The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-08-11
CHAPTER TX.

CHAFIEh Ia
Hibiscus blossoms on bushes in va
cant yards-the flowers red as fine
handkerchief soaked with fresh blood
in the open throat OF young Francesca.
Alamanda flowers beautiful as the pale
gold hair of Gordon Broome. The wide
river in front of the town, blue as the
blue plegades-Indian river! from
the blue horizon Of which, rising cloud
on cloud, tower in the twilight the
pompous and lead colored from the
forehead of which, now and then,
rushes steel-blue stream of cleo
tricity as big around as the hind leg of
a bull elephant, followed by the trum-
peting of stampeding herds Of thunder.
Foliage greener than green. Husky
pine trees like muscled legs of Jap
anese wrestlers. Impossibly striped
fish swimming in the salt river and by
the edges on shoals, a melancholy bird
which stands for hours over pale re-
Election, preoccupied with it's soul; and
as soon as this Edgar Allan Poe wad-
ing bird overhears you talking about
him he utters a series of yelps like a
hound dog when you kick his side, as
the bird flies twenty feet and begins
again his hypnotic trance on the
strangeness Of death. Palms! Palms !!
Palms! Palms! Palms!
All of that ought to be represented
in the legislature by a Parsee or a
Seminole Indian, or an Egyptian. 1t is
st. Lucie county at Fort Pierce. 1t is
200 miles further south than my uncle
Alexander the Great penetrated. 1t is
400 miles south of Damascus. 1t is a
ten days journey by camel south of
those pyramids that daily turn their
shadows toward the Nile.
So the representative from st. Lucie
county should be tropical. weird, ex-
citable, hery, moody, clutching at his
hidden yataghan at some fancied isn't
to Mahomet or Krishna.
But the law that rules is the law OF
opposites. The most serene, content
ed. calm Fred Fee! represented st.
Lucie county
Calm as the morn without a sound
Calm as to suit a calmer grief
And only through the faded leaf
The chestnut pattering to the ground"
He Is as calm as the Indian River
holding in its deep bosom the moon,
on hushed and silent night. He is as
calm as the face of a dead child, and
as happy as a live child. Is this due
to the pineapple juice he drinks al
home and the guavas with milk and
sugar he has for dessert and the ruby
guava jelly he spreads on his bread
or did spread; for John Cay and Kath-
crime and are eating all of his guava
jelly now. We are stopping at his
house in Fort Pierce till the slow Sea
board Air Line and the slow East
Coast railroad transports our cooking
stove and one mattress from Apa-
lachikinlaw to Four Beers. 1 wish now
had voted to give the railroads to R.
Hudson Burr to do with as he pleased
You see it's like this: Fred Fee
guaranteed me fifty dollars a month
| for a year, If I went in partnership
with him in Fort Pierce. I was making
| forty-f1ve dollars a month representing
Geo. Allen whenever his wife had him
| arrested for interfering with her beat
| ing him, which succession Of cases OF
| assault and cattery were tried In
Arthur's livery stable while the listen
| ing stalls gave me the horse laugh
| Every speech / made in the legislature
| ended with this Carthage Delenda-
Est: Who will guarantee me $50 q
month to move away from ApaIachi-
collar Fred Fee arose and said Ever
l." Even So" answered, and l have
moved. We are stopping at Fred Fees
house till the coffee grinder and GO
cart come. Little Sister has done beer
eat up by the mosquitoes, and Aunt