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THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE : SEPTEMBER 17, 1911.
FRENCH HOUSEWIYES REBEL
Sharp Rise in Coit of Living Stir the
Women to Anger.
FORMULA IE DEMANDS ON PRICES
Merchant. n,f,,, thl MIk, Wheat.
Brl end Other rroTUIon Matt
Kept Wllkli a OrMli
Mazlnaam Coat.
FARIfi. Eent. 1 The cast of living In
France, which hu been creeping upward
steadily during ten yearn, hu risen with
Jump th: summer One of the principal
reasons Is th three months of extraordi
narily dry and hot weather, withering and
drying up the vegetables consumed In
large quantities by all classes In FYance.
String beans of the molt ordinary descrip
tion, for example, sell for to 12 cents a
pound and lettuce, at 3 M the hundred,
wholesale.
Discontent of housewives hai taken
violent form in the north, where attack!
upon farmer, butcher, storekeeper and
other vendor by band of viragoes are the
dally excitement in town and cltle. The
revolutionary labor party has thought thla
a good occasion to take part, but the
women manlfeetanta oppose thla. ami keep
the agitation In their own hands. A loo
organisation apreads over the north, al
though example more than anything else
keeps the market places In uproar In half
a hundred cities and smaller centers. Some
times there is a meat boycott for a couple
of daya at a time as a warning to the
butchers, or three or four hundred women
win rush a market, tipping over all the
stands and half destroying the eatables.
Houewlei Fonaalate Demands.
Demands of the housewives are for milk
at 8 cents a quart, butter at 3ft cents a
pound, bread at 18 or 19 cents for the five
pound loaf and plain meats at 20 cents a
pound. Bo far aa bread and dairy product
are concerned the women have been gen
erally successful, but the butchers utterly
refute to give way. They affirm that telling
at 20 cents a pound would cause an actual
loss. Farmers have not been able to com
bine, as the butchers have done, and they
awe yielding, although increased prices
from their point of view seem Justified be
cause fodder Is dear and scarce. Most of
the cows are stable-ted. and the milk
supply Is possibly a third less than usual.
The long drought has burnt up the second
crops of fodder.
The Parisians hear of these successful
raids on prices in the northern provinces
with the hope that something will happen
to check the rising cost of everything In
the capital, where living Is 30 per cent
dearer than It was at ths opening of the
century.
Edison on His Travels.
Edison ha been automobillng in short
stags through Franc and Switzerland. He
Intends to continue his holiday through
Germany to Hamburg. Bailing from there
for home. Everywhere Edison receives Im
pressive attention, being spoken of some
times as "the great American." He haa a
vivid and delighted interest in all that
he sees, and likes to talk about his Ira
pretalons. "Who la the shabby little man with the
crowd around hire?" inquired a Parisian
woman In the lobby at the Beau Rivag
at Geneva. Upon being told that he was
Edison, she looked again and replied:
"His clothes look as though they had
cost aboot M francs, but he has a brain
great enough to make him emperor of
France."
Edison feels the charm of the old. pleas
ant and rich countries through which he
psssea, but he admires most the delicate
and intelligent skill of 6wtss workmen. He
attributes their fine precision to the gen
erations of watchmakers. "My chief man,
Wurth, whom I have pensioned," said Edi
son, "la a Swiss, and I have employed
more than one thousand of them."
The only correspondence Edison bothers
with on his holiday la to autograph the
photographs of himself that people preaent
to him.
Set on Fire or In.
The chalet and beautiful botanical gar
dens at Saints Savins, near Troyes, have
been burned by the concentration of the
sun's rays through an accidental arrange
ment of windows forming a burning glass.
Work of Paris Pawnshop.
The Mont-de-Piete of Paris, the govern,
ment pawn shop, bss issued it report for
last year. howlng that nearly 8S.000.0ft0
were loaned on 910.111 article, more than
17,000.000 being upon Jewelry or objects of
srt. The experiences of the government
pawn brokers In Psrls. and the report ssyt
In the provinces also, show that people
pawn more during periods of prosperity
than during depressed times, because In
prosperity small business people need cap
Its! and do not have sufficient standing
to borrow from the banks. Hence they
avail thamtelves of ths government pawn
as security. Pswnlng has been diminish
ing In France since 1893 among tp work
ing classes, dus, ths report says, probably
to there having been fewer strikes.
SOCIALISTS MAKE BIG GAINS
Large Increase of Membership In the
German Empire Have Bla
Election Fund.
