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The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1910-09-24
Not Men, But The Exposition.

To the rejecting citizen OF
Louisiana it must be quite ap-
parent that the biggest subject be-
fore the people OF the State to-day
is the proposed Panama EXPOSE
ton. If the man who can make
"two blades of grass grow where
only one grew before" is a public
benefactor, what shall be said of
an enterprise that proposes to
build homes, and to establish
colonies on lands that have never
yet grown a single blade Of grass?
And yet, that is what the EXPOSE
ton will do with the eight mil
lions of acres of wet meadow
lands that have produced prin-
cipally mosquitoes and bull-frogs.
There are those who will chal-
ienge this assertion and demand
the presentation of proof in sup
port of it's correctness. While it
is impossible, of course, to prove
that any particular thing is going,
in the future, to bring about a
particular result, yet man as a
rational being has discovered thai
like causes generally produce like
results, the conditions in each
case being similar. Applying
that rule we find that the Cotton
Centennial Exposition held in
New Orleans, in 1884, which was
an infant compared to the propos-
ed Panama Exposition, gave the
inspiration to Cary, Watkins and
a host OF others which resulted in
the development of the rice and
lumber industries to their present
enormous proportions. 1t brought
the great yellow pine forests
which abound throughout Louis
lana, Mississippi and Alabama,
to the attention of The capitalist,
thereby bringing Louisiana to the
second place among the lumber
States of this Union.
Let us for the time being over
LOOK politics and join hands in
putting this Exposition project
through, and in showing to the
world what Louisiana can do in
the way of pulling off an enter
prise of the first magnitude.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1910-09-24
Planning for Larger Things in Sun
day School Work.

The Sunday School workers of
our parish are enthusiastic over
the approaching institute to be
held at Morgan City, La, Sept.
27-28. Committees have been
appointed and all out of town DEL
ppn gates will be cared for. The
sue. aspects are that the attendance
stes be large. Perhaps the strong
ep, ssst'rs of speakers that has ever
ma the tour in the interest of Sun
day ne ne n work in Louisiana will
deliy OF otures during the in
stitul "S' ere is no doubt that
much = and a great deal of
encour;. cent will come to all
Sunday ~. loel workers as re-
suit of this institute. Teacher
Training classes are needed in
every Sunday school. 1.-THE only
way to hold .ne big boys and
girls in the Sunday. school is to
build wall of men and women
between them and the door," So
says Marion Lawrance. The way
to get men and women back into
your Sunday school is through
the Organized Adult Bible Glass.
Missions in the Sunday school is
a vital living issue, and our Snn-
day schools everywhere should be
teaching missions from the Be-
ginners Department up. These
subjects will be discussed at the
institute and if the Sunday school
workers of this parish desire to do
larger things in Sunday school
work they cannot afford to miss
this opportunity.
If you are interested in this in
stitute, address j. Edgar Bass,
Morgan City, La.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1910-09-24
NOTICE..

The stakeholder of the ATrAKApAs
Oil SYNDICATE are hereby notified to
attend meeting of the stockholders
which will be held at my Office in the
Town of Franklin, Parish of 81.
mary LOUISIANA, on Thursday, o.
toper 9th: 1910, at 10 o'clock a. m,
10 appoint commissioners of liquida-
uon according to Articles vi and VII
OF the charter of the Attakapas Oil
Syndicate and to transact such other
business as may come up at said
meeting.
BEVERLY w. SMITH.
President Attakapas Oil Syndicate.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1910-09-24
Does II Take You In?

