The Pensacola journal., 1912-01-11
MY EXPERIENCE IN
THE LEGISLATURE
BY G. Il. FLOYD. IN ApaiachicOIa Times.
CHAPTER Xxu-


For ten or fifteen years i have been
searching for line of conversation
along which / might move without ex-
citing the successful ridicule of any
one.
After trying several. I fastened on
certain subject. It is the common
denomination. I have tried it on every
one / ever met. One night I applied
it to Hon. Chas. Daughterty. The ap-
plication lasted from nine o'clock in
the evening till midnight. Three of
US were present. McNamee was there.
He drew picture of this tallz-feast
and wrote a verse under it. Then he
tackled it on the wall of the Leon hotel
near the front door. After it had lain
in state against the wall for a week
or so transported the picture to Apa-
lachicola and posted it In Buzzett's
drug store.
am reminded of It by the follow
ing article which appeared on the front
page of the Times Union, December
2Sth: THE address of Jacob Gould
Schurman. president of Cornell Uni
versity, on Current Unrest and Pro-
posed Remedies is attracting wide
spread attention" Here is what the
learned professor said in part: 1--WE
are living in an age of unrest and dis
content. Never before has there been
anything like it in this country. We
are like men moving about under a
pail which stretches to the horizon and
which cannot be broken through"
This article appeared next to large
black type announcing that a Republic
is to spring from the dust Of the
crumbling throne of China
Professor Schurman climbs on the
roofs and alarms us with bodeful yells
He has heard uncanny noises in the
night; he has heard cows galloping
the streets before day Light. The
shivering owl shuddered as the bent,
bleached bone of the moon fell past
the horizon back of the grave yard.
Jacob Gould Sehurlnan has been
startled by the scream of the ban
shee. He senses an unrest--a faint
horror like being on a. long fast train
at night empty except for you and a
dark coffin containing a mutilated
corpse of child-on howls the rafting
train. The widows of Asshur are loud
in their wall and theiI'Nidole is broken
in the temple of Baal. We drift on
Alph, the sacred river. through caverns
measurelss to man, down to a sunless
sea. Chaos is come again. Not long
ago w. d. Howellss announced that
Mark Twain died an Atheist Profess
sor William James in his book
Truth states his disbelief in Cod
Edison gave to the press the other day
his deliberate view that there was no
consciousness after the death of the
physical body II the soul is mortal, :"
says Mendelssohn, "a state composed
of intelligent beings fl nothing better
after all than a herd of irrational
beasts of the field, Robbed of its hope
Of Immortality that lnarveIous erea-
ture, man, is the most pitiable animal
on the face Of the earth, compelled to
behold and appreciate the full extent
OF its own evil plight to live it's life
in the fear of death and taste de-
spair.'
of the Leon from nine o clock to
twelve. My cousin. Frank Sans. pre-
tended to listen. Pat Murphy dozed.
McNamee looked bored. I was engag-
ed in explaining that the Lid was off:
was doing my least bad vaudeville
stunt at the wake. / was the three
H4lCuCS COUhAIl6 TIC ilstt>D DIOIu dI tile
front edge of the play of Macbeth.
Dougherty, Little Harry, Pat Murphy
Sans, McNamee-wlen shall we three
meet again. in thunder, lightning or
rain?
McNamee, who always looks to me
little frightened as If he were in
truth Napoleon himeslf and was afraid
you had discovered he had not really
died (you know the iegendl, McNamee
tried to change the subject, but had
Mr. Daugherty's ear and eye and
brushed him aside. There we sat, all
three of us. Daugllerty, me, Murphy,
Sans, McNamee, listening to and
watching me hop around the Rim Of
the Open Well while explained how
the fact that the lid was off the Well
caused me to come to Tallahassee to
the legislature.
The lid is off the Well, Terese, hence
the unrest and the pail
Probaly never before did the Lid
get off the well SO completely. In fact
the Lid has been boken up with an
axe and burned in the kitchen stove.