BIRLIN. Sept. 16 The annual report of
ths social democratic party's executive
committee, which has Just been Issued.
shows that ths socialists have Increased
their organized members by Uf.324, bring
lng the membership In the court of the
year to a total ef S36.5S3. This was the
greatest gain they aver had In a single
year. The financial position of the party
also is unusually strong The treasurer re
ports receipts of 8330.000, or a tain of 8100.-
000 over the previous year, and within the
last four years an election fund of tmono
haa been collected.
There are local organliatlona In all ths
Reichstag districts except fourteen. Be
sides the ordinary organisations of voters
the party haa 4M young people's organisa
tions, there having been a gain of nearly a
hundred last year Young people's homes
are maintained In 130 towns
Thsre are now eighty-one socialist dally
newspapers in Germany. The most ex
tentlvely circulated is the Vorwaerts of
Berlin, which Is the party organ; Its clrcu
'Istlon reaches 13T.000. A comic weekly
psper, Der Wears Jakob, whose weapon of
party warfare is the political cartoon, has
3OT.0O0 subscribers.
The drift towsrd socialism during the
last few years, the report claims, hss been
very strong: it points out that in the
thirty-seven by-elections held since the
present Retchstsg was elected In January.
1907. the socialists gained 24.000 votes
whereas their opponents of all parties lost
the huge totsl of 13S.900.
It is unofficially ststed that Baron von
Rechenbera. the governor ef the German
colony in East Africa, has decided to re
sign In the autumn. It is sssumed that ths
governor's decision Is due to opposition
that has arisen against him In the colony
In respect to his treatment of the colored
races, especially the Hindoos. The German
colonists object te bis mild treatment of
these, and they have powerful supporters
among the colonial politicians in the Reich
stag.
A business organisation of the colonists
haa recently adopted and sent to the home
government a series of resolutions embody
ing their own views as to the proper treat
rigorous measures be adopted to prevent
the Immigration of Hindoo, as well t for
restricting their freedom of movement in
the colony after settling there. License
to trade, the petitioners further ask, must
either be rejected outright, or else mad
conditional upon very rigorous require
ments. The grievance of the colonist is thst the
smsll Hindoo tradesmen settle everywhere
in the colony end monopolize the trsde
with the natives; and thst their standard
of Ufa la so low thst they can afford to
content themselvea with profits that a
German could never meet; hence it is be
lieved thst the colony must inevitably be
come a region in which Germans cannot
live at all.
Dronth Makes Higher Prices.
The effects of the greet drouth of this
summer, which has ended only in limited
sections ef the country, have already made
themselves felt In a serious way In the
shape of price advances. Vegetables of ail
kinds now cost from two to four times as
much as in normal summers, while milk
prices have- been advanced in most parts
of the country. The situation confronting
the working people of the cities during the
winter is a most serious one. snd move
ments for an increase of wages have be
come much more frequent than usual. A
considerable advance has already occurred
In the prices of all sort of foodstuffs for
live stock. To make matters still worso
the hoof snd mouth disease Is still spread
ing rapidly.
DALZIEL HAS NEW CALENDAR
Leader of English Ultra Radicals is
Iconoclastic.
WOULD REARRANGE THE MONTHS
Ocean Pool in at Arena-assent Llkelr to
Be Renewed at Meeting; Soon to
Be Held In Cologne Big Rac
ing Prise In Danger.
LOVDON. Sept. 1.-Slr Henry taisil,
leader of the ultra-radicals in the House of
Commons, the fsther of the bill which alms
at giving Scotland local self-government,
hss Just had prepared a bill to titer the
calendar. This bill, known as the Fixed
Calendar Bill, contains some novel fea
tures. As the memorsndum which accom
panies It explains, the bill purposes to sub
stitute for the present Irregular calendsr
a fixed calendar having regular periods,
of which the week I the common meaure.
In thla, as In other features, It differs
from the Calendar Reform Bill, introduced
In the House Of Commons In 1908, but which
never got beyond the second reading stage.
That bill sought to make ths months as
uniform in length as possible, but as a
difference In this respect is unavoidable In
a year with twelve months. It Is thought
better to Increase that difference so as to
allow of the week being a common measure
of all months. This arrangement makes
it possible for etch month to begin on a
Sunday and end en a Psturdsy.
What the BUI Proposes.
A tsbl giving the proposed fixed calen
dar shows thst the months of January,
February. .April. May, June, July, August,
October and November would each consist
of twenty-elght dsys, whilst the remetntng
months ef March, June. September and De
cember would each have thirty-five days.
