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!u English Fears of Invasion The Bitter Experience of France Cited by r Way of Justification < , *?ir H. 11). Stebbings | p- ' *-* ? ; . > letter smiles at Iiritlsh fears of a M->t the wild panic in London in * bock?tiie coast towns of w *?s panic-stricken during tti<_ . '""vera's fleet wa3 ^_ thousands o. France negi*. X?T Irontlnr nrnf oof n/1 _ | ,..?VUU, ttiiu > Wmhiv caught her uapplug and ik. s 1 . :i -j v .tr. !. to it i.- . . :tv I I * v1 I I , > 1 ,, **. * V < ' i ' ' ' I 1 \ ? % * i ? ? * i . . ; i?iv? ...!?? . '' % , ? i? that the British have opened up the entire world, while other natloas stayed at home. They have built up a foreign trade which is amazing. On their trade routes Germany and ourselves have eagerly followed, and perhaps with newer methods, and by avoiding their mistakes and profiting by their experience we may heat them out in the end. but we have yet to oust them. And ought we to boast too loudly when we have yet far to go? The I Marvellous" Handy Man" \ ^ fy Eugene LUood C^) *?* * ou know the Handy Man, don't you? the follow that makes < ! * * jjis own fly-screens, and they fit; that knows how to give the 4 > w w X cow castor oil, for she won't take It from a spoon like a V, x person; that rigs up a reel for his lawn hoso instead of 4 j[ hanging It on a hook to spring a ltak; that lays his own < X cement walk aud steps, the steps just a little out of gee, 1 *,ut l??l1 k?w little it all coet him; that builds his own mission furniture which has to be moved with a pry when they sweep; that paints everything about bis place that paint will stick to; that takes his clock apart to clean It Instead of sousing the works into gasoline the way the follow does that comos around to the house; that can fix the doorbell when it won't ring, and has all the locks and hinges on the place so that they pretty near work of themselves. You know the Handy Man , don't you? Well. I don't like him. I repeat I don't like the Handy Man at all. But you understand as well as I do that all my mockery of him has been an effort to get reveugo for all Ills mockery of me a.nd my thumbhandodness. In my heart of hearts I must own up Chat all our present high e6tatp Is from his handicraft. The erected man must first have hands that could relievo the Jaws from holding things ere ever the wide-stretching mouth could shorten and contract enough to form the sounds of speech. Nc story writer has ever dared to make his castaway on a desert Island as naked and empty-handed as were our far-off ancestors when they landed on this planet, not a penny in their Dockets and nr? r>ncke?n P*?ndv " , . , W I'VJ itJll ..tic UUI llllUCIS, UI1U oil vac ?HJ along, from the first Oaking of a flint to give it a cutting edge, to this day in which the yielding air has finally made a solid pathway for our travel, it has been the skilful hand that has created for us a world to live in?the hand of the Handy Man.?Hampton's Magazine. fQVn Actors Old and New \ f The "Palmy Days" of the Profession I \ ///((l/lno ^ m ? - - ^ J J ^ Fy Charles Battell Loomis, of New York ^ LD fogies of all ages (some are not yet 21) mako me tired. 2 2 You'll always find the old fogy who longs for the days when actors could really act and when Shakespeare was adoSSI 2 quately represented. Old fogies of this year of grace hark back to the "good old days" of the late '70's, but 1 rememTtf >lli|i her that critics who wrote In those days wore in the habit T of picking flaws in Edwin Booth himself and prating of tli? ttttttmi days of his father and Macready and Forrest. Now as a matter of fact (I like to be didactic this hot weather) those who saw the recent production of "Twelfth Night" at the Academy of music saw the very best Malvollo that has been seen in New York in thirty years. I have seen at least half a dozen Malvolios, Americans, English and one German in that time, and Edward Sothern more nearly realized the part than any other. Thirty years from now some old fogy of that time will bo mourning for th? palmy "old days of the first decade of the twentieth century, when Shakespeare was really played," and yet I'll venture to say that each ago will raiso up its own capable actors. For versatility there was of course one Edwin Booth, but as great as he may now be doing turns In some cheap East Side music halL Not only do we have the poor always with us, but genius is peculiar to no generation. Perhaps the man who will make New York remembered may to-day be crying for his bottle in New Zealand; but those who did not see Sotbern and Marlowe nrtased a dramatic treat that In a smaller theatre would have been almost too good to be