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Lower coast gazette., 1913-05-31

resse, OH tout lennuie, ct que tour
mente lie desir de sen aller. Un inn
mense degodt de toutes chooses s'etait
empare de lui. Blanchette EFT fremi,
edt pail de terreur, 81 ellie await pu en-
tendre ses monologues interieurs. LIE
lmepris de la vie pris chez lui les pro-
portions dune passion farouche.
Comment" Sc disait-il avec une ironie
amere, comment les hommes peu-
yent-ils s'enteter a aimer cette exist
enc a la fois absurde ct d~ouleureuse?
Pour lui trouver une raison d'etre,
pour justifier ses contradictions, poui
excuser les maux don't ellie %foisonne,
que months pas invente! que de maui
VASES ct sottes applications Months
pas extraites de leurs reeves philoso-
phiques ct religeuX! t toute cette
peine, toute cette bonnie volonte a Sc
tromper, a quot aboutit-elle? a arrang.
er n maniere de vivre qui vous fasse
oublier que vous vivez. S'etourdig
dams lie plaisir, s'extenuer de travail,
s'enivrer des fureurs de la guerre, per-
Dire haleine a courir apres la fortune,
s%'ensevelir dams la devotion, s'evan-
OUR dams les extases anticipees dune
vie future ct e%ternellement hepreuse.
telles sont les resources ingenieuses
auxquelles rhomme a recours pour
echapper au sentiment de sa miser-
able destinee. LIE meilleur de son
temps est quand il dort, c'est.a.dire
quand il est submerge dams cette ma.
Mere d'etre qui RESEMBLE tant a la
mort. La mort! quest ellie? sans
doute un sommeil; mieux que celia,
un meant. Pourquoi pas? pourquoi ne
serait-ce pas apres ma mort, CONNIE
c'etait avant ma Nuisance? On etions-
nous, il y a cent ans, nous tous qui Ell.
ce moment passions CONNIE des ON
bres sur la terre, pour place bient0t 4
d'autres ombres? Nous etions sans
doute OH nous serons au sortir de la
vie. Puisqu'il fut I'm temps Oh nous
ne serons plus? Mais, nous dit-on,
Tespoir dune autre vie est une conso-
lation. Je responds: Esperer, c'est re-
yer une chose desiree ct possible mails
non certaine. ST TN reve sufft pour
vous consider, gardez-le pour vous; je
ne veux pas vous en- priver."
Ito be continued.)
Lower coast gazette., 1913-05-31
L'HABiTATloN sAlNT-YeARs
(Cnnfinued.l
ERNEST FELLON,
Secretary.

(Continued.)
De tout ce qui fnt dit d Blanchette
ellie ne retint qu'une chose; c'est qu'en
deyenant la femme de Demon, ellie lie
placait dams une position fausse ct pc
rilleuse. Pelasge lie pensait, aussi, SO
disait.elle, puisqu'il await offert sa for
tune a Demon, pour quill allat vivre a
Ietranger avec Blanchette. Cette offre
| 6tait bien I'm moyen de salut;; mails De-
mon ne ~paccepterait jamais. Alors que
faire =. .helas! sc resigner a la desti-
| nee, Sc sacrificer par amour pour De-
mon. Telle fut, apres bien des larmes,
la conclusion a laquelle Blanchette
s'arreta.
Quand Demon ~s'apercut du change
ment survenu chez Blanchette, il en-
ira dams une violente colere contre sa
tante ct ses cousines; II leur reprocha,
dams les termes les plus amers, d'etre
venues chez lui pour TRAVELLER hypo-
critement a la RUNE de son bonheur.
u leur declara quill, await toujours eu
es commerages en- horreur, ct que 81
ION mettait dams I'm sac toutes les ba-
gardes, jeunes ct v~ieilles, qui s'occu-
pent des affaires d'autrui, ct qu'on les
iietat au fleuve, il en- serait charme.
II sortit, etouffant de fureur, mails es-
perant qu'apres I'm pareil eclat on Sc
haterait de gutter So maison. 1t men
fut rien: ces danes Sc firent I'm m6rite,
aux yeux de Blanchette, de supporter
les outrages de Demon pour lie SAWYER
de l'abime on lie poussait son egare-
ment.
Demon ne rentra qu'au soleil couch.
ant. II toucha a peine au diner que
Blanchette lui servit. Dams la soiree,
il la prit a part, ct lui demanda en-
core une fois 81 yraiment ellie etait de-
cidee a ne pas s'unir lui. Sa voix
etait douce; il pressait affectueuse-
ment les mains de Blanchette dams les
| siennes ct sur son occur. Blanchette
cut peine assez de force pour lui re-
| pondre.
"Parrain, cher bien-aime parrain,"
dit-elle, zee que fen fails c'est par at
lection pour vous; je vous bien main
tenant qu'etant votre femme, je Sc
rails une source de malheurs pour
yous. Vous avez vecu longtemps en-
Europe, vous avez 0ublie les prejuges
du pays; plus tard vous me rendrez
justice, mon bon parrain. All! Il men
codte beaucoup de vous faire de la
peine. Je regrette que ma mere ne
matt pas laissee dams les bois OH je
suis nee; je serais moins malheur-
euse parmi les sauvages, qu'au sein
de cette societe civilisee qui me traite
Lower coast gazette., 1913-05-31

