Advantages Of Liberia

Prof. O. F. Cook, of Huntington, I. 1.. who has spent tiie winter in Liberia, África, studying the plant and aiiimaJ life oí that región, has returned to his home. He says, according to the lïepublic, tnat the advantages of África as a place of residence, even for the white race, are but imperfectly understood. Liberia is naturally no more unhealthful than other tropical countries, in which civilization ba taken root, such as India aml South Ájnrica, and, as in these eases, the healthfulness increases as the f orests are cleared away and better conditions of life remdered possible through improvements in transportation. Mr. Cook has spent several seasons in África in pursuing his investigation in the interest of the American and the New York State Colonization Bocietics, with a view to ascertaining the possibility of resuming, under new plans, the colonization of Liberia with negroes from the TJnited States. Ho says former movements in that direction have failed through wamt of proper management rather than on account of any insurmoirotable difficulties inherent in the idea of colonization or in tihn nature of the country whereeettlements of American negroes were attempted. That something is possible, he says, is demónstrate j by tiie fact tliat many oolonists who lef t America 15 or 20 years ogo witli nothing have now cofEee farms, j'ielding incomes greater than their owners can spend, while othera ba.ve achieved indepfendence in. mnch less time.