Morning journal and courier., 1894-02-02

If 1t believes that "common necessity and
 convenience" require 1t, notify the conn
 missioners of the county In which the
 towns or cities are situated to construct .
 state hjghwsy from one designated point to
 another at the expense of the county.
 Senator Bill thinks this Is the weak point
 of the law. There will be few instances,
 he says, where other towns would be
 willing to submit to taxation to defrsy the
 expenses of improvements which they are
 not to share. He has, therefore, prepared
 a bill providing that the expense of oon-
 structing state highways shall be borne by
 the state alone, and setting apart the in-
 heritance tsI as fund for the maintenance
 of good roads. It Is estimated that the
 tax this year will amount to $100, 900, and
 that 1t will show a rapid increase.
 Tree planting on the streets at Orlando,
 Florida, is encouraged by . bounty of fifty
 cents for each tree in good condition after
 one year of growth. The work is being done under an ordinance passed two years
 ego. It provided that the variety to be
 planted must be the water oak, in size not
 less than two ipches in diameter at point
 two feet above the ground. The trees must
 be not less than ten feet in height, and
 they are to be set out at stated distanoes apart and seven feet from the street bound
 of the adjacent lot. Thirty days after planting the trees are inspected by com
 mittee, and for esch one in good condition twenty-five cents Is paid in city warrants upon the treasury. At the end of . year a similar sum Is paid if the tree still four ishes. Larger trees may be planted by the property owners, provided they are uni- form in size, but the city pays no more for them. There seems to be no difficulty In finding men who are willing to make con- tracts with property owners to put out and care for the trees, assuming all risks, and relieving the owners of the labor and care.
 The Pope's encyclical on the Scriptures contains this notable passage on the higher criticism: It follows that those who main tain that an error is possible in any genu- inc passage of the sacred writings, either pervert the Catholic notion, of inspi- ration or make God the author of such error. And 90 emphsticslly were all the fathers and doctors agreed that the divine writings, as left by the photographers, are free from all error, ths. they lsbored with no less skill than rever- encs, to reconcile with each other those numerous passages which seem at vsri- snce-the very passages which in great measure have been taken up by the "high- er criticism;" for they were unanimous In laying 1t down that those writings, in their | entirety and In all their parts were equally from the sfdatus of Almighty God, and that God, speaking by the sacred writers, could not set down anything but what was | true. The words of St. Augustine to St. | Jerome may sum up what they taught: l "On my own part I confess to your charity | that 1t is only to those Books of Scripture, which are now called csnonicsl that have | learned to pay such honor and reverence as to bslievs most firmly that none of their writers has fallen into an error. And If in these books meet anything which | aeems contrary to truth, shall not heal | tate to conclude either that the text is | faulty, or that the translator has not ex- | pressed the meaning of the passage, or l that myself do not understand"