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VOL. 14. NO.4.
COSTA RICA COFFEE.
CULTURE OF THE VALUABLE
BERRY BY OUR NEIGHBORS.
Some Exact IhformatlonNatural Reasons
"Which Make that Little Country Inviting
Don't Go There Without You Have Mon
ey, Though.
CAPTAGO Costa Rica, Ow. i. Everybody
In thih countrj ho has ambition and money
enough is a "landed proprietor," if on never
so small a scale, and nine times out of ten
is a coffee guwer Here the gentleman
farmerb rule the world, and coffee farming
is now the primaly industry The oldest
coffee land^ of Central America, and by fa*
the most valuable, are thoae lying round
about Cartago Anywhere within a radius
of fifty miles you may find plantations, eith
er in thrir infancy or full development, cov
ering the \allev and extending far up the
hill sides The tra-in between San Jose and
Cartago takes through miles of unfenced
coffee fields and thecountry roads over which
you Journey on horseback are lined on both
sides by high walls of glossy green coffee
bushes, above which wave the mighty fronds
of the banana planted to shade the voung
trees Many of these estates yield enormous
revenues, and to purchase even one unculti
vated acre in the valley of Cartago would
mean an outlay of at least $400, and then you
have to go back ten or twenty miles from the
railroad Land near the city, planted with
toffee, brings $700 to $1,000 per acre Costa
Rican coffee is pronounced by experts to be
among the very best grown anywhere in th(
world, and in recent y^ars the extraordinarj
prices paid for it Especially in England,
have caused nearly all the "gentleman farm
ers" to practically abandon their other crops
The World's Fair in Chicago gave a won
derful Impetus to this coffee Everybody
who attended the exposition remembers the
Incomparable beveiage which was constant
ly served from the Costa Rican pavilion, to
thousands upon thousands of thirsty people,
who seemed never to get enough of it Of
the bevent-fl\ exhibitors of this product
fifu-five weie aw aided medals, a propoition
no- reached bj anj other countrj
Coffee Growing Statistics.
The last official statistics I have been able
to find heie show that in 1892 there were
8,232 coflee plantations in Costa Rica, with
26,680 907 trees on them, and that in the same
jear 36,3C7,':i00
pounds weie exported Since
then the area of coffee culture has been very
greatly increased, and although it will take
some years for the newer fields to come tc
perfection, last year's output was consider
ably above 40,000,000 pounds I have met
number of North American families now liv
ing in Costa Rica, who, one and all, declaie
that they would not exchange their home*
here foi the best the United States can af
ford Indeed with proper surroundingsthai
is, at nufflcient altitude to secure perfection
of climate and with one's nearest and dearest
to keep ono companyone may lead an ideal
lif,e in any of these Spanish-American coun
tries If paradise is finally to be located or
this mundane sphere, as many good people
believe it will surely occupy a position hali
way up some tropical mountain in the
tlerra templada of Central or South America
on the West Indies, or the Himalayas, where
the atmosphere is that of eternal springtime
with eternal snows in view upon the mountain
tops, where the skies are always blue, anc
fruits and flowers perennial, and picturesque
beauty abounds on every hand It was the
loveliness of these newly discovered lands
mere than the cry of El Dorado, which caused
the campanions of Cortez and Cordova to for
get the gfape-laden valleys and saffron
sprinkled hills, the ancestral casas and the
dark-eyed maidens of old Castile And in
these less adventurous days, men of different
mold remain year after year in voluntary
exile far from the kinsfolk they love, In ab
solute contentment, notwithstanding the
isolation which every foreigner must fee
where another language is spoken than thai
to which he was born, and where othei
customs and modes of thought prevail Ever
the passing traveler, though he sees mucr
that seems absurd and semi-civilized in con
trast to Northern ways, is certain to become
so much attached to the hospitable and kindly
people, so in love with the dolce far niente ol
life here, the charming scenery and perfect
weather, that to tear himself away becomes
a real grief, and the longer he remains the
more difficult the task
The Country's Natural Charms.
