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HICKORY PRESS: MAY 23, lt95. 6 BILL NYE IN NASSAU. HE EATS GREEN COCOANUTS AND PLAYS WITH THE NASSAU DOG. Some Striking CharacfrUtic of ThU An imal, Who Dwell In Close Proximity to the Nuua Hoe The Natives Shown Up In Their True Light. Copyright, 189S, by Edgar W. Nye. As tbeso lines aro being penned the good ship Cienfaeos is going to pieces on the rocks, and the mullet, tho angel fish, the yellow tailed snapper, the cow fish, the spikefish, the jewfish, the shark, the smelt, the mackerel, the skate, the flounder and the eel are sailing up and down the gilded saloon and criticis ing the architecture of the ship. A colored islander dived for our mail and rescued it, one bag at a time. For this he'reccived $100, or about $5 per bag. One hundred dollars on Harbor is land will maintain him in affluence for 100 years. There is no cow on Harbor island, and goat's milk . has to suffice. We were taken by the rescuing schooner Good GREEN COCOANUTS. .Will to Duumoro town, a little hamlet on Harbor island, and were met by all tho inhabitants, who asked me to lec ture. As wo approached tho island wo could seo the tall cocoanut trees waving in the.soft February breeze, a temperature like Juno at the north. Mr. Jacques got a piazza full of cocoanuts when wo landed, and all for 25 cents. Wo had a big native cut tho ends off these green t t .i. v i: a1. . rr t . . nucs, ana wo arauK mo juice, xnere is as much difference between a cocoanut just off tho trco and ono that has been plucked several months as. there is be tween tho new laid country egg and the dramatic or stago egg. . I do not like the grocery store cocoa nut nor the desiccated truck which is sometimes sprinkled over a frosted cake, but a juicy green nut just off the tree is soothing and refreshing to the weary stomach of ono who has been wrecked.- All night tho soft wind sighed among the tall . palms and rustled the long leaves of the banana, while ever and anon ono could hear tho gentlo bleat of the kid. Wo wero scattered about among the cottages of Dunmoro, and I slept with !Mr. Coffin of Boston. Wo were both grateful to find ourselves alive, even though tho peoplo where wo stopped took our bedding and put it on tho other f olk3 in the still watches of the night. Those who wero capsized in crossing At. r en. i . . iuu ruui wero niieu out as wen as possi ble with dry clothing and gladly took what came along. A prominent Phila delphian appeared in a sponge fisher's overalls, and a New York lady cheerful ly rolled up tho bottoms of a pair of flan nel trousers and paced tho deck with a glad smile. Tho officers said wo wero tho best be haved party they ever saw at a wreck. This is a high' compliment considering that we had never attended anything of the kind before. The disaster occurred on Monday morning at 4:30, and at sundown wo were alt landed on Harbor island. On Tuesday morning wo went aboard the schooner and started for Nassau, 52 miles distant, but - the wind died down by 10 o'clock, and wo were becalmed. I told Captain Sweeting repeatedly to luff, but ho seemed to think he knew his own business better than I did, and so persistently refused to luff. ' However, tho Santiago, bound for Hew York, and a sister ship of the Cien f uegos, hove in sight just off tho wreck and took us in tow, so that before sun set on Tuesday tho Hog island light, off Nassau, could be seen, and tho white breakers shooting up 30 or 40 feet into tho air, with a background of palms and the white walls of the fort. The peoplo of Nassau are divided in to two classes viz, thoso who do abso lutely nothing and those who solicit pence. i Living in Nassau does not cost any thing to speak of unless you stop at the Boyal Victoria hotel, and even thero you may live well at 2.50 to 4 per day, including 'sour sop. " Sour sop Is a cool beverage made from the juice of the sour sop and flavored with ab sinthe. ) The colored brother here is a shade more worthless than anywhere else on earth. He is also impudent and mean. She police are black, and Dr. Parkhurst is needed every hour. Tho uniform of the police is rather picturesque made of dark blue, trimmed with red, and sur mounted by a scarlet turban tho shape of a jelly rblL Two of our party lost their overcoats, and several valises disappeared. Tboee who bustled for their property personal ly recovered it, but those who relied on . the police did not. Nassau now has a cable line via Jupiter, so that ono is not wholly out of the world while here. The local office is tinder the management of Mr. Burns, an accommodating gentleman of the Cau ; oasian race. ! - This is a great sponge depot, and those who do not spongo a living on land do it at sea. The sponges are not so good as ; those which conxn from the Meditcrra nean sea, but do very well, especially in pugilistic circles, where they are found to be very suitable for throwing up at ( the close of the fight, j The Nassau dog is worthy of a fast I decaying community. Ho may be ever 1 so proud and ambitious when he arrives j here, but he soon gets up later and later in the morning, begins to postpone till ! tomorrow that which should be done to ; day, does those things which he ought not to havo done and leaves undono : those things which ho ought to have done, and there is absolutely no health in him. Ho has a corrugated back and a con cave stomach. He has insomnia and fleas when no man pursueth. He makes a good watchdog in some cases. He will watch your dinner till you get out of sight and then eat it him self. Nassau was once the home of enter prising pirates. They are not so enter prising now. Years ago they gave ono a chance for his life. Now "Chuck me a penny, boss!" is tho general cry. Tho