Smyrna times., 1906-06-20
SHORT SHARP SNAPPYNtWS
FROM THE NATIONAL CAPT TAI
GLEANINGS PICKED UP FROM OUR WASH.
INGTON CORRESPONDENT OF INTEREST.

News of the Day Boiled Down and Treated in |
an Interesting Manner About Men and
Affairs of National Interest
The world may be growing better
but here in the United States we are
just beginning to find how bad it is.
That letter of recommendation from
John D. Rockefeller may have had five
words misspelled in it but it got the
man the job.
All this agitation is hard on the
meat packers business but the rail
roads are glad to lose the public atten-
tion for awhile.
The weather is exceedingly hot in
Washington but there is no doubt
that Vice President Fairbanks collar
will be the last to wilt.
The sweet girl graduates all over
the land have about finished telling
the country how it should conduct
itself but Congress has not adjourned.
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All flesh is grass according to the
ancient formula but nowadays it
seems to be largely constituted of
formaldehyde, borax and filth.
A London scientist recommends the
''silence cure" for nervous women
The beauty of this regimen is it will
cure the husbands of nervous women
at the same time.
Travel broadens g man, according
to wide belief but Congressman know
that since the withdrawal of passes it
also makes a man shorter.
Vegetarians claim that a meat diet is
rsponsible for all the anger, malice and
hate IN the world, and yet, both Sena-
tors Spooner and LaFollette are vege-
tarians of long standing.
Senator Platt is reported to have
said that he will not retire from the
Senate until he gets ''good and ready"
If it takes the Senator as long to get
ready as it has to get good he will re-
main in that body long while yet.
Senator Depew's term in the Senate
does not expire until 1911 but his seat
has been taken by Senator Dick of
~GhiGa This is taken to mean that Sen
r.a.Jr Depew will not return to Wash.
ington.
The average increase in salaries
paid o. S. Officials was at the rate of
S2,0OO,O00 a year between the years
1888 to and including 1898. Since 1898
the average annual increase has been
81, 900, 900. This is what comes of
getting into the ''world power" set.
Richard Garfield says that the
games played in his gambling houses
are falrer and squarer than those
played on Wall Street. He will have
to say something better than that for
his business before it convinces peo.
pie it is respectable.
A publication for ''people who think
makes this announcement, "Please
don't think we believe all we print. ~
In this however it is just like Other
journals. The original publication
will be the one with the courage tC
print all that It believes.
New York papers contain advertise
ments of professional "Aids to shop
pers" who are called ''consultants'
and whose business it is to accompany
women to the stores and help them
spend their money. There are no
many men who will admit that thei
wives are so unaccomplished in thi
respect that a professional shopper
services are required.
The net earnings of the Pennsylvania
railroad for the four months ended
May first were $4,000, 900 more thai
for the corresponding months of las
year. Steel plants are being estab
lished in Pennsylvania to cope will
the demand for structural steel an,
the United States steel Corporation
has shut down forty seven of it's til
mills on account of the scarcity O
sheet bars There is intense activit
in Industrial centres and mills in Fal
River, Georgia and other sections a
widely separated are clamoring fo
more hands. Crops are good, whea
and corn are promising beyond al
previous records, strikes and labo
hloo ora feu - .