true. y Armageddo^ P By Hyaclnthe Ringrose ^ pMM HE word "Armageddon," which has figured eo largely in j I patriotic speeches and newspaper headlines recently in BngI I land cannot be found In any of the leading dlctlonarlee. I I It is token Of course from the Apocalypse, where It Is the ' I name given to the field of the final struggle between the I |f I powers of good and e\Jl. ft I Litenally, it signifies "the mountain of Meglddo," Meglddo being a city in the great plain at the foot of Mount Carmel. It was them that King Joslah received his death wound la the bottle against Pharaoh Necho II., King of Egypt, Lord Rosebury. Sir Edward Grey and Mr. w?ifnnr during the past week have prophesied that the German Ocean is shortly to be the Armageddon where the fate of the British Empire is to be determined. It Is a disquieting fact that the leader* of both the Government and the Opposition appear to k heesyt ss unavoidable a coming conflict between England and Germany. wety we are rsttfiag back to barbarism when two great nations of the asms vaes stock are. without a cause for war. preparing to meet esnh other la the Armageddon which' has haaa eo much talked about the past week. | SNAPPY AND BRIEF ! Iterm Gathered and Told While You hold Your Breath. ! SOME EVERY DAY HAPPENINGS Lively and Crisp as They Are Garnered From the Fields of Action at Home and Abroad. A constable at Black Mountain Saturday at 1:30 a. m., shot two men, John Bunting and P. C. Collins. Bunting is Head and Collins is severely wounded. The men disturbed the other guests in the Gladstone hotel H the shooting followed the officers scene. led and four were elphia, Saturday, \ / of one wheel of hieh caused it to egan his vacation aging in his favtlirow of a switch mother which was ; near Memphis, aid Joe Lewis, an years experience, i < oral others of the crews were badly hurt. A celebration of the 275th anniversary of the coming of the first white man to Green Hay, Wis., was held there on Tuesday. Tablets marking historical sites were unveiled and the reconstructed old Tank cottage was dedicated. A dispatch from Tokio says that 457 members of the coral fishing fleet were caught in a squall off Kobe and drowned. Details of the disastrous torra have not been received. The annual encampment of the Grand Army cf the Republic was Iheld In Salt Lake City Wednesday. Three inspectors were suffocated ? Tuesday in a mine at Telluride, coi., wuen ligiitmng tired tlie buildings at the entrance. W. A. Belelier, a well-to-do young planter of near Boxley, Ga., was ambushed and killed Monday. It is believed he is the victim of a neighborhood feud. It ia generally understood that the Buncombe grand jury will make an immediate investigation of the killing by constable T. C. Wat kins at Black Mountain, N. C., of Mr. John Hill Bunting. Harry Thnw says he has been proven sane forty-five times by District Attorney Jerome, by his long questioning. A bronze statue of George Washington and Robt. E. Lee have beer!' placed in Statuarj* llall, at the capitol. Receipts reported in Washington Monday when the operation of the new tariff law amounted to $930,944 as against the receipts under the Dingley law for the same day last year amounting to $676,578. Sandy Moseley, an engineer of the Avery Rock Salt Company, of New Iberia, was fatally injured when ho was struck by an immense lump of salt, loosened from its position above him. He died soon after. The Arapahoe of the Clyde Line, broke her machinery Thursday 21 miles south west of Diamond Shoals. She sent the wireless C. Q. D. message and was towed into Beaufort harbor by the Iroquois the same day. Bolivia's new Cabinet is expected to stave off a war with Argentine. Moors attacked another Spanish garrison and a hard fight resulted Wednesday. Before leaving for Europe Orville Wright was asked if he would be willing to challenge the world for speed and endurance in aeroplane# He replied simply that "we consider that we have the best machines in the world." Complications in Cuba have caused the Cuban Minister to ask an interview with President Taft. A1 Thompson, of Raleigh, shot his wife dead and seriously wounded the man that had eloped with her, but had returned and abducted two children. Thompson however was a bigamist and bad man. The statute of Robert E. Lee has been set up in Statuary Iiall in the capitol at Washington. The General Assembly of Georgia has adjourned. It is notable for its very exacting prohibition measure. It increased its public school fund from $2,250,000 to $2,500,000. it made an appropriation for terminals at Chattanooga, Tenn., for the Western & Atlantic Railway, owned by the State; to keep a supply of antitoxin on