The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1899-04-15

not a money asset, may, however, De
of some value, instructing her in the
wisdom of keeping within her means.
no matter how urgent the temptation
to exceed them.
A curious case of complicated rela-
tionship exists in Oakland, Cal, as
result Of a father and son marrying
two sister4 Alinio Tolentino do
Figuereda, aged fifty, married May
Carmyn. an eighteen-year-old girl, ana
Wilfred A. de Figuereda, aged eign-
teen. married Katherine Carmfn,
twenty-three years old. Thus ,
bow win be his fathers brother-in-lae
the two sisters will be slsters-in-law;
the fathers wife will be a step-moener
tn her brother-in-law; the sons wife
will be the old gentleman's daugnter-
in-law, as well as sister-in-law. IL
children be born to the wife OF the
son, the grandfather will be their I'M
Gle. and shokld there be children IN
the fathers hpme the son will DO uncle
and step-brotAer. The old mans wifs
will be aunt land step-grandmotner 10
her sisters little ones.
One of thetresults Of the late war
with Spain has been an awakening OF
new interest on the part OF Ameri-
can manufacturers In the possibilities
opened I'D to them in new territory
which has come under the protection
of the Stars and Stripes. The interest
goes, still further, and every CONNER
cial territory on the earth Is being
scrutinized by careful eyes. Foreign
trade is one. thing, but when II Is
backed up by navy which has won
for itself the esteem and profound re-
spect of other nations it has an added
significance. sEngland's great foreign
trade has been in a large measure
owing to the naval power that was
| back of It. Dewey, Sampson, Schley
and every officer and seaman Of the
American navy has combined to bring
about results which will live for all
time to come.
The President Of the British Asso-
citation last summer predicted the COM
ing inadeQuacy of the worlds wheat
producing capacity. The investiga-
lions resulting from his note of alarm
have abundantly proven that his facts
were Inaccurate, his arguments falla-
cious and his fears groundless. The
prediction Of a future universal bread
famine has no better basis than had
the coal famine scare in England
years ago, when it was demonstrated
that within a century or so the wheels
of industry would be stopped for lack
of fuel to drive them. The fact is
that Great Britain's resources of coal
will not be exhausted for a long time
to come; and the larger part OF the
vast sources of supply upon which she
may easily and cheaply draw were I'M
known and undreamed of at the time
that the speedy exhaustion of her fuel
was predicted.
The rapid growth Of the wealth OF
college Greek letter fraternities was
emphasized a few days ago by the
statement that the Kappa Alpha loGge
) at Cornell, Ithaca, N. Y, which was
recently burned, was valued at $45,'
600 and that the total value Of the fra
ternity property at the institution
amounts to nearly half a million dol
lars. One fraternity lodge alone al
Cornell is worth nearly 100000. VIII
Jams College comes next to Cornell il
the value of its fraternity property
, and then Yale, Amherst, wesleyan
and Harvard, in the order mentioned
according to a recently published esti
mate Since Columbia moved into hel
new building in New York city, the
more prosperous fraternities have
each made plans for extensive chap
ter houses. These houses are moi
: owned by the fraternity at large, but
| II by each individual chapter, and some
of them are excellent illustrations of
the work of our best known archi
, tects. 1t has been estimated that there
! are 5000 or 5000 college fraternity
men in New York.
Something more than anxiety finds
) expression in articles published by ths
London papers regarding the conse
: uuences, present and to come, of th'
conscientious scruples" law. This
t cowardly and disgraceful measure
9 was enacted, not from belief In 1T
t wisdom, but simply to make part.
t capital by yielding to the clamor O
certain ignorant and unreasonable ia
natics, not numerous but voluble, WIFI
think that they think vaccination is ;
p bad thing, and who either held, o
: pretended to hold, the balance of pow
err in several Parliamentary districts
: The medical profession were unani
, nous in denouncing the law while !
was under consideration, and nov
that it has been in operation for few
months they are unanimous in assert
|, ing that all the evil effects expected
> of it have come, and that to-day Eng
land is in grave peril Of a smallpox
epidemic such as the country has no
known since the time of Jenner. No
only have those who really had some
thing family like conscientious scru
pies" against vaccination availe'
! themselves of the laws provisions, bu
a vast number Of others have caile'
!, their disinclination to spend a littl
= money, or to take little trouble, o
to suffer little inconvenience, "con
scientious scruples against vaccine
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