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cheese, and wrapped around with palm
leaves and tied with a palm string in the
center. 1t is made from cane in coarse,
brown loaves and it looks not unlike dirty
maple sugar Further on are the grain
merchants. and in another street are
women selling dresses. lace and notions of
one kind or another
But let us stop moment and look at
the throng which is buying and selling.
We have here all classes of Costa Ricans.
There are the residents of the capital
and also the small farmers who have
come in from the country. The most of
the crowd is composed of common people.
the rich doing most of their buying in the
stores. sending only their servants to
market As we shall see later this little
republic has its well marked social
classes, some of which are quite as aris
tocratic our four hundred at home
How we'll dressed the people are! Every
one seems to wear fairly good clothes.
The merchants are natty in comparison
with the Panamans and even the peas
ants are clean
Here come two policemen They have
uniforms of light blue, with blue caps.
Each carries an ebony club, and / can
see their revolverS showing out al the
hips They are nice little fellows, and
far more polite than the mongrel Off
Gals of the Panama republic. / stand
two up at corner and photograph
them. They smile and are seemingly
delighted to have their faces go to
America. Here come some boys selling
lottery tickets. This is one of the
chief businesses of Central America.
and it gives occupation to scores of
men, women and children.
But look at the bareheaded women.
Not one of all those aboalt us has hat
on. The girls part their hair in the
middle and wear it in long braids down
tn cir backs 1t is black the wings
of the vultures outside the market and
in most cases it hangs to the waist
or below.
Nearly every girl has on a silk shawl
over her dress. This is part of the ma
tional costume and these shawls, Like
the obi or wide silk belt worn by the
Japanese women. are often the most
expensive part of the costume. The
shawls are of silk with a fringe of lace
a foot long. and are covered with as
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TIE MOUNTAIN CAPITAL OF cosrAE1a"

much embroidery as the purse of the
owner can stand The older women
wear black, but the girls and young
women have shawls Of the most deli
green and pale ye:lows and rich reds.
A girl may be in bare feet and bare
head, and her shirt waist and skirt
such that you could buy for $:9S IN
the States, but, nevertheless. this
shawl which covers her shoulders
These shawls are gracefully draped
about the person. They are SO folded
that d long letter hangs down to the
knees at the back and SO that they
cover the shoulders and come down at
the front at the sides of the breasts,
leaving the arms bare to the elbow.
The girls wear elbow sleeves and the
shawIs set off their finely formed arms
and hands.
But stop a moment. Here come half
dozen young women who are evidently OF
the better class families. They are typi-
cal of these Costa Rican women, who
have such d reputation for beauty. They
are from fifteen to twenty years old and
are at their best. They are straight and
well formed, and they walk like so many
queens Each is hareheaded and her
black hair. just trf1e curly and wavy.
hangs down in long braids. 1t is bound
al the back of the ears with butterfly
bows of the same color as the silk shawl
she is wearing. What beautiful eyes.
They are large, dark brown and liquid
with long lashes and well marked dark
eyebrows. The features are regular. the
foreheads rather low and the cheek bones
perhaps a trfie too high. The lips are
red, ripe and luscious. and the teeth,
which show as the young ladies gigglc,
are as white as slaked lime. The COM
plexion is of a light olive with just d
tinge of red at the cheeks. These girls
wear no paint or powder, although some
others in the market show signs of the
puff box. Now lnok at the shawls. One is
of salmon. another is pink, and third
is bright red. and in each case the skirt
and shirt waist match.
How refreshing it is to girls without
hats. When | left home the street head
gear of our women was more fantastic
than any | have ever seen on the stage.
l am told it is even so here with the
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TWO Types of Titled Hus-
i bands-Present Content
of Princess of Sagan-Actual
Life of Count Boni-Other
American Girls Who Found
Noblemen Worth WILHELM
teresting Social Gossip From
French Capital.
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Ih[ N0UNTA|n EAP|TAk
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@TTY of San Jose and It's
~ Beautiful Women->-How
the Girls Dress-Bareheaded
and Barefooted Women Clad
in Silk Shawls-A Look at
the Men The Fight for
Sanitation in a Land of the
Hookworm-The Big Market
Which Is Like a Mighty
Bazaar - How Business Is
Done - Transportation and
the Ok Cart-Curious Fea-
lures of a Little Known City
at the Tail End of Our Con-
tinent.
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Special Correspondence of The Star
PARIS. September I. 1912.
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SAN JOSE, Costa Rica.
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GREEKS CALLED HOME

