Page 4 Friday, September 21, 1934 The JACKSONVILLE MINER once and snappily remarked that everything though having provided a proper seawall that will keep the ocean In its place. And they proceeded to build one that has proved adequate for thep urpoee ever since. If the poor, old superstitious nit wits of Sodom and Gomorrah had been posseseed of half the cour age of the men of Galveston and tion to go north to Seattle so. ricane ran out of material and had Frisco, they would have built their purchasing a first-class ticket, to quit. I finally came out of it ciUes again on the shores of the Stormy Pacific Stands on which also included bed and board. after having thrown up everything Dead Sea and continued living End While Frisco Quake I engaged passage on the Jeannie, but my appendix, and though pret there, provided they liked the lo of the smaller steamers plying ty wobbly on my legs, I managed cation. But in those days of super Topples and Burns City, one up and down the coast, leaving my to stagger to the table And did I stition, every little thing from a Tells Applegate Miner friend in Oakland, where he lived. do anything to those fine grocer hailstorm to a seismic upheaval And we sailed smack into the ies" i’ll tell the world I did! I had wee attributed to an angry God. By J. C, REYNOLDS worst storm that had swept the with mo three little funny books There are quite a few people yet It seems to be the fashion when coast in 20 years. At least, so I had picked up on the train some today in the world so dominated ever anyone mentions anything everybody said Now I had sailed time previously. They were a lit by superstition they can’t think that has to do with psychic phe around on the Atlantic quite a bit, tle off-color but so darned comical straight But it takes all kinds of nomena for a lot of wise folks to had been off Cape Hatteras in a that no one could read them with people to make a world like this bad blow and prided myself on out having a big laugh. I lent one sit right up and yell “fake!" —•— I will admit that a lot of it is being quite a sailor But let me to the steward in return for some Any game may seem foolish un fake. But can you show me a busi- tell you that the Atlantic, with little favor and he s<x»n got the til one really learns to play it, or ness. profession, or religion that all her hard-boiled reputation, isn’t other two. He told the others and else finds it too difficult to learn. is wholly free of fake? So it is a circumstance to old man Pacific soon I was the most popular per Weston Leader. poor policy to denounce anything when he gets riled up. I went down son on board. All the ship’s crew entirely as a fake, just because a in a pile before we had gotten wanted to read them and did an. Looks as though future genera certain percent of fake has been outside the Golden Gate and most even in the limited time we had tions will not only have their own of the passengers followed suit before reaching Seattle. Nothing found in it. financial problems to solve, hut However, I do not care to argue soon after. Even the captain's wife, was too g<K»d for me after that and ours. Weston Ix'ader. about it. so will simply relate cer who had sailed with him for 20 when we docked the purser, stew ------ •-------------- ard, first mate and engineer took tain things that happened to me. years, became seasick. The esteemed Blue Mountain About 10 days before the earth- We had two Christian Scientists me up to the New England hotel Eagle says the scum of society is quake. I was strolling around the on board and they gave us the where they stayed, and paid for always at the top and must I m * streets of San Francisco with a horse-laugh at first, but next day everything. I had to sneak away skimmed off Kindly us. friend when we noticed a sign were just as sick as we were. I from them finally to avoid getting Brother Eagle, when the advise skimmer which set forth that Ismar the hate to say this, because I think stewed. It was then I first heard of the is scumming Weston Ix'ader Gypsy could be found within. This highly of Christian Science and the Ismar was one of the most cele cheerful, agreeable, sincere people disaster at Frisco, and was surely brated clairvoyants in the United who practice it. But truthfully, I thankful I had come away from States and we had read and heard have seen several conditions that there before that happened. That much of the things she had done Christian Science doesn’t seem to must have been an awful mess and could do. So my friend said. be able to handle and seasickness with houses tumbling down, fires "Let's go in and see if she can tell is one of them. At least seasick starting up in hundreds of places us anything interesting.” I said. ness like we had on that trip. and all the water pipes busted. “All right: might as well sluff off Maybe their faith was not strong The old colored lady, standing amongst the falling buildings and a little money that way as to try enough. praying fervently to the Lord for to drink it all up as some of these I will not venture to say how aid described the