The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1905-09-14

viii follow them unless heavily fed
Even the professional bee-keeDers
have become dssheaTIened with 50
many succeeding wears eff these con-
dilons and have in most cases aban-
doned the bees to their fate, not see
( ing sufficient in the future to warrant
them in putting more money into iced.
/ They viii probably save their best
I colonies, however. for the bee fever
after once becoming established is "a
difficult thing to thoroughly eradicate,
and the business is one which can be
rebuilt with marvellous raDidity dur
ing a run Of good seasons.
Stories Of Gay Kissimmee.
As / was going through town re-
Gently. I saw q cow deliberately walk
up the steps Of an hotel and go in the
open door. A moment after my atten-
tion was attracted By man Who vas
leaning against a tree, and laughing
with all his might. Ny curiosity was
aroused and I asked him what he was
SO tickled about. why" said he. Il
was thinking how badly fooled that
COW was, if she went into that hotel
expecting to get something to eat. /
am boarding there.
Lettering on into North Kissimmee,
I sat me down to reflect, under one Of
those magnificent oaks which adorn
that section. and was soon joined by
a gentleman who lived nearby, but
who seemed to be idlesOme also. We
talked about many things, and finally
I complimented him on what nice
shade trees were standing there.
Yes" said he, this is the garden
spot of Kissimmee, / would not i've
at any other place in it. We have
plenty of shade and pretty white sand
and there are no mosquitoes here,
there never was any. (They were
buzzing all around me them Why,
I don't see how those people down in
South Kissimmee live at all. / was
down there the other day to see
and he and his wife and children mad
to stay under mosquito bars all dur
ing the day, and they told me at night
they had TO put up double bars tOI
keep from actually being eat up.
They even have to buy bars for their
dogs to sleep under down there TO
keep them from going crazy on &C
count Of the mosquitoes.
Then 1 wandered back down Broad
way and was attracted by the thous-
ands of little minnows that were
sporting up and down the cutters and
flashing their beautiful, but awful hot,
sunlight While standing, admiriGg
and perspiring, I was joined by q
native" and he and l also talked oil
many things, but mainly Of fish, and
when l said how funny it seemed to /
see them swimming up and down the
streets of the town, ne said, THAT
is nothing to what happened here in
1S-. At that time people sat on the
top step Of the bank and caught ten
pound trout as fast as they could bait
their hook. In fact that was the time /
when Kissimmee commenced to be z /
shipper Of fish, for the people could /
stand in their doors and catch 50
many fish, they began to ship them to |
the north, and now you see to what
that business has grown .
to-" l meditated, that perhaps Anna
Mas was not dead, after ALL as l left
him.
That fish story made me so hot, that
l wandered on sometime, without no.
ticing anything, but finally ran plum
up against a man, who like myself,
seemed deep in meditation. In fact
he looked so much worse off than my
self, 1 Immediately frightened up, and
asked him the cause of bis deep mel
ancholly. It appears that he was one
Of the city Fathers" and had been
trying 70 have the streets worked.
Said he, "this is the biggest fool town
ever struck, 1 try to work the streets
when the ground is dry, and every
body blames me about raising so
much dust and sand. | then quit and
wait until the ground gets wet, and
hen everybody curses me for making
so much mud, and turning over the
grass 10 rot and cause fever. And
hen when I catch the ground in right.
shape, and start in to fix street, the
people on every other street say that
am showing partially, or that / hap
zen to own property on that particu-
ar street, Or something else equally
mean: so life has been made so bur
lensome 10 me I came out to be alone
his morning to mediate on whether
would resign, run away or commit
Uicide. I haven't decided yet" And I.
70 I left him, but his troubles affect
d me so deeply I decided to postpone
ny rambIe into South Kissimmee to
ONE future day.-"Idler," in Kissim.
nee Valley Gazette.