The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1906-09-08

of people for parents Of the children
OF the future, declares the Houston
Post.
AS feat in frugality, Castro's sue
cess in saving s30,OOO,0OO in six years
on a salary of $4,000 must excite the
admiration and bewilderment of even
Russell Sage, observes the Chicago
News.
Since that Kansas hired man arose
in his sleep, observes the Atlanta Con-
stitution, harnessed his team and cul-
tivated eight acres of corn before he
awoke, he has been in receipt of a
bushel Of letters day offering him all
kinds Of money for his services.
woman in Flushing. n Y, declares
the Atlanta Constitution, chewed up
had signed and wanted to repudiate,
and furnished the first instance in
the history of the world where a wo-
man was willing to eat her own words.
1t is doubtful whether a great chess
player is often, we are sure he is not
of necessity, to be regarded as man
M f,,1 i,,tn nrl-c hn
London Saturday Review. 1t has
never been shown that the greatest
masters of the game were men with
big brains for anything but chess.
An engineer who has gone over the
route prOnounces the plan of canal
at Panama impossible of realization,
says the New York Tribune Opin-
ions probably will continue to differ |
until the canal is dug and in opera
ton, and then nobody will care what |
was said about the enterprise in 1906. |
The new automobile law of Massa. |
chusetts which has just gone into ef-
feet forbids speed of over twenty
miles an hour anywhere in the state,
notes the Buffalo Courier. So, if it is
enforced, the siXty-miles-an-h hour ma
chimes will not be an especially at
tractive kind of personal property
there.
President Roosevelt, speaking at
Oyster Bay on independence Day,
said: Distrust as demagogue the
man who talks only of the wrong done
by the men of wealth. Distrust as a
demagogue the man who measures
iniquity by the purse. Measure mi
guilty by the heart, whether a mans
purse be full or empty partly full or
partly empty. If the man is decent
man, whether well off or not we'll of,
stand by him; if he is not decent
man, stand against him, whether he
be rich or poor. Stand against him
in no spirit Of vengeance, but only
with the resolute purpose to make
him act as decent citizens must act
if this Republic is to be and to be
kept what it shall become.
There is a large class or frauds
worked upon the public with amazing {
of which tIR bait is an ap- 9
peal to greed through the proposed :.
recovery Of treasure. The details are :
remarks the Christian
Register. The treasure which may be 7
recovered, if only one can raise an :
ldequate sum of money to carry on a 2
awsuit, Or an investigation, or to fit
tut an expedition or an estate held I
or hundred years in Holland, or in
N English Court of Chancery, or Z
arge sum of money deposited in the Z
'ank of England, or pirates treasure g
'uried in the River ST. Lawrence or Fl
omewhere in the Spanish main, or G.
money secreted in a foreign land by G
ONE prisoner who is still living. or :.
ONE unfortunate exile who has diel. nj
,aving hidden treasure intended for sc
ONE dear child or other dependent.
ut which will be shared with anv I
ne who will bear the expense of it's
All these have been work. \