hand in each county in the State; to provide female attendants for the female insane; to require the daily disinfection of railway coaches and to make the use of defamatory language about a woman a penitentiary offense. It also passed a dog tax law. Ohanagan Hotel at Vernon, B. C., burned Tuesday and out of the sixty guests eleven failed to escape and were burned to death. Clarence Hall, a Government expert, has invested a breathing device that is expected to save many lives in Coalmine aeeidents. By the payment of a $10,000 fine the Internal Revenue Bureau has agreed to release the wealthy Nashville, Tenn., distillers, the Schwabs and also $600,000 worth of whiskey that was seised 8 KILLED IN WRECK Result of a Head-On Collision on Denver & Rfo Grande. FIFTY OTHER PASSENGERS HURT Northbound and Southbound Passenger Trains, Running at Terrific Speed, Meet on a Curve and Crews Have no Opportunity to Avert a Collision. Colorado Springs, Col., Special.? Eight are dead and 50 injured, some fatally, as a result of a head-on collision between train No. 8 northbound and train No. 1, southbound, on the Denver & Kio Grande at Rusted, 18 miles north of Colorado Springs Saturday morning. The trains, both running at terrific speed, met on a curve and their crews had no oppor tunity to avert the collision. Train JXa. 8, drawn by two engines, telescoped the baggage car and smoker of No. 1, and all three engines went into the ditch. With more than 400 passengers on the two trains the excitement following the accident' was indescribable. All the passengers were thrown in a screaming mass on the floors of the cars and many were hurt in the stampede to esca|>e. The unhurt rushed to the aid of the injured, but so great was the confusion that it required half an hour to clear the cars, which were enveloped in clouds of steam from the engines. lielief trains bearing surgeons and nurses were rushed to the scene of thy wreck and the wounded were brought to local hospitals. It is said that ollicials of the road t place the blame of the wreck upon the crw of train No. 8 who wre ordered to meet No. 1 at Husted. It is claimed the crew mistook a switch engine and cars for No. 1 and believd the track was clear. The following are among the dead and injured: Frank M. Frederick, St. Louis, Mo.; C. S. Brown, Jerrico Springs, Mo.; J. A. Gossage, Husted, Colorado, tireman No. 8; B. F. Barkens, Colorado Springs, Col.; J. K. Parker, Denver; J. K. Parker, Chicago; two ur/dentified men. THAW STILL INSANE. Justice Mills Refuses to Set Him Free, Regards Him as IncurableThaw is Sullen?Mother Retires and Receives No One. White Plains, N. J. Special.?Justice Mills' decision was filed at o'clock Thursday morning, recommitting Harry Iv. Thaw to Matteawan, He gave the following reasons: First, Thaw's insanity, from which he was suffering when he killed White, was known as chronic delusive insanity otherwise paranoia; second, Thaw has not recovered from insanity. Supporting the first conclusion Justice Mills qutes testimony regarding Thaw's ancestrv and bov hood. Regarding: Thaw's manhood he says; "Although Thaw himsell was evidently l'ar from moral and enframed in perverted practices as revealed by the Merrill woman's testimony, he gave absolute precedence tc tales regarding White." The decision declares Thaw's beliefs about White's practices plainly delusions. It also characterizes Thaw's belief that the attorneys were trying to "railroad him to Matteawan," as a delusion proving beyond doubt paranoia. The second conclusion is based on the alienists' testimony that paranoia is incurable. Thaw received Justice Mills' decision in the White Plains jail sullenly. The news seemed to stun hitr and he asked to be left alone, refusing to talk. He immediately summoned Attorney Morschauser. Thaw's mother and sister, the exCountess of Yarmouth, received tht news in a little hotel near the jail Tfie mother retired to her room do nying callers. Justice Mills will hear motions or me aeceision ai jnouni \ ernon later The Thaw family is so shocked that no one is able to tell now what steps will be taken to prevent fur ther incarceration. Later in the day Mrs. Thaw gav< out a bitter protest. Chinese Belle Murdered. New York, Special. ? Chinatowr boiled over again Sunday on discovery of the murtler of the most beautiful of the few Chinese woi York, Bow Kim, 21 year came here from San Fran a year ago, with an Ai Chinaman, Chin Len, 31 y? was about 2 o'clock in th> just as the usual Saturday night revelers were quiting down that Chir Len dashed out of a tenement house at 17 Mott street, crying: "Mj woman been murdered." The Government Enlarging Wirelesi Station at Beanfort. Beaufort, N. C., Special.?The