New York. oct. 3.-The steamer Mace
donia scheduled to sail for Piraeus with
200 passengers aboard, was commsn-
dered just before sailing time today BY
the Greek consul general at this port. All
the passengers, with their baggage, were
hurriedly sent ashore and the vessel pre-
pared to sail al once for Philadelphia 10
take on a cargo of ammunition.
The Macedonia will return to New
York, the consul general said for the
reservists of Greece and the Balksn
states who plan to sail on her to take
part in the threatened war with Turkey
The Greek consul announced today tho.
he had received a cablegram from his
government instructing him to notify al
the Greek reservists I'm the United States
to return to their colors Similar notices
were received by leaders of the Bui-
garians, Servians and Montenegrfns.
1t is estimated there are 10000 men or
the four nationalities in this country wEo
are capable OF bearing arms
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CANCER IS WORSE
Dread Disease Kills One Man
in Every Seven.
Now Becoming Frequent in
Young Persons, IS Claim.

New York, Oct. 3.-Dr. E. A. Bash
ford, director of the London Imperial
Cancer Research Refund, and the
foremost English authority on can
GER. declared in an address before
the American Pathological society
here last night that practically all
of the so-ealled cures of cancer an
nounced within the last few years
are worthless He added that the
only means of saving or prolonging
the life of a person afflicted with the
disease is by operation
Cancer kills one man in every
seven,' he said. I'm one hundred
families of six members each, equally
divided between the sexes, about GA
or more than 10 per cent, will die of
cancer. 1t is an important cause of
death from 35 years on, and getting
rapidly more so as age increases.
Cancer is now becoming more fire.
quent in young persons"
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CIGAR BOX GEMS
Street Car Conductor COnfeSSes
Theft Valued at $4,000.
Found Jewels in Box on Seat
and Took Them Home.

Los Angeles. Cal, Oct. "a confess
sion of the theft of jewels valued at
$4,000 from Mrs. ]. ]. Valentine, OF
San Francisco in that city seven years
ago. was made today by A. H. Crane,
in custody here on that charge. ac-
cording to the police.
Crane stated, it is said, that while
acting as a street car conductor in
San Franc.-co, he found a cigar box
on a seat and took it home. The box
contained MRS. Valentines gems. He
said he yielded to temptation when he
could learn of no reward offered for
the return of the jewels, and fled east.
Some of the gems were stolen from
him, he saIu. and he pawned the re-
maineder from time to time. All he
had in his possession when arrested
was a ring set with diamonds and
sapphireS.
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and Cortelyou kept from President
Roosevelt the fact that you contributed
tc the fund.-"
Il knew nothing about that" said Mr..
Morgan. He had not discussed cam
paign contribution with Mr.. Cortelyou
in 1904. When Senator Pomerene took
up the examination Mr.. Morgan lean
ed forward in the witness chair with
cne hand cupped over his ear. But ne
failed to hear and finally got down
frcm the witness chair, saying:
Cant I sit down here near you, 1
can't hear very WE'LL" He took chair
from one of the official stenographers
and moved it to within few feet Of
Senator Pomerene.
Senator Pomerene then asked whether
other members of the firm Of ]. p. Nor
gan and Company, specifying George
W. Perkins had contributed in 1904
MI. Morgan did not know.
Gave to No other Party.
did your firm contribute to the cam
psign funds of any other political par
ties in 1904?" asked Mr.. POmerene.
mo sir, I did not and 1 have no
kr owledge of any one else SO contribu--
ing
Mr. Pomerene asked about Confer
erces" with George B. Cortelyou. Mr..
Morgan said he talked with Mr.. Corte'-
you in 1907 over the financial situa-
tion but that he recalled only one con-
ference over politics.
Did you talk with President Mellen
of the New York, New Haven and
Hartford railroad in 1904?''
Yes"
Did you talk with representatives
of the big insurance companies about
the political situation during that cam
paign?'
I can't tell. I talked to many peo-
pie. Many people came in to see me
every day"
do you remember any conference of
big financial interests at which was
discussed the question of whom the
interests would support for PRESIDENT
mo, I remember no such confer
ence''
When was it first determined that
the financial interests would support
the Republican nOminee?" asked
Pomerene.
4 never had any conference on that
point returned Mr.. Morgan
The 100000 contribution again was
brought up and Senator Pomerene ask
ed if Mr.. Bliss was collecting any
special fund.
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KING KORN THERE
Big Crowds Attend AtchisOn's
Annual Celebration.
"COrn Day" TOday-TOmOrrOw
Is the Flower Parade.