situation very fellows around here seem to be high those waves were, as I might doing." “You can do the talking." not be believed. But they were accurately: "Oh Lawd, come down be proposed, "and I'U go along and plenty high and our little 300-foot and help us. Doan’t send your Son. keep tab on what she tells you." steamer would skate up the side Lawd. Come down your own self. I told him there were four or five of one and then fall down the Dis here ain’t no boy’s job." I have questions I would like to ask her other side, with a corkscrew wig seen several old fogy fundamental and. taking out my memorandum gle that would sure drag out the ists since who declared solemnly that the Lord sent that calamity book, I wrote down five, tore the insides of anybody. on San Francisco to punish the in page out. doubled it twice and The only place I could get a mo habitants for their wickedness. tucked it snugly in my vest pocket. ment ’s peace was on my back in Then we went in. Ismar was one bed in There is no doubt that Frisco my room in the center of was of these clairvoyants who adver the a wicked city. I could write vessel. I made many attempts tise to call you by name when you to get out in the fresh air and books about the wickedness I saw first meet them. myself and then not tell fight off this sickness, but soon there more than a fraction of it. But the Being skeptical, as usual. I had had to fly back to my bed. where men of that city did not figure my doubts about this and. imag hear the agonizing groans that the Lord was at fault in any ining it to be just a case of mind I of could people on all sides of me. I was reading, I determined to hold an so sick myself that I took no fur way. They knew the disaster was other name in my mind and see if ther interest in living. If someone owing entirely to a seismic dis I couldn't fool her. Ismar herself had come rushing into my room turbance that might occur any where. So they built the city again, opened the door and shook hands with that w’e had stronger ■ IVA I Children 10<- than ever, and provided with me. seeming to understand struck the a information rock and were headed at once that I was the one with straight for the bottom I would better safeguards against future whom she would have to transact have shouted. “Hurray for hell: upheavals of the same nature. Saturday Only And I presume that San Fran business. To my friend she merely anything for a moment of peace cisco is fully as wicked today, if murmured a polite greeting. I fan this everlasting vomiting.” not more so, than it ever was. KEN MAYNARD in cied she held my hand a trifle from The second day the captain came When Galveston. Texas, was de longer than was necessary and, to jolly me up a little. I stroyed by a tidal wave, these feeling sure she was trying to read around said to him, "Captain, if there are same fundamentalists wagged my mind. I held firmly in my any islands out here please stop their heads and spoke of Sodom thoughts the name of Frank at one of them and I ’ ll get off. “PIRATE TREASURE" and Gomorrah and how the Lord Brown. But it was no use. I’ve sure had enough of this.” That had visited punishment on wicked Presently she spoke: "Mr. Rey tickled the captain. He told me nolds, Mr. John C. Reynolds, I be there were no islands along our Galveston. Sunday and Monday But the people of Galveston said lieve; glad to meet you.” As Ismar route and I simply would have to to my certain knowledge had never stay with it. You see. to avoid "the fault is all our own for not 44 before laid eyes on me, this rather bumping into those rocky cliffs got my goat. Inviting us to be along that coast we had to put seated, she informed us she gave away out into the middle of the NOEL COW ARD’S PICTURE five different kinds of readings Pacific somewhere and all that OF THE GENERATION and asked me which kind I would could be seen on any was want. I replied I would take two, water standing on end. side To make LIVESTOCK ] a trance and a palm reading. I matters worse, they have the fin Tuesday and Wednesday really have a lot of confidence in kind of eats on these vessels a palm reading, for the reason that est and every time my door opened. I no two palms on earth have simi could see the long tables loaded EXPOSIT lar lines and markings in their down with all the good things im hands And perhaps these lines and I couldn’t get there have a significant bearing on the aginable with Edward Everett Horton eat any of it. They say sea lives of the owners. I do not claim to and Edna May Oliver sickness is never fatal, but I am to know a great deal about palm positive if mine had lasted one istry, though I have owned and more day I would have been as studied several books on the sub dead as a smoked codfish. Thursday and Friday ject and have had a lot of it ex the next room to mine was a plained to me by teachers of the fat In woman issxd weighed close to art. To be truthful. I don’t ex 300 pounds. who She was just about as actly believe in it, nor do I entirely sick as anyone could get. 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