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whether they are as good. The wages
number of pupils is very limited
sometimes three or four-often not
over a dozen or fifteen. There is no
school spirit: there Is no anything
but dreariness and drudgery with little
progress toward education. When the
boy and girl get old enough to realize
this condition and the parents see 1t,
there is nothing to do but send Johnny
or Lizzie to the nearby town or city.
where the schools are better and
where there Is an opportunity getting
the rudiments of an education, and
while Johnny and Lizzie are picking
up an education under town conditions
they are getting the town microbe
along with the education. They form
friendships and become part Of the so
cial life Of the school; they are not
willing 10 go back upon the farm with
its dreariness and isolation. No one
ought to blame them for this. in fact
they are to be commended In many
instances. The country lass and youth
must have the social life that natures
demand. This sociological fact must
be reckoned with.
The National Educational commits
sion, made up of eminent educators.
thoroughly familiar with our condi-
tons, mas been studying this subject
for a long time, and 1t says that the
solution Is only to be found In the
consolidated township school, where
instead of eight or ten isolated school
-, placed at intervals at the cross
roads throughout the township-bleak,
dreary and uninviting should
be one central graded school at the
most convenient central point. and pro-
visions made to take the children to
and from the school Good roads are
necessary II this is to be done. The
school ought to have at least five acres
Of ground to serve as miniature ex-
pertinent station for the study Of agri-
culture, the cultivation Of which will
increase interest In agriculture and
show that farming requires brains as
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1911-08-05
WRONG SORT
Psrhaps Plain Old Meat, Potatoes and
Bread May Be Against You
for a Time.

A change to the right kind Of food
can lift one from sick bed. A lady
In Weldon, ILL.,, says:
Last spring became bed-fast with
severe stomach troubles accompanied
by sick headache. l got worse and
worse until I became 50 low could
scarcely retain any food at all, al
though tried about every kind.
Il had become completely discour-
aged, and given up all hope, and
thought I was doomed to starve to
death. until one day my husband, try
ing to ind something I could retain.
brought homo some Grape-Nuts.
ITO my surprise the food agreed
with me, digested perfectly and with
out distress. began to gain strength
1t once. My flesh (Which had been
labby). grew frmer. my health i'm
proved In every way and every day,
and in q very few weeks gained 20
pounds in weight.
II liked GrapeNuts 50 well that for
four months ate no other food, and
always felt as well satisfied after eat
ing - II had sat down to fine ban
Quet.
II had no return of the miserable
sick stomach nor Of the headaches.
that I used to have when I ate other
food. Al now a well woman. doing
al my own work again. and feel that
life IL worth living.
"Grape-Nuts food has been q Cod
send to my family: It surely saved my
life: and my two little boys have
thriven on 1t wonderfully" Name
given BY Postum Co., Battle Greek,
Mich.
Read tho little book, 'The Road to
Wellville," in pkgs. There's a reason"
Ever read the abeve letters A new
enc apDeafs from time t. time. They
are genuine tx1es and fall Of AunAD
1Dtoeo06
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Sad, but True.

Willis-So your military school
wasn't q success?
Gillis-No: none Of the pupils could
stay on a horse long enough to have
their photographs taken for the ad.
vertisements of the school.-Judge.
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Mrs. Benham-The paper tells about
q man who stole head Of lettuce and
then went back and got another, be-
Ing arrested on the second trip.
Benham-Ill bet you can't make that
fellow believe that two heads are bot
tor than one.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1911-08-05
Letter to
D.. Kilnee b Co.
Biaghsatoa, n. 7.
Prove What Swamp Root viii Do For You

Prove What SWamp-KO0t VIII DO F0f YOU
Send to DR.. Kilmer & Co., Bingham
ton, N. Y, for a sample bottle. 1t will
convince anyone. You will also receive
. booklet of valuable information, telling
al about the kidneys and bladder. When
writing, be sure and mention this paper.
For sale at all drug stores. Price fifty
cents and one-dollar.
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well as muscle. In such a school the
boy and girl would be able to get a
high school education and live at home
upon the farm.
The school would be the social rs
well as the educational center Of the
township-the rallying point where the
citizens could go and hold meetings.;
it would develop the social life, would
be strong and helpful, and the young
people would find in the central school
and the associations that go with 1t.
and the school spirit that would be
developed, satisfying condition that
would make life upon the farm at
tractive instead of otherwise.
Another handicap to progress and a
menace to our whole country, that is
very larely traceable to bad roads,
is the fact that so many thousands of
farms are passing from the hands of
owner into the hands Of tenants. The
weaving of the children from farm
carries the patents away when ad-
vancing years makes 1t necessary for
them to lay the burdens down. We
are building up peasantry Git sounds
hard to call 1t that which promises
trouble in the future and raises the
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1911-08-05
Worth Thinking About.

