The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1907-12-28
scsTCN TALKS BACK.
e.,ke Not to Sheer at II Lest.

like Poe, They Die IN Hospital.
alto naturally, Boston people were
.. s piqued when H. c. Wells on
'''D. -acent visit to this country, de-
W ,'',ad-though in other words-that
e'' on seemed to be as calm and
Dsh-ous as the Sleeping Beauty.
s, rso answers to Mr.. Wells are now
;.r nrouounced. Edwin D. Mead
"' some remarks 70 the Bostonian
r..;otv the other day, in which he
' Do.od the Autocrat of the Breakfast
WI 70 the effect that no man could
anne to good WHO attempted to sheer
at Boston.
after a man begins to attack the
gate House, when he gets bitter
.sop, the Frog Pond, you may be sun
nora IS not much left Of him." said
4, Mead Poor Edgar Poe died in
10 hospital soon after he got into
,,is way of talking; and SO sure as
an find an unfortunate fellow reduced
: this pass, you had better begin
saving for him, and stop lending him
nancy. for he is Oh his last legs.
Remember poor Edgar! He is
dead and gone; but the State House
las its cupola fresh gilded and the
Frog Pond has got a fountain that
nurts a hundred feet.
Boston respects hustle; and we
hare the largest railroad terminal in
The world, and fourscore more trains
arriving and departing daily from all
mr. stations than even Chicago,
which claims to be the greatest rail
road centre in the world.
Boston respects money, and Bos-
ton. sir, carries the Chicago, Burning
ton and Quincy Railroad and the At
Gibson, Topeka and Santa Fe in its
trousers pocket.
Boston respects iron and steel as
contemporary documents, and the
reason why our Institute OF Tech
pology arranged for entrance eXamin-
atoms in London was that Engli5hmen
who wanted to send their sons here
said London had none so good.
"One OF the last visiting English
men wrote home TO praise our park
system and our public library as III
comparable. | think he was right.
The Boston Public Library is without
a peer among public libraries and up
on its front is grayed the proudest
fact: Built by the People
Had the visitor pushed an hour
westward he would have found just
finished the greatest reservoir ever
created by a metropolis for the wa.
ter supply of its people, and had he
called at evening on the chief COM
missioners he would probably have
found him reading history.
The great body of advanced schools
Of which Harvard is the centre-Bcs-
ton University, the Institute Of Tech
nology, Tufts College, and the rest
make Boston the greatest seat OF
higher education in America. Our
musical pre-eminence is, believe,
conceded; and the superior popularity
Of Sousa to Muck in Boston indicates
plainly enough our vitality.
1t was the great English jurist.
Dicey, who pronounced the Harvard
Law School stronger than any in Eng
hnd-the most wonderful thing | saw
IN America'-and the eminent English
physician, Sir Thomas Barlow, present
It the recent dedication OF the new
buildings of the Harvard Medical
School, who declared that he and MS
colleagues had never dreamed CT SUCH
Z vision Of beauty and Of adaptation
to the needs for which such buildings
ore erected.
We should blush to sly such things
ourselyes-but we are greateful. -
New York Sun.