BE 1T FURTHER RESOLVED, That
when said bonds are issued as pro-
vided for herein they shall be sold by
the Drainage Commissioners for not
less than par and that the proceedt
realized from the sale Of said bonds
shall constitute a trust fund to be used
exclusively for draining and reclaim
ing the unreclaimed lands as herein
before described and situated and com
prised within the limits of the Venice
Drainage District.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, etc.,
That in order to pay the semi-annual
interest due on said bonds on the first
day of February, 1914, and on the first
day of August, 1914, the Board OF
Commissioners for the Venice Drainage
District does hereby in accordance
with the Constitution and laws of the
State of Louisiana, hereby levy and
order the levy and assessment for the
yekr 1913 upon each and every acre
of land included in said Venice Drain
age District as above described, an
acreage tax Of One Dollar and Fifty
Gents ($1.50} per acre, for the pay
ment of the interest as above set forth
and the operation of the Drainage Dis
trict.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, ETC.,
That a copy of this resolution shall be
forwarded to the assessor of the Par
ish of Plaquemines, who shall assess
and extend on the assessment rolls for
the year 1913, the acreage tax or
forced contribution of One and 5O-lOO
Dollars (s1.50} per acre herein levied
in the manner directed by the laws OF
the State of Louisiana and that he file
the said roll with the proper officials
as required by law.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, etc.,
That the original of this resolution,
as signed in duplicate, shall be record
ed in the mortgage records Of the Par
ish of Plaquemines and shall be pub
lished in the official journal OF the
Parish of Plaquemines, as provided for
by Act 81 Of the Legislature OF 1910,
and that a copy of this resolution be
| duly forwarded to the Secretary OF
State for registry in accordance with
law, and it is made the duty OF the
! President of the Board of Commission
ers Of the Venice Drainage District to
cause this registry, r%ecordation and
publication to be made.
The vote on the foregoing ordinance
was ordered and Messrs. Aug. A. Blu
ras. A. Commander, Manuel G. Buras,
Joseph Clark and Chas. Colombel vot-
ed in the affirmative. Nays, none.
And the resolution was declared
adopted.
The Board took a recess to allow
these minutes to be written.
The Board reconyened after recess,
and the minutes of the previous meet
ing were read and approved.
AUG. A. BURAS,
President.
ERNEST FELLON,
Secretary.
Lower coast gazette., 1913-05-31

