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to tho Oceana. than the d~ust-covsred and
tired-lookins excursionists who Slrivedi
by train from Caracas about s p. %.
Much to our regret. Trinidad md tie
Barbados weee cut out Of ON "Trip on
account Of quarantine, regulations. and,
when we. pulled u Of Cabelo. We
headed in q westerly direction for the
island Of Grenada about four hundred
miles distant. My wife and / were in
the first boat that landed at St Georfe'A
harbor. Grenada. early'in the morning
of February 9th. This is an Enslish
colony, and we climbed the hill towards
the fort 0 used as police barracks.
the policemen being all colored GENTLE
men. a good dark color at that. s's
We first entered a Presbyterian church
that had q lonesome appearance. Re
turning down the hill we met an English
officer. good white blood and dressed
in a white duck suit. He was very
cordial and entertaining and,we started
up the hill with him toward the fort.
He was the chief of police and his Office
az well:as his cottage was close by.
and. as my wife rubbered into hiswalled
garden to inspect the plants and flowers,
we were introduced to his wife, "a
portly demeio of substantial appearance.
Their last@abidina place had been In
Cyprus and many attractive articles
adorned the cottage; while the oriental
rugs were especially 6nticing: Ny wife
complimented her on, the. clearly appear
ance of the town and the advantages
Of an EnslishSac oloapgaYss IS point Of order
and cleanliness and asked III she was
not Englis.h but my adyssaid there were
about twKentysof the saEnslishs fanilisks
but she did not like them because they
were too stiff. She was Irish and from
Dublin. She was all right in other.
ways also. took us up to the fort and
introduced, us to a policema n, then;
being out of breath m account of the
climb, returned to her cottage. 81
Later we inspected the English church
with its interesting memorial tablets,
the Catholic church also, and, just
before noon. wandered into the court
house, where the supreme court of the
island was in session. The judge, as
well as Queens counsel, wearing their
wigs and gowns, and the counsel for
defence, gowns but no wigs. We were
cordially given chairs bv a..court atten-
dant and spent nearly..an hour listening
to the proceedings while the southern
breeze famed US persistently without
any danger of taking cold in the draft.
The lunch at the hotel at loon was an
enjoyment. After lunch we wandered
up a side street and my wife. invaded
somebody's yard to examine the plants
after quieting a colored woman's appre5
hension of danger. and we were about
to retire when a colored girl came to
tell us that a man in a n~eighboring
cottage had a fish with the cruci6xion Of
the Savior on its stomach. We relucy
family went back through two or three
yards into the mans cottage. This
colored gentleman sat in q little room
up several steps from the ground, with
a five months old naked pickaninny on
his lap. A book case in the room con-
tanned about so volumes. One was One
Hundred Years of American History
down to 1876. Another l noticed by
Oliver Wendell Holmes. He said he was
an American. Asked where he was born,
on the island of Grenada in 1884 but
his father had come from Baltimore.
My wife asked him the baby's name
and he said he had named him after q
great American. Ralph Waldo Emerson:
His own name was John Henry Theo-
philus Smith. This mild-mannered,
soft-spoken man was a dreamer OF
dreams and America was his ideal, and
he said his heart was in America and
the government knew it. He brought
out a box containing the skeleton Of a
fish about IS inches long. On its breast
bone was a fail. representation of an
impression of the outlines of a. crucifx,
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on the opposite side a similar impress
sion of a ROBBED figure with outstretched
arms. that he said, wa Pontius PLATE
delivering the judgment He said a sea
captain had given this to him and the
captain had paid $40 for it, A titled.
English ladv had offered John Henry
800 for it, but. being a present, he
could not part with II. Reverently he,
tied it up in the box and put ii away.
A picture Of his son. hung on the sit
ting. room wall, 4 young colored sentle-
man with. plug hat in hand and Prince
Albert coat. He was playing in vaude.
Vile in the States, John Henry was q
stevedore for the Trinadad. line Of
steamers. Mrs. John Henry was q
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