Those who go out of the city to
do their trading.
Those who oppose improve
ments.
Those who prefer a quiet list
less town to one of push and i'm
provement.
Those who imagine they run
the town.
Those who think business can
be done slyly without advertising.
Those who kick at public spirit
ed men.
Those who oppose every move
ment that does not originate with
themselves.
Those who put on a long face
when stranger talks of locating
in the city.
Those who oppose every public
enterprise which does not appear
of personal benefit to them.
Those w.,o seek to injure the
credit of individuals.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1910-09-24
Section 2. Be. It further resolved, ETC.;

oec''"" - DO ~ iut -. ne 10 80 u.
of our civillzatI,. 10
the dependent children. The gen.
erous and cordial support given to
the orphanages of the State OF
Louisiana is undeniable evidence
of the sympathy our people feel
in this great work. There is no
question but that the care of the
orphan child is responsibility
resting on all true citizens, and
the orphanages doing this work
are seeking to do for the general
public service that properly be-
longs to the people and call for
help in such work should not, and
we believe will not, go UNDECIDED.
One of the youngest and most
deserving Of such Institutions is
the Orphanage at Ruston. The
Louisiana Methodist Orphanage
has just begun a great work in its
splendid new Home, and have al
ready gathered from all parts of
the State a goodly number Of
children. They are preparing to
extend their work so they can
care for 100 to 1875 children. Sit
uated as they are in one Of the
finest towns in North Louisiana,
in close proximity to the Louis
lana Industrial Institute, they are
prepared to give their children
the best moral, spiritual and in
dustrial training for life that the
State can afford.
This Orphanage is struggling
with heavy debt. Besides the
cost of maintaining the Home
with over fifty inmates, nearly
100000 has been paid on the
debt this year. and a balance of
S12, 100000 is still due. OF this
amount $500" 10 will be due in
November, al Htionstrong effort to
meet this amol umbs being made.
Saturday, Oct. | n?s n, has been
set apart as the ID al "Work
Day" for this OrpL ion. =. and it is
hoped that every k.t'y ,sser spirited
citizen will join with. paSunday
Schools and Church. zen md con-
tributing sum equivai1, TIL the
proceeds of at least the IL X Sv of
one day. 1t is expected tn NJ
per exercises will be held u re rep 1rs
Methodist church on the Sun. ger
following, October 9th, and t.
those who help will carry the.
contribution to the church and
give to the Superintendent of the
Sunday School, or the pastor, or
send direct to Robt. w. Vaughan,
Superintendent Louisiana Metho-
dist Orphanage, Ruston, La,
All assistance will be gratefully |
received and wisely applied to a
great work with which all good |
people are in hearty sympathy.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1910-09-24

When Caleb Powers, nominal.
ed for Congress oy the Republ-
leans of the eleventh Kentucky
district, takes his seat in the
House, his district being over
wheImingly Republican, he will
not be the only man in high public
position in Washington who has
been in Jail for alleged crimes.
Powers, as is we'll known, was for
years in prison charged witt COM
plicity in the murder of Governor
Goebel, and later pardoned by
Governor Wilson. Justice Horace
H. Lurton, Of Tennessee, was i'm
prisoned at Columbus, Ohio, dur
ing the Civil War. He was one
of Gen. John H. Morgan's raiders,
with whom he was captured on
their rash venture into Indiana
and Ohio. General George w.
Gordon, representative from the
tenth Tennessee district and COLI
mander of the United Confederate
Veterans Association, spent some
time in a northern prison after his
capture at the cattle of Franklin.
where, leading his brigade in a
charge on the Union breastworks,
his horse carried him far in adj
vance of his men and into the
arms of a merciful enemy, who
might have slain him, but spared
him for rest from his impetuosity
in a secure northern prison. Con-
gresham Richardson, of the
eighth Alabama district, was in
1868, a Confederate prisoner in a
Murfreesbcro, Tennessee Jail, un-
der sentence to hang as spy.
He says he would doubtless have
met such fate, but for the fact
that General Forrest surprised the
Federals and rescued him. So
there will be two members of the
next House who have had to SUI
fer the agony of sentence to death,
when Caleb Powers takes his seat.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1910-09-24

More cement was made and used
in the United States in 1909, ac-
cording to the U. S. Geological
Survey statistician, than in any
preceding year, and the price per
barrel was lower than ever. The
production in 1908 was 52.91O,925
barrels, valued at $44, All, 653; the
production in 1909 was "a, 1876, 1886
barrels, valued at S51, 1882, 1919.
The increase was chiefly in the
output of Portland cement-62,-
sos, 461 barrels valued at $50, $40,
3S5, as against 51,072,6l2 barrels
u 1905, valued at S43,547,679.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1910-09-24

