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THE F1ELI CIANA SENTIN
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF WEBT' FELICIANA PARISH, THE BOARD OF EDUCATION AND THE CITY OF DATOU 8ARA.
VOL. XV. ST. FRANCISVILLE, LA.,--P O0. BAYOU SARA-SATURDAY, APRIL 4, 1891.
AATTOIlN T .
JOSEPH L. COLSAN,
Attorney at Ilaw,
ST. FRIANCISVILLE. LA.
ll pIpatotle In the Courts of West Fellolanl
`Yd Pito Coupes.
R. C. WICKLIFFE,
4A.ttorney at Iarw,
ST. FRAACISV ILLS. LA.
Will prancel In the Courts of Westand SaMr
Peliana. Pointe Coupeo and adjoining par
J. T HOWELL,
Attorney and Counselor at Law
Will practice In the courts of the 11th Jud'.
SDistrict and in the Supreme Court el
S. M'C. LAWRASON,
Altorney and Counselor at Law
BAYOU SARA, LA.
Will practice in the Parisheq of West and
aSt Fethciaun, 'olnto Coupeo and adjoining
FARRAR & MONTGOMERY,
A.tto-ncy aV t I aJv,
ROBTERT MONTGOMERY,
Notary :-: Public,
I'ostofiice. IIAYOU SAitA. LA.
PJaYSICI.aN.
A. F. BIRROW, M.D.,
Physician and Surgeon
P. 0., Bayou Sara, La.
Residence: Iighland Plantation.
DR. KAUFMANN,
Physician and Surgeon
Offieo at 1esid,.ne' of Mrs. A.
Szabo, Ilayou Sara, La.
W. H. TAYLOR,
ropiin, Arpen id Croner
ST. RAN.C1ISVILLE, LA.
Omce: At restdenco.
DR. JAS. KILBOURNE,
Physician and Surgeon,
CI.IXNT:N, LA.1
Offlce: At residence.
E. C. McKOWEN,
Physician and Surgeon,
JACKSON. LA.
omce at r,.ldenco of e00 Jones.
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Physician anld Surgeon,
ST. FIIAf'I;VILt.E LA.
Omcc i In 1.0o tL'unllllln.
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Physician and Surgeon,
LAU~REI, HILL. LA
Offers his professional sernvi ea to all need.
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will he ct o;n-itv:'d !rea.isltng. and a;l ,i
fenders Iruscuted theruefor. :. I.. JA.ItF.
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cuted to the lull exttcnt or Toll, Inltr.
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IOTEL WINDSOR
SLAUGIITEIR, LA.
(L. N. 0. & T. L. R.)
First-Class Accommodations.
Spti1 Attetioa to Commercii1 M
rABLE SUPPLIED WITH THE BEST THE
MARKETS AFFORD.
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PROPFIBETBR1IS.
iTorJhguLR NRa'
Livery, Feed and Sale Stable,
Foot of the HIIL St. Francisville.
eilngle ant douhb.e tesmt and Poddle hoewio
for hire. Best aecommodattona tor stock by
Ala'. wcek tr month. ' be :est grade of atcot
for sale. stable on Sun street.
HENRY ARNAUD,
Barber and hair Dresser,
IrAYOU BAUA. LA.
Patrosnage sotte1t4 and saItisfaeUo*e gam
Fpt,e6, gta a n~r~·o
BANK SALOON,
DAN HUYCK, Proprietor.
-THB FINEST-*
rinu, iq aln l Cig ,
Cot. Lafayette and Laurel Streets,
BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA
DEFIES COMPETITION 1
FRANK H. TENNEY,
(Opposite Mre. E. Weber's)
BT. FRANCISVILLE, LA,
-DEALER IN
Stla1e a cy h r0criBa
AND WESTERN PRODUCE.
Dry Goods, Notions,
Boots and Shoes.
Ladies' Fine Dress Goods,
FINE WINES, LIQUORS, ETC.
Tobacco and Cigars.
