Show ADMITS us DECAY L I I Outstripped in ill All Ways by b byI r I United States I I EVEN THE CANDY 1 DY DYNO NOW NO WT A Alt CAN MADE MABE The Events E in South Ominous In i n Lon M Jan lan li Or t Britain de decade cade ice is becoming quite a popular theae them and d seir elt flagellation seem em to b bt congenial to the i hastened spirit plait of the nation nUOn ford foro od to realize realise through the lite i la t lor of military diplomatic and Industrial that Great Gret It la Is 1 predominance pr as a dream is past paM almost almot a i dally daily occurrence for borne ome Great Arfat London newspaper new pei to t parade the of oC the country co Instituting ln ing comparisons With the United States and German little JUde complimentary COI to Greet Great Britain Lost says 8 the t Morn Mors Morning ing In ng Poet Post I the keynote ey an the Ule l eh tIIe Its will in to the ends end oT Of t earth erth Is today toda a amyth amyth amyth myth The great woolen a sad d allied trades trade threaten tb ten to be revolutionized revolutionised by b a aa 51 American machine which Is I now no oper operating operating at Bradford What it all aU will wilt at first firM open up wi is s not raHy apparent sight ight say ys me the Bradford Observer but It loOks looka a ai the pO p at pres prea present present ent nt u br nd Cromp Crompton ton in lit the tue world word of oC o inventors during the nineteenth h c centy is te to be super superseded su r It by Drury in the twentieth t How left to a I is it that this Idea was Yankee lyer bring pItt te da the simplest yet y t devised dev ed It is capable of oC spinning the toughest yarns from front asbestos or peat mess without dif difficulty Drury If l Boston two years ago aco I English Eat at American Candy The Dally Daily Telegraph ph calls attention to te t the enormous en increase e in the Utile use of oC American confectionary in England which it says ye would be even een greater than It is I were the American Amerlean manu menu manufacturers tatu r to show more elasticity in trade It also declares that America is ill soon IM On likely to be supplying Jaw Bricks The most suitable cam cant campaigning samples amples have already been beens s sent nt back for improvement These are arenow arenow arenow now assured Small wonder Indeed says the I Daily baly aily Telegraph that the British fruit grower has cause cRu e for complaint I that the demand is 18 not what it was for I his hili products California fruit appears appealS to be making tremendous inroads into the English jam trade Even from the Philippines come rec roe recommendations to adopt American methods method Mr Percival Perchal of London Writes rites to the Times from Manila urging the tte British troops in South Africa to use the tunic oleat nl at worn by the Amer American American ican iran troops trOOp to protect the Ute spine and also their ther webbing cartridge belt and method thod Lor preserving pr ng surgical dress dressing dressi ing i g The suggestion su about the belt is already in force foree An Ai American firm I Ihas has ha a factory here turn turning I ing in out to its fullest capacity these belts bellI for the war office Angry AD at Senator Proctor Senator Sentor Italian marble cor car corner corner ner her draws forth from Today Toda an indig indignant nant protest It says aye Who Vh fer for is hI Senator Proc Proctor Proctor tor tur that he be should create reate for far his big own a scarcity of ot Carrara mar marble marble marble ble in which the highest art of all ages in I n a Europe has found its noblest ex et expression lr ion and so eo on in a similar strain maintaining that the senator has no no right to assume a dictatorship of the thew th w worlds art But it is not only in commerce that the lIe I tt of American n leaven is so In the national game Rugby football ll hitherto so 80 distinctive of American rules rates and devotees were vere wo 80 proud of the fat fart the British Britten tin arc now beginning to closely losely imitate the distinguishing d features feat res of gridiron play JaY At the recent England and Wales match when spectators were wesa present the experts were amazed a to tG see eee ee what was called the tM t passing pas of at the Welsh team This is nothing more than tin the t P familiar practiced by all aU American AJ colleges but which is a rev revelation revelation elation here hen It had no small effect in securing for Wales a Jt sweeping victory Brilliant Event at Chatsworth The visit of ot the Prince of Wales ales to the Duke and Duchess DU hO of Deor DevonshIre at wa as one of the most brilliant tant affairs a of ot the Kind ever eer known Earls and countes