Smyrna times., 1904-12-14
SHORT, SHARP AND SNAPPY.

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everybody shall have square deal has
filed the trusts with CONSERVATION.
Meter Hill seems to be putting forth
a good many promises just now-ex-
actly the way David B. used to act.
Several Denver women have been
arrested for forging election returns.
Their defense is that it is the right of
women to pad the figures.
We have seen the value of m anufac
tories in the United States increased
from $4,000, ,OOO,O 900 year to $1S.OOO,
900, 900 since Grant was elected Presi
dent.
A woman in a Minnesota insane asy-
lum has won a $3.50 prize for writing
a story for a magazine. Some CT them
exactly seem adapted to institutions of |
that sort.
For the Lewis & Clark exposition, !
Portland, Oregon, six immense build
ings have been completed and others |
are making rapid progress. Now the
Government is expected to chip IN.
Fun is expensive. Thirteen lives
have been lost in football during the
past season, and deer hunting in Wis
consin closed last week with a total of
sixteen hunters shot to death, mis-
taken for wlld:auimals. Other States
not heard from.
The decision of the New York Court
of Appeals against the 8-hour law as
being unconstitutional has let loose a
storm of hostile criticisms. 1t was
held to be a violation of the guaran-
teed freedom to make contracts.
To introduce little variety Andrew
Carnegie has given $4,000 for Ii
brary for negroes in Atlanta, and the
finance committee of the city council
has appropriated 81, 900 for current ex-
penses. Negroes of the city will fur
nish the site.
The latest decisions of New York
courts compel the the street railway
companies from the Bronx throughout
Manhattan to Brooklyn to give trans
fers, from one line to another without
extra pay. The people are getting
their own.
Senator Dietrich of Nebraska takes
strong ground in favor of the employ
ment of convict labor from the United
States to contract the Panama Canal.
The most depraved offenders could be
sent there and kept at work, thus help
ing to solve both the penal and labor
qvestion.
By a decision of Attorney General
Moody all guessing contests for prizes
are placed in the category of lotteries
and hereafter will be excluded from
the United States mails. This will
touch good many newspapers on a
sore spot.
The cattle in the Esopus barnyard
are once more receiving their saline
rations from the hand of their owner,
and Grandfather Davis says it is real
relief to have a chance to settle down
and settle up after the campaign.
Mr.. j. Pierpont Morgan became per-
cipitately a convert to Parson Wag-
ner's simple life theories and immed-
lately invited their apostle to be a
guest at his million dollar home in
New York City. Let's see wasn't it
Rosseau who preached a similar cru
sade and sent licentious Paris to raw
ing over Sweet Simplicity.
The Democratic leaders have found
out why Judge Parker was not elected
1t is because a great many members
voted for Roosevelt and about a mill
lion did not vote at all Perhaps these
circumstances may be made a basis
for hope but they are hardly a solid
foundation for immediate reorganiza-
tion.
Many Congressman are smiling upon
the proposition to increase salaries:
the Presidents to $1,000 year, the
Vice Presidents to $780, 900 and those
of members of Congress and the Su.
preme Court to $4,000. Before such
a bill passes it will probably cut
through in the middle or thereabouts.
If anything in this line is done it