climate here is very fine, but you must beware of it if you over hopo to grow up and bo a good man. It is se ductive to the last degree and robs ono of his ambition as the poppy of the ori ent, blunting the senses and stealing over the better impulses for progress liko a ruinous drug. You say on your arrival, 'I will go at onco and get my luggago from the wharf. " If by even ing it has not come, you ask at tho of fice and let it go at that. By and by you say, Well, I'm going homo in a couple of weeks, and I'll let it remain there at the dock, so that it will bo handy." The Nassau hog is a trifle moro mea ger than that of Florida. You can read long primer type through a Florida hog, but here you may read nonpareil through this one. In fact, I think that he rather magnifies tho letters a trifle. Somo use the Nassau hog in cases of weak vision. We havo just visited tbo phosphores cent lake. It was a very dark night, and every ripple sent forth a brilliant blue flame. Our boat disturbed thousands of fish, each one leaving a track liko a rocket as ho got away from our boat. I carried a cane and stirred up a phos phorescent display that would enable one to read tho Nassau Guardian through in three minutes. I think that this lake is tho most remarkable thing about Nas sau. Wo had -a swimmer a native accom panying tho boat and the wholo body was outlined in fire. I never saw anyr thing like it in my life. Stirred by a wild burst of generosity, I opened my heart and gave her a largo English cop per as wo bade her goodby. This is no joke. Sho was a cuto little darky girl who swam like a porpoise and cut up in the water liko everything. I asked her what sho would take to come to America and act in my house hold as French maid. She said that she did not caro to go to America, whero people did nothing but follow industrial pursuits. The colored people of Nassau are di vided into (1) males, who do nothing, and (2) females, who seo that future gen erations shall grow up to take the busi ness off their hands. With them indolence is an inheritance and industry a nightmare. Tomorrow is their day for doing everything, and tho tomorrow they refer to has never yet been foaled. The thermometer yesterday was down to 54, which is tho coldest for 30 years, and somo of tho colored peoplo had to put on an extra potato sack to keep warm. None of them wears shoes, with rare exceptions, and I saw a middle aged person selling tomatoes ono day who wore nothing but a wooden leg ana a look of chastened melancholy. A shark had met him nine years ago in the har bor while on his way to lunch the shark, I mean and had participated about $ S worth, considering the darky to bo worth $75. ThU is true. Also some other things which I have said in this letter. Next week I will show up the joys of a winter in the Ba hamas. Mrs. Slowit I don't see how you can afford to feel sorry for Mrs. Bragg. Her husband may be disreputable, but your own is no better. Mrs. Quickwit True. But Mr. Quickwit is smaller than Mr. Bragg, so you see I haven't so much to complain of.- Philadelphia Record. Not the Kind. "Any parlor matches, lady?" he ask ed as he offered a bundle of his wares. Not yet," answered the mother cf four daughters, but we hope to make some before spring, " and she closed the door on the astonished match vender. . Detroit Free Press. STATE NEWS. Collector Rogers is lack from Wash ington, and our exchanges agree in raying that he will make no change in officers, except where the good of the service demands it. The Medical Society of North Caro lina convened at Greensboro May loth, and was called to order by President Tucker at 9:30 a. ui. The attendance was large and much interest mani fested. Her. Jas. A. Weston, of Hickory, accepts a call to take charge of the Episcopal church of St. Savior, in this city. Rev. G. N. Gilreath, deacon in charge of that church, has a call else where, italeigh Observer. A decision in the case of Meroney vs. Building and Loan Association has prone adversely to the company, hold ing that the contracts of Building and Loan Association are a violation of our usury laws, so says the Raleigh News and Observer. The news comes from New York that a number of banks in Georgia, the Carolines and Tennessee have secured loans from that point at an average 4 per cent, to mature in Octo ber, with the understanding that re newals will be granted. The Southern Railway passenger depot at Charlotte was burned be tween 1 and 2 o'clock Friday inorninf. The fire broke out in the garret and its orijrin is a mystery. The r-corc7s in the various offices were saved. The loss is about $32,000, wjj covered by insurance. When our representatives in the Legislature returned from Raleigh, it was generally understood that the liw incorporating colleges only forbid the tale of liquors within one mile of them, but the codified acts of the last Legislature show that the jurisdiction of the law is two miles instead of one. At the recent term of the Asheville Federal Court Ray, town marshal of Burnsville, Yancey county, being con victed and sentenced to a brief im prisonment and fined $100 with costs, drew his pistol and struck for freedom, but the deputy marshals seized hjm and. after a brief struggle, placed the outlaw behind the bars. Ray has been given twelve months in jail, and wlven he comes forth to freedom again, ho will doubtless be a wiser and better man. " Are you a Methodist preacher ? "No." A Baptist ? " No ; I am a Reformed minister." "Oh, I see you are one of the Sam Jones kind." And the stranger passed on. You're an Easy Prey, with your flesli reduced below a healthy standard for consumption and other scrofulous and dangerous dis eases. And it's for just this condition that Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis covery is especially valuable. If you're thinner than you ought to be, whether from wasting diseases, de fective nutrition, or whatever cause, the "Discovery" will surelv brine: you up to the healthy standard. By restor ing the normal action of the deranged organs and functions, it arouses every natural source and means of nourish ment As a strength-restorer and flesh-builder, nothing like this medi cine is known to medical science. Filthy cod liver oil and all its disguised compounds can't compare with it. Dr. Pierce's Pellets cure constipa tion, indigestion, or dyspepsia, bilious ness and headache. If you wish one of the Henry Weid ner Memorial phamplets call at thits office. Price 15 cents per copy. Fonr RIr: Successes. Having the needed merit to more then make good all the advertising claimed for them, the following four remedies have reached a phenomenal sale. Dr. King's New Discovery, for Consumption, Coughs and Colds, each bottle guaranteed. Electric Bitters, the great remedy for Liver, Stomach and Kidneys. Bucklen's Arnica Salve, the best in the world, and Dr. King's New Life Pills, which are a perfect pill. All these remedies are guaranteed to do just what is claimed for them, and the dealer whose name is attached herewith will be glad to tell vou more of them. Sold at O. M. Roysters Drug Store. 1 It is a common trick of unfair deba ters to seek to injure antagonists in public esteem by labeling them with epithets that provoke hatred or con temp. To sneer at a thoughtful man who is in the habit of looking lefore he leaps as "a inossbackJ or 44a Bour bon," is an easy, and often an effective dealing with him before the multi tude. But it is also a flat violation of the spirit of Christian ethics. A . real debate is a matter of arguments, and not of epithets. It should be conduct ed with perfect conrtesy; and with the sincere desire to get at the truth. To carry it forward on any lower level is to forget some of the plainest reqalre- ments of the gospeL Nashville Advocate. DAVID'S STRATEGY. He Wcutd Hav Been Good Modern Gen eral. A very interesting ttudy on king David as a General was held before the French .Academic Inscriptions of Belles Letters by the explorer and ar chaeologist, M. Dieiilafoy, says the Chicago Record. in Reviewing the tactics employed by David in his war fare against the Philistines the learned scholar accords him the highest praise. He calls David not only the greatest strategist among the Israelites, who successfully kept the enemies of the kingdom at bay, but he considers that David invented and employed tactics against the Philistines which have been Militated by modern war riors with marked success. M. Dieu- lafoy ha discovered tht scene of King David's oerations in the valley of the Raphraim, when, by his rapid move ments, a-s described in the Bible, he completely upset all the calculations of the Philistines and not only gained the victory over them for that day, but compelled them to accept very hard terms of ieace. He brought forward his flank, then made a very rapid change of front, and so entirely shut in the left side of the Philistine ranks that they fell an easy prey to his men. These, say M. Djeu lafoy, were precisely the same move ments as were used in the year 1714 by Frederick II. at Mollivitz and aahi in l?r7nt Rosfbach, and they were again employed with signal success against the Austrian: at Austerlitz. David must have possessed great skill in the training of troops to have brought them to the required stage of obedi ence and promptitude of action. It is not to be wondered at, in the light of thee extraordinary gifts, that he suc ceeded in his campaigns and in estab lishing the kingdom of Israel firmly in the inidsr of its enemies. I s examining the district M. Dieulafoy na-s come to the conclusion that Dav id used every natural advantage which the country afforded and lost no point which could have proved of help to him in his position. His communication was of the deepest interest to the members of the A cad em ie, who were made thor oughly acquainted with the topogra phy of the valley by maps and draw ings which the" explorer laid . before them. Prevention better than cure. Tutt's Liver Pills will not only cure, but if taken in time will prevent Sick Headache, dyspepsia, biliousness, malaria, constipation, jaundice, torpid liver and kindred diseases. TUTT'S, Liver PILLS ABSOLUTELY CURE. The fleeting Last Night. What started out as an easy going meeting last night was converted intoa spirited debate. Mr. Hoggs, of Mem phis, who is travelling through the South in the interest of the Memphis convention, addressed the Chamber of Commerce in a pleasant and interesting speech in which he undertook to answer ''Coin.' His remarks were con servative and were markedly free from the invective that too often finds its way in the discussion of heated ques tions on finance, and was well received, even by those who differed with him widely. Upon the proposition to send dele gates to Memphis there was wide difference of opinion, and believing that the Chamber of Commerce ought not to take a position on the tending financial question, the chamber ad journed, and a mass meeting was held. After much discussion the motion to send two sets of delegates to both the Memphis conventions to represent the views of both sides was defeated. Unless further action is taken, which is not probable, Raleigh will not be represented in either of the conven tions. Raliegh News and Observer, 15th. CHILD BIRTH MADE EASY! " Motors' Fkitxd w is a scientific ny prepared Lir.iment, every ingre d;er.t cf recognized value and in c-r.azr.i use by the medical pro fusion. 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