The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1908-08-01
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! Since they have invented a gun
hat shoots 300 miles, the only way
TO keep from getting shot is to get
out an injunction.-From the Balu-
more Sun.
/ II George Eliot were alive today.
says the Richmond Times Dispatch,
we hardly see how she could avoid
bringing out the Divorce-Mill on the
Floss
Congressman Hobson is not with.
out certain cheerful optimism, AYERS
the Atlanta Constitution. He thinks
that somebody will take the Philip
pines off our hands.
Remarks the Buffalo Commercial:
The international rivalry in the ere.
alton Of huge and costly naval arma.
ments is curse to the nations that
enter it, and the United States is
happily exempt from the necessity Of
joining this mad competition.
In Mrs. Howard Gould's opinion
no woman can dress decently on less
than $4,000 year. There are lots
OF people, comments the Trenton
True American, who do it on $40
month. and they don't SILVER to death.
at that.
The cheapening of diamonds, admits
the Washington Star, to place them
within the reach of the masses will
not materially help the people who
are offering their jewels for quiet sale
in order to raise the price of a new
automobile or to meet interest de.
mands.
Lest the fame of patriot be dim
med it should be explained, protests
the Louisville COurierJ ournal, that
when the author Of a just published
history says that Lincoln, upon the !
occasion of his inaugural address, |
agents" he means representatives Of
the press.
When person has completed his
eighty-fourth year he hes completed
it, just as when he has gathered
eighty-four bushels of apples he has
gathered eighty-sour bushels. II he
goes on gathering, reckons the In
dianapolis News, every one he gets +
after that is making up this eighty.
fifth bushel; SO every minute after
his eighty-fourth year is
making up his eighty-fifth.
The American army is less and less
popular among able-bodied men and it
Is difficult to keep the ranks full.
One reason evidently is the small pay
and the little glory, laments the Chris
tan Register, which comes to SOL
lier in time of peace; but another
and more potent reason is that the
American soldier who comes under
he command of an officer who is not
,atrictic and democratic becomes a
servant with less liberty than an ordi-
larry servant, beca: no does not
ike his place and MS employer he
.annot give notice and quit.
The doctors of Vienna have organ
zed an automobile club on a cooper
tive basis. It is proposed first to
'ersuade the home manufacturers to
'uild car specially adapted for doc !
ors' work. Then upon payment OF
moderate sum down, followed by
lonthly installments, the club will
ssist the doctors to become automo-
lie owners. The monthly payments
7ill be less than the present cost Of ,
iring a two-horse carriage by the
1Onth, as most OF the doctors do. The +
Tub will have its own central gar. 4
&c and branch garages will be open :
d in various districts Of the city as
le demand increases. The promoters
I the association hope to increase
,e number OF motoring doctors from
le present twenty or 90 to 1t least
10.
Travellers in France are much i'm
ressed with the growing democracy =
that country. notes the Home Her
d. There was a time when the
easant tipped his hat to the son OF
somebody, and bowed low in ser