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BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1871-01-01

COntemplando por DO Qu1era
injusticia y deshonor,
la virtud escarneci0a
mientras el vicio triunf0.
Basta de exor6io y al grano
que va Veo en- el relox
aproximarse la hora
que ell tempo me senalo.
Y antes de cue su guadaha,
Cue otros temen mas que yo,
me enyie 4 la eternidad,
escuchaa mi Ultima voz.
Dejo mi cuerpo & la terra.
vel alma encomiendo 4 Dios:
81 no es piadoso con migo,
de flo al inferno voy.
Dejo una guerra horrorosa
entire dos puoblos CUE son
sabios, ricos y valientes
pero envidiosos los dos,
Guerra cue 81 dura mucho
por falta de intervention,
produci,a un cataclismo
de cue os libfe ell buen Senor.
Dejo en- Ia Puerta Otomana
la sombra Gorstchacof,
y & los rusos aprontando
dc soldados un million.
Deio Paris resistienlo
al ej6rcito invasor
de alemanea cue pretenden -.
BisEnark 10 sabe, no 20.
Dejo Ia Espana eaperaudo
ell monarca que oIijj6,
81 quiere adorable ser
que sea todo espanol.
Deio mil Y mil derechos,
los dsheses pooos 500,
y sin estes no es possible
nj paz, ri dicha, nj amor.
nejo en- Cuba un simulacro
de insurg8ate rebellion
que va 'naldicep los mismos
que alzaroa grito traidor.
En Nueva York lahorantes
y los bay hasta en- Mogol
Que es familia larea, larg@,
cual de aQui 4 Fernando Poo.
Dejo dinero en- las areas
del ayaro guardador,
que tiene tantos talegos
COMO llmoeuas que ahorr6.
Dejo muchos mentecatos
mas vaoios que IN farol,
dlchosos porque imaginan
que Sc lgn0ra 81 valor.
Dejo ilusiones perdidas
que humo fueron y humo son,
dej cesantes buscando
de un diputado ell favor.
Dejo miserias y embrollos;
intrigas y contusion,
dejo en- I'm bien aumentado
10 que nj padre lego;
Pues sc empen6 en- sembrar vientt
y huracanes cosech6.
Dejo un pals muy dichoso
digno de serlo por Dios.
Mas Jay! 81 los radicales
de cue tiene u0 buen monton
le inncula ell veneno
que. a otros paeblos arruin6.
Bnt6nces. - una, dos, tres,
ccnclul, las doce son,
mnero va pero contento
porque q des ,anear me voy.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1871-01-01

listas que Sc habian acereado a la
frontera.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1871-01-01
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ror.;tlioos -El ST.. A$l.:oi-iiz55ra5oc do cor-
roos lsos ha oncargado digamos al
pds]ico que ezistiondo ca aquolla
oficina algglnas coleociQnos De perio-
dicos sin faja con 81 nombro dc su
due1o, pued8n reclanarlos los per
sonas L Qui8nes les hayan faltado.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1871-01-11
He Knew Too Much.

Many years ago one of the wharves at
North End was used as coal wharf,
the occupant of which had held it for a
long time as such. In his employ, as q
teamster, was an Irishman named VIII
liam B, who had driven his team so
long that it was question which own
ed it. He was fixture, and the owner
thought he couldn't get along without
Billy. Now, said Billy was a sensible
man, who kept both eyes open, and
accordingly picked up a great deal of
information. AS both employer and
man were the possessors of more or less
lrascibility, frequent were their explo-
sions, and Billy was discharged at least
once day; but though frequently DIS
charged, he never went off. One day
the employer, during one of these pas
sages, burst out, cts no sort of use,
Billy, [ can't learn you anything at all,
and L have been trying for years.
''Shure, an yez have then learnt me
won thing" said Billy. s'What is
that?'' was asked. 81 shall be glad to
hear of anything you've learned"
S'Shure, sir, yez have Harmed me that
fifteen hundred makes a ton.n Billy
knew too much to be spared
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1871-01-11
Clean MILK and Clean Milking.

