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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-08-22
POILU SWINGS
HAMMOCK TOSEE
PEACE PARADE
PENSACOLA BOY TELLS OF THE
SCENES IN FRENCH CAPITAL
AFTER ARMlSTIcE WAS SIGNED

The Frenchman in these post-bel-
lum days of peace is the same French
man who smiled and joked his way
along In the days before Germany
forced him to defend his beloved
France.
At least that is the opinion of Pri-
vate Frank Brown, Pensacola boy who
has returned home after IA months
in the railway service Of the Ameri-
can Expeditionary Forces in France.
One of the things Private Brown did
While in France was to pay a visit to
Paris for the Bastille Day celebration,
when he saw all France giving itself
up to play and an enthusiastic frolic
that he says has made anything Amer
lea has ever put forward in this line
look sicklied over with the pale hue of
tameness- France was determined to
forget that day all the sorrow she had
suffered for four years according to
the young soldier, and to wipe out
forever the humiliation that had been
visited upon her by her defeat by Ger
many five decades ago. Thousands.
from all parts of the country, were
drawn to Paris.
Brown brought back with him the
story OF a poilu whose resourcefulness
seemed unlimited. This poilu climbed
up a tree, took a hammock out of a
bundle and then swung the hammock
from the tree to a trolley pole. He
Skinned up the tree a second time with
a pack of food on his back. This
Frenchman sat in that hammock and
ate. Then he slept in it and the next
day he used it as a reviewing stand
for the great parade. The hammock
Was swung at one of the best points
of vantage along the route.
General Pershing got a wonderful
ovation, Private Brown stated, as did
all the American soldiers They look
ed so business like. so TRIM he said,
that you felt pride gripping your
heart and a glow of admiration
spreading all over your body when you
saw them. General Pershing was the
best looking soldier in the whole
parade, though General Haig was a
close second The French think the
Americans are too serious, though
The doughboys marched at attention
during the entire route, determined,
forwardlooking men, while the
French poilus had the time of their
lives. shouting and singing and wav-
ing to the girls along the line"
The French girls in the many street
professions were out to get the over
seas caps of the Americans soldiers,
according to Browns story OF the ire
mendous frolic. The Americans re-
taliated and gathered souvenirs for the
American girls. They grabbed the
hats of the French poilus. Everybody
thought the exchange was fair. Some
where in France jeune file is wear
ing a cap once worn by Brown and
somewhere In America an American
girl is wearing a hat once worn by
one of Foch's men.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-08-22
JACKSONVILLE.

JACKSONVILLE.
Jacksonville, Aug. 21.-The spirit
market was firm at 161 LIZ with sales
of 80 casks
Receipts, Casks.
Last
Year
Today .... % 2S3
This season .......... 37.023 39,189
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-08-22
FLORIDA. BIRDS
WILL BE GUARDED
BY GOVERNMENT

Judge w. b. sheppard has over
ruled q demurrer filed in the case Of
r. S. Green, one of several defendants
informed against In Leon county some
time ago, holding that the u. =. nal
gratory bird law Is valid and that de-
murrers to the information filed would
not be granted. Violations OF the MT
gratory bird law Of July 3, 1918, will
be vigorously carried out. II IL said.
Arguments on the demurrer took
place at Tallahassee, attorneys for the
government being District Attorney
Neeley and r.. w. Williams. Of the
department OF agriculture.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-08-22
RAILROAD SCHEDULES
Louisville & Nashville r.. r

Arrival ana departure or passenger
trains at Pensacola, Fla
The following schedule figures pub.
hshed as information and not guaran.
teed.
Central Standard Timsl
ARRIVES. LEAVES
$3.50 Pm Montgomery, Biz.
mingham, Nashville. :
Louisville. Cincinnati 1880 0.m.
$50 pm. 81 Louis. Chicago.
Aemphi8 11:SQ I'm.
ble ............ 1850 pm.
$40 pm Atlanta, Washing-
ton. New York =. 15:se J.m.
S:A am. Montgomery B1r-
mingham. Nashville,
Lonisvfyle. Cincinnati lo:l& pa
chicaso ..--.. io:ls pm.
biis ............ ol.ls nn.
f:45 am. Atlanta. washing.
50. ton Hsx Y is., 10 s::s P..
hassse 1900. e:lg ana
io:25 pm JacksonviIis. Tsl1a-
Daily except SUNDAY.
UNITED eTArES
RAILROAD ADMINISTRATION
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-08-22

Get acquainted with Blue Ribbon
Vanilla, you'll be good friends at once.
Ask your grocer for Blue Ribbon Va
nilla, 2 OF. bottle, full measure. sBess
and takes less"
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PENSACOLA.

