ARE ERS PT --. - 4 THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, 1941. FRIDAY, MARCH Ar lniend Scene The average individual has heard of | Barbados and has a hazy knowledge that it lies somewhere among the Windward group of the Wegt Indies, but il iv an astonishing fact how little is generally known of this most im portant coaling station, situated in direct roadstead of the course of all « steamship lines plying between North and South America and touched by many European vessels. Lying about due north from. the coast of Hritish Guinea, about 400 miles distant, and almost due east from the Isthmus of Panama, its position is strategic, as well as advantageous in many wavs While only about twenty miles long and seven wide at its broadest point, it is, next to Belgium, the most thick ly populated portion of the earth's sur- Aa for its size, the' last census re porting over 200,000 old inhabitants, a large percentage \being negroes. Among the native element are found a fow straggling descendants of the Ca- rib Indians, who retain to a degree the custom and habits of their early state. They consider themselves far superior to the segroes, and while coming in contact with the latter in the regular rgutine of daily toil, appear to have very little in common with them. Hieroglyphics carved upon the rocks here 4 there throughout the West . 5 ald op! The Correct Style in Spring Overcoats VISIT to the Semi-ready tailor shops is most interesting at this season of the year, when all the new style creations are 5 srs , o : . ) " , being shown in patterns and weaves which are the pride of the English woollen mills. Four of the prevailing el spring top coats are shown in the accompanying sketch. ' Or The Chesterfield and the Rigby oat 3 i i . ghy top coat are ia evidence, while the button-thr ; s ; y -through chesterfield and i . show how closely the sartorial artists follow the needs of the modern day. . fh Netuwsp Seat varying stan vi semi-ready 8, fi 5 ying dard values of the Semi-ready shops, from $15 to $20 and $30. Since the Semi-ready « ompany has started tailoring clothes to order in four days, wi ] find y ys, when one does not find just what one wants in the stock, they are getting 50,000 new customers These overcoats or top coats are shown in all the Indies are accredited to this tribe. The origin of Barbados is undeniably voleanic, At the time of the eruption of Mount Pelee, over 150 miles distant, a hot spring which for years had been oné of the natural wonders of this is land completely disappeared, A subter ranean river , has long been a subject of speculation among scientists, and was recently the scene of an interesting experiment, In an effort to trace the course of the river, a duck was started down stream and soon disappeared from view, Several days afterward the fowl was found upon the seashore, miles away, contentedly feeding and a tly none the worse for its re- markable trip, The explanation offered is that 'the river finds vent through the bottom BI the sea, and it is a mat- ter of common comment among bath- ers that they often encounter springs of cold and almost fresh water along the shore. The voleanic nucleus has, by the collecting and retaining of enormous coral deposits, greatly in creased, the area of the island. This wonderful little insect is still slowly but surely changing the coast line by creating bars here and there which the incoming tides fill in with sand. An interesting spectacle greets the newcomer to this delightful spot. As the ship anchors, a veritable flotilla of small craft swarm about the ves wel. Scores of small boatmen, solicit ing "fares" to take ashore. The buxom and ebon laundress who collects soiled linen 'and returns it immaculate before the hour of sailing. Almost naked negro boys, perched fore and aft in tiny flat-bottomed canoes, some with their wool bleached tawny by the com bined effects of sun and sea water, yelling, "Oh, Master, fling me a six pence, and TH dive." Suiting the and the coveted coin is secured before it reaches the bottom. The aquatic antics of these harum scarum urchins are amazing. The first impression of Bridgetown wpou the approach through a narrow eanal-like stream, suggests Holland, in & measure. The water front, with its + gaily painted buildings, its coral rock and limestone quay, the flags of differ- ent nations flying in the breeze, and in the distance the clock tower of an occlesiastioal looking structure, rising above all, presents a picture at once unique and interesting. The effect of English fnfluence is at once apparent in the broad a's and accent of the oes--who are legion, and also in t al cleanly appearance, the only exception to this being presented by Er. coal carriers, even those bei Jietarnque: if not pretty, in the "nol toil." As in most West Indian the native negroes go re- 1 but now and then the clang of wooden sandals is heard. wo men usually wear simple cotton frocks hitehed up in the rear and forming a thigh roll of material around the of the street venders is the head, even to huge degree dis 'renlete with interest. s. The wild rocky coast at is said to resemble that of and the tremendous heights oda ly rongh ---- wh ite hoe on soldiers Drving Boye face of a precipitous elif overhanging the sea, affords ample opportunity for venturesome tourists to