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Pv# *T w /v*» r,-*; -<v ?" > • <**> * . v „ , * " * * ; ; v'*%r4:<:* f x * - f ' > * * . ' > • - - i f . i ^ r v / * r - •• \V?^>-' :'^/^Y *,«:>' ^ , Ĵ Edwabd W Pickarp L I T T X . E p i e c e « Holland flung bait wayacroBB the world into the Caribbean sea. Glaring street*, yellow houses, blue houses, green houses, all daintily outlined In white as to their doors, windows and gables; canals crowd ed with odd varieties o f v e s s e l s a n d spanned by quaint 4i>Jl-bridges. And all as neat and clean and bright as soap and water and patet can make it That is Willem- gtadt, the port and capital of 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 if which is a pivot and at the ether a little steam tjug that swings the whole structure open ' for entering or depart- 2&E to* vessels. • t * Guarding the tranoe 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 from i their en- brasures and several d i m i n u t i v e s o l d i e r s from their garrisons. A hand grenade might al­ most blow either fort into bits. But they add 0 0 JEWISH SYNAGOGUE CURACAO MLLEM4T/W. tSWTEAt " CUP AC AO, FOGTJ OFWiLLFrt<STAD hc * < £ UTILIZE OLD WASTE FAIRLY WARNED. DISCOVERY FINANCIAL. S*. Y •Y tHE HARBOR, WiLLEMdTAD ",*£i #• harbor-lake these bloody sea-rovers sailed .with rich cargoes captured from the ill-fated merchant­ men that had fallen into their hands and the •tores of gold and goods from cd *;v on the mainland. The place was safe from- all pursuers and there the pirates divided their spoils mud 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 mttackod by them. From 1634, when the Holland­ ers apparently found it without an owner, the island was a Dutch possession. Thrifty merchants settled there, and it requires no Btretch of 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 were 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 wharveB, but 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 Jbr the mainland of Latin-America. Still later this 6ame merchandise appears for sale on the v Counters of merchants in the cities of Colombia, : Venezuela and Central America, at prices that preclude the supposition that it has passed through . the custom houses and paid the heavy import du­ ffles that are imposed in those countries. ,In a word, Curacao has become the headquiar- si j j|-v '• ters for the smugglers of the Caribbean. Little fls ^' fa heard of this, for silence best serves the pur* Ifc*fioses of most of those concerned. A hint at the truth is met with the indignant denial of the siphrewd 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- ROADSTREET, WLLEHSTAD nocently asked the rep­ resentative of a great manufacturing house of St. Louis, whom I met on shipboard. "No, indeed," he re­ plied, with a laugh. "What's the use? Their import dues are tbo 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 •II tluee left the steamer at Willemstad. Castro, who, while president of Venezuela^ cjffen 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 his own downfall. His successor backed down as gracefully as possible, and much of Venezuela's imports are still .being trans­ shipped at Willemstad. * One, other industry has 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 In the 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 has 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 of 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. But 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 ^ows through a break in the crater's rim. The stream is Wlllemstad'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 Ijodtly from the Zuyder Zee. Its two parts are joined by a long pontoon toll-bridge at one end of mtich to the picturesqueness of the place, and Willemstad is not 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 Itinds 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 hack 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 start back until he wakes up, and Willemstad's perpetual traction problem is "How long will the donkey sleep this time?" It would be a most annoying problem if anyone cared, but no one to wh<)m time is an object ever uses the tramcar anyway. V 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 the 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 fo^ 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 bourse, 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, gaskets 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. With 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 J • clad people, Willemstad should be a paradise for painters. The "pirates" who infest Curacao nowadays - f>rey only on governments. ILLINOIS HAPPENINGS Washington, D. C.