A dairyman writes on the subject as
follows: Having recently commenced
selling milk, I find it requires much
care to keep COWS perfectly clean, and
have adopted some new measures which
may be of some interest to other milk
ers. In the first place the floor on
which the COWS stand is raised so that
the water will run back into the trench,
which is about six inches below the
floor. Before begin to milk [ take a
hoe and clean the floor. L then take a
bucket large enough to hold cows
bag, fill it with cold water, with which
[ wash their bags thoroughly, which
not only makes them clean, but pre-
vents their teats from becoming sore.
Sawdust is then spread on the floor,
and as [ have some COWS which are in
clined to brush my face when milking,
l take cord, pass it over pulley
which is fastened overhead behind the
COWS, attach a weight to one end of the
cord, slip-noose the other end around
the cows tail, which prevents her
from brushing dirt into the milk; [
then brush the COWS and begin to milk
where [ began to wash. L milk into a
wooden pail, turn it into a tin
strainer pail, and then strain it into a
tin can through a cloth strainer, which
is attached to the top of the can by a
wire; and We hear no complaint of dirty
milk
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1871-01-11
Mead's Statue of Lincoln,

Miss Anne Brewster writes from Flor
ence to the Boston Advertiser:
OF course, in visiting American stu
dos, went to Mead's This sculptor
has the largest commission ever sent
from the United States-the national
Lincoln monument for Springfield, Ill.
1t IS to cost 100000 The statue of
Lincoln is to be eleven feet high; in
the left hand is a scroll on which is
Emancipation" in the right hand a
pen; at the right of the statue are the
consular faces about which is the flag;
at the foot of the fasces is a crown of
laurel. On each angle of the monument
is group; one cavalry, another infan-
try, third artillery, fourth marines.
Behind the statue Of Lincoln an obleisk
rises up. This Lincoln monument of
Mead, and the one to Cavour at Turin, are
the largest ones made during this centu-
ry. La Refornaa, of Florence, in very
f1attering notice of this statue and
monument, published short time since,
says: sThe talent with which Mead
has modelled this colossal statue, and
surmounted the difficulties which the
precise neatness of the modern costume
so different from the grace of the
heroic mantle-presents to the artist,
reveal in him, beyond doubt, pro-
found knowledge of his art. In Mead's
studio [ saw the well known group of
Columbus and Isabella, which belongs
to Legrand Lockwood, of New York:
the Echo, belonging to Mr.. Benedict,
and its companion piece, the Mountain
Boy. Columbus, as youth, leaning
against rock, with Establishments
and books; the boy gazes out as if across
a boundless stretch of waters; Venus
seated on the winged lion of ST. Mark,
etc
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1871-01-11
Saving Apple Seed.

There are many farmers who may be
inclined to raise a few apple-trees, and
SO have some on hand ready to replace
those who may die in the orchard, or
with which to plant a new orchard. Of
late years this branch of fruit growing
has been neglected. Tt is a very sim
pie matter to save apple-seed. Take
the pomace from the cider mill, select
ing that matter from wild or natural
fruit, because there are more seeds in
such apples than in those from grated
trees, and break the same up rather
finely, and then put in a box or barrel,
and pour in water and stir the whole
together until the seeds settle to the
bottom of the vessel, when the pomace
may be turned off. In this way the
seed may be obtained nearly clean. It
may be planted in the fall, or it should
be mixed with tolerably moist sand,
and kept in boxes or tubs, away from
mice until spring, and then sown as
peas are sown. Some break up the
pomace and SOW it in the fall, all to-
gether. This is less work, but not so
good way, for the pomace is sour
stuff, and the young trees will not
make SO much growth with it under
meath as without it.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1871-01-11
Crane Vines ON frees.

The Rural New Yorker contains a Sc
lected paragraph from a Cincinnati
journal, where correspondent claims
that he has succeeded admirably in get
ting can abundant yield of grapes y
by letting vines run over his trees,
"just where they like, and climb
higher and higher as they please" &C.
No doubt he gets can abundance of
grapes" We did so too, when we tried
this plan: but they became "poorer
and poorer" with every successive
year, and "higher and higher from
tina ground, until they became difficult
and dangerous to pick, and utterly
worthless when they were picked
We fancy this correspondent is with
out palate-many persons are-and
with him a grape is a grape all the
same, though scarcely fit for the hogs :;
but if he expects to convince others
that this lazy, do-nothing way of rails
ing grapes or any other crop will be
initiated by anybody of more sense
than himself-and we would say there
are still a few left-why he is at least
liable to be disappointed. Five-and-
twenty years ago we tried the Isabella,
Catawaba and Powell grape after this
miserable fashion, and the result was
we had plenty of grapes, but certainly
none fit for the genus HOMO Gernaa,s-
tO1Ozl IeLeQrGph
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1871-01-11
Straw for Fodder.

