Smyrna times., 1906-02-14
SHORT, SHARP, PITHY NEWS
FROM THE NATIONAL CAPITAL

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INGT0N CORRESPONDENT OF INTEREST
News Of the Day Boiled Down and Treated
il an Interesting Manner About Men
aud Affairs OF National Interest.
New Jersey is making a war on
Trusts. This is really form of ma
tricide.
Russia proposes to connect the Black
Sea and the Baltic by a huge canal.
An American who knows something
about the canal would think that Rus
STA had already had trouble enough.
The Cubans want to give Alice
Roosevelt San Juan Hill for wedding
present. But it is scarcely worth while
far the camera fends could get there
too.
youthful husband of Mrs. Yerkes
SAYS from experience that Alaska is
the country for man to strike it rich,
but it seems that he struck vein in
New York City which paid him Ger
and Ger.
1t is said that the British delegation
at Algeciras did not attend the bull
fight last Sunday. History claims that
John Bull has seen considerable fight
ing IN that vicinity already.
A New York women proposes that all
poor and homeless children should be
chloroformed. This would no doubt,
result in fewer Presidential and Vice.
Presidential candidates later on.
A Chicago doctor says that this
country is going insane because it
refuses to take sufficient rest. The
policemen and messenger boys are be-
coming alarmed.
A number of Baltimore working
girls have demonstrated that they can
live on five dollars a week. There is
no longer any need for them to do so
though for the offers of marriage are
arriving with each mail
Speaker Cannon says that the call
for statistics about the cotton crop are
a Constant demand for misinforma
ton" This is one time when the sup
ply is equal to the demand.
1t took Poultney Bigelow only
twenty eight hours to collect the ma
terial for his article about the Isthmu 8
and conditions there, but 1t has taken
him three weeks to get the material to
prove it true and he is still working.
Senator Depew's term in the Senate
expires the day that President Roose-
velt's term in the White House expires.
Senator Plast's expires two years later.
It is a pretty good guess that either Of
these seats would be acceptable to Mr.
Roosevelt.
What to do with duplica te wedding
presents has always been one of thu
problems like "what shall we do with
our ex-Presidents?" which has APP
peared to be unsolved. Now, how
ever. it has been answered by a Chi
cago woman. who used them to- pay he
debts at Bridge whist.
Senator Aldrich, of Rhode Island
still retains his interest in wholesal
grocery store, Senator Lodge of Mas
sachusettes, is the representative OF
cod fish aristocracy preserved in bori
acid, other Senators are interested IL
canned and bottled goods and thes
Senators are the reasons why we can
not have bill compelling dealers !
bottled and canned goods, whethe
fish, fowl, beverages or medicines
state precisely what the packages cor
tain. A pure food bill is crying nj
cessity ana the United States Senate
blocking it.
Pure Food is once more an issue
both houses OF Congress, and bill bid
fair to be defeated in the Senate whic
numbers among its members not fe
who have interests in Groceries, Fist
cries, Packing and Canning house
that will be unfavorably affected :
Pure Food legislation. The claus
most necessary to the effectiveness