The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1912-02-16

InlnSS, Ottlng and getting all tnlngS
and all peoples ready for the great puri-
flying and redeeming process which
shall finally come! We whirled up to q
station and | could see dimly outlined
against the sky some houses, and look
ing down on the ground many lines of
steel rail; then the whistle blew and
away we went, and | had only a mem
loosa.
By this time my couch had been ar
ranged, so | tumbled in and old Nor
pheus caught me in his arms and soon
! was in dreamland among babies on
seraphie wing floating in ether blue and
laughing and cooling as the angels whis-
pered lullabys in their infant ears. So
sped the night till $50, when Atlanta
vas called out. Discriminating from
the comfortable "Parmenia" | discon-
solately and shiveringly walked up the
cold, iron, wind-swept stairway to
where they said the ticket Office was
located. To my inquiry as to when a
train would leave for Jacksonville,
Fla, | was informed at IL O'Clock and
would arrive at Jacksonville the same
evening at $3.50, and a train would leave
there for Tampa at $50. Our hopes
and desires were up and buoyant, but
at II all were blighted, as the train mar
announced the train for Jacksonville
was two hours late. "'Twas ever thus
from childhood's earliest hours, I've
seen our fondest hopes decay and droop
and die" | am now experiencing
somewhat of the feeling of Napoleon
when the glory and grandeur of the
past was fast fading from his mental
vision as he was left alone on bleak
Helena's isle. | certainly did want to
get away from Atlanta before dinner,
as at the breakfast | saw on the bill of
fare Porterhouse steak, 81. 25 one
half chicken, 81. so; bacon and onions,
SITS. said # this don't break a fell
ler's fast it will break everything else
about him, and | had such a peculiar
and foregone and continually foregoing
failing in the region of my pocketbook.
Well, "it's an i'll wind that blows no.
body any good" so | determined, boil
weevil or no boil weevil, | will make
some bacon and onions this year., sure,
wen way down in Mississippi, don't
think anybody lives down here; they
seem to all be going somewhere else.
Some even breakfast and a way, s,
Others to dinner stay and are well fed:
The Oldest man but sups and goes to bed
This is cold steel, concrete artifciality
light, heat and food all artificial.
Well, 2:05 p. m. the train leaves for
Jacksonville. Soon we are rolling
through Georgia's pine and blackjack
hills looking as red as a gum leaf in the
fall and at other places as yellow as the
average tourists tan shoes. We all
have often heard of the Georgia rattle
snake watermelons, and here is where
they got their name-from the snakes,
the denizens of these hills and thickets.
where the first settlers disturbed them
clearing up the ground and planting
melon seed. Then the old ~rattlers
craWled out among the melons when
they appeared on the vines and summed
themselves and lent their. beautiful.
variegated stripes to the melon, and as
this melon is all rind, water and seed.
this was its ideal growing place. The
water taken up by the soil from the
great bodies of water just to the south
Were sweetened by the nymphs bathing
in it.; this was distilled INTO the melon
and the red and yellow hills tinted its
flesh, the blackjacks brought color to
its seed, and the rattlesnake coiled
around it and gave to it's outer coat, or
rind, its beautiful dress. So YOU see
~adaptability of everything to its
and perfection. Had soil been
requisite the Georgia Rattlesnake
would certainly have spuciated or never
come to be a ~toothsome edible of
the Sweet Sunny South"
One of the principal points of interest
IN this line was Macon, Ca, which
seemed to be a town of thrift and en-
Some blowing being done
will average about eighteen
inches in height, four or FIVE bolls to the
cornstalks run two and a half 10
feet high, and all looked like pop
,orn.
Reached Jacksonville at IL O'Clock.
into a bed and slept till 6. rot
A far breakfast at a cafe and went IN
depot to get a train to Tampa. Left
Jacksonville for Tampa in a parlor car
$50; rode all day in Florida, and am
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