Atchison, Kan, Oct. 3.=Atchison's
1912 Corn Carnival opened with the
largest advance crowd of visitors that
ever assembled here, presaging a rec
ord breaking attendance. Atchison
presented a gala appearance to the
arriving throngs. Commercial street
looked the part, with its corn features,
it's decorations and its fine window
displays. 1t is a spectacular street
pageantry, and before the curtain
falls Friday night people Will have
seen Durbar and Mardf Gras COM
bined
Atchison has talent for preparing
attractive exhibits and entertaining
the multitudes and goes about IL with
a cheerfulness that is instantly recog-
nized as genuine, and not prompted
by the desire for financial gain. No
town in Kansas, or in the entire coun-
try Tor that matter. has ever attempt
ed a harvest demonstration of greater
magnitude. In the matter Of the corn
harvest, particularly, it has set the
mark of celebrating so high that It
stands unrivaled.
Today is corn day; dag devoted to
the greatest of all cereals. Tie year
1912 has been a good one, and the
corn harvest is bountiful. To the
stranger the wonder is that so many
handsome and attractive exhibits can
he moulded out of corn.
The climax will come tomorrow
afternoon with the Flower parade,
which is to be the most pretentious
undertaking along this line in history
1t has been said. also, that II all the
work put upon the Atchison Flower
parade of 1912 was paid for at fair
wages. it would cost hundred thous-
and dollars
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WILL SAVE LABOR
Postmaster General Would Use
Mechanical Equipment.
Prizes to Postal Employees for
Their Inventions.

Washington. Oct. 3.-Postmaster
General Hitchcock has created a COM
mission to consider the merits of me-
chanical and labor saving devices in
vented by postal employees and sub
mitted by them for use in the postal
service. On the recommendation of
Mr. Hitchcock congress recently ap-
2ropriated $4,000 to be paid in his
discretion as rewards to postal en-
ployees whose inventions may be
adopted.
The members of the commission are
Robert S. Sharp, chief Inspector,
chairman; C. F. Trotter, assistant
superintendent of salaries and allow
ances; 3. L. Andrus, superintendent of
the mail lock repair shop; C. H. Buck
Ter, superintendent of registered mails;
w J. Satterf1eld, chief clerk. fourth
assistant postmaster general. and A L.
Davis assistant director postal saw
ings system.
Mr.. Hitchcock is of the opinion that
the offering of rewards will stimulate
the inventive genius of postal en-
ployees and encourage them to submit
devices that will improve the equip
ment and expedite the handling of the
mail
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The MOtOrman's WatchfuInesS
Saved Her Life.
THREE TIMES She TRIE[
Tells Sad Story of Poverty and
Grief.
Six Little Children and Hus-
band at Home.

Crazed by worry and grief and pow
erty, according to her story, Mrs. T.
]. Brown, of 1908 North Topeka ave
nue., today threw herself in front of a
Shorey car in vain attempt to COM
nit suicide. The motorman, R. c. Nun
merry, stopped the car and removed the
woman from the tracks. Three times
she tried to end her life in this way
this afternoon, but was prevented
every time by the watchfulness of the
mOtorman. Then she tried to crawl
between the trucks.
A State Journal representative found
Mrs. Brown in tears at her home this
afternoon. She was hardly responsible
for what she said. She gave as a reason
for her attempt to end her life that life
was not worth living when one was
poor and worried and hopeless. The
woman's husband, who was in the
house, declined to talk to the reporter
Or to affirm or deny the woman's story.
There are six small children in the
Brown home, the youngest fourteen
months old, and the oldest fen years.
The case of the Browns will be taken
up in probate court tomorrow and both
sides of the case heard and some DISPOSE
ton made for the woman and the ch /
dren.
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TAFT Is SHUT OUT
Not a Vote Can Be Cast for the
President
In California Unless Name Is
Written on Ballot.

