Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1886-03-17

vivid to me, and l was afraid to let
him go.
'Oh, Hugh" murmured brokenly,
thank Heaven, my darling, that i
have you still"
''Yes; thank Heaven!" he whispered
reverently; and for a time we were
silent, and then, with hearts full OF
a deep and lasting joy. passed out to-
gether into the summer sunlight.
FIVE HOURS IN NASSAU.
A Reporters Visit Ashore ut new Pro-
violence.
New Providence contains eighty-fve
square miles of land, three towns and
a score of more of curious features not
to be missed by visitor. To see all
these in five hours was tremendous
feat. and the accomplishment of it
shocked the community to the same
degree that the earth quake startled
this city last summer. The horse that
did the work wore an expression of as
tonishment and panied surprise at find
ing himself whipped into the first hurry
ever known in the West Indies. The
mahogany colored soldiers came lang
uidly out of her majesty's barracks,
the half nude negro babies rolled to
one side of the roadway. the English
merchants and clerks came to the doors
and windows, and there were signs, as
the team passed through the African
hamlet of Grantstown, that the popula-
ton was so stirred that it would surely
turn out of the houses within an hour
or two to see what was the matter. And
yet the nag did not make more than
SIX miles an hour when it was walioped
| the hardest.
What buggy ride that WAS to man
who had embarked at the foot of Wall
street, shivering in heavy beaver over
coat, and at the end of the journey 10
further than from New York to Chi
cago. lad turned out of bed to find
himself in land OF perpetual summer
and strangely beautiful tropical scenery.
The white town ON the sloping hill, ,ide
shone in setting of tropic verdure
like pearl in a bed of green plush.
Here was no end Of novelty cargoes
Of plneapples, boat loads of sponges,
holds full of singular Holsters, crabs,
and grotesque-looking fishes, decks
heaped with singular fruits or uninvit-
ing appearances, but with names that
called up visions of oriental feast,n.,
and other heaps of roots that looked
like peppers, and yet were not exactly
like them either.
Over all the decks and on the wharf
and down the main street and up al
the side streets and far away into the
country were swarmS OF negroes, not
llat-nosed, thick Tipped Congo men and
women, but darkies with regular feat
ures, straight noses, and mouths with
in reason. Their bare feet, colOTed
cotton shirts, the dissolute straw hats
OF one sex and gorgeous bandanna tur-
bans OF the other, the thin Tapping
trousers of the men, and the jumbo of
col0rs III the women's dresses demon
strated that the poor were rs cool as
the white merchants and clerks who
wear summer silks or suits of thin dr.ll
goods, and cooler than the black police
men uniformed a heavy and stiff white
duck. Nassau has about 14,0C0 i'll
habitants, anu is said to be the cleaneSt
city in the world. This is partly be-
cause nearly everything in it except the
people and vegetation is made of q
white rock, part coral and limestone.
The streets, are simply smooth beds OF
it, the houses are biz boxes of it, the |
wharves are solid cubes of it, and the |
fences are slices of it set on end. The
city looks white, and as it is built or a |
hillside sloping down to the S.a, it |
keeps itself clean.
4 ride through the little capital takes |
you past square after square of low,
light cOlOred square houses, many of |
item shielded on one or more sides by |
additions enclosed IN walls made of |
shutters that will admit the ar and |
exclude the sun. The gardens ard |
farms, if you can call them so, are also
made of solid rock. To plant any
thing it is only necessary 10 punch a |
soft spot in the stone with 4 cTowbar |
and plant or SOW the seed in the pow
der. What little soil there is rest in
the cracks and pockets OF the rock, but |
vegetation thriveS as well in hole |
made for the purpose as in an old one.
A thousand and one tIess. bushes, |
plants, and shrubs brandiSh their leaves
In every hand. Palms, cOcoanuts, BAN
anas, and pIneapples ornament every |
view. Oleanders as high as the houses
and gorgeous with blossoms, roses that
never cease to boom, jasmines, shell
flowers, caeti without number, geran-
iums, and an lnterminable list of flow
ers illumine the scenery and weight the
air with perfume.
In wild profusion and in trained
good order are the fruits Of this land OF
incessant June-cocanuts, lemons, or
anges, bananas. pineapples, sapodillas,
guavas, breadfruit, citron, mulberry,
plantains, grapes, tamarinds, and
double score of fruits wholly unknown
to this country. All this on soilless
rocS in the sea- Over the tree tops the
red flamingo floats, the wild pigeon
coos in the branches, partridges, quail,
ducks, snip, and pigeons are credited
to the woods and beaches. InvalidS /
and those who dislike or have reason to i
dread northern winter find there
climate which between November and
May does not vary more than ten de-
grees-from about 20 degrees to about
so degrees.
The negroes have Grantstown for
their capital. 1t begins little beyond
where Nassau ends, and consists of a
most interesting collection Of wooden
shanties without fireplaces or ohimnsys,
with thatched palmetto leaf roofs. and
no glass or shades in the windows.
These houses peep outside the white
roadsides from beautiful confusion Of
fruits, flowers, and trOpio trees and
black women and children abound in
such numbers that tree such cities as
Nassau could not provide work for all
of them.
A STRANGER, iourneying in France,