The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-07-07

said verse and whom McNamee say:
is the brightest woman in Florida
without excepting six told me one
on Claude which bears to the world
Claude's Claudrophobia What stuns
Claude was that the lady, his former
campaign manager, had gone back OF
him and told a confidence to me, his
enemy, Everybody is Claude's enemy
as everybody is the enemy or any
other tiger, physical or verbaD the
Erynnes (high brown for Luck
were with me. AS my uncle, Euripi
des, has we'll said:
I SLOW come, but come at length.
In their majestic strength,
Faithful and rue,
The Avenging deities''
1t was fated that I should be the
willing instrument to back down the
said Claude. He was standing in the
lobby of the Leon like rinngmaster
cracking his bitter whip in the faces
of cattle. In a sweet, silken, cow
slip voice I said: Claude. Miss
Dizaliynski told me a good story on
you the first time I saw her after
Governor BrOward's death She said
that before Broward was cold you
called her in your office and said in
"a solem Swedenborgian gloomy-fanny
voice, Don't you see the meaning of
this?' She enquired: "Of what?"
OF Broward's death" No" she re-
piled. Il see no meaning in what
ever what meaning occurs to you?'
This" said Claude, lis the meaning:
this is Gods hand removing Broward
so that l, in spite of all, can go to the
senate" Claude grogged, but was
game. He is very fine He has class.
He said: She was mistaken Brow
ard certainly was cold, because until
he was cold Nat Bryan was busy die
tating kilograms to her" But that's
all right. Claude was stung and
slaughtered, and a week or so there
after I cut off his head completely:
just a finishing stroke Claude in
his patrOnizing way spoke of some
persons ''vagary." He accented the
first syllable. Now wasn't that droll?
For him not to know how to pro-
nounce even his own name. For the
name of Claude is not only Mud, Den
mis-, Has Been. Also Ran, but his best
name is Vagary.
In this chapter I had intended to
praise Reeves. Ny space is giving
out. So shall hurry to beat the hew-
gag. 1t is dusk. Let it be remember
ed the regiment is at dress parade
The long blue line is drawn under the
palms. The flags have crossed from
the troops to the group of officers.
From the silver larnyx of the bugles
there has sounded the clear notes of
retreat-the National Anthem
Reeves, Did I say the speaker was
tall? Only two other people alive are
as tall as Reeves. One is an old
Judge. The other fellow who shamed
me into adopting an artificial set of
morals. All three blue-eyed people
l know so many noble people now.
But none so noble as these three.
You remember in the Heart of
Rome" the Princess told the engineer,
Il did not know such men were alive"
Reeves makes me think of the HON.
eric praise of the hardened woman in
the Heart of Rome" Reevesi If
we be immortal spirits an aeon hence
the name Reeves will bring to my
mind the words Justice, Honor, No
bility. How steep he isl How mac
cessible' How serene! We live,
fortunately, in fog OF the common
place. Now and then a gale blows
away tie mist anG we see the hills
and valleys of the soul. In the
of Leon this year a hurricane
blew away for a moment the fog of
the commonplace. and there noun
tain-tall. calm and white pyramided
on the granite of character, his long
shadow turning slowly in the deed
valleys inn fcont OF the sun, specks
OF dust that were eagles. seen against
his sides, there was Reeves, like a
vision to the Japanese of the sacred
like an apparition TO the
Budhists Of the Himalayan Everest.
The Speaker makes one wish TO cheer.
But Reeves. To think of him is to
be silent. A mountain, in the most
imperial metaphor, has been called
thou great ambassador
From Earth TO Heaven"
Invert the figure and there is
Reeves. Do not ask me for proof;
the details are so wearisome. But it
is the truth. Ask any member of the
house: read this to him; see if he de-
MES my judgment. I sat just back of
this man. He made me uncomfort-