1t is certain that straw has been I'M
estimated in this country by grain
raisers, and that a source of profit has
been to considerable extent lost from
this circumstance. One hundred parts
of wheat straw, as produced under or
binary conditions in this country, con-
tain about thirty per cent. of assimil-
able food capable ofnourishing animals.
It contains as much albumen and pro-
teine compounds as ordinary run of hay.
Woody fibre is, however, largely in ex-
cess, and there is far less quantity of
sugar, mucilage, etc., than the hay of
our meadows. The kind of straw
which approaches nearest to good up
land hay is cut straw, cut before it is
ripe. The order in which the different
kinds of straw stand relatively, as re-
CARDS nutr1tlve value, may be presented
thus:
Dat straw, rye straw, wheat straw,
barley straw.
Unquestionably it will be for the in
terest of farmers in most sections to
diminish the amount of straw used for
litter and increase it's use for fodder.
In many of the Northern States, rye
straw is of equal value with the best
quality of timothy, as it is used largely
for bedding horses In towns and cities.
OF course where straw commands such
high prices, and is of such ready sale,
it would be absurd to feed it to animals.
We must not be understood in these
remarks as holding to the view that
straw can supersede the use of good
hay and grain, but rather that it con.
tains a sufficient amount of the elements
of nutrition to make it valuable sub.
stitute for these usually more costly pro
ducts. -BOstOn Journal of Chenaist1'u.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1871-01-11
The BODY ard its Needs.

Considering the extreme sensitiveness of the hu-
man body, and that il is unprotected except by arti-
fetal covering, from the action of cold it is not
strange that al this it is liable to many dsor-
ders. The skin exercises powerful influence over
the stomach and bowels, and when its functions are
interrupted by sudden chls that seal the pores and
prevent evaporation from the surface internal con-
gesion is apt to ensue The digestive organs never
perform their office properly when this is the case
and the waste matter of the SYSTEM which should be
discharged in part through the respiratory glands
having other outlet than the bowels and the kid
neys constipation and variety of renal diseases
more or less prevalent Dyspepsia, where it exists
is also aggravated by these causes The most effective
preventive of and remedy for, disturbances of this
nature IS Hostetters Stomach Bitters. Acting az a
smulant and tonic, it rouses the stomach and the in
testnes, inparng to those important organs both &c
tivity and regularity. 1t also operates sudoriic
by toning the vessels of the skin and promoting the
Tree passage of exhausted matter through that nat
ural seiye of the system. Being mild diuretic it
gives healthfu impulse to the action of the kidneys
where there is tendency to dropsy, and as blood
depurent and nervine, has highly beneficial effect
IN rheumatic cases. 1t combines in happy proper
lions the tonic, aperent, antiseptic daphoretc and
antbous properties requisite for the restoration of
system generally disordered, and has no equal as a
mod
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1871-01-11
What a. Half Acre VIII Do,

A shoemaker over in Jersey bought a
half acre lot. He was fond of fruit and
read the papers. The soil was wet clay
and he selected fruit to the climate
He built house and put his land in
condition to produce fruit. He had
no manure but the droppings of the
street cattle. In his leisure he brought
from the woods bark, rotten wood,
moss, and leaf mould, which he mixed
with the soil three feet deep. This was
done by degrees, and then as fast as
the ground was prepared he planted
the fruit. He became so inter
ested that he retired from his cob
bler's bench. His half acre supported
himself and his wife comfortab1y-al-
most in elegance. She had no servant
and had plenty of time to cultivate
flowers. Strangers inquired about
their beautiful home. Isabella grapes
and common currants formed the bulk
of their fruit. With better selection,
his income would have been larger.
Others had the same success on small
pieces of ground. One man supported
his family on an acre. Half was in
grapes, the crop of which in one season
sold for $500, and had no bills to pays
Ii contraction brings success let US
know it and practice it.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1871-01-11

STANLEY, the celebrated English bar
itone, has been making a marked sue
cess at the Gaiety Theatre, London, as
Fra Di0UOlO. Florence Lancia was
the Zerliaaa.. "Mr. Stanley" says the
Examiner, "gave very good delinea-
ton of Fra Diavolo. The change in
manner from the supposed Marquis in
the first and second acts, to the brigand
chief in the third, and again to the
captured criminal at the end, was care
fully and artistically given, and every
gesture showed earnest study of the
character. Mr.. Stanley's singing was,
as may be supposed, sans reproche.
Every air was enthusiastically applaud
ed, and he was obliged to repeat por-
lions of Young Agnes, beauteous flow
er, and Proudly and wide my stand
ard flies The gay, devil may-care
way in which the latter song was given
produced, deservedly, an immense eff
feet" The part of Fra DiaUo1o is usu-
ally sung by tenor.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1871-01-11

