Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-05-12

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/ met an English ofRcer-good white
blood, and dressed in a~iwhite duck
suit: He was very Icordial and en-.
tertaining and we started up the hill
with him toward the fort. He was the
chief of police and his office as well as
his cottage was close by, and, as my
wife rubbered into his vailed garden
to inspect the plants and flowers, we
were introduced to his wife, a portly
dame of substantial appearance. Their
last abiding place had been in Cyprus
and many attractive articles adorned
the cottage, while the Oriental rugs
we're especially enticing. My wife
complemented her on the clearly ap-
pearance of the town and the advan-
tages of an English colony in point
of order and cleanliness, and asked
If she was not English, but my lady
said there were about twenty of the
English families but she did not like
them because they wpre 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 policeman, then, being out of
breath on account of the climb, re-
turned to her cottage.
. 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 we'll as Queens counsel,
wearing their wigs and gowns, and
the counsel for defense, gowns but
no wigs. We were cordially given
chairs by the court attendant and
spent nearly an hour there listening
to the proceedings while the southern
breeze famed us persistently without
any danger of taking cold in draft.
The lunch at the hotel at noon was
an enjoyment. -
After lunch, we wandered~u side
street and my wife invaded some
body's yard to examine the plants at
ter quieting a colored woman's ap-
prehension OF danger, and We were
about to retire when a colored girl
came to tell us that man In neigh
boring cottage haG a fish with cruel
fixion of the Savior In its stomach.
We reluctantly wer. back through
the two or three yards into the mans
cottage. -;f;s:s-. Il II,
The coloredt gentleman sat in a
little room up several steps from the
ground, with a five.months-old, naked
pickaninny on his lap. A bookcase in
the room contained about fifty vol
5umes.& One was One Hundred Years
OF American History down to 1876:
Another I noticed by, Oliver Wendell
Holmes. He said he was an Ameri-
can. Asked where he was born he
said on the Island of Grenada In 1854,
but his father had been from Baltt-
more. 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 Theophilus. Smith. 49, II
This mild hammered, soft spoken
man was q dreamer of dreams. and
America was his ideal, and he said
his heart was in American and the,
government knew it, .--~, .,~,5..
He brought out a box containing
the skeleton Of fish about fifteen
inches long, On its. breast bone was
a fair representation Of an impress,
sion of the outline of crucifix, on
the oppositei side a similar impression
Of. q. robed4 figure with outstretched
arms, that he said was Pontius Pr
late. delivering the Judgment. He
said sea captain had given him this
and the captain had paid $50 for it:
"A titled English lady. had offered
John Henry 500 fort but, being a.
present, he could not part with it.
.Reverently he tied # up In the box
and put it away.
: A picture OF? his son hung on the
sitting room wa1l-a young colored
gentleman WITH plug that in hand
and Prince Albert coat He was play
ing in vaudeville in the states.
John Henry was stevedore for
the Trinidad line of steamers.
Mrs. John Henry was a sprightly
looking little woman of fair age and
nv wife said she bet she was about
his fifth. Thus do women knock and
suspect frailty In mans nature
when SO many, many virtues are in
evidence.
Other pleasant experiences were
added to that delightful day in Gre
NADIA before we finally reached the
dock and. were. towed back to the
Oceana.
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