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cousins, brothers. sisters. all the family
capital together keep small balance
He resigned after six months because his
ca binet held meetings without inyitin :
him.
Felix Faure died suddenly and mys-
teriously.
Loubet. who always agreed with his
cabinet came. in time. to have real in
f1uence with it. realizing the formative
words of Grevy when he explained. to the
Pope that he could do nothing:
The French president ought TO abstain
from all personal acts in government
measures. He can only offer his advice
to his cabinet. He can appear before the
houses only by his cabinet-which. like
the houses themselves must be obedient
to their ma jOrltieS.
Fallieres followed Loubet's example.
The French reople were habtuated TO
personal power. said Freycinet on his
funeral eulogy of Grevy. ''Grevy taught
them to appreciate impersonal power.
which did not mean Indifference on the
presidents part: he sought to he the
guide. councillor and light of his cabinet
he never imposed his advice. but he never
refused it,.
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TM VARIOUS PRESIDENTS

only to make laws but run the entire
country, to the transferring. and even
removing. of judges in moments of gray
ity. which has often caused dissa tisfac-
ton. Theoretically. as Blackstone says
of parliament, it can do everything but
change a man into a woman.
How shall French president try to
veto such a crowd?
The first was Theirs, made president in
1871. In 1870; on the eve of the war, he
made a great speech, warning France
not to undertake a struggle with Ger
many. and after the capitalization he was
elected chief OF the executive power Of the
new French republic. AS such. i'm the
absence of a constitution. he became the
true dictator of France. concluding the
treaty of Frankfort, putting down the
commune and reconstructing the forces
of his country.
His government was very personal. 1t
was one-man government. He had been
elected in 1871, and In 1873, two months
after the national assembly had offered
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if served in true vulture fashion, trifle
high.
verify believe there are many
buZzards here as there are people. The
great birds are protected by law ana
they take the place Of the garbage
wagons of Panama. | do not like them.
They carry me back 10 Bombay. and the
great white towers of silence. uron which
the ParSeeS lay out their dead. where
upon these hi, Is pick the bones clean.
l came to Punta Arenas upon the new
est of the transcontinental railroads
There are now lines connecting the
oceans. all the way from the Grand
Trunk Pacific, in Canada. which ends at
Prince Rupert. to that which joins Buenos
Aires 10 Valparaiso at the southern end
Of the hemisphere. The shortest railroad
is our line at Panama. and next, per-
hapS, that at Tehuantepec. This new road
in Costa Rica which was completed last
year, connects with the Atlantic railway
at San Jose. and runs down here 10 the
Gulf of NicONa. 1t makes the line IRON
ocean to ocean Il little over one hundred
and eighty miles long. and il is one of the
scenic routes of the world. | have al
ready described the tropical beauties OF
the Atlantic slope between Imon and San
Jose. They compare with the HimalaNa
mountains and the jungle is quite as
luXurianu
On the western slope the land is now as
dry almost the Rockies. The fields are
parched and brown, and the railway winds
about over dry gorges and skirts thirsty
canyons. some of which are a thousand
feet deep. Approaching the Pacific me
rainfall increases and within short time
the land is jungle again. The trees are
magnificent, and among them are nahog
anieS, which are being cut for our furni-
tIIre markets. Now and then we pass
orchard of oranges a field OF bananas.
The fruit is brought to the stations and
we can buy seven oranges for cents of
our money.
This road to the Pacific belongs to the
Costa Rican government and il is oper
ated at considerable loss. 1t is poorly
run and the cars uncomfortable.
They were probably made in Costa RIGA,
for they look as though they We're cut out
with d Ratchet. The distance from San
Jose to Punta Arenas is siXJy-nine miles.
but the train was six hours on the way,
making an average OF less than twelve
miles an hour.
Indeed. the transportation methods all
over the country are exceedingly print
tive. The most common means Of travel
is on horseback. and much of the mer-
chandise is carried on pack trains The
country is wild and mountainous. and the
soil is such that it washes easily and
falls off in flakes. During the dry sea
the roads are filled with clouds of
dust and at the TIME OF the rains they
are rivers of mud. They are very much
the same as the roads Of northern China,
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lent. and when the canal is completed IL
is believed that this port Will nave a con-
siderable trade The town is now on the
boom. The prices of real estate have al
ready increased about LOGO per cent. and
the people expect great things when the
steamers from the Atlantic snail come
across the isthmus to them.