ROCK BOTTOM PRICES.
0. BOCKEL, Agt.,
Sun Street, BAYOU SARA. LA.
-DEALER IN
tanle an Fncy Srocerin
AND WESTERN PRODUCE,
Saddlery Department Adjoining Store,
All Work Executed on Short Notice.
F. \i. 11UJIFORI). I O. D. BROOKS.
Muord & Brch,
No. 6 Principal St., Bayou Sara.
Wholesale and Retail
DRUGGISTS
-DE.%LEER IN
French Perfumery,
Toilet Articles,
Paints and Oils,
Bohool Books,
Slates and Pencils,
Stationery.
Pooekt Cutlery,
Albums, Pioture
Frames, Novelties
and Fanoy Goods
OF ALL KINDS.
Sadi u n Cditing Tcbkecs
Domestic and Impreded
WINES, LIQUORS AND CIGARS
Prelptlene Carelilty Compounded l a
N9ers, D'J if NIgLb
JOHNNIE AND TEENIE.
Story of a Little Coquette and
How She Was Conquered.
My latest experience is to be caught
In the delicate filaments of a genuine
Texas idyl.
I had heard of my heroine long before
I saw her, as undisputed belie of the
whole Dry Fork ypuntry, where she
held regal state, like the cruel princess
in the fairy tale, sending away suitor
after suitor and champion after cham
pion despoiled, not of his head, but of
his heart, and with several inches taken
off the stature of his conceit.
The family name was Drake; Teenie
was affectionately known among her
admirers as "the duck;" the ranch was
"the duck pond," and whenever an
other unfortunate went down to wor
ship at her shrine, he was facetiously
referred to as having gone duck-hunt
ing.
She was as a rule engaged to three or
four of the best-looking and most prom
ising young sheepmen of the region,
and carried things in general with a
high hand. All this had predisposed
me to think slightly of the girl as a
poor, shallow creature, trifling with
and rejecting men who were too good
for her only to gratify her vanity and
love of conquest.
But perhaps the thing that prejudiced
me most against her was her failure to
fall a victim to the charms of Johnnie
Sherwood.
Johnnie and I are great friends. I
met him at balls, where he was the best
dancer; at round-ups, where he was the
finest rider and roper,and he campedwith
our party many a night. A handsome,
black-eyed boy of twenty-four, just six
feet, with fine, square shoulders and
well-knit figure, beautiful black hair,
curling flat against his round, comely
head, glowing eyes, a satiny cheek, fresh
and warm; a nice, well-cut chin, with a
dimple set a little to one side of it; a
good mouth, with a youthful mustache
above it, and the finest white teeth pos
sible.
Face and figure were quite handsome
ordinarily; but when the eyes shone,
the dimple deepened, and the
white teeth flashed in the bubbling,
mellow, spontaneous laugh that came
so naturally from the fine deep chest,
you hastily laid aside all judgment and
surrendered your heart.
I never heard so captivating a laugh.
There was virtue, there was piety in
it. It was sweeter than reason, better
than wisdom. You felt a sense of per
sonal and affectionate gratitude to him,
as though he had made you a special
gift of it.
And these two were sweethearts
once; indeed, Johnnio had been en
gaged to Teenie, "all by himself,"
when no one else was, and the matter
was regarded as quite serious.
There was, as might have been ex
pected between two such heart-break
ers, a smash; mutual recriminations
were indulged in. At the hottest of
the quarrel, smarting beneath a sense
of injustice, tingling at remembrances
of the affronts she had put upon him,
Johnnie came one day upon a maverick
and made so innocent a thing as a year
ling calf the vehicle of his resentment.
It was a delicate bit of cowboy repar
tee, an example of pure Texas wit, to
catch it up and brand it all over it,
helpless bovine side in great, sprawling
letters: "DUCK."
When the capering bonmot present
ed itself before Teenie's indignant eyes
she waxed very wroth indeed, and told
her big brothers, but on the ready offer
to "wipe up the ground" with the au
thor she weakened, and advised the
whole family that they treat him with
silent contempt-which they were do
ing when I went there.
