The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-03

or right foot. was selected as referee
to decide.
All the women in a neighborhood
assist in managing the men: Mrs.
Walker was talking today, for my
bride. Need I add that her estimate
was very liberal? Mr.. Walker said
his wife's estimate was too high, but
men never understand such things,
and the neighbor women are always
compelled to assist in inducing them to
! loosen up. l will shortly be called
upon to outfit a bride, and all the
cate hint as to my duty" My duty
will have an intimate connection with
| liberality.
While members of my party were
eating lunch today. I devoured four
letters and three copies of the Globe,
delivered to me on landing from the
ship. I do not eat lunch, and some
times have weary wait while my
friends are in the dining room. But
today Jared pretty well.
There was a dance at the Colonial
tonight. A very good orchestra of
fourteen men furnishing the music.
The members of the orchestra are
bro here in December from the
states, as are all the other employees
of the hotel. In April they return.
All the walters are negroes. while the
cham bermaids I have seen are all
white. Eight months in the year. the
Colonial is deserted. Another hotel
almost as large, the Victoria, has not
been opened in a half dozen years.
Tourist travel to Nassau seems to be
falling off, and will probably disap-
pear entirely unless better accommo-
dations are afforded between Miami
and Nassau.
From all I can learn, the Miami
is not much of a boat, when it does
arrive. And 1t has not arrived yet,
although it was due at p m. 1t is
believed that it stuck in the mud on
leaving Miami, but that it will be re-
leased at high tide. and appear here at
about l D. m. tomorrow. The Mi
ami has Dig whistle, which is
known to all the residents of the town.
have about concluded to abandon
the Florida trip and return home by
way of New York, on board the
'Moltke," which sails tomorrow even
ahead of the Miami in case the
Miami gets in at all. Our bad
luck at Havana has started the hoo
doc.
Wednesday, February 16.
Near Nassau, today. 1 visited an or
ange grove. and what co you suppose
was used as fertilizer? Sponges: clip
pings obtained in trimming sponges for
market 1 was told that the sponge
trimmings cost nothing at all. and the
ground was covered so generous that
I sank in them to nv shoe tops. JOS
eph w. Hunt. an intelligent colored
man, had charge of the orchard and
showed me about. He gave me what
: supposed to be an orange: after I
had eaten it. I was told it was grape
fruit. 1t was as sweet as an orange;
and Hunt trimmed off the skin with
a butcher knife. and inserted a wooden
handle with which 1 held the fruit in
eating 1t. THAT is the farmers way
Of inc n1nfv RI hui r 1aa
same fashion has been adopted at the
big hotels here, except that at the ho-
tells, the handles are of silver instead
of wood
While in the orchard. 1 encountered a
vegetable garden where ripe tomatoes
were growing in profusiOn, and be-
lieve enjoyed the tornatoes more than |
1 did the fruit.
Wherever you go in, the West indies,
you find the pigeon pea, Which grows |
on a small shrub.g and grows from |
year to year without replanting. 1t is |
the natives are fond of 1t cooked with
salt beef CT ham.
Great Britain manages the Bahama |
Islands with go negro policemen. Mas |
sau has several forts, but they are now |
dismaptled. and no soldiers have been I
maintained In the Islands for years. |
Uncle Sam should manage some of his |
island possessions in the same way, |
and cut out the soldiers and warships. |
The first day we were at Nassau, a |
egrO was hanged at the penitentiary. |
You can guess what for: a woman was |
unfaithful to him, and he killed her. |
There are "a prisoners in the peniten- !
tiary, which receives offenders from all
the islands, and near it is an insane
asylum with six patients.
Hens act in the warm countries ex-
actly as they do in the cold countries:
that is. at certain seasons they lay |
eggs, and at other seasons do not.
While was at Nassau, eggs were sell
ing at 48 cents dozen. In the spring, |
they sell at "A cents a dozen, and are
never any cheaper.
A very common fruit in Nassau is
the sapadillo. You find it growing on
trees in almost every dooryard, and
the natives are very fond of it. In a
five-acre garden I visited today, I
found it growing in company with
grape fruit, oranges. lines, lemons,
apricots. pears. bananas, cocoanuts.
sugar cane and vegetables. The ma
tives here eat sugar cane. and it is
sold at all the fruit stands.
Wherever have gone in the tropics.
I have heard the statement made that
a cocoanut tree is worth SIS a year to
its owner. I heard the statement made
in Hawaii Ceylon. and in other places.
A native at Nassau told me that 1t IS
an unusual cocoanut tree that produces
a hundred nuts year, and that they
sell at cent each. So the real value
of a cocoanut tree seems to be nearer
81 a year than SIS.
They have a very High Episcopal
church in Nassau. Connected with it
are six sisters. who dress like Catholic
nuns. and who teach a missionary
school Nearly all the Protestant
churches are represented here, but their
pastors are English: the man who