Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-21

| 4 bAAN AsAhhhN On WhAE ~ IEhuH-
piring Among the Near and
Far nations Of the Earth.
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The limitation Of campaign expense in
Great Britain is a legal force which can.
didates overstep at their peril. Two mem
bers Of Parliament, Sir Christopher Furnes,
and Captain Frederick Guest, both liberals
have been uuseated for spending NOR,
money in the campaign than the law al.
lows. Both are declared to be innocent vic.
tins OF an excess of zeal on the part OF
their friends Sir Christopher is the head
OF large manufacturing concern and his
workmen took an active part in his cam.
paign. Without his knowledge or consent
so the court AYERS. his bosses, big and
little, raised a boosting fund wherewith
indifferent voters were hustled to the polls
and some of the opposition persuaded to
vote as they didn't think. This energetic
hustle, experimenting the candidates plan
Of campaign, resulted in a whooplng ma
| jority. But the excessive zeal of employees
overloaded the legal Jackpot and Sir
! Christopher was unseated. A similar pain
full operation was performed on Captain
Guest. He, too, is a victim of one over
jealous friend. his father-in-law, Mr..
| Phipps Of Pittsburg. The latter merely
provided the automobiles for the voters,
regardless of expense, but his good inten-
! tions wrecked the victory won at the
polls. In both cases the inquiry into the
expense fund was conducted by courts,
which impartially smote the home as well
as the Pittsburg innovation.
The report of Great Britain's agent
general In Egypt, Sir Eldon Gorst, fur
nishes an extended review Of the conditions
prevailing along the Nile and the official
unrest which drew from Theodore Roose-
welt severe condemnation in his Cairo ad-
dress The conclusion reached by the agent
general is that the greatest Of all difficult
ties at the present time is the general lack
of confidence in British intentions which
prevail among the unofficial upper and
middle classes. He attributes this to sew
eral causes: First, a great part of the
press, native and English, frequently pub
fishes articles calculated to stir up bad
blood between the two races; secondly,
the British are not actuated by disinter-
ested motives in the exercise of control
over Egypt. However, the consul general
advises adherence to the present course.
1t remains, he thinks, for Great Britain
to persevere along original lines; to in
sst that British Intervention in the af-
fairs OF Egypt is directed to the sole eff
fort to introducing and maintaining
good administration, looking to gradually
educating and accustomlng the Egyp
tians to carry it on for themselves"
The last survivor of the tragedy, the
Countess Miramon, has given to the Gor-
male d'Ilatis an interview on the last days
| of the Mexican empire, in the course Of
which she says that, being in delicate
health when her husband followed the en-
peror to Quesetaro, she remained behind at
the capital. THE city of Mexico was cut
off from all communication" she says,
and when my baby was only a few
days old 1 learned that the city to which
my husband had gone with his emperor had
| capitulated, and that they were prisoners
| From General Porfirdo Diaz 1 received a
| pass and Travelled with my infant to see my
| husband in prison. 1 found the emperor
| calm and prepared for what was to come
They have killed me morally he said
| what more can be accomplished? When l
was about to take my departure he gave
me a gold medal. which he asked me to
take to his mother. Tell her. he said,
| that l was always a good Christian
FASTENED to San Luis to intervene for the
| out lHdt Uney ndu
already been executed. From those who
witnessed the last scene 1 know that the
emperor stood between my husband and
Meta, and that they fell when in the ad-
dress which my husband delivered he came
to the words: Long live Mexico!"
While the French Transaharan railroad
remains a pipe dream, the transmission of
| wireless messages across the great desert
is approaching realization, Wireless mes
sages are now exchanged between the Eiffel
tower in Paris and the naval stations at
Oran in Algeria and Bizerta in Tunis.
Within a few months a new wireless sta
ton will be established at Timbuktu on the
Niger and messages from this post will be
received and repeated to Paris by the
! Mediterranean stations. Messages from
Port Etienne, 1900 miles from Bizerta, have
already been handled successfully. Another
station in the French system In Africa has
already been opened at Dakar in Senegal
Experiments at Dakar and Port Etienne
have proved that messages could be dis
tinguished at distances exceeding 1000 miles.
In addition to these central stations a num-
Der of wireless telegraph posts are to be
opened along the coast and in the interior
of the French colonies in this part of
Africa.
From no apparent cause save perhaps the
growth Of conviction that temperance is
| wisdom, there is going on in England a
great reform in the drinking habits of the
nation. Last year the expenditure for al
coholic drinks malt liquor included, was
$25 900, 900 less than for the year before In
the fashionable club as well as in the tene-
ment, in mansion, mess room and banquet
hall the same process is going on. An in
creasing number Of those who gather at
public banquets abstain from wine.
JUSTICE TO COLORED SOLDIERS.