The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1912-02-16
GREENWOOD, MISS, FEB. 16, 1912.
FROM GREENWOOD, MISSISSIPPI
TO TAMPA, FLORIDA.

~ lAMIA, LINDA.
Left Greenwood on time at 8 O'Clock
on Thursday morning, the 1st inst.
Came along slowly to Yazoo City, reach
ing that place at II O'Clock; weather
was invitIngly beautiful; went up to
Main street and got this tablet, went
to the postofiice and got some stamps
and postal cards and enjoyed the mag
niticent dry streets of that thrifty old
city. 1t was a real pleasure after pass
ing Though so much low land and so
much water to see nice carriages, bug
gies and automobiles running tull-speed
in the middle of the road. Oh, Green
wood, what a contrast! Here is the
finest street-paving argument perhaps.
Fifteen minutes after IL we were
rolling out toward jackson. The "Yal-
Ter Dog" was thirty minutes late, caus
ing our delay. Now, these old bluffs
and hills look SO dry and CHEEKY and
good in the warm sunshine as we speed
along the road to jackson. Saw no
indications Of farming as yet, but the
lands were light, and fear of rains
robbing it of it's meager top soil may
be good reason for the delay. Reached
jackson at / o'clock and waited there
until 3. Went out and looked around a
little; saw nothing new nor heard any
thing interesting except when We met
Bro. Williams, of the Methodist Or
phans' Home, who reported his entire
family Of over 200 in good health; had
had only a few cases of pneumonia and
they are well. We saw some conse-
quentlal individuals and presumed that
they were lawmakers or lawbreakers,
for they break about as many as they
make. Didn't have time to pay u re-
spects to Gov. Brewer.
Left Jackson at 3 O'Clock in a splen-
did Pullman for Atlanta via Meridian.
The section of country travelled by this
(the V, u M road is not very inviting
to tourist-agriculturists. 1t abounds
in small pines and scrubby b~lackiacks;
the towns are old and dilapidated, but
the country is level in the main. At
one point between Hickory and Merid-
ian we passed a few nobs, and near
Chunky, to our establishment, we ran
through a tunnel,
Six O'Clock found us pulling into Me-
ridian, where we thought we were be-
side the elevated railway, but some one
suggested it wa a part of the depot
shed. A very short stay here, and we
were off again for Atlanta on the lin
tied express with unlimited charges.
Here a ching car was put on and a bill
of 1are in the hands of an Abysinian
was presented, and if the order was
large enough they hurried away,
brought a table and tablecloth and
made a yecy large spread, and then
filled the order, consisting of coffee,
steak, IN insignificant bit of butter and
three gauzy slices of bread OF the ba-
ker type, | don't know the cost of
all this, but ] noticed that it took one
OF Uncle SANS bills and they forgot to
return any change. | called for a cup
OF tea and we had a table, bu no cloth,
and had nearly finished our finished pro-
duct Of a Single-Combed Rhode Island
Red, even including the producess, when
a second call for the tea made a small
impression on the valet and after a rea-
sonable time he came, bringing the tea,
sugar, cream. and | unused and drank
tea and ate some dozen or more of
Stems little square biscuit; then / fell
in with a sopotoric and affable gentle
man from Dayton, Ohio. We exchanged
cards and he gave me a Grandpa's soap
puzzle and | talked long and short-staple
cotton till we both got soft md slippery
and sleepy, and he casually remarked
that he did not want to slip by Tusca-
loosa, Ala. Then | remembered | had
been informed by my forebears that it
was here | first saw the light and | had
a great hankering to see the place
where / was born; so | sat by a window
and rested my warm brow against the
cool pane and watched the starlit sky
and thought of sev~enty-two years ago
the 18th of May, when | was born into
this world. Oh, the changes and trans