The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1895-04-05


is no soil.
The trouble is that the farmers mo.
nopolize all the soil personally, and thus
robyegetation. IT the agriculturist here
would divide up with the farm and let
the crops have what dirt he does not ao-
tuaily need to make himself healthy,
things would prosper here.
The island has good stone fonnda.
ton for farms, but requires the soil,
which Stems to be walking ahout the
streets Of Nassau begging for drinks.
There are II horses on this island, a
cottage organ, two cases of Milwaukee
beer and Is of common leprosy. took
q look ut three of the lepers, but did not
shake hands.
Nothing Is more annoying to we'll
known man like myself than to find at
a reception in the leprosy hospital that
where You have been standing shaking
hands there is pile of fingers on the
floor which have been left by admiring
friends.
This kind of ieprosy is not contagious.
! say this so that the reader need have
no fears about reading this article. It
will not be apt to convey the disease.
was rendered reception by the
Lepers' hospital ut 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 careto inherit the limestone
pavement here may inherit the leprosy
and the right of piscary in the Atlantic
ocean. A cocoanut and turtle will
keep u family here over week.
The United States consulate here is
worth $1,000, and you get the New
York holiday magazines on the Fourth
of July. The consul here is Mr.. Mclean,
% 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 10
years, but he gets nearly three years
! good time FIR not having tried to escape.
might like to, spend honeymoon
here or recover from govt, but otherwise
i would not banker for this mad, mad
1 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 iptelieetuallv. H had a brand new
bride aud feared that some one more at
tractiye than I've will just sup
pose this for the sake of argument
4 might win her from me, if mingled
too much in Saratoga, would bring
her here, where l 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,
/ l do not have to do that My chief diff
ficulty now consists in keeping the
moths from scorching their beautiful
wings i'll the bright glare of my mass
i've smile. There IRE Gao, 900 mother
less, houseless dogs here, and those who
have.mothers refer to them with shame!
oh, oh, oh! The life of u Nassau dog
is the bleakest thing on earth!
No home No hairl No parents love!
No teeth
Nothing but hunger, hot weather and
split stick OH 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
i'll kicking pathway through the dog
underground aud worthless Niger bum
population. There is here dog i'll the
mir most of the time. I've got quite -
football knee from overwhelming myself
Every one who comes here is apt to over
kick himself
(This is persitlage.)
met literary youth the other day
who wanted to chat. Discussing people
of note, OF whom he seemed to he we'll
informed, he said casually. by the
way, Julia Hawthorne has u plantation
somewhere here i'll these islands, be-
lieve. "
"Yes, " said, II think she has She
and Mary Ann Crawford own one to-
gether and grow sponge cake, rubber
erasers and tortoise shell souvenir spoons
for the New York market. =
A new bride and groom, with new
trunks, new clothes, new gloves, new
i yalises, new umbrellas and new every
thing in the travelling line, as brides and
grooms always have. are here with rs.
He is fresh Ms dew laden daisy. How
he got so fur away from home without
any one to take care of him do not
know. Yesterday lie got gay at dinner
and thought ho would order something
in tile shape of u beverage, He looked
over the list of wines and mineral WA
tiers for some time aud then decided to
take Il bottle OF Bethesda water, Int the
waiter said they were ont of Bethesda
water. So the young man compromised
by ordering bottle q HuSiadi water.
asked him afterw,rd how he liked it,
and he suitl he thought that u taste for
Hunjadi water must he acquired.
There has been some sestigation and
official inquiry regar Z the cause of
our shipwrecE aud Soi.n 10 good reason
given for the terrible loss and frightful
risk OF human life. At the bottom of it
all no doubt is the measly price paid to
masters of ships ON this line.
Coming up the coast ON the trip be-
fore ours the steamer suddenly found
herself off Barncgat with the light on
\ he. starhonrd instead Of her port howl
In other words, she was swiftly sail
inp for Dnlutl aud in o few moments