When I came to spend a week at the
Three Cedars ranch and see her daily
with her mother and her little broth
ers and sisters, I foundl her quite differ
ent from what I had imagined, and
was constrained to like the girl despite
my disapproval of some of her meth
ods. She was a good daughter, a kind
sister, and the blithest, most irrepress
ibly joyous creature, with a frank, en
gaging boyishness of manner that I
never found in any other girl, and I
soon came to the conclusion that if she
was vain and fickle it was the fault of
the foolish men who hung about her
and ministered to her vanity.
She rode finely, and was as passion
ately fond of it as I.
She appeared unaware of the six or
eight years' difference in our ages, the
wide dissimilarity of our history, train
ing, environments, and probable aims
and ambitions, and made of me a regu
larchumandconfidante, seeming to think
it no fault of mine that I had been city
born and bred; that at heart, and given
a fair show, I was "as good a man" as
herself.
I used to talk to Teenie a good deal
about Johnnie, dwelling warmly on his
good qualities and his winning ways.
She was always ready to argue with
me on the subject, professing to find
him the most hideous and disagreeable
of mortals. When I ceased she would
go on at some length herself, applying
to him all her small feminine epithets
of derogation, sneering especially at his
conceit.
Perhaps a more masculine bat might
have been deceived by the appearance
of frank sincerity with which she
"shlanged"' him, but. as Sister Peacock
says, I am a female myself, and will at
the proper time acknowledge it; and it
convinced me-if it convinced me of
anything-that Teenie was no more in
different toJohnnie than he was to her:
that, indeed, she carried as sore a hca-t
as he did.
"Let's go and get some of those res
urrection plants you want, Miss Alice."
she said to me one day. "I know where
it grows by the bushel, over on the Es
condido arroyo, near the Pecos."
Two ef her slaves wn-ere about the
house at the time. They immediately
rushed out. saddled our p'mien, and
humbly petitioned to be allowed to "go
along:" but she refused with the utmost
asperity and we went alone.
"I just despise 'em all, somethnim,."
sa.d she, as we cantered westward. "I
like to play 'em awhile, just for fun,
bit when they get so they hang aoosrn
all the time there's no more fun in 'em.
Now, ain't this a heap nicer, just ns
girls, than to have a lot of fool fellows
taggin' along in the way?"
I assured her it was and we rode
ahead, whistling and singing by turns,
for very lightness of heart.
She began whistling an air and I
struck in with the alto. She stopped
dissatisfied with my performance. "No,
you lead, I'll trail," and when I took
the air she made of it a mere frame,
upon which she hung and
draped the most beautiful and
fanciful minor accompaniment
then turned to me and said:
"Pretty, ain't it? I wouldn't have a
fellow that couldn't whistle nice and
ride anything that goes-would you?"
She had a rich, pathetic contralto,
with a note of hoarse tenderness in it
that went right to your heart, and so
flexible that she could follow freely
any air I sang with her own irregular,
sobbing alto.
After we had ridden ten or twelve
miles, across divides and through draws
and hollows that all looked alike to my
eyes, she turned abruptly to me, on the
heels of a closing minor cadence,
checked her pony, pushed back her hat
and exclaimed: "By George, I'm lost."
-Here was a bad state of affairs. I
was utterly helpless, and she had only
been over to the place on the Escondido
arroyo once before, she admitted.
But it was only three o'clock by my
watch; our ponies were good ones and
we were not more than two or three
hours from the ranch; so we kept mov
ing ahead, she scanning the surround
ing country anxiously from the top of
every divide.
Suddenly, as we were loping across a
level, she laughed out loud and pointed
in front of us.
"Why, here's the arroyo; we've come
to it further north than I was before.
All we've got to do is to follow down."
We followed down, got our saddle
pockets full of resurrection plants, and
then started homeward.
