The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1906-05-12

. Baseball players who are wonder
ing what they can turn 10 after their
usefulness on the diamond is gone.
remarks the Boston Transcript, ought
TO be encouraged by the anuounne
ment that Mr.. Sunday Inappropriate
name). the baseball evangelist clear
ed 1851 during a six weeks reyiva!
at Aledo, H.. recently.
Wonderful little Argentina reports
foreign commerce which. if the
rate Of the first nine months of 1905
was maintained, amounted to $780,
100000 for the full year. This is
500 for every man, woman and child
three times as great in proportion
as our own immense commerce, com.
ments the New York World.
Two captains in the Commissary
Department, relates Harpers Week
i ly, have been ordered to the cavalry
1 and artillery school at Fort Riley,
4 Kansas. for course in cooking. in or
j der that they may be sent among the
| troops to teach them 10 make bread.
presumably like captain used 10
make"
The automobile was perfected at
Just about the time that Americans
We're experiencing the greatest boom
In business they ever Saw-tlle great
est ever seen in any country. The
expensive toy became a practicable
vehicle when the American had the
price on him. and the manufacture
of the machine has developed with
almost increditable rapidity, observes
the Philadelphia Record.
An unexpected blow to English
pride comes from Japanese critic,
who contends that England is in a
state OF decadence says the Spring
field Republican. And he touches us
in sore place by ascribing that de-
cadence to the Americanization OF
England which is going OF. Yet about
all America has done is to give the
British nobility a boost with the heir
esses. Even that, however, is de-
scribed as hurtful to the old Eng
lish spirit of simple faith in noble
ideals This could be believed if it
We're not true that the British aristo-
cracy always had a simple faith also
in a good round income.
In its latest issue Engineering News
describes what is probably the most
elaborate provision ever made by
railroad company for the care of in
jured passengers. a special car has
been completed for the Southern Pa
citic in which there are twelve berthS.
quarters for a surgeon. an operating
room and a kitchen The same cor
p0ratiOn mas ordered several other
cars, which are not so commodious
or expensive. but which are to serve
the same genera, purpose. In TAX
ing this action the Southern Pacific
is not setting a new example, but
the hospital car is at present good
deal of a novelty. 1t has been adopt
ed on oily a very few lines, and it's
central idea has. in the particular
specimen here referred TO, been work
ed out with completeness that ap.
pears to have no precedent.
There is a grim side to the tremen-
lous industrial activity that character
zed the year just closed, observes the
Hartford Courant In the mills and
II the railroads of Allegheny coun-
y, Pennsylvania, which includes Pitts
,urg, 1900 persons were killed and
INJURED in 1905. These cases, the New
'ork orld says, became matters of
ecord. Many cases of those who were
aiken to neither hospital nor morgue
we're not recorded. The World notes
hat this number is only less than the
otal of dead and wounded. Union and
Confederate, at Fredericksburg, that
, is almost four times the total at
he first Bull Run and 1000 greater
han the Union loss at the second
ull Run. 1t has been said that willis
merican inventors are most indus
'ious and successful in devising
afety appliances, European countries
re ahead of us in the matter of their
1option and general use Evidently
is high time for radical reform in
ittsburg's big mills.
Some difficulty IL now being exper-
need in the East Indies owing to
lie renewed disposition Of the Brah-
ms to boycott European sugars on
e score that they have been refin-
by OK blood under the old process.
ar he 7 p1npfo,
r Manufacturer The Brahmins
we Of late years been assured that
nite beet sugars, coming to them