The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-10
maintaining q. civ here.

maintaining a city here
The slaves in Jamaica were emanci-
pated in 1885. their ancestors having
been brought here at the time when our
southern states dealt largely in slaves.
The negroes of Jamaica are now indie
pendent and lazy, so, in 1912, the Eng
lish brought in coolies from India 1t
was said these coolies were virtually
slaves, and the Reform party in Eng
land made much of it. This resulted. in
1868, in the present system of in
dentured service, by which the coolies
soon become free. and as lazy as the
negroes. as very little labor is required
here to make living. One of tho
sights in Kingston IS the Hindu section.
where there are stores to appeal to the
coolies and to visitors.
The MoItke's orchestra played in the
ladies' saloon this. afternoon to an au-
dience of three people. Rain was fall
ing outside, and those passengers who
were not sleeping were ashore. The
cello player in the orchestra, a very
young man. greatly interested me. He
seemed to know every note of his mu-
sic, for he never looked at it, though
| he played well. He was always look
| ing around, and acted like a good ma
tured boy. In the dining room below
a waiter dropped some dishes. The
| cello player stood UP. and looked down
into the dining room. but all the time
he continued to play his part in a diff
deserted this afternoon: the weather
makes a, great difference everywhere.
B. A ship is lying near ours. and /
note that its steward announces meals
as they are announced Oh the AIoltke:
by a man going about playing bugle
calls. First bugle call for dinner at
6:45; final one at z. The ship is lying
so close to ours that 1 notice that one
| of the sailors has a large picture of a
woman tattooed on his breast.
|
The American is naturally the best
barber in the world in addition to his
band, father, patriot. believer in free
schools, etc. have just returned
from the ships barber shop. and a fat
| barber down there skinned me- He
has skinned me several times 1 like
| this ship in every respect except that
| 1t does not carry American BARRIERS.
| A woman, who was ashore today.
says that bananas sell at retail in
Kin gston at cents a dozen and
| oranges at a cent each.
| Among the negro divers who have
surrounded the ship today is boy of
10, who climbed to the upper deck.
and dived from the rail, distance of
probably forty feet from the water.
Before every dive he would take up a
collection, amounting sometimes to so
cents. He must have taken in several
dollars. He seemed to be the only
none of the other offered to make the
| leap, which really seemed a periious
one The boy talked good English.
When a woman sits around and
works with needle, how much does
it amount to? On deck today I talked
with a woman who was, hemstitcI1ing
handkerchiefs. She had little bag in
which she carried needles, thread,
scissors and handkerchiefs. She con-
20 hot 81, 1oI
ing at odd times for four years On the
half dozen handkerchiefs the bag con-
tanned. Heretofore the women have
made me feel shiftless, because they
take their sewing with them when
they go visiting, but it seems their
sewing does not amount to much If
this woman has been working on six
handkerchiefs four years.
A negro policeman came on board
tonight to look around" He had no
more business on board than a police
man has at a theater, and was SO good
naturedly oficious that the passengers
began laughing at him. Much to their
surprise, he talked as good English az
they did, and seemed to greatly enjoy
his visit.
The Atchison women are trying hard
to remember the new things they meet
with at the table, and expect to intro
duce them some time in future at
<AtCnlSOA parties. IneY decided that
the head cook was a Frenchman, but
I looked it up and found he was a
German named Meyer. The dinners
are particularly fine, and everything is
daintily served.
There is very pretty young mar
ried woman among the passenrere
She is devoted to her husband, and
does not seem to see any other man
on board. Are the men trying To fiirt
with her? On the contrary, they great
~ admire her, and hsar them com
plimenting her wherever 1 go. Men
always intensely admire woman who
fs satisfied with man; so many
women are dissatisfied with men, and
are forever abusing them.
The last resting place of Christopher
CoiumDus has been a matter OF dis
pute Tor several years, but FredericI,
a. ODER. who was at one time suecisI-
~ commissioned by the Columbian ex-
position to investigate the subject say.
II Is IN Santo Domingo. Wherever vo,,
go over here. you see statues ana
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