Smyrna times., 1904-10-12

A Philadelphia man is charged with
having paid So to have his wife muir
dered. These frugal Quakers are ex-
travagant in some things.
Tt is formally denied that Mr.. Bryan
and Mr.. Cleveland are to speak to-
gether in the campaign. 1t is said
that they have not spoken for years.
A man of the name of Whaley re-
Gently failed with liabilities of 81, ,OOO,-
600 and assets of 200. He must
have been an expert in double entry
bookkeeping,
The choice of a man to succeed SEN
atOr Hoar in Massachusetts may fall
on another man, but Hon. G. P. Law
renee of North Adams is eminently
fitted for the place.
Novelist Meredith advocates expert
mental marriages for a period of ten
years, with privilege of renewal.
There is no clanor for the new depar-
ture in Chicago, where woman got a
divorce in twenty minutes the other
day.
The railway connecting South Africa
with Alexandria, at the mouth of the
Nile, has been pushed almost to real
ization. 1t is now estimated that in
two or three more years communica-
tion will be opened through the heart
of Africa, connecting Cairo and the
Cape. Already the trains run from
the Mediterranean to Assuan, six
hundred miles up the Nile.
The st. Lc uis fair is really on pay
ing basis, and a vast credit to the
energy of that city. Curtis says that
the art gallery is the finest this
country has ever seen. 1t contains
hardly any ''old masters" nearly every
example being by a contemporaneous
artist. Sure enough!-if the world is
really progressing, why should not
modern art be better than ancient art?
The systematic attempts to wreck
the battleship Connecticut during her
launching, now fully revealed by the
Navy Department, are astounding and
incomprehensible in view Of the pre-
cautions taken after the discovery of
the first ingenious effort What mo-
tive can be assigned? Condign pun
ishment should be meted to the mis-
creant of miscreants.
What does Great Britain propose to
do with the Third Secretary of her
American Embassy, Mr.. Gurney, who
wantonly violated the law in Massa-
chusetts and claimed diplomatic sa-
crodness? Does technical immu nity
from arrest involve real immunity
from punishment? A foreigner who
is only a transient sojourner in anv
country ought not to deliberately
break the laws, and if he does so
ignorantly, he ought not to grumble if
held accountable.
The game of battledore and shuttle
cock is being displayed in West Vir-
ginia. Democrats claim that Parker
will carry the states by $4,000 and Re-
publicans claim that Roosevelt will
carry it by 10000. 1t is hardly proba-
BILE that both are correct. Mr.. Davis
is authority for the statement that his
daughter, Mrs. Elkins, is a Democrat
this year and that Senator Elkins'
three sons-Stephen, Blaine and Davis
will honor their grandfather by voting
for the Democratic electors.
If the excavations for the New York
Subway were in a single tunnel six
feet high and three feet wide, it would
reach from New York to Chicago. The
track approaches are seventy miles in
length, all underground. The timber
employed would build 10000 two
story houses, and the rock taken out
would make a respectable imitation of
the Great Wall of China. structure
three feet thick, eight feet high, and
500 miles long. Its express trains
will make 30 miles an hour, it cost
thirty-fYe million dollars.
Is there anything conceivably more
atrocious than the recent sale by a
firm of Camden, NJ. to the U. s.
Government of six hundred life pre-
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