counte 8 e and other mem melli members hers bers of the nobility elbowed each ach other in hi the spacious halls balls The women ORlen were ere magnificently dree wearing their tr family diamonds The private theatre was transformed tran into a veritable ghet ghetto to tv of beauty Mitt ltee Muriel Wilson was generally conceded cO to he be the hand band handsomest earnest of the performers who with the taste tte so 80 often oftOn noticed in 14 il English amateurs elected eJected to play The Panto Pantomime Pantomime Pantomime mime Rehearsal RelM naJ a of qC o the shortcomings of C amateurs themselves The visit terminated today WIlliam m Waldorf Astor Aster entertained a abig abig abig big party at Cliveden Thursday A Afew Afew Afew few Americans were invited and no very great Teat ladies were wele present This was the first time Miss Astor has tak taken taken taken en up the position of mistress of her fathers home houe The prettiest Amen Ameri American can girl prevent present p was wag Mrs Mr Mary Big Illg gins gina ins daughter Miss Breese B who was as asin in black satin MUD a tin Among the few mili military tary men present was Captain Ames of the Life Guards the tallest man in inthe Inthe inthe the British army Pink Bathing Suits Make Nake Trouble Aristocratic swimming schools in England are a causing a sensation sen atlon and Women have taken up ui this form of snort recently and aRti champion for or women omen are being instituted d all aJi over the country An amateur swimming association a laUon has baa caused a thunder clap bj by b sending out an an announcement announcement announcement that in future female com corn competitors will be allowed to wear W t only 01 or or dark blue costumes The rea reasons sons seas given are the danger to the skin from the shades of red which are so but the action was really real 1 prompted by several fashionable s swim swimmers swimmers im immers mers appearing in such light shades of that the spectators were star sta ired iT out Gut of all interest i t te t in the contest c There died in London this l week In a character once well wen known knon New Lork Lark London and Paris Parl Hen Henry ry y A De Dc Lille Olive Lo Logan Lon gan gau n years ago go He lie was connected with sevens New York newspapers While White in Paris ParIa he greatly aided in A t capacity Napoleon III In One of his sons was formerly consul at ati i Sheffield and he was made a chevalier I of the Legion of Honor by Napoleon Poverty and illness made de his closing days tragic Another death this week was wa that of James De Dc Fee Foe the last hist male de descendant descendant of tHe t author of Robinson Crusoe Cru He was 86 se years old Britain Anxious Over Africa History falls fails faUsto to furnish a par parallel parallel parallel to the Boer Hoer Invasion of Cape Colony A whole month has elapsed since the republicans crossed the Orange river and still Great Brit Britain Britain ain am knows next to nothing of their numbers whereabouts or doings doln and still less of or the objects of the inroad i The only thing known with tolerable certainty is that they are progressing southward ov over r some sparsely Inhabit Inhabited ed tracts where they escape observation observation tion Other large bodies are travers traversing traversing traversing ing the very heart of the colony calony colon The only logical explanation seems to be bethe bethe bethe the largely lanel accepted accept idea klea that the in invasion forms forme onn part of a great organ organized organIzed scheme of that Napoleon of war General Dewet to strike terror in the British colony which unquestionably is fe nearly denuded of troops and trust to the chapter of accidents to achieve such success as will wilt enable the Boers to almost almo dictate the terms of oC peace peare The halting policy of C the invaders however towee to threaten to defeat their aims and has enabled the hasUl hastily les of volunteers to occupy vital strategic points while there are some signs that the gatherings of troops in the rear of the burghers is beginning to press them southward Into the arms of the British moving from the seaboard instead of attempt attempting ing log to drive them back again across the Oran er er here t I here they the might be enabled to rejoin General Dewet Dew t tIn In the meanwhile disquieting Ung hints are arriving of f the alarming rapidity with which the British army Is wasting away y The long lists of dead wound wounded ed and ami diseased bear out these th e stories while there are abundant signs that the troops at the front ff nt are becoming stale and discontented the general ex ox exasperation exasperation at home ho