Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1921-11-11

FIVE MILE BEACH JOURNAL, WILL
gently. Some men up here have been
in power over "a years. They have
Boise Penrose beaten. Cigars and
drinks are plentiful on election days.
Sunday, June 25th
Back to Southampton. First trace
of inconsistencies, although it soon
went away. Two young fellows came
down from Spring Hill and played
and sang some old familiar songs,
ONE semi-classic, other ragtime, and
l thought of the people at home, of
the boardwalk, the lights, the fun,
the laughter, the friends, and all of
that, and here 1 was, in a strange
country, without a friend, not a place
to go to, no familiar face to see, no
laughter in which to join. In the
evening the fellows took me along
owe I to some girls house (she is the
school teacher). There we sang songs.
Zone of the fellows has a powerful
voice and is going after a try-out in
the States. He can sing, and sing, and
sing, and he doesn't seem to get
hoarse. Says he can reach high F
when running the ~scales) Had cakes
and claret. Spent a pleasant evening,
altogether one of the best since I've
been up here.
Monday, June 26th
Rain, rain, rain. l certainly have
run into considerable rain up here.
In a little over a week the sun has
shone about twice or thrice all day.
It's a funny thing about rain up here.
One place is liable to have an exceed
ing downpour, while another place
not ten miles away has the bright sun.
Again, the day may be bright and
clear and before you are expecting it
a storm comes up and then goes again
as quickly as it came. The bright sun
comes out and in a few hours the
same thing happens again. This may
happen five or six times. A great
deal of rain is only an irritating driz-
zle which keeps up for days. The
roads become sh~ockingly bad.
One thing tramping about like this
does is to bring n closer to God
One certainly gets into communion
with the Divine when a person is all
alone, tramping muddy roads fol
miles without a sign of a house, q
person or beast. A crow may mock
you from a near tree, but that is all
and you realize what it is to be hungry
and shelterless; and then a great
comfort creeps over n as he real
ICES that there is a God in HEAVIER
who takes care of "one of the Least
of these, His children" People very
seldom say grace at meal times III
here. 1t is generally pitch in ant
help yourself" as soon as you SIT
down.
Wednesday, June 2Sth
Met a queer old codger. He lives
on a sort of mountain, has been mar
ried twice and has had about Is
children. His present wife is much
younger than he is. He put me up tt
a meal and nights lodging. He tool
me over to the house and said, "Don'
know your name, but her name is
Brown" pointing to his wife. In the
evening he took me down to his
brothers house, about a hundred
yards below. His brother got out al
old fiddle that had fallen apart an6
glued together again, and began to play
some old Irish jigs, keeping time witt
his foot. He was a typical bald-head'
ed old Irishman and his two kids came
out and started to dance some ole
jigs. l almost laughed aloud. Brown
was a hot-headed old cuss, and say, he
could let fly some 66-caliber epithets
He punctuated nearly every sentence
with an oath, and if he was sore al
anyone or anything he nightly con-
signed him to eternal perdition anC
damnation with a volley of invectives
the like of which I have never heard
and 1 have heard some rich ones
There were five kids around the house
but that didn't seem to affect him. ]
don't see how his wife stands it. He
was poor as a louise, and always ex-
poets to be so. He has built his OWL
home and barns, is quite a mechanic
but can hardly read a line. His wife
has planed and built the window cas-
ings and frames, planed an d hung the
doors, and is now painting them. She
is about 35-40 years old. Although
very ignorant, he knows a great deal
about everything.
Thursday, June Goth
The old duck got me up at $50 for
breakfast, and 1 didn't get to bed
before 1890. Am spending tonight
with three fellows who are camping
out in an old shanty. They are work
49, - Jyrohor will naor horo Tho