The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1908-08-08

and sweetness of other women. Other
wise. sneers the Houston Post. she Is
a woman of unquestioned veracity.
"The mother is the one supreme as
set in national life" remarked the
president. This confirms the Rich
mond Times Dispatch. in the long-held
private opinion that fathers are only
little pikers anyway.
II the postoffice department may ed
II fiction out of newspapers and maya
zines, argues the New York World.
prescribe their size and shape and de-
termine the percentage of advertise
ments, how long will it be before the
blue pencils of Washington censors
may be turned upon the editorial crit
icism of public measures which is es-
sential in free republic?
The eminent and eloquent Mr.. Glad
stone was a great tree-chopper. and
so is Representative John Wesley
Gaines of Tennessee. When you get
me out in the woods ! am at home.
he told the committee of the whole. in
congress. Il have swung an axe many
a day in the woods. want to say that
the great forests of this country
should be preserved at least for the
sons of the western homesteader to
cut and make for themselves happy
homes in that land. instead Of being
taken by the Lumber trust"
Some criticism has been heard on
Mrs. Humphry Wards use OF the word
peasant" to characterize any class
Of Americans. in her interesting lec'
ture on 1.-THE Peasant in Literature
and the Novel" We have no such per-
son here, it is declared by the New
| York Mail, yet Mrs. Ward assumes his
existence and cites as the native writ.
ers who have best portrayed him
Mary Wilkins, Sarah Jewett. Oweo
wister, Charles Egbert Craddock and
George w. Cable. II the word may be
used to describe a mans previous
condition, it must be admitted that
we have peasants in this country. and
that the peasant population is increas-
! ing about million a year. The bulk
of our immigration comes from the
peasant class. and we are glad OF It.
for the red blood and patient strength
with which the newcomers Of this
estate are supposed to be endowed.
The readiness of the American peo-
/ pie to adopt new ideas. together with
the general diffusion of we'll being.
has created demand for machines in
numbers not approached in any other
country in the world. boasts the New
I York Herald, and to meet that de-
mand the enterprise. skill and ingen-
uity OF our manufacturers and dealers
have with unprecedented speed devel-
oped a new industry to the marvellous
proportisns reflected in the automo-
bile trade statistics What will the
next decade bring forth? Nobody be-
lieves that the last word has been
said in the improvement Of automo-
biles for pleasure and passenger tram
sit, but there is belief that ten years
hence automobiles will be much more
generally in use than at present for
commercial purposes. and that per-
sons who were the first to take up
automobiling as sport will by that
time be guiding flying machines.
La Semaine Litteraire of Geneva.
recently invited it's readers to express
their opinions as to what is needed
for the betteIment of the human fam
lily. The men were asked to say what
they wished for women and the wom-
en- what they wished for men. The an
swers from the men, notes the New
York Tribune. showed that IS out of
100 wanted women to remain lust as
they are" A small percentage asked