Eve-Adam, l want you to remem.
Der one thing.
Adam-What's that?
Eve-That when I am looking the
eyes OF half the world are upon you
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1911-08-05

only grow and develop by meeting his
fellow men-touching elbows-and by
social and business intercourse.
We know that bad roads have been
responsible In a very large degree for
driving the young people from the
farms to the cities. The census for
the last thirty years has shown an
ever increasing drift Of the best brains
and blood of the farm to the city. This
is true Notwithstanding that there ia
no better business in the world than
farming, II 1t is done along up-to-date,
progressive lines. 1t renders a surer
and larger return than anything else
In the worlds work, yet the fact re-
mains that the boy is not satisfied
with farm life. With good roads, SO
he could get out whenever he desired
to with his best buggy and girl, or
perhaps an automobile, country life
would take on an entirely different
aspect.
The handicap Of the bad road is GER
tainly a heavy one and is farreac,hing.
Education has suffered greatly by rea-
son OF it. The country schools are
little, IL any, better than they were
forty years ago. 1t is an open question
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1911-08-05
Electric Mules for Panama

pounds of steel channels. This rack
railway will be built by the commits
sion, and will be In working order in
less than two years. in time for the
opening of the canal.
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DECCFT
To save and beautify the S1
teeth, remove tartar and lt:tat1at1
prevent decay. ESl[I1
TO disinfect the mouth, de-
stroy disease germs, and
purify the breath. liz
To keep artificial teeth and
bridgework clean, odorless ~ and
70 remove nicotine from the teetn eA'
,,,,;fv tba hreath after smoking.
TO eradicate perspiration ana wv
odors by sponge bathing;
The best antiseptic wash known ..L
Relieves and strengthens tireo, ~. .ds
inflamedeyes. Heals sorethroa., wo oa;st,
and cuts Is and so cts box: ornss s
or by mail postpaid. Sample r. ~.
THE PAXTON TOILET CO.. eosroa.m~--
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1911-08-05
Instead of Liquid
I,ntiscptics uPeroxIde
~ 100000 people last year USED
Paxtine Toilet Antisephc

The new toilet germicide powder 70 !"
dissolved in waite: as needed. :. :.
For all toilet and hygienic uses !" "
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1911-08-05


and
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POLITICAL.

Colonel Roosevelt will not talk with
any representative Of the Mexican in
surgents on his trip through Texas.
He made this statement to the press.
The resignation OF Richard A. Bal.
linger Of Seattle as secretary of the
interior has been accepted by Presi.
dent Taft and Walter L. Fisher of
Chicago was appointed as his success.
sor. In his letter Of acceptance the
President expressed deep regret and
bitterly denounced the enemies Of Bal.
linger. In giving his consent to the
secretary's retirement. Mr.. Taft takes
occasion to declare with emphasis his
unchanging faith In the integrity, the
motives and the official standards of
Mr.. Ballinger. and his unmeasured in.
dignatlon at the methods OF those who
assailed him. declaring that he has
been "the subject Of one Of the most
unscrupulous conspiracies for the de-.
famatlon Of character that history can
show.
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WASHINGTON.

Secretary Of War Dickinson left
Washington and will sail for Colon to
make an inspection Of the Panama
canal.
Militia officers Of all states will be
invited to participate In the opera.
tions Of the army at San Antonio.
Texas. This announcement was made
by the War Department and was
coupled with the statement that the
invitation will be extended with view
to giving the officers Of the National
Guard practical field experience.
All doubt as to the purpose Of the
government In sending 10000 troops
to the Mexican border has at last
been swept away. The United States
had determined that the revolution in
the republic TO the south must end.
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Reservoir and Ditch Priority.