TIFF ink used by the aneients seems
to have been much more durable than
that used in modern times. It is said
that manuscripts of the ancients are in
much better state of preservation
than those Immediately preceding the
invention of printing. The reason of
this is, undoubtedly, due to the fact
that the basis of their inks was carbon,
whereas modern inks are usually a
chemical compound, containing com
pick vegetable substance We may de-
fine ink to be fluid employed in wri-
ting with pen. A perfect ink would
be one that flows freely from the pen,
is of deep color, and will not change
by age, and cannot be removed Many
efforts have been made to fulfil these
conditions, but complete success has
not yet been obtained.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1871-01-11
Professional Life in New York.
From the College Recorded.


The number of lawyers in New York
is variously estimated from four to sew
en- thousand. It is sometimes said that
there is one lawyer in every hundred
inhabitants; if SO, how can they live +?
One of the first councillors Of the city
said to me, a few days ago, there are
about four thousand lawyers in the
city; five hundred of these do all the
important business; and the most lu-
crative cases are confined to these" If
this be true, and there is little reason
to doubt it, why do so many stu
dents enter the legal profess
sion2 The answer given here is,
that law requires little cap
ital No young man can now begin
business, as a merchant, unless he is
wealthy. A man needs small fortune
to be able to rent one room on Broad
way. A young lawyer can make bust
ness if he is enterprising and popular
in manners. Most business men en-
ploy attorneys to make all such papers
as country merchants write for them
selves. The sale of real estate employs
many lawyers in looking up titles and
making deeds Still, it is very difficult
for young practitioner to earn, for
some years, more than a meagre sup
port for himself; he cannot enter into
family relations. The effect of such a
life is patent to all.
The physicians rank next to the law,
yers in numbers; but they hardly
amount to more than thousand They
fall more readily into practice than law
yers; still only one in a hundred be.
comes widely known; very few become
rich from their professional income
The ministers are last but not least il
this enumeration. do not know the
number of churches in New York; but
[ suppose they cannot exceed foul
hundred. These are but partially
filed on the Sabbath. A few emf
nent preachers, ten perhaps, have
crowded houses; the rest preach to two
or three hundred hearers. I have beer
told that about one in ten of the popu
lation attend church. The Sabbath il
becoming day of amusement. Citi
zens visit the Park more on that da7
than on any other. Pleasure and re
creation are more earnestly sought, a
all times, than spiritual culture. Thu
ministers, therefore, have a hard fielt
of labor; but it is quite as respectable
and, probably, more remunerative thai
the professions of law and medicine.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1871-01-11

The system of French weights and
measures is the most perfect in exist
ence, since it increases or decreases in
tenfold ratio like common numbers.
The standard of linear measure is the
metre, which is equal to about three
feet four inches One thousand OF
these make one kilomitre, orabout two
thirds of a mile, hence two of our miles
are equal to about three kilOmitres, or
kilos, as dispatches say. The other
denominations are seldom mentioned
IN our dispatches. In square measure
the unit is an acre, or 0.0247 acres.
One hundred of these make one hec-
ture, equal to 2.47 acres. The htre is
the unit of liquids, and equals 1-7603
imperial pints. One thousand litres
make one kilolitre, or 260 gallons.
Weight is measured also by scale of
tens, gramme being the unit. This
equals 15.44 grains avoirdupois, and
1000 grammes, or $50 pounds equal
one kilogramme. 1t is unnecessary to
give others, since they are seldom men
toned in the newspapers.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1871-01-11
BEG Mrs. GATES AND Mrs. JAMIE

NkS MINIS. GIATES AND MRS. JAMES,
Mrs. Gates. Good morning, Mrs. James. How
welyou are looking; far better than when I
saw you last.
Mrs. James.-Oh yes; 1 am much better
than have been for a long time and am
now on my way for more of my favorite medi
cine-PLANTATIoN BITTERs. One bottle of it
is worth all the doctors in the world. No more
doctors for me.
Mrs. Gates.-Nearly every one speaks well
of PLANTATION BIrrERs, and I have mind to
strength or energy for anything Mary and
Lizzie are in the same way, and lounge about
the house all day long, good for nothing.
Mrs. James.--My word for it, Mrs. Gates,
just let them try PLANTATION BITTERs modeT-
ately three times day, and you will see a
wonderful improvement.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1871-01-11
DairyinG II. the United states.

