Smyrna times., 1906-04-04


an Interesting Manner About Men and
Affairs of National Interest.
Secretary Taft knows how General
Grosvenor felt when the President Of
fered him Consular appointment.
The Elevator Trust was ORGANIZED
like other trusts, to keep the prices
going up.
The Fathers Club at Atkinson, Kan.
sas has disbanded. Somebody had to
look after the children.
Count Boni de Castelane is said to
be suffering from influenza. This is
probably the result of his getting the
cold shoulder from the Gould family.
The cotton acreage in the South
could be rapidly reduced and held
down to safe minimum if the whole
work were left to the negro.
If we get pure food laws it is more
than likely we will have to cultivate
pure food appetltes or tastes. Some of
us have never known the SAVIOR or
: flavor of the real thing.
The movement to raise the Presi-
dents salary failed but it becomes
more and more apparent that there is
to be no lack of applicants for the
place.
The idea prevails that travel broad
ems a man but since the withdrawal CT
passes Congressman are of the opinion
that it makes man shorter
The exposure and prosecution of
Colonel Mann of Town Topics cost
Golfers 100000, but they probably
think they got their moneys worth.
Millionaire McQuaide of Pittsburg,
says he has a constant craving for
money, and yet some wise man said
that "the only evil that wealth cured
was poverty"
Balloon trips are being prescribed
for dyspeptics. If they don't do the
dyspeptics good at they will be good
by radiance for the families of the pa
TENTS.
The Christian Herald has sent fifty
thousand dollars to the Japan famine
sufferers. At least that is the way the
fund is spoken of, for many a person
as we'll as a newspaper gets the credit
of being charitable by having simply
the power to get the public to donate.
With Chief Justice Fuller at one
end of the Supreme Bench, weighing
one hundred pounds, and Secretary
Taft at the other, there is serious dan
ger of an unusual distribution Of
weight in the decisions. Secretary
Taft weighs over three hundred
pounds.
Portentious threats of political activ'
ity are made by the walking delegates
of federated labor since their recen'
pilgrimages to the White House and
the Capitol. "Uncle Joe Cannon
told Brother Gompers" that they
were not the "whole shooting match,
and the President gave them to under
stand, while he had not used injunc
ton against them as he had used i
against other great monopolies, tina
be would not hesitate to call upon thi
force if it should become necessary
He also ridiculed the application o
the eight hour law to the Isthmus o
Panama where it is next to impossible
to get any work at all out of the laz
Jamaican negroes who make up tn
bulk of the so called laboring popula
ton.
The railroad rate controversy ha
been enlivened and enlightened by th
letter of Andrew Carnegie to the Wast
ington Post published Sunday TIA
25th inst, and Senators on both side
of the question, or it might better b
said on every side of this many side
question, are discussing this let's
written by no professional statesman
but by a man whom the world hi
learned to regard as possessing beside
millions and a charitable soul, min
of great breadth and acumen. III
fact also that Mr.. Carnegie represen
perhaps the largest shipping intere
in the world and therefore would NJ
turally be supposed to represent Il
interest of the railroads and the lari
shippers who have benefited by r
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