The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-07-14
CHAPTER V

chapter l mentioned the verse by "Old
wait the only poet I ever read after
VINO, l am certain, would be good
Irlenos with Punch Lovett and Charlie
mcClay. That is a great verse.
swear that ! don't know anv man. not
even excepting Ashland Beckett. who
cares for anything in comparison with
the love or affection Of some woman or
other. But now that 1 have written
that down Il seems to me a lie. Now
| 1t seems to me that I like Berrell better
than anybody or anything. Don't you
nave mooes, when one thing seems
true, and liter another seems true?
Berrell has beautiful soul. He was
the most byal person in Tallahassee,
not even excepting Mr.. Myers, the
lawyer, whom I have picked out to
worship.
remember a walk we took one
moonlight night. The most beautiful
| spot in the world, perhaps in the uni
| verse, that is away from the sea, is at
the southwest corner of Mr.. George
Lewis's residerce as one faces east or
| southeast whe1 the moon is up and is
| full and there are no clouds. There 1
stood with Beren. He was the one
who stopped m. And 1 knew as felt
! that vague contraint with which per-
| feet beauty affhts the soul, the beauty
| of the immorta evening glittering over
the happy tow in the most beautiful
part of the faiest continent of proba-
bly, the only ihabited star from one
end of the mill way to the other eve
are in the Milk Way, Temember) that
it were good I live forever in such
company
| Berrell is g. ocialist. His doctrine
seemed trifle5trained in the ITALIA
hassee country in Tallahassee; and
little malevolen Bauskett guyed poor
Berrell very SUCCESSFULLY.
Berren is nespaper reporter whom
God intended fome to meet at ITALIA
hassee, so that y soul might lean on
the shoulder o.Berrell when l was
tired after a strvgle to take the stand
sought, as laVer in the legislature
for the Ideal.
The most siefcant thing at the
Legislature was rrell. II you were a
blue jay motherontentedly sitting in
your nest IN theIp of an old oak tree
and you occasiolly felt a succession
of rhythmic jarslat were the strokes
of an axe which as, lick by lick, cut
ting into the oasree, the man at, the
should come don ana give way to a
different KIM tree, I guess you in
the head oFtht blue Jay would con-
tentedly bach D without thinking of
the cause # TIL jars. Now the pres
ence Of Berell Tallahassee was one
of the jas. Apowerful axeman is
swinging shar axe into the trunk of
the oak TIRE, hisdea being to cut down
growth vhictthe rings on the tree
will shows proably 100000 years old,
probably mill In years; for its seed
may be 1.-THE prent nebula.
Povertys tina axeman.
Berrell as sen the bread lines in
cities; hhas sen daughters of God
: and co-lrs Of eternity with Jesus
: Christ ping Straps out of garbage
; heaps beuse tey were starving to
death, tn in cites richer than Baby
lon, the 'me OF Rockefeller and the
place VIE, at an expense of ten or
twenty illion dollars, a Christian
I church being luilt. He showed me
! a story had Written about an actual
) casa allow who was dejectedly |
I walking a rive to cast himself in 1t |
) becausee was starving, when the |
near-sule was sandbagged by man |
S robber , was starving
e Somees l think the axeman hack |
S ing intee trunk of our social system |
is God. ut there is no danger of my |
I being scialist till 1t gets to be the |
n band Pn. If that ever happens, |
will prbly point to this chapter to |
II prove I was a charter member.
n o, youitician! Berrell didn't seem
: to me reat as think am. But he !
seemefy great. I wish 1 could in
4 troduou to Berren. I brought him
| to Aphicola. He said It reminded |
hi moquaint fishing village on the
| coast Maine, or some such place.
He SIT was the loveliest town in
| FloridThe hull of the boat Captain
| Romawhich is still building and
has Hbuilding for the past seven
! or cigars, struck him as the sym
boil Of town. Buzzett's drug store,
whicItook US ninety years to get
1t rich Oh to build, this lovely store
er took sye. / took him around town
Al in ~ with John and sister. He
ii almonVerted me to socialism; but
De the q of this q am back in Apa-
l. lachfhere) delightful town where
,e there poverty, but probably not
III penU believe very nearly converted
l. himf from socialism. I told him
wha'ea captain told me: that he
go waser in a port where almost
l. witrxception the faces Of the peo-
pie so pleasant and happy look
rs ing. my! I had been hooking at J
Id The Floyd's house for thirty years !
in andnot noticed till Berrell pointed
s. ii chat queer effect the three {
houi-one had. told Berreu of .
al theeh DR.. Marler, our Yogi phi
ty losc made to the socialists who ]
I'd werinS Marlers room. That was !
e, thesch in which Marler said:
or 'Fyne Of you socialists here TO 6
E. nigHe more property and means I
j. thsi Jesus of Nazareth; so what
te are growing about Doc said I
of thdgot so mad they moved out OF {
ly hiing. Funny thing about com
r plii The person to whom they {
ard always believes you moan J
G. thdd you, who pay the compli
Id meNally never mean them. That I
e. IS ason We love fattery and hate
ge therer; the fatterer has seen our Y
ed shl Joy. we pigs eating praise.
nd We soul secretly knows that II F
/. haady arrived crowned. Get on
n to. steal biggety sentiment now ]
or 2 n and shove her in.
he 1 could introduce you to Ber- Z
m RS several reasons. One is il
US W Ike to hear from you If you y
u ~ is so royal as 1 said after all | Y
cir p you would say, as some one
all sAr Myers-the day after Myers :
by IN swapping at Broward in the \
of a you remember the time Fred !
an Gown and made a speech for
Tro that caJA@Ad TaIiafezEo kol c