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windows, painted wails, enamel and porcelain
tubs, marble, al
scratching. Doesn't leave windows streaky and foggy as soap does;
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wood floor, painted and unpainted wood work,
stone, cement, marble and mosaic floors in a new
Scrubs
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T IS about thirty years since th
Germans acquired the vast region
now known as German East.
rAfiCl Africa. They had no Idea tha
thitt ant' .k. ,
Which ls onty )lltIa Bouth of tne equator
could ever , become the home of white
etllers. Much to their surprise, they
have found that about a sixth of the
country . so rich In soil and stands so
High . above the sea that white men may
" manual labor there the
round.,
year
The regions that Invite white colonization
re distributed in large and small areas
among the Usambara mountains, near the
ea, on the vast, high plains south and
west of Mount Kilimanjaro, in the moun
tains and rich valleys of Uhche to the
outhwest, on the' high tablelands of
trundl and Ruanda near the Congo Free
tate. and In other districts. Already
about J.000 peasants from Germany and the
Transvaal hcve settled there, though it
was enly last year that Germany got ready
to admit colonists.
In some places there are only two or
three settlers, while In other regions there
reacores of families. It la still an un
tamed wilderness and .Germany holds -out
Bo glittering inducements.
In the circular of the colonial govern,
inent last year colonists were told that they
would be accepted only If they were well,
trong and temperate. They must be
prepared to endure bravely the privations
Inseparable from pioneer life. There was
little prospect of acquiring wealth, but the
diligent. man could make a home for him--elf
, and- Jils family and become inde
pendent. The great regions of Urundl and Ruanda,
the most populous parts of German East
Africa, about 800 miles from the Indian
ocean, are not yet open to settlement, as
orderly relations with the natives are nut
jret ully established. These are the only
regions adapted for white occupancy that
re not yet- accessible to colonists.
The government will ultimately sell the
land, but at present It Is leased to settlers
for a few cen'th an acre. As soon as the
German Visitors Think Our Pace Fast
A German merchant on visit to this
country writes about "Yankee vacations"
to his home, and . In the course of an In
teresting letter says: "My New Turk ho.it
kindly Invited me to accompany him on a
four .days' recreation trip to Saratoga, a
beautiful resort which became popular
many years ago because of Its waters of
curative properties. My friend Is a man
In perfect health and went there not to
drink the waters, but to rest, and this is
how be did It: We arrived at a hotel of
tremendous proportions late In the ' day,
went to our rooms, which were ready for
us, dressed for dinner and had our meal
In the largest dining room I ever saw. Then
we went to the beautifully Illuminated
court, which was thronged with guests lis
tening to the concert After hearing two
numbers we were Joined by some men
friends of my host, and with them went to
nother hotel and to the rooms of one of
the party, where I was asked to look on
while the party played little bridge. I
looked on,' smoked and sipped cooi drinks
Until long past bedtime and then went to
my room, leaving the men still playing
erds. My friend reached his room at I
c'olook.. TJie .next . morning my . friend,
rushed through his breakfast with New
Zuk paper beiore hint and then, while (
lite ., Jipi
-settlor has one-tenth of his holding under
cultivation or otherwise devoted to useful
purposes, he ls entitled to purchase twice
as much land as he has Improved at about
10 or U) cents an acre.
The government requires all settlers
to bring at least t&00 Into the country. They
must paddle their own canoe In a financial
way. ' ' ' .
It is a little different, however, with the
German Poles, who are as yet the. chief
German immigrants. For each family a
little cabin and two outhouses are con
structed, a few cattle and some farming
Implements are provided and the govern-.
them have already cbandoned, moving over
to British East Africa, where they say the
land allotments are larger and they have
better treatment. The great trouble In the
wave strrACtcsvb.
took a drive, went to a stock broker's office
to watch the bourse reports. In which lie
was deeply Interested. He was still there
and In a highly excited state of mind when , ,
I returned. While we were at luncheon he
received two telegrams and wrote answers
to them and Immediately after we left the - '"
table he spent half an hour at a telephone u "r,,nr,"'-'a In small regular pay- have beeu plantee. tobacco and sugar cane three German ports in this great Inland
German territory Is that railroad building Afr,c loudly protesting against the
has been painfully slow and that the derel- tardy .development of the railroad system,
optnent of the country Is already ahead of Plannd several years ago. Letters from
the transportation facilities. colonists on Victoria Nyansa say It Is a dls-
All the settlers who are destined for the Krac t0 tn German flag that they have to
grazing and farming lands of the Kill man- Mn tn,,r Prduct to the sea by the British
Jaro plateau have to tramp or trek ISO teamars and railroad.
miles from the terminal railroad station to These protects are producing some effect
their destination. Here Is the testimony and there are signs that railroad building
given by one of those Boer farmers when will soon be pushed with some degree of
he was bedridden with fever: vigor.
England's Annual Output of Literature
Just begun has the British fall publishing, experiments.
talking to his office In New York. From 6
until 7 o'clock that .day we took a drive,
went to a restaurant on the shore of a
picturesque lake , and I fancied that the
real 'rest, had begun. But that night the
bridge session was resumed, and it was
again morning before the man who went
there for rest retired to his room. That
was the routine for the four days' vacation,
and we returned to New York, he more
tired than he was when he went away and
I wondering what American work must be
If what I saw was rest. I spoke of It to
one of my friends, who said: 'You should
ments.
All the settlers live in small cabins built
thrive and sisal hemp Introduced .' trom sea shipped 4,069 tons of the products of
It will last until Christmas. From reports
! have gathered I can safely say the season
will be record one In the publishing
world. One million copies of notable nov
els and Important works will be put tn cir-
Yucatan on the government experimental that part of German East Africa to Europe.
