Smyrna times., 1893-07-26
Highest of all in Leavening Power-Iatest u s. Govt Ren+
Re-! g! Bssi9g BS%5sgz
ABSOLUTELY PURE
Short, Sharp and Snappy.


1t sounds queer to American ears
that the heir presumptive to the Brit
lsh throne should have been compelled |
by his royal relatives to desert wife
and two children in order to marry a
woman who was once betrothed to his
brother and who was acceptable from a
political point of view. Yet such are
said to be the facts, and it's legal in
England. Over here the Prince would
be bigamist.
Mr.. Charles Dudly Warner says
"Barnumism" is peculiar feature of
American liteature. And he might
truthfully have added, of everything
else. The reason is obvious. Bar
numism" is advertising, and advertis.
ing pays, and the average American is
always out for what pays. This may
not be altogether desirable, but it's so.
The American Car is cash. Con-
gress and all the churches hadn t power
enough to prevent the opening of the
Worlds Fair on Sunday, but as soon as
it was ascertained that the attendance
on Sunday was not large enough to
pay expenses the gates were ordered
closed.
A case of love at first sight and
hurried marriage between man 7s
and a girl % is reported in the press.
BY an oversight the exact amount of
cash owned by the groom was omitted.
Why do so many newspapers appear
to take a sort of 'ghoulish glee" in ex-
plotting the connection by blood of
some poor unfortunate man or woman
with some person of prominence
Who says women are not forgiving?
One of them sued man for breach of
promise and obtained a verdict of
$4,000, and then allowed him to beat
the verdict by marrying her.
An extra session of Congress, a new
baby, the toOthache and the Iheumat-
ism are only few Of the things which
60 to prove that the lot of a President
is not necessarily happy one.
|
Who has been triAing with the
affections of Miss Kate Field? She pub
fishes poem on Burning the Letters"
in her paper, which begins Dear per.
juries loved so we'll"
1t may be that our health officials in
their anxiety to keep the cholera away
overlooked the danger of visit from
the yellow fever. At any rate "yellow
jack" is with US.
1t Is Congress, and not the know it
ALPS, that will legislate upon the fiuan.
cial question. Some people seem to
have entirely over looked this little
fact.
1t is usually the man who has not
been publicly mentioned" for the
place who gets seat upon the bench
of the U. S. Supreme Court.
Dyrenforth still has confidence in
his power to bring rain, if somebody
will only put up the money. Here is
a chance to get buncoed.
IL ought not to take as long for the
arbitrators to decide the Behring's Sea
matter as it did for the lawyers to make
their arguments.
Strange things happen. A Pennsyl.
Vania bank teller went crazy the other
day and his accounts were found cor,
rect.
1t is bound to be hot when Congress
meets in extra session, however much
it's members may be disposed to keep
cool.
The Nicaragua Canal is in a fair way
of joining the Panama ditch in the
limbo of things that might have been,
1t should be a long time before an
other President attemps to experiment
with object lessons"
The tramp who has just inherited
$4,000 is again playing his little piece
in the newspapers.
Il met the enemy and he is my oys-
ter"-solilOquy of the victorious EN-
perOr of Germany.
+ Gov. Tillman, of South Carolina,
, may lack some things, but backbone
isn't one of them.