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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. Telephone c: promptly respondod to. DR. JAS. LEAKE, Physician anld Surgeon, ST. FIIAf'I;VILt.E LA. Omcc i In 1.0o tL'unllllln. DR. CHAS. F. HOWELL, Physician and Surgeon, LAU~REI, HILL. LA Offers his professional sernvi ea to all need. In nldlou.tl n!d withlll tile ai:rsl . THIIrS1 ASS NO'1It'LSE. FItOM AND) AITENR TIITR DATR ALL allnotill;o tI Ithe .t no:n. I:Ce1:eivew I. aofrf and I.tlte he !:te1n"y Ilot.,tlt, tione In this I'Parish will he ct o;n-itv:'d !rea.isltng. and a;l ,i fenders Iruscuted theruefor. :. I.. JA.ItF. 17UNT'lING OF ANY KINDfON THE AI'TIN ! .:a nlid Lnysnn plnntntions Is heret prohl|)ite.i :tld odut lur n";Il be vigorously pro'cutO 1. K. .T. CATLE'IT, Agent. I '1I'NlINO ON THE ROSEfOWN AN`D I tllazew p!acs,. will aIftr tIhi dato becon si,!lred iai trosaassittsc. JAuS. P. IUO'IAN. NOTICE I~ HlIlEIItrY l tItENTHAT -HITNT In ionl tit.: nllibrosla nolt Independence pRe,'s iC prtdhb:t,'41. \ Iololuir, wll be prose cuted to the lull exttcnt or Toll, Inltr. J. W. DDE')EI(ICK. 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. Mrs. J. OSCAR HOWELL 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 *