The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1906-03-03

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Possibly the Norwegians voted for
a monarchy because a majority of
the Norwegian Republicans have i'm
migrated to the United States, sug
gests the Louisville Courier-Journal.
Our largest battleships have dis
placement Of 12,50O tons, engines Of
10000 horsepower, and a speed of IS
knots. Some of the British battle
ships are 1872 knot vessels of 1880
tons, and some of the French and
German battleships range up to a.
coo tons.
Fashion, says the Tailor and Cut
ter, may be changed, corrected, edu-
Gated, but neither ridicule nor rea-
sOning, nor abuse can destroy it, nor
can church, satirist, or cynic turn 1t
aside any more than the whistling Of
a schoolboy can shift the direction OF
the wind. After this poem, how hard
il is to svmpathiZe with Ivan Harring-
toms distinction to the realm Of tail
ordom, declares the Boston Tran
script.
It may he admitted that "King
Haakon' sounds more rugged, Vih-
/ ia@csque and impressive than 4 com
/ monplace King Charles" and so his
| majesty of Norway may be right in
/ changing his name: but see how far
! :. sets him back in the progress OF
he world, remarks the Philadelphia
/ Inquirer.
For Some months past there has
| been q noticeable diminution in the
proportion Of filthy bank notes in cir
culation, says the New York Medical
Record This is undoubtedly due TO
| q growing popular aversion to such
notes. and we arc glad to be told
that increased facilities for their re-
denption are to be supplied. Let the
people keep on demanding rodenup-
tion if they wish TO avoid TIE danger
and ce"'tialy it is real danger
of contra. 5ng disease from the cir
cJlating medium.
There are not wanting learned In
vestigators among the ruins Of Egypt
and buried cities in that and other
desert lands. SAYS the Louisville
Courer-Journal, who attributes to the
destruction of the quail and other
birds the great transition, which
gradually eliminated tie forests and
enabled the sands Of the desert to
overwhelm once pcpulous cities and
fruitful fields.
Good craftsmanship is put by Lord
Charles Beresford in the first rank
of naval requisites. On the Trafalgar
Centenary he held land review Of
5000 seamen and marines at Malta.
m the procession the gunayers lead,
next the engine-rOCn artifcers. and
after them artisans and signalmen.
This is the first time in the history
of the British Navy that the gun
layers have been recognized as the
most important body CT men in the
feet.
With our iron production booming,
with our lumber production looming,
with our farm products of all kinds
booming. with our national banks.
State banks, savings banks and al
our conservatively and honestly
managed financial institutions boom
ing, with our export trade booming as
far as the efforts we put into it al
~ it to BOOM with our East, our
West and our South each trying 70
1elp the other, with our factories
booming as they never doomed be-
tore. with our schools crowded to the
joors with q 100000 American chill
iren. native and adopted. in training
or American citizenship: with the
public conscience. political, social, f.
lancial and religious, awakened as
t was never awakened before; with
tHa "pce-,rc-' Ca''e"s-'' Nri7~ 'l"TG9 +
,ver political Bosses and srafters OF
every size. shape and hue. have we
1ct every reason in tho world to con-
yratulate the United States?
Football undoubtedly can. and it
hecins to look IS Il it would he re-
formed. but what then asks the IN
?ianapolis News. Few people attend
tennis tournaments, and chess is com
raratively UnattTactye. In summer
time, of course, we Go go to the base
ball game by the thousands; but It
must be remembered that there is
not only always chance for a play
err to be seriously injured but, more
than that-immeasurably more than
that,-there is the umpire. In the
umpire always lie vast possibilities