The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1901-01-18
IS EkGLAD GOING Backward?
THEME OF ENGLISH PRESS.
Most All the Prominent Newspapers
sound Word of Warning-Says
Americans Lead in Most Every
thing, Even in Football.

London, Jan. l3.-Great Britains de-
cadence is becoming quite a popular
theme. Self debasement and self
flagellation seem to be congenial to the
chdstened spirit of the nation, forced to
realize. through the accumulation of re-
verses to military, TO diplomacy, and to
commerce, that Great Britains predomi-
nant dream is past.
1t is almost daily occurrence for some
great London newspaper to parade the
shortcomings of the country, instituting
comparisons with the United States and
Germany little complimentary to Great
Britain.
"Lost opportunity" says the Morning
Post, lis the keynote, and the Britain
that dictated her will to the ends of the
earth is today myth
The great wooden and allied trades
threaten to be revolutionized by an Ameri-
can machine which is now operating at
Bradford.
What it all will open up is not fully
apparent at first sight" says the Brad
ford Observer, but it looks as if the po-
sition at present occupied by Arkwright
and Crompton in the world OF invention
during the nineteenth century is to be
superseded by Drury in the twentieth
How is it that this idea was left to
Yankee lawyer to bring out?'
DIury's invention is described as the
> simplest yet devised. 1t is capable of
spinning the toughest yarns from as
bestos or peat moss without difficulty.
Drury left Boston two years ago.
The Daily Telegraph calls attention to-
the enormous increase in the use OF
American confectionery in England,
, which it says would be even greater than
it is were the American manufacture
L ers to show more elasticity in trade
> methods 1t also declares that America is
/ soon likely to be supplying 'jawbricks.'
l. The most suitable campaigning samples
e of canned fruit have alreday been sub
I. mitted to Lord Roberts and have been sent
u back for improvement. These are now as
; sured.
J.; "Small wonder, indeed" says the Daily
,; Telegraph, chat the British fruit grower
= has cause for complaint that the demand
y is not what it was for his products" Cal
d itornia fruits seems to be making tremend
Gus inroads into the English jam trade.
Even from the Philippines come recon-
mendatons to adopt American methods
- Mr.. Percival of London writes to thu
st. Times from Manila urging the the British
IN troops in South Africa to use the tuni
pleat worn by the American troops Il
:. protect the spine, and also their wei
- cartridge belt and method for preserving
surgical dressing The suggestion abou
~ the belt is already in force. An Amer
~ can firm has a newly erected factory her
~ turning out to it's fullest capacity thes
belts for the war office.
-, Senator's Proctors Italian marble COZ
e ner draws forth from Today an indignan
nc protest. 1t says "Who, for instance, i
Senator Proctor, that he should create TO
his own merriment a scarcity of Carrar
r. MARBLE in which the highest art of al
10 ages in Europe has found its noblest ex
" pressions!' And so on in a similar strair
~ maintaining that the senator mas no RICH
~ to assume a dictatorship of the world
eo art.
W But it is not only in cimmerce tina
!. the spread of American leaven is s
patent. In the national game, Rugb
" football, hitherto so distinctive of Amer
can rules, and whose devotees were s
proud of the fact the British are noN
-, beginning to closely initiate the dis
=; tinguishing features of the American grid
- iron play. At the recent England Vale
=. match, when 10000 spectators were pre-:
~ ent, the experts were amazed to see wha
; I'D was called the ''puzzling hand to han
- passing of the Welsh team" This
"a nothing more than the familiar "snappin
90; back" practiced by all American college,
=. but which is a revolution here 1T ha
no small effect in securing for Wales
sweeping victory.
- Four Hundred Bodies Arrive.