The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-07-29

agree to run it at least as long as the
 subsidy held out. Naturally, the offer
 did not go long a-begging.
 These British Antilles enjoy the nler-
 est shadow of representative govern
 ment. The governor. who controls the
 several colonies confederated under one
 administration, resides Cn the island or
 Antigua. The President" derives his
 title from presiding over the Council
 and is clothed with limited executive
 functions. He is appointed by the crown, and so is the Council. The peo-
 ple look happy and well-fed, and boast
 that there is not a beggar on the isl-
 and. Yet St. Kitts has had its share Of |
 affiictions In 1880 a sudden night
 flood. (probably a cloud-bursD swept |
 down from the mountains and carried a l portion of Basse-Terre out to sea, |
 drowning about third of the popu- l
 Iation Cholera is a frequent visitor l and a few years ago five thousand Ieo- pie died of it within six weeks. The l bodies of the victims were buried III trenches near the shore-too near TOT the action of the waves has been ever since uncovering the remains. To thlS
 day, skulls and marrow-bones are ctten washed out to sea and returned by the
 next seventh wave" to be tossed, hlgh and dry. on the beach. Nowhere with
 in the borders of civilization are mon | keys so numerous and frisky as on this
 small island. As you ride along the | highway, just out of town, you near
 them rustling the branches overhead | and chattering in every tree. The ne- l groes consider them the greatest Of table delicacies, as our Southern dar-
 kies appreciate fat possum and cotton tails. Next on the list of dainties come l-shark's steaks-equally cannibaistlc' l if half the stories of their man-eating propensities are true.
 Nevis, the still smaller island, was,
 probably once a part of St. Kitts. It Is
 barely two miles away, separated only
 by the shallow and dangerous channel
 known as "The NNarrows," full of
 shoals and hidden reefs, where the salt
 pans lie in a series of extinguished era
 ters. The appearance of Nevis IS most
 captivating when approached from the
 south-a round, smooth cone, rising
 straight up out of the Caribbean Sea to
 the fieecy mass of clouds that obscure
 its summit An early navigator de-
 scribed it as "A conical pillar, emerging
 from the ocean to support the sky,
 Seen from the north or east the cone is ' not perfect, but falls off in long slope. : broken by irregular hills which are said
 to be older craters. Columbus named the island Nieves, the Spanish word snow-whether after the mountain i'll Spain with which his chilhood was fa- miliar. or because the wite clouds that - eternally hover above the summit of the } tall cone and the white smoke which in that day issued from it's main crater, suggested to him the idea of snow, none 9 can say. When Englishmen came int1 l possession of the island they Anglicz- 3 ed it's rightful name, after their usual unromantic fashion. The aspect of Nevis has greatly changed since Co;u'n' ] bus found it four centuries ago. Though g still majestic, and green can be, the > dense forests that has draped it's noun S tains with variegated verdure from t0E @ to bottom, have given place to gardens ] and cane-felds, divided by rows 3t a cocoa palms, stretching away up tD :he T clouds, where a sturdy line of ancient trees still spread their mighty bra1che = to the breeze, like a ruff ground tht s neck of the highland where cultivation d ceases Steepled churches are perch2t r on the hillsides; planters houses, somt e of them of pfetentious style, peer out O d orchards and oranga-groves; lazy wind Il mills swing heir long arms everywhc- ( 5, and occasional black columns of 3mok IT tell of sugar-factories equipped wit
 modern machinery The island is no t. more than four miles long by thr" 't broad, and its six thousand acres c d cultivated land are setIup on edge. g l. to say-yet it produces an incredihl y amount of sugar, rum and moasses. '- Coasting around to the southwest, yo r. land at Charlestown, the capital 1n r. principal port It is built along u. SC margin of a wide, circular bay; an Id close behind it the great mountain oe es gins to rise. in long yerdant acclivltN re There is nothing of special intereS 1- here, among the works of man; te S, good houses, church or two. and oli k solitary public building'-a handsom at courthouse, fronted by police, in olu 'u uniform with a dash of red about i to leans out of window and shouts 70 S, Yes!" "Oh Yes!"-probably an anglic ns zation of Oyez, "hear ye."
 o Ou may rue all Ltl6 way dEOullu LII ct small domain, over excellent road Ve either on horse back or in one of th Id two-wheeled covered gigs which I n, wealthier natives affect. That is yo $, may do so in dry weather. Unlike mar Id of it's less fortunate neighbors, Nevis 'al very plentifully supplied with wate1
 but the innumerable springs become a go embarrassment of riches at ficod-tim ss when they overflow their bounderie ng rendering the roads impossible ar or causing much mischief in the can he fields. You will find no trace of pol es erty in Nevis. Some of the estates ha1 ps fine old manor-houses. (whose owne 'c- generally reside in England, having le I'd their affairs here in charge of colore ng agents). There seems to be chur' ty for every half-mile of territory. T fly island is divided into five parishes, ar he each parish has it's large and handson I'm church, besides scores of small ost churches on the plantations. As in TUT of England, each sanctuary is surround he by its graveyard, with evergreen tre set planted thickly among the mound he The view from what is known as Il gre Lowland Church-cut upon the bl nd Narrows and the serpentine shores off, St Kits, with the eleven top of