Pensacola. AUG. 21-rhs spirit mar
kot was - follows:
Receipts, Casks.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-07-10
He lived Ill sundown.

A soldier named John McNel lay upon the battlefield. wounded severely. He was thinking of home, his wife, and the two smiling children. Just then a light flashed in his eyes. A man came in sight carrying a lantern. He lean ed over the soldier and said: 'If he lives till sundown tomorrow he will be lucky" and then passed on.
 Night came and the stars began to apear. He thought he was the only one the battlefield. but means were heard all around him. He lifted his eyes toward heaven. Night faded and dawn arose. All day the hot sun shone down without pity on him. At last it was sinking in the west. Darkness came. The light flashed in his eyes again, and soon he was in the ambu lance on his way to the hospital He was cured in a few months and was finally sitting in the rocking chair with the two smiling children on his knee RUTH ESTELLE MGOVERN. Age 10
 GlaSgO.
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By Wait Gregg

girls and my own lire at sLzKe, wftf her parents and others on the hotel side holding their breath In agony and turning their eyes away in sheer For TOT, and with the roar of that lion In the woods back of us, with death be- low and death behind. I fell in love- Queer time and place to fall in love, wasn't it? But right there and then I fell in love with that girl. I had never seen her before and dldn't' even know her name. But when felt her obeying me SO exactly, and when JTsaw her closed eyes and the smile Of 'su- preme courage and supreme cnnfi- dence in her upturned face and felt her courage 4oosing out of eY.sry pore in her body and .:welling up through ne, vowed to myself then and there that would save her and 9TSa1ry her though all inc cha sins Of fhc World should yawn below or befTeel tir'
 With the coming ofrthat fsrIirc of love and divine purpose sa!!si aF;ijt of fear left. me. I felt bisaj<.. and happy. as though pinionsd z i. i2iDgs I forgot the deadly sense Of rc5por sibiTity. and suspense. heard voices Of angel gdn,fn my soul rather thanlsthe hoarse roar of the lion behind Tie. forgot the jagged rocks far below. saw. only a radtantsvision of happiness ahead, and the narrow, rrsted steel rail became "a shining pathway lead ing neete it: s~ sn1,s,n. a.-; -s4
 eve reached the hotel side5fn safe ty, asid-1*heIf I put i'd ary gently down she didn't do a lining but throw her arms around ray neck and kiss Ele and whisper, 'T'lovesyou,' in my ear.
 Then came more surprise ia apid- fire succession. intended 10 marry the girlr sometime, somew here. .. after there had baen introductions aad prep .aratiens aud courtshipsandsait that
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covered with frecl1les. and strong-look- ing limbs. A good natured one. too, as Mrs. Banks found after he had stayed while But he was real green
 After watching Mrs. Banks putting on the electric lights one night. he said: Its funny how the matches can get in and light themselves, isn't it?''
 And when MT. Banks asked him to go into the ice cream parlor he said: 'Is it really all made of ice cream2"
 But he got along very well with the family and he made many friends. So when two years were up MT. and Mrs. Banks were sorry to see him go- But he was rather glad to get back in the fresh, cool country. where he had all ways lived because. he said, funny things were always happening in the city and making you jump and he lost all his beauty spots as he call- ed his freclles, and instead of looking nice and brown he looked as white as his sisters white rabbit.
 ] CAROLINE C. LAWTON. Age If.
 WarrenVille
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was a deep chasm near the hotel that was crossed by a sagging rail of an old, abandoned narrowgauge track, for all the world like that down von- der. We'll, had athletic ambitions in those days" (The compact. 1.-the figure, in spite of the cIose-cropped, gray hair. bore this out, all rightly
 "I wanted to be a tight-rope or high wire performer and, amateur-like. practiced walking that suspension bridge rail until it ceased to. be even interesting. and I longed for more worlds. The hotel and resort people kept small menagerie. including . lion or two, and :. various attractions for the, amusement of the guests on the other side of this canyon, prob ably mile from the hotel itself. The young fellow in charge of this animal show, Billy Sims-Bil1y afterward went to Alaska-was a chum of mine, and, instead of going around by 2 per- fectly safe mountain road and foot bridge. 1 was iu the habit of shortcut ting it across this rail when off duty, and visiting Billy and the other ami ma1s.
 "As I say, I walked the rail untfI It ceased to aD1use. I walked it for ward and backward, with and with out balancing pole, and carried all sorts Of burdens across it for the en- tertainment of the other hotel help, and sometimes guests, too, who stood sh the mountain side and watched me
 I invented feate until Esgao to feel
 myself out Of the amateur. class and quite professional. Tn fact, was in dustrieusly% saving my wages against trying myself ont IS a real performer er was full of ideas I thought of noth- ing else. I didn't know as much about love as a Ash does. and girls didn't come within my kin In short .ts per
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LErTERs oF AckMoWLEpeMENr
STORIES WRITTEN BY WIDE = ~-,-. kWAkES.
: An Early. Morning fn Canada.

