Smyrna times., 1905-04-05

Congressional Record of late.
The junketing party that goes to the
PHILIPPINES this summer has been in
vited to spend a week at the Japanese
Capital as the guests of the Japanese
Emperor
A New York watchman has been ar
rested and is being held responsible
for the collapse of those buildings re-
Gently in that city. 1t is stated that
the leaned against them.
It is reported that medicines are be-
coming more expensive, and this
happens just at the time that half ripe
vegetables are pouring in from the
South.
A Boston woman eighty years old
has begun the study of Greek and says
she hopes soon to be able to argue with
the Venus of Milo in her own language.
Senator Warner of Missouri admits
that he spent $29.S0 to secure his elec-
ton. Aspirants to the Senate from
other states wish that their legislature
could be brought as reasonably.
A number of prominent men are
being discussed for the position of
Secretary of State to succeed Secretary
Hay but curiously enough Seth Bull
lock has not yet been mentioned.
Millionaire Nelson of st. Louis still
continues to say that the hardest Job
man can undertake is to live up to
big income but he has not tried giving
/ up his income to prove his theory.
The sold iers in the Philippines to
whom good people in this country
have been sending deadloads of news
papers protest that they are tired of
| journals whose themes are religion and
aids to beauty.
Mr.. Hay, Secretary of State has per-
manently retired from the Cabinet and
will return in a few weeks with re-
paired health to resume his duties in
the State Department. This is relia-
BILE.
Representative Hill of Connecticut
will be among the party that visits the
PHILIPPINES in the Taft party this
summer. Mr.. Hill is one of the most
travelled of our representatives. having
been around the world, to Alaska and
few times across the country.
Humorous people have been making
jokes all winter on the subject of the
ice bills succession to the coal bills.
Commission merchants who pay for cars
being iced three times in distance oi
116 miles do not see the joke. Tc
them the ice bills are a sadder reality
than the coal bills for at least they gel
heat from the latter expenditure an6
for the former they get nothing buf
the Car Trusts receipts.
The last Congress gave to two Gen.
erals of the late war who had long since
7 retired from the army the rank and PAL
/ of retired brigadier generals of th,
/ regular army. One of them, Genera
y Osterhaus who was a poor man has re
y turned to his native country, German,
4 to enjoy in afluence his bountifu
. yearly pension. The other, ex- Sen
: ator General Hawley of Connection
has gone to that bourne from which
some say no traveller returns.
a Bricklayers are now receiving fiv
e dollars day for eight hours work ant
a are the envy of nine tenths of the law
n ers preachers and doctors of the coun
a try, for fewer than one tenth of th
N professional men of the United State
ID make as much as thounsand dollars
10 year. While at five dollars day
a. brickIayer will make from twelve
d. fifteen hundred dollars a year vi
in fortunately ambitious young men
st colleges and Universities may nc
n graduate as bricklayers, for the bricl
i'd layers trust will not permit them I