explore its stalactite roofed cavers. In this is the subterranean river. "Sea anemo abound at this point. The groes at work in the cotton field, the waving cane, with there enormous windmills, the Holland type, which the grinding of corn and cane, tribute to the novelty of the The "Manjack'" mines offer point of interest, the deposit of which is, its move of the nature as cave nes' here and built after used sugar we in cor scene. another resembles cannel coal, but in character, of phaltum and is used in the manufac, action to the word they will plunge, : ture of varnish. The scenes within the city present a never-ending kaleidoscopic The very narrow, crooked streets alive with the most heterdgeneons imaginable. Handsomelyv-gow men dashing by in victo modest little donkey farm produce and dea jest of burros, English horseback, ner boys mbbling immense sticks of sugar cane; negro women offering live, squeal ing pigs, for sale, and half-breeds of every possible shading from mwmlatto to almost white, are much in évidence, Many of the latter are employed in the important English shops as sales. men or "clarks,"' as they are ealled after the English custom. Trafalgar Square, with its statue of Nelsom--the first ever erected to this popular hero, it is claimed--and a very ecclesiastical looking building nearby, which is used for a postoffice and commercial cham- bers, appears to be the center of ae tivity from which everything radiates. ] The betenoir of the tourists' so- jowrn, however, is found in the perfect pests of 'negro boys who insist asked, upon becoming owes - guide. So persistent are they that if they see one enter a shap they will often edge up to one and evelaim, "Yes, sah, this is the place you wished to find," even going so far sometimes as to whow into the shop and demand a tip or a commission on purchases from the shopkeeper. _ Another com- mon trick is, if they have observed a party having separated], they will ake to reuffite the different members upon some pretext, all im hove of the coveted tip "Po you want Wn, Master ¥" is common salutation of this class, meaning "Do you agent a guide ¥° They possess a Keen Sense of humor, these street wrchine, and will free quently point out a companion black. er than ¢ # and say "Him [powhall, sah." A tourist, annoved to the limit of emlurasce by a oro of these little pests, retorted. "Oh, you're Snowball, are you? "Yes, sah," came the quick response, with ESAT very musical, singing to he a -- of the guitar. their spectacle mass 1 by the gentlemen on "careadores, and oO un- English church. The English of turning to the left instead right obtains. Uricket lar and because of character, game warm a clime. Enormous quantities of fish iS very is, its an excellent are taken in nets nets, not These fish are sold by the about imply, tives at sixpence a bushel, from which it appear 'that increased cost of living had not as become a night when the 'songs of birds hushed, 4 species of tree toad, but possessed of a very breaks in upon the blithely contributing frequent the et At are would vital issue in Barbados very tiny, whistle, of the air, one note at A very popular side trip is worded in a tenhour sail to the island of 8t. Lucia, important for stillness nis intervals and also its interesting be tion, ly self-supporting, from its sale of shrubs and seeds. From this eruption wi pom Some great cataclysm, the of Mount Pelee (Bald Head), on May 6th, 1902, the entire tion of the capital, St. Pierre, thirty thousand souls, together with two big ships in the harbor, were You Gan Cure Chest Colds And Bronchitis by Using Dr. Chase's Syrup of Linseed and Turpentine If You Get the Genuine. The mere mention of pneumonia and consumption causes a person to shudder, but a cold is such a common thing that it is 100 often left alone until these other ailments develop from it. You can readily cure throat and chest colds, eroup and bronchitis, by using Dr. Chase's Syrup of Linseed and Turpentine. This medicine is both thorough and far-reaching in its influence on_ the system. For this reason its merits are well-known = and its sales emormous. ' But there are at least four imita. tions of Dr. Chase's Syrup of Linseed and Turpentine. And imitatighs are always a little cheaper, w else would they sell. They are never sold on their own merit, but on the merit of the article they imitate, Their likeness is in pamé only, and when you are in need of medicine vou don't want to on a mame or of the get oul in the sun! bears but- | terfly nets, as the name might seem to | shrill | v8 a voaling sta- | tanical garden, which is almost entire- | point a | five-hour sail brings one to the theatre | » | seen, distant, and, | annihilated, the only survivor, by a negro awaiting execution in a loeal jail. It is claimed that this criminal after- wards escaped to the United States, was exhibited in the side beihg subsequently ittempt at I'terre presents strange prank of fate, being a where he of rrested { slaughter show a circus, for Bt e of man- to-day The of the cathedral and the stand- of a few dwellings are the reminders of habitation. and a small built to provide tourists t with for the development of { photographic negatives, being the only Towering full six thou- the scene of desola- stands, cold, cruel uncompromising, denuded of its {conical