The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-05-29

| kid gloves, perfumery, preserves ana sweetmeats, for their wives stock in trade. Middle street is also the seat Of retail liquor trade and therefore is fa- yOrite haunt of sailors ashore and the scene of many a brawl and murder. Back street the aristocratic quarter | of Kingston, has no paVements or any kind, but contains the handsomest prl- vate residences and public buildings Of l the island. The court house-a large substantial structure of stone, mas l lodge and an iron gate in front Ihe { Council of ssembly-composed or 1 elected members and as many appoint ed by the crown-holds its sessions Tn 1 the morning; and in the evenings fash | ionable society dances and indulges in mild games of whist and baccarat. Be-
 fore the churches were built, the As sembly- house also served the piously- 1 indined for a sanctuary. Now there IS an astonishing number of churches,
 considering that the population or Kingston is less than six thousand, ana | that of the whole island only about
 forty-two thousand. English Episco- 1 palians, Scotch Presbyterians, German Lutherans, Wesleyan Methodlsts and Roman Catholics abound, and each sect ] has it's commodious church. It is said that missionaries, of whatever creed, ism or ology, thrive better in St. Vim cent than in any other island of the archipelago,
 Except few stone structures erected by the government, the buildings ot | Kingston are mostly of red brick. The | lieutenant-governor resides on Back street, in a yellow brick mansion with a gallery around it, under which armed sentinels constantly pace to and ITO His EXCellenCy is also favored with a suburban residence, a mile or two from | town, at the base of the hills, in the middle of what used to be very cred itable botanical garden. For some req son or other, most of the plants that
 had been collected here from all quar- ters of the globe were sent to Trinidad, about a quarter of a century ago. Some magnificent specimens of teak and ma | hogany trees remain, together with the
 whole family of palms, almonds, malac- ca apples, bread-fruit ble-butter,
 silk cotton, and cannon-ball trees, and
 all the spices ever heard of, nutmeg, cloves, cinnamon, pimento.
 By the way, that freak of natures 1 handiwork, the cannon-ba tree, de- serves more than passing mention. It
 grows to great height, with enormous 1 bole and branches, along which twigs and shoots spring so quickly that they | resemble an entwining vine. On these l twigs great flowers grow, with petals of delicate rose-color; but when the blossom bursts out it resembles an eX-
 aggerated chestnut-burr The fruit is
 as large as sixteen-pound cannon-ball
 and almost as heavy, spherical and rus 1 ty-broWn in color The balls are con- tinuaIly growing and ropping, but are
 of nod earthly use-except to keep in
 exercise the idle people who sit under
 them, lodging the hard bumps they
 would otherwise receive.
 ! The governors country house is a long, low building surrounded by veran- das, with pillars and balustrades adorned by profusion of blosseming
 creepers. It is approached by long, winding pathway, beside a merry little stream, under nutmeg, teak and ma hogany trees. amid the spicy odors of | Araby, the Blest. In front of the man. sion is a flower garden, such as only this rich, we'll watered soil and climate of eternal summer can produce. Back of the house long avenue of magniti- cent palms leads out toward "Arno Vale'-a little hollow in the foothills which has a noted spa whose waters are said to rival those of Carlsbad in strength and medicinal virtues The column of warm water gushas out of hole not more than six inches in dia- meter, with a sound as if nature were
 boiling her caldron furously below, The natives declare that the flow is greater and the spring more strongly impregnated on the coming of the full
 moon, so that water bottled then is sure to break the strongest case
 The thousand-foot high hill, known as Dorchester Heights, which tips the eastern horn of the Crescent-shaped harbor, is crested with ruined fortitica- tions, among a range of barracks is still maintained and a signal post for making known the approach of vessels along the wndward coast, Fort Char lotte on the hills of the opposite horn, not quite so high up, has also it's gar rison and two fag-staffs mounted on the citadel: and from the latter signals
 are made to all vessels that approach the island on it's leeWard side. To the right-still lower down, but overlooking wide expanse of ocean-is Scion Hill estate, where private signal-statf is maintained and small fort known as
 "Three-gun Battery This ridge sep arates Kingston from the village of New Edinborough, which occupies a tiny valley of it's own and is defended by the battery on "Old Woman's Point"
 There is no way to ascend Dorchester Heights or Fort Charlotte except on foot or in the saddle--and a terrific climb it is, over narrow trails covered with loose stones, where a misstep | would drop you hundreds of feet below into the sea. But it repays the trouble like most things in this weary world which are attained only by greatest ef-