Show W 1 LIVES ON A MERE I 1 F R F PITTANCE porto ricans manage ag to subsist well when others would sta starve ra the cost ot of living ing in porto rico Is perhaps less gauged from the native natives view ot of necessity than in any other quarter of the globe where modern civilization has obtained a foothold dr ryder secretary of the Ame american missionary association who has recently returned from an inspection kofl of the island tells the following story to illustrate the scale of wages and living in the island I 1 was riding through the interior on horseback on my way to ponce he said when I 1 saw raw ahead of me in the road a native carrying a log on his 1 head it wai was a log twelve feet long and must havle weighed pounds he seemed to trot along with it on bis his head without any trouble I 1 asked my companion to stop and ask alim about it he ile did so and the man said he had cut and ripped the log that Is got it ready to split into urn tim her ber although it was not loosened enough to tall fall apart the day before ho he had brought it fifteen milea miles on his bead head that morning and had three miles further to carry it into ponce and how much will you get toi fol it asked my companion I 1 hope to get 15 cents replied th tho man but I 1 may get got only 12 but that sum would buy as mud muel as 1 would up here continued the doctor so the man was really working for about 75 cents a day if it Is estimated that a man can support a family by three days work i 11 month food Is practically tree free fruit Is to be bad had tor for the taking ant and the poorer classes practically livi upon fruit and as for a house a con vert borrowed a dollar from one ol 01 our missionaries to put up a hous when he wanted to get married anil an it was plenty |