1t is announced in Montreal by
the Allan Line that, tenders have
been invited for two new vessels
of the Lusitania type, which will
reduce the time between Liverpool
and Quebec by "a hours, making
the trip in five to five and one
h If days. The ships will have
10000 tons or more capacity,
will cost $4,000, 900 each and are
expected to be ia operation in
two years.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1910-09-24

Governor j. Y. Sanders return
ed home last Saturday night after
q trip to Cincinnati, st. Louis and
New York, where he found those
cities strongly in favor of New
Orleans as the logical point for
the Worlds Panama Exposition.
He is satisfied that the business
people in the East in particular
will take an active interest in
locating the Exposition in New
Orleans.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1910-09-24

Thirty years ago the telephone
list of New York was printed on a
small card and contained the
names of 252 subscribers. The
new city directory has $50 pages
and instead of the small card is a
book about a foot square and
weighing two and a half pounds.
the city edition alone. piled one
book on another, would make a
tower more than six miles high.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1910-09-24

The Deep Waterway Conven-
ton recently held at Providence
was a highly successful affair,
was well attended and marked by
enthusiastic renewal of express
sions of devotion to the broad and
comprehensive policy of river and
harbor improvement inaugurated
by the River and Harbor Congress
at it's last session. The interest
and zeal of the members of the
minor organizations proving of
vast help to the parent body.
The next meeting of the Deep
Waterways association will be
held in Richmond, Va.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1910-09-24
No Hunting.

No hun :ng allowed on the
plantations of the Columbia
Sugar Company under pen
atty Of the law.
COLUMBIA SUGAR Co.
Sept. 1. 1910.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1910-09-24

On Tuesday last the New Iberia
Southern Drainage District Board
let a contract for the completion
of the canal to the gulf. The
canal will be ten miles long, 30
feet bottom, 40 feet top and six
feet deep. There il about two
more miles yet to be dug.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1910-09-24

What do the voters care for the
animosities of Taft and Teddy
and their followers? The main
thing is the question of the poll
cies that VIII be pursued and
whether the cost Of living will be
reduced to match the ordinary in
come.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1910-09-24

According to the new census
the population OF Chicago is g.
1S5, 2S3, and that Of New Orleans
339,O77, an increase of 5l,971 or
1871 per cent as compared with
287, 104 in 1900.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1910-09-24

There are many striking exam
pies of the value of good roads.
Wherever roads have been perma-
nently improved it is found that
there has been a very great in
crease in value of the adjacent
property.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1910-09-24

A writer in the Nineteenth
Century,, after a careful study Of
German economies, sets forth at
length the Revolt against Pro-
lection in Germany" He declares
that not only is the tariff the
mother of truets-no less than
1856 of them-but is also RESPONSE
BILE for the rise in the cost of )iv-
ing. This article might have been
originally written about our own
situation and adopted merely by
the changing of names and places.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1910-09-24

Seemingly New York is not
such night-hawking city as has
been intimated. The "day and
night bank" started there some
time ago, has decided to discon-
tinue business after midnight, as
it does not pay to keep open after
that time.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1910-09-24

There are only hall as many
opium dens in China as there
were eighteen months ago. 1t is
now difficult to buy opium, except
by license. which permits a
smoker to buy at one time five
drains. Each license costs 10
cents and is good for three months.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1910-09-24

In Is years the American Bible
Society has distributed 54,244,7 12
copies of the Holy Scripture in
all parts of the world.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1910-09-24

To England alone Denmark
sends butter, eggs and bacon,
valued at $1OO,OOO,OOO annually.
New England, with geographical
area of $1,000 square miles, more
than five times the area of Dem
mark, imports enormous invoices
of fOodstuffs.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1910-09-24
APPLY To-
A. X. LAMULLE
For New Syrup
For New Corn
For New Hay
Carencro, La.

