Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1922-03-09

You may imagine that the figures are
wrong, that some mistake has been
made in the type. but it is not so; they
have left the heirs to disburse between
them $l,950,000. which under any
kind of circumstances ought to be
enough to support them in comfort all
their days. The rest goes to the gov
eminent. Is it any wonder that the
English pound sterling has recovered
so quickly when they have the spirit
to write such a law as that into the
statute books Of the nationp Our gov
eminent has been dilly-dallying over
the question of what to do, or what
not to do for the boys. our boys. who
suffered in the trenches; and so far
they have done nothing but talk about
what they will do. Today, they speak
of taxing this; tomorrow they find
SO much opposition to that subject that
they commence to talk of taxing some
other thing. But have you ever heard
of such thing as taxing two-thirds OF
all inheritances2 No. Yet what would
be more fair than such law?
1898
When real king will stand up bare
headed in the council chambers of his
nation and listen to the demands of the
senators to discontinue the use of the
words by the grace of God" and new
er bats an eye in protest, then there is
something doing in this old world OF
ours. The discrimination of that sim
pie sentence would mean that the So
called divine rights of king are all
thrown in the scrap pile of modern
thought, and that kings are but com
mon mortals here below. Yet this is
what king Gustave of Sweden did last
week, and now the conservatives of
that country are wild with anger at the
very idea Of such impertinence on the
part of the common people coAling
into the presence of the king with such
disloyal utterances.' Verify this old
world does move. IIere the very { =
ner stone of loyany is shattered .nlo
fragments so small as never Il DE
found again. The divine right cf H.,
Kaiser Wilhelm is bout as big as
peanut now, in his isolation and d.,
grace. The people take long lire
to see some things, but they do really
see them when the proper time comes.
and this is but che Of the many errors
which the human family has seen
through and ijghted. Little Sweden Is
10 be congratulated because Of the i'll
itiatlve shown to The rest of the nor-
archs in tlle oil wtrld who still hang !
On to the silly sentiments under the
guise Of divine right
When the United States purchased
Aleska, they bought the most active
volcano in the world.
1855
Men who have been holding cotton
or four years so that they could get
| fair price for it, have been forced |
o sell it on the open market in Mar
hall Texas, last week.
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The Ruston Daily Leader is author
ty for the statement that nothing slim
Hates interests in town improvement
more than to have large numbers of
;iizens attend the meeting of the Com
non Council, or the Chamber of Com
nerce.
1893
A prominent business man remarked
hat more than haIf-dozen able-bo-
lied DRINKS were noticeable in the
treets shortly after the heavy rain
torn last Monday. 1t is true from
his that Skinny pedllers are having
rec hand in Vernon Parish!
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1t is claimed that heat to be obtain
ID below the earth's surface will be
ample to run our existing machinery
rs we'll as to provide all that is neces-
'ary for HOUSEHOLD comforts, including
The labor costs for the ma
,hinery to make use of this never-fail- !
ng source of energy will be as nothing
compared with the power to be obtain /
ID from the earth's perpetual heat. |