--The supreme court of the United States reversed the decision for the northern district of Illinois In the cases of Joseph Kel­ ler and Louis Uiiman, whom the lowerf" court found guilty of keeping in. a house of iU- repute in South Chicago an alien woman named Drene Bodi, contrary to the provision of the im­ migration law which prohibits the re-z tention of such a woman within three* years after her arrival in this coun-' try. The woman in question was a subject of Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria. The sentence was resisted on the ground that the portion of the immigration law involved is uncon­ stitutional and the supreme court so held. Chicago.---"Mayor Busse appointed! Health Commissioner W. A. Evans as one member of the board of directors of the new municipal tuberculosis' sanitarium. The appointment of the other two members he delegated to Commissioner Evans. This action was taken in accordance with the re­ quest of the executive committee of the Tuberculosis institute tiat the board be appointed at once to deal with pressing problems. Chicago.--A riot in which one man was probably fatally stabbed and an­ other severely injured, marked the re­ opening of strike violence in Chicago. The fatally injured: F. C. Gegenbach, walking delegate for the Cement Fin­ ishers' unions in the county hospital suffering from knife wounds In right side, neck and back. Chicago.--Five persons were in­ jured, men, women and children were carried out unconscious, and many others fled panic-stricken from a flat building to escape flames that started in the basement, supposedly from an overheated furnace. Police and fire­ men rescued those who had been over­ come by smoke. Washington, D. C.--Congressmen Lorimer and Lowden of Illinois called at the White Hofiie to urge President Taft to appoint Thomas L. Hartigan, a former Chicago attorney,- as a mem­ ber of the civil service commission of the Philippine Mands to fill the vacan­ cy caused by the resignation of Com­ missioner Washburn. Chicago.--Hikojiro Wada, director general, and Takutaro Sakal, commis­ sioner general of the Japanese Inter­ national exposition to be held in Toyko in 1917, will be guests at the anpual banquet of the Chicago Asso­ ciation of Commerce, at the Congress hotel. T Chicago.--Kicked into • Insensibility by tramps and locked in a box car on a freight train, was the experience of John Dalton, special detective assigned to the Chicago district lines of . the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern rail­ road. ' Chicago.--Helen Palmerf24 years old, and Eva Perry, 25, pleaded guilty before Judge Clifford in the criminal court to charges of having operated a confidence game and were sent^nceg to serve indeterminate tdrms Mn. th$ •it&ht Metif Will No LShger ttf Thrown Away--Contents of Jour- i> nal Boxes Found to Have a : Distinct Vahle. GAVE UP PRIZE APPLES This Is « ®tory of Really Remarkable ' .€*lf-Sacrffiee. TWsfti^'ttory of BIX prise apples, (Samuel G. Blythe, editor, writer and formerly president of the Gridiron {•fob, and of Robert H. DaviB, editor, "writer and good all-round fellow. It Jhappened In Washington, when Davis galled upon Bl/the In his office. a Theie were BIX large, perfect and J a luscious looking apples standing in a row on the office window sill, their rosy cheeks polished till they gleamed like rubies. They tempted Davis, and he proniptly ate one. Then he ate an­ other while talking to Blythe. Then he put the third in his pocket for re­ freshment on the way home. About an hour later Blythe reeelved note from Davis by messenger, with request to please give the bearer the three remaining apples. Blythe's sense of chivalry made him comply with the request and he wrapped up the three ruby-cheeked prize apples, put them in a box and delivered them to the messenger boy without the least appearance of regret at relinquishing that for which he had worked and planned"* for months. The apples were the largest of a specially fine variety and had been carefully cultivated by Blythe on his farm in the northern part of the state., that morning and had been set aside for the moment, to be later packed and sent to the committee on awards at the agricul­ tural exhibition. Blythe had hoped to get a prize for them, but he was to« magnanimous and gallant tor deny them to a friend, and so Davis ate all 0*,^|bejiwrlze apples. ^ r •V'.,:.' ; jEmbarrasslnt. - Mike (as some one knocks)--"Sura if Oi don't answer, ut's some wan t' give me a job, an'. If Oi do, ut'a tlw lan'lord afther tlie rftoyLM-->Lltf* T InWdent to the manufai dola care at Its