The following statistics are from the
Live Stock Journal
''But a few persons realize the mag
nitude OF the dairying interests of the
country at the present time. The pres
ent produce of cheese is supposed to
be 800, 600, 900 pounds, which at fifteen
cents a pound, amounts to SIS, ZOO, 900 4;
and of butter 575,000,00 pounds,
which, at twenty-five cents a pound,
amounts to $152, 600, 600; with 100,
900, 900 gallons OF milk sold III the cities
and towns, and 100000 consumed in
the families where produced, worth
$50, 600, 900; making together a dairy
product of S215, 000,O 900, besides the
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1871-01-11

pork made from the refuse of butter
and cheese diaries. The number of
COWS is probably not less than 5000, :
0G0; the number in 1860 was s, 72S,-
S62.
If we allow 100000 COWS for max
ing the butter, it will give lis pounds
to the COW, and 1,500,0 900 cows en-
ployed in producing cheese, which will
be 200 pounds to a COW; 100000 COWS
for the production of milk consumed
in cities and families of producers,
leaving 1900, 900 COWS in the Western
and Southern States devoted to raising
stock. From these facts it will appear
that the average product of butter and
cheese is very far below what it might
be with the intelligence and attention
of breeding, feeding and general man
agement which the magnitude of the
subject demands The first Collins
cheese factory of Erie county, New
York, for 1865, reports the average
from 730 COWS at 400 pounds of cheese
to COW, while 200 pounds and over is
a common yield to COW in butter
from good, well-fed COWS.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1871-01-11

New YORK. August 18th, 1868

New YORK. August 18th, 1868
Allow me to ean lour attention to my
PREPARATION OF COMPOUND EX-
TRACT BUCHU. The component parts
are, BUCHU LONG LEAF, CUBEBS
JUNIPER BERRIES.
MODE OF PREPARATIoN:-Buch in
vacuo. Juniper berries, by distillation,
to form fine gin. Cubebs extracted by
displacement with spirits obtained from
Juniper Berries; very little sugar is used,
and a small proportion of spirit. It is
more palatable than any now in use
Buchu, as prepared by Druggists, is
of dark color. It is plant that emits
its fragrance; the action of fame de-
stroys this Gts active principle leaving
a dark and glutinous decoction. Mine
is the color OF ingredients. The Buchu
in my preparation predominates, The
smallest quantity of the other ingredi-
ents are added to prevent fermentation:
upon inspection it will be found not to
be Tincture, as made in Pharmacopma,
nor is it Syrup-and therefore can be
used in cases where fever and inhamma-
ton exist. In this, you have the knowl-
edge of the ingredients and the mode of
preparation
Hoping that you will favor it with a
trial, and that upon inspection it will
meet with your appreciation,
With a feeling of profound confidence,
I am very respectfully,
Fl. T. HELMBOLD.
Chemist and Druggist of 10 Years. Elk
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1871-01-11

Beg The Rev. Isaac Akin, Pastor of
the Beaver st. Methodist Church, Allegheny,
Pa, states that he has been permanently cured
of Dyspepsia, after Is years suffering, by the
use of Goes Dyspepsia Cure. This is but one
of a thousand who have the same experience.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1871-01-11
(From the largest Manufacturing Chem

From the largest Manufacturing Chem
lists in the WORLDLY
November A, 1854.
'I am acquainted with Mr. Fl. T.
Helmbold; he occupied the Drug Store
opposite my residence, and was success
full in conducting the business where
others had not been equally so before
him. [ have been favorably impressed
with his character and enterprise y
VIM. WEIGHTMAN,
Firm of Powers & Weightman, Manu-
featuring Chemists, Ninth and Brown
Sts., Philapelphia.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1871-01-11
Ba CoUeHs AND Co1ps ARE

Be- COUGHS AND COLDS ARE OFTEN
ovERLooKED.-A continuance for any length of
time causes irritation of the lungs or some
chronic throat disease. Browns Bronchial
Troches" are offered with the fullest conf
dence in their efficacy, giving almost invaria-
bly, sure and immediate relief.
Owing to the good reputation and popularity
of the Troches many aoorttless and cheap
limitations are offered, ao7aich are good for
nothing. Be sure to OBTAIN the true "Brown's
Bronchial Troches." Sold everywhere.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1871-01-11

BsSP See advertisement of DIR. Butts
Dispensary, headed Book for the Million-MAR
RAGE GUIDE-in another column. It should be
read by all.