Smyrna times., 1904-09-14
SHORT, SHARP AND SNAPPY.


fortunes they do not possess. 1t is
easy to criticise millioniares.
1t may not be generally known that
Mr.. Augustus st. Gaudens is making
a bust of Secretary John Hay at his
beautiful summer home in Windsor,
Vermont. The sculptor does his work
free from visitors and outside cares.
Some one has discovered that the
average income from labor for each per.
son in the United States engaged in
Agriculture in 1899 was $2S8. 26. In
Iowa it is claimed that the average in
come for the same class of people is
S611.11.
Many men in New York city who
have been paying alimony to former
wives are now much elated over a re-
cent decree of court, that if the former
wife takes second husband the ali.
mOny ceases. TIA woman really wants
a divorced husband to support her, she
must remain unmarried,
John Burroughs, the famous natura-
list, wishes all the hunters of the
country would shoot all the cats in
sight. He says that New England alone
the cats kill $4,000 birds each year
One naturally asks how he knows?
And if the cats were exterminated,
how would the biologists of the de-
partment of Agriculture propose that
rats and mice and such small deer be
kept down.
The color line was recently sharply
drawn in Hartford, Conn. No colored
person could buy ticket at the rail
way station without a written permit
from the police. Homes of cOlored
people were searched without an ex-
planation, much less a legal warrant.
All this because a colored man had
shot white man. 1t appears that there is
quite as much need of upholding the
law in Connecticut as in Georgia.
Humanity is shocked by the sense
less and brutal war in the East, and
the terrible sacrifice of the poorest
peasants of both countries. While
it continues it is sign of human re-
PROGRESSION, and has no more good in
It than the bloody bull fights of Spain.
But the latest news is good news, that
''the japanese have given up all idea
of taking the fortress of Port Author
by storm" This ought to be the end
of it.
Since Mr.. Richard Harding Davis
was unable to get any nearer a Japa
nese-Russian battle than eight miles,
and as he is short sighted, although
possessing an active imagination, ht
has finally concluded to withdraw from
Manchurla, and write his letters il
camera at Chefoo. They will be quit,
as interesting and truthful to a salts
factory degree in fact Mr.. Davis Nigh
have saved time and expense by re
naming in this country.
There has been some eXcitment Il
Savannah, Ga, among cotton factors
over the fact that the Department c
Agriculture cotton report for Angus
was received in that city a full hal
hour before It had been officially sen
out. The figures were correct, bu
the Savannah people didn't wish to ge
them ahead of the rest of the world
An attempt has been made to discovs
the little leak, but it is SO small Prof
Moore, cannot find it. He is in charg
while Secretary Wilson is maxim
speeches in the provinces.
A deficit of nearly $7,OOO,OOO
August added to the immense de6c
of July makes the deficiency of rev
nue. for the two months $24, 282, As
This may furnish material for arg
ment by stump-speakers. The fa
doesn't worry Secretary Shaw who
making political speeches on the Paci
ic coast. The Tribune of New Yol
says it proves that taxes are not his
enough. But times will improv
Such deficit for two months means
deficit of $15O,OOO,OOO a year, if t
ratio continues.
Senator Depew alleges that it is n
merely desirable and necessary b
actually indispensable that the r
publicans should elect a majority
Congressman on November 8. Z
cause, he says, the country is actual
suffering for legislation modifying t
tariff, providing for Philippine col
merce, governoring the Panama zor
and regulating immigration. L
Democrats declare that it is indispt
stale for them for exactly the same r.
son. Does the glib-tongued Sena'
naan tn oonfaaa that RaDu bliCE