Minneapolis shops, an Industry begun "re­ cently, the Milwau­ kee Railroad Com­ pany has made a discovery that will result in saving material that was formerly burned. It will utilize in the new cars the old waste from the journal Coxes of freight cars sent Into the yards for tieavy repairs and at the same time frill make a big saying In the bab­ bitt metal which is now removed by a new process from the old waste To hold the oil and assist In lubrica­ tion of the wheels, wa3te Is packed Into the journal boxes. It has been the custom of railroads to continue to pack the waste so long as the boxes would hold it. When the waste got £io hard that it lost its usefulness It was dug out and thrown away. Under the new method whlc^ the master car- builder's department has discovered, the waste Is saved, the grit eliminated and the valuable babbitt metal re­ claimed. A rude shack has been erect­ ed for the work. The waste from the journal boxes is taken in large quan­ tities to this reclamation building. It is placed in a vat snd there subjected to a hot oil bath. This bath disen­ tangles the grit and scraps of metal which have been worn from the brasses in which the car axles run and leaves the old waste in fine, well-satu­ rated condition for re-use. Four hun­ dred pounds of babbitt metal are re­ claimed every month from the set­ tlings in the hot-oil tank. This is eas­ ily reclaimed by melting the refuse. As babbitt metpl averages about nine cents a pound to the-company, the sav­ ing Is at least metal alone! In packing the journals of the new gondola cars, the old and oil-saturated waste is mixed with new waste, which gives a much more satisfactory test running for the new wheels* than all new waste. The department is proud of its discovery and it is expected that the system of treating waste will be adopted by ot-her roads and that it will result in a large reduction in the cost of operating freight gajpq op al} railroadt systems. • . H V, Railroad Earning* r r^- A statement compiled by. Slason "See here, kid, if I ever catches you wyin' like dat big booby here, III dls- ' oto ra« and cut you oft .wttboiit • Mj penny, flee!"- , . : • Jr - - Unsympathetic. --~ > Others may have said the same thing, but this rather unsytopathetle comment Is attributed to the late Judge Hoar: "Are you going to at­ tend the funeral of Gen. Butler r* a friend asked him. "No," was the calm reply. "No, I am not going to a*> tend--but I heartily approve of it.** •P\ Guar a Western Canada M O R E B I Q C R O P S I N 1 9 0 8 ? • * " Another 60,009 set­ tlers from the United States. New dis­ tricts opened for set­ tlement. 320 acres of land to each set* tier,--160 free homestead and 160 at $3.00 per acre. "A vfcst rich country and a contented pros­ perous people."--Extract front correstondt*** of « National Editor, whose visit to Canada, in August, IQOS, via* an inspiration* Many have paid the entire cost of their forms and had a balance of from $10.00 to $20.00 per acre as a result of one crop*. Spring wheat, winter wheat, oats, barley, flax and peas are the principal crops, while the wild grasses bring to perfection the best cattle that have ever been sold the Chicago market. Splendid climate, schools and churches in all localities. Railways touch most oi the Settled districts, and prices for produce are always good. Lands may also be pur­ chased from railway and land companies. Por pamphlets, maps and information r«f Carding low railway rales, apply to Superin* tendent of Immigration, Ottawa, Canada, or the authorized Canadian Government Agent: C.J. BR0U0RT0N, 412 Merchants' Loan 6 Trust Bill., Chicago, HI.: W. H. R0O£8S, third floor, Traction Ter­ minal Rld«., Indianapolis* !n«L; or T. 0. CUBIIZ, 1M 3rd Street. Milwaukee. Wis. i i- Jollet penitentiary. » •. fa Chicago.--More than $2,0«)0 was realized on the flower sale for the benefit of the Home for Destitute Crip­ pled Children. The Japanese tea room of the Congress hotel was one mass of beautiful blossoms when salp opened. • >. Champaign.--University of ' Illinois co-eds "struck" when they virtually^ declared that they would not don fan­ tastic garbs and give their famous May pole dance unless Mrs. Jeanette Lincoln, women's physical director, was allowed to have it her own way. Springfield.--Good Friday was cele% brated in a> majority of the churches of Illinois. There "were special serv­ ices in all Catholic, Episcopal and Lutheran churches, and in a large number of those of other evangelical denominations. * Mount Vernon.--Three pioneers died here. They were Susan Buck, 82; John Kincheloe, 74; John Taylor, 54. Old age and heart trouble are the causes given. Mrs. Buck was a member of one of the oldest families in southern Illinois. Springfield.