"We can cross Turkey Roost and go
down Lost Mule and it'll only be eigh
teen miles," said Tennie. "It's a sort of
blind trail, but I can find it, and we
want to get mighty near home before
dark."
It was 4:90; there remained but an
hour of daylight, and our ponies
had already come some twenty-four
or twenty-five miles at a brisk gait
since noon.
We went ahead at an easy lope,
checking up every mile or so to walk for
a breathing space. As the sun declined
I saw Teenie loo,,k anxious. 'Finally
she said: "We crossed Turkey IRoost all
right, and I was sure we struck into
Lost Mule on this side, but I declare it
don't look like it now."
We rode up on the divide beside which
we had been traveling and looked
around. "Good land!" Said Teenic, "I
don't see a thing I know'. We're lost
sure enough this time-and night com
ing. We'll freeze."
While we looked and hesitated the
day visibly withdrew and night dropped
down upon us like a presence. All
landmarks by which to steer our' course
were obliterated, but we pushed ahead
with feverish haste.
On and on we sped through the dark
ness, while over us wheeled the constel
lations.
SPresently Teenie pulled up and said:
"It's no use; we're like as not, going
away from home instead of toward it."
We got down, staked the ponies,
wrapped ourselves as best we could
and sat down to face the situation.
Have vou never been alone on the
prairie at night? Then you have never
known how small a mote you are.
As we sat hushed under the great, white
stars, amid the boundless darkness, I
fancied vwe could hear the moving of
the vast machinery of the universe, the
hum of the planets as they spun
through the void, and the creaking of
the earth as it turned on its axis and
shot forward int., vacancy.
Our surroundings were obliterated;
nothing was present but a great, soft
darkness and an immensity of star
gecmtmeld sp"ace. And we ou.rselves-in
tinity of littleness amid this spacious
gloom-we seemed but unremembered
atoms.
I had resolved myself to my original
components, doffed this gross corporeal
bIod, and ywas wander'nug about in my
spirit, seeking to blend once more with
the oversoul; too ignorant and inexperi
enced to realize any danger in our po
sitions, I reveled only in its beauty and
strangreness.
Suddenly the little prefatory whim
pering giggle of a coyote sounded out
of the night, and Teenie, who had been
huddled beside me in a dismayed heap,
clutched my arm.
"Oh, Miss Alice! ('an't you holler?
Listen to that coyote! There's timber
wolves and panthers out there, too. We
an't got a match,. ntor a thing to shoot
with. I never vantedl tc see a mlan 5o
bad in my life-do holler!"
I took one momlent to say: "'Would
you even like to see Johnnie Shelr
wood?" and then gathered up my forces
and sent forth a powerful soprano 3-yell
that was the effort of my lifo.
liut no answer canme back, and then
ensuedt a bad quarter of an ihour for
Tennic and me. The coyotes snickered
on thie hillside and howled fearfully in
the nearer vallev.
All atonce ourpnies neighed out joy
futlly. I gave a la -t scream; there was
an answering sillut, a clatter of hoofs.
antid stromebt,,! role ldown the slope andt
almost over us.
Hlow should I know it was .Tohnnie
Shcrwoodl? Iut T1-enie rose ul', ad
crying: "Oh, .lohnnie: Johnnie: .lJohn
nic:" cast herself at himt anytSay as he
jumped off his hor'e.
I could see nothing of them but two
moving shadows-then one. statiionary:
but presently a big voice tbat tried t,
whisper murmured in an abandon of
tenderness:
"I'11 shoot that fool calf, darlin.g,
quick as I can find: him:"-Alice iMac
(Gowan, in St. Louis RPpub'lic.
-Fair Shopper--"What is the differ
ence between these two pieces of
godls?" Clerk--"tOne is marie I high
er lithu the other." "Yes; ibut whi:t is
the real difference btween themt' " !
just told you--a marked diifecence.".
BuLhalo Expresa~
OF GENERAL INTEREST.
