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— NOT A HERMIT OF ROMANCE. Man’s Reasons for Living in Solitude, Thoogh Excellent, Somewhat Sur prised Young Lady. The beautiful young lady stood at the mouth of the cave in the moun tain and addressed the ragged and long-haired hermit. "So you are a real, live hermit! I have never seen a real hermit before, although I have read ail about you many times. I suppose you bad a very sad Jove affair in your youth and the loss of your beautiful sweetheart drov3 you to this wilderness to live alone. Was she so very beautiful? You have tomato cans filled with mon ey hid fn the ground, haven’t you?” "Not at all, not at all,” interrupted the hermit. “I have no money buried —it is ail in four per cent government bonds. My first love affair was alto gether too successful, and that's the real reason I'm here. You didn't see a square-built, red-headed woman on the trail looking for a husband, did you? It’s about time I moved again, anyhow, since so many people are i coming here. ’Tain't safe to stay.”— | Puck. _ ASKING SMALL FAVOR. ‘ Papa, mamma says that if you’re too iazy to »lo anything else, will you please sit near the clothes closet and blow the smoke in, so as to kill the moths!” _ Artificial Wants. Many a one, for the sake of finery on the back, lias gone with a hungry belly and half-starved their families. “Silk and satin, scarlet and velvets,” as Poor Richard says, “put out the kitchen fire.” These are not the nec essaries of life; they can scarcely be called the conveniences; and yet only because they look pretty, how many want to have them! The artificial wants of mankind thus become more numerous than the natural; and as Poor Dick says; “For one poor person, there are a hundred indigent.”—Ben jamin Franklin. Laundry work at home would be much more satisfactory if the right Starch were used. In order to get the desired stiffness, it is usually neces sary to use so much starch that the beauty aud fineness of the fabric is hidden behind a paste of varying thickness, which not only destroys the appearance, but also affects the wear ing quality of the goods. This trou ble can be entirely overcome by using Defiance Starch, as it can be applied much more thinly because of its great er strength than other makes. His Record. “Colonel.” asked the beautiful girl, “did you ever ride a horse 90 miles in three days?” / “No," replied the veteran of two wars, “but I once ran 20 miles in about 30 minutes, which i think was going some, considering the fact that the un derbrush was thick and I was in so much of a hurry that I forgot to throw away a knapsack that weighed nearly 50 pounds.” A Fable, Perhaps. ■When George Ade was coming from New Orleans last winter he noticed, among the race-track men on the train, one tan-shoed sheet writer with the largest feet he had ever seen. And he furthermore testifies and af firms that the sheet writer, on rising in the morning, discovered that the reporter had shined one shoe and a suit-case.—Success Magazine. Starch, like everything else, is be ing constantly improved, the patent starches put on the market 25 years ago are very different and inferior to those of the present day. In the lat est discovery—Defiance Starch—all in jurious chemicals are omitted, while the addition of another ingredient, in vented by us, gives to the Starch a strength and smoothness never ap proached by other brands. Morals and Manners. The witness had been arraigned for 1 perjury. “Your honor,” he complained, “this is most unjust. I never couid permit an absurd devotion to truth to inter fere with the fact that I am a gentle man.” Tills was construed roughly as a plea of guilty. Omaha Directory rubbefTigoods bj- mail at rot prices. Send for free catalogue. WYER8-DILLON DRUG CO.. OMAHA. 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Glaring streets, yellow houses, blue houses, green houses, all daintily outlined in white as to their doors, windows ani gables; canals crowd ed with odd varieties of vessels and spanned by quaint toll-bridges. And alt as neat and clean and bright as soap and water and paint can make it. That is Willem stadt, the port and capital*if Curacao, and one of the most picturesque spots in all the picturesque West Indies. Long years ago it was a favorite resort of the pirates and buccaneers that infested the Spanish main. Into I"J .. 1 1 " JEWtiH SYNAGOGUE y- 1111 which is a pivot and at the other a little steam tug that swings the whole structure open for entering or depart ing vessels. Guarding the en trance to the port are two of the most comi cal little fortresses one can find in a year’s journeying—Fort Riff and Fort Amsterdam. A few queer old guns peep front their en brasures and several diminutive soldiers from their garrisons. A hand grenade might al most blow either fort into bits. But they add - - —1—a a THE SCHOTT EG AT, CURACAO CUP AC AO, FOPT-J OF W/L L FPUS TAD i . , . +MLLEMtiTADV TRAQTJO/i I <SYJTZn much to the picturesqueness of the place, and Willemstad is uot ashamed of them. Of course, being Dutch, Willemstad should have a real canal, and the visitor soon finds one. and finds, too. that he must pay a small toll for the privilege of walking over its high arched. hundred-foot bridge. Tied up in this waterway, he will discover all kinds of queer, highly colored craft that are used in the island traffic. If he doesn't wish to cross the bridge, he may patronize the tramway which, starting from the stream, runs all the way around the end of the canal and THEHARBOR, WlLLZMdTAD * - - nocently asked the rep resentative of a great manufacturing house of St. Louis, whom I met on shipboard. “Xo. indeed," he re plied. with a laugh. “What's the use? Their import dues are too high. I go to Willem stad and there sell all my goods for the Vene zuelan market.” Two other commer cial travelers who sat by laughed and winked and said nothing—and us naroor-iaKo inese oioouy sea-rovers sailed with rich cargoes captured from the ill-fated merchant men that had fallen into their hands and the stores of gold and goods from plundered cities on the mainland. The place was safe from all pursuers and there the pirates divided their spoils and refitted for new raids. But in all the chron icles of the buccaneers there is little mention of Curacao, and no record of its ever having been attacked by them. From 1G31, when the Holland ers apparently found it without an owner, the island was a Dutch possession. Thrifty merchants settled there, and it requires no stretch jif the imagination to suppose that their immunity from raids was due to the excellent facilities they af forded the pirates for disposing of loot. The