Smyrna times., 1903-06-10

up. worcester mas D0Suu campaign
against them.
How would Pennypacker and Baer
do for a presidential ticket? 1t ought
to please Wall Street.
The Government has set apart fund
of $3.50, 900 which is now available for
the Philippine exhibit at the st. Louis
Fair.
It is with i'll grace that Germany
complains that we have prescribed her
sausage when she refuses to use our
pork.
The Australian consul at Manila re-
ports that the city is full of stranded
Americans and that the city is nearly
bankrupt.
The courts have made a Chicago
millionaire pay heavy damages to his
son-ln-law because he had called him
'lobster."
The western floods will give the
members of General Funston's regi-
ment an opportunity to make another
swimming record.
These are strenuous days. One day
we are pacifying the Filipino ladrones,
the next day it is the Broathitt County
assassins and the next day the Kansas
ghouls.
President Roosevelt will return 0
Washington this week and the people
are looking for something to drop, and
drop hard, in the Post Office Depart
ment.
WI Ting Fang has been assigned to
the work he is most fitted for. He is
to remain at Pekin and smooth down
the ruffied feathers of the Occidental
diplomats.
The morning after the last payday
at Fort Wayne there were 40 soldiers
in the guard-hOuse. Real temperance
gained great defeat when the canteen
was abolished.
Some San Fransisco promoters have
unloaded a $4,000 copper mine on
English investors for SO, 400, 900 This
is likely to prove another cause of Sc
curity indigestion"
New York has just celebrated her
250th anniversary. Senator Depew
made speech repIete with stories of
the time of the city's birth and Mr..
Pulitzer illumined his little building.
+, There is said to have been establish
ed bond of sympathy between Gen
eral Miles, Admiral Dewey and Sena-
tor Hanna. They have all been talked
at by the President.
The cable brings news of seventeen
Bulgarians having committed suicide.
1t would be impolite to ascribe this to
the decision of Miss to return to that
country, though it may have been re-
morse (D
A few tons of quinine, many acres of
fly and mosquito screens and ice ma
chimes, or ice bergs, will be convenient
accessories now that we must cut a
ditch through an equatorial swamp.
Ex- Cashier Tulloch may have for
gotten some details and have made
some inaccurate statements after three
years separation from the Post Office
Department, but if he had not pub
lished what he knew and thought, il
is doubtful if Machen's theivery would
ever been discovered.
The New York clergy are fighting
out the race problem from their pul.
pits. Handled at long range it does
not begin to present the difficulties
that would confront the clergyman
who attempted to solve the problem OF
corruption in New York municipal
affairs.
What would we do without our con-
sular reports? The following is from
recent one: "While it may be true
that Spain, romantic Spain, is the land
where the light of chivalry fingered
longest above the horizon, it is tru
that its people with their many decay.
ing cathedrals and -gowned
priests, still to the rude past cast a
longing look behind. Potatoes are
growing we'll.
1t is an occasion of regret to the
Postmaster General to have the ras-
cality which has prospered under re-