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proof" he said, that the commission
rate is materially less than that now
charged. The company has proven
that it's books do not show that any
local phosphate has been carried by il,
but does not show what rate il
charges on the interstate shipments Of
phosphate. There is some showing of
the eXpensiVeness of handling phos-
phate for foreign shipment, much of
which would not enter into the local
or interstate business, should such be
carried, but nothing is shown from
which this court can say that the rate
fixed by the commission is unreason-
able. The evidence offered might tend
to show that the rate is unnecessary,
or that il is speculative, but such ques-
lions the court is not called upon to
decide. Undoubtedly if phosphate be
carried at the rate fixed by the COM
mission there will be some increase
I'm the gross earnings. and when tried
it may be found profitable"
1.-THE other ISSUE Justice Cockrell
decided, "the company has likewise
failed to meet Taking the figures
from the brief filed by the respondent
we find that the local business alone
produces a net earning of at least
per cent on the total value of the road
in Florida, charging against such in
come the whole of the taxes While
a state is not permitted to offset To-
cal business against interstate bust
ness and to justify low local rates by
reason of the proftableness Of the lat
ter. vet the interstate and foreign
business may and should be considered
in determining the proportion of the
value OF the property of the company
assignable to local business. There IS
no proper showing of the interstate
and foreign business, so that we may
determine on what fraction of the
whole value of the property in Flor.
ida the company might be entitled &c
earn an income from local business
there is, however, a showing that th'
interstate and foreign business is large
and on a proper showing and "A prope
proportioning Of the service between
domestic and foreign business this per
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on the following day, Friday. / slept
little the remainder of the night.
In the morning of that Friday at
breakfast L received a call TO attend
funeral about nine miles from the
village, which took me from home un-
| til evening, but l still determined 10
call upon the woman, tired as l was.
j went TO the house and a daughter
| came TO the door. of whom L asked
whether / could see her mother alone
on some private business. She replied
| that she would see her mother and
report But the mother had heard
my voice, and as soon as her daugh-
ter had informed her of my request
she said: No, 1 will not wait, but
see him Immediately" l had scarcely
entered her room when she said: "Oh,
l am so glad to see you. / cannot ex-
press my delight. I have been praying
the last three nights between the
hours of u and l o'clock that if the
Lord should judge me worthy to par
take of the Holy Communion on the
| coming Sunday He would send you
| over before that day, and now you
nave come and 1 am so happy" She
then apologized for her conduct toward
me on the occasion referred to and
said that she thought / knew that she
had not communed for twenty-five
years and had taken that way of call
ing her attention to her neglect of
duty. The fact was that I knew moth
ing at all about her neglect of duty
until after her treatment of me, when
l examined the church record and
found to my surprise her want of good
and regular standing in the church.
She was very penitent afterward and
was happy at the assurance that she
did what she could to prepare herself
for the world of departed spirits.
The above is a true and correct re-
port of what actually occurred. I
could give the name, place and date
II desired, but they are not essential
| TO the facts as stated. Was that
telepathy or an answer to prayer, or
both j. William Knappenberger,
North Stonington. Conn. Oct 8
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are as remarkable as any that have
read about.
l am minister and teacher by pro-
fession. 1 preached regularly for thir-
teen years and have taught seventeen
years of my life. 1 taught the subject
of psychology for twelve years.
The incident which / am about TO
relate happened in a we'll known VIII
lage in Pennsylvania. l had entered
upon the duties of a new charge in
November. In the following February
was the season for administering the
Holy Communion. 1t is the duty of a
pastor in the denomination to which
/ belong to visit all the sick and in
firm members prior to communion Sun
day in order to discover who desire
communion and to prepare them for its
proper reception.
In the discharge of this duty called
upon an elderly lady of the congrega-
ton who had been an invalid for many
years and who was confined to her
bed most of the time by rheumatic
govt. The joints of her arms and
limbs were being ossified gradually.
She was in a pitiable condition, which
would excite any one to sympathetic
interest She was a woman of some
culture and intelligence. She had a
mind of her own, independence of spir-
it, and readiness in expressing an opin-
ion on any person or subject.
| inquired whether she desired the
communion on the approaching Sab
bath and said that if she did l should
be pleased to administer it to her. She
at once showed that she felt very much
insulted at my question and offer. For
what reason was not at the time ap-
parent. when l wish your service
In any FORM" she answered, Il am
still able to make known my wants
and understand what l need better
than any one else
OF course. 1 felt very much hurt. 1
knew | was simply doing my duty and
had had no other desire than to serve
her highest and best interests. Her
husband was an elder in the congre-
cation, an honest man in all relations
and an intelligent Christian gentleman.
Her sons were reliable and respecta-
BILE business men in their respective
communities. Her daughters were &C
complished ladies, well informed and
active in the congregation and Sunday
school.
[ controlled my feelings at the time
as we'll as l could and made an effort
to explain my presence and mission,
but she refused to hear me. On leaV-
ing her room l said kindly: Hereafter
I shall expect you to ask if you desire
my services in any way" and she re-
piled: That is my wish"
l said nothing about this visit and
my experience to any one. The woman
grew weaker and more miserable. L
thought of her often and prayed for
her frequently. ] also visited the
family as 1 had done before. We were
on friendly terms, and 1 do not know
whether any other member of the fam
lily knew what had happened or not.
II was over a year after the Incl
dent related, on a Tuesday night at /
o'clock, when 1 was awakened out of
a sound sleep by what seemed to me
a dream. in which 1 had distinctly
heard the voice of that woman calling
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centage of net income would be large
ly increased. Under the scheme of dis
tribution of the earnings of the whole
road between the several states
through which it. runs ton of Flor
ida oranges or early vegetables is al
lowed the same credit as ton OF coal
in Virginia, and no more.
1--WE find that the rate in question
is not unreasonable, and further find
that this rate taken in connection
with the other rates prescribed by the
Railroad Commission do not deprive
the respondent of it's property without
due process of law. nor does it de-
prive it of the equal protection of the
law within the federal constitution"
A similar judgment was entered by
the court in the case against the Jack
sonville and Southwestern Railroad
Company.
There were also similar suits against
the Seaboard Air Line, the Jackson
vile and Southwestern and the West
Shore Railway on the same grounds
against which similar judgments We're
rendered.
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FLORIDA SUPREME COURT
UPHELD r. R. COMMISSION
In Enforcing Cent "A Mile Per Ton
Rate on Phosphate.

