain the theory that all
progress works along a line Of averages,
and that every forward movement, in ex-
change for the ills 1t overcomes, brings
enough others in its train to furnish ITS
DeneTiCfafleB WIFI SOHn0tHlllk SAiA W WHY
about Improved protective agencies long
ago dispelled the perils of the Jericho road
but now come contractors to lay water
mains and install piping, soon TO be fol-
lowed by a regiment of plumbers to keep
the plant in order"
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VIII the Leaning Tower of Pisa follow the
Campanile of Venice? That is the question
which is now engaging the attention OF an
architectural commission. says the Jour-
nal of Rome. The tower is sinking, and
there can be no doubt OF the fact, and the
commission was APPOINTED in order to avert
| a catastrophe. The first step taken by the
architects was TO remove the chimes from
the belfry, which weighed several tons
They have also made the statement thai
| contrary to popular belief the tower, now
nearly 1000 years old, was not built tc
| lean, but acquired its present position
through the giving way of the earth under
part OF its foundation.
Socialism in Europe has just sgnalizee
itself by the election OF its candidate fol-
the NReichstag in a Wurtemburg district
by majority Of 4.25O votes over both op
position candidates. At the same time th'
socialists In Budapest have made street
demonstration against high rents. on tbs
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