Dr.. S. o. Decoux, expert opto-
metrist and oculist reflexes.
Eyes examined and glasses fitted
a speciality. In Franklin once a
month. Located at Mr.. John R.
Bsiley's.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1910-09-24

Bellevue Hospital has an oper-
atiug room that is considered
among the best in the world, with
a seating capacity for 1000
students.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1910-09-24

This is the season when you
guess whether it is a mushroom
or toadstool. If you gusss
wrong, your heirs are the gamers.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1910-09-24

FOR HEADACAE-HICKS' CAPUDINE.
=, Whether from Colds, Heat, Stomach or
nervous troubles, Capudine will relieve
you. It's liquid-pleasant to take-acts
Immediately. Try it 1Oc., 25c. and SOC. at
drug stores.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1910-09-24

The State Normal School had
it's fail opening on Tuesday. The
attendance was very large, 532
being enrolled.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1910-09-24
THE ST. MARY BANNER

Official paper of the Parish School
Board and OF The Town of Franklin.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1910-09-24

More than 1000 killed and near.
ly $4,000 injured is the record of
the American railroads for the
closing quarter of 1909.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1910-09-24

~ We are not responsible for the views and
r;ri.!lolrs " orrcsprndeits appearing Ii these
r.lutunr.
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The Brandon news., 1910-03-03
CUR COFFEE BILL.

Americans must be a thirsty nation,
judging from the imports of drinkables,
as set forth in a statement just issued by
the bureau of statistics, of the department
of commerce and labor. The United
States drank the essence of more than a
billion pounds of coffee in 1909, valued
at $86,ooo,ooo. That was about dollars
worth of coffee for every person, in the
United States.
Tea is not such favorite. Only lit
tie more than hundred million pounds,
valued at about $16,ooo,ooo, came in. But
in spirits, wines and malt liquors the
nation touched its highest record for i'm
portation in 1909, and consumed foreign
products of that kind to the value OF
more than $26,ooo,ooo-more than twice
as much as was imported in 1899.
South America supplied most of the
coffee. Asia most of the tea and Europe
most of the wines and liquors.
The Brandon news., 1910-03-03
SUNDAY CONVERTS $500.

One of the most remarkable religious
demonstrations ever witnessed occurred at
youngstown, Ohio, at the youngstown tab
ernacle when Evangelist BILLY" Sunday
closed his six weeks campaign in what
was conceded to be the most wicked city
in Ohio. The thousands who heard the
evangelist deliver the most hair-raising
addresses that ever came from his lips
became almost fanatical. Men and women
leaped into the air, screamed, cried, hugg-
ed each other and prayed in a most
beseeching way. The evangelist himself,
carried away with the great demonstration,
invoked them to continue, and at the end
of the services was accompanied to his
hotel by thousands of enthusiastic converts,
where there was another demonstration.
The Brandon news., 1910-03-03
SCORES DIRTY,
FILTHY HANDS
PHYSICIAN SAYS THEY ARE MORE
FATAL THAN WAR.
Writer Emphasizes Danger of Personal
Unc'ecniiness, end Particularly Scores
Those Who Handle Foodstuffs-Dis-
ease Easily Transmitted BY Dirt.

DIRTY hands are causing more deaths
than bullets, pcisons, railway accidents and
earthquakes combined" writes DR.. R. G..
Eceles in the February rumber of the
Health Bulletin.
1--WE cannot call that murder which
lacks intent to KILL" he continues, but
so near to murder is it that, with in
creased public knowledge, the time is
sure to come when dirty-handed people
will have to endure an opprobrium that
will make them skulk in shame.
"People who are willing to tolerate the
visible dirt are pretty sure to be none
too careful concerning the dangerous
dirt TIE two kinds get blended.
at is, however, not only possible, but
actually probable, that there are foul
and filthy hands that are by their owners
kept manfcured till fngernails shine and
every vcstige Of visible blacknes has
disappeared.
"They wash as they eat and sleep un-
der the guidance of clock. That there
is fitness in time for washing in order
to be clear has not dawned upon them.
at is the unseen dirt that plays the
mischief with uman life, because it is
alive, and can multiply indefinitely.
at is quite likely that nearly all nor
NAL persons wash their hands and faces
son getting up in the morning, or after
particularly dirty forms of work, but with
very many the absence of visible dirt is
sufficient excuse for the neglect of washing
at all times of the day.
Hands that are able to pollute water
by a mere touch cannot possibly be
shaken without leaving behind evidences
of dirt
'SThese are the kinds of hands that
handle our bread, our meat our pastry
our fruit and our money"
DR.. Eccles asserts that dirty hands may
lead to plague, cholera, typhoid fever
consumption, diptheria, scarlet fever, and
many other diseases.
The Brandon news., 1910-03-03
w. w. TALBERT, WELL KNOWN
INSURANCE MAN, DIES OF TY-
PHOID.
Prominent in Business Circles of City
Seventeen Yecra-Officer in Elks.