WHEREAS, The Board Of Commis.
sioners of the Venice Drainage Dis
trict deem it proper that such woEk
of reclamation be undertaken and th3.t
the lands embracing 1469.56 acres of
land in this district should be Ne
claimed in the manner reported sy
the Board of State Engineers and tFe
funds should be provided with whN:h
to drain and reclaim said lands by m.
curing Indebtedness and to issue &e-
gotiable bonds therefor against e;ach
acre of land to the extent of Forty Nd
50-100 Dollars ($40,50) per acre, or ian
aggregate of F%ifty-nine Thousand, FIVE
Hundred Dollars (S59, 500. 00), and
WHEREAS, Under the Constitution
and laws of this State it is provided
that the Board of Commissioners OF
Drainage Districts, when authorized
by owners owning more than a major
ity in acres of the land affected, may
levy against said land thus specially
benefited an acreage tax or forced
contribution;
THEREFORE, Be it Resolved by the
Board of Commissioners for the Ven
ice Drainage District, that it at once
proceed to drain and reclaim in ac-
cordance with said report and plans
advised by the Board of State Engi-
neers, all of the land included within
this district and containing 1469.56
acres, which said lands form the en-
tire acreage within the boundary of
this district, as shown on the map OF
this district on file with this Board
and attached to the report OF the Beard
of State Engineers.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That
in-order~t to provide funds for the drain
age and reclamation of said lane as
above described, the Board of Commits
sioners for the Venice Drainage Dis
trict, for and on behalf of said district.
does hereby incur a debt to the
amount of Forty and $4,000 Dollars
($4O.5O) per acre against each and ev-
cry acre of land situated in this dis
trict, to be reclaimed, or an aggregate
of Fifty-nine Thousand, Five Hundred
Dollars $3.50, SOC. 0O>, against the whole
1469.5O acres of land included within
the limits of this district to be re.
claimed and drained by leveeing and
pumping the same. the whole of which
said debt is incurred for each acre of
land and for all of the land as above
set forth in accordance with the terms
of this resolution.
BE 1T FURTHER RESOLVED, That
to evidence the debt in the amount of
Fifty-nine Thousand, Five Hundred
Dollars $3.50, 500.00), here above incur
red in this district, the Board of Com
Lower coast gazette., 1913-05-31
MINUTES OF A MEETING.
montinued from Page L.

Continued from rage H.
power In your honorable body, when
petitioned by a majority in acres Of
the lands affected, to levy a forced
contribution or acreage tax on the
lands specially benefited by said drain
age and reclamation, we, the under
signed property owners, representing
more than a majority in acres of the
lands situated in the Venice Drainage
District, petition your honorable body
TO undertake the drainage and recla-
nation of the lands in the manner
advised by the Board of State Engi-
neers, which lands are fully described
as follows:
Bounded on the north by the
lower line of the Fort Jackson Re
servation, bounded on the east by
the Mississippi River, on the south
by the north bank of Spanish Pass
and the Jump and bounded on the
west by a line seven to eight ar
penis in depth from the Mississip-
pi River and generally parallel
thereto and to be fixed by the
line ON which the Protection
Levee shall be built and all OF
that area in the Parish of Plaque
mines on the west bank of the
Mississippi River, within the said
boundary, shall constitute the
area of the Venice Drainage Dis
trict, as the same shall appear
from the map of the said district,
founded on a survey of said local
ity made by the State Board of
Engineers.
And in order to provide funds to
accomplish the drainage and reclama-
ton of said lands, your petitioners
further petition your honorable body
to incur debt to the extent Of not ex-
ceeding S40.50 per acre or an aggre'
gate Of not exceeding $%59,50O.OO
against 1,469.56 acres of land and to
issue negotiable bonds representing
said debt with 5 per cent semi-annual
interest-bearing coupons attached
thereto and to run not longer than
forty years in accordance with law;
and
Your petitioners further respectfully
petition and request your honorable
body that after said bonds are issued
and provided for, your honorable body
levy each year such acreage tax as
may be necessary against said lands
to pay the interest and principal OF
said debt and to maintain the drain
age and operating expenses of said
Venice Drainage District, wherein said
lands are located, and petitioners fur
Their pray that the whole be done in
accordance with the Constitution and
laws of the State of Louisiana, said
tax not to exceed Three and 5O-1OO
Dollars ($3.50) per acre, per annum.
Respectfully submitted, this 18th day
OF April, 1913.
Lower coast gazette., 1913-05-31
CHAPlTRE XLv1.

lie desespoir s'empare de Demon.
Deux jours s'ecoulerent, pendant les.
quels Blanchette eprouva la satisfac.
ton amere que procure raccomplisse.
ment dun devoir penible. Ellie crut
que lie plus fort de son epreuve etait
fat. Mails en remarquant que la iris.
tesse de Demon croissait sans inter.
ruption, ellie sentit croitre son propre
chagrln. Demon ne sortait plus; IL ne
Lower coast gazette., 1913-05-31

avec tant de barbarie. Enfin, c'est la
destinee; il faut bien s'incliner devant
elle."
A ce mot "destinee," la raison de
Demon Sc %revolta; son penchant a la
superstition disparut dams l'eclair du
bon sens.
La destinee! la destin6e!" s'ecria-
til; je reconnais bien la lie Language
de ma tante ct de mes cousines. Tu te
Lower coast gazette., 1913-05-31

August of each year, beginning with
the first day of February, 1914, and
continuing so long as any bonds re-
main unpaid. Each bond shall bear the
date of August /, 1913, and begin to
mature on the list day of August, 1918,
and shall mature and become payable
each year thereafter until the first day
of August, 1853, in the following man
ner:
Lower coast gazette., 1913-05-31
VENICE DRAINAGE DISTRICT.

