Smyrna times., 1906-01-03

tor which is worse for a mans pocket |
book.
Andrew Carnegie gave Representa-
tive Sulzer twenty four quart bottles
of Scotch whiskey. 1t is supposed
that he had no need to make the us
uai provision accompanying his gifts
that like amount should be raised by
the other side.
Professor Lowell declares that the
canals on Mars are artificial and not
the result of any natural process.
Since they appear to be completed it
is evident that the civilization of Mars
is vastly older than our own.
The remarkable small number of our
Naval Officers killed in the Spanish
War may be accounted for by the fact
that it is very hard to kill man who
has survived college course in the
Naval training school at Annapolis.
The Judge who denied a motion to
appeal In Taggart divorce suit is with
the majority which thinks that the
world has had enough. The millions
of women who are resolving that they
will do their Christmas shopping early
next year in order to avoid the crush
will forget before next Christmas.
An Alabama postal clerk who refused
to work with negroes has had his sal
ary reduced one hundred dollars year.
This is a new phase of the race ques-
ton and if widely adopted might re-
suit in more reasonable relations be-
tween workers of different skin shades.
Mrs. Corey, it is said, has calmly
salted down that million dollars, and
insists first, lastly and all the time
that she shall be treated as her hus-
bands wife, but, if we may believe re-
ports she would fare better if she were
treated as her husbands chorus girl.
John Burns, the labor leader of Eng
land, who has just been made a Cabi-
net Officer under the new Government,
with salary of ten thousand dollars a
year, once declared in public speech
that no man ought to get bigger rev.
enue than two thousand, four hundred
dollars. The difference between this
maxim and the salary that he is now
receiving is seven thousand five hun,
dred dollars, which he will, of course
return to the conscience fund of the
British treasury.
Both Representatives LongwortI
and Perkins of the House have intro
duced bills for the purchase of suita
BILE residences for American Ambassa
! dors and Ministers abroad and real es
tate agents in Paris, Berlin, London
, Vienna and other capitals have hear,
of these bills and are on hand wit
, their wares. Several palaces are OF
, fered cheap and when Mr.. Longwort
and Mr.. Perkins are made Ambassa
, dors and their wives are made Ambas
, sadresses, they may be able to go owe
, and keep house in these palaces if the
know how to do it. A bill to suppl
' them with servants would also be j
: the line of making the hard life of th
a Ambassador less thorny.
/, "Moscow running blood" thus read
. the Iurid headline. The language
J: in degree fgurative but not tc
a strong. In the streets of that histor
v city are enacted all the horrors of Par
a in '93 in the hands of the Revolution
|, lists and of thirty y-five years ago wht
), the Commune kept the army of Ma
l. shal Mcmahon at bay. It would see
l. as though certain spots on the earth
N surface like Paris and Moscow we
idiosyncratic for tragedy though pc
haps a closer study would show th
le bloody and pathetic drama is litt
" confined to specific places on this 8
X earth of ours. This is the Mosct
h that Napoleon looked down upon frC
le Sparrow Hill as his already half
or moralized army filed by him and g
u tered the unresisting city. This is t
is Moscow from which the then demor
)" lied army of Napoleon debauched
ly it started on that most appalling l
g. treat. The Moscow which Napole
ly first beheld aud later left a smould
ing mass, the somewhat isolated Kre
IT, lin alone standing, had a populate
to less than that of Washington or Gle,
h. land. The Moscow of to-day contai
d. not less than twelve hundred thousa
no souls. 1t is as beautiful as a DIRE,
[c- city when seen from the elevate
be known as Sparrow Hill. The hundre
.ar of churches with their cupolas a
,st minarets In blue gold as seen throu
- the translucent atmosphere produ
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