ble off in erup- | tion, Yut sinister, forbidding and repellant rim monument of the ful The ever-present andal desecrated the nearby | { graveyard, --removing tiles, ornaments | and even parts of monuments, in the for collecting, Coursing downward from the crater wide bed of the flow twist- |ing here and there like a serpent is and on either side and below { hillocks shaped like immense ash heaps formed by the great deposits of vol- canic but overgrown snd beautifully green. Further down the mountain two dry river beds still of fer mute evidence of the ammihilating character of the frightful sulphurous gases which snuffed out human lives in an instant. An evidence of how instantaneous it must have been in some cases was found in a body of a woman with her needle still within her fingers, and her sewing resting in her lap. In another case, a fam- ily seated at the daily meal in com posed attitudes, evidently overcome before a realization of the awfal #i- tuation dawned upon the victims. nee Planets Greater Than Sun. Astronomers have made some gress toward showing what is the largest object in sight. The earth is small, and the sun, $550,000 miles in diameter, has over a million times its bulk--but the sun is not one of the largest stars. In brightness Sir- ins is equal to forty sans, Capella to 220, Antares to 900, Arcturus to 1. 200, and Canopus, in the southern bemisphere, to 10,000. Little is known of the actual dia- meter and mass of the stars, but Myers has found evidence that one binary has ts that are each more than 10,000,000 miles in dia- meter, with masses ten and twenty- one times that of the sun. Even this is small compared with the pA is very an- ia spectacl abject desolation. ; walls or iy A few inn recently human "eourio" shacks, | with refreshments, and supplied dark rooms," | struet | sand feet above tion, Mount res. Pelee {and the crown, Wn aw rst insane craz souvenir the lava ash, now pro- size of the nebulae. Though the computation ---- ig ahogt to if so, ith taenty-five or thirty' in, the distance: , 'nhout hia every year. THE H. D. BIBBY CO. if it happens to be a Buckley, he can get another without it costing him a cent. You've seen before--but guaranteed the against agcident. Here's one provides for such shown in the pie- ture -- provides for a new hat within 4 months from date of pur- chase, if, for any reason -- accident or otherwise -- your Buckley ha every sense "stood the racket." Read carefully. the broad, all- embracing guarantee. be Why. you ask, shou makers of the absolute confid- ence in their pro- duct--they feel sure it will give satisfaction im 999 cases out of 1,000. But there's al- fixed star from the earth, or shout the same as the distance from us of the star Vega. A light year--the distance Light, at 186,000 miles a second, travels in a year--is nearly 6,000,000,000,006 miles, wo that the breadth of the great ne bula is approximately 150,000,000 - 000.000 miles, The great nebula in Andromeda is also of inconceivable size, and may be even larger than the Orion nebula. But try to imagine an 'object 190 trillions of miles across ! The Lord loves the silent as well as the cheerful gi fd ' you heard of a hat gu : that does--the sweeping Buckley guarantee-- made so far-reaching? Well, in the first place, the "Buckley" have 'guarantees" never yet arantee that owner even satisfied. cases as tat t has not in Don't feature style quality is Ameri a Buckley man Buckley the id the guarantee and honest that bears the CUSTOM HOUSE FLAGS Were Originally Provided for He . vemue Cuiters, : Baitimore Sun Tradition is responsible for the fly. ing of the revenue flag over the cus toms houses of the country, according to a high ranking member of the de partment. The flag which floats from the roof of the custom house has not only no legal existence, but is sot protected by law from popular use on land and sen por from advertising, as is the national Sag. The revenue cutler service wos es ¥ ity of an act of ' hats are made by workmen----there"s high grade workmanship 1 villed for andth man--even he must be And, in order that he may get a new Buckley hat from any Buckley dealer, without having to answer questions or give a lengthy explanation, it has been. thought well to provide that, whatever his reason, if the Bucklev he's been wearing has not lasted four months, it will he cheerfully, promptly unquegtion- ir gly exchanged this remarkable guarantee Buckley pre-eminence of theses hats English, an and up-to-the-minute shape the The the styles are There's type of overshadow hut to suit every Union material in every hat Buckley name Price, $2.50, at ali the best hat shops. ed force. It soon became evident that the vessels of the service should have some distinguishing flag or mark, to indicate their smployicent and author ity, and under an act of congress of Murch 21st, 1798, the mmrker was pro. This det set forth that "the cutters and boats employed in the service of the rovenue shail be distin. guished from other vessels by an e- sign and pendant, with such marks therson ax shall be prescribed by the president." 7 As is apparept from the act of come gress mentioned and various rev wions of labor date, the revenue envign was intended especially for the catters and boats of the serviee, but it has been displayed over custom houses,