!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
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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