"New Tesr day" is set apart, thus bring
ing the total of days up to ths requisite
number of ift, whilst for leap years a
special dsy Is set apart as "leap day,"
which Is to be Intercalated between the last
day ef June and the first dsy of July, as
reconstituted by the bill.
A clause In the bill lays down that ths
Kw Tear day and leap day shall neither
be accounted day of the week, and Shall
not, except where specially mentioned or
provided for. be held to be Included in any
computation of days, but shall otherwise be
public bank holidays. The conditions of
labor on those two days and the remunera
tion therefor, under the bill, would eon
form as far as possible to what prevails
on Sundays. A fixed date. April 15, la
selected for Easter day.
Finally the bill, if passed by Parliament,
will not become operative until the govern
ment decides that sufficient international
concurrence has been, secured.
Ocean Pooling Agreement.
It is generally anticipated in transatlantic
shipping circles that the pooling arrange
ment, which expires on October 81. will be
renewed at the resumed conference to be
held In Cologne during September. The
Canadisn Pscifie Railway company, which
works Ita shipping interests chiefly aa a
feeder for the railway, and which has
heretofore opposed the extension of the
sgreement. has. It Is believed, as a result of
concession granted by tie continental com
panies, modified Its attitude
The movement of passengers during the
first half of this year did not retllre ex
pectations, partly on account of many
Americana waiting until later on the year
to visit England, thus avoiding the high
charges which prevailed during the corona
tion period. The decrease, however, was
general in all classes, both eastbound and
westbound. On the routes to America the
total decrease waa 127.122 From British
ports to Canada, on ths other hand, there
waa aa increase ef J0.SS1. The continental
llnea have been the chief suffsrers. the four
leading onea having carried 85.843 fewer pas
senger than they did for the same period
last year.
Under the old agreement these four com
panies were entitled to 82 per cent of the
pooled traffic. They actually carried 18.844
fewer passengers than the number on
which that percentage was baaed. In view
of this It is understood that they are pre
pared to adopt a conciliatory attitude to
avoid a rata war.
Big Racing Stake In Danger.
The Derby sweepstake, organised by ths
Calcutta Turf club, the greatest sweep in
the world, which haa grown to gigantic
proportions. Is in danger of being abolished
or at leaat considerably curtailed. Under
I Indian, like British Isw, clubs can orgsmze
sweepstakes for members only.
The "Cslcuta sweep" wss started like
the eweepstskt tn sll London clubs on the
Derby to enable members to have so In
terest in the race without chancing much
money. Unlike the other, however, the
Calcutta one grew far beyond this, tickets
being sold to anybody and everybody, and
it was hsrd to find a European In India or
one who had ever been there who did not
have a ticket or at least an Interest In one.
Ten years ago ths first prise In the sweep
waa worth about tioo.ono; last year it was
worth nearly I.W.OOO. The first prise lsst
year went to a doctor, who. however, had
sold a half Interest in the ticket for $ti.000.
What la Artistic Temperament f
Paderewskl Is said to have displayed
philosophic calm during the fire thst de
stroyed the building on his fancy poul
try farms snd the unkind explanation It
given that the grester financial interest
in the place Is held by Mine Paderewskl!
But why should an artist not be as
self controlled ss the next mn In a
crlais not relsted to his art? There is
no mystery, necessarily. In the fact of
a musician s going to pieces at a wrong
note, but being unmoved bv the sight
of a conflagration. The situation would
have been vastly different If the great
pianist had been viewing the burning of
Home to the discordant n.oompamineiil
of Nero's violli.. The artistic tempera
ment Is nothing If not the acme of sen
sitiveness, but where Its particular
sphere Is not concerned, it it nt bv neces.
sity less capsble of cslmncss than the
more ordinary tvpe. Most of us could hear
a wrong note without flinching, but how
do we behave at even a trivial fire? New
York Post.
Humphreys Sevent y-Seven
Ilrenka up Grip and
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A Coll is caused by a sudden check
In the circulation of the Mood; you
know when, by a gone feeling of las
situde and weakness, before the
Sneezing. Cough of for Throat set
In.
The Immediate use of "Seventy
Seven" at this firat feeling, restores
the checked circulation, atarte the
blood coursing through the veins and
breaks up the Cold.
To obtain the best result a vial
must be kept handy. Thla la easy aa
It fits the vest pocket. All dealers
sell "Seventy-Seven."
Humphreys' riomeo. Medicine Co.. Cor.
William and Ann Streets. New York.
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