The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1900-08-04

works. insist that he name her the
Calamity Jane, but see is to be The
Lucifer. Hall q mile walk reaches the
sea, the restless sea, ever and forever
bombArding the land. Once It's
dominion was universal; the land was
under 1t everywhere. Then some OF
the land freed itself and rose above the
tyrAnt sea, aud ever since then the
ocean has made unceasiDg wal to re-
establish It's reign. But here the land
is always gaining.
Coming back We must loiter at the
toll house at the bridge end, add listen
to the usual stories told by the men
who fish for sport. They live IN New
England and have Punic blood in their
veins and inherit the Punic love Of
fish and fishing.
Grover Cleveland, the half breed
P~hoenician, is an example. The toll
keeper is a blue-eyed "SOutherner,"
his mother-in -law, an ol~lve-skinned
Oriental and his niece is a daughter
Of q Swede and the Oriental's other
daughter. She is picture Of physical
health and strength. There were
many Swedes in Florida in ante-freeze
days and many yet, and everybody
tells what good, honest people the
Swedes are.
There are people here who fed from
consumption in the North and have
cheated the graveyard of a quarter Of
a century Of time. l never realized
the meaning Of dolce far RifNfs and to
do nothing was neyer sweet to me be-
fore. But here one feels as il he were
going to live always and hence there is
no need Of hurry. Yet one feels ener.
getic and the people fly like birds as
they wheel from town along the she'll
road grade towards the bridge and
coast. That frs. morning, at Mr..
Detweiler's, as | looked out from my
pillow at the calm and lovely scene
the words Of the old song, 'My Last
Cigar" came to mind:
"Ahl what had | at such q time
To do with wasting care"
At the dock In front Of the house my
hosts ten year old girl and two Of her
neigbbors are fishing. One chaffs the
other about her poor job Of splicing a
shark line. They know everything
about fish and boats. Their feet and
calves are bare and brown as well as
their faces, and their heads are bare.
They are pictures Of health; air and
water are as kind TO them here a a
mother to her child. A hundred yards
below 10 the burned-out hull Of Loril-
lsrd's yacht, the Caimsn, q sad sight
Is the tangle Of iron within her The
hunting boat that belonged with her
was on shore and 1t alone is worth
$4,000. The stable boat that held the
horses and buggies is at Smyrna. The
little gasoline launch is worth $500.
The yacht is l26 feet long and was
fitted with everything that makes a
millionaire's house elegant-and all
up one night.
New Smyrna was destroyed by
Indians in December, 1886, and many
killed. Many negroes took part
the Indians In the wars Of the
Seminoles and Greeks here against the
and they added to its horrors.
One can have no idea what our regular
soldiers and the Missouri Volunteers
went through till be looks at the dense
forests Of Florida. Or what
energy Desoto and his men possessed
to cut their way through from St.
Augustine to the Mississippi.
The Oriental grandmother tells of
he peaceful times Of American planta-
ion days, especially Of the great rich
DUPONT, from South Carolina,
who came here and had bis six hundred
and never raised enough to feed
hem but bought cor from her father
very year, who, with nine slaves,
'aised corn to sell. The negroes are
reed from the whites. and whenever
he whites are freed from the negroes
We shall have begun L, live.
As evening comes on the sun goes
Town behind the Smyrna and sitting
N the front porch | watch as glorious
sunset as we ever have at Lexington.
Then 1t grows dark and warning light
rom the lighthouse flashes out and
makes q long beam down the inlet.
The lights Of New Smyrna are down
i the water, strung up and down.
The COW comes up and is MIXED, the
dickens come in and 20 to roost.
I am reminded Of the remark OF
artist who was with General
'herman's party when he visited our
'ost In the Rocky Mountains and
Uttered from inconsistencies when at
'lrginla Dale, because II was so much
Ike Switzerland: "Ths appearance Of
be country aud the people is quite
picturesque, but the conversation Of
be latter is very practical"
We have many ethnIc varieties in
he U. s. and q climate for each one,
md is each different kind would get
nto their own climate all would be
Iappy-whenever they emancipate
from slavery to Rothschlld.
There are some fellows at Lexington,
apt. 10. Pick Davis, 10. Hamlet,
King, John Lee, (who wouldn't
DIN the church till,he hears the apostles
Tere tishermen) and a lot more, who
! they ever got here and could see the
oats In all stages Of growth and decay
nd could catch fish as fast as thew
rant to, would never see home again.
hey would think they had died and
'ere In the happy fishing and boating
ROUNDS, GRORGR WusnS