Denver.-Shall the owners Of reser.
voirs, the water rights Of which are
older than the rights Of the direct irri.
gator through ditch, have the power
to run water into their reservoirs for
storage purposes during the time that
1t is needed for irrigation; or. stated
in terms Of law. shall reservoir rights.
like ditch rights, rest on the rule Of
priority? This was the question with
which lawyers and practical farmers
wrestled In special meeting, held in
the house chamber under the auspices
Of the agriculture and irrigation COM
mittee Of the Senate, and called for
the purpose Of discussing the merits
Of bill introduced by Senator Car
penter.
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MEXICO IS
REASSURED
HER MINISTERS FEEL THERE 10
COOPERATION BETWEEN
TAFT AND plAz.
TENSION IS LESsENED
AMERICAN WARsHlPs WILL COAL
At MEXICAN PORTS AND
THEN WITHDRAW.

New York.-The Mexican ambassa'
dor here and the Mexican minister Of
finance have received assurances from
Washington which convinced them
that there is sincere cooperation be.
tween the administration of President
Taft and that Of President Diaz.
1t Is not professed that all tension
has been relieved, and while Ameri.
Can troops remain in force on the
Mexican border, 1t is admitted some
tension will continue, but apprehen'
sion was appreciably lessened by two
pieces Of news.
First in Importance was long tele.
gram to Ambassador de La Barra from
the state department announcing that
the American warships assigned to
patrol duty on the Pacific and gull
coasts Of Mexico had been ordered to
call at Mexican ports only for coal and
then to withdraw promptly.
This action is reassuring to Seior
Limantour. In recent interview he
said he could only consider the pres
ence Of American men-of-war in Mexi
can waters so far distant from their
base at Galveston as part of an un'
necessary effort to impress on Mexico
the power Of the United States.
His personal protest was promptly
followed by official representations
and he now expresses himself as
very much gratified that the request
Of his government had been SO prompt.
ly granted"
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CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DURING THEPAST week
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
WESTERN

Henry Epting. q well known artist
Of San Francisco, committed suicide
in Portland, Ore, caused by melan-
cholia.
Fire recently damaged the Rush
block. four.story office building in
San Francisco. The loss is 100000 to
$150,O0O.
OF the $79O,0OO inheritance tax paid
to Utah by the Hartman estate. $780,
900 will be appropriated by the Legis-
lature for capitol.
A bill Is pending In the Nevada Leg
islature giving person condemned to
death the right to choose between be-
ing hanged and taking poison.
At Salt Lake City. Utah, the pre-.
liminary plans for holding an interna-
ticnal aviation meet from April 5th to
10th, have been completed.
The fire that threatened to destroy
the town Of Douglas, Alaska, has
been extinguished, after 1t had de-
stroyed property valued at 100000.
At Duluth, Minn., ten bodies crushed
almost into an unrecognizable mass
have been recovered from the Norman
open pit mine where cave-in oc.
CURED burying twenty-six miners.
Colorado receivers Of freight will
begin in few days to feel the bene-
fit of the recent decision Of the Inter-
state Commerce Commission ordering
the railroads to reimburse them for
freight over-charges along certain
lines.
With the vicinity Of the wrecked
Dupont powder mill at Pleasant
Prairie, Wis, waste Of dismantled
homes, the first action Of the resi-.
dents was toward elimination Of the
menace Of powder works from the
county.
Attacked by fierce mountain rats.
which, in search Of food, had bur.
rowed up through the snow lying
waist deep on the ground, force en-.
gagged in repairing the break in
the lines OF the Nevada & California
Power Company at Tonopah. was
forced to quit work and fight off the
rodents. None Of the workmen was
seriously bitten.
With a roar that was heard for fifty
miles. a glare that was seen fully as
far, and with concussion that broke
windows more than hundred miles
away, three carloads Of dynamite ex-
ploded at the plant Of the Dupont.
Nemours Company In the village Of
Pleasant. Prairie, six miles west Of
Kenosha. Wis. 1t is feared that many
persons were killed.
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FOREIGN.

