The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1909-03-20


ing dividends as usual.
In Iowa a telephone company is at
lacked as a monopoly 1t is plainly a
case where the line will be getting
busy to the Baltimore American.
Anyway it is comforting for the
American Cultivator to remember that
the national forestry service is soon
to reforest some 5000 acres of pine
lands in Florida
The former minister of the gospel
who took his life, leaving a bitter let
ter attacking the churches and the
modern world at large, was victim
OF melancholia And the trend of mel
ancholia. observes the New York
American, is to accuse some one else
or something other than ones own
doing-as the source of the trouble.
The special game law for Long ISL
and permits shooting deer only four
days in the year. Upon preserved land.
relates the New York World, they
multiply rapidly, and as they do not
know well enough for their own good
where the unpreserved lands begin,
they get in the way of hunters who
range over many thousands of acres
OF unposted land and become venison. |
Says the Pittsburg Gazette-Times: |
Pfoprietors of hotels. restaurants. bar
Der shops and other establishments
supported in part by the gratuities OF
patrons to attendants say the period
of financial stringency from which the
country is emerging has had an ap
preciable effect on the size of tips.
The custom itself has flourished with
undiminished vigor, but the average
amount of the tip has dwindled in
many instances almost to the vanish.
ing point
The New York Times recently asked
Professor T. R. Lounsbury of Yale
an interesting question and has now
published his answer Il am sorry tc
say" he writes, that, in my opinion,
the new English requirements in col
leges have not had the slightest effect
toward increasing the taste for good
literature among young men, Actual. T
ly, fear, great many men have ac q
CURED instead a violent hatred for {
English literature, owing to the prep :,
aration required in it," +
The New Orleans women who think "
hey want to vote have started club h
If their own-the Era club The chair, r.
nan of their publicity committee is y
Mss Jean Gordon. I'VE are not going >,
o sit down and be ladylike any long. "
r." she is quoted in a Tribune spe- tt
ial as saying. I'VE are willing to 20
jail II necessary, but We must vote. 6,
When one thinks of what the English Il,
'omen are doing, and how they are re
ersecuted, it seems singular that OF
.merican women will not be satisfied W y.
do without hideous feather or m
vo, that only serves to make them W
ppear ridiculous" CT
The cornstalk, which has always m
cen regarded as good for nothing ex. IL
spt for fodder, may. after all, be a.
cssing in disguise to the world, since lir
the present day when a paper fam hi
g is imminent, a substitution for u
pod pulp will be regarded with re- ~
icing, prophesies the American Cul.
7ator. The cornstalk may soon be
garded with respect even by manu-
cturers il recent experiments BY DO
emists of the Bureau of Forest and OV
ant Industry of the Department of W.
,riculture are carried to further 49,
development. 1t has been ME
Ind that fine grades of paper can be ito
lnufactured from cornstalks at the
It almost as low as the present cos, AZ. -
making wood paper pulp. In the w,
the chemists used the so. yea
cooked" process. The preparation OF
al