The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-04-06

New Providence, the island on which
Nassau is situated, contains 80 squars
m ues of geology and eight mules. Their
is No soil.
# he trouble is that the farmers mo
popo lie all the soil personally, and thus
rob v, ,getation. If the agriculturist here
would divide up with the farm and LEI
the Gro ps have what dirt he does not ac-
tually l. ,eed to make himself healthy
things would prosper here.
The Isl and has good stone founda-
tion for farms, but requires the soil,
which see ms to be walking about the
streets of f1assau begging for drinks
There are, ii horses on this island,
cottage org N, two cases OF Milwaukee
beer and Is of common leprosy. 1 took
q look at three Of the lepers, but did not
shake hands.
Nothing is more annoying to well
known man like myself than to find at
a reception in the leprosy hospital that
where YOU have been standing shaking
hands there is a pile of fingers on the
floor which have been left by admiring
friends.
This kind of leprosy is not contagious
say this so that the reader need have
no fears about reading this article. 1t
will not be apt TO convey the disease.
/ was rendered reception by the
Lepers' hospital at Nassau, but shrank
from it. Leprosy is inherited, but not
contagious. 1t 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 leprosy
and the right Of piscary IN the Atlantic
ocean. A cocoanut and turtle Will
keep family here over Is week.
The United States consulate here is
worth So, 200, and you get the New
York holiday magazines on the Fourth
of July. The consul here is Mr.. Mclean,
a very pleasant official who has held his
place nine years He must be very
competent officer, or else nobody In the
United States cares TO come here for four
years. Mr.. Mclean was sent here for IL
years but he gets nearly three years
good time for not having tried to escape.
/ might like to spend honeymoon
here or recover from govt, but otherwise
| would not banker for this mad, mad
life, which consists mostly of walking
from the hotel down to the dock, where,
you spit thoughtfully into the beautiful
water and return to the hotel again.
This is restful, but it does not improve
one intellectually. If l had brand new
bride and feared that some one more at
tractive than I've viii just sup
pose this for the sake Of argument
might win her from me, If l mingled
too much in Saratoga, | would bring
her here, where | would have no rival
| would keep the money and return
tickets in my own possession and threat
en- to leave her here if she smiled on an
other.
But, thanks to the fatal gift of beauty,
I do not have to do thatl My chief diff
ficulty now consists in keeping the
moths from scorching their beautiful
wings in the bright glare Of my mass
i've smile. There are $50, 900 mother
less, houseless dogs here, and those who
have mothers refer to them with shame!
/ Oh, oh, oh! The life of a Nassau dog
is the bleakest thing on earth!
No home! No hairl No parents loves
No teeth!
Nothing but hunger, hot weather and
a split stick on his tail.
never saw anything more unhappy
than the dogs here. In Constantinople
the dog has no future. He has not been
emancipated, but he is not molested.
Here the only exercise one has consists
in kicking pathway through the dog
underground and worthless niger bum
ponulation. There is here a dog III the