Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-28
ILLS OF THE OCEAN.
The Pleasure and Pain of Voyage
to Beautiful Nassau.
SURE CURE FOR SEA-SICKNESS.
1t Works Like a Veritable Charm on a
Despairing Family.
LIFE IN THE BALMY BAHAMA ISLANDS
CORRESPONDENCE OF THE DISPATCH,

n 2SS2u! w nat NaSSauI w ell, uOE IN
one in which j Johannsberg is located on tn
Rhine, where Prince Metternich makes th
Rhine wine and sells the same at $4 to S6
bottle and puts the money in his blue
blooded pocket, but the one that American
have vague idea about. It is that on
where eternal summer prevails, and is 10
cated-well, the fact is, this Nassau stand
out in the Atlantic Ocean, and if the Pitts
burger who don't know wants to know, will
imagine himself standing on French Reef
or some other rock or key about the extrem
lower end of the eastern coast of Florida
with his back to the west and his face to tn
rising sun, he will see this Nassau exist
and has it's place among the Bahama groul
of islands about ITO miles in front of him.,
1t is on the Island of New Providence
and is tie capital of a group Of some 60(
islands that are scattered about loosely, a!
though the great Creator of the Western
Continent had a few crumbs of material
sticking to his fingers at the end of his labor
and shook his hand in this direction, and
this group was the consequence. I don't ex-
pect any geological experts like Profs. Jill.
son or Leslie to agree with me in this. They
will probably take the floor and talk about
the coral insect or vegetable-the influence
of the Gulf Stream by its breaking through
a part of the continent, and dear knows
what not, but for my plain purposes my
mode of construction will do. I will moi
apply for patent, however.
An Ornamental Official
This group of islands belong to the British
and are governed by governor appointed
by Her Majesty, and the natives are permit
ted to paw his salary. What his duties are
Idon't know, as the people, most of the
$4,000 being negroes, seem to govern them
selves. They are so docile they require NO
government. They are apparently neither
at work nor looking for work. 1 saw one
shake few hundred flies off his person, but
as they all came back at once he looked at
them complacently and appeared to think
the labor useless.
The question was once innocently asked
of distinguished prelate, What is an arch
bishop? After cogitating a few moments
the answer came: San archbishop, my
dear sir, is a person who performs the func-
tions of an archbishop" This, paraphrased,
will probably do for the Governor of Mas
sau, Sir Ambrose Shea, who is said to be
an Irish gentleman of the old school and an
excellent man in every way.
The ship Santiago, In which we sailed
from New York, proved to be high roller
on what thought very slight proyocation.
or rather a storm, and with only pretty
foam-crested waves about ten feet high, but
she did the "Carmencita'' skirt dance and
wr1thed and rolled her body with all the
grace that any female would envy, and, as
usual, all the other females within reach be-
came-well, most of them took to their beds,
and queer sounds came through the lattice
of the state rooms like this:
"O-o-o-ach" "O-o-u-o-gh!" ""Uochr' "Oh,
dearP' Cracked ice champagne"
dyingp' you'll be better tomorrow, dear!"
"Oh, go awayP' Mammal "Broodsand!"
What, precious?" "Are you sick?" Get
out, you little villain; what a question:
"O-o-o-o-o-schp' "Whoopla!' You unfeel-
ing wretch, to let so many people die without
the aid of physician"
Scores of Amateur Doctors.
Well, come to think of it. am, when
in Pittsburg, looked upon by many
persons as being physician, but here am
as vet quite undetected, but there are many
amateur doctors with infallable cures right
around me with which to aid people in dy-
ing, which is not my business In fact, 1
have been forced to take two glasses of iced
champagne by one of them, with the assur-
ance that it was prophylactic. This ANA
teur doctor used that word and I thereupon
used his medicine, and 1 can testify that the
remedy has acted well thus far, and 1 am
ready to take the dose again If am forced
to-.
The first day out, on retiring, after the
shades of night had we'll set in, with aolian
and acl-i ri aonrorfiop
iments on the part of the Santiago and
the elements, 1 soon learned that two ladies
and small boy in the next stateroom were
dying, at least they all freely admit
ted to one another that they
were, and they were sufficiently persistent
and ostentatious with their unearthly
sounds. 1 can't repeat them, as the vessel
is now rocking as L write, and no amateur
doctor has recently forced me to take iced
champagne. But the "mawma" performed
in all the notes of the gamut in an alto
voice and the other occupant, probably an
old maid, with a slight mustache and
whiskers, at least her voice sounded as if
she ought to have them, Joined in a barry
tone, keeping pretty fair time considering
the way miss Carmencita Santiago" was
dancing over in the direction of the SUM
mer seas" and the boy was getting in an
OCCdSlOudl hOlC III hCN.
regarded The boys notes as being the proper
thing, as he, judging from his voice, was
really minor, but there was no actual oc-
casion for him whining like a Cuban pig
under sugar mill between his other fairly
well-turned efforts.
Sure Cure for Sea-Sic kness.
1 determined to do something nice for
these people, as they were very ''near to
me-" only an inch board partition between
US, and l couldn't sleep for their blanked
noise. 1 pressed the button and called
steward. "Would he please ask the ladies
in the next room if they would take a sure
cure for sea-sickness?" "Oh, yes, if the
gentleman would be so kind" 1 sent in
tumblerful; dose, tablespoonful every five
Iul for the boy. This kept them pretty nice
and quit for an hour and 1 was about
skating mentally away into dreamland and
hoping to some time tell the medical pro-
fession of this new, cheap, simple
and always present remedy for
The worst and noisiest forms of
when the barytone
voice of the old maid aroused me:
"Oh, my, I'm dying, dear. That medi-
cine; call the steward" The alto voice
softly murmured, don't get excited dear,
.he medicine has cured me" "Oh. you shut
upl Call the bo'swain-I mean the captain,
mean the steward. That dreadful medi-
,lne. Ring the bell, can't you" "Yes.
lear, will. How has the medicine af-
fected you. my dear son?' sob, it's given
ne bad pain"
I slipped out of my berth and caught
Charley, the steward, as he was going to
answer the bell, and begged him not to dis
,urb the lady and above all to say he got
he medicine from an old gentleman from
he other side of the ship. There are a
lozen old men on board; and assured him