Of all tropical countries Costa Rica is
most inviting to the immigrant, and best
adapted to North Americans, because it ii
about the only one where native productions
can be raised with profit and Impunity with
free white labor. Of course, there are coasr
lands where the climate is deadly, but there
are plenty of elevated valleys farther in
land, from 3,000 to 5,000 feet above the sea,
where no atmosphere on earth Is more health
ful and no soil more fertile. In this centrvl
portion of the little republic the thermometer
ranges between 65 and 75 degrees Fahrenheit
ifrom year to year, and not only tropical
products are grown, but wheat, corn, potatoes,
And clover, and all the fruits of the tem
perate zone If you want a change of climate
in these favored reg'ons you need not go
.north or south to find itonly a little farther
up or down the neaiest mountain, for alti
tude gives all the varying decrees of heat or
cold which in other countries one must jour
ney far to attain
Among the happv exiles whom I have vis
ited here is the family of an American physi
cian, formerly from Philadelphia Dr
owns one of the finest houses in Costa Rica's
capital, but prefers to live upon his coffee
plantation, a few miles distant Though he
and his speak of the City of Brotherly
Love with tenderness, nothing could induce
them to return there as permanent residents
I have also been delightfully entertained in
the country home of a New EngUnder, who
resides in the valley of Cartago. This worthy
gentleman, with his wife and several small
children, came to this country nearly twenty
ears ago, having failed to And payiag em
ployment in the overcrowded North. WheE
he arrived he had barely money enough to
clear the land, for which he owed the gov
ernment, and for the first year or two bad
hard squeezing to maintain his family But
he succeeded beyond his wildest hopes, and
today is not only free from debt, but owns
a home beautiful enough to satisfy the most
esthetic, has a handsome surplus well in
vested and a sure income for the futur*1
growing up in coffee groves all around him
Although the Costa Rican government DO
lonser offers special inducements to invite
Immigration, Its sincere good will toward
foreigners is shown in many wya. The laws
concerning the acquisition of lands, agri
cultural, mineral, or timber, are very liberal
Wherever public land is not under conces
sion, there are two ways of acquiring itby
^pre-emption and by bidding it off at auction
By the first system anybody can. take* posses
sion of fifty hectares- of government land
(about 123 acres) and by fencing it and giving
notice of the fact to the authorities of the
district in which It 1B situated, and- of his
intention to cultivate it, no one can dis
turb him in his possession and enjoyment
of tthe same for two years. During this time
he is obliged to begin the cultivation of hie
homestead
Should he fail to do so, the plaee may be
taken .by some other person, who would have
"to p*y him the value of whatever improve
ments lie has made But if he has complied
with xhe requirements of the law, he becomes
its absolute owner at the end of,two years,
and providing he keeps it under reasonable
cultivation, he can then go to work on fifty
other hectares, and, so on, ad infinitum, sub
ject always to the same conditions
By the bidding at public sale&v a person
in go.to the land office and ask the sale at
auction of any government land, to an extent
not exceeding 600 hectares (1,235 acres), for
each adult, and when the sale occurs, the
gwscn who has asked for it has the privilege
of purchasing the land for himself, at what
ever nrice it briB4r tauction.
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MILWAUKEE.
THE CREAM CITY OF THELAKES
AND ITS POLKS.
Items of all Sorts Gathered Together tu
11 uj I bitiuitous Reporter and Scried
in JDuinty Style for the Delectation
Our Header*.
MIPS Maud Taylor ie on tbn sick list
Uncle Dick Catlin has cast his lot with
St Mark church.
Mrs. H. Bland ia seriously ill with
neuralgia of the heart.
Capt. C. J. White, who was on the pfek
list, is able to be out again.
Mr. Oliver Harper and Mr. Henrv
Bland are confined to their beds with
bad cases of lung fever.
Mrs. Amelia Thornton has applwd for
a divorca from her husband Jjbn
Tbornton on the ground of cruelty
The MisseB Eour-tree, who have been
on a visit to Mien Julia McNamee for tie
past three wetk% have returned to tbeir
borne in Indiana.
Bisbop Arnett preachod at tbe 8t.
Mark's JJcburch on Sunday night to a
very large audience*. Text, Luke 1st
chapter 30-31 verBeB.
