The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1907-09-14

owe much of it to their laundrymen
and bcotblacks, observes the Phila.
delphia Bulletin.
A French barrister, whose client
Fad the misfortune to be found gull
", appealed on the ground that dur
ing the trial juryman was asleep.
The court of cessation has held that
the jnryman, being asleep, was tech
nically not present during the hear
ing. and has quashed the verdict and
ordered a new trial
The results in recent years OF the
New York public schools have not
been good, admits The World. Test
ed by the ability of grammar-school
graduates to write, spell and figure,
the school system manifests great de-
fects. The average school graduate
is not familiar with the names of the
presidents of the United States, let
alone a knowledge of the general
scope of American institutions. Not
one graduate in three can write leg
IDLY and spell accurately the words
which enter into the ordinary writ
ten vocabulary.
There is much misplaced sorrow
over the drift from the farm, declares
the New York Tribune. We want a
drift from the farm in just the meas
ure that the farm Overflows with men
and women needed elsewhere. But we
also want the farm to continue to de-
velop strong, intelligent people and to
hold it's own as an attractive field for
fair proportion of them. How it can
be made to Go this is the problem.
Some have thought to do it by rural
free delivery, telephones and other
appliances make the farmer content
ed with an approach to the conven-
fence of life in cities. The true solu-
ton is not, however, palliation. 1t
does not consist in making young
men and women think they are hav-
ing as good time as people In the
city, but in making it possible for
them to earn NOR ethan they could in
the city.
The International Journal of Ethics
says: In the so-called GLORIOUS" vic
tories of Caesar a million men per-
ished on the field of battle. Napoleon
in the short space of nine years, was
authorized to devote to 'the glory OF
France" 100000 Of her sons. Inthe 10
years following the attack on Fit Sum-
ter the world destroyed in war 1,40O,
900 lives and $6,OOO.OOO,OOO worth OF
property. Two-thirds of the combined
budgets of the various states OF Eu-
rope are devoted to the maintenance
of armed forces and to the service OF
a debt practically the whole OF which
was incurred by wars. War expenses
in Europe absorb onehalf Of all the
wealth created by productive labor.
In the comparatively Insignificant
war of England with the Beers Eng
land lost 22,45O men and spent ST.
400 900 900. Three hundred and fifty
thousand men were withdrawn by her
from productive industry to engage in
the destruction of war. Military ex-
pendltures in the United States dur
ing the last eight years have abb
sorbed $1,5OO,O0O,OOo.
Before the annual congress of Ger
man Anthropologists, which is now
meeting at Gorlitz, Prof Blau, well
known authority on diseases of the
ear. read an interesting paper on the
formation of the ears Of criminals and
/ lunatics. Prof. Blau has taken accur.
ate measurements of 1901 ears. OF
these 255 are the ears Of lunatics and
343 those of male criminals. The ex.
animation, moreover, was confined
to men of one race and one country.
The professor comes to the conclu
sion that in lhe vast majority of
cases the varlo1 Is parts of the auricle.
or external ear pre- larger in the case