is becoming more acute and the public is becoming quite of the competency co nc of the government to get the country out of the wretched tangle Seldom has there been such uh a uni universal un universal 1 versal er 1 condemnation of the utterances I of a public man m an as greeted ted the recent address add S ot the c puke Duke of Norfolk to the I i pope expressing hope of ot the restora lion of or temporal independence of the 1 Bitter r a as have been the de denunciation deI I of the Italian press the i comments of o the London newspapers newspaper have htwe been quite as caustic Nothing could be more ID Ie contemptible ble than the Duke of I Io says the Daily News If the Italian government bad had knows known he her was wasI wa waI I visiting Rome for the purpose of pro protesting 1 j testing their presence in Ia their own capital thy they th y woud have been be n perfectly per perfectly justified In stopping him at the frontier Not content with insulting In the king of Italy and the people of ot Rome his despicable address also con condemned c n the toleration of Italian Protestants Pro Protestants by the Italian government govern ent It would be difficult for an English h Cath Out to ts sink lower Joer Movements at York house ham hain indicate that it is the intention of or the Duke of Orleans I s to return to England whence he lie had ha boost been b en OP octra tra since he congratulated the limner on the caricatures grossly Insulting to Queen Victoria which ap appeared appeared penned in tn Paris comic papers The dukes mothel the Countess of Paris Parisis I is said to have been in with the queen and the Prince of or Wales s in fn the hope of patching ui ur the thema matte ma te Many Nany Stories on Armour The newspapers newsPapers devote devot much much space to the late Philip PhUl D Armour Columns of stories have nave been printed mostly apocryphal as can ean be judged from front a sample from frem the Daily Dall Chronicle as foil Mi Armour usually took six weeks each year for foi driving in a coach through England It costs me the w writer riter quotes hint him himas as saying salnA a fraction under E 2 a day da per head for myself and guests guesta for conch coach hire The writer adds that Mr Armour was Wa a careful but not a 5 mean me n man and nd this low estimate of or the cost Qt of the coaching was waa due du to the fact that Mr Armour and the guests he was likely to invite drank water ater at their meals Fyvie Castle is Cursed The memorial to be b uJ ue Jas as an institute institute tute tote by b the Gordon Highlanders at berd en which Mrs formerly of or New York intends to erect a u I tu coat MI ti et ot O 4 aO OO In n ii ry of her herLon Lon Lieutenant nant Percy F ji the First Royal Koyal Dragons who died of fever Cever recently at Newcastle Natal recalls the fact fad that Fyvie cas case e Mrs residence Is ia ot 01 he the many man mysterious places In Scotland have a curse which in tails lails on the eldest elde t son of it the house hoube For many man generations the has haa failed ailed to descend in a di dl diT T Or 1 line and wh when n sold Fyvie F Yle castle easUe to it was argued ar that the curse could not be transferred to another family But the death of the young subaltern at atthe atthe the th age of 20 O has revived the lions Ions t of all aU Mrs Irs Forbes For Laith Leith was wa formerly Miss January of I St Louis I Vice Consul Makes Trouble I United States Consul Church Howe of Palermo who has just exchanged posts with G M Johnstone of Sheffield Sheffield Sheffield field has found a hornets nest await awalt awaiting awaiting ing him which be he has since been busily busil t engaged In combating During the In Interregnum interregnum I the vice consul who is In a British subject had undertaken to I construe the consular rules in such a manner that he imposed additional fees on exporters for affidavits not heretofore demanded In a fortnight the th vice created so much mn Irrl irritation tation t t on that the chamber of commerce I had to draw up a protest to Lord Sal SaI Salisbury SalIsbury requesting that It be forwarded to Washington Va Hr Howe immediate immediately ly h countermanded the vice consuls rulings and a speed speedy reorganization of the consulate is anticipated In spite of the large increase of or American manufacture of or cutlery c Uel said Mr Howe to a representative of r rI the Associated Press there are some I Sheffield articles we demand and our view of a consuls duty is to facilitate In every way vay the export trade has been a point of more or less friction for years But ButI I trust I make It reciprocally more m pleasant pleas for both exporters and consul |