-In a corn-husking match in western
Iowa, each of two contestants, working
ten hours, husked in a field, averaging
forty bushels to the acre, one hundred
and fifty bushels. The prize was given
to the man whose corn was the freest
from husks.
-The Medical Journal advises the
careful examination and washirg of
celery before it is used. Many culti
vators force the growth of the vegetable
with night soil, which is full of typhoid
fever bacilli. The plant's construction
is such as to make it peculiarly apt to
hold portions of this soil.
-Should Have Waited.-Henry Wil
liams gave a hack driver two dollars to
take him to the depot in Savannah in
advance of the 'bus, and he got there
in time to be run over by a horse,
smashed under a bill board and tram
pled on by a drove of mules. When the
'bus came rolling up he was rolled off
to a hospital.-Detroit Free Press.
-Recently a young man who was
hunting in the woods near Nevada City,
Colo., was chased by a wild hog and
"-treed." As the beast showed signs of
staying the young man reached down
for his rifle, which he had left standing
against the trunk. In drawing it up it
was discharged, and the ball so badly
shattered the hand that it was found
necessary to amputate it.
-Three different newspapers in New
York printed on the same day recently
three different descriptions of Miss Ava
Willing, the bride of John Jacob Astor.
According to one she is a black-haired
young woman, with luscious dark eyes,
a slender figure and a stately manner.
The second paper said she was a blonde,
who recalls the delicate tints of Amelie
Iives' dainty beauty, and the third de
scribed her as a "brown-haired, sunny
eyed young woman who had lived so
long in Europe that she spoke with a
French accent.
-It is not generally known that com
mercial glycerine contains a consider
able portion of arsenic. This fact
should be borne in mind l)y persons who
imagine this article to be so harmless
that it can be used in almost any quan
tity. A recent medical journal reports
a case in which a gentleman nearly lost
his life through symptoms closely re
sembling" those of cholera by the use
of a cheap grade of glycerine. Unless
the glycerine is chemically pure, it is 11
able to produce poisonous symptoms
when taken internally.
-iThe Indian of colonial times did
not hesitate to resort to treachery to
entrap his fees. lie would profess
friendship in order to disarm an enemy.
lie gloried in ingenious tricks, such as
the wearing of snow-shoes with the
hind part be,fore, so as to make an ene
my believe that he had gone in an op
posite direction. lie would sometimes
imitate the cry of the wild turkey and I
so tempt a white hunter into the woods
that he might destroy him. An Indian
scout would dress himself up with twigs
so as to look like a bush. Many of these
things the white people learned to prac
tice also.
-The New York Central boasts a car
that is a novel specimen of a labor-sav
ing machine. Inside it is some clock
like mechanism which, as the car goes
over the track, records every defect in
the rails. If these have spread the
thirty-tsecond part of an inch beyond
the standard width, or there is a loose
joint or defective connection the ma
chine notes it all down, as well as the
distance from one place to another.
Formerly this work was done by ai
arluy of traclc-walkers. It is proposed
to develop the invention and combine
the detective mechanism of the car with
an ordinary coach so that mechanical
examninations of the tracks can be made
by the regular trains.
A WOMAN'S MISSION.
Iter Strange Adlventtures in Carrying Out
Tier ltius,:and's Peeuliar 1lequest.
The most adventurous of woman
travelers, swho is known to the reading
public as Miss Isabella Ilird and to her
friends as Mrs. BIishop, recently re
turned to England after safely accom
plishinmg a most difficult and dangerous
journey, a record of which will shortly
be publlished. The immediate object of
the journey was to carry out a bequest
of her late husbtiand-an Edinburgh gen
tleman-who left funds for the estahl
lishoment of a hospital in one of the re
m,,te crners of the globe. The place
was not specified, andl Mr. Ilishop's ol
jtet was to secure the establishment of
a hospital in one of the outlying parts
of civilization, where the need for such
an institution would be most severely
felt.
