Omaha daily bee., 1906-11-03

education bill which the British Parlia-
ment passed at It's FIRST session. The meas
ure as sent 60 the Lords prohibited re-
iligious instruction during school hours In
schools supported by local taxation or par
liamentary grants. For this provision the
lords substituted one making religious In
struction compulsory during school, hours
In all public elementary schools The ao-
ton OF the hereditary legislators was OK
peoted, hence the decisive vote registered
in favor Of reversing the educational policy
Of the ministry was not surprising. But Il
serves TO show, as on former occasions,
tho implacable hostility OF the privileged
classes to all measures Of reform A like
fate undoubtedly awaits the labor bills and
Irish home rule. What viii the liberal
ministry do7 According to the New York
Sun. the ministerial program which inds
most favor Is that, pending the final re-
lection OF the educational bill, measures
calculated TO please union labor on the one
hand and the Irish nationalist party on the
other shall be driven through the House
Of Commons and sent up to the lords, by
whom they are expected to be thrown out.
The aim, in other words. is to make the
hereditary legislators offensive to every ele
ment OF Britain's population. and when
universal demand for its abolition is eX-
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education bill, or an Irish bill, or a labor
BILL hut on the request for a peremptOry
mandate to mend or end the upper cham
i Der. The shrewdness OF this policy Is evil
dent II a general election we're to turn
exclusively on any one OF the measures
which thus far have been introduced or
promised by the liberal government, 1t is
possible that the electors might be divided
with an approach TO evenness. But among
/ the masses Of the voters the House OF
Lords has few friends, and II the naked
issue were presented It is probable that the
British people would refuse to tolerate any
longer such a medieval absurdity as an
hereditary chamber"
The Anglo-French entente did not pre-
vent the Paris Steele from using pretty
plain language with reference to the pro-
posed presentation OF an address TO ex-
members of the Russian Duma by a group
Of British parliamentarians. II said: THE
idea is preposterous. Not that there is any
harm I'm taking sides with the Duma
rather than with the autocracy. Among en-
lightened minds there are few who approve
of the cars methods, and England is full
Of such minds. But It is nevertheless true
that frightfui struggle is going on In
Russia between the party ofTicially in office
and the revolutionary party. There is
pillage, incendiarism and assassination.
e On the other hand, there is merci-
! less repression to the extent of about
twenty executions a day. The first
duty Of foreigners is to leave these people
to settle their differences among them
selves. and It is a crime to 20 and pour oil
on such a FIRE. Englishmen, who are so
Jealous Of the greatness Of their own coun-
try, ought to have reasoned thus: Either
England is at heart with the insurrecticn,
and in that case It is by means OF its war
ships and It's regiments that It ought to
assert its sympathies. or England has de-
cided to remain neutral, and, II 50, the
parliamentarians of the delegation repre-
sent nothing but their own vanity and the
criminal imprudence of people whose pro-
ceedings may give rise to international
complications. Such proceedings do
no credit to British common sense"
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Great Britain France and Germany have
had commissions employed for several years
seeking a remedy for the sleeping sickness
which has depopulated entire districts in
tropical Africa and Asia. Prof. Dobert
Koch, lecturing in Berlin last March, de-
clared that since the beginning OF the last
century 10000 persons had died Of this
baffiing scourge in equatorial Africa, On
June 20. Lieutenant Tulloch, who had ac-
companied the British Royal commission to
Uganda, and had contracted the disease
while dssecting an inoculated rat, died in
London in spite of all that science could
do TO check the progress of the poison in
his blood. Neither the exact nature nor
the origin OF the sleeping sickness has been
satisfactorily determined. The infection is
spread from human to human by the sting
Of small fly, the glossina palpalis. Fever
/ is the earliest positive symptom. The pa
tient then becomes incoharont and en-
feebled and finally Is seized by the sleep
mania, which ends in death. Thymol, mem
toned In the cable dispatches as a cure, Is
a crystalline product OF thyme, familiar
aromatic herb. Distilled and diluted, 1t has
an agreeable. cooling taste. and has long
been valued in medical practice as power
full antiseptic adapted to the healing of
wounds and the treatment of affections of
the nose and throat.
From statistics collected by the London
Board of Trade, which is a part of the
English government, 1t is learned that the
| average wage of the agricultural laborer in
| England is S4.44 and the average income
| Of the city workman sos per week; that
from the formers stipend must be de-
Quoted 1926 8 week for food alone and
from the latter's $500. This leaves very
little for lodging. clothes and pleasure and
puts the English workman on a far lower
plane. far as the material comforts OF
life are concerned, than the American
workman Take but a few examples, for
| all of which the London Board of Trade
Is authority. In the building trades, car
penters, jolners and briclklayers work fifty
hours a week In summer and forty-four in
| winter at average wages for 5000 in Lon
don and t7.98 in the country. Painters at
II and IS cents per hour in London average
S8e4 weekly. Masons average 1850 In
London and S9.42 in the country The
average weekly pay Of the coal miner is
1886 a week OF from four and a half to
five and a half days at nine and a half
hours Lancashire pays the highest wage.
Si.es daily Scotland. IN the Lanark dis
trict pays the lowest, an average OF 1916 a
day. Cabinetmakers get from Ss.52 to tlO.S5
a week; upholstereTs, Ss.66 to S1O.56; com
posltors on London morning newspapers,
Hl.52; on evening papers. Si0.42; In LIVER
pool and Manchester, $s52; in Scotland and
the country, ss16 -
while the Dutch are seriously discussing
ways and means of averting ultimate
absorption by Germany, now that hope Of