Secretary. President.
The denomination of the bonds here
IN authorized to be issued shall be of
Five Hundred Dollars s500.00) each,
end shall run for a period of from five
90 to forty (40) years from the list
day of AUGUST 1918, and bear interest
at the rate OF 5 per cent per annum,
payable semi-annually on the first day
of February and on the first day of
Lower coast gazette., 1913-05-31

Ito be c%ontinued.)
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-05
Alahama's School System

The Russell Sage foundation has is
sued a pamphlet that does not place
Alabama in the lists of states in high
ly favorable positions.
To begin with, Alabama is the
| forty-first state in the number of
scholars enrolled in public schools or
in any other schools. In total school
revenue she is the thirty-fifth state,
and this shows that the enrolment is
not as large as it should be. IL all
expenditures were distributed equally
there would be 81 each year per child
of school age, In days of schooling
this state is orty-seventh, the aver
age attendance being but AZ days.
Each days attendance of pupil costs
the state 9 cents. Alabama has 1902
pupils in college, 11,131 in high
schools, and 430,807 in elementary
schools. The average salary of public
school teachers in this state is $314.
In literacy Alabama is the forty
sixth state, only South Carolina and
Louisiana having lower rank.
In the respect of revenue for public
schools this state stands well. The
cities are freely taxed to help the
weaker counties, and those counties
do not seem to get results up to the
outlay.
The truth is, state and county taxes
are apportioned by the county boards
of revenue to suit themselves. Those
boards are under no obligation to con-
slider the biennial enumerations of
school children. They are required "to
provide, as nearly as practicable,
school terms Of equal Duration" This
is the sum total of constitutional direc-
| ton.
The county boards of education are
selected by the chairmen of the vari-
Gus school districts in county. In
jefferson county there are about 120
districts, and Chairman Parker, who
represents $4,000 children in Birming-
ham, has no more voice in the selec-
tion of a county board of education
than has the chairman of the Toad
vine district representing perhaps "A
pupils. The constitution of 1901 was
framed by the rural districts for the
rural districts in particular, and while
the state is the thirty-fifth in the mat
ter of school revenue her standing in
educational results is very near the
foot of the ladder.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-05
The Good College Mother

Mrs. Amelia G. Gorgas, for many
wears librarian of the University of
Alabama, at the advanced age Of S8,
died Friday morning at her residence
in Tuscaloosa.
She was the daughter of a governor,
the wife Of a gallant soldier and great
educator, and the mother of one of
the most distinguished Alabamians Of
the present day.
Mrs. Gorgas was loved by all the
boys who attended the university at
periods during the past "a years, for
if any woman has ever acquired with
Justice the title of college Mother"
that woman was she.
Whatever may be the claims or
however just the claims of the So
called modern woman" with her
frills and furbeIows and suffragette
tendencies, man still loves to respect
and venerate the woman of the old
school, most splendid type of whom
was Mrs. Gorgas.
She was one of those advanced in
years who could understand the very
young. She was one who could raise
her face and smile when the heaviest
clouds had gathered. She was one
who was never heard to speak in
angry tone, or known to withhold her
aid when young men suffered.
The announcement of her death
caused sorrow throughout Alabama
Perhaps in all the state no other
woman was loved as she.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-05
Active inquiry for Farms.