Mr. Chas. Lee, a oorter at the Plank
inton barber shop'1
confined at his
Inme from the buisting of an artery in
the calf of his leg while bathing.
Miss Marion Berry, who is private se
cretary in the ColLy and Abott block will
aleo teach a class at tbe Plankinton high
school both in^the afternoon and even
in?.
Mr. and Mrp.,G. W. Harwell are now
doins well. He id at tbe Plankinton
Mrs. Harwell is much improved of her
rheumatism. She spent last week sit
ing friends.
The protracted meetiugs which have
been going for the past wees at St.
Harks and Salem Baptist churches have
ben a great benefit toward biirging sin
ners to Christ.
Mr. J. Collins, who fell into lhe mix
ing kettle of the Western Paving Co
brought suit against them, and last week
was awarded 1500.00 datmges. His at
torney waB Hon. W. T. Green.
Mr. A. L. Cbase, manager of tbe hotel
in Glenwood Springs, Colorado, and for
mally manager of the Plankinton was
united in marriage last week to Miss
Julia Gillett, of Denver. We wish them
a happy jonrney through life.
Sir Knight L. W. Dickinson, of Chi
cago will come up on February 12oh to
assist the Sir Knights of this city in con
fering the K. T.fdegrees on a club who
will take the few steps higher. All Sir
Knights are invited to be present.
For the first time in the bistotv of the
Afro-American church in the Cream City
a sermon will be preached on Easter
Sunday to the Holyrood Commandary,
who will turn out in their new resralifl.
The sermon will be preached by Sir
Knight Jas. Higgins.
Rev J. H. Weber, the Tornado Evan
gelist who has created such a sensation
at the Grand avenue church, savs tha*
all card players and gambler* were
thieves and liars. Whether in a Darlor
game or otherwise which vaegimbling
in the Bight of|God. Those in a parlor
game would steal tarda just the same as
a gambler in a framing bouse.
The Holyrood Commandary, T.
has closed a contract with Foster S
& Co, ot Chicago for tbeir uniforms
Af er negotiating with all the leadirg
firms of this kind throughout the
trv we find that ihey sell one ihird
cheaper then ail others, ind r*cn
ramd all Sir Knigh'B to call o* them be
fore buying elsewhere They ar a* 1"4
W Madron street.
A'l whr are in dhio ^PE APMi,fo
th* years "94, '95, '96 and '97 wili please
settle up without further notice or we
will be ompeUea to publish their name**
We are behind $22.50 for the year 1897.
S* the different papers we had in our
fi'y iaet year.T*Where are tbey now?
Poor pay has.killed tbeir agents It will
only be a few more months before THE
APPEAL agent will nave to die the name
death, unless those who are in debt to
the A.PPBAL pay up.
The Colerie'lWhist Club gaves whiet
party at Mrs. J. J. Miles, 408 Webs street
in honor of the 'Misses JRountree. All
present bad an enjoyable time and after
the refreshments'were served all return
ed to their homes singing, "Oh what a
time we bavejhad,' and Mother I will
naver get (you ?know) again." The
following is the menu
Bloater Paste Sor Canape Blue Points,
Amontillado,* Olives, Celery, Chick en
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LIGHT OF LETTERS.
IMPORTANT EDUCATION AL MOV-
EMENT INTHE A. M. E. CHURCH.
A Big Convention to be Held ijx Chicago In
August when the Twentieth Century
Clubs Meet ThereTalented People from
Everywhere will There.
