The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-08-06

snake around. Charlie says, "Goodie,
we'll get US a rattlesnake." The
Missus limited darkly that an alligator
would be missing one of these fine
mornings, and Dorothy gave it to her
straight that if this particular alligat-
or should be missing, that very soon
thereafter a certain Victrola record,
entitled, "Abide With Me-" would also
be missing, and that is the Missus'
favorite.
should have thought it would have
melted the Missus' heart to see how
Harry took to the alligator. 1t did
mine. The alligator just fills the va
cancy in Harry's heart caused by the
demise of the rabbit, and he lovingly
calls it Bunny"
Spikes, too, welcomes the alligator
among US. He stands over the cage
by the hour, hind legs quivering and
tongue drooling.
found man ashore this morning
that could shave me and needed it..
He was very interesting. 1t was he
that played the piano for last nights
dance. He is a college man and says
Either" and 'Ni-ther" in the most
natural manner imaginable. Also he
is bridegroom of only three weeks.
The bride is from up Point Washing
ton-way; have seen her and she is
very pretty.
After recounting aboard the Peep
O'Day this young mans accomplish
ments, remarked that he was "an
artist" and Dorothy retorted, ga
spoofer." Maybe so, maybe so. But
anyhow he's a good barber.
l also turned up an arnful of
roasting ears, and we found a weeks
newspapers. Say, if you want to real
ize that ''the world do move" spend
week in the sticks, then read the
accumulated news. Here is what we
found:
" Harry K. Thaw finally freep
LEO Frank assaulted in prison."
Lieutenant Becker to diel"
Eight hundred men at work on the
G., F. & APP (The G., F. & A. is
Pensacola's best bet).
Here our interest in the newspapers
split: The Missus, Ethel and Dorothy
wanted the funerals and weddings, the
little fellows wanted the funny pages,
! and wanted the war news:
| Great doings over there: Air raids
and artillery duels in Northern
; France! The German submarine
/ sweeping the English Channel almost
as brazenly as the old Dutch Admiral
that once cruised those waters with
brooms dashed to his mastheads! The
! Germans crumpling up the powder
less Russians in the east and just
about to take Warsaw!
Bad, news, all that from Europe
Not that had hoped to read that the
submarines had all been captured anC
their crews hung as pirates, or that
/ had hoped to read that the Russians
had crushed the Germans. Not at all
1t is bad news chiefly because il
means that the end of the war is not
yet in sight, and that is what haC
hoped to see.
| / want TO see the Germans defeat
ed, but / do not want to see then
crushed. do not wish to see an en-
tirely victorious England, which
would be the case if Germany wert
crushed, for it is the same England
that hired the Hessians to fight US
and the same England that melted tn,
redskins to massacre our frontier set
tlers-yes, and armed, and drilled
and dressed them in foolish red
coats, for that purpose, right Their,
in the Plaza at Pensacola.
England has not changed since TT,
and 1872, or since 1876 when sht
tried to disrupt the union by covertl,
aiding what was, so far as Englan'
was concerned, plain rebellion. Shr
prides herself in her Interchangeable
ness.
They are our cousins all right, tn