The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-02-07
MY EXPERIENCE IN
THE LEGISLATURE
BY c. 4. FLOYD, in ApalaohIooIa Times.

divine mtsyery as that. But if you
believe that you are G. H. B. Floyd,
Justice Of the peace-la.wyer, of Frank
lin county, and that you are bounded
by Owl creek, st. Georges Island, Dog
Island, and the Ochlochonee river.
thing that eats, and sleeps and grins,
and gets six dollars q day. you act
and vote and talk in character! what
Florida wants and Georgia and Ala
hama and New York and France and
China is big men, and big men are
men who are in tune with the pig
universe, men who are cosnlic patriots.
We live in pssddles, like tadpoles, in
stead of in oceans like whales. The
heart Of the whale is about three feet
in diameter. The heart of the aver
age man is two millimeters in circum-
ference. We can grow as big as we
dare to, as long as we grow upward.
We can grow past the farthest star
the aided eye discovers, and when the
visible universe below us like a flock
of firehies would make us dizzy, we
then will hear the far paternal voice
encouring US to come up further nearer
Him. Once in church at Tailahas-
see I heard a tall back-woods preacher
shout through the building, oh, You
politician, instead OF serving yourself.
serve the Holy Spirit, and instead Of
sweeping precincts. you will sweep
cities. instead Of sweeping and carry
ing with you countie~ you viii name
Ike a conflagration through nations.
Whether you believe in religion or not,
If you are sane, you can open your
eyes tonight at the spiritual far dart
ing host of lights that shine overhead
in the deer blue noon OF night end
remembering that the ground on which
you stand is the back OF star,
whether you believe in religion or not.
get on your knees and resolve to, in
spirit, measure up to the grandeur o.
the yacht on which We sail from the
wharf of birth to the port OF death,
Yacht made like submarine, movi.2F
on the sea Of space up whose beach
is twisted no hur~ying little shell, as
the sea has no shore.
Among al the strange things that
men have forgotten the most universal
and catastrophe lapse OF memery is
that by which they have forgot IN
they are living on a star.
Once, before matrimony had pat
blind brides on me long before I dis.
covered the important fact that a
married man lived in a mirror room,
peneled with looking glasses. IN
which room sits just one woman, his
own dear wife Dora. and that the
other women that appear TO be real
are simply reflections OF Dora no mat
ter how the mirrors compliment his
Cora, and that the reflections OF the
one dear Dora, II he tried to kiss them
will cause his nose to be bumped
axainst the glass Of the looking glass
of the ten connandmeuts-befo
discovered that saIutary truth. that
medicinal axiom. that healthy apodic-
tic a-posterforiisn. wrote a versicIe
TO . lady who had come back again
to the town no matter what town,
which verEcle went something Ike
this, to-wit:
once in a tale by Edgzr Allen Poe
OF Golden Lud, OF Auber, or Of Or,
The sun at nlidnocn stood and might
not stir
Men passed away but noon would
never CO.
A man gouged out his eyes. At last
the blur
OF evening came and all her lights
with her
So you return and brings the stars
Among all the strange things men
have forgotten the most universal and