San Francisco, Oct. 3.-President
Taft will be without representation
from California in the electoral col
lege. Not a vote for him can be
cast in the state, unless it be written
in By decision of the state supreme
court today, electors pledged to him
can not appear on the November bal
lot as Republicans.
The date for filing nominating peti-
tions has expired, but We're it other
wise that outlet would still be closed
to the Taft electors. for the minority
convention which nominated them de-
cided not to circulate petitions, but
to rely on their membership in the
national Republican party, whose
nominees at the Chicago convention
they were supporting
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FOLLOWING WILSON.
Senator Burton of Ohio Will Speak at
Topeka October 8.

Senator Theodore Burton of Ohio,
it is announced, will speak at the
Rock Island depot next Wednesday
afternoon, October 9, between 4 and 8
o'clock, according to a message re-
ceived from Republican headquarters
at Chicago today. The Republican ma
tional committee has authorized the
Republican Party league of Kansas to
advertise Senator Burton's meeting.
He will speak on the subject of the
tariff.
1t is expected that Senator Burton
will answer Governor Woodrow Will
son, who will be in Topeka for an ad-
dress Tuesday Afternoon, October 8,
speaking at the Auditorium, The
special train on which Senator Burton
and others are touring the country
will be halted at the Rock Island
depot for an hour, during which time
the senator will deliver an address.
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MURDER in SOUTH
In Charleston 40 Out of Every
100000 Die This Way.
In New York Percentage Is 20;
Chicago, 81; st. Louis, 1876.

New York, Oct. 3.-Seven out of
about every 100000 New Workers are
murdered, according to figures gath
cred by an insurance journal here.
The statistics, covering a score of the
larger cities of the country, show,
however, that New York is a very
good place compared with other
American communities. The rate of
homicides per 100000 of population
for some of the other cities is as fol-
lows:
Washington, 90; Chicago, 81; San
Francisco, 10.4; st. Louis, 1875; Nash
vile, 35.3; Savannah, 37.S; Charles
ton, S. c., 42.3; Memphis. Tenn, 63.4.
In England and Wales, in 1909,
with a population of S5, ,756,OOO, the
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Great Crowd Came to Cheer
the COmmOner.
Given to Democrats to Punish
Unworthy Men.
Taft Honest, but Distrusts the
People.

Clay Center, Kan, oct. 2-Bryan is
stirring the Fifth district today with
his oratory and unmerciful denuncia-
tions of Taft and Roosevelt Each
speech is prefaced with an endorsement
of Thompson, Helvering and the Dem
ocratic state ticket. Bryan is not talk
ing Kansas issues. At Concordia and
Morganville crowds of more than 1,OU0
people heard his speeches.
Today Bryan is firing chiefly at
Roosevelt for his affiliation with cor
porate interests. Referring to yester-
days campaign Investigations, Bryan
declared: I'VE move to amend our i'll
dictment against Roosevelt to cover
the facts brought out by the investi-
cation now in progress. We now
charge that 1914 per cent of the con-
tributons in his 1904 campaign came
from sources from which it would now
be criminal to draw contributions.
Mr.. Sheldon testified that one
hundred thousand dollars was con-
tributed by Archbold of the Standard
Oil company and an equNl amount
each by Morgan, Frick and Gould for
the corporations they represent.
''No wonder Bliss burned the books
and announced that he regarded con-
tributions as confidential.
Instead of giving the Democratic party
credit for the fight it made, Roosevelt
asks to be accepted as permanent presi-
dent on the grounds that he is the only
man to whom the people can look with
confidence"
Probably five thousand people heard
Bryan's speech IN Clay Center.
Belleville, Kan, Oct. 3.--Flaying both
Taft and Roosevelt. but side stepping
state issues. William Jennings Bryan
began his invasion of Kansas last night
when he talked to $500 people in the
court house park. Bryan was unmerci-
full in his attack on Roosevelt and
showed but little more courtesy Tor
Taft. He appealed to the Fifth district
voters to support Guy Helvering for
congress and urged. the candidacy Of
Judge Thompson for United States SEN
ator. But the Commoner never touched
the Kansas electoral muddle nor paid
tribute to the Republican factional
tangle in the state
For an. -hour aRd-a half Bryan aired
the records of Taft and Roosevelt. His
nest bitter and severe criticism was
hurled at Roosevelt's trust regulation
policy and he Darcastically referred TO
Taft's judicial and constitutional mind
that called for distrust of the people.
Had Roosevelt been in control in the
Republican national committee. Bryan
charged, he would have used the same
actics that We're used in the interests
of Taft when the Republican national
committee refused to seat the Roosevelt
delegates.
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RAINATAUTO RACE
But Pabst and Wisconsin Tro-
ply Events Start at Noon.
Nearly $500 in Cash Prizes to
Motor Drivers Today.