w. w. Talbert, one of the leading in
surance men of Texas, and for several
years a citizen of Fort Worth, died of
typhoid fever at his home, Cannon and
Sixth avenues. Mr.. Talbert was taken
i'll in Mineral Wells ten days ago and came
home. He grew steadily worse in spite
of the most careful nursing and the best
medical attention.
Funeral services will be held from
the residence, Friday afternoon at 3
o'clock, followed by interment in Oak
wood cemetery. The services will be
in charge of the Elks' lodge, of which
Mr.. Talbcrt was a prominent and usee-
full member, and at the home the ad-
dress will be by DR.. B. B. Ramage,
rector of St. Andrews Episcopal church.
The following pallbearers have been nam
ed: c. A. Houston, F. D. McNaughton,
E. A. Sweeney, H. v. Leuthstrom, w. H.
Hardy and Walter Terrell Mr.. Talbert
is survived by his father, Rev. John
Talbert, or Shreveport La, his wife and
two sons, William and Paul; two sisters,
Mrs. William Campbell and Mrs. Rog-
ers, both of Louisiana, and three brothers,
Albert, of San Angelo; Frank, of Ruston,
La, and Ben, of Arcadia, La. Mr.. Tai
b.r% ,,a,~e of a~a
He came to Fort Worth from Louisiana
seventeen years ago and entered the super
intendent's Office of the Fort Worth &
Denver. He served there during the en-
tire term of the late J. V. Goode as super
intendent, and left to take up the insur-
ance business nine years ago. He was one
of the leading agents of the New York
Life Insurance company in Texas for five
years. When the company retired from
the state he entered the fire insurance bus
mess under the firm name of Talbert &
McNaughton, and was also engaged as a
special field man for the American Home
Life Insurance Company of this city, a
local corporation.
He was prominent member of the
Elks' lodge, being chairman of the
house committee at the time of his death.
He had occupied many other positions
of honor in the lodge and was popular
with his fellow members
All Elks are requested by the exalted
ruler to be at the lodge rooms at 2: go
oclock.-Fort Worth, Texas.
The Brandon news., 1910-03-03
RURAL ROUTE
MAIL CARRIERS
MUSTN'T STOP TO GET RABBIT
FOR SUPPER.
Long-EGred Jumpers Needn't Scrampeer
Ont of Sight When Uncle SANS Man
Comes Along Nose, for Uncle Doesn't
AHOSv M6I Carriers 10 Hum
Long-EGred Jumpers Needn't ScrQmpee,

Uncle Sam has issued a proclamation to
rural free delivery carriers in several
localities saying that they have grown al
together too sporty" and their penchant
for slaughtering rabbits and feathered
game while on duty will have to stop at
ones or they will be dismissed from the
service
They have been ordered not to carry
guns III their dinky little carts, and the
first carrier found with a weapon with
elongated barrel designed for hunting
purposes will have his official head Topped
off.
The government excuses itself for de-
priving the poorly paid, Woodworking
and the most cases accommodating car
riers of their wild family rations by
standing behind what it says are COM
plants innumerable from patrons that
their mail is delayed until late in the af-
ternoon or evening or that they do not
get it until the next day because the car
rier is either trying to amuse himself,
fest his craftsmanship or beat the high
prices of the trusts by getting his share
of natures supply of game.