The real estate market in Birmng
ham was comparatively dull last year.
said L. P. Hill, "but there was a very
active inquiry for farms. large and
small, in this section OF Alabama. and
the new year starts off with even more
earnest inquiry.
Il have been instrumental recently
in selling a number of small farms near
Birmingham and only day or SO ago
IL northern men called to see me to
discuss agricultural conditions with a
view of purchasing farms.
Speaking of Birmingham realty, ev-
cry branch of business hereabouts was
active all last fall and, of course, there
was some trading in city property, but
relatively speaking, the market was
slow. 1t will be different this year,
think. Birmingham is certainly 1grow-
ing at faster rate than even. and
there Is sure to come a lively revival
in the demand for local property. But
the demand for farm lands was never
so active as right now"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-05
THE KEARSARGE

BY James Jeffrey Roche.
IN the gloomy ocean bed
Dwelt formless thing, and said
In the dim and countless cons long
ago,
.I will build a stronghold high.
Oceans power to defy
And the pride of naughty man to lag
low"
Crept the minutes for the sad
Sped the cycles for the glad.
But the march of time was neither less
nor more;
While the formless atom died.
Myriad millions by its side,
And above them slowly lifted Roncador
Rocador of Caribee.
Coral dragon Of the sea-
Ever sleeping with his teeth below the
wave;
Woe to him who breaks. the sleep, =
Woe to themfwho sail the deep!
Woe to ship and man that fear a ship
mans grave!
Hither many a galleon old
Heavy-keeled with guilty gold,
Fled before the hardy rover shifting
sore;
But the sleeper silent lay
Till the preyer and his prey
Brought their plunder and their bones
to Roncador.
Be content, o conquerori
Now our bravest ship OF war;
War and tempest who had often braved, !,
before. ~
All her storied prowess past,
Strikes her glorious flag at last
To the formless thing that builded
Roncador.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-05
Penalty in Tax Valuations

A notice in another column of to-
days Age-Herald should not go un-
needed. Tax Assessor F. A. Hewitt
notifies all who do not return their
property for tax purposes by the first
Monday in February that he will be
compelled to add 10 per cent to be-
lated valuations. This has long been
the law, and the state tax commission
now commands each county assessor
to apply it without exception. The
order of the state tax commission is
imperative, leaving Assessor Hewitt
no room for favor of any sort.
Property holders should value their
property for tax purposes this month.
The third day of February is a Mon
day, and valuations will become de-
linquent then. This fact should be
spread far and near in this broad
county in order that the penalty OF
10 per cent to valuation may not be
incurred. Assessor Hewitt has given
ample warning of the law as it will be
applied this year, and the taxpayers
who are penalized will alone be at
fault.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-05

successors will do. In this free re-
public a little pageantry will go a
long way, but with each recurring
inauguration there viii be monster
parade and there should be.
That is a moving scene which this
country witnesses when one man va
Gates the chief executive office and
another goes in. On the fourth OF
March, President Taft and President
elect Wilson will ride in carriage
side by side down the avenue to the
capitol and the new President and
the ex-President will ride together
from the capitol to the White House
amid the blare of trumpets. But in
few hours the entire ceremony is
ended and the thousands of particl-
pants and the great mass of specta-
tors settle down to their wonted tenor.
President Lincoln was proverbial
for his anecdote and his apt stories as
well as his grave demeanor when dis
cussing momentous problems of state.
So it will be, doubtless, with the new
democratic President who can be
grave and gay by turn as the occa-
sion prompts. And, as humor is one
of the wholesome tonics Of life, no
President is any the less great be-
cause he tells joke or listens to one.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-05

dealing with great power instead
of a mere individual.
The country looks on astonished.
The service Of subpoena was ac-
cepted through lawyer. This is a
good service, and now the question
arises, how i'll is the oil prince after
all? What is his complaint? When
last seen he was well and strong, and
the Pujo committee should analyze
his reported illness thoroughly. Sub
poenas from Congress should be no
respectefs of persons. An oil prince
is no more exempt from service in
this country than a plain citizen. All
look alike, or should look alike, to
subpoena servers
The Pujo committee should see to
it that no favors are granted in this
case. Other witnesses have been
called and have testified, and the
committee should make the fact plain
that all citizens stand on one footing
when their testimony is-needed by a
congressional committee.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-05
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Good Business Outlook

Il feel that the year 1913 will be a yeai
of exceptional prosperity said Thoma.
f. Jared of Chicago
"The business world witnessed vers
high records in 1906 and in 1907, and we
had some high records again in 1872
but believe that In certain lines of com.
mercial endeavor we will have a higher
degree of prosperity during the next
tweleve months than We had even in
1906. The hsalthy demand for iron and
steel would certainly indicate great pros
perity; and then there are many other
good signs, Taken altogether I think
everybody has right to feel optimis-
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