Thero v/111 be a. national conv?htlft of the
so-called Twentieth Century Literary clubs
of the African Methodist Episcopal church
held in this, city duiing the first week in nex^
August
The plan of arrangements is in the hands cf
& local committee, composed of Rev Georuje
Booth, pastor of the Quinn Chapel church,
He\ Re\erdyC Ransom, pastor of the Bethel
damn W II A Moore, president of the
f'uh Twentieth Century club, and Henry
Iqnes. the chief spint4n tbe QuinnnchaTSeV
igr nidation
The foiemost literary people of the colored
ace A\ill be in attendance, and have prom'
nent places in the programme arranged for
fhe occasion Paul Lawrence Dunbar, who 13
just now regarded the first colored writer of
\eise in this cuntry will be here, as well
as Coidella Ray, who is rated by the col
01 cd people a better poet than Dunbar, Alico
Ruth \looie, a writer of capital short stories
vi] i freed vei&t, The mas Fortune, tluj
PC 1 01 of the New York Age who takes rank
a nuter of poetrv, Mberry A Whit
man lios 'Rape of Florida" has the dis
mction of being the mo3t ambitious effort of
colored American poets, Josephine Heard
Charlotte Forten-Grimke, Fiances W Har
per Mrs Lee Daniel W Da\is. and
William Perry, all of whom are regarded
among the best of the colored poets
Intellectual Learters.
First among those who have distingui3hel
thmsel\e in other branches of letters, and
have signified their intention to be present at
the convention, are W E Du Bois, author
of The Suppression of the African Slave
Trade written for the historical series cf
the Haivard Historical society, and at pres
ent a member of the faculty of the Univeraitv
of Pennsylvania and Professor W Var
borough of Wilberforcc university, ^\ho en-
jo^s the reputation or being among the Tor"
most of American Greek scholars Archibald
\V Grimke, who wrote "Charles Sumner" for
the A-merican statesmen series, Anna
Cooper the author of "Tb" Voice the
c,ntb
"f No
Mrs
TO'Bfrom
0 vi 1* -i(ni, v.. Bishop
utoimn Tanner, the author of seveial
't'rie* of religious life Elmer W Brock, ami
Josephine Earl Matthews of New York city,
writers of short stories and others
Chif ago will not be without representatives
ho have mor than a local reputation
Tanrv Barrier Williams. Emma Ransom, Idi
Wpiis-Bamett Reverdv Ransom, and
WUHBTO Moore iha ^not will be at tbe kea
of thr Chicago delegation.
Con* entlon and Programme.
Bet-ween one and two thousand delegates
re expected to be in attendance at the con
vention. These will come from every sec
tion of tbe comtrv i^d will r^pre-ent the
brainb and culture of the entire colored peo
pie The gathering will be the first of a
scues of biennial comentions, whlcb will
'orsider in its various form3, the intelltc
*U8J de^Iopment of th" race
The programme a3 arranged provides for
foui days' stssion, which will include ar
'an^ors-'dav" and days when the intellectual
g-0wth of the people will be discussed in at!-
i'"f-ses an'l papers bj prominent men nnc
women cf both rac-s The meetings will b=
held ore of the big colored church Hit
'Authors' Readings," however, will be gi\eti
one of tbe larger hallsSteinway cr Cen
tral Mu5 haU-and a monster mus.cal eu
wi.iinment wiu i^robaDIy be given in tne
Vuditormm, at w,hich time the greatest musi
cal artists of the colored race will appear
These two features of the week's programme
are provided that the general public might
have a chance to judge of the progress the
colored people have made in the higher walks
of intellectual achievement.
Promoter* of the Movement.
The Twentieth Ceotury clubs of the Afri
can Methodist church is the idea of Dr. John
Mitchell, dean of the Payne Theological sem
inary, at Wilberforce university, Wilber
force, Ohio. Bishops B. F. Lee and B. W.
Arnett joined with aim in the movement, and
the result is that in nearly every place where
there Is an African Methodist church there
is one of these literary clubs. The chief ob
ject ot the clubs i to assist the church at
large to secure an educated ministry. This
Is done in two ways. First, by raising money
to be used in the maintenance of tne theologi
cal seminary at Wilberforce second, by de-
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ST. PAUL AND MINNEAPOLIS, MINN., SATURDAY. JANUARY 22.1898.
velopln young ftien who may have the talent
as well as the .Inclination to become good
ministers of the church. The plan has been
a success from' the very beginning. The
"twentieth century fuhd" for the past year
has exceeded the claims made by the pro
jectors of the plan. Au4 the indications are
that this year's work will be distinguished as
one of the most remarkable features of the
work of tbe greatest organization of the
colored people the African Methodist
church
The convention is the outcome of a banquet
ci\en by the Bethel Twentieth Centurr club
to a number of visiting colored school teach
ers last \ugust There were between two
and three hundred of these teachers who had
come to Chicago last summer for the purpose
of taking a course of study at the summer
school of the Chicago university They came
from eveiy motion of the land, and were a
splendid repir e. taUon of the cultured and
better educated among the colored people
Since that time they have spread the Twen
tieth Century club notion until now1
it bids
inot
t lie tt uatioual bodjy large proportions
dhrof
Interest In the Contention.
