The Red Cloud chief., 1895-04-19

There arc IL horses Oh this island, q
cottage organ, two cases OF Milwaukee
beer and Is Of common leprosy. | took
alook at three Of the lepers, but did Ia:
shake hands.
Nothing is moro annoying to n -,
known man like myself than to fiji .t
a reception in tho loprosy hospital tlat
where you have been standing shaking
hands there is q pile Of fingers on tho
floor which have been left by admiring
friends.
This kind Of lcprosy is not contagious.
/ say this so that the reader need have
no fears about reading this article. IL
will not be apt to convey the disease.
| was rendered q reception by the
Lepers' hospital ut Nassau, but I shrank
from it. Lcprosy is inherited, but not
contagious. Ii passes from father To son
and takes the place of real estate. Those
who do not care to inherit the limestone
pavement here may inherit the lcprosy
and the right Of piscary in tho Atlantic
ocean. a cocoanut and u turtle will
keep q family here over q week.
The United States consulate hero is
worth SO, 600, and you get tho New
York holiday magazines on the Fourth
of July. Tho consul here is Mr.. Mclean,
very pleasant official who has held his
place nino years. He must be "a very
competent officer, or else nobody in tho
United States cares to come here for four
years. Mr.. Mclean was sent hero for l2
years, but ho gets nearly three years
good time FOR not having tried to escape.
might like to spend a honeymoon
here or recover from govt, but otherwise
l would not banker for this mad, mad
life, which consists mostly Of walking
from the hotel down To tho dock, where
you spit ~thoughtfully into tho beautiful
water and return to tho hotel again.
This Is ~rcs:ful, but it does not improve
ono intellectually. If | had a brand now
bride and feared that some ono moro at
tractive than I've will just sup.
pose this for tho sake of argument
might win her from mo, If | mingled
too much in Saratoga, | would bring
her here, where | would have no rival.
/ would keep tho none and return
tickets III my own possession and threat.
en- to leave her here if she smiled on M.
other.
But, thanks to tho fatal gift Of beauty,
/ do not have to do that My chief diff.
ficulty now consists in keeping the
moths from scorching their beautiful
wings in the bright glaro ~ my mass.
i've smile. There are go, 900 mother.
less, houscless dogs here, and those who
have mothers refer to them with shame!
Oh, oh, OH Tho life of a Nassau dog
is tho blcaEyat thing OH earth!
No home! No hair! No parents love!
No teeth!
Nothing but hunger, hot weather and
a split stick on his tail.
/ never saw anything more unhappy
than tho dogs here. In Constantinoplo
tho dog has 10 future. Ho has not been
emanCipatcd, but no Is not molestcd.
Hero the only exercise ono has consists
in kicking a pathway through the dog
underground and worthless niger bum
population. There is here q dog in the
air most of the time. I've got quito a
football knee from Overlooking myself.
Every one who comes here is apt to over.
kick himself.
(This is prrsit,age.)
l met u literary youth the other day
who wanted tn chat. Discussing people
of note, uf whom no seemed to DO well
informed, he said casually, "By the
way. Julia Hawthorne has n plantation
somewhere LlGe III these islands, ! be.
licvc."
"Ycs," | said, Il think she has. She
and Mary Ann Crawford W one to-
gothcr and grow sponge cake, rubber
erascrS and tortoise shell souvenir spoons
for tho New York market"
\ now bride and groom, with new
trunks, new clothes, new gloves, new
v~aliscS, new umbrellas and now every
thing in the travelling line, rs brides and
grooms always have, are hero with us.
Ho Is fresh rs u dew laden daisy. How
he got so far away from home without
any one to take caro- Of him | do not
know. Yesterday he got gay at dinner
and thought he would order something
in the shape Of u beverage. He looked
over the list of wines and mineral wa.
tcrs for some time and then decided to
take a bottle of Bethesda water, but the
waiter said they were out Of Bethesda
water. So the young man compromised
by ordering n bottle Of l~iunjadi water.
i asked him aftcrward how he liked it,
and he said no thought that n taste for
Hunjadi water must bo acquired.
There has been some investigation and
official inquiry regarding tho cause Of
our shipwreck and so far nogood reason
given for the terrible loss and frightful
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