The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1906-02-10

man. She merely brings IL Out iH.o
public view, observes the Minneapolis
Journal.
II Witte brought back any super
duous peace from Portsmouth he can
nse it to advantage in the nelshoo1-
hood of Moscow, thinks the Chicago
News.
It almost makes a man feel as II he
we're entitled to some substantial poll
dcal recognition when he learns that
be has for years been contributing
through his insurance company. to
The campaign fund. AYERS the Indian
apolis News.
A very noticeable feature in the Clip
lOmatic world is the way in which
younger men are superseding the older
diplomatists who ruled the roost
generation ago. Seniority is not now
the main cause of promotion to the
higher posts, observes Vanity Fair.
The suffering among the rural Beers
Is due to their inability to work, as
serts the johannesburg Star The
BOer farmers have never learned how
and are unable to settle down to rou-
tine of drudgery. Their women re-
gard household service as degrading.
The Richmond Times-Despatch
says:-The tour of President Roose-
welt through the South was the most
notable, and we may say the most
successful, tour made in this genera
uon by any public man. 1t was an
ovation from the time he left Wash
ington until he left New Orleans.
Legislation Is threatened in many
states during this winter for the sup
preston Of the so-called patent" medi-
cines. The success of such legislation
would mean the abolition of the home
medicine chest and would force per-
sons, no matter how remote their
homes from the home Of physician,
or how needless the additional expense
might be, to call in a physician for
every minor ailment The legislation
as proposed would mean greatly in
creased doctors bills and what is
worse, frequent long delays awaiting
the arrival of a physician when a sim
pie remedy. administered by a men,
Der of the household would accom-
plish the result desired.
The man who has been at sea for
three months. with little liberty from
the routine Of warship duties, and who
arrives at one Of the worlds greatest
seaports with three months pay in
his pockets, may be pardoned if he is
inclined to spend his leisure and his
money somewhat exuberantly, thinks
the New York Tribune. But it is a
mistake to suppose that the bluejack-
ct desires, above all things, to dissi-
pate his earnings in riot and debauch-
cry. II he does so, it is in most cases
because he has nothing better in the
way of amusement set before him, and
in his limited leisure has little time
to seek it. When. however, rational
means of enjoyment are afforded him
he is likely to avail himself Of them
to the full.
Colloquial ease is an excellent thing
In an orator who is addressing a mixed
audience, but he should be careful not
to allow himself to descend to those
cOlloquialisms which are current only
among the lower strata of his au-
dience. That magnificent organ of
English speech which has been per-
fected by the greatest writer's and
thinkers of the Old World is in dang
er Of being profaned by the ignoble
uses to which in the New World it is |
subjected, not merely by the illiterate |
but by the slovenly minded among the |
educated classes. Carelessness has |
Joined hands with ignorance to de-
fame and deface it. Even the diction-
aries in their eagerness to increase the
apparent number of words in their vo-