The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-08-20


Silly-You have ruined my speech.
Butler-I am Chairman of Judicial
Committee B. think 1 am as good
lawyer as there is on the committee.
love to hear Col. Daugherty say in
committee meeting: Now, while
am not a lawyer, etc" 1 think any
lawyer from Jacksonville is better
than any lawyer from the rest Of
Florida
FToyd-Sure. Just before you all
came in was talking about death; /
was saying how advisable it was to
think always of death; even of ones
own death. exit Butler, exit Chase,
exit Floyd who returns with John
Watson and Smith, of Clay county.
and introduces them to Silly and Idle
Reader)
John watson-Yes, I am a candi-
date of governor of Florida. It is
time South Florida had some repre-
sentation in the Executive Bungalow.
Silly-Oh. How Sweet 1t seems so
romantic to meet a person who has
the nerve to think he is in the govern
or or president class. ! always wonder
Mr.. Watson, If 1t is not the candidates
wife who wants to be governor.
dent of the University of Georgia; now
am rich. I am against all forms of
| fanaticism like state-wide-p prohibition.
F1oyd-Sure. Just before you came
in was speaking of how necessary 1T
was for ones spiritual life to keep in
| the center of ones thought the idea
of ones own death; the fact that this
adventure lies in wait for each of us is
the mightiest fact of life. It towers
| over our life as the deep sky, star
written domes over the human race. 1t
restores our perspective. 1t makes US
kin to the stars and brothers to time
and space, and helps US to understand
the grandeur of each human indtvidu-
ality-justifying our belief that God
became man to restore US to our lost
estate, from which we fell.
exit John Watson and Smith OF
Clay. Exit Floyd who returns with
Reeves and Blanton, and Introduce
them to Silly and Idle Reader.)
Reaves-I admire and respect all of
the Reader family. In fac showed
this is the Wall bribery matter IL my
speech favoring the removal of Ed
wards. / said then What will the
newspapers Of Florida say If we do
not remove this man? That was the
gist of the CONFUSION I HAD on this
matter. 1 am honest. have swal-
| lowed about half OF the ten COM
mandments and sigh that there are
not twelve or fifteen for me to live up
| to. 1 am also in deep and silent ear
nest. Everything I do is sacred and
about me is the rustiing OF angels
wings When people are with me they
feel like they are in a cathedral.
Blanton-Have you all met my
friend Gornto? No? He is the heart
of the house; the hub OF the house;
the elements are so mixed in him that
he is very excellent and fine He IS
a cross between a wash-pot, John
Nelly and George Washington.
Floyd-7e's that fellow from Dead
TatC Elox- fcras% he hA n
killed my mullet bill?
Blanton-The same.
Floyd almost believe that I wish
he got drowned in the said bay. Sey,
Blanton, old man, speaking of death.
did you ever read the reply of Ulysses
Ito Calypso when Calypso offered him
immortality to forsake the wife Pene-
lope and stay on the island of Ogygia :?
No? / will recite 1t to you. st would
not take life, save on the terms OF
death. That sting in the wine of be
ing,s salt os re -'s$Q dytf1a: gereqis
ine salt of it's feast; what good to me
in the rise of the long storm wave UP
which my vessel plunges save in the
white dance of doom? o. Death,
thou hast a beckon to the brave. Thou
last plunge of the diver, thou last
sea. OF the navigator, thou last hunt
er's leap 90
exit Reaves and Blanton.)
Idle Reader-Suppose we go in the
| Hall there and listen to the speaking.
Floyd-Come with me. (They seat
themselves behind Hanson and talk in
whispers.)
F1oyd-This man in front of US is
| Hanson. He talks very little. Early
| in the session he said his friends at
home told him that the cabinet officers
whom he knew WELL would just pull
him around and use him, and, partly
/ hi u ho aod Ia1 IN
and the others, and gone from his
| boarding house to his chair and then
| back again. Next to him on his left is
Igou. Rather boyish face. He owns a
motor car and is an amiable, straight,
genial, gentlemanly fellow who never
will set the world af1re never will
want to. Next to Igou's is Casseaux.
He is at his room sick today. Next
to the chair of Casseaux is my chair.
That is Sheppard sitting there, from
| Gadsden county; note that his face
| looks like the face of a judge in old
England the England of say 400
! The svelte student looking person next
to the aisle is Gray of Gadsden. He is
one of the most American individuals
| in the house. To be the son of a
preacher and a school-teacher in ones
own right is combination which is
/ apt to produce energy and action
from a high plane This person Gray
is great spirit rare spirit. he is
! linen and lace. He is clean steel. He
is quiet as frost, or April He is con-
secutive and tireless. He can listen
to you for hours and not get in your
way and get off with an opinion OF
you which. if he expressed it you
would fight him for.
Gray :" what a lovely name
"And when you plighted troth. so long
refused.
Trough all the Gray and fawn your
blush suffused."
He is very quiet and untroubled, like
the night Portia returned home and
saw the candle shining in the window
it's light reminding her that $50 shines
a good deed in a naughty world" TC
be with him in an Inspiration like lis
tening to tranquil music or watching
your wife nursing her child Just after
you have managed to pay the grocery
bill. Gray sitting there by the isle
so clean and fine, and quiet is the fin
est spirit in the House. He remind:
me Of a college professor from {