1 Harry and had arrived at our des- tination in the great woods of north ern Canada We immediately set to work putting up our tent. After we had finished furnishing our tent with all the necessities needed. we began to live, comfortably until one morn ing, asaI sat shivering with the cold, on the edge of my cot. trying hard to lace niy shoes, I had half a mind to roll back into those inviting warm bla nkets.. My teeth chattered a regu- lar tune, which did not harmonize with the nuff1ed snores issuing from under the roll of blankets on the other cot.
 Having laced my shoes determined to take q glimpse upon the atmos- phere. Finding that it was intense and very cold. cold which pene- trated through every bone. slipped inside of the tent. What was there to put on? Without a moments hesi- tation I thought of Harry's sweater in the old cedar trunk. I hastened to the trunk, threw up it's cover but alas there was no sweater to be found Glancing upon my cot I chanced to see two pillows, which set me to rvs head. 1 quietly edged over to the cot. where Harry was in his deepest slumber. and with a pillow in one hand and grasping the sweater in the other hand I made the exchange quickly obtaining what I was longing for in a very short time.
 Upon having bundled warm and cozy, I walked out. hoping to get some game or fish. To my astonishment. beautiful sight met my, eyes. The sun had just risen over the mountains, transforming the cold. gray fog, and the tall ghostly trees into sights which Nature has revealed for many years. The grass and the trees grew greener. while the lake turned to a smoky brown. A slight breeze had sprung up forming small nipples on the water. which kept up an incessant wash, wash on the shore. The fog was lifting from the lake, and slowly. slowly it drifted up the side of the mountain, and at length could no longer~-be seen. Then was Nature in her glory. The birds twittered sweet .melodious songs among the branches, the incessant chat of the squirrel could be heard in the distance.
 My sweater was now too warm. I took it off. and thrust it into the tent. Now realizing it was my turn to get breakfast. I picked up the water pail and was off on a most wonderful stroll down the trail of Natures beauties to get water.
 ELEANOR M. BYRNE. Age IA.
 Norwich.
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My Sunday Visitor.

