The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1907-03-16


Of the American people reside in
cities, and the proportion is rapidly
increasing.
The tramps in kentucky are found
not to be altogether without financial
value when they are put up at the
auction block to be sold for what they
are worth.
Recorder Golf of New York, has
affirmed the unwritten law that man
commits no offerse when he gives a
bor's door steps.
Says the Pittsburg Dispatch: Fur
Their testimony concerning the land
operations out West suggests that II
there is any public land left it should
be locked up during the nighttime.
Harmony is no more essential to
success In music than in business.
maintains The Circle. In order to get
the best results from any business
every one connected with it, from
the manager to the Office boy. must
work tremendously.
Determined to have an education.
at Evansville. Ind, rather unique
case lately came up before the circuit
court, in which Miss Bessie Robb
brought suit against her father,
wealthy citizen, to give her an allow
ance of $1,000 annually, for three
years, for the purpose Of completing
her education.
Health, one Of the big English au-
thorities (Sr Michael Foster), puts
it, does not exist. 1t is like happi-
ness. Each has a goal or limit, which
while seemingly attainable, eludes
perfect possession. The body consists
of a number of mechanisms which
have the closest and most exact 70
lations, and as they approximate to
harmony there is health, but when
disordered there is i'll health.
Popularity doesn't seem to follow
any rule, says the New York Times.
1t is like a freak of nature A book
may be popular for many different
reasons. Most often, perhaps, it II
because it is love romance that pro-
duces thrill, or it is a tale of adven-
tire that is intensely exciting, or u
is story that depicts life absolutely.
humanely and truly Sometimes, how.
ever, the fact that a book has the
popular element in it is not discovered
at once. Not one copy of the first edi.
ton of FitzGerald's translation OF
The Rubaiyat" was sold.
Farmers who own thirty thousand
acres of land adjacent to Canton, ILL.,
Protective Association to prosecute
hunters and trespassers upon their
land. Defiance of the game laws.
killing of stock and poultry, cutting
Of wire fences with pliers and other
damages, have angered the farmers
into organization. A special deputy
sheriff will be located in every SEQ
ton. and on telephone alarm all mem
bers of the association for miles
around are pledged to turn olt.
The Egyptian pyramids will proba-
bly, lose much Of their magnificent
and legendary appearance in the near
future. The Egyptian governments
has given permission for the erection
of homes and hotels in the vast plain
stretching from Eskebich to the Nile
and covered with the ancient sphinxeS
and structures. Already several So
cieties have been formed to avail
themselves Of the picturesque view
for the building of large hotels. All
around the pyramids Of Ghlseh there
are to be erected real American SKY.
scrapers from nine to ten stories IN
height
The French army seems to have
taken the lead in the way of practical
use of airships for military work, and
will soon have two airships In actual
service. It will be remembered that
the first one Of these, the "Lehaudy
1905" which made such fine run
from Moisson to Chalons, and set OF
at Toul, was turned over
to the government by Messrs. Le
baudy. and the Minister of War had it
stationed first at the Toul fortress and
afterward at the Meudon establish
ment near Paris. 1t is proposed to
use it especially in order to train the
aorostatic personnel, and it will re-
main there for the instruction of tho
olTlcers and men who are to form the
fist crews of the airship. Command