But let me tell you how one lives here
at this Costa Rican resort. Take the
Hotel Europa which. as l have said. is
the bare walls of my room, and its out
look upon the Pacific. The only furni-
ture is an iron bed. washstand and two
rickety chairs. Upon the washstand is a
solitary towel l have a right to one
towel every day If | so demand. but no
change Is made unless on request. My
water pitcher is of about the size of a
lager beer schooner. 1t may hold one
liter. but it Is not always full. l am al
lowed napkin a week, and this has been
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by girls and carried to the factory where
the flesh is taken off by pulpina or by
running the dried seeds through the ma
chinery. After the beans have been pulp
ed they still have two thin coats of skin.
These are taken of by machinery, and
the beans are then sorted polished aud
packed up for export.
| lind many American coffee planters
down here in Costa Rica. met in San
Jose banker who has al estate of Rn
acres. and ] saw several other Americans
who own estates on the railroad betweca
SAN Jose and the Atlantic ocean.
found a big coffee plantation on my wa
up Mount Poas. This belongs to the
British consul, Mr.. Cox. and a young
American. Jerome Il. Clarke. Ii H. one
or the best managed coffee estates i'm tire
country. The owners are mixing their
work with brains and are adapting mod
ern agricultural methods TO the raising
of coffee. They cultivate the trees 80 as
to conserve the moisture. They use arti-
icial fertilizers. adopting the same for
mulas as those used in Hawaii The ef-
feet OF this work is already shown m
their trees and in their crops, and peo-
pie come from far and near to the
results.
The coffee plantation Of Cox a. Clarke
now consists of 30 acres. which they
have chopped out of the jungle. IL is as
clean as a Dutchman's flower garden
ana the trees are wonderfully thrifty. I
as Mr.. Clarke as to his labor lie tells
me that the ordinary wage is 30 cents a
day. but that he finds il better to con
tract for his work by the piece. The CON
tractor labors with the men, and i'm this
way is able To get much more work done
Mr.. Clarke has also a coffee -dry ing f>,-
tablishment and a lumber mill. connected
with which is factory for making OK
carts.
Among the other American planters |
have met here is a Mr. Meigs the son
of the Californian who built SO many OF
the South American railroads Mr.
Meigs has an orange estate on the At
lantic slope. which he is cultivating after
modern scientific methods. He is also
raising grape fruit. He has now about
10000 trees, and they are just coming
into bearing. His fruit will go first to
Port Limon by railroad and thence direct
to New York.
Speaking of American institutions in
Costa Rica. by far the most influential OF
all is the United Fruit Company. tho
Costa Rican manager of which is now
Mr.. William f. Mullins. This company
has millions invested in its banana in
dustry and in ranches and railroads II
owns the chief transportation lines and
has one OF the leading steamship lines OF
the Caribbean sea. 1t has done more "a
develop Costa Rica than any other one
thing. and il is today the chief influence
in behalf of the prosperity and progress
of the country.
FRANK G. CARPENTER
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changed only upon my request. There
seems to be a constant miX-up of napkins.
and / am now protecting myself by writ
ing a great on the knot in which mine
is tied at each meal.
The eating here is awful. The regular
breakfast. which ! take at : am. con-
sists of a cup of black coffee and hot
milk, with some crusts OF dry bread
Butter is furnished, but this is so I'M
speakably bad that l do not eat il. Eggs
are an extra and | pay l. cents for each
one / order They are of the scrambling
variety. II is risky to try them soft
boiled l piece out my breakfast with
some jam which | buy at the store.
La Europa serves luncheon between IL
and II. This consists of soup, a fish
and a beefsteak, with rice and potatoes
or one can have eggs without extra
charge. Between and Z O'clock in the
evening they have dinner which is
much like the second breakfast 1t con-
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Personal power Had not the great Ma
roleon been crushed by coalized Europe.
had not Napoleon III lost Sedan, they
would still be snug under personal power.
And you shall see. in the end how the
great Napoeon's thrice-cemented bureau
craCy-mCdest in the shadoH--mends all.
The scarecrow of Bonaparte disasters
and royalist tyranny was used by Grevy
in famous speech before the adoption
of the constitutional laws:
The PRESIDENTS election by the people
gives him excessive power. If he be d
victorious general CT Il scion of one Of
the families that cnce ruled France. il
commerce languishce, i the people suf-
fer how do you know that an ambitious
president may net arrive at upsetting the
republic once gain?