Bud Mari and Captain T. s. Baldwin
made three successful flights at
Osaka, Japan, ii the presence Of 400,-
900 spectators.
At Berlin. Germany. in speech be.
fore the diet Chancellor Won Beth
mann.Holweg admonished the curia
that a persistence in the recent ten
dency to the issuance of DEGREES af.
fecting Germany without previous con.
sultation with the government, would
lead to retaliation.
More gruesome stories Of the hor-
rors Of the Chinese famine reached
the state department from the consul
general Of Shanghai, who sums up
conditions at the beginning Of Febru-
ary. One traveller reported passing
thirteen dead bodies in thirteen miles
on the road.
At Ottawa, Ont, the reciprocity
agreement was indorsed, the loyalty to
Great Britain affirmed, annexation
secuted, the development Of Canada
proclaimed and friendship between
farmer and manufacturer recommend.
ed to Canada in the House of Com
mons by Sir Wilfrid Laurier, prime
minister Of the dominion, in the first
speech he has delivered in the reel
procity debate.
Conditions bordering on panic reign
almost throughout northern Mexico.
Stirred by the belief that the revolu-
tionary movement has reached criti-
cal stage. the insurrectos in the states
of Chihuahua and Sonora are reported
to have renewed activity in tearing up
railroads and telegraph wires. Nu-
merous towns are under siege by the
insurrectos and thousands Of women
and children, cut off from food sup
plies. are rendered helpless.
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stupenduous Electric Line Project.

Greeley.-An interurban electric
line, which will touch every town Of
Importance between Denver and the
Wyoming line and which will repre-.
sent an investment Of approximately
$10.0O0.OOO, is promised to the people
OF northern Colorado by George Peck
Of Paris, II they will invest one per
cent Of that amount. 100000. TO be
used for the construction Of the first
five miles Of the road, after which the
remainder Is to be available as fast
as flve.mlle parts Of 1t are completed.
The first authoritative statement
relative to the project was issued Sat.
urday. The principal towns along the
route are Denver, Greeley, Eaton.
Ault, Pierce. Windsor. Fort Collins.
Loveland. Estes Park. Berthoud,
Longmont and Boulder. The line will
run through the coal mining sections
touching at all Of the camps.
The capital is ready, Peck says, II
the one per cent be subscribed. He
has been In this section for more than
two months compiling report which
has been submitted to the financiers
Of Paris with which he is allied. The
report shows that the total population
which will be served approxImates
100000, and the experience Of East.
ern cities where electric lines have
been placed in operation have resulted
In enormous gains In this direction.
Peck sa.s that II the requirements Of
the bankers In France are compiled
with the cash will be forthcoming az
units Of the road are done.
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GENERAL.

Curtis Guild, Sr., founder and editor
of the Boston Commercial Bulletin.
and father of former Gov. Curtis
Guild. Jr.. is dead. He was 81 years
old.
Topographic work has been com.
pleted in Connecticut, Massachusetts,,
New Jersey. Rhode Island. and the
District Of Columbia, and will be fin
ished in Maryland during the next
field season. In only five states has
less than one.tenth OF the area been
covered.
Pardons have been issued for
Charles w. Morse, now serving a Is.
year sentence in the federal prison at
Atlanta, Ca, and John R. Walsh, who
was sentenced to five years In the
federal prison at Leavenworth, Kan,
both for the misuse OF funds entruste j
to their banks.
President Taft in a speech before
the closing session Of the Southern
Commercial Congress made plea to
the young men Of the New South to
take up the political issues of the day
from broad and liberal standpoint
and to eliminate from their considera
tion narrow partisanship and section.
alism.
Captured Just when plans for assas
sinatlng Mayor N. S. Pratt Of Spo.
kane are thought to have reached
maturity, John Steele and Stuart Mof.
fett, now in Jail. are considered by the
police as the murderers of Captain
John T. Sullivan, and accomplices in a
plot to kill President Taft during the
next month.
Half the farmers living along the
rural free delivery lines OF mail out
OF Baynesville, Ky, have pulled Gown
their mail boxes and refuse to accept
their mail from negro carrier recent.
ly appointed. Many Of the farmers
apply at the postoffice here for their
mail and announce their intention Of
continuing to do SO until white man
should be made carrier.
The most extensive movement OF
troops and war vessels executed in this
country In time of peace is now under
way by order OF the President, the OBJ
jective being the country north of the
Mexican boundary and the waters of
the two oceans at either end of 1t.
Twenty thousand soldiers-more than
one.forth Of the army Of the United
States-of all arms Of the service are
moving toward the Mexican border:
four armored cruisers, comprising the
Fifth division Of the Atlantic fleet.
have been ordered from northern wa.
ters to the naval station at Guantana.
mo, Cuba. Most OF the Pacific fleet Is
or shortly will be on Its way to as.
semble at San Pedro and San Diego,
Cal. and 1000 marines are preparing
to make the Guantanamo station their
temporary headquarters. 1t was Off.
cially announced at the White House
and at the War and Navy Depart.
ments that the purpose Of this grea;
mobilization, unprecedented save In
war times. Is the training Of officers
and men under service conditions. and
practice In cooperation between the
land and naval forces.
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Old Time Strike Predicted.