cities of the mainland and of a dozen islands of the Caribbean wpre repeatedly ravaged and burned and the inhabitants subjected to torture and mas sacre. But Curacao was unmolested, save for two ineffectual expeditions for its capture organized by the Spanish during European wars. And the Curacao of to-day? Well, it hasn't changed greatly, save to accommodate itself to latter-day conditions. Rich cargoes still are un loaded at its wharves, hut they are sent there in steamers by the merchants of Europe and Ameri ca. Sober, peaceful Dutch Jews take the mer chandise in hand, and a little later much of it is loaded into sloops and schooners which sail away for the mainland of Latin-America. Still later this same merchandise appears for sale on the counters of merchants In the cities of Colombia, Venezuela and Central America, at prices tha. precludethe supposition that it has passed through the custom houses and paid the heavy import du ties that are imposed in those countries. In a word, Curacao has become the headquar ters for the smugglers of the Caribbean. Little is heard of this, for silence hP6t serves the pur poses of most of those concerned. A hint at the truth is met with the indignant denial of the shrewd folk of Willemstad. But the fact is well known to all who are familiar with trade in the Caribbean. "Do you go to Caracas on your rounds?"’ I in all three left the steamer at wiuemsiau. Castro, who, while president of Venezuela, often tried, in the wrong way. to do the right thing for his country, attempted to break up this vast smuggling conspiracy. But his efforts resulted only in precipitating a bitter quarrel with Hol land that barely missed becoming a real war, and in hastening bis own downfall. His successor hacked down as gracefully as possible, and much of Venezuela’s imports are still being trans shipped at Willemstad. One other industry lias Curacao that is of espe cial moment to her neighbors of the mainland. That Is the manufacture of revolutions. The island is a favorite refuge for deposed presidents, defeated revolutionists and other refugees. They may always be found incite clean little cafes of the capital, concocting plots to regain lost power and awaiting the “psychological moment” for starting a new rising of the people against the “tyrants.” These “patriots” are always ready to talk volubly of their hopes and plans, and so Wil lemstad lias become the great distributing point for sensational and unreliable news concerning our volatile sister republics. Curacao really is the top of an almost sub merged volcano, like many other islands of the West Indies, and lies almost within sight of the coast ot’ Venezuela. For many months at a stretch not a drop of rain falls there, and the whole island looks like a big bare brown and gray rock. Then comes a wet week, and grass and shrubbery spring up as by magic and clothe hill and valley in a mantle of green. Bui it is only grass and shrubbery, for there is not a tree on the island more than ten feet in height. The an cient crater has become a large, beautiful lake of Irregular outline, known as the Schottegat. This connects with the sea by the “stream,” which flows through a break in the crater's rim. The stream is Willemstad's harbor, but the larger steamers have to go into the Schottegat to turn around. On both sides of the stream is built the quaint city, which looks as if it had been brought bodily from the Zuyder Zee. Tts two parts are joined by a long pontoon toll-bridge at one end of back to the stream again. Marvelous is the equipment of this tramway. It consists of one small bobtail car with seating ca pacity for about six persons and no straps, and one weary, dejected little donkey. When the car reaches the end of its run the motive power stands on three legs and goes to sleep. The car cannot i start back until be wakes up, and Willemstad's perpetual traction problem is “How long will the don Key sleep this time?” It would be a most annoying problem if anyone cared, but no one to whom time is an object ever uses the tramear anyway. Dutch architecture, somewhat modified to suit tropical conditions, prevails in Willemstad. The business buildings are large and not unattractive, the public structures are decidedly picturesque, and many of the residences are very handsome. The merchants as a rule are wealthy and, as has been intimated, are not lacking in enterprise. It is only fair to say that many of them confine their activi ties to business that is above suspicion. The port is an important transshipping point for trade In tlie Caribbean. Its business men are wondering just how the opening of the Panama canal will af fect their prosperity. Though Curacao is a Dutch colony, and has been for centuries, the visitor will find few Dutchmen there; the population is almost wholly negro and the merchants nearly all Jews. As for language, you may have your choice. Address the almost naked lad sitting on the dock ready to dive for pennies, in Dutch, Spanish, English or French, and he will reply in kind—with a request for money. Speak to him in “papaimiento” and he will take you to his brown bosom. Papaimiento—literally “the talk we talk”—is the ordinary language of the common people and is a curious compound of the several tongues named, together with African and Indian, it is like all and yet strangely unlike any of them. The tourist landing on Curacao for the first time naturally expects to be confronted at every turn by bottles of the liqueur to which the island has given its name, but he is disappointed. It is there, of course, and for sale, but it is not obtruded on the passerby. The small bitter orange from which it is made is grown on the island, but the liqueur is not manufactured there and never has been. It is a product of Europe. Gold filigree work, hampers, inlaid caskets are offered tourists. Altogether, though the ordinary sights of Cu racao may be exhausted in a day, it is well worth a longer visit by the leisurely traveler, and he will find the inhabitants most hospitable. t^ith its riot of color, its far over-reaching eaves, its long wrought iron sign posts, its quaint forts and crooked streets, its waterways and boats and gayly clad people, Willemstad should be a paradise for painters. The “pirates" who infest Curacao nowadays prey only on governments. CLEARED STATESMAN OF DEBT Disraeli's "Endymion” Fulfilled Expec- , tations of Author. In the year 1S72 Lord Boaconsfleld commenced his last novel. “Endymion,'’ a work undertaken chiefly from the honorable desire to obtain a sum of money that would finally wipe off a residue of monetary engagements. 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