Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-10-20
OTHER LANDS THAN Guns.

Interest in the approaching session Of
the British Parliament Is every whit rs
keen as that preceding the session AZ which
Premier Gladstone introduced his first Irish
home rule bill. Now. as then. home rule
FOR Ireland Is the dominant question con-
fronting British statesmen and Il Is corr
tain TO hold a prominent place in the stage
Of British politics until It is settled right.
That a measure Of home rule will he pre-
scented 10 Parliament by the ministry Is a
conceded fact. The liberal party leaders
are pledged 90 it. The extent to which
the measure will go in granting legislative
! liberty in home affairs TO Ireland is not
determined. Much secrecy Is observed az
TO the limitations In quarters presumed to
he well informed the belief is that the
forthcoming measure will be an INSTALL
ment Of home rule--a measure designed to
lay the foundation for a Parliament which
will ultimately possess powers equal 20 the
Parliament of Canada. In a letter TO the
New York independent. Justin Mccarthy.
former leader of the Irish nationalists. de-
clares that the conservatives had agreed.
before retiring from power. to grant an
irstallrent OF home rule. and that the
liberal ministers will undoubtedly introduce
measures for the gradual settlement Of
irish affairs on much broader principles
! than the tories would have attempted.
Equally emphatic assurances were given
by T. p O'Connor home rule envoy, in
his addresses at Philadelphia New York
and Boston. Apparently the purpose OF the
government is to present measure Of
generous scope which can be driven
through the House Of Lords without an
appeal TO the country. Whether such dn
installment measure will be satisfactory to
the Irish party remains to be seen. 1t is
clear, however, that the ministry will strive
to placate Irish sentiment AS evidence
of this desire it Is understood the govern
ment is negotiating for possession of the
Parliament building in Dublin, where the
historic "Grattan Parliament deliberated
a century ago.
When occasion arises to criticise Amer
lean railroad management for reckless dis
regard Of human life" comparisons are
usually made with the mortality on Brit
ish railroads, much to the discredit Of
American management A year ago an
American investigator challenged the ac-
curacy Of British railroad mortality re-
ports and declared they were iuggled for
the purpose OF making a favorable show
ing, A like charge is now repeated, coupled
with the assertion that the record for 1905
in England is greater than at any period
during the last sixteen years. This asser-
ton Is based on tho recently issued Board
Of Trade report. As matter of fact dur
ing the last three years. there have been
so many serious disasters on English rail-
ways, the conclusion is justified that TAX
ing the total mileage OF the two countries
England has no reason whatever to boast
of its immunity from accident Consider
ing that America has more miles of rail-
way than all the other nations OF the earth
put together. the statistics of fatal accl-
dents compare very favorably with those
of other countries. When 1t is borne in
mind that England only has s4S1 miles
of track, and that the greater portion Of
this is a double" and often "four-traclS"
system-greaty reducing the element Of
natural danger-and considering that, even
with this double and four-track system
some of the accidents in England are quite
ms terrible those on the worst Amer
lean single-track lines, the United States
has cause almost for graduation rather
than otherwise.
Most of the worlds richest women come
from America. a painstaking statisticlan
figures and the majority OF those who take
husbands in Europe marry British peers,
bringing with them enormous dowries.
Some 500 wealthy American girls have mar
ried titled foreigners, and their total
dowry amounts TO more than $500, 900, 600.
The most heavily lowered bride was the
duchess of Roxburghe (nee Goelet), with
a fortune OF 100000; others are duchess
Of Marlborough (nee Wonderfully, $4,000 900;
the late Lady Curzon nee Letter.. $500O,OOO;
Countess de Castellane (nee Could. sl5,-
10000: Mrs. Vivian. 81, coo, GO: Lady Will
lam Beresford, $3,000,O00; Princess of Colon
ma (nee Mackay). $4,000 900; Countess Won
Larisch. $4,000 COO and Mrs. Paget, 100000
To what extent the British nobility has
benefited financially from unions with
wealthy American women may be gagged
from the fact that since 1910 thirty British
peers or eldest sons of peers have married
in the United States, while of Americans
who are the wives of Englishmen with
courtesy titles or baronetcies there are
forty-four.
1t will be the greatest boon to tropical
Africa since the European occupancy If q
remedy has at last been found for sleep
ing sickness. The hope that this is true
is based upon the report from Brussels
that two white men from the Congo, who
were admitted to the sanitarium at Water
mael in an advanced stage OF the disease,
are announced to have been entirely cured
by treatment based upon the simultaneous
use of atoxyl and strychnine. White men
had not been attacked by the disease until
within the past year, but several Europeans
living in the infested regions have recently
been numbered among the victims. AS for
the natives, no plague has ever AFFLICTED
them with such terrible results. 1t is over
ten years since it first appeared on the
Congo. 1t had been known for a half CEN
tury further north on the west coast. but
never secured a firm foothold there. Its
eastward advance, however, has been steady
up the Congo and to the northern shores
of Victoria Nyanza. on the Congo and in
Uganda II has claimed about 10000 victims.
The person attacked by sleeping sickness
has been doomed. For six years the scien-
tihc skill of Europe had been enlisted IN
the search for remedy. but none was
found and no patient was known TO re-
cover. About three years ago the cause
of the disease was discovered i'm Uganda.
II was found to be due to a variety Of the
tsetse fly, whose bite introduced the fatal
bacteria that poisoned the blood aud in
dueed the lethargy, stupor and other
phases of the disease that always resulted