The Pensacola journal., 1920-03-26
GOOD OLD REBELS" SOMETIMES
OBJECT TO FOL Rolls OF
NEWNEss BUT BUSINESS is
PICKING UP INsPITE OF oBJEc-
TONS OF THE WORLD WEARY.

Progress has struck Apalachicola in
this year Of our Lord, 1920, and the
comfortable oId-fashioned city has
been awakened to a realization that the
good old days are dead.
There is something diverting in her
reaction in this electrical incentive
that is making itself felt even in the
back yard of Irish town. She looks
upon it all with suspicious old eyes.
Indeed, she wants to be pleased, but
at present she is particularly fused
up. No, she don't object to the mills,
the oyster plants, and all the sequent
from the timing of deep-sea shrimp.
Yes, she'll stand for even that. AL
though there are moments in the early
morning. hours when the waking up
with the raucous cries of a hundred
shrill whistles, that she rolls sleepily
upon her couch. tucks the quilt over
her old ears and sighs for those
precious days when her three saw
mills whistled softly and went about
the days work.
Then it was all very different Then
the town justly merited the name the
Indian gave her. When after journey
ing down the whimsical Chattahoochee
river, out into broaden sweep that the
confluence with the Flint makes, there
winds were befuddIed by the countless
turns and twists of their course-for
the slender craft marked all but eight
points off the compass in the short
strip from the meeting of the rivers
TO those pleasant reaches at the rivers
end-where they found these rainy
lands and christened them Apalachi-
cola.
What good old Christians those
chiefs were. They never gave a name
amiss. So when they called this place
"The Land Beyond" the name stuck.
Apalachicola, or the Land Beyond.
She has been from that day to this
and the people who have lived here
since the Indians, have always been
beyond something. So they said. Some
of them grumbled that they were be-
yond the felicity that great wealth is
said to bring, but equally were they
comfortable Beyond the pinch of
poverty.
For many years with the railroad
and a river boat twice a week, her
citizens were beyond all Interference
from outside authority. Why, once
upon a time it took the Escambfa
Rifles, that valorous company of Pen
sacola hero warriors, which rivalled
the Wellington Guard in class apd
courage-it took them just four days
TO reach here. when ordered by the |
governor to quell an incipient negro |
riot or course, when the soldiers ar
rived in this Land Beyond, the dis |
urbance had settled itself, as trouble |
in this Land Beyond had q way of |
doing. But the Pensacola boys had /
good time, and the girls were glad to |
see them.
Il was about this time that the tim |
ber steals were making many an honest |
lunIberman nervous. and the federal |
court decided to put the fear of God
into certain felonous children of men.
Now winsome daughter of this city
on glad visit to Atlanta met His
Honor, Judge Pardee, and partly TO |
tease her, but half ia earnest, he said: /
TEL your father to lookout We're
coming down there. and we mean to
get every one of these offenuers.~
Why, you can't" she answered with
a gay carelessness. you don't reach
way down there. And besides our peo-
pie are a law unto themselves" In
cidentally 1t is to be remarked that
the federal court didn't give the mil
men of Apalachicola any speakable
trouble.
The county courts We're peculiarly
ApalachicoIians. The Judge of thai
court was also the best butcher in the
city. For several years he held the
TWO jobs concurrently, and his honor,
Judge Sheppard. has won many a case
in Pattons meat market. OF course
he won them. Is he not great judge