The reference, of course. was to Louis
Napoleon. who. having got himself elect
ed president. calmly proceeded to have a
plebscte elect him emperor.
This speech, which had great effect,
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ssts of a soup of fish, some meat and "A
dessert The dessert always consists Of
preserves The country is full of ripe
bananas, pineapples and oranges but no
fresh fruit is served. except upon order.
l buy some in the market and bring my
own fruit to the table.
In fact there is about only one thing
which is free in Punta Arenas. This is
on hand at all meals anl L might say at
all other times. / refer to the ubiquitous
buzZard or vulture which is the scav-
enger of Costa Rca. L met him first in
the capital, where he walked into my
room at the hotel and pecked at the sofa.
/ have seen him everywhere else, and
here on the sea coast his name is legion
can see forty vultures roostng on the
roof about NE | am writing this let
ter. They sit on the fence as l eat my
breakfast and their dead, sleepy eyes
seem to be weighing the meat on my
bones and wondering how 1t would taste
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But he was not.

But he was not.
His successors have gone slow.
And there is just one reason why the
French president can. i'm dignity. without
jealousy or nervousness. earn the Sl2o.' -
a year salary and the S1a9.Ooo a year eN-
pense" allowed him by the state. TO be a
great and loose "conciliator.
The famous French parliament itself
has its hands tied.
The president smiles i'm his beard.
His cabinet bosses him, but il does not
boss its own departments. The true mas
tiers of patronage and the daily routine
are the obscure chiefs OF a vast and per-
manent civil service.
Those old chief clerks are the presi-
dents revenge on arrogant cabinet mem-
hers who pursue policies behind his ba (.
policy he knows his cabinet doesn't dar.
have much of one either--it can't do
much to oppose itself to the great silent
running government machine that is be-
hind all things in France-bureaucracy.
Bureaucracy makes railway rates equal
and judicious.
Bureaucracy makes corporations give
up to the public good.
Bureaucracy collects the public toll
from privileges and monopoies.
Bureaucracy is ready to ask of the
Bank of France if there is gold enough.
Bureaucracy runs railways, fosters art
and music. maintains theaters and ball
lets beauties the Paris streets main
tains museums in provincial towns pre-
vents graft. keeps police in hand-in a
word, runs France
STERLING HELLO.
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HE French republic
also choosing a
new pre- 5 / d 9 n I.
They call him a
prcSident-iet il be
a lesson to us
President FaiiiereS
goes out. curiously.
only Il few DAYS
y cfore President
Taft, on February
lG.
on the same day.
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dent. He has been governing France.
" ere he To he elected. one might rea sou
ably sl'I pose he has been chosen to re-
move his energy to sphere of more
hdnOr-and less work. But. will be
seen. the French presidents rights have
not been much exercised of late and an
energetic chief OF state might even more
crowd the brethren.
Paul Deschenel is the tst.ID young
statesman who consecrated frock coat or
getaway in place of fun dress suit for
will he because he has no program, rep
resents no party. and has friends in all.
He has been d polite man. and would
make safe and decorative president.
nickeled aga inst energy and peculiarly
ft1cd to receive and visit European SOW
cIC-cEs.
Always supposinG that Leon Bourgeois
does not want ii. OF late he had rather
retired on account of family bereaVe-
mcnts and illnesses and it was a great
event when he entered the present Poin-
care cabinet. In that calling together Of
a! good men to meet the Morocco crisis,
he was the guarantee given to radicals.
WHO otherwise might not have rallied to
such moderate as Poincare. Some men
get, and probably deserve. reputation
fer ability and the confidence of all. Leon
Bourgeois is Such-ShadowY enough figure
in truth, but certainly a bulwark against
conservatives. No one seems to doubt
ttat if he wants the presidency he can
have il. So much 50 that when recently
Els SON. Jut young doctor. tall DIE raw
bCned. rough dressed and offhand. lunch
ed with two husky friends from the pre-
lecture of police at the Grand Cafe.
sprig of the royalists smpered: Three
gentishommes of the court,
But would Bourgeois be content to sign
papers all day?
What papers? The French president
doesn't know.
His cabinet SAYS: Sign this. He signs.
now do otherwise?