The call for the con\ention has met with a
ready response as a consequence, until at
thi3 time it looks as though it would be one
of the most important gatherings the colored
people have held in recent years Preliminary
to the convention the local club3 will hold a
banquet on the evening of the 12th of April,
when they will entertain Bishops Lee and
Arnett and Dean Mitchell The clubs in tbe
Iowa conference, which includes Northern
Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, will
be asked to co-operate with the local clubs
as fast as they are organized by the churches
in the conference district Rev. G. C. Booth
and R. Ransom were appointed at the last
conference as the president and secretary of
the district Tbe Iowa conference district
will have about 200 delegates in tbe conven
tion
Dr. John Mitchell.
Dr John Mitchell, the dean of the Payne
Theological seminary, i3 one of the strong
men of tbe colored people Together with
the tate Bishop Daniel W. Payne, tho found
er of Wilberforce university, be has stood for
a number of years a champion for an edu
cated ministry for the African Methodist
cburch- He is a native of Ohio, and was ed
ucated at Oberlin college, and at the Drew
Theological seminary at Madison, N. J. He
bas been tbe dean of the Payne seminary for
about ten years and bas made It a most offl
cient agency in the securing of a well
equipped ministry for hia church
Bishop B. Lee Is regarded as the scholar
of the board of bishops of the African
cburch He was born at Gouldtown, N. J.,
ra the vear 1841. and was one of the first
colored men to take a degree at Princeton
college He has always been an advocate ot
Advanced positions In his church, and as
such has given much of his time to the or
ganizing of twentieth century clubs and in
the work of the Payne seminary.
Bishop Arnett is well known to Chlca
goans. He was one of the prominent figures
In the Parliament of Religions at the World's
Fair, where he secured renown for his elo
quence and learning. He is the bishop in
charge of the Iowa conference and is tak
ing an active and personal interest in the
successful issue of tbe forthcoming conven
tion.
There are many woman who
had one intrigue, bat then am few who
have ha4 only one.r~I^heftraciiild.* g|,f
Defective Page
SAINT LOUIS.
SOCIAL MATTERS, CONDENSED
INTO SMALL SPACE.
For the Benefit of our Thousands of Bead-
enAll Sorts of Mews Items Tram the
City by the Big BridgeThe 'Future
Great" *t the Present Time.
Mr. Ishem Moeeby and his wife, who
live on Spring ave., have been married
ninety years.
TLere has been a marked increase in
tbe pupils in the white public schools at
Alton this week. In the Lovejoy and
Douglas schools there is no improve
ment. The full force of teachers is re
tained always ready to instruct all who
come and extend the full priveledges of
public school education, but parents are
keeping tbe Afro-American children at
home. There will not very likely be
any change in tbe situation until some
decision is reached by tbe courts regard
ing the color line In the meantime the
Afro-American children are staying at
home. The truant officer, who was to
force tbe attendance of Afro-American
childten, ^as never appointed.
January 11,1865 was a red letter day
in tbe history 01 the city of St. Louis and
State of Misseoun. It ws on that date
that the Constitutional Convention, re
piesentirg tie voice of tbe Comonwealth
of the Htate, proclaimed to world its
stand for the abolitirn of slavery, and by
tbe passage ot an ordinance freeing all
slayes held within the State, attested
the faith that was in them. While this
emancipation convention was held in St.
