The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1910-01-29

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to the New York Evening Post, is
that one of his name SHOULD have
stayed in any place more than
day.
One man or woman who has learn
ed the secret of perfect happiness and
has published it may do more good
for the generations to come. declares
the Christian Register, than the most
| devoted worker who takes evils as
he finds them lying on the surface
| of society.
| According to The Hospital, London,
some English physicians are order.
| ing patients to eat oysters that have
been well soaked in sea water. as
cure for dyspepsia and tubercu-
losis. The good effects of the sea
water, which is too acrid when taken
alone, is increased by the albu.nen,
fat, hydrocarbons and mineral salts,
especially phosphates contained in
the oyster. The oyster is at once
tonic and food.
The number IS, so universally de-
| creed as unlucky, is considered a
! lucky number by the pupils of the
French military school of aint-Cyr.
At the final examination, asserts
| the New York Tribune. the man who
ranks as the thirteenth is believed to
have a brilliant career before him.
| Marshal MacMahon, who entered
Saint-Cyr in 1925, as well as Bour-
bakki, who attended the school nine
years later, were graduated thirteenth
| in their classes. General Laveaucou.
pet, who distinguished himself in the
defence of Metz during the Franco.
German War, also ranked thirteenth.
Says the Rockford Register-Ga.
zette: The effects of the late war
with the United States over Cuba
have completely reversed the old
time feeling of the Spanish people
that their glory lay in outside do
minion; and that they have lest con-
fidence in the capacity of their gov
eminent to handle colonial enter.
prise. Considering the general Span
ish temperament, which is somewhat
Oriental in it's vanity, the attitude OF
the popular feeling on this subject
leaves it clear that the lessons of
the war with America and the loss
of Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Philip.
pines have been thoroughly taken tc
heart.
Garbage dumps, acres Of festerins
rottenness, inside the city limits and
under the city's control offend every
physical sense within a wide radius
But far more appalling than their
obvious nastiness is their sinister
menace of the public health, breaches
the Newark News. There is a sar
donic jest in every line of news
paper description OF one of these
dumps. Flies, carriers Of typhoid
are bred there in millions-and the
city affects to fear typhoid. A mos
quitolbreeding pool is in the center
Of the tract-and we have professed
interest in mosquito determination.
Rats, destructive to property and
recognized disseminators Of loath
some germ diseases, swarm over the
heaps of garbage. Nauseating odors
from decaying offal, acrid smoke from
burning refuse poison the atmosphere
and this when public and private
agencies are preaching the gospel OF
pure air to all who will give ear.
Coming back" at President Wood.
row Wilson Of Princeton for his com.
plant in his Phi Beta Kappa ad-
dress at Harvard that the life Of the
American college and its work are
now separate-that study is the
work that interrupts the life Of the
college and that the faculty has no
part in the life but organizes the in
terruption-the Springfield Republican
admonishes the President of Prince.
ton that "the scheme of college ed
ucation that either eliminates or min
imizes hard, rigorous work as the
basis of achievement in whatever field
of activity is sure to be exposed.
sooner or later, as glittering fraud"
President Wilson's rejoinder was that
recent Princeton graduates would
laugh at anybody who might advise
him to insist on hard work by the
students in that institution; they
must work, of course, he said, blu:
what they do should be work trans.
lated into the terms Of pleasurabls
life. if possible"