Suppose it be an appointment. The
presidents own personal friends are all
provided form reason. After which he
must let his cabinet make the mass of
the appoin: ments. Suppose he refuse To
sign? Ii the job be important, there will
be a little cabinet quarrel. But if he re-
pcats. there will surely he secret cab
met meetins-without the French presi-
dent,
Resulting. the cabinets decision will
he sent him: You sign these appoint
ments we shall resign
Why rot let them resig9. you say? But
the president had chosen those cabinet
members exactly for their influence Can
not he choose another cabinet. you say?
Yes. hut the senate and house must ac-
cept IL Felix Faure could not keep the
Leon Bourgeois cabinet because the SEN
ate baked. And when u president can
not keep any cabinet. he must resign, as
did Grevy and MacMahon.
Suppose il Ice bill. The cabinet is al
ways proposing new laws-in the presi-
dents name. Such as. "A project of law
concerning the creation of hydro-mneraI
stations and the tablishment OF special
taxes IN the same. presented In the name
of VI. Armand Fallieres. president of the
French republic by NJ Poincare. presi-
dent of the council cabinet. and NJ.
.OtZ, minister of finances.
Should. by extraordinary within, the
French president say: II will not sign this
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words mean Sandy Point. ana there is
enough sand here TO plaster the locks Of
the Panama canal Everything is sand.
The roads are of black sand and TIE
beach is covered WIN sand Of = sonbcr
h'.c
PUnta Arenas has about JG"F popuIa-
don. :; is built on a sandy spit Of land
which runs out into the Bay OF Nicoya,
being bordered on one side 10y an estuary
nine miles long, up which one can go INFO
the interior of the country This part Of
|oSt;. Rica i heavily wooded. IT has
forests of cedar. coCobola. mahogany and
other hard woods. and on my way over
RE railroad | passed many little sawmills
which We're cutting timber for shipment
abroad | passed also the road 10 the
.i'baEGaTeZ gold mines. which are located
some distance away in the woods. Those
mines belong to an American COMPANY
AND it is taking out something like SG0.O %
worth of god every month. They have
stamp mills aud are now employing over
i:,uti men.
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HALL OF BATTLE
MVERaAuLES PALACE

makes clear why the French people are
not allowed today, 20 vote for their
preSident-and why. instead. crowd OF
gentlemen in froCk coats whisper i'm
ferries. for one day only. up and down
the magnificent galleries of Versailles
Palace.
Carnot. coming Immediately after Grew
followed meeklN i'm his footsteps. but the
rising fortunes of reconstructed Franc
permitted him to give the presidency
more active exterior look. Felix Faure
profited by Carnots tip making ir-
umphal tours through France. and show
ing himself at the annual reviews and
maneuvers of the army.
Felix Faure extended the trips to for-
eign countries. His memorable visit tn
The tsar. following on his reception OF the
tsar in Paris. gave him the look OF a
Veritable sovereign. Loubet and Fallieres
continued these tours. but more moder-
ately At historic Fontanebleau Faure
received like Louis XIV. and at Ram
bouilet gave hunting parties like Fran
els |. He had a fine job capable OF be-
ing enlarged. and he knew IT, Most deco
rative OF presidents. he Init the French
in the eye, they say. lie was just
beginning to test his popularity going
strong for nationalism, when he suddenly
died. Surely he would have worked up Il
personal government. beginning with
the presidents veto prerogative. had he
been spared.
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Punta Arenas i sometimes called Tie
Atlantic City OF Central America. Dr.
Franklin. the American druggist here.
sayN ii deserves the name. but l have yet
TO find any reason for the statement.
Atlantic City has Write sand and il is
comparatively clean. the sand of Punta
Arenas is a black as your hat and II is
mixed with the debris of the eastern Pa
cidc The bath!n" IS good at Atlantic
civ, although now and then the water *
cod The sea here X ds warm as board
irS house soup and il il so infested with
sharks that one = lucky not 20 lose 4
leg while swimming. Indeed there is
only one place that $ safe This l. in
side an iacioSDTe where tile sca l. fenced
around by woven wire fence 80 fine
t':aJ ,he si35 - cannot ct through. In
SIDE M fence : i p&bl!c ba;iihouse with
stsJs ;oadir& down into the water. The
ha;@GpUsc has ;;nion suits, which il lets
III - cents q swim, but these suits are
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February 16. the united senators and dep
utics representatives, will elect Presi-
dent for seven years. escort him N
vast process on or AUTOMOBILES from Yer
saiijcs To the F'ronch white house in
Paris-and put him maenficently To bed
There is no public interest. Ask the
average Frenchman: Who will he your
next PRESIDENT and he will answer:
Which" Wha:" oh. yes; It's next Feb
Iuary don't know
There : no public campaign. because
TIC people do not elect him Ana any
personal campaign must he very secret,
because the French president s elected
in a few hours by his brethren from
amorg themselves.