government is increasing the capacity ol the wireless station on Fiver's island this harbor. Commander Quinby is ir charge of the work and says when if is completed the station will send and receive messages from a much greatei distance than heretofore. This station was the first on the coast to re eeive and to send out messages laaf weak when the steamer Arapahm ' roko her t iI ift. MAMA PRO Shuts the Doors Tight?I Not Advertise It, Mus For Its Sale, Must l> With A Liquor Ad\ Montgomery ,Ala., Special.?The Senate measure is declared to be the most radical prohibition bill ever drawn. It passed the house also on Friday night by a vote of 45 to 31. Declaring possession of liquors, except in residences, illegal, the bill provides that such possession shall be prima facie evidence that the liquors are kept for sale; it prohibits newspapers from advertising intoxicants, prohibits such advertising on billboards and excludes dodgers or other printed matter advertising liquors from the State. Tho possession of a Federal license to sell intoxicats is made prima facie evidence of violation of the law. When liquor is do livcred to any public place, the dolivery is an evidence of sale. Officers are giveu the right to break open and raid any building in which it is suspected liquors are stored. If a drunken man injures another in any way the person who sold the liquor which produced the drunkenness is liable for damages to the injured person. Witnesses in liquor eases are compelled to testify, or be guilty of contempt; servants may not be excused i from testifying against employers. Sheriffs must publish monthly in newspapers as well as by placards, in large black type the names of persons in their respective counties who possess United States internal revenue licenses. 1 Prohibited liquors are not to be treated as personal property but adjudged contriband, and may be destroyed. Every firm or corporation applying for a charter must siim a nlcdire not to violate the prohibition law in any way. If the agreement is broken the charter is declared forfeited. Under the Fuller hill solicitors mar COUNTRY NOW READY TO Baltimore, Special.?The tariff is behind us. In many respects it is imperfect, but the agitation is out ( of the way and the American |>eoplc will now adjust themselves to conditions as they exist. I That we are entering upon a period of vast business expansion seems to bo beyond question. Consider for , a moment the fundamental conditions i in the fundamental business?that of ; agriculture. Unless present crop eon, ditions materially change it is quite r probable that the total value of agricultural products for 1909 will aggrei gate $8,300,000,000 or in the neighborhood of $500,000,000 more than - the total of 1908, which was nearly 1 $400,000,000 greater than the procedl ing jenr. The most remarkable fact I in our business history is this amazing progress in agriculture. The fnrm era of this country are enjoying ? grenter prosperity than was ever known before bv the agricultural in terests of this or any other land. t The value of farm products in .1880 ? 1890 and 1900, and for each year since 1905 have been as follows: 1880 $2,212,000,000 ..1890 2,400,000,000 1900 4,717.000,000 190 5 0.415.000.000 190 6 0,794,000,000 190 7 7.412,000,000 190 8 7.800,000,000 lauy (estimated) 8,;wo,oou,uuu In the ten years from 1880 to 1890 the increase in the value of farm products was so trifUngly small that it averaged only one per cent, a year, or PROMINENT DURHAft WOl Dnrham, Special.?Mrs. D. C. Mitchell died Friday afternoon at 5 o'clock after an illness of several months with pellagTa. From the first I her case was the most aggravated I that tho physicians encountered. The . disease, which has been largely confined to another quarter of the town 5 as it has been immemorially to the simpler folks, found a shining mark in one of the best women who ever BOARD OF TRUSTEES SUS Anderson, S. C., Special.?A long distance telephone message from Clemson College at 8 o'clock Friday -I :> . -of r ii.rv . . n.! ; , The Of mittee, r,-.: . - V *rn : T ... CI' ,1 , tJ .1 , Jj.tr] th ?*. , /" ? .i * : . i*\ . jn?i. tfJo i * v st /" ? t I' ' M??