Tallahassee, Fla, Oct. 21.-The Su-
preme Court Of Florida has just ren-
dered opinions and judgments in sew
eral cases, sustaining in each instance
the position taken by the Florida Rail-
road Commission. in its efforts to ad-
just the freight rates charged by COM
mon carriers upon shipments of phos-
phate The decisions are regarded as
victories for the Railroad Commission,
which fixed a rate of l cent a mile per
ton on phosphate to all Florida ports.
In the case against the Atlantic
Coast Line, Justice COckrell rendered
the opinion in which. after stating the
grounds of the appeal which were, in
substance, that the rate sought to be
enforced was unreasonable. and that,
taken in connection with the other
schedule of freight rates enforced by
the Railroad Commission, it's enforce
lnent would result in depriving the
railway of its property without due
process of law, ruled that the railway
company had not shown the unreason-
ableness of the rate.
There is a total lack of positive
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A NEW WAY TO FISH.
John Burroughs in Outing.

John Burroughs in Outing.
My son Julian furnishes me with
this account of a curious manner of
fishing which he saw in Jamaica.
After spending even so short a
time as one month in the tropics, one
can readily understand the POSSIBLE
ity of such a strange-to us-perform-
ance as that Mr.. Charles Kellogg and
L witnessed one night in Kingston
harbOr. We were idly lounging about
the wharf of the United Fruit Com
pany, waiting for the Admiral Samp-
son to take us back to Philadelphia,
our cameras, with every plate expos
ed, having been stored away with our
baggage. Otherwise we might have
gotten some kind of a picture, even
in the failing light, of the strange
scene before us. Two negro fisher
men had put out their net, as the
great circle of buoys or floats indi-
Gated, and had stationed themselves
at one side with their boat. All would
be quiet for a few moments until
suddenly with a great shouting, which
was taken up by a crowd of coolies on
shore, the two negroes would rap
loudly with their paddles on the side
of the boat. Instantly mulletS would
flash out of the green water, trying to
jump over the boat into the water
beyond both boat and net. They
jumped out of the water six feet or
so from the boat. and would surely
have cleared everything had it not
been for a net which was hung on
poles like a fence, and which inVa-
riably threw the mullets back into
the bottom of the boat. This was re-
peated over and over until the catch
numbered dozens, from two to six or
! seven being caught each Fime the
pounding and shouting was resorted
to. Certainly nothing could be done
more characteristic of the tropics
| than such a performance, yet our
| friends at home have always called it
fish story. The mullets are a silver
fish, about the size of herring. except
that they are rounder, being in shape
r. our chubbs. They were great
1ers. When he drew a seine for
. gators in the Salt Ponds at Port
Henderson the mullets jumped all
over the net, in and out, just for the
fun of it apparently. Great numbers
of them are caught with dynamite by
simply printing it and throwing it in
to the water, when the silly mullets
at once dart up and swim around and
around until the dynamite eXplodes
and kills them all. At Port Hender
son l threw stones from the dock
when in the clear water | could see
the mullets appear as if by magic
darting about the stone in a whirling
circling How such habit originated
| it is hard to imagine.
AT any. rate it made a beautiful
picture; the green water below flash
! ing forth the silver fish,, the old dug
| out with its half-naked, muscular ne
| grOes, the coolies in their flowing
robes of every color on shore. the CO.
| coanuts of barbaric splendor rising
against the Blue Mountains that in
turn rose into the very clouds.
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A Fnshion Decree Dehed.
From London Truth

