Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-04-26

-aies tth AVNSA, NHolSn bhefe Is hardly ever yellow fever here-but the princi- 1 pal cause of it. except of course in the bush" is rum. The young English men and Scotchmen and Irishmen come here and bring a thirst with them. They drink gin and whisky to aggra- yate 1t. The "swizzle" originated here the "Damerara Swizzle" as it is known all over the West Indies. 1t is an insidious drink made principally of gin, with some bitters mixed in and the whole stirred into foam with broken ice, by the use of a "swizzle stick" This "swizzle stick I am told was provided by nature for the special purpose of mixing drinks. It is a twig about a foot and half long with roots sticking out at right angles from the bottom. They are cut so that they stick out about an inch long like the spokes from hub Twirled about between the two hands it acts on the principal of an egg beater. But a Manhattan or Mar tini cocktail goes ahead of the ''swiz- gle"
 After cup of coffee in bed at half past six, there is a wait till ten or eleven for breakfast, and as these young Englishmen drink perhaps six ''swiz- 2les' in the interim, it is not to be won dered at that their eyer-prominent liv, CTS rebel. Between breakfast and din- ner at seven, innumerable more ''swiz- z1es" are consumed and after dinner more s.swizzles." They make the gin ooze into them at all hours. Result: Fever-bad fever which sticks to them for years if it is cured at all.
 As picturesque as the city are the peo- pie; coolies, negroes and white men, all obliged to look picturesque by the never-ending summer. The coolies are in the majority and are the most inter esting because they do not allow the conventions of the civilized world to interfere with their common sense, but dress, or rather do not dress, as they did in their native India=a loin cloth, shirt usually and puhgaree or tur- ban.
 After he has been here awhile the white man adopts the dress of the coolie as far as possible, though to be sure he cannot adopt it very far; still he drops his high collar. dresses in white wherever practicable and wraps quantity of fine muslin about his wide felt hat, in lieu of puhgaree. And he is as hospitable as the southerners in the states have the reputation of being. Notwithstanding that am an Ameri- can, and the feeling against our govern ynent is far stronger than l had for moment imagined, I am most hospit- l ably entertained.
 For the most part they are second sons who came out here some years back as planters, but have let their plantations go for the most part and now are government officials with gold interests. All are young-the only man 1 have met who is over 45 is an Ameri- \ can. But hardly one per cent. of them are married-their ambition seems to be to get enough money together to go 10 England and settle down there. There are clubs-large clubs as com fortably fitted up as those at home though after the style of the tropics. There is scientific society which has the finest museum in this part of the world, a library of 10000 volumes and botanical garden which is also the best in South America or the West In- dies. There are number of literary men whose names are pretty well known in England and weekly paper of exceptional merit, besides a number of dailies.
 But although there are but very. few Americans in this place, the infiu- enee of the Americans is decidedly mo- ticeable in two things: Everybody in the place plays poker and almost every thing goes by American prices. I ask the price of box of matches and 1 am told that it is four cents. But I cannot l pay for it with four cents-I must pay two English pennies. Ones board is dollar and half day, but it has to be paid for with four shillings and tup- pence It is most confusing habit and gets even the resident of the place mixed at times.
 Owing to the midday heat the great est part of the days work done here is l in the morning before ten o'clock. Everyone, after coffee in bed, gets up | immediately, and after a bath starts for his office. Breakfast at about II finds all at home again, and then comes loafng time till nearly one o'clock. Then work begins again, and ut three all is finished, leaving lots of time for cricket, tennis, etc, in the cool of the afternoon. Darkness comes quickly at six o'clock, and few go out after din. ner except to some friends house or. the clubs, for walking about after hightfall is not good for the liver. Pi7 amos are everywhere and are kept bang ing away till about ten. By Il every one is abed But the pianos are enough to drive a man with musical ear to drink, for of all climates this is the worst for pianos. There is not One in Georgetown that is in tune, and most ] .f thar,a Snilr,d th0uoh shsetS of