#r ?f . changing ttie rules ot tne college as i suggested by President Mell, reports ed, recommending practically all the r change*. One recommendation is that the trustee government by ten ( committees be reduced to air. three ENGINEER BUSH DIES FR Atlanta, Qa., Special.?Passengers who were on the Southern train 9 i wrecked near Bristol, Va., Thursday t evening arrived here Friday night, I bringing details of the bravery of Engineer Samuel Bush, of Knoxville, Tenn., who died Friday as a result of ^ his injuries. He was lifted out upon the ground. There was not a doetor on the train. Bush asked for a last look at hi* old engine, as hopeless a UN DILI 1 l/lust Not have It, Must fk it Not Rent Building ^ lot Sell Nawspaper rertisement In It. ^ begin prosecutions, anil grand juries jjp| must indict. : The bill prohibits the soliciting of jjflj orders for liquors for concerns outside the St ' ?shipping 1W quors from \itbin the Stat dlH where liquany prohit fffl plinhed, in I nuisance. i linuoPK shnll nni iu> ?' aire nor for sale; no |K?rson shall act for a friend in procuring a sale; C. ^ 0. D. shipments are prohibited. 'pi Buildings must not be leased to any one for the sale of intoxicants, ?P and in case such traffic is conducled, > the lease on the building is forfeited. Finally, all persons are prohibited from using signs bearing the word saloon." Violation of any one of the numer- ? " ous provisions is declared a misde- ^ meanoj, punishable by tines ranging fP from ijsiO to $200 and bv six months' v hard ftibor. When Mr. Fuller called up the bill _ Friday he produced a number of amendments adding about 2.000 words to the already voluminous doournent. He explained that he had ad- J ded to the prohibited advertisements all pictures of bottles purporting to J eontain liquor or of breweries or distilleries. ij Another amendment was to allow ^ licensed physicians of towns where there r.-re no regularly licensed pliarmacists to dispense alcohol for med- J ieinal purposes. ^ An important addition was made to make it prima facie evidence of i guilt if liquors alleged to have been sold are of like color, odor or taste of prohibited liquors. J All of the amendments presented 1 by Mr. Fuller were adopted. J The chief fight was made on the prohibition of newspapers from pub- f lishing liquor advertising. This feature was retained bv a vote of 38 to f| * : . ADVANCE TO PROSPERITY ' $250,000,000 for ten years, hardly ^ one-half of what the increase in the preseut year will be over last year. 4 In other words, the increase hi the value of farm products in one year > ^ is now twice as great as the increase in ten years between 1880 and 1800. \ Between 1890 and 189(3 there was very little progress, but then began a mar- | velous advance which has continued without abatement ever since, by | 1900 the tntnl vnltin wnc .-fed 717 CldO _ 000. Since then the momentum has continued until in the last three .J years, estimating 1909, the aggregate <j value of farm products is about $23,500,000,000. This is more than 20 i times as nuich as the combined capital of all the national bunks in the 1 United States. M To this wonderlful advance, this 4 amazing growth in wealth, is largely J due the quick revival of business ' from the panic of 1907. It was this condition that saved us from a long period of great industrial depression, ^ and it is this fundamental condition " for marvellous development which as- S sures an expansion of business much greater than our country has yet -1 seen. * Present indications point to the 49 possibility of a crop of over 3,000,000,000 bushels, possibly 500,000.000 .rfj bushels more than last year. With ' the high prices ruling f'<-r wheat, corn and cotton, abounding prosperity seems to be assured. With the tariff out of the way-- with magnificent crops, some harvested and some prae- ^ :-~11~ * i.- .i ?1-_ i i ^ | ut iui y asiourcut I lit: ui't'Kj Iiave UOCD I cleared for action. 4AN DIES OF PELLAGRA m lived here, she is the wife of a large , property owner. One of the dreams of t*r young life was her own pretty home which began erection two ^2 months ago. She watched it grow daily until driven to her bed. It is one of the city's prettiest houses. Mr*. Mitchell was 32 and a Georgian. She came here last year from Tennessee. She leaves a husband and sever- ***| al children. TAINTDRTMELL'S COURSE * of which will he standing committees and three will he special committees. _ It will he recalled that Dr. Mell claimed that there was "too much h u ' r -- ^on qd . t\\ < r- but u is a;- r *'o< m - . \.r 'i>, T* ! impression on tue wampus u> mat President Mell will be suat.:n>"l !n aii 01 ins contentions and tns* ' remain president of Clemsor The board meeting will ha > !> ajoarn before Saturday noon ^ x>m injuries of wreck j wreck as was its enjrineei A ien parties came to him with i. fl soothe him, he begged then, to !> * after the comfort of the | ( or- ^ Told that no passengers hi. See,, jured, he said: "That's ^ . d. Fnt before I take this whisk< , 1 w vat you men to smell my brea. tify that I had not beei drink frt. when this happened." Four of 4fl| men smelled his breath ar 1 promised to beer witness to hi> sobrit-tj "0