1 Did you ever hear of a dog who liked l to go to church? Well. friend of mine had a dog and this dogs name was Fannie.
 Fannie: knew well when Sunday came around; As soon as the church bells rang he would take his. place on the front steps. When the folks came out to walk. to church Fannie would get up and walk in back of the people She would go with them into their pew and stay there until the service was at an end.
 But one. Sunday a new preacher was in the pulpit who spoke very loud and threw his arms about in a strange way as if he meant to hit somebody
 Fannie stood it as long as she could But at last, when the minister spoke so loud as to make. the folks start Fan nie, too, started up and began to bark, for she thought the man would do some har'rn
 Poor Fannie was led out of church and was never permitted in again. So when Sunday came she was very sad and did not know what to do with herself
 At last she found out that. about mile from her masters house, there was a little cottage where Uncle Billy lived Uncle Billy was sick and could not go to church; but he is a friend to dogs. and once he gave Fannie bone to pick. And now every Sunday, soon after the bells begin to ring for church, Uncle Billy hears a scratching at his front door. He opens it aHd there stands Fannie. who gives low bow wows which means Good morning. How do you do? I have come while the folks are at church to sit with you little while." ~
 An hour has passed. so she wags her tail. which means "Oh. it's time to go home And Fannie trots off. quite happy and content.
 CARRIE DELESSIO, Age 14.
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best. It didn't take above two min utes to rush down to the hotel side of the chasm and cover the fifty feet Of rail bridging it It was going back with a woman in my arms and under the breathless gaze of a fast-gathe1ing crowd on the hotel side and with an awful sense of responsibility, that wes to be the test.
 But the instant I reached her and looked in her eyes s-I-felt encouraged For I knew she had nerve and com mon sense, saw 1t in her eyes. The fact that, she weighed less than a hun dred pounds was minor advantage The main thing was her r~eourage-she- wasn't the hysterical. kind.
 "'Now.' said to her, 'TIl carry you across in perfect safety if you'll shut your eyes. keep sstill, zmake yourself perfectly limp and trust me-do you understand trust me. Don't move 8 muscle or make a"sodnd. only trust me. Will you dos it ?ss7ss0
 "She said she would,va we start ed. The feat would have. sbeen I;oth- ing for a professional. with the fairly steady broad steel rail a comparative iy light burden. But mind you. was only an amateur in thoSe days. and had never performed in public, much less faced terrible responsibility. But l. was strong as 8 young pull, and nev CT In my life up to that hour had known the sensation sof5iear So brzced my muscles like . mechanism of iron, concentrat ated my naind on my task and witk my. burden. frIaly grasp ed in my arms, planted my bare feet firmly on the rail and be gan taking step after step out, out, over the abyss below. es ssig N@
 "I had not gone Ave careful. meas ured steps when a strange, thing hap
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I l 4Stlng A~--Man

cared when the old train reached Squirrel Tavern up at the Summit. The six of Us were total strangers to each other. and yet, in . moment, with out passport or quibble, we came into that happy democracy that occasion brings.
 The little man, with the twinkle of pleasant memories in his eye. settled himself in his car seat and began load ing his pipe for a smoke. Have a cigar" he begged. finding several in an inside coat pocket and proffering them about T smoke a pipe, but I always carry few cigars with me for nay friends"
 We thanked him, lighted up, and began filling the compartment with haze. like blue mountain vistas, and waiting for the story to begin.
 After puffing in silence a few mo Dents the little man apoke. My ceErtship and marriage took just about ten minutes" he said. "I had never seen my wife above ten minutes before I married her. nor she me. Neither of us knew the othsr,s napae- even. un- til we stood before the preacher who married us.r That sounded good as a starter. and we all bsnt forward
 But dont tn1Gk this was any mar Eiage-in-haste-and- repent-at leisure bueiness," he. warned us. "Or any qiiick-f1re elopement with a divorce kick-back No, siri The story I'm telling you happened thirty years ago. and Mary's up st the tavern now, wait ing for me. See these gray hairs? I've got . son heavier'n you. sir" And he estimated my two hundred pounds with his eye as stood smoking in the aisle.
 Thirty years ago was cook in a resort hotel at Aubert's Camp over in tke San Bernar1inol mountains There
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Poiiy's Antics.

When I feel lonesome I play with my pet parrot. He is so con1icaI that he can make anyone laugh whether they feel like laughing or not. When he feels like playing he does really play like child. When he is alone in a room he begins to scold. He jumps on his swing and bites his paws, pulls his feathers and then he accidently twists his foot around the wire on which his swing is attached, and then begins to scream.
 If I give him a piece of wood he will gnaw it and bite it. He always holds his food in his claws and peels every little thing he eats. When he finds out. that he can't peel it, my father begins to clap his hands and he gets so mad that he puffs all his feath- CTS and runs around his cage and begins to scream so loudly that we can't hear our voices.
 But he isn't afraid of cats. He'd just run after them screaming at the top of his voice. My kitty is afraid of him because if she looks at him too long he'll begin to scold so much that
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sort or th1ng. But beTore 1 Knew m her fat har, amid the excitement, had seized IT. by the hand and said, All right, my Joy, I withdraw my Objeo- tions. You ye won her. She's yours.' And then try pulled me to one side and dragged ,.e past the crowd. and inside of five tu utes ~ the watch we were standing '>re preacher guest of the hotel and j >g sworn in as man and wife, Mary ' no time in ex- plaining to me tha NA father. being near-sighted and ,J-d. had mis- taken me for a guy had been bothering her and iIlp, NSing him, and that she had married , Tt once go as to escape the other f. 2 And as we were both sure we wc @ch other, why wait?
 Sure? Too hasty a courtship lived ages in crossing that cha
 And while we didn't know each other's names, and all that, we had looked in to each others souls il those awful seconds. and each saw-wel, anyway. we felt pretty well acquainted
 Her father, the rich cid guy, got mad whom he saw the mistake he lad nlade, and disinheritcd her. ant she learned rope-waikiIg, and VIC travelled together on the road for years. Then he repentcd. left her a wad. and we quit the road and settled down. Now isn't that sone-Ah! There goes ihO whistle, ard I guess were o= aSGin."
 A half-hour or 90 later inc train ar rived at the tavern and we saw. ocu- ing down from the hotel. T fine young giant with motherly little ola wcm- an on his arm, who waved her hcno- kerchief to the story teller in the car. She looked as though she had punt stepped out of romance, and just the woman to trust a mana true man with her life. and then marry hin bo- fore he could bat an eye.
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L' Plainfeld.
Getting We'll.