Cashmere was the locality yelected by
the widiw, and there Mrs. Ilishop has
sluteieidled ilin carrying out her huslband's
wishes. But, her mission ancomiplisheld,
she v was not coltent to) return home by
the prosaic way of India. Thilbt lay
too close at hand for the temptation to
Ibe resisted,. .hassa is. perhaps. the
olio spot ion the earth's surface
which most excites thie curiosity of
the advtenturous spirits who are ever on
the search for some new realm to con
queIr. llusiants and English have of
late years lmnde mnlany unscllcessful at
tiempt th, penetrate the mysteries of
that stranure towsn, which is so religiious
ly guardldi against foreign intrusion.
T'[he ntv,-lty andl difliculty of the at
tetmpt fasinatitled Mrs. Bishop. and she
set out fr Tlhib't. I:ut on the hiorders
a great andi inusuper;ihle difficulty pre
sentel itself. iShe was toldt that no ob
st:-ece, would libe placed in the way of
her journyc. bul that the chief oflicial of
every village where she stayled would
inevitahlty lose his heatd. and every dis
tri't th;at received her would he heavily
fine-d for doing so.
The prospect was not inviting, anti
reluctantly .Mrs. Ilishop decided that
she hadl no right to bring down such se
vere punishment on the heads of her
h:st. She accordingly turned her steps
scuthwestsard anit passed through
|l.cuochi.stanr to Persia-and Armenia. On
her waly she met with many adventures:
and exp!orerl the source of thIe Karun
river. l'rdably she Is the first Euro
peuan in modt.rn times svho, has visited
the sources of thlis river, and the scenery
she describes as magnificent in the e
trnsme--Ch!lcago Journal.
SINGLE TAX DEPARTMENT.
THE " KOCH CURE" AND THE
"GEORGE CURE."
Since Jenner banished small-pox from
eivilized communities, no medical dis
eovery has been received with such en
tlhusiasm, or been followed with such
absorbing interest by the whole world,
as that comprised in the announcement
of Robert Koch that he had been able
to produce a substance capable of ex
erting a marked influence upon the
changes which the tuberculosis bacillus
causes in the tissues of the body. Com
ing from so eminent an authority, men
felt that one of those great discoveries,
calculated to exert a profoundly modi
fying influence upon humanity, had at
least been outlined. For the true im
portance of Koch's discovery lies not so
much in its application to tuberculosis
alone, as in the fact that it is pregnant
with suggestive possibilities of the cure
of all infectious diseases by analogous
methods.
It is true, the great hopes of a cure
for consumption in all its stages, that
perhaps the majority of laymen, at
least, allowed themselves to entertain,
have as yet by no means been realized.
The number of actual cures is, in fact,
so exceedingly limited, that at this
early stage, we are hardly justified in
admitting their existence at all. Nev
ertheless, all mankind feels happier in
the thought that a new way appears to
be opening for combating the greatest
scourge of modern life. For the su
preme interest of the discovery lies,
after all, in its humane aspects; in the
contemplation of the picture of it;
wide-reaching effects upon society, and
in the thought that suffering is to be
come less, that at least one form of
disease is to be banished, that life is
thus to be made more sure, and that the
sum of human happiness is so to be in
creased.
But supposing that the "Koch cure"
were really all that the most vivid hope
imagined it, would all these results fol
low? In a certain measure they would,
but the increase in general well-being
would be insignificantly small when
measured by the greatness of the dis
covery. Just as none of the great in
ventions for the saving of labor have
really made toil any lighter or in
creased, for the masses the case of mak
ing a living, so this discovery would do
practically nothing to make the lot of
that greater portion of mankind, which
forms the army of labor, any easier or
sweeter. Indeed, the contrary would
be the result, for that increase in popu
lation which results when mortality is
from any cause checked, inevitably be
gets a fiercer competition among labor
ers for the chance to work, and. as a re
sult, wages fall, while the value of land,
upon which alone labor can be per
formed, necessarily rises. Hence the
economic effects of Koch's discovery,
should it prove efficacious, would be to
increase that poverty which is the lot
of many-and which forms the hot-bed
of all contagious disease-while it
would, at the same time, add to the
wealth of the relatively few who own
the field of labor. It would, like all
great inventions. but tend to make the
poor poorer. and the rich richer: to im
poverish the land user and enrich the
landlord.
