The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-01-22
TerSely Told

II YOUR boy or your girl was down
on Palafox street yesterday after
school they know all about it and
they have probably told you of it ere
this.
There's a really true hand organ
man in town with a tiny mOneky, Just
like you remember-as you think
back some years-used to come TO
orr town once on time He's the
same disreputable, dirty looking sort
- chan that stood out in front of the
Johnson house under the tree that
spread over the side walk and the We
rands that ran about the front of it
And you used to sit on the railing of
that veranda and when the monkey
came up with his cap held in a plead
ing manner to you, you gave him the
penny that mother had given you
few minutes before-in fact as soon
as You heard the music of that hand
organ When he took it. you gave a
shrek of fright and delight inter
mingled and then
Well. the one of Palafox street is
Just like the one you remember ABOUT,
and just the same sort of boys and
girls. school books under their arms.
stopped and laughed at his antics
yesterday as you used to do when you
saw him in front of the Johnson.
house.
And. if you were real honest with
Yourself yesterday, you, too, stopped
among the crowd of children, as you
hurried on your way to your Office.
and grinned and chuckled t3 yourself
with the children at his queer capers.
It happened in the Southern Hotel.
4 One was a rather sportive looking
chap and the other dressed like a
business man of no little success.
Both wore emblems of their lodges.
The rather sportive chap walked
up confidently to the business man
4 and holding out his hand said:
/ am sure / have met you before.
i The business man looked him over
and then showing his right hand in his
81 Pocket said emphatically:
I'm damned if you have!"
The sportive fellows face flushed
and he walked away A friend ask
ed him what was the matter.
Why" he said. Il gave that fel-
low the Forester greeting; he wears
one Of the buttons and he didn't rec
Osnize IT, l think he is fake.
The business man said: Il don't
Know him. He's wearing an Elks PIN.
loo. He thought I'd stand for the
s rush
The real explanation was that the
sportive chap wore the emblem OF
,he A. o. o. F., and the business man
More B. P. o. E. button. One is
he head of an elk, the other that OF
e stag
'Whut yo' dom down heah anyway.
20 emery good fo' nothin' doag, yo.
N. ansah me, will 20? Say? The
Sneaker was one of those little SAT-
Ton cOlored darkies that serve as
messengers boys for firms in Pensacola
anu he was addressing his remarks
i 70 a lanky brown cur dog that he
Aaa caught by the collar at the cor
leg ot PalafoX and Romano streets.
70 es' runnin' off all the time,
la whut yo' is, and fust thing yo
.ho", yo' all is gwine to be losted
IoN Suah and then whut'fi yo DO. he
went on as he slapped him again and
again. But the dog didn't seem TO
mind. and gazed ,lonSingly after a
VoWd OF his fellow ours who were
,unnlng west on Ramana. But the
,yoy held him by the collar resolnte-
:, and dragged him along down Pala-
to1 street
ne maximum temperature at Pen
,dcoia yesterday was 81 degrees al
10" p. NJ. while the minimum temper
sure was oil degrees at a. m. Last
"a on The same. date the maximum
% degrees and the minimum Is