--Mrs. Deneen, wife of the governor, was seriously 111 at the executive mansion and may be kept in the house for two weeks. The nature of her illness was not determined. Middletown.--The new M. E. church of this city will be dedicated Sunday, April 23. Dr. Parr will officiate. Pittsfield.--Although he Is near 70 .years old and she 66, Burton Qray of Barry and Mrs. Adelaide McPherson of Kansas City, brother and sister, cast eyes on one another for the first , time in their lives. Mrs. McPherson is visiting at her brother's home. Alton.--Rev. Vernon M. Cady, pas­ tor of the Alton Unitarian church, will resign, effective April 30, and will go to Kansas City, Mo., May 1, to take charge of All Souls church there. Carllnville.--Mrs. A. E. Hughes, wife of former County Treasurer T. P. Hughes, died after a lingering Ill­ ness. Chicago.--Revised returns of the election, announced by the board of election commissioners, show that Isaac N. Powell (Rep.) was elected city treasurer by a plurality of 5,698 over Harry Hildreth, Jr. (Dem.), and that Francis D. Connery (Dem.) was elected clerk by a plurality of 6,619 over Jacob. H. Marks (Rep.). Chicago.--Investigation was begua In an effort to learn how 20 young women students of the University of Chicago were poisoned. The victims of ptomaines were ill In an impro­ vised hospital In Qreen hall, on the campus. Chicago.--Judges and clerks of elec­ tion of Precinct No.. 5 of the Thirty- third ward were summoned to testify before the election commissioners in answer to charges of negligence Kid gross carelessness. ^ Waverly.--While his wife was In another room of the house, Milton Farrell, 60 years old, a well-known stock buyer, ended his life by swallow­ ing poison. Despondency Is supposed to have prompted the acju Washington, D. C --The senate con­ firmed Charles Dyer Norton of Illinois •t? be o| the t reas .SIMM ' ' v '.LV />• fx ***•. tJ>\! *h.- Thompson sets forth that the gross earnings of the railroads of the United States decreased $139,000,000 during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1908. This is advertised in the newspapers in conspicuous headlines as if it were Something surprising. The same statement shows that the gross ear- ings of the roads for the preceding fiscal year were $2,589,105,578. There­ fore the decrease for this period of 12 months was less than six per cent. That is a small percentage compared with the shrinkage in otfyer lines. The earnings of many working people were cut nearer 100 per cent. The earnings of many of the industrial concerns were reduced in varying percentages much larger than those of the rail­ roads. The railroad companies of the United States have many grounds for complaint, particularly as to the hy­ percritical attitude of the people' to­ ward them and the disposition among legislators to pass laws unfriendly to them. They have good ground for complaint as to certain utterances from the head of the federal govern­ ment. But if Mr. Thompson's figures are correct the roads may consider themselves mighty lucky to get off with a decline in earnings so small. It should be remembered in this connection that the earnings of Amer­ ican railroads had an enormous in­ crease during the few years preceding June 30, 1907. When their gross earn­ ings passed $2,000,000,000 in 1905 ex­ perts pointed to the fact as one of much moment, yet the earnings last year wire $2,450,000,000.--Economist-" SICK HEADACHE CARTELS ITTLE IVER PILLS. GARTER ITTLE IVER PILLS. Positively cared by these Little Pills* They also relieve Dis­ tress from Dy spepsia, la* digestion and Too Hearty Eating-. 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"Doesn't it say in the first chapter of Genesis that on the sixth day he made all creeping and erawlta* things?" ^ ' Held and Crushed to Death. Held prisoner and helpless In a railroad yard in Chicago^ the other day, Charles Thompson gazed in agony upon the rear light of a freight train which was backing down to grind him to death between the wheels and tracks. The train moved slowly, but horror made the man almost pow­ erless to struggle in an effort to ex­ tricate his left foot from th« switch frog in which it had caught. At last the train was upon him. With a fran­ tic effort his foot was freed, but too late. He was crushed to death before he could csawl from the track. INCANDESCENT KEROSENE OIL LAMP BURNER Tie Wonderful SumIi Prortm-.'S a beautiful 80 oanttle v/hit« lijtlit. Burns 1-3 oil of ordinary lamp, ft Oires three times the )lgl»t. Produces gas oft top of wick. 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