The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-01-15
ITS SPIRIT
IS CRUSHED
NAUGHTY ALBION SORE AT
HEART.
SELF AMUSEMENT POPULAR
Uncle Sam Somewhat to Blame
for John Bulls Frame
Of Mind.
SELF AMUSEMENT POPULAR

decadence is becoming quite a popular
theme, Self-abasement and self
.flaeellation seem to be %congenial to
the chastened spirit of the nation,
forced to the diplomatic and industrial
conclusion that Great Britain's pre-
dominance dream is over. 1t is al
most a daily occurrence for some great
London newspaper to parade the short
comings of the country and institut-
ing comparisons with the United
States and German, little compll-
mentary to Great Britain. "Lost OPP
portunities, y says the Morning Post,
sis the keynote and the Britain which
could dictate its will to the ends OF
the earth is today a myth
The great wooden and allied trades
threaten to he revolutionized by an
American machine, which is now
operating at Bradford. What it will
open up is not fully apparent at first
sight, says the Bradford Observer,
sbut it looks as if the position at pres
emit occupied by Arkwright and
Crompton in the world OF inventors
during the nineteenth century is to
be superseded by Drury in the TWEEN
tieth. How is it that this idea was
left to a Yankee lawyer to bring out?"
Drury's invention is described as
the simplest yet devised. 1t is capa-
BILE Of spinning the toughest yarns
from abestos or peat moss without
difficulty. D1ury left Boston two
years ago.
, The Daily Telegraph calls attention
to the enormous increase in the use Of
American confectionery in England,
| which it a Y would be eve greater
t than it is were American manufact'
urers to show more elasticity in thei1
trade methods. It also declares tina
America is soon likely to be supply
ing claw bricks" Some Of the mos
suitable campaigning samples hav'
0 already been submitted to Lord Rob
s erts and have been sent back for I'm
n provements. These are now assured
n "Small wonder, indeed" says tn
Daily Telegraph, '"that the Britisl
fruitgrower has cause for complain
g that the demand is not what it wa
for his products" California frui
y pulp appears to be making tremendou
g inroads into the English jam trade.
Even from the Philippines com
Recommendations to adopt America
methods. Percival of London write
to the Times from Manila, urging tt
british troops in South Afira to Ut
the tunic pleat worn by America
troops to protect the spine, and all
Il their webbing cartridge belt an
method for preserving surgical dres
ing. The suggestion about the car
ridge belt is already in force. A
American firm has newly erected
factory here which is turning out
it's full capacity these belts for Il
OF war Office.
Senator Pr~octor's italian marh
n corner draws forth from today's Stan
e. ard an indignant protest. 1t say
u "Who, for instance, is Senator Pro
he tor that he should create for his ov
ne enrichment a scarcity of Cara
id marble, in which the highest art of
to ages in Europe has found it's noble
ed expressions" and so on in a simll
its strain, maintaining that the seDat
'er has no right to assume dictatorsh
gn of the worlds art.
lat But it is not only in CONNER
on where the spread of American leav
n. is so patent. In the national gam
a Rugby football, hitherto SO distinoti
ST. from American rules, and whose {
he votees were so proud of the fact, t
British are now beginning to close
initiate the distinguished features
the gridiron play. At the rece
England and Wales match, when 4O,0
spectators were present, experts We
amazed to see what was called 1T
puzzling hand to hand passing OF t
Welsh team" This is nothing m
than the familiar swapping ba
practiced by all American colleges, I
y which is a revelation here. 1t had
small effect, securing for Wales