The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1898-12-15

caf Discovery u consulted tlco Of the best doc
ard tPleaeart tors in to1Cn.H
Pellets l had not taken more than half bot
tie of each when began to feel better, and my
appetite came back, and for little a year
since, began to do my work"
DR. Pierce Golden Medical Discovery is
A medicine that cures on rational, scientific
principles. 1t is the discovery of regu-
larly graduated, practicing physician of
high standing. 1t tones up the stomach,
stimulates the liver and regulates the bow
els. 1t brings all the digestive organs into
healthy activity 1t neutralizes and eradi-
Gates all poisonous, effete matter III the
blood and fills IT with the rich, VITAL red
corpuscles of health and vigor.
The Discovery" is Temperance medi-
cine. 1t contains no alcohol in any form.
ed forest, at an almost nominal quit rent.
His first move is to set it on fire thereby
wasting the timber on dozen acres while
clearing one. Among the ashes he plants
his yams and melons, and perhaps little
corn, growing the same crop over and
over until the soil is exhausted, when he
secures another acre, which he treats
with the same sinful wastefulness, leav-
ing the first to 60 back to scrub.
Finally Porus is reached-an old town
whose name reminds you of plasters. How
know, unless it be a relic of Spanish oc-
cupancy. If so, it is about the only title
which has survived the English ownership
of the island Columbus had a companion
you know, whose name was Porus. The
Spaniards called nearly everything after
their beloved Saints-towns, rivers
churches, streets and rum shops, and
Cromwelfs Puritan soldiers religiously
abolished then all in favor of the names
of sinners, like King George. day the
Engishmen revel in such unsentimental
nomenclatures as Hogs Back, Bog Walk,
Snake Dam, etc. Porus is a Thousand
feet above the sea in a hollow where three
valleys meet. The railway has brought
some business to the hamlet, and you see
its depot and catch glimpses of streets
and shops and comfortable looking houses,
surrounded by a wide outer fringe of cane
shantics; but so far as faces are concerned
all in sight are of African blackness-not
white or light coloIed one among
them
Vaudeville is only ten miles farther on,
and the road aseends ali the way. The
town was named after the Duke Of Man
chester, who governed Jamaica hundred
years ago; and, barring the prevailing com
plexion of its inhabitants, is rs intensely
| English as any village in the heart of the
mother county, Boys are playing cricket
on the green: there is a school which might
sit for a picture of Dotheb US Hall, and
an ivy covered church, with gray haired
curate wandering among the graves at the
back of it. The modest inn has ruddy
| gnboard; and before the blacksmiths
forge horses stand waiting to be shod. A
few English families are scattered about
the neighborhood and the ladies thereof
ride on horseback over the hills and
across the fields, taking streams and
hedges that come in the way in true Eng
! fish fashion All the houses have open
| green latticed verandas, and each prm,
close trimmed lawn rejoiees in it's tennis
| court. A large common is utilized as
race-course and cricket ground, with ten
| mis- courts in the corners, for wherever
Englishmen live, there those ms titutions
are sure to be. A lawn tennis club meets
once week The ladies who do not come
across lots in the saddle, ride thereto in
their pony chaises; and they make tea
under the trees, all as "English'' as pos
sible. Nearly verybody hereabouts raises
his own coffee, meat, poultry, fruit, veg
etables-in short, nearly everything he
eats and uses; and the women are notable
housewives, whose tea cakes, salads and
preserves are things long to be remember
ed
Vaudeville is the centre of large dis
trict, the best and most healthful portion
of Jamaica, famed for the excellence of
it's fruits and the sleek cattle on its graz
inc grounds The red soil is mixed with
crumbled humps of white coral, a ready
made and inexhaustible compost The
temperature at this elevation is always at
least ten degrees below that at Kingston
never cold and never oppressively hot.
yellow Jack is as much a stranger here
as Jack Frost, and the droughts which so
often parch the lowlands are unknown
among the hilltowns, where rain falls the
year round Riding about the neighbor-
hood, you are more and more charmed
with it. Gum trees, almond, mangoes and
cedars spread their shadows over all the
roads, and great silk-cotton trees tower
skyward in lonely magnificence - the
haunts of the dreaded 'duppies," OF
ghosts, whose the negroes believe
would wreck awful vengeance upon any
mortal who would dare strike an ak into
the sacred stems. All around are wooded
slopes, with white walled villas among
orange and coffee groves, groups Of
palms, wind mills and sugar factories