Show E vv f a m a ic a glories gone I 1 special ordence headers readers of tom cringles log mg must hai haic e wished w that they could have hai hied in jamaica in the spacious lay of 0 paul gelid and aaron bangs and held high feet fest lal lial with governor rind tid judges and bishops and admirals in the groat great bousi houst of a sugar planta plants tion which in those distant las das produced a revenue to make the creole heiresses hetree ees the first in the matrimonial market the sugar plantation plantations are no longer a source of great vic wealth alth 0 ing to the competition of the Uuro european beet product once when ou bald a man was a sugar planter in jamaica ou ell meant that ho fie was a magnate now the ho term implies that be lie Is an unfortunate wretch who ho lice iles awake at rights thinking about the outrages n on bla his property aaron bangs W plantation tor for ho he was as a real reil man and hia tits house and rind property wire faithfull falth tull described by michael scott has lias now gone out of eua suar I 1 as they say in jamaica and Is dei demoted cited to the clinti ration ot of banana bananas for ho the american market buethe dut abo great house which Is called tulloch still exists exactly as it did ID in the time of scott it is owned by my uncle in law and I 1 bave have stood in the hallowed hallo wiLd td spot where tom C ingle si lit his breeches and had to be helped out of the room under coer coner of hta his pretty colsin a e petticoat near by la to spanish town formerly called saint jago de do la vega in the days when it was the capit il ot of the colony and the lioma home of all that was wise vise learned hospitable and now it is a moribund town little better than a deserted bearo village with grabs grass growing in the streets long tailed pigs uander about the main thoroughfares thorough tarea and quarrel with the john crow vultures for the ownership oner ship of the there are no other scavengers prominence of st jago yet as ou on wander through the de seated streets ou feel that once st jago de la vegi aa was indeed a city the hugs huge houses now empty and tumbling to pieces have we an air of aria about them to which those in kingston the modern capital bao lime no pretension aho sahl 11 eare says the old negro wao conducts sou ahr urh ugh the viba halle halls of the abandoned king a house where I 1 to met lit h r till still treating the mothr moth r ali a I 1 grind grandmother mother ae its children the ahe she her scold inRe as it they really do n t know they are grown gron HP tip hare ie Is a coners coin erat atlon ion I 1 board bf be antea ft i en one of thee these dear old women and her ml alre wis treso re who nho was w as the moler t eight children and the of two ml was lily any one whom naca nara eer knew as miss remains nilee mis 6 to the th ind of tile chapter oven even it if elie she has been married fur for a generation mine illy I 1 oil mu n alk pon dat daius grass vid ald dem thin dhoest come conie in die dis linit no boft an put on thicker onee ones oh nurse im oni jonii running across to the chicken ard 1 my feel feet daout ont get vet et I 1 ebar mind it ou on aa as only goin 1 to steps nou ou mils mus come in lit an put on on oil thick oboes murfa ion oil rt nn an old trant trane but I 1 I 1 suppose I 1 must an ant I 1 lie flie mother of eight childr children tn nickly did as she mas told in jamaica ie Is a ino fine old tradition chich eien tho the opening up of the inland island aa an a tourist resort tins not let et deK the poorest planter prides on maintaining in it it the tr acler la is proved pr oiled nith alth letters of introduction so muth the better but he can hardly grael through tho the countr except bi the veil 4 ell beaten tour routes NIt without bout recel recell flug DR several hearty to stay in I 1 if dear saas the lie planter at breakfast I 1 filar h a r thre t lit roe a an american gentleman Kent leman staling sta ing at old mother mendoza a to iginia in the N billage it goodness Rood jack hather Mat ha teer merwin will ho he think of mr mrs mondozar Mondo Iten dozas topisy soup I 1 wouldn t want nant my vorst arst cne ene tn it to cat eat it go down dohn and call on him and ask him to come and stay with ua us partle in honor of guests the pi inter doce does PO so and as soon as the guest Is I 1 installed at the great house tennis parties and dances arc are arranged in his honor the are at tended b bi other planters families within a radius of twenty or thirty miles and it la is not ions long before tho the american it he lie Is I 1 desirable re receives celes imitations to stay at halt a dozen benses F W IS 0 lily pond in garden of king kings houe house former governors of jamaica lived and held high artiel 1 all do old bochra white dem gone sab sah de oung joung ones dem no good dero dere v was vas as momy moray tn in de do old days au ati acra spend it tree free dem danco dance ebry night sah an dem drink land sah sahl bow how 0 1 m did drink and the of the times that have hav been tells stories ol 01 feasts of 0 jerked hog and black crab turtle soup and old madeira he lie con lures up pictures ft f the wicked old times when aldes aides do damp caknip buted to rido ride alligators through the streets when admirals of be the blue gave balls to the tile brown girls of the town when vice in every overy shape and form anns more re potable pu pit table it if not more fashionable than it Is I 1 at present but it Is all a memory thero there la Is not a single bottle of the old madeira extant nobody even the hell fire club and the 0 dest inhabitant of the town cannot tell you how to compound the famous bath punch nevertheless mhd life of 0 the white planter la in jamaica is fully as pleasant today tu to day as it was mas in the time of aaron bangs it Is very much like the life on the plantations of vic atnia and other southern states in the days before tho the war barring of course the slavery of the th blacks many of these jamaican planters plan tere belong to the oldest and noblest brit lib ish families just as the old southern ere ers did their ancestors who emigran cd ed to jamaica were pro tabi friends in ili the old country of those gentlemen adventurers who built up the colony of virginia the plantations and the family plate and family pride have been handed down perhaps tor for more than a couple of hundred years such a life as that which thackeray has in the opening chapter chapters of the virginians is I 1 still lived today to day fr in much the same fashion on many jamaica plantations there Is the same generous hospitality tho thru name same pride the same solicitude for depend ants the same free open air rollick ing life there are a thousand points of resemblance but perhaps the clos est ie Is the liken exx of the west indian nans to the old southern I 1 mammy banals Na nat nals pol when one ot of her bet former charges marries nana goes to her new now home aa as a matter of coune course it Is not at ill till uncommon tofta to flud that she has nursed mother daughter and granddaughter one after the other Nat naturally trally ehe she IP bo comes the family despot it Is anius the planters houpe secants sen ants are al waya ways looked upon as tho the luckl lucki rat pat bt rf the on the plantation they havo have all the and anti ih ely alt ft and humor so commonly associated with alth the southern darky and it Is curious how closely their habits and amusements correspond to me Ms HP fie le dances the calco alk the danco dance the aha sha shay lie tells uncle stories orles et they tell stories about brer anancy tha the crafty spider and they aro are fond of making up songs about the events ol 01 the da luet just as an bo he did in tho the good old time times and singing them la in their quarters at fit night many ot jehovah had entered through them these ballad ballads evL eventually ritually become en shrines in debt indian folklore |