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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.
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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.”
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■When George Ade was coming from
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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
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LITTLE piece of
Holland flung half
■way across the world
into the Caribbean
sea. 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. He
worked at it pretty steadily until the
general election of 1S74 called hinf to
r - ■ --—
office, when his literary work was
set aside. Still he wrote at it oc
casionally till the beginning of the
year 1870, when the Eastern question
coming to the front and engrossing
his attention, he, as lie thought, fi
nally laid the work aside. He then
wrote a letter to Lord Rowton. inclos
ing the manuscript, unfinished by
something like 100 pages of printed
matter. He stated his view that the
pressure of public work would pre
clude his continuing the novel, and in
the event of his decease he instruct
ed Lord Rowton to finish the work,
but not to volunteer the announce
ment that it had been left in an in
complete state or to avow his collabo
lation. leaving the book to stand sole
ly in the name of its original creator.
Lord Reaeonsficld, however, living
through his own administration and
finding comparative leisure when in
opposition, completed the novel with
his own hand, and it was sold for the
splendid sum of £ 10,000, a windfall
which enabled him to fulfill his cher
ished desire of paying off his debts.
Exempla Gratia.
"It is not enough," said the man
who was fond of moralizing, “that a
man should be prudent most of the
time; he must be so all the time. The'
foolish action of a few minutes may
spoil i he prospects of a lifetime.”
“That s so,” put in Ilenpeck, "it
only takes a few minutes to get mar
ried.”
WISE TO NIAGARA.
9
Teacher—Johnny, can you tell me
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