Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-22

| WIN more Antu max Ane pollAnhh III
Great Britain and Ireland completed, the
result is not a triumph for radicals OF con-
servatives. The mlnisterialists lost a large
number Of seats won in the landslide OF
1906 many due to three-cornered contests
indicating a lack of harmony among the
progressives. A bare majority OF the com
mons, members OF the party, is all the
liberals can hope for. under present cal
culations, a situation compelling minister
ial reliance on the natlonalists and labor
ties. Certainly the peefage and beerage
have reason for moderate rejoicing over
| the marked friendllness OF the electorate.
A greatly increased vote will doubtless en-
courge the House of Lords in the policy
heretofore pursued Of slaughtering liberal
party measures. The budget Is the only
measure bearing the popular mandate
which the peers are likely to respect All
other liberal party measures must await
settlement of the crucial question of limit
ing the power of the House of Lords. Ac-
] tion In that direction is necessary IL the
liberals and their allies escape the partisan
harassments of the unionists entrenched In
the upper house. One minister after an
other has declared that the liberals will not
again assume power without a curb on the
power of the unonlsts peers. Non-inter-
| ference with the finance measures will
not suffice. To be at all effective the curb
must insure Legislative fulfillment of lib
eral party pledges, There are already in
dcations that the lords realize the need Of
revising their legislative powers, but in
sist on doing the revising themselves
What form the revision will take remains
to be developed later on. For the present
| Il is sufficient to indicate the coming great
struggle between democracy and aristoc-
racy, of which the election is only the pre-
| lude Great Britain" writes Sydney
Brooks in the North American Review, lis
passing through a peaceable but profound
! revolution and is entering on the prodi-
gious and fateful task of rebuilding almost
from top to bottom her constitutional
framework"
! Profs steyrer and Fleming who claim
the record for altitude in contribution
to the German Aeronautlcal Journal de-
scribe their experiences in the balloon Ber-
lin with which they attained the extraor-
binary height of between 5000 and 1900
feet. Both aeronauts were equipped for
d series of experiments, especially with
regard to the effect of rarefied air, cold
and sun rays at great attitudes. Both wore
oxygen masks. At a height of 1880 feet
l they were obliged to inhale oxygen at in
| tervals of from one to two minutes; other
wise they suffered from heart paipitation
and gasping for breath. AS they reached
greater heights these symptoms increased
and oxygen had to be more frequently in
hailed. At a height of between $1,000 and
1900 feet Prof Fleming tainted on remov-
| ing the mask for moment. The effect of
strong sunshine, intense cold and insult
ficiency of air gave the face a terrifying
appearance. but the aeronauts felt apathy
rather than any severe pains. Another ef-
feet was a feeling Of cramp in the muscles.
/ The sun rays acting in the rarefied air
produced tremendous swelling and red
dening of the skin. accompanied by fever,
and these symptoms reached their height
forty eight hours after the descent. Among
the experiments was a test for the pres
ence of miero-organisms These tests the
highest made at 1900 feet, showed micro
organisms in the small proportion Of from
O2 to 0.5 a liter OL76 pints) of air. The
fourth test was made at an elevation of
nearly 1900 feet and revealed no germs.
| s+s
Berlin is energetically reaching out for
the glory and the profit enjoyed by Paris
as the gayest capital in Europe. One Of
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public bolls and fetes remarkable both for
magniflcence and good taste. The jour
nalists of Berlin recently organized a
great Egyption fete in the enormous halls
Of the exposition building In Charlotten-
burg and transformed the immense struc=
ture into African scenery. The desert, the
pyramids and the sphinx were all there.
! With the streets and bazars of Cairo, the
harems Of wealthy Egyptian Moslems, and
many other features characteristic of
Egyptian life were shown with remarkable
realism. The crowd was so great that
dancing was impossible and the guests had
to content themselves with promenading
throughout the building and drinking
| champagne served at small tables by dark
eyed oriental-costumed beauties drawn
mostly from the east end of Berlin. But
this gorgeous affair was only one of the
many fetes OF huge dimensions held in
Berlin week by week during the winter
seasons.
The assertion reiterated as a truth in this
country that American goods are sold
abroad for less than at home is emphat-
ically refuted in the case OF the American
cocktail. Excepting the lobster palaces
and gold-trimmed dispehsaries of liquid
caramels, the cherry topped ticker is a
fifteen-center, singly, five off for two In
Berlin, Paris and London the American
ccnfectlon is twenty-five straight. Where
fore the giobe-trotter with a native thirst
roars in native, tongue and several da-
lects. They are demanding 15-cent cock
tails. They are tired of paying the ex-
cessive tax for a cocktail In which there
is an unduly large proportion of ver-
mouth and an unduly small portion of gin
or whisky, as the case may be. To sup
port their demand they have made a
serious threat. They have declared that