It is a sad comment upon our civiliza
tion that the pestilence that walketh in
darkness and the destruction that
wasteth at noonday, by reducing the
number of his competitors. are the
friends of him who has but his labor to
sell. Hlad we but Malthus. to fall back
upon the thought of this paradox-that
the blessing of health is really a curse
-w-,ull he horrible indeed, but the
genius of the century has bid us not de
spair, and has shown that the direst of
all diseases--poverty. itself the fruitful
parent of disease-is not an ineradi
cable of social growth. but is the out
come of social malajustments inflicted
by man upon himself.
For it is to poverty, that in the last
analysis, we must trace the most potent
predisposing and maintaining cause of
infectious disease. And if any thing
radical is ever to be done toward limit
ing the spread of those diseases, which.
as every physician recognizes, are in
their nature preventable, surely the
remedy must he applied. not so much to
the disease itself as it appears in the in
dividual, as to the cause that engenders
it. (tf what real use would it be,. for
instance, to examine for diphtheria, as
has been recently proposed by a well
known physician of this city. the
throats of all the public school childlren
each morning, when the source of the
evil stream--the crowded tenement
house--still remains unchecked. And.
measured by the immensity of the evil it
seeks t, lessenwhata pitiful waste of en
ergy and money does it not seem--what
a ridiculous contradiction does it not in
volve-to take little children in sumnmner
from th~ slums to the seaside, in the
hope of saving a few ,of the thousands
that society annually kills. only to re
turn them to the very conditions that
cause their illness. Of w-hat use. to
tinker with the effects. and leave the
cause muntouched'? Such measures are
like attempting to dip out the ocean
with a teaspoon.
Boards of health may be vigilant, doc
tors may be faithful and learned. med
ical andl other charities may be dealt
out with a lavish hand: but in a city
where three-quarters of the population
live in tenements, where 0.000oo people
are packed upon one squlare mile. where
but four per cent occupy separate
homes, it is folly to think of enring--in
the sense of exterminating-any disease
which is contagious.
In looking toward the ultimate cure
of tuberculosis, we thus inevitably ai
rih* at a point where the medical aspect
loses itself in the social: where it be
comes a study of the economic problem
of the distribution of wealth, of the
abolition of involuntary poverty: in
short, of the relation of man to the
earth which he inhabits and from which
alone he draws his being. And hand
in hand with the great discoveries
which the genlus of Robert Koch has
rv-n to the world there must go those
-yen greater discoveries whit:ch have
emanated from the mind and from the
heart of llcnry Gleorge. Let us pracw
Ca," let every pbty .ie'
strive to his utadost to relieve
and, if possible, to'
tagious disease, but let as
mind that every cure, to be
grandly successful, will
to be supplemented by tEa
cures"-Walter Mendelson.
Who Own River Detems '
Judge Young, of the Fourth J5 <
Circuit of Florida, has deeide4 p U f
State can not demand a f
dollar per ton on phophte
the beds of the rivers of Florida
Ocala Union commenting im
ion assumes that it may b~f
by.precedent, but it.
deny them their just rights. It.
continues: '
It is the people after all that ~caol"l
They endure much, but when they brdea '
through the "conservative restraints
kings tremble on their thrones, and
judges perform their duty. 'the proiegs
through which it is done are slow, bu
the rights of the masses are be;ing-a- -
tended and the few restricted. The
same processes that gave all the lands of
England to so few of her populatiod are
at work in this country, and if not
checked will produce the same results,
and they are not likely to be checkes. .
by Judge Young's decision.
