Greene County herald., 1909-10-22
EDITORIAL
PANAMA EDITORIAL TRIP.
LETTER NO. ]

Ye editor and wife as announced
in our issue of last week boarded the
cars Thursday afternoon of last
week and after the long wait of
some four hours and more at Vinegar
Bend, got train to Meridian. On
the run up there we lad the pleasure
of the company and fellowship of
Rev. R. H. M. Watson, that man OF
God whois constantly bubbling over
with the Holy Spirit. He very
much enlivened the time until di
verglng trains bore us to different
destinations,-him to Monroe, La,
to hold Revival meeting, us to
New Orleans to board our steamer
for the Isthmus. We got copy of
the last Standard of Watson to read
along with other religious papers
and literature we have in our grip
and glance at the library of the
reading room of the good steam
ship Abangarez in which we sit re
veals a good repetoire Of reading
matter if we run short on our supply
and are still literarily inclined. We
gladly notice that the Holy Bible
well bound has place on the list of
books. Thos. Nelson Page is there
by several volumes. Some works
descriptive and historical of Panama,
the caribbean Sea and those parts
generally will, probably receive our
first attention, though we did some
reading up along these lines along
back that might be intelligently rble
to appreciate the places into which
we 60
Before writing more, let US speak
about the signs of the recent equi-
noctial gale which greeted our eye a
the train sped on down to the Cres-
cent City from Hattiesburg Purvis
has almost disguised the storm fin
ger prints left IN April of 1908, but
the section traversed toward Pic
ayune in Harrison County Miss,
shows that the same powers of the
air that destroyed portion of Jobs
worldly effects in the long ago, had
done the same thing to the citizens
in those parts. Sturdy oaks with
leaves yet green on them, lay on the
ground, while lordly pines had low
cred their green crested heads be-
fore the compelling winds. There
must have been nearly as much loss
to holders of pine timber reserves !
here and over in the Louisiana line
below as to Greene County and ad
jacent county owners Ill Sept. 1907.
Lake Ponchatrain. Puzzle of the
students of inland water bodies for
its very bigness and location. As
our train rolled over its wide bosom |
and we gazad out on It's stretches |
of beautiful blue gently tapping
waters in some points ceasing only
where the bonding heavens declared |
the limit of eyes reach, and unto
others the distant and low haze of !
the grassy shores, we were reminded |
that soon gallant Steam Craft
would bear US out on the heaving
bosom of the sure enough sea and we
longed to be on board, and this lat
ter wish we now enjoy. It's calm
day here, the sun shining bright and
the river showing a gentle agitation
of waves of small proportion. Our
welcome to the boat was pleasant, a
white-coated urbane cabin boy dash
ing to the automobile and Juggling
our grips aboard and into the love
lest little state room, which is much
better filed up and slightly more
roomy than river steamboat cabin
The general appointments of these
steamers are splendid and pleasing
to the eye and cheering to the heart
Mail permitting will send the next
budget in time for next steamer
Stop to get this off in mail.
JAMES FAULK.
New Orleans, La,
On board SIS. Abangarez, 1920 A. NJ
LATER,-After leaving New
Orleans at about noon Saturday,
Oct. Is, our vessel passed down the
Mississippi 20 its mouth, some 120
miles under Its own steam just as
any ordinary river packet would Go,
the scenery being the usual round
ing bends, tree-adorned levees aN6
plantations with occasional small
towns, the houses of which we're
mainly visible only from little be-
low the roofs up owing 10 the height
of levee screening that much of the
view. The greenery of plant life on
the banks was was little dulled by
sombred leave coloring of Autumn. =
An excellent dinner was served at
2P. M. that to be in strict accor-
dance with the fashionable term we
should have called it lunch. We
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