The Republican journal., 1902-03-20

,,l Nv Months
spondence of The Journal
rE4-}1ANsToED, ST. CRoIX, D. w.
uary 10. 1902. 1t seems to me
...a1ere this side of Paradise can
ute perfection of climate be
-atn restful conditions and
u- scenery, as i'll this compare
.. known island of the Danish
u st Thomas is beautiful, with
.Ue-phere like that which the Old
..ttnbutes to Heaven-of High.
He0u ard with unlimited pos
s- II the way of commerce.: St
capacities of immense value in
raslug to supply passing ships
uelghboIing islands with fresh
MA; neither of them is to be com
III. st. CroiX as a desirable place
nee. OF as winter resort for
>u5h Americans who annually
ends of the earth to escape
weather 1t requires neither
at u0r the son OF a prophet to
hat in the near future, when
owners of these islands have
Few Judiclous improvements,
If winter travel which now
uugly toward foreign parts, and
,ltu streams of American wealth
flow along with it, will be turned
own far more beautiful posses
undying summer For the in
le angler the world Wearied
oi rest. there is no more delight
Ut Where one may live forever in
de Of palms, famed by sleepy
winds and fed by tropical fruits:
uded by spicy woods, fields fra
with flowers the year around.
e~ Of silyery sand and waters of
uus blue that fairly swarm with
" every variety, and all the time
-N-c0meT may see riches growing
md him. without labor on his
Vlt. if he cares to invest in any of
Ur.tltudinous enterprises that now
sud attention. \ rosy picture, isn't
'nd its principal beauty is that
Las not painted it regardless of
tdt that it is true in every par
ILL of course there are dra WbackS.
f9 Eden had its serpent The
though friendly and hospitabie
lt gree, are not always exactly
whom one would choose for eX-
society; there is no let-up in
HIGH eternal noon of tile coast
,iS and to keep comfortably cool
must seek the hill-tops. elbow fever
mes sweeps the West Indies of
ugllus population but is really
to be dreaded than our typhoid
ueumonia, and some of these
nave never yet had a case Of it.
a9y Is prevalent among the negroes,
mainly to their filthy habits, but
even been known to touch for
-.. AS for that bugaboo, the hurri-
though they may be expected at
.oUr between June and November.
of the havoc they make have
vs., been greatly exaggerated There
stu many iand-lOcked harb0rs, and
Vt coming storms are so plainly
u in the skies that as rule,
nut criminally careless navigators
grief. Some eighteen Years or
a tidal wave upheaYe0 to the
uf thirty feet; and came rolling
solid wall into the harbor of
ptrt Amalla, breaking along shore
aging furOuSly among the lower
rs of the town: but there are
Huye hurricanes and cyclones here |
II the southern part of our own
r. and never, since time began, !
aere been any approach to the Gal !
eu horror anywhere in the West |
When it rains in the tropics |
ouds simply throw wide their |
and a falling ocean is loosed upon |
4arth accompanied by crashing |
ler that sets the mountains atrem- |
md fills the valleys with booming |
4.F' II WY va ltpIIS VI olIC OhLIil |
.lssolving in the stress of elemen- |
strife. But it is only for a few |
each day, during a season which |
I've calculated upon with unerring |
racy. No danger of being caught |
hover here and running the feath- |
I'D your SWEETEST hat, when you may
ouu to the minute when rain will be-
fall and prepare yourself accord
.-t commencing with light showers
GIT, gradually increasing in length
volume as the season advances,
half the day is also included in
doWn-pour, there is never morn
e wen after blacklist night, riven by
nes of lightning and Jared by in
SAINT peals of thunder, when the sun
"rs not rise gloriously over the rain
washed earth, which looks clean and |
."lUtful as if fresh from the hands of |
'l. Every one to his taste: to mine
N leTcest storm that eyer swept the !
tropics is preferable to the slow, dis !
mag, blood chilling driZZle of a |
'len autumn, devoid of every ele- |
' II grandeur or beauty.
81 roix-the largest of the Danish