The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1914-09-02

underwear
t'ay come to mistake your silence for conviction.
r"dress upon them and they picture the city
8, far, matter of opinion. refutation is
-. But. dear cousins all (from Adam and Eve
~ 49, II > q FasI Que "no VII lay niS InEeC
tnance-what could happen here?" Yes. # a
Il and deed to challenge in one sentence
tory romance, and Rand and McNally
NAsHvu1E-A otty. port Of de,tvery and
The capita! Of the State Of Tennessee, is
the Cumberland Rfver end on the N. c. & 81.
Z. orG the Z. & " railroads. The ctty is
yaJ6r6 The most important educational
"ntcJ IN me South.
siarpCl OF the train at 6 T NJ Having searched
H.o~auras il vain for adjectfves I must, a
S.i;liion. HE me to comparison in the form Of
Tane Of London fog 30 parts; malaria 70 parts
f." leaks 20 parts; dewdrops gathered in brick
parts. Mix.
The mixture will give you an approximate con
ccp;on Of a Nashville drizzIe. 1t is fragrant
s. Il mothball nor thick as pea-soup; but it's
o. Ucl-'twi serve.
Tho hotel of the kind described "reno-
ID" That means $4,000 worth Of marble
liars thing electric lights and brass cuspidors in
t'n lobby and L. & \. time table and lithO-
'. ph of Lockout Mountain in each Of the great
.-"s above. The management was without reproach,
&c attention full of exquisite Southern courtesy. the
s'"yce slow as the progress Of snail and
""d-humorod Rip Van Wrinkle. The food
-th travelling thousand miles for. There is
other hotel in the world where you can get such
chicken Ivers JrOchctte
At dinner asked negro waiter if there any
Thing doing in town. He pondeTed gravely for
Inluutc. aud then replied "YelI boss don't really
there's anything at all dom after shutdown"
Shutdown had been accomplished; It had been
denied But I forth upon the streets in
the drizze to see what might be there.
IT is built on una.lct;ng grounds: and the
streets are lighted By electricity at a cost Of
$32,470 per Gnnun.
l walked through long streets all leading uphill
= wondered how those streets came down again.
Perhaps they didn't until they "sreded." On
few of the main streets" I lights stores here
@nd1there: saw street cars go by conveying worthy
blrl hers hither and yon people pass engaged in
the of conversation, and heard bu"st of semi
cream parlor The streets other than main" seemed
enced upon their borders houses cousecrated
shone behind dscreety drawn window shades; in
few pianos tnkled orderly and irreproachable music
There was, indeed, little doing" wished had
come before shutdown. So I returned to my hotel.
Wentworth Caswell I knew him for type the
my eyes suffered from the sight Of him. A
has geographical habitat. Ny old friend A.
Tennyson said, as he we'll said almost everything:
Prophet, curse me the blabbing lip.
And curse me the British vermin, the rat.
Let us regard the word British" interchange
able ad lib. A rat is a rat.
This man was hunting about the hotel lobby like
buried a bone. He had face of great acreage.
red. pulpy. and with a kind Of sleepy massiveness
like that of Buddha. He possessed single virtue
he very smoothly shaven The mark of the
beast is not indeble upon until he goes about
/
bis that day I would have repused his
;,.Rances and the criminal calendar of the world
would have been spared the addition Of murder.
[ happened to be standing within five feet Of a
cuspidor when Major Caswell opened fire upon it.
Qackng force was using Gatiings instead Of squirrel
rides; so I side-stepped promptly that the major
seized the opportunity to apologize to a non-com-
blatant. He had the blabbing LIP. In four minutes
he had become my friend and had dragged me to the
Major Caswell banged the bar with his fist and
the first gun at Fort Sumter re-echoed. When he
But then he began on family trees and demonstrated
that Adam only a third cousin of a collateral
branch Of the Caswell family. Genealogy disposed
Of he took up. to my distaste, his private family
matters He spoke of his wife. traced her descent
back to Eve, and profanely denied any possible
that she may have had relations in the land of Nod
When got my key at the desk the clerk said to
me, courteously: IF that Caswell has annoyed
you, and If you would like to make complaint,
ana without any known means or support. although
he seems to have money most Of the time But
don't seem to be able to hit upon any means Of
throwing him out legally"
"why, no" said I, after some rejection; 81 don't
see my way clear to making complaint But l
that DO not care for his company. Your town. I
continued, seems to be quiet one.
After went up TO my room looked out the win
dow. 1t was only about ten O'Clock. but looked
upon a silent town The drizzle continued, spangled
With dim lights as far apart currants in a cake
sold at the Ladies' Exchange.
= "a quiet place" said to myself, as my first shoe
suck the ceiling of the occupant of the room beneath
rn9ne. Nothing Of the life here that gives color and
variety to the cities in the East and West Just a
good, ordinary, humdrum business town"
l must tell you how I came to be in Nashville,
and I assure you tie depression brings much
te1ium to it does to you. I travelling
elsewhere my own business. but I had 4 com
mission from a Northern literary magazine to stop
over there and establish personal connection be
tween the publication and of its contributors.
AZalea Adair.
Adair (there was no to the personality except