Milwaukee. Oct. 3.-Despite a rain of
several hours duration this morning
field of 13 drivers prepared their cars
for the start at noon of the Pabst
trophy and Wisconsin trophy races,
the two events on the second days pro
gram of the Vanderbilt cup automo-
bile race meeting at the Wauwatosa
course.
The following five were scheduled to
start in the Wisconsin trophy race:
Frank Kulick. Ford; Ray Snyder, Ma
son: George Macon, Mason; John HEIR,
E. M. F., and Harry Endicott, Mason.
The eight entrants who expected to
contest in the Pabst trophy event were:
Joe Nikrent. Case; Adolph Momsen
Rergdon: Spencer Wishart, Mercer; IL
L. Hastings, Falcar; Mort Roberts,
Mason; Dick Pullen, Mercer; w.
Chandler, FaIcar and Hugrie Hughes.
Mercer. It will be the first time that
either of the cups have been up for
competition, but the condition under
which the trophies We're donated to-
gether with their richness and the at
tending cash prizes, give promise Of
two good contests for small cars.
The Pabst race is for cars of 230 and
800 cubic inches piston displacement
and the distance about 220 miles.
The prizes are as follows:
First, Pabst trophy, a special dom
or's trophy, for permanent ownership.
and $1,000 cash; second, $500 cash;
third. $3.50 cash; fourth, s125 cash.
The Wisconsin motor challenge
race is of cars of 161 to 23O inches
piston displacement and the distance
is approximately $50 miles, The prizes
are as follows:
First, the Wisconsin trophy, a spe-
cial donors trophy for permanent
ownership and $1,000 cash; second,
$500; third, $3.50; fourth, $125.
Mud and threatening skies kept
thousands of spectators away from
the course during the morning.
Officials OF the race meeting and the
drivers made an inspection of the road
way to determine how soft the rain had
made it. Both races already had been
postponed twice and all were anxious to
get started even if conditions were not o.
the best Officers of the Milwa aukee Au-
tOmobile Dealers association, under
whose management the race meeting is
being held, were anxious to keep the
course in the best possible condition for
the $4,000 grand prix race the bigg feat
the $4,000 grand prix race the big feat
dav
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AT The NOVELTY.

The average. playgoer will find an
entertaining bill at the Novelty this
week This is evident from the liberal
applause given by the audience last
evening. While a severe. critic may
find in the numbers less TO commend
than last week, there are several
unique rismbers that make attend
ance worth while. The. Marionette
Hfppodrome is especially interesting
and novel and is a show in itself.
Brooks and Lorello, the acrobats, are
"thrillers,' and give something out of
the regular lines. Belding and Alex
ander. song artists. received many en-
chores. The stage setting of The Girl
and the Coach well displayed the
spirit of college football No one
asked for his money back at the door
and the audience stayed to the end.
This is another viewpoint of one of
the weeks entertainments.
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HADLEY FOR TAFT.
viii Say So i'm a Speech at Indian
apolis Friday Night.

Indianapolis Ind. Oct. S.-Governor
Herbert S. HadIey. OF Missouri, will
make an address in support of the Re-
publican rational administration here
Friday night. according to an announce
ment given out by C. N. Williams,
president of the Business Mems Repub-
lican club. Governor Hadley. Mr.. Will
Iiams said, will appear with Senator
Burton and others accompanying the
starting from here viii follow the route
of Governor woodrow Wilson during
the latter's tour of the middle west.
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MISS GOULD IN WRECK
Her Party Badly Shaken Up But No
One Injured.

Buffalo. Oct. 3.-Three persons were be-
heved fatally injured and fifteen others
seriously hurt in a collision of a West
Shore passenger train and a freight train
at Wende station, 20 miles east of here
this morning Eight of the injured were
brought to the emergency hospital here
and ten were taken to Batavia.
Among the passengers injured are: Mrs
Catherine Flynn of San Francisco CAL
condition serious.
Miss Helen Gould and a party of ladies
en- route to Chicago in Miss Gould's pri-
Fate car went through the wreck. They
were badly shaken up. though no one in
the ear was injured.