Louis was held but 33 years ego, there
aie but few persons cow living who have
a stiuct recollection of it. Of t^ese
few but three are living in the city of S\
Louis. Thev are Chaurcey Ives Filley,
Emory S Foster and Judze Henry A
Clover. These men were i*i tbe prime
pi life at the time, and as delegates to
tbe historic convention took very active
ptr s. Tbe event was commemr rated
Wed 'esdaytvening under t*-e auspicesof
the Merchants' League Club, at tbe
re VqumterB, Eighteenth and Olive
streets. 8reube were nude by Judge
C!n' E. S. Foster, ChRiiPcey I. Filley,
Mayor egenhem and O M. Woods.
Beautify your teeth with Dr. Steele's
Tooth Preservative, manufactured by the
Union Dental Co Chicago, 111. Geo. W
Carroll, 464 Web3ter avenue, agent, who
will receive and promptly fill all orders
Price 2b cents bv mail nnateqe paid*
WOULD PUNISH THE COUNTY
Governor Lowndes Suggests a Fine as a
Remedy for Lynching*.
Ann pobs, Md., Jan. 18 Governor
Lowndes has submitted hii message to
the Legislature. Much space was de
voted to lynching of which there have
been three during the present admini
stration. In commenting on mob rule,
the Governor says:
Lynching constitutes muTder pure and
sipie, and no legislation could more
clearly define crime or prescribe the
punishment, and yet it seems impossi.
ble to seenre even a presentment against
those who thus set the law at defiance If
a law could be passed placing upon tbe
county in which the lynching occurs
some heavy pecuniary penalty it might
help to great public sentiment against the
crime which would bear fruit in tbe
choosing of officers who would use
intelligent and courageous efforts to pro
tect their prisoners and dicover and pros
ecute those offenders against law and
order.
Surprise for Dobbs.
Bobby Dobbs, the lightweight, at
tempted to put out Paddy Sheehan, of
Bethlehem. Pa., at Wilkesbarre, Pa.,
Saturday evening. Dobbs had all he
could do to prevent being put to sleep
himself He was knocked down several
times and badly punished. Sbeehan
Rot $50 for entering the ring and $100 for
staying four rounds-
POT-POURRI.
A COLLECTION OF QUAINT AND
CURIOUS ITEMS.
Rathered from Here, There and Every-
whereScraps of Information on Many
SubjectsDelectable Tld-blta for Dainty
Delvera the World Over.
Fifty desks which were used in tbe
o'd Haitford (Conn) female seminary
when it was conducted by Miss Cather
ine Beecher, sister of Mrs. Harriet
Beecber Stowe, have just been present
ed to a school lor Afro-American child
ren of Kowaliga. Ala.
William Moor, of Anderson Ind. has a
hen which demands a place on the list
of freaks by right of ability to turn out
a new kind ot hen fruit. She has been
laying an egg within an egg and keeping
it up with regularity. One of them was
exhibited at the Doxey House in this
city to-day. Tbe egg looks like any other
egg on the outside, and when opened
there is tbe usual proportions of white
yellow, but in the center of tbe yolk is
found another egg with a perfectly form
ed and hardened shell, it is about the
size of a birds egg. the iner egg contains
no white.
FIERGE FIGHTING.
Kentucky Afro-Ameiicans Engaged In a
War of Extermination Over a Game of
Cards.
Middlesboro, Ky.f Jan. 15.A special
from Hynerisavs that the fjgbt'on 8ahdy
Fork in Leslie county continued all day
yeBterday. Eight men were reported
kilW and four seriously wounded. In
tense excitement prevails and further
fighting is expected. The extraordinary
blood-letting began on Wednesday when
a party of men who wera playirg cards
at whatsis called a "biind tiger" got into
a diaoute concerning the way the game
was progressing. Drunkenness added
to the brutality of the fight that followed.
Four men were kdled then and subse
quently the fighting was renewed by
friends on both sidts until the mortality
list is equal almost to tbe casualties in a
military engagement.
MAKING WAX LIFE-LIKE.
How the Figures Arc Modeled and Col
ored to Look Natural.
