The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-11-17
Chapter XVI.

The previous chapters. and YESTERDAY
p the Leon Hotel in Tallahassee
Yee'ing sure that he was dropping into
On incurable melancholy. obtained
hts permission to do an assay
THE Bachelor" apropos of him
He said he wouldn't get angry or
hurt me. u
All OF the time, respect onlv two
things-physical violence and death
Each OF these get my Angora 9TH
erwise' Rocky mountain. Each os
these give me the hook.
The fact is. I had already torn
into small pieces two articles on tho
Married State. apropos of the Govern.
or. ] already knew that | WASN'T o.
ing to get anything from the govern
or because he refused TO re.appoint
. me ON his military stan. didn't
care anything for il intrinsica,lv
but II made an impression on Walter
Roberts and Rognat sangree. He re-
spectiuiiy declined and appointed 7
n. Bars instead. My vanity told ne
. that the governor, being martial only
IN time of peace. got cold feet, being
scared that | would use the useless
sword OF the eolonel-on-the-staff and
spit him through the stomach there
with. as | had just returned from my
junior term in the University of IN
sanity and there "ain't no telling
what we are a-gwine to do nohow."
y So ] tore up the articles wherein
and whereby defended the holy
state OF matrimony at the expense of
the chief bachelor of the state of Flor
ida because / was scared-he being
bigger than my wife's husband. he
might do me physical damage, of
which | have. as aforesaid, a healthy
fear
What profteth a Gilchrist to gain
the whole governorship and lose his
happiness? The bitterest portion of
the defeat and killing of Saul to Da-
vid was the prospect that someone
would tell It TO the maidens of Asca-
Ion. When | was king of Babylon
and you were a slave in my palace
the best part of my victory was tell
ing you Of ii. When | was king of the
bar at Apalachicola q do not mean
Shanahan's BARI to come home and
tell my wife of victory ovSr Burdine
or Oven-that was very good.
What If one have the wizardry of
Shakespeare. what if ones thoughts
like bees rob every blossom in the
werld. If one have no tent royal
wherein lives an empress to bring
home to her the booty with merry
march? o, Governor! No wonder you
leave vacant the mansion in Tallahas-
see to the monkeys and bats ard the
shivering owls! Why, the trees of the
Mansion should droop, not with
dreary moss. but long trailing swings
IN which your tall sons could frisk
two and fro and let the old cat die.
A barren scepter is put within your
grip, no son of yours succeeding!
Why. your celebacy is reflection On
the fairest creation of God. 1t is a
positive sacrilege. Read Venus and
Adonis. pray you.
Llsten-God made the beauty OF
the pun balls we call stars; and the
endless ocean OF space; and the shin
ing rivers; and the solemn trees that
do them homage on their banks; ana
the trembling lily on the river brim;
and the long delicious cry of the car
dlnal in the cottonwood and the un-
speakable loneliness OF the everiast-
ing dawn and dusk; and the white
glory of marble cities: and the ocean
at. Palm Beach-a waving sea OF Vlo-
let's singing forever on the edges OF
Sthe plot of purple flowers lie
thought of the utter JOY OF a yellow
rose and gave his thought to the
world. insuring the perpetuity OF that
thought and the never falling ira
GRANGE of our star on which we i've;
and he stood the mountains with
their white boards over the ten"el
valleys. and set the eagles in the eye
OF the sun. He united Niagara tnat
we might. on our honeymoon take
Mary there to keep her from beiieV-
Wing all we were telling her after the
twilight. He put the thunder In the
cloud IN waken us to our Immortal
destiny. and the lightning; and about
our shores he poured the starllt all
enclosing waves of death. He huns
into his palace sons and daughters
and the daughters each was the
Thought of all made into one SYMBOL
rva~tha stars brought near-tne
rivers domesticated-the rapture Vi
the nightingale repeated in KISS
the trembling lily becomes "nl'e