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Show BARBADOSt ISLAND OF VAST RESOURCES es5n?nnnil8T.of thu winter. csUng and least known of the possessions pos-sessions of Great Hritaln. nf1lhartvnpe' B0lltnry' rarthcst cast U Mtln,,,,B'lHi general, y ts accounted the most healthful of ho group, oven though u Is the most populous country the world, per square ml.e, except China, and George UnriiliiBtou carried to his grave tho vJiu .,f """"Pox contracted on n visit there. Thu island-there Is but one despite the misleading plural name-Is but nn elgbUi the size of our lth.-de Island, '"it has twice as many Inhabitants Per wiunre mile ns our smnllest nnd most densely opulnted wtate. Seldom iIops a volcano become nn asset, but volcanic eruptions have contributed con-tributed largely to the fertility of IJnr-mdos. IJnr-mdos. When the sun wus obscured throughout one dny In May, 11)12, tho Harbndans were panic stricken, but when the gentle rain of black dust subsided, the deposit was found to be ashes from an eruption nf St. Vincent Vin-cent Soufrlcm, nearly 100 miles to the west, which enriched the soil. Long before thnt time, though, Ilar-bados Ilar-bados wns productive. Oldest of Ilrlt-Ish Ilrlt-Ish colonial possessions except Newfoundland, New-foundland, It also was tho llrst plneo In the Hrltlsh empire where sugar cane was plnnted. Its average crop of this now high-priced commodity Is GO.OOO tons. It also has 2,000 acres planted In sen-lslnnd or long-stnplo cotton ; raises 40,000 bunches yearly of the Chinese banana, and exports molasses. mo-lasses. One phenomenon of Uarbndos has not been nccounted for. For years tho so-called "Harbudos Collin Story" furnished n mystery which would Interest In-terest prescnt-dny psychic Investigators. Investiga-tors. In tho yard of a church neur Olstln's Town Is a churchyard burial vault, hewn from rock nnd arched with cemented stone. A woman was burled there In a lead coflln, according to Harbadnn custom. Several years later when tlie vault was opened again to receive another body, the coffin had been removed from its original position. po-sition. Upon the second occasion special spe-cial precautions were taken to seal tho vault. Several times thereafter, though seals were unbroken and thcro seemed no other .mode of entering tho solid rock nnd masonry, the coffins cof-fins wcro displaced. Finally tho mouth of tho vault was cemented, and when It was tlmo to receive another body officials of tho' Island nnd nn Immense Im-mense -crowd gathered for tho ceremony. cere-mony. Once more nil tho leaden ensk-tin ensk-tin were found to have been disturbed find the family had their dend removed to another burying ground. No satisfactory satis-factory solution of theso strange occurrences oc-currences hns been offered. A nntural curiosity of Ilarbados Is tho "Animal Flower Cave," tho so-:oIled so-:oIled flowers being' sen worms. Not m agreeablo are tf.e Mauchlncel, jr poison trees, along tho shores, tvUoxa leaves blister tho sln und contaminate con-taminate the water. |