I am writing to tell about some things that happened while I was getting well. I had been sick for some time, and one day as I sat in bed looking out my window, guess what I saw? The little boy next door had two bunnies. They were pure white and had red eyes and little pink ears
 The. boy had them out of the house they used to live in. It was a great big box with holes in it. Both bum nies would come up to the boy for him to pet them. If he started to pet one only, the other would come.
 One day a cat came and chased one of them, and after the boy had chased the cat away the bunny ran away, but was found again.
 One of them is a little wild so the boy put him in the little house, but somehow he would jump out again.
 One- will eat radish leaves and the other will eat onions, but they will not eat lettuce. They like to play in the tall grass. but there is a lot down be- low the yard and the bunnies would Iovetto play in it, but if they did they would mot be found again.
 These bunnies are not very old. but they are so very wise that you would
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form on the tight wire, travel with some show, and pull down big money was the height and depth and length and breadth of my ambirson-
 But one day Mary Goodman came to my life like a letter from home with money in it, and she's been . part ef it ever since. It was all on account of Congo, the male lion. Congo got mad one day. put Billy out of the game with broken shoulder, leaped through the cage door over his keepers body, and escaped to the spruce timber on that side of the canyon.
 Mary was over tkere at the time and alone. She was a guest at the ho- tel with her father and mother. rich tourists from the Eest. She was nat urally adventurous and daring. and liked to take loRg hikes about the hills. armed with nothing deadlier than some brushes and canvas. We'll. the lion soon made 1t known at the hotel that he was at liberty and didn't care who knew it. The noise he made was blood-curdling, and with 1t came the news that a girl was over there and in danger
 "I was one of the first to see her, standing terror-stricken and pAralyzed with fright at the very brink of the rocks that walled the precipiee on that side, and I knew the party of armed hoTsemeR that was organized to go around by the road and wagon bridge fully four miles-would never reach her in time.
 "Se I stripped on everything but trousers and shirt, and went after that strl aersss the seEging steel rail. It was a feat I had never attempted be- fore, nor anything like 1t, and 1t proza- fsed to be as idifHcult as it was unsx- pected. But 1t was case of life and death. and 1t vasAuD t0 -0se t. ao "
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UNCLE JED'S TALK TO WIDE
 AWAKES.

Do not always .haxe. something you feel that you must tell. for if you do you will talk in reason and out of sea son
 Silence is a virtue and talking a bad habit Ii is easy to say too much. and nothing in this world makes man sor- ry oftener than speech.
 It is great to be a good listener and 10 be able to say things when silence would be unjust and cowardly.
 Do not forget that a flow of words is no sign Of wisdom
 It has become proverb that those who say what they like must hear what tllev do not like, r.i
 If you would catch a rare bird do not forget 1t is to be found in a tame tongue
 A man Of silence is called man Of sense because he doesn't talk non sense
 Who says little in speech makes few mistakes
 Ignorance usually talks loud. and Prejudice is always saying things which are not so.
 IL is always necessary to speak when one is spoken to: but if you have an opinion upon everything for get to let anyone else discover it. for it is a discrediting habit The most valuable opinions are thoee asked for
 Your opportunity should be recog- nized and improved Everybody has B chance and if it is well improved it tells in their favor.
 To become a smart Alec just talk