Smyrna times., 1902-05-28
SHORT, SHARP AND SNAPPY.
Pithy Sayings From Our Popular Wash.
ingtOn Correspondent.


Andrew Carnegie remarks signif-
cantly that he has 'retired from bust
ness and reformed.
Worth its weight in gold" has
given place to "worth its weight in
beef-steak"
1t is now reported that the big |
hardware combine has fallen through
because some of the largest companies
withdrew faom the compact.
President Palma is wise in insisting
that only one flag, the Cuban, shall
float over Havana. This proclamation
discounts the criticism that he is al
ready recOnciled to the idea of annex
alton to the United States.
Those who expect an immediate
break between Messrs. Roosevelt and
Hanna do not give due credit to the
political astuteness of either of the
gentlemen. They are still long way
from even the ''retort courteous.
The census bureau reports that there
are ,116 ship building plants in this
country employing $77, ZOO, 900 capital
and turning out annually S75, 1000, 600
worth of work.
German critic calls attention to
the fact that in this country actors
think only of money and "shOw" in
stead of art, while in Germany the
theatre ranks with the school and
church as an educational institution.
Herman Grau, the oldest operatic
manager in America paid Adelina Patti
pound of candy for her first singing
on the stage. She was at that time
seven years old and the concert was
at Willard's Hall, Washington, d. G.
Of all the Englis, donations for the
Martinique sufferer, that Of Andrew
Carnegie, just landed in London, was
the greatest, being more than those
of Lord Rothsckild, the Kings and
Queens put together.
Congress- proposal to have the Presi-
dent decide which route should be
chosen for the isthmian canal looks
like Legislative shirking but it is
probably the best business-like way
TO settle it. Monarchy is better than
mobocracy.
With his new resort for the poor
waits of New York, at Ocean Beach, n.
Y, Charles NJ. Schwab will entertain
1900 children every day and get more
= Joy out of it than earning that many
\ dollars per diem.
!. The big American railroads are
stockholders in the shipping combine,
the object being to run the ocean
carrying trade in harmony with land
lines so that through rates in worlC
traffic can be bid for on the best possi-
BILE terms.
There was hope recently that Della
ware republicans would patch up fac
tional differences and give that stat
representation in the national Senate
which it has not had for some time
but later developments show that th,
break is as bad as ever.
Beginning July first, the Congress
sional Library at Washington will b
open on Sundays, the regular appro
priation bill containing that provisc
All other public buildings are close
on Sunday except the Corcoran Gal
lery of Art. The Boston publ
library has long been open seven day
in the week.
Bridal couples so throng the nation
al capital at this season of the yea
that the dOor-keepers of the Whit
House while away the hours by keeT
ing account OF them. Ihls year the1
have been so many that the sell
imposed task has been a difficult on'
seventy-five couples having entere
the East Room in one day last week.
Mr.. Carnegie makes no pretension
TO statecraft, but he has what is con
monty called "horse sense. " I'll
present dilemma over the Philippine
shows that ''horse sense" was needle
at the inception of the expansion id'
when Mr.. Carnegie offered the COVER
ment 10000, 900, the price paid
Spain, to keep out of the Philippine
Vandalism at the Washington NOM