Anton.n DubCst is of course. Indicated.
He is president OF the scnate-as We're
I.ouitpt and FallicreS. More and more the
influences and considerations electinS To
the one Office elect 10 the other-tf the
president of the senate wants il.
Dubost wants il. Now aged sfxty-seven.
he fought Napoleon Ill as a siddy young
republican with Henri Rochefort. and.
like RochefOrt, he even had a touch of
Communardsm-D ubcst's was al Mar
Seille. But tranquil OfficehoIding ever
sinCe-senator ar dcputN-has made him
immensely tranquil II he becomes preSi-
dent the Eiysoe receptions VIII partake
If the sweet household charm of Dubost
vacation evenings at La TOur-du-P.n.
where, invariably. at so m the presi-
dent Of the senate rises and saws: Serve
the camomile,'
The guests follow. from porch to raIior.
they sip their CamoTniic. Invariably at
DIG pm arrives another old friend the
registrar. An0.aer cup tor monsieur
the registrar. SAYS n Duhost. Silence.
Until. for third time. the voice OF thu.
president of the senate Is heard: Let Us
stroll down and watch the $50 express
pass.
But who knows? Suppose they want a
pretext to kill him? The aged ex-senator
Freycinet- recently. at Vienna was trap
PEG into talking about DubOSt's chances
THE presidency must not become an
Inheritance. said Freycinet When
1-ouhet was elected. he happened To he
president of the senate. and FaIliercs was
coincidence. But To do il again in suc-
cessicn. would Ioo. like making a man
president just because he = president o.
the senate
Nj Foincare. the energetic and capabl
ir1ne minister. it is rumored. would be
" Hing III exchange his present reality OF
power Tor the hOnors and emoluments of
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30 poorly knitted that if YOU get near he
wire fence you may break a thread and
be gnraVefed to nudity before you get III
Moreover, the dark sand diScoiors the
water, and when the side comes in il j.
somewhat Ike sUimm = through mud.
PJnt& Arenas. ike Atlantic Eity. has :,
promenade walk with concrete seats on
each side aud q bandst2nd at the end.
Ii i about ons-lifticth a long the
walk Al Atlantic City.
fhis town = nothing Ike any Of our
American seaside resorts. Take the
hotels. The one at which am stopping
Is called La Europa, and il Is about the
best an The place. 1t - tWo-story build
1n% made of wood with roof of gal
Vanized iron. Last night We had an earth
quake. which made the wood creak and
the galvanized ZION rumble like so much
stage thunder. bUj otherwise no damage
Vas done. There * no plaster on the
wallis to- fall and none on the ceiling. The
wills consist of plain boards nailed To
81 fding about -four feet apart. and the
ceLlne, which is fifteen feet II gin. has :,
lattice work around il about ten feet from
the floor that the air may blow through.
There are no windows III my room. which
faces the Pacific ocean. but there is :,
wide open tr3nSOm over the door with a
lattice work higher up. IL is only when
the door is open that can look out ON
the sea.
~ til4BS room Oh lDr motel extends
ont over the sea. and the maids sweep
the dirt and droppings right out into the
water The floor is OF rough lumber. and
there is low fence along the side which
faces the ocean.
This hotel * diSnified in that il mas
two stories. The other buildings are most
~ of one story, with rooms looking out
on the street, SO that one frequently sees
the people dressing he goes by. The
buildings are made of boards and rooted
wills red tiles ending in q gutter which
has pipe extending out over the side
walk. 1t rains now and then, and the
water from the roofs pours down through
these pipes upon the middle of the pave
ment so that one has to shy in and out
To keep from receiving a cataract down
the back of his neck.
I wish / could show YOU the streets Of
Punta Arenas. They are unpaved and
heavy with the dirty black sand. Some
of them are lined with cocoanut palms
and there is u beautiful park in the CEN
ter of the city which IS filled with tropi-
cal Vegetation. Here the band plays be-
times.
The stores are scattered throuSh out the
town. The merchants are chiefly Costa
Ricans. and in most cases they have large
stocks of goods. This is the business CEN
Ter of Pacific Costa Rica and the mer-
chandise is carried from here up the rivers
and TO The settlements along the coast.
Tie harbor OF Punta Arenas is excel