The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1907-06-29

It takes a college professor to de.
otroy Shakespeare, decide that love Is
a myth and repeal the Monroe doctrine
in one breath, declares the Baltimore
Sun.
The Boston Journal Indignantly
asks, why should he (the hotel pat.
ROM feel compelled to increase his
tariff rates by further payments? And
why should he be made to appear like
= niggardly boor if he does not?"
We can never have safety in rail-.
road transportation until We cure the
recklessness permeatins alike the
public and the management of our
railroads, laments the Boston Post.
And to effect such a cure the remedy
should be applied first to the person
mel of boards of direction.
The ends OF justice, and public
policy as well, will be best served If
the prohibition upon divorce for one
year is made applicable to both par
ties, notes the Denver Republican.
Strictly enforced it would prevent
large percentage of those divorces
which are never sought until a new
husband Or a new wife has already
come within the range of vision.
Robert Burns got from his first
volume of poems the equivalent Of
one hundred dollars. A few of his
autograph letters and verses sold at
auction recently in London brought
more than five thousand dollars. The
living Homer begged his bread Same
old story, IS the brief comment of the
New York Herald
China is making another effort to
rid herself of coul Sc that was brut-
ally forced upon her by the sordid
commercialism and constituencies
politics Of Christian nation two gen.
creations ago, remarks the Hartford
COurant. An imperial edict of recent
date forbids the cultivation Of the
opium poppy within the bounds of the
empire, and also forbids the use Of
opium except when prescribed by
physician.
A celebrated French countess told
the New York Press this. Whenever
Quertier gave an order for spinach
1t was for three barrels, and his in
structions to his chef were: BOIL it
all, but not too done; serve it all at
dinner, and what is left warm over
and serve the next day; and keep on
serving for fourteen days. Spinach
on the fourteenth day is better than
on the first
The movement to regulate railways
by law has come to stay, AYERS the
New York Post. No one man start
ed 1t, and no one man can stop it.
Even il 1t be said that it is a danger
Gus spirit which President Roosevelt |
has reused, he cannot lay it. What !
ever is foolish in the agitation, we |
shall have to ascertain by painful ex-
perience, which alone will work the |
cure. But the sound and constructive
part will remain, and will be extended
The morals Of college students-at
least Of those who go in for athletics
has notably improved since athletic
training became general. It is no
torious, complains the Brooklyn Eagle,
that the man in good physical trim
has less temptation to drink than the
one whose strength Is exhausted by
his days work or whose nerves have
become disordered from lack of nour.
ishment and exercise.
The taste of men is less morbid in
the matter of fiction than that of
women, according to the London
Graphic, especially of modern women,
to whom the plain, direct telling of
story does not appeal, but who prefer
the psychology Of the soul and the
Infinite dissection Of reconcile mo-
tives and feelings to dramatic move
ment.
The Chicago Inter Ocean, referring +;
to The dearth OF candidates for the /,
pulpit, remarks that when analysed,
these complaints come to one point
1t Is that the material rewards OF the
do not suffice to command
the service of men of power as do
those Of other professionalism the
Is not a profession in which ,
the success in life may be won that )
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