"How long does it take to make one
of these?" said the manufacturer in
response to an inquiry from a Boston
Transcript man. "Well, it depends
entirely upon circumstances. It is not
a mechanical operation, the finishing
off of a wax model as true to life as
this," and he pointed to the bust of
a laughing child, whose rosy neck and
bright eyes were framed by clustering
curls. "To make these one must have
studied anatomy, as well as drawing
and modeling. We begin in the same
way as a sculptor would to make a
statue. After the wax has cooled the
eyes are put in, the face is 'made up,'
as theatrical folks say, and the wig
is fastened on and the wooden body is
shaped. We make all our hands and
feet from life and they cost about $10.
If we have an order for an entire fig
ure we model it from life. The life
size wax figures of Infants are among
the finest things we manufacture, and
they add much to the attractiveness
of a show window, as was illustrated
last winter, when a Washington street
retail dealer displayed one during the
holiday season. The head and shoul
ders, such as are seen in the milliner's
windows, cost from $40 to $45. The
wig makes considerable difference in
the price, as we use the beat hair and
it is expensive, especially the natural
blond, which is scarce. The children's
heads cost $20 or thereabout.
"All the finishing off imaginable,"
he continued, "would not make a figure
stand the test of a season behind the
glare of a glass unless the wax has a
natural pink tinge. The reason some
of the models look so deathly is be
cause the wax is bad and not properly
colored. We use beeswax, slightly col
ored, and flesh tints are put on in ad
dition."
The Wheel In Africa.
A bicycle has reached Central Afri
ca and has greatly exercised the minds
of the natives. It was at first put
down variously as a grinding-mill and
a circular saw. The owner, a Tangan
yika missionary, gives the people a
treat when he discounts a bearing, and
allows them to examine the "bullets,"
as they call the ballsan eloquent
commentary on their education and
when they see him mounted and spin
ning along their exclamation is: "Ko
banda kasikolo!" which is alleged to be
equivalent to "Good gracious!"New
York Tribune.
$2.40 PER YEAR.
COSTA RICAZCOEFEE
CULTURE OF THE VALUABLE
BERRY BY OUR NEIGHBORS.
Some Exact InformationNatural Reasons
Which Make That Little Country Inviting
Don't 6 0 There Without You Have Mon
ey, ^Though
Uimtliraea from Sad Cot
The lowest price that can be bid is $5 per
hectare for level pasture land, $4 for timber
or wooded land, including rubber, vanilla,
dje woods, and other natural products, $3
for the same kind of land without those ad
vantages, andi $2 for marsh}, stonj or barren
lands If more than fifteen miles from a
railroad, or from a town of 3,000 inhabitants,
the land is valued at one-half the price above
given, if distant more than thirty miles, at
one-fourth, and If sixty miles, at one-eighth.
Buying Public Land*.
Tbe purchasers of public lands have the
option of paying cash down or within tea
years, at an interett of 6 per cent per an
num upon the value of the purchase, with
the interest payable at the end of every
year But the oddest and most liberal pro
isions of the law are yet to come, as follows:
Whenever the purchaser can establish a.
sufficient evidence thait he has made im
provements worth twice as much as the In
terest on the land purchased, he shall be ex
empt from the payment of said interest due
and if tbe improvements amount to double
other things which are not apparent upon the
surface They should realize too, that low-
zlasB natives to the manner bom can work,
[or 20 cents a day and save monej bj liv
ing on beans and bananas and that sparse
ness of population, ecarcitj of intelligent la
bor, dearth of mcne absence cf necessary
transportation, and even of roads in many
districts, and everlasting political tioubles
all militate together again-t compensation
from new industries inaugurated in these
countries and profitable return* upon cap
ital investeu
Coffee an Moncj-llakor.
Although in coffee cu'tuie a* in many
branches of business the sa ing holds good.