A lady who devotes whatever mind
she has to dress and who is one, of
those who pass as the leaders of ffAh-
ion in Paris confided to me recently
that the best dressed women entirely
decline to adopt the fashion of big puff
sleeves coming down to the elbows and
a sort of cape over the shoulders be-
cause they do not consider it so grace
full as the close sleeves and light bod
ices. for it makes a woman look twice
as broad as she really is. and is only
fitted for TALL thin and what are called
by Americans "slab fronted girls" The
fashion, said my authority, has been
started by a dressmaking establish
ment in Paris and London which is
more patronized by English and Amer
leans DESTROYS to be in the latest fash
ion than by French women, and the
leading French dressmakers in Paris
have declared themselves against it,
-s-o-s---
--He-"You say that she is a bust
ness woman, this friend OF yours.
What business is she interested in?"
Everybody Free Press.
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TELErATMY oR rRAYEnf
A Minister ana Teacher OF PsycboI-
ogy Describes nm Unusual
Experience.
Letter to New York Sun

Letter TO New York Sun
] have been very much interested IN
the letters that have recently appeared
IN the sun ON telepathy and kindred
subjects J have made study Of tho
subject and can give examples that
happened in my own experience that
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CedartOwn. Ca. Oct. s. 1891.

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Mr.. A. b. Girardeau. Savannah, Ga:
Dear Sir enclose you so cents for
one bottle Of Johnson's Tonic for a
friend of mine. I lost one boy with
Typhoid Malarial fever the I4th Of
June Soon afterwards my other
three children were taken with II.
procured two bottles OF your Johnson's
tonlc which cured them. 1 was taken
down with IT, and on the fourteenth
DAY the doctor said there would be no
change under six days. Soon after he
lert the Tonic came that l had sent
to you for. I began taking IL, and
wnen the doctor came the second day
ne pronounced my Fever broken and
confessed Johnson's Tonic cured me-
G. w. GROCE.
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Office of F. A. GULLEDGE.
Verbena. Ala, Aug. 81, 1896,

Mr.. A. B. Girardeau, Savannah, Ga:
Dear Sir-In reply to yours of the
2sth inst, will say that 1 freely en-
dorse all you or others have said or.
could ever say about Johnson's Chill
and Fever Tonic. Two months ago
my father, who is IS years old, was
stricken down with Bilious Fever, and
came near dying. I began at once
with the Tonic, giving him a dose
every two hours. Within a week my
father was able to walk about the
house. 1 persuaded him. to take a
second bottle, and under its use he has
grown strong. Although IS years old
on the oath Of last June, he has to-
day taken a horseback ride of six
miles unattended. Yours very truly,
F. A. GULLEDGE.
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Sanford, Fla.

Sanford, Fla
believe that those ordinary trou-
bles known as Biliousness, ChilIs and
Fever. or Fever without Chills, can
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cases, when 1t fails to cure" it Is not
faithfully or intelligently used. I
have refunded for z bottles in as many
years. E. A. PHILIPS.
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nowned specialist cure be brought about without
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ulcers and cancers of the rectum He performs
operations knife. Stil il should not be sup
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disease. IL requires individual and constitutional
treatment for piles often but the symptom of
serious of the intestines,
ach liver heart and blood. 1t important symp-
tom in consumption, sexual weakness weak lungs.
CATARRHAL DISEASES.
still other serious arrangements the DR.
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rely IL that perfectly free from all
disease Of whatever He will make you sound
In nrhnr AlnA
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Extract from a Letter Dated Granite
VILE. s. c. Aug. 90, 1889.

Extract from a LettcF OaOCu Va
willie. s. c. Aug. %, 1883.
At the age of so. with twenty-five
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TELEPHONE COMPANIES
WARNING IN CAMBRIDGE.
Bell Company Does Not Propose to
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The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-11-07
VALUES ON HIGH LEVEL.
Henry CleWs on the Stock Market
 Prospects.

