The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1888-02-28

Lies smiling.
As if the myriad drops of genial showers
On touching earth had changed to blushing
flowers.
We are probably more struck with the
wonderful diversity of the shape of leaf
assumed by the various subjects of the
vegetable kingdom in early spring than
at any other time of the year and as the
blossoms unfold our admiration increases
for every shade of color is added to end
less variety of form. Occasionally ma
ture seem to delight in assuming quaint
limitations of objects, but still her laws
are firm, her decision strict and promptly
executed, her verdict is short and plain
and needs no further instructions. Ma
ture never allows any body to make her
decision ridiculous in the eyes of her
children, she never gives the permission
to make light of her verdict, there is no
foul game, no preference whatever,
when she has pronounced her verdict,
all have to submit at once and every viol
alton of her rules will be punished i'm
mediately. How much could we learn
from natures administration if justice
would flourish everywhere as the plants
do in the land of flowers; how soon
would the noxious weeds in all our re-
ligious. political and social affairs disap-
pear if the real definition of the words
of our constitution equal rights" would
be. understood perfectly well, if that
costly Inheritance of the fathers of the
republic would be not dead letter only,
but would be put to practice more con-
scientiously? We are law-obedient
citizens and we believe that
in paying our taxes, we have
a right to ask for protection il certain
railroad company violates not only the
laws of the State, but also the rights of
the citizens and voters: if the Jackson
vile, Tampa and Key West, alias In
dian River Railroad Company ruins the
tax payers along the old Browns Land
ing alias Thompson's road, since three
years and ten months Systematically.
We have right to ask that the decision
of the Supreme Court given in reference
to this case, should be executed immedi-
ately after the expiration of the time
granted the SAID railroad company, and
we hereby petition the Supreme Court
very respectfully to forward to the ex-
ecuting officer their instructions, who
according to his own words. is waiting
for instructions since many weeks, for
we have the firm belief that when the
Supreme Court renders a verdict even
said railroad company has to submit: we
believe further that the Supreme Court
is invested with the full power to COM
mand the execution of their verdict, and
we believe that the law is yet ruling in
our State and not the money and mo-
nopoly. And in believing this we trust
that the heavy burdens laid on the tax
payers and voters since forty-six months
by said railroad company, finally will be
taken away from our shoulders and that
there is yet BIZ I'm in Gilead to remedy
the evil!
The surprising variety and beauty of
our wild and cultivated flowers, both in
form and color. must be apparent even
to those who have given only casual OBJ
servation to the subject; to the poet and
student of nature they spoke not only of
the power and wisdom but of the love
of the great architect of this fair world
for
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So joyful and so fair;
Is but drop of love divine
That fell and fiourished there.
Wherever we go at the present time
in all our woods and in many of our gar
dens everywhere may be seen in bloom
that beautiful climber called yellow
Jessamine" The stem is twining, smooth
and shining, ascending to the highest
trees and festooning these in an exceed
ingly graceful manner attracting the adj
miration of our Northern visitors, well
coming them with their highly scented
golden yellow flowers-in the land of
flowers. The yellow iessamine belongs
10 the natural order Spigeliacee; the
leaves are opposite lanceolate, entire.
evergreen, shining on the upper surface,
paler beneath. The flowers are born in
axillary clusters on short peduncles,
which are covered with small scales, the
leaves of the calyx equal, glahrous, CO.
ralla funnel shaped with the border five
lobed, the fruit called capsule is oblong
furrowed, terminated by the style of
golden yellow color. The root is of a
woody texture, several feet long and va
ries in diameter from a quarter of an
| inch to two inches, and contains in its
bark gelsemic acid and gelsemine, which
is strong base and powerful medicine.
1t is supposed that leaves and flowers
contain some medicinal virtues too. The
tincture is used and recommended in
diseases of the generative organs, in
dysmenorrhea of a neuralgia or spas
modic character, in cramps in the abdo-
men and legs during pregnancy, in con-
vulsions during pregnancy with COM
plete Inconsistencies, monorrhagia.
and in a great many other diseases of
the urinary organs, of the chest as well
as OF the heart.
While rambling in the woods l very
often meet good many visitors, decor
ating themselves with the lovely flowers
and graceful twigs of the yellow jes-
samine, while others preferred to chew
the leaves and flowers. complaining sud-
denly afterwards about dizziness and
headache and hearing their complaints,
handed over to them some pieces Of