Grand functional gold boom is re.
ported In the Unaweep caiion, neay
this city. by John Belts, mining en-.
gineer. who has lived in that inaces.
sible region for years. Belts declares
active operations have been started
on the Last Chance mine, owned by
F. Blair Grant and others, and that
both the Annie and the Mckinley are
preparing to open in the spring. A
number Of prospectors have gone into
that country and Belts declares that
within ten years millions Of dollars
in gold will be taken out from that
section.
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SPORT.

Bob Moha Of Milwaukee was given
a popular verdict over Mike (Twin)
Sullivan Of Boston at the end of q
ten.round bout In Milwaukee.
Athletic activities at the University
Of Wisconsin are booming. The ap.
pointment Of John r. Richards, the
old.time Wisconsin athlete. as football
coach and tie resumption Of the seven.
game schedule indicate that the Badg-
ers may regain their former prominent
place In intercollegiate football.
The Raymer enterprise., 1911-03-16
Family Of Lion, CAUGHT

Meeker.-W. H. Cation, wolf hunt
er and cowpuncher, made clean
sweep Of mountain lion family re-
Gently. when, after sharp fight. he
bagged the mother lion and three well
grown kittens. Cation trailed the
lions for three days before finally To-
eating them at the head of Piceance
creek, twenty miles from here.
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Farm Women oroanlze.

Colorado Springs-The first volun.
tary movement to put into effect the
findings Of the American Country Life
Commission has ben organized here as
an auxiliary Of the International Dry
Farming Congress. The name Of the
organization will be the International
Congress Of Farm Women, and Its OBJ
ject will be to safeguard the strength
and happiness Of the women and chill.
dren Of the farms.
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Probably Refers to Cost.

Baltimore, Md.-That the trans.
planting Of human kidneys from dy.
ing to living man is simply like a
plumbers job. Is the declaration OF
DR.. A. NJ. Shipley. professor Of sur.
gical pathology at the University OF
Maryland.
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Corporation Tax Is Constitutional.

Washington.-In an unanimous
opinion the Supreme Court Of the
United States holds that the corpora.
tion tax provisions of the Payno-Ald.
rich tariff act were constitutional.
Thus ended controversy waged al.
most continuously since President
Taft first suggested their enactment
to Congress.
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Need Not Be Consecutive.

Observation-Disclosures which EN-.
ploy telegraph operators for six hours
and then, after an interval, for three
more. comply with the federal "hours
OF service law" Of 1907. Such was the
decision Of the Supreme Court Of the
United States despite the claim Of the
government that the nine hours must
be consecutive.
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Civil Service Vacancy.

Denver.-Vacancies in the position
Of laboratory helper at $500 a year in
the United States bureau Of chem
istry at Denver will be filled by a
civil service examination to be held
March 2Sth in Denver, Fort Collins,
Grand Junction. Leadville, Pueblo
and Trinidad. The appointee will not
be required to perform chemical work.
but must qualify to do manual labor.
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To Clean Up Bathtub Trust.

Washington.-The government will
move the criminal trial Of the thirty.
four individuals and fourteen corpora.
tiOns who are defendants In the bath.
tub trust cases, the first week in
April.
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Russian Bear SnarIinu.

st. Petersburg.-Russia has sent an
ultimation to China insisting upon a
closer adherence to the provisions Of
the treaty of 1881, which has been the
subject Of negotiations between the
two countries for several weeks.
The Raymer enterprise., 1911-03-16
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Cut Mayors Salary.

Boulder.-By unanimous vote city
council has cut the mayors salary,
which was raised to $1,000 at the be-
ginning Of the last fiscal year, to the
original $500 per annum, and the $500
thus saved applied on payment of old
street warrants.