Of Wrwhfi llnii.'anH ..nd.ilri. rllu. Uunu
ot them giv moat attention to the' rai8in ,ftrm- "veral tM im lrftady an
of cttl, theep and aoats. and oruduca important export- 1
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ni. --""""""- " """ ' ' " v....... Hamburg and Bremen steamships.
.The Germans have been greatly surprised at Tanga. to whlcn port most of the ex- largest Items were peanuts, cotton
to find how large a variety of European ports are sent, must be enlarged at once rubber, wax, coffee, building woods.
-u u Biuwn uu me wiue or snipments will be embarrassed. Already and skins,
spreading lands from 4.000 to 7.000 feet freight cars are likely to stand unloaded . o.-.-.- .. ,
fer several days as storage room Is not ha, yet entered the wlth ,ufflclent
adequate. capital to begin work on a large scale. He
The pictures printed here, which are re- p1oke(j out his land, all of which lies about
proaucea irom in. repon ny raui jruons
Among the notable novels will be found
many by American writers. Elizabeth Rob
Ins has two new books, Mrs. Hodgson
Burnett, Marlon Crawford and Mrs. Ger
truds Atherton are also In the list.
This month will see the latest books of
Anthony Hope, Rider Haggard, the Castles,
Two Thousand Settlers at Work Developing Farms in East Africa
IT IS about thirty years since the , .
"We timed our arrival In accordance with
the government promise that the bridge
over the Khomasl river would be completed
on a certain day. We knew we could not
get our goods across the river till the
bridge was ready,
"We took the railroad to Mombo and
then started our wagons. We reached the
river, which la one of the worst fever
breeding spots m Africa. Here we were
kept sixteen days because the bridge was
cot ready.
"Our whole family, excepting one daugh
ter, have nearly died of fever. We reached
cur land and, with the greatest difficulty In
our enfeebled stats, we built house to
live In. The government gives us no protec
tion. My two sons are now hunting for the
Masai who night before last stole ten head
f our cattle.
"A year before we came here the govern
ment promised that In two ytars the rail
road from Tanga would be completed to
Kilimanjaro. We knew that It would be
year at least before we had anything to
ell, and so we came here expecting that
by the time we had skins, hides, butter and
farm products to ship to the coast we
should have railroad at our door.
"But the road has not been built a rod
beyond Mombo. We are ten days by wagon
from Mombo and we don't know when we
hall have this transportation.
"This country Is splendid. The grass Is
good, water ls plentiful, the soil Is rich,
the climate Is all we can ask; but we do
not think that the German government ls
doing what It should to supply transporta
tion." The white settlers all over German East
above the sea. Some settlers are actu
ally raising wheat as fine as any land pro
duces. Wheat Is destined to be a great crop.
SU0 miles inland. In tha region of the Cen-
culatlon Inside the next few weeks.
One million Is an enormous number when Gilbert Parker, Crockett. Stanley Weyman,
steamers to the Uganda railroad, on which on figures that each copy Is 11.60 novel Barry Pain, Maurice Hewlett, Baroness von
It was hauled to Mombasa and loaded on or ork priced at $2.60 or more per vol- Hutten and other flrst-flighters.
The ume. Yet this estimate Is given me by But an outstanding feature of the fail
one of London's greatest publishers. season will be the publication next month
There are twenty Important publishing of "Queen Victoria's Letters." The work
houses in London. They are each averaging is In three volumes and has been edited
fully ten books. Giving these the normal and compiled by Lord Eaher and Mr. A. C.
edition of 6,000 copies each you reach the Benson.
million mark. King Edward has personally revised the
The cheaper novels and publications will proofs. It may be remembered that an
add to this total, of course, many hun- attempt was made to publish this remark-
The freight was carried on British lake
rice,
hides
T.000 feet above the sea. and before ha had
to the German Coloulal Industrial com- been , tna colony three months he pur- dr,d of thousands, perhaps millions. But able work last year, but the king stopped
mittee, afford glimpses of the remarkable cnaM(j ooo head of native cattle and In- th m,Jorlty ot these will be reprints of the It. He had found letters In one of the
progress In German East Africa. One pic- tend, to increase his herd to 6.000 26 n1 l"cent variety, which are Just now early volumes which he refused to allow to
turf shows a steamer loading with well so popular with the publishing departments be made public.
baled cotton on the coast cf Victoria H " develoPln nrst-class ranch In a of mat-alinM Bni newspapers. On no previous occasion has the corre- .
Nyansa. 700 miles from the ocean. Some region where there la plenty of water and unquestionably the -cent novel-the baJN spondence of a British sovereign been pub-
of this cotton ls raised by the native Kin grass. ' arn.n enDerlmantla aa daad aa a door Ushsd nor haa tha mllni mnnan.li rviaa4
can stand It. He grows fat oa It. although European vegetablea grow finely, small Mutahangarua, who also has about L00O.0U0 But all Is not gold that glitters In German nail. The reading public In England prefer book's proofs. This work Is, therefore,
the same pace would . kill you.' " Nw fruits do well and cotton and tobacco are coffee trees tn bis vast plantations. East Africa. Several hundred Boers from to pay fl 60. It has paid this sum for unquestionably the in oat Important of this I
York Tribune. an assured success. Millions ot ooffee trees It Is a surprising fact that last jnmr tha the Transvaal took up lands which some of many years and bates dreatio change and generation. J
have gone to Saratoga a week later. In the tral African lakes. The firet crop sown on
racing season. Then you would have seen the second plowing of the land yielded
your friend fill In the time between stocks about forty bushels to the acre, the only
and cards with horse race betting and the trouble being that it ripened In Irregular
excitement connected with that form of patches, so that whole field could not be
gambling. But do not worry, your friend cut at once.
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