Henry clews on the Stock Market
 Prospects. "
 Henry Clews says in his weekly let ter: "The prospects are for an active and irregular market, with possibly wide fluctuations. Higher prices may prevail before the top is reached, but values are already on high level and the temptation to take profits is in creasing. A number of large traders have sold out and become bears for the time being; hence a division of opinion occurs which works for irregularity and more active trading. Should the cleo tion give larger success to the republi- cans than anticipated the upward course of the market may be renewed, if the event is not sufficiently discount ed. On the other hand, should expect ations in this respect not be realized the effect will probably be detrimental Unfavorable bank statements and somewhat firmer money rates have been looked for, especially as the gov ernment may reduce it's deposits in the banks, but not much disturbance is likely from this source, as funds with drawn for crop purposes will soon be returning. The January disbursements and investment demands are not far away, and these must exert a support ing effect 2,
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-11-07
es 10000 boys and girls to swim and to restore the annarent1Y drowned.

restore the apparently drowned.
 A number of the best-known resorts are taking the matter up in comply ance with increasing demands, and the great holiday hotels along the coast are lending no small aid in making ea-bathing attractive Several of them have built proper bathhouses along the beach. wherein their guests may prepare for the morning plunge and dress again in comfort on com- ing out, dispensing with the services of the antiquated bathing machine which has, survived from those very decorous times known as early Victorian. Against these uncomfortable devices and hideous disfigur 9Daents of the sea side the London Daily Telegraph has lately been waging 5 crusade. Ger
 tainly they have done much to dwarf
 the popularity of the sport. On the
 part of municipalities several, like Jer-
 sey and St. Andrews, where the tides interfere with proper bathing, have constructed walls to retain the sea, thus forming vast pools where one can always enjoy a swim without travers- ing long stretches of shingl cor mud. And at Scarborough pools are to be constructed similar to those in Jersey. Of course on the edges of these pools | it will be possible to construct proper
 bath h-houses, with hot and cold fresh water supply to take away all the ac-
 companiments of salt and grit which are the unwelcome results of the sport as practiced under old arrangements.
 English worlds Work.
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IDEAL SEA BATHING.
Making the Sport What It Ought tc
 Be Modern Improvements.

Making the Sport What It Ought to
 Modern Improvements.
 When young England of a genera tion ago gloried in reading Ouida 1t maryelled greatly at those first chap ters in Moths which told how Lady Dolly Vanderdecken and her friends bobbed up and down like male and female tops in the waters at Trouville. It seemed so wicked then, and, of course, her terrible wickedness was the great charm of the writer, partic- ularly for girls who read her on the sly. It was, indeed, a contrast from our own dull fashion of strictly sepa- rate bathing at the seaside, where the women were carefully rolled out into the waves in antiquated bathing ma chimes and descended decorously swathed in bundled-up costumes of dark serge, costumes which made sea swimming practically impossible. But this last objection was not strong one, as few women know how to swim. And with the traditional dis trust of any continental custom as surely wicked, it is doubtful if ever we would have followed the example of our near rleighbors in practicing bathing at seaside resorts under ra- tional arrangements. It is more, per- haps, to our enterprising Yankee cous- ins that we owe the change which in the last few years has come over our enjoyment of this fine sport; for both accounts and attractive pictures con- tinued to reach us of great stretches of beach along the American coast where thousands of summer-worn men and women found refreshment and pleasure from the sea. Many foreign innovations have reached us by way of America, but few are more to be well comed than this.
 Not that so far there has been any pronounced revival of sea-bathing as il was practiced fifty years ago, for un- der lately prevailing conditions 1t is undeniable that this healthy form of recreation has declined to marked degree. Yet there are signs on every hand that holiday makers are no long, CT to be hampered by out-of-date reg ulations and equipments at most of the popular seaside resorts. Many of them now allow mixed bathing" and the subject is under discussion in other To- cal governing bodies. This alone does much to transform sea-bathing from an unattractive necessity into fas- chatting sport The rational athletic woman of today who wears a short skirt in golfing and bicycling which her grandmother would have blushed at, sees no harm in swimming in a similar costume with her brothers and men friends. And returning visitors to America have toll so many attract i've stories of mornings on the sands at American resorts which have been until now quite unknown in this country. Perhaps the most potent factor in the change has been the gen. eral rise of swimming to popularity as a sport instead of a mere emergency aequirement. The London Schools Swimming association, the Amateur Swimming Association, the public day. schools are well provided for by the first-named association, which, out of the most slender funds, annually teach