Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-11-01

We saw Tue urot bdSA u OuE oPPAecs.N -
the Wind1ard Islands. This was the little
island of Sombrsro, no more than halt
mile square Of rock, with lighthouse on
Il and perhaps so inhabitants. But We
were glad enough to see il, for it told rs
that we were only 90 miles north of ST.
Kits and might expect TO be here IN q
few hours. That little dot in the sea look
ed uncommonly fine. We had seen moth
ing but water so long, q bit Of rock wss
luxury. Perhaps | felt more 81 home on
the ship than most Of the passengers,
though had never made voyage IN her
before; Tin fact she is new, and this is only
her fourth 7oysge) But she Is command
ed BY the same good Captain Fraser with
whom made g voyage 70 Bermuda in the
Orinoco three years ago, AID carries the
same steward and the same siewarGess.
So there are familiar faces about, and q
fragrant ordor of Bermuda hangs about
her. OF course in the six days Of unbro'
ken sea Captain Fraser and talked over
old Bermuda days. l heard of people who |
had been dead to me for the last three
yesrs-Leople living and working away IN
isolated Bermuda ever aimee / was there
and probably doing Just as well as II had
staid there to encourage them. OF course.
too, the Trinidad's smoking room wss pro-
ductiye, over that long stretch OF water,
of many stories, both good and bad. 1t is
a rare place for smoking and yavniDg,
this smoking room. Well forward, away
from the Earring of the screw, with walls
of white marble and tables OF the same, It
makes 9 pipe taste sweeter and . story
sound better. / have stored away some OF
these stories and don't believe / can do bet
ter, in breaking the ice for this new series
of letters, than to relate batch OF them
For cannot 90 of any more into descriP'
tons Of, cocoanut palms and orange groves
They were fair game once, but now they
are too stale. OF course there are plenty
of them here-that goes without saying
! l! could look upon them now with ss
much curiosity as did eight or ten years
ago, when first caught sight OF them in
the public igsfdens Of Vera Cruz, | might
write something about them. But tamill-
sriry, though it may not breed contempt,
is q great destroyer Of romantic tancies
| and now when | see oocoRnut tree, In
stead of making me want to write about
It. il only makes me wonder how my grove
is bearing over at Nassau. and Ehethe the
/ Fall storms have blown down any Of the
trees, and whether my fellow-citizens Of
color have been climbing the walls and
helping themselves to the nuts. These
smoking room stories are all new to me,
and trust they will be to you If sou end
an old one Just skip it. The Captain,
of course, must have the place of honor,
and if you will imagine his jolly face and
round body in one corner OF the smoking
room, Wellbrowned pipe between his lips,
and a gold laced cap on his hesd l will
hello HIM tell his story of Tho Enigraut
10 Trinidad" What sort of country is
TrnidsdY Well, I'll tell you what sort OF
country it is. It's big island, aud has
rich soil, and some very nice people on 1t
There's plenty Of land to be had there for
the askipg-Governmsnt land that will
raise anything you want. Its going to be
q great place, Trinidad is, but it will take
time. Don't 90 there get your fortunes out
of farming, any OF you, unless you have
plenty of money to begin with, ! took one
one emigrsnt there who was going to get
rich on free Government lsnd, but brought
/ him away again. He went down In the
cabin and came back In the steerage.
When he asked me for Gods sake to take
/ him back to New York for what money he
had left he told me his story. He Was
/ milestone cutter some RhsFs up IN Canada
aud made good wages One day tract
| distributing missionary went to his town
and gave lecture On Trinidad. He charg-
ed a Quarter admission, aud advised al the
poor men to 90 there. He described it SO
/ the finest country under the sun, where you
had only to plant q hucklebsrry and in
couple of weeks have ripe pumpkins. The
ssonecutter was interested IN 1t, and after
the lecture hs hunted the missionary up
and asked for more Information Il was
g grand place, the stranger told him, q
poor man paradise. Nobody could stsrve;
everybody grew rich. The Government
gave emigrauts as much land as they wanted
/ TO encourage emigration. He would be q
rich man in 10 years if he went to Trinidad.
. The stouecutter had never seen or heard
of such country, ard he determined to
emigrate there Fortunatel he had no
/ family, but he sold what things he could
/ agd came down to New York and took the
steamer to Trinidad. he felt ike rich
man already, he wss so cure OF making q
/ fortune. When be got to Port of Spsiu,
/ the capital of Trinidad, he went into one
l OF the business houses and asked where he
could find some Of the Government free
/ land The man there did not know any
thing about it; he had never heard of the
/ free land, but he sent him to another man
who possibly might know. The second man
/ had heard that there was such thing, bat
/ he knew no r.oge than the frat He ad-
vised him, however, 70 20 direct TO the
/ Governor and ask for infor nation. So the
emigrant called on the Governor.
"'Yes, we give land free to enigrauts,'
the Governor told him; but it is wild land
and has to be cleared. If you have money
enough to hire hundred or two OF coolies
and have few acres cleared you may do
we'll. If you have not, you had better not
Z try it. You cannot clear it yourself, the
growth ia too thick, and you would be killed
| by the snakes snd wild beasts
| "But the emigrsnt was not &c &c put of
without finding out for himself, and at last
the Governor offered to send a couple Of
guides with him and let him see for him.
self So the next day they started. They
followed q road till they came to the end of
! it and then turned into the woods. That
night they campad out and next day con.
tinued the journey. Going through the
heavy Jungle the guides began to walk very
cautiously. never putting foot down with
out sesing where it was going He asked
them what they were looking for, and they
told him tarsntulss BE did not know
what tsrantuls was, 80 it did no flghten
him. bat after he had seen a few hundred
he grew o little nervous At last, after
they had travelled good many miles. the
guides saw something that scared them, and
ran away. He thought they we're only
playing a trick on him, so he kept on, but
in few minutes be looked up into q tree
and saw q black creature hanging from 8
limb that bad two eyes, as he said, as
big As AL the reSt of its body. This was
l. L l.