These phosphates have been forndmi
in the soil and river bottoms in all the
ages of the past,and in the formationot
which we do not suppose that Mr. Al
bertus Vogt, Mr. George V. Scott anad a
few others were alone in the thoughts
of the Divine mind, but we are orthodox
or unorthodox enough to believe that
the Divine worker intended these form
ations and deposits for the common en
joyment of all mankind.
Owing to the legislative action and
judicial determinations, this has nob
been the case, and the only thing left
whereby the people, in their collective
capacity, could derive the least benefit
from these gifts of a wise and benefi
cent Creator, was in the riperian rights
left to the State, whereby the State, for
the benefit of all the people thereof,
could levy a tax of one dollar a ton on
all phosphates taken from the bottom
of navigable streams, and even this the
decision of Judge Young denies them.
And the Times-Union says that all the
people will hail with delight this timely
decision. The exaction of this small
tariff, the Times-Union says, would
have cripliled and perhaps stifled this
industry and would have proven a great
detriment to the State. How much do
these men, who have gobbled up all the
river bottoms of the State, want to
make anyway? Do they want all the
earth and the fulness thereof?
The cost of gathering the phosphate
from the river bottoms is merely nom
inal, and deliveredatany shippingpoint
is worth from $12 to $15 per ton, and in
the interest of this class of men, the
Times-Union whines that the payment
of the nitiable sum of a dollar a ton
into the treasury of the State would
ruin them all and kill the industry. This
is sheer nonsense and can not deceive
a blind man. The people make and un
make the laws and they should see
that all the people derive some of the
benefits of these immense deposits,
which can only be regarded as a divine
gift.
Dempsey's Personal Tax Bill.
Apparently the crude suggestions of
Governor lill in regard to the taxation
of personal property r'e to bear fruit in
one last desperate attempt to collect a
personal property tax in this State.
Without bringing up the point of a local
tax on personal property is the surest
way to drive out of the State the indus
tries needed for its prosperity, and with
out mentioning the utter failure that
has attended past attempts at personal
properly taxation in this State and oth
er;i: without referring to the perjury
that such laws create, and the injustice
of their effect in making the honestpay
the taxes of the dish-nest-it is only
necessary to read DIr. Dempsey's bill,
as given in our columns recently, to see
how inquisitorial and un-American must
be any further effort to reach personal
property by taxation. By its provisions
every taxable citizen must furnish to
the tax commissioners a complete list
of all real and personal property owned
by him, no matter where situated, all
moneys loaned, invested or deposited,
and all credits due. And the penalty
for failure to comply with the act is a
fine of 51.000. Such a law as this would
raise a storm of indignation in every
business center in the State. It would
be an interrfence with private affairs
that would drive thousands into the
ranks of the single tax advocates.-N.
Y. Commercial Advertiser,
Taxing Unseen Coal.
The Supreme Court of Illinois has
just sustained the right of James D.
lnaker. collector of St. Clair County, to
collect from the Consolidated Coal Com
pany. of St. l.ouis. a tax on an assess
ment made by Assessor Stookey, of St
('lair townhip. on coal owned by the
Icompany, under the surface of that
township. The present case involves
the trifling stum of fifty dollars, but the
effect of the decision is of great im
portance to Illinois, and. lsays a dis
patch frtm St. l.ouis, "it will bring in
to the treasury thousands of dollars
each yeaor in taxes from the vast coal
filchls that have never been taxed, and
relieve the farmer from paying such
heavy taxes on the surface, where there
are coal fields beneath, and will estab
lish a precedent for assessing coal
lands all over the State of Illinois."
.lJust so, and if our Illinois friends im
prove their opportunity, the change in
taxation that will follow will teach the
i farmers who have ignorantly clamored
against the taxation of land values
that the farmers not only do not ownm
Iall the land, but that the land they do
own is the least valuable and will be
but lightly taxed under a system that
Smakes land values the sole basis of ta
ation.
XI you would save this RepuMblil, it
yon would save society, if you welM
preserve free government to the end a
time, unjuat taxatie au be *
