The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-10-06

hard lines CT her countenance nad
vanished. why, do you ask? Some
thing there may have suggested Wis
ions of home somewhere, recotlec-
tions maybe, of mother whose
heart is bleeding for the hayward
girl out in the world, she knows not
where.
Aunt RachaePs Plea.
Every member of the committee,
and the two lady assistants were up
TO their eyes in work issuing rations
and fitting out some half a hundred
meagerly clad, half famished storm
sufferers. chiefly mothers and their
little children, when In rushed Aunt
Rachael" one of the now almost ex-
tinct old ''black mammies' of ante
bellum days.
As her kind are wont to do On all
occasions when introducing them
selves to ode whi(te) folk" Aunt
Rachael courtesied her way into the
room. TANK de Lawd, l dun foun
de place whar de viii folk is gibbin'
out vittuals an klose ter de niggahs
whut wuz washed away-whar de
DOSo udu 10, SASltiiAOu AuuI
Rachael
One of the committeeman approach
ed her and as was his duty, PROFOUND
ed these questions: Where did you
live; how long had you lived there;
did you lose anything; and where is
your house now?"
Aunt Rachael was perceptibly i'm
patient under such catechising and
the committeeman had scarcely : fin
ished- when she broke in with: Go
F'long chile, doan ak me no mo-
kwestiuns; Use horngry and want
sum vittuals an klose; fore de Dawd,
I does. Kun on chile and gimme
sum vittuals; bless Gawd, neber
heerd tell NV no SIGH. Honey, bin
libin on de beach .eber since de sur
render, and l KUN frum Ferginny wild
my ole mistus 'rectly after de stars
fell; she's dun ded an gone, but de
Lawd, he amt tuck me yit. Did
loos ennything in de storm? Better
ak me whit l dident looS. Kun hon
ey an gimme dem vittuals kase Use
frcrngry. My house? Iawd ha' mus
sy chile, ain ypu seed ma house?
NO, TSCh~u you 10 oOCN ~
kase tain nuthin left Nv hit ter see
cepen de corner NV de kitchen-hits
down dare now, but ain gwine back
to see hit no mo kase hits full Nv
snakes. kase Jest KUN fun dare an
seed em-fore Gawd, amt gwine
back no mo neither, arter gifts dem
vittuals and klose."
Aunt Rachael was given victuals
and clothes and departed as she had
entered, with a courtesy, half whis
pering, half grooming a prayer:
'FGawd bless dem viii gemmensi
Gawd bless en-"
A Son of Ireland.
In rushed a middleaged son of the
Emerald Isle, who, without the
usual salutations announced himself:
ME name is Dinny Ryan, ind l got
losht in the shtorrum. Say boss, ind
I'm afther askin NV yez bit Nv the
assistance what yez aire givin the
poore divils what wuz losht the same
es / wuz. Yis, yis begorry, livery
bloody pace NV me lasht weeks
washin wuz loSht on the smack
Minervy. ind the rags yez sees me
I'm now lis me washin Nv the wake
before 1asht. ind If the Minervy has
hin found / havin't heerd Nv it yit
IYis. ,yiS l wuz losht in the storrum,
ind begorry I hiv just found meseh.
wuZ losht at Aast Pass, ketchin
bait, ind begorTy me ind all me ship
mates wuz losht but all Nv us hav
bin found"
"Dinny" was given an outfit, and
he spent the night at St. Anthony's.
Their Pound of Flesh.
At a late hour ON Saturday even
ing the Relief Committee was ap-
priced of the deplorable situation and
restitution of some fifty to seventy
FIVE persons forming the settlement
about Carson Point and Trout Bayou.
1t was utterly impossible for the COM
mittee to send relief to these people
on Saturday night, but early Sunday
a relief expedition was organized and
equipped with sufficient food. cloth
ing and medicines 10 relieve the suf-
fering. destitute, homeless half a hun
dred women and little children OF
that storm-demolished neighborhood,
Carson Point and Trout Bayou are
accessible only by boat, and therto
hangs the tale. Here was the OPP
portunitv for the owners Of the
launch Cupid to demand of the Relief
Committee their pound of flesh, -
and the owners OF the Cupid took adj
vantage Of the opportunity when they
extorted from the committee Fifty
Dollars for the trip OF twelve miles
and return.
Left See-Saw.
One of the members of the COM
nittee covering the eastern water