The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1908-09-05

$4,000 to rear a boy in New York
city. Some Of the young men on
Broadway, snarls the Washington
Star, do not appear to be worth it.
1t is sad for the New York Amerl-
can to read that burglars cultured
enough to raid an art store should fall
before the commercial spirit sufficient
ly to include in their booty the Cen
register.
ANY wom. AN marry any man
she wants. asserts Gertrude Ather-
ton. Every day seems to bring some
thing new for the men to worry
about, whines the Washington Post.
Prof Koch claims that the mosquito
in South Africa is responsible for the
sleeping sickness" Around here, in
sists the Washington Post. in the
summer it is to blame for keeping us
awake.
A 6-months-old ST. Louis baby is
suing his grandfather for SANDER.
There's precocity for you, exclaims
the New York Herald. Knows not
only his pa, but his grandpa.
Scientific tests to determine wheth-
er or not a witness is telling the
truth may be all right, thinks the
Washington Star, but there are fears
that they will merely open the way
for new complications in expert testi-
mony.
Long investigation has established
beyond doubt that the presence or
absence of forests has an influence on
rainfall. 1t is equally certain. OBJ
serves the New York American, that
| some of our most disastrous floods
| have been due to the Widespread and
reckless destruction of the trees.
There are no hogs kept as free from
conditions that cause disease as are
those in the great corn raising States
OF the Union. They are not fed on
Stops and garbage. declares the New
Orleans Picayeune. as are those in
most European countries. However.
the time is not far away when all
the meat product of the United
| States will be needed by our own
people, and there will be none to en-
port, so that the poor Of European
countries will have to become vege-
| -
Professor F. E. Jaffa. after putting
some students of Berkeley on diet
| of peanuts, reports that ten cents
worth of the COOLERS contain more
than twice the protein and six times
the amount Of energy embraced in
porterhouse steak. The essential
question arises, to the New York
Sun, whether the peanut bulk is to
be masticated la Fletcher or to be
gulped according to Wiley.
Saws the Cleveland Plain Dealer:
II people must wear coverings for
their heads-and there is such ne
cessity under certain conditions-the
straw hat as a sunshade and the cap
as a scalp warmer would seem to De
appropriate For all round utility the
can is probably the best headgeaI
ever invented 1t might not be
bad idea to have an international com
mission appointed to solve the prob
lem.
It is said that three-fOurths OF the
white people of Georgia are rejoicing
over the passage Of the prOhibitlon
law and are determined to uphold it
It seems to be purely an economical
measure to the Minneapolis Tribune
One OF the prohibition leaders in the
LEGISLATURE declared that it was
equivalent to the immediate introduc
ton into Georgia of 100000 desirable
laborers.
A former general Of the National
Guard recently criticised the admin
istration of the United States Army
because it neglected to seize upon the
military possibilities of automobiles
Major Hersey, chief inspector OF the
Weather Bureau, complains that the
army is deficient in balloons by con
trast to the European contingents
But the country, suggests the Provi
dence Journal, will not quite despair
so long as the army can march and
shoot.
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reserve cars on Saturday night rail-
way trains for the intoxicated is move
and startling, but it will have the