The Cairo bulletin., 1906-01-20

ual and takes pains 10 find ii. bur we
were hardly prepared TO hear of his
teaching school of brier root pipe col
ored children in PALMER
1t was one Of his freaks. only little
wilder than the others. When his yacht
was run down in the sound two years
ago the newspapers were full of stories
Of his wealth, his travels, his adycn.
lures and hairbreadth escapes That
was the time they all called him David
| X. Chatwortb, although everybody
knows that his name is David III. Chat
field. They described him accurately
4 enough as tall young man Of about
twenty-four with handsome dark hair
and eyes, dark complexion, 1.-THE and
muscular, wearing slight brown mus.
! rache.
The only trouble with Chat is that he
! has always had too much time and
! money TO spare, He is first rate fell
low as it is, but with the advantage Of
| poverty he might have become a great
fellow. 1t is only fair 10 him TO say
that he does not bore his friends with
stories Of his adventures. We ger these
from the papers, aud it Is bard 10 make
him retail them when we catch him AT
the club
1t was one OF these newspaper stories
about him. an Indian tiger hunting
story. | think, that incidental. LED 10
his PALMER experience. We were ia
Nassau, at the Royal Victoria hotel,
MI
morning on The eastern end of the big
piazza--the end where the building is
rounded off like the stern OF a steam.
boat We preferred that end because
the trade wind gave us a cool breeze
there every morning after breakfast
Somebody was reading The Story out
OF an English newspaper, and Chat was
particularly annoyed by ii because
she" was there with rs. and he ala
not ike the notoriety.
The reader insisted upon reading he
whole thing aloud. and when he cen
Guided young Lloyd, who was looking
over Il Nassau paper published mat
morning broke in with:
Il don't see what YOU want TO be
fooling with tigers and elephants for.
Chat Why don't YOU Try something
peaceable for a change? Now here's Il
chance fora nice quiet little adventure
Listen to this advertisement In the Mas.
san Guardian" And he read
Wanted. A schoolmaster Tor PALMER
ISLAND. mist be a classical scholar and
competent 10 teach the higher mathe-
MATES; salary go per amman and the
use OF 4, dwelling house. Apply to he
honorable the colonial secretary.
Chat laughed at The idea when we
chaffed H.hm about il, and it would !
have passed off harmlessly II she had |
not taken ii up, That young person is |
a tease and fond of adventure herself !
and she dlmost dared him to 50 down |
10 Painter and teach that school san |
Chat ohE laughed and few minutes
later We ser out FOR a sail IL the sea |
gardens Hut before the week ended |
Chat exploded bomb by relling us |
quietly chat he had seen the colonial I
secretary aud had been appointed
schoolmaster of PALMER island.
She was a little frightened at what
She had done | think. but she made no
sign, ana in few days we all went
down to the wharf TO see Chat sail
away in the mail schooner for PALMER.
The mail schooner makes one round
"trip every month and is the only means
Of communication PALMER has with
the rest Of the world.
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PALMER most Of the population were
gathered about the little wharf 10 see
him, TO the number of 800 or 400, in
ali shades Of color and all stages of
mostly shoeleSs. often hatless
and coatless. and some little black
shavers win nothing on but a look OF
in their faces. Ia front oil
them all was the resident magistrate.
and you must know that the resident
and tue schoOlmaster are
The two great men OF PALMER, the
'choolmaster perhaps a little The great
er because he is the only white man on
he island.
The days are as much alike as the
seasons In PALMER, and the arrival OF
l new schoalmaster Is an Important
went The people are all negroes. rs
have said. with no more business Than
AN be done in two or three little shops.
md no occupation but gathering cocoa
luts and shipping them away IN the
nail schooner and raising few yege-
ables and catching fish and turtles
L is a terribly Isolated island. hut q
beautiful one There are no towering
TO scrape the clouds with
heir green peaks. 1t IS low. almost
lat. aud made up largely Of white rock.
With hege and there patch ofTed SOL.
But ef6n tue rocks are fertile. and
rom thrir crc,ices spring trees that
,car a wealth Of fruit and fragrant
lowers The year through ard bushes
Z gorgeous c3lors aud sweet perfumes
nd mammoth ferns that tower among
be- trees
The glory Of the island is on its
lOrtbern end. where from a smooth
lain * white sand there grows an i'm
nense grove Of giant cOeoauut palms.
heir feathery tops so high that to look
q them from below tires the neck.
nd 80 luXuriant that the grapevine
ranches meet forming a green cgH9rtV