It takes money to make monej there 1*
no doubt that under proper conditions more
money is made in coffee with less labor and
anxiety than in almost anj other agricultural
product The details of cofffe-giowing are
much the same everywhere, with slight varia
tions owing to soil and atmosphere In Cost*
Rica the farmer who makes his ov nursery
plants the seeds in May, so as to be ready
foi setting out the young trees in May of the
following year Two jears afterward there
will be a sprinkling of coffee, and at the end
of three years a fair crop The yield will con
tinue to increase each year until the grove is
seven jears old, when a full crop is produced
In setting out groves the trees are placed
from ten to fifteen feet each waj making a*
an average 500 trees to the acre The toffe*
is a delicate plant an needs protection from
wind and tun and to this end bananas are
planted between, and a quick-grow ing wide
spreading tree called poro b'anco The first
year small crops, such as potatoes and beans,
may be grown between the rows Where
the land is very fertile, the joung tree Is
topped when one ear old and two branches
only allowed to put out which are topped
.aj^the end of the ^second year and allowed
to~thro*w out*"two brandies This "topping"
is to prevent the trees from growing so tall
as to make it inconvenient to gather the
berries, but it is not practiced now so much
as formerly After the plantation begins ta
bear, five or six weedings are needed every
year This is done altogether by hand labor,
and the culture must be very shallow The
annual cost per acre of working a coffee
plantation varies in different localities, ac
cording to the nature of the soil, but a fair
average maj be stated at $6 In the first
week of December the berry is a bright red
color, which indicates that the coffee is fully
ripe Then every man, woman, and child
is pressed into the service of picking coffee,
and, with a basket tw ung around the waist,
picks from sunrise to sunset The operation
is a delicate one, and is watched very closely
to prevent the leaves from being broken, as
the next crop starts fiom the angle formed
from the leaf and branch
FANNIE BRIGHAM WARD
dtaare Effect*.
In Mr. Hopkins' book stage effects and
scenery are fully describedv A stage sun is a
big glass disk, with an arc light behind it,
and shows through a hole in a drop curtain
A stage moon la about eighteen inches in di
ameter, and made of porcelain. This moon is
moved by means of a thin stick ot wood, 10
which it is fastened above. A rain machine
consists of a hollow wooden cylinder in which
are rows of wooden teeth A quantity of dried
peas are placed in the cylinder, which is con
nected with the prompter's desk by a belt.
When the eylinder turns the peas rattle like
ram on the roof
Or a sheet of brown paper, pasted over a
hoop, and a handful of birdahot will do well
enough for theater rain.
To make the wind whistle on a cold night
the stage hands run wooden paddles over
str'ps of grosgrain silk.
Tempestuous thunder is produced by shak
ing a good-sized piece of sheet iron, or run
ning a "rumble cart" over a platform Ocean
waves are made of pasteboard and small boys,
furnish the motive power
The illusion of a horse race is cne of tne
most daring things ever accomplished in
stage effects Flexible endless platforms pass
over rollers. This enables the horses to be
in rapid motion without moving forward." As
a matter of fact the horses are secured by wire
rop? traces
There are all sorts of tricks In photography.
By means of a clever series a man may actu
ary be pnotographed as cutting off cis own
heaa. These photographs are obtained oy
the use of a black background The process
consipts In limiting the field of an objective
"o as to preserve intact for subsequent expos
re the unused portion of the sensit zed
a'e, and to be able to obtain upon the latter
eh combinations as may be desired of any
mber whatever of successive poses
FREE 'PHONE SERVICE.
The Bell Company Meeting- Defeat
In the Dea Moinex Ru*ine*.
Des Moines, la., Special.The wai
between the Iowa, or Bell, Telephone
company and the new Mutual, owned
by business men, has reached the free
service stage. The Mutual has made
steady gains and now has considerably
more 'phones than the Iowa. Busi
ness men's organizations have one by
one, by resolution, thrown out the Bell
phones, and last night the Bell people
offered to allow the 'phones to remain
in place and give free service. How
the Mutual will meet this move is hard
to tell, but it has had apparently lit.
tie effect.
Veteran Financier OnMtcd From In
fluential Portions.
New York, Special.Russell Sage't
day has passed. The financier who
for nearly half a century has been one
of the foremost forces in Wall street
has been shorn of his power. The*
men through whom he ruled, with
whom he made his deals, have turned4
their backs upon him. With a fortune
of $50,000,000 he is no longer a power
in Wall street. He has been dropped1
from the directory of the Mercantile
Trust company. He has lost contrail
of the Manhattan Elevated Railroad*
company, and the Gould interests axe'
turned against him *.&%&*'H^ife^
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