Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1904-04-13

He joins in every flowing bowling
match.
Seth Low favors Theodore Roose-
welt for President. Very good of Mr..
Low. Whom did he favor for the last
Mayor of New York?
Hiram Cronk, of Oneida County,
N. Y, is the only man living of the
$40, 622 who enlisted in the War of 1912
He is 1O4 years old.
It looks now as if the New York del
egation in the Democratic Convention
would be instructed for Parker. Hill
and his friends expect to have three
quarters of the State Convention.
Nearly all the straw hats in the
United States are made in Baltimore.
By a close shave the fire failed to reach
them, otherwise we might have been
obliged to go bareheaded this summer.
A sub -committee of the House Com
mittee on Territories favors bringing
in Oklahoma and Indian Territory as
one state, and Arizona and New
Mexico as another. But they will be
very lucky if they crowd through this
session.
President Roosevelt has delivered
$40 public speeches within the last
two and half years. Perhaps Judge
Parker thinks that after this display
and Mr.. Bryan's volubility the Ameri-
can people can stand quite a solid
chunk of silence.
England send a column of soldiers
with machine guns into Thibet to
make a treaty! AS a preliminary it
fell upon and massacred 700 people
without the loss of a man. There is
said to be some excitement in England
over this slaughter by a diplomatic
mission.
General Corbin says it is not the
conflicting news from the Russ-Jap
war that puzzles the War Department;
it is the paucity of the quantity. What
is wanted is more of the same stuff.
Quantity and not quality is what
counts with the experts"
The Dutch have adopted the En-
glish and American fashion and
slaughtered SAL natives in Sumatra. 1t
is not stated whether they were on
diplomatic mission or we're bent on
benevolent assimilation. Anyhow,
SAL Adhinese have been assimilated.
In the French courts Colombia will
appeal from the decisi on confirming
the transfer of Panama Canal property
to the United States, and if she can
not thus obtain relief, will declare war
against Panama. So says the agent of
Colombia in Paris.
"The ideal church, says Rev.
Newell Dwight Hills, sis one noble
building, centrally situated, crowded
from Sunday morning to Saturday
night, the centre of the social, must
cal, literary and ethical life of the
community; the home of light and
Joy; the pride of all the people," He
holds down the pulpit of the late
Henry Ward Beecher.
With clouds for his electric battery
and with the globe for his transmitter
Nikola Tesla proposes to convey mes
sages, power for commercial purposes.
and human speech to the utmost con-.
fines of the earth. ''In a year or
two" he says. Tesla? Tesla? Seems
to us we have heard of him before.
Ten thousand applications for patent
are held up in the United States Pat
ent Office on account of informal pre-
sentation or unskillful prosecution. G.
A. Snow & Co., Patent Lawyers of
Washington, make speciality of such
cases, fees moderate aud contingent
on success.
Postmaster-General Payne makes
grave charges against the House post
Office committee and its bette noir,
Congressman Overstreet. Perhaps
both will have to be Investigated. A
scapegoat is badly needed, and Over.
street has the fight of his life on his
hands 70 keep the goat out of his tur-
nip patch in Indianapolis.
If Senator Burton of Kansas wishes
to oblige the American people, let him
mention by name those "other Sena-