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Show 11UUH 1UK IIIKUMIItl IllOIhS In the wettern or Houlh Atlantic torder of the Ihirk Continent, like a ickof bluo sky toen throijh a rift lngloomycloudt,lsa rupubllomodeled after our own It la Liberia and la an Afrlianai any other art of Africa except aa to tho government aud the colo'a modo of living It la the amalleit nation lu thewirld to whUli tho UnlteJHtateaiandiamlnliter, an I Is tho smallest oue geora; hliallj with wo 1 olleve but ono exception-Andorra, exception-Andorra, which la between Pruuce and Hpaln and Is alio a ri ubllc Liberia Li-beria conilitt of n narrow atrip of about W0 mllH In extent aud of Indefinite width Ihe po illation, like tho bouu darlci of tho country, la uu unknown or rather Indefinite quantity an J Ik estimated ly varloua authorities at from 1,000,000 to 8,013)00) There publlo wru founded lu 1810 by Amcrl cin cmlgracta, under the nuij Icrt of the American Colonlzitlon aocUty, whote aim wan to ritabllih a ref ige for free negroet and liberated aluvoa from tho United H atei. II booiuiu au Indcjendeut reubllo lu Is 17 and I ai tteadlly grown Tho cllmato of Liberia li neceiaailly of audi a nature that only certain temperaments can survive the ellectt of the mutuant cout fever that o valla there Thla droad dlteait, at tlmis III tho early hlatory of the re I ubllc, swept away whole town!, and tboio who uicatol with their llvei returuel to America with tich tales of aullerlng and duath that emlgu tlon was ,reatly retarded for yiars file irogrni of civilization, lioweer, haanot I eon without Kb ef fecta on Liberia Thoso who survived the enervating Inllueuce of the climate have not neglected the op.wnunlty for wialtli oOured by a country rich In tburoductsof nature Trallng towns ofiomo Importance havo sprung up along thu ooaef, and many of thoiu who Hod from American it ivory havo won wealth and dlitlnitlon for them eolvei In Liberia The foreign population Is estimated at between .0 UOd and 3d UJ0 Native, speak thrlr own llntuate, but all otlurs n ink 1 ngllih Thu capital I Monrovia, mid lu tho absence of ii com is bureau Its population popula-tion la alio (.ueind at i robably fiOUO, rnikliu It tho mitropolla as ell If nuy moro sorluui race troubln occur In thu Houlh It would loom to be lniratlve tint tho blickiiietidlsj I isr to a great i xteul, and thura It no I lace more linltliu thai Llbirla Indted, It Is quite rubablo that many at leait will t,o, whether mittura 1m I roe for them In this country or uul Pin rutin would bu qultu homoapue ens from lh begluhlii,,, would have lm roved oiporluultlri and Mould b In coiiitatitotllolal mil other commu nlcatlou with tlio laud they It It behlud I hen) |