The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1902-03-06

Blilousness is cured by the use OF UT,
Plerce's Pleasant PelletA
and a twist of hemp around her head,
like halo. Her woody hair is plated
IN stiff horns that stick straight out "all
ways for Sunday and many add style
to the general get-up by wearing gourd,
or half cocoanut-shell, by way of a
bonnet. They are the coalers. return
ing from many hours hard labor on the
quays, but still hilarious. singing and
shouting at the tops of their voices
There goes tall and stately Haitian
dressed in gauzy and trailing white.
with SO little under it that the human
form divine stands darkly confessed.
like yelled statue. On top of her
queenly head is gaudy turban and on
top of the turban is poised huge fiat
tray of cakes. Here comes a white
horse no use looking around here for
the red-headed girl supposed to go with
it, with scarlet saddle-cloth and other
brilliant capariSoning, closely followed
by sheep with bell tied to its neck.
Does it signify a coming circus? Oh no.
The patriarchal rider with mutton-chop
Whlskers and close-cut hair under a
broad Panama hat, is only plain Mr.
Somebody, formerly of Copenhagen
and it Is the fashion here, and in many
parts of the West Indies for pet sheep
to accompany horses, as DIT home coach
dogs run under carriages. They say it
is healthy for both horse aud sheep to
live IN the same stable and they often
become so attached to one another as to
become almost inseparable
OF Danish rule the casual visitor sees
little evidence. He observes that relic
OF darker ages, the chain-gang, on some
of the public works, and women work
ing side by side with male convicts
The unfortunate females themselves
seem to care less about it than the
spectators. shouldering their spades
and pick-aXes with a jaunty air, sing
ing to the accompaniment of jinglng
chains. Tramps fare badly here, for
the police have an uncomfortable habit
of picking up harmless oilers and exil-
nag them to the tiny island of st. Jan,
there to tend sheep and cattle. We
met mother who was weeping and
wailing and like Rachel, refusing to
be comforted, because her son, aged
fourteen had been sent to st. Jan the
day before, merely for the offence of
perambulatlng the sire IT'S with nothing
on but ''cuttie sark'' of less than the
regulation length. a year or two,
more or less, appears to make world
of difference in local regulations, for
on every doorstep you see children,
some of them perilously near to the
"age of discretion playing about,
naked as the minute they were born.
The laws of these islands are as queer
and behind the century as those of the
District of Columbia, which have been
mostly preserved intact since King
Georges time. The ''President" of the
group, who gets his title from presiding
over the Senate, is also judge and
prosecuting attorney. As in some
parts of our own far West, where to
steal horse is held greater crime
than to kill man, theft is punished
with more severity than murder There
is Colonial Council, partly appointed
by the King of Denmark and partly
elected by the islanders-''to assist the
Governor-General in his arduous
duties says the statue-book.
Affairs seem to run smoothly, as on
well-oiled wheels, barring occasional
Jars over some quarantined steamer, or
the killing of an animal without per-
mission from the Council.
OF course you must visit the two
medieval castles of the buccaneers,
which are prominent features in the
landscape overlooking the harbor
Many Shuddery tales are told concern
ing them, and the frowning structures
still serve as bugaboos to frlghten re-
fractory children. Away back in the
Seventeenth century, when Charlotte
Amalia was celebrated as a pirate
stronghold, where the sea-rovers came
to sell their plumber and replenish their
stores, two of the most noted ''scourges
of the Caribbean Sea-" as the old books
say, named Bluebeard and Blackboard.
had their homes here. Their respective
castles are a considerable distance
apart, each seeming to command the
town and harbor. 1t is a pretty stiff
climb up to their eyries, though you
may go in carriage part of the way.
We did better than that in our visit tn