Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-02-17

that ndu dncnOreu DuU snort Time before
the tumbling torrents spread over the
soil. They saw me. They learned of a
change of administration at Washington.
The mystery was at once cleared up.
Plenty of rain since. The whole island
is grateful for my coming.
Not all are Dutch here, though Dutch
island. There are Jews. Gentiles, Greeks.
Turks-no Mormons-French, English,
Negroes, Indians, Papiamentos, etc.. etc..
with few New Englanders. In the
commercial line the Jews seem to have
the inside track There are two Jewish
synagogues and also Jewish cemetery
well walled up. have heard it asserted
the reason of its being walled about is to
prevent the egress of those laid away.
fearing too sharp competition if they
got into trade again. But it hardly seems
that Moses, who has been i'm sweet re-
pose for a couple of hundred years.
would care to come back just for the sake
OF underselling Isaac on pair of
trousers. Yet there may be some truth
Ill 1t after all, for | noticed that every
grave in the cemetery has an immense
tablet of marble, some eight feet long.
five or six wide and about six inches
thick resting on it. 1t certainly looks as
if it were put there to hold the fellow
under.
You stand on the deck of the steamer
ana look over the town; a picturesque
quaintness greets the eye. Far along the
sea shore are rows of dormer-windowed
houses, nearly every house seeming to
have its windows and its balconies locat-
ed exactly as are those of its neighbor
house, every house apparently having
the same colors in exactly the same
places as every other house in the entire
row; then the tiled roofs on all bearing
such similarity as to make it appear all
were made by the same hand out of the
same ingredients and have been subject
to the same conditions ever since. of
which might say believe the same to
be true.
Now, look down on the wharf. There's
another picture for the eve. See there
some dozen or more perspiring youths.
In age from FIVE to fourteen. In COLOR
well. just as large an assortment as might
be expected from mixture of the white,
the black and the squaw color; then a
mixture from the resulting mixture, etc.
But what do they want? They are cry
ing out in every tongue known or I'M
known to Ollendorf or Meisterschaft-
that's how it sounds-to throw into the
water some loose coins one may happen
to have. Unadorned as nature could
well make them, they stand ready to take
the plunge to the bottom of the harbor
through some "A feet of water, just as
soon as the coin leaves the hand. Like
school of porpoises those free-from-care-
misunderstanding wharf jewellers dive
for the coin and founder and flop, the
lucky one hiding it away in his mouth or
his ear as he reaches the surface-all cry
ing out to do so some more and they'll
gather 'em in.
Four days anchored here affords good
chance to look the town over and take
drive to the country. \ friend and my
self resolving to do few miles by car
riage, set out to find turnout for the
next morning.
What disappointment Not livery to
be found. We learned that every one
who can afford it keeps his own horse
and carriage if he wants to. Those who
cant afford to keep horse are privileged
to go afoot. Blessed privilege. too. at
times. There was one shaky old four
wheeled vehicle. to which "a very sad
eyed. debilitated looking animal over
whose head some fOrty-tive tropical sum-
mers had come and not gone yet, would
be attached, that | am quite certain we
could have had if we were in a condition
to take a ride into the country and locate
there permanently. As we wished to
, ~. 80. .Ne" " +. wy
distressed iookihS turnout, when some,
how | couldn't help thinking appeared
10 nave oeen ouiit 10 carry persons III
recruitment position.
AFTER vain search lor what we louno
not, we stepped INTO large store ana IN
conversation with the proprietor dropped
a word on the pleasure of taking drive
to the country before leaving Venezuela.
he recaiieu lthe urencnlnS peheoic,lon l.
was saiu 10 nave brought 10 tne lsianu
year before anu at once onereu 10 pace
ms morse ana carriage at our ulsposltioh'
Eariy next morning we were seated oe-
nina sPanklng par ol handsome ponies
ana IalTiy new out Oh Town. &c
Inc REPAYMENT Jehu drove as IL my
irlenu, VINO was not very strohg-iuhSeu,
had iost ms breath ana ne was oent Oh
catcnlng II Ior nm. l 'rleu TO explain 10
the Jehu tue laster ne uroNe Tying W
eaten my friend breath the raster my
weak-luhgeu friend was losing IT,. Oh