The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-05-11

the Lord to bless everybody and him
| especially. approved this most heart
] lily.
j ] gave her little advice Ca most
unusual gift about going SOW. find
ing out all she could about the man
and studying her own mind. This was
| a waste of words, and I realized it
when ! saw that she wasn't listening.
/ When 7 had finished, she asked if 1
knew any more signs couldn't think
OF any. She asked if / could tell for
! tunes with cards I couldn't. There
was to be a dance at the hotel that
night. and he was to be there. She
| would wear her new dress. The least
! I could do. and the best. was to prom
| Use to observe the young man. and re-
| port what I thought he thought
/ 1t was all extremely silly, but how
cd and strange 1t made me feel!
i July 90. 1912. Saturday. Hartgrove's,
| Carriers Bayou.
/ The sun and wind worked for us in
/ fine shape yesterday forenoon: Every
| thing was more or less wet. Soon the
I ship and a. long wire fence ashore
| were decorated with our prop"
/ I'll bet strangers took US for a theat-
rical troop. When you have ship-ful1
Of red headed, white headed and
black headed children. as we have. an
astonishing variety of colors are re-
| quired.
Two or three stra ggling squalls
showed up and passed us SO close that
we spoke in undertones for fear of at
tracing their attention.
At $3.50 we started. I stopped In
| side the bar a few minutes TO adjust
Ia trip spring. then came on through
| ana tied up here at Mr.. Hartgrove's,
about 5 O'Clock
This bayou, or rather these bayous
! Give Mile, Don's. Niger and Little
Bayou, all forming what is called Gar
nier's Bayou make the prettiest
stretch of water ] have ever seen.
They are very deep, surrounded by
high shores that are well tinbered
for the most part with pine, oak, mag
nolia, etc. 1t is a. fisherman's paradise
and the fisherman has only to know
how, and know the proper places, to
get any kind Of fishing; sheephead.
fresh and salt water trout black snap
pers, etc. I have heard of salt water
trout being caught here weighing
twenty five pounds, or ever three feet
long.
But It is not the fishing that at
tracts me. but the general air and
beauty of the whole place. I have a
sense of altitude here that I cannot
account for for 1T is tide water and
practically sea-leve1-
Most of the land bordering on the
bayous was government land and up
&c about five years ago was open to
homestead entry, but just as the home
steaders commenced to come in pretty
freely, the open land was all with
drawn and made into a government
forest reserve. Otherwise, by this
| time, every acre of the tillable land
would have been homesteaded. Now
there is talk that the government pro
poses to acquire interlying and ad-
joining tracts and make a. really great
forest of 1t all. The forest head
quarters are just across the bayou
from here and I will call there in
day or two and see what can. find out
about what is actually being accom-
Eiished in Conservation of our nation
al resources"
There is an old mound on Don's
| Bayou and I want to dig in it and
see If can find any specimens. The
mounds at Camp Walton have been
SO thoroughly explored that probably
little or nothing of interest could be
found there now.
We will spend four or five days
hereabouts. making Mr.. Hartgrove's
our headquarters, and then start slow
" back. Our twenty-fiv loaves of
bread are gone and this afternoon we
are going around into another bayou
and engage for the baking Of some
homemade bread by the wife Of a
Missouri homesteader. 7 got some there
last year, two or three bakings, and
the boys and I have been Dragging
about it ever since. The Missus and
Dorothy are mighty curious about that
bread and are skeptical.
ITO be continued) =