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BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1873-11-23

cstA cola, - muy uAno
cue Aqal nO hsbrA rOndaAores
qae CO sisFnA eAnlinela
Sc Passn u n0chs sn vsla
TaEa brisdAros Amorss.
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Vuessro irenssA hAlAge
Al m0msnto os olvsAh,
porqus ssiA solsdaA
de vassirO amor Al FeelAms
Nc vsses ningaa amAais
ssno 81 qaa - aanA ooastAnss,
do6a lEea. eomo 20 - Amo.
" ISss \ ss aa m&ris sa vsrdad,
% vssls soao , DE- soshs
y q eahalls naaea an eoeka,
ohl oakstA iaso@odiAAAi
uaa paaioa msy siasasA
@a@stTan tAnins s&ers4elsA
20 ss@eianass sssvaakns
p.gs - $3.50 Aaaass ssssrA.
~ AW@M h@s stsss**.
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PaAFas voy % sa m@@emas
d AasFegaas vanmasv aVasamaa.
qms tfsasaas mnnAs eaans.
aal5 b miAa a6ssn&a
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estmvAaFom % mmmnmt@
- aras m~d@. as mAsmfmm
y pes 81 tAlaa paiahsaa
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~. 6asa@Ms Nea. amaaa. zee 6asA~es
6o4a lee sneussa go. u
~ De- 0sas u Clri.l e.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1873-11-23

daccion, personas ilustradas han es-
critic excelentes artfcuIos para el Bo-
LETIN: yo tendre especial gusto en-
publican los trabajos con que SO me
obsequie, siempre que Se austen al
criterio del peri6dico y haya espacio
para ellos en- nuestras no muy holga-
das cOlumnas.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1873-11-23

No, no 10 qusrsia, sOis paiee
ssreia cOnmigo bueno.
d. Diego. QaiesO aOAa Ines cumPFr
10 que "a Ofrecido tsngo.
u Knks. Y Ivais Gsacri6carme
Dor tan sAro olrecimiehsOi
Vos aispondreis de mi vida,
vos dispondFsis do nj cuerpo;
peru al coraaon - Hbra
, como tAl, lasra ukcie
qusrss imponsris leyes
qaa Il anulAria presto;
6abadio, pasaI paars niO,
ana, sats - nj socreso,
I'D. FAX Il tan solo
% De III cnriA0 dasho,
a ma aAasn e. Il alma
anaG an - anaAutoa pfsso
re daD1 antoio. padra : :.
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=. .sasesiiA O. CO. sa&
-. sas 4 ssis
Nwalri. ssaiansa tasgo L
ed pdas ss1acirts
- infnms , psrysrso
easianRen 9 u insaAnis
k.slnrsa q 4 laAgoi
s.lsals maa qua - 6odA
daencruaiaa % saissno
rass q - Allarsss
vualunlA, -, 60 tsaae
- = nj gnuas vsEle 80
- b. C6fIpas = 60
- - nnlann \ - - AlsALs
- ! i pslsrsi pFsosPsa
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BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1873-11-23

VI
res n,;nisteyiGlae que apronte inmenla-
tamente ell Eetadn los siete millonce-
los de duros, que inpcrta la extln-
yauida escIasitud y que Sc haga cargo
de varias atenciones que hoy corren
DOR cuenta de los ayuntamientos Esto
viene siendOiIo Inismo que cortarle las
patas 4 an galgo y darle palOs luego
para que CORA. En- buen apuro pom
Sarfan a. Gobierno de Ia Repdblica los
ftederaIes Dc esta provincia 81 les otor-
case todO cuanto le van 8 pedlr.
En- una sOla cosa estamos entera-
mente confOrmes con los peticlonarlos
y es eh 10 que Sc re6ere al pago del
cultO y clero que, en- su concepto en-
81 nues stro, debe de estar q cargo del
Gobierno, no solo porque asi 10 dispO-
ne Ia Constitution, sino tambien por-
que slsi 10 exigen otras consideracIo-
nes q be hoy no explanamps por falta
de tempo para clio.
Como han visto nuestros lectOres
no scblamente Sc han de pedir al Go
bierrho me1idas econ6micas cue, d.
, ser s.ceptadas, traerfan consigo09des
4 orga.nizacion y Ell desquilibriC"o-le j
E Ha:cienda de Puerto Rico, siDo qu
n uidt.-a nalad;namente la Suppression d
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1873-11-23

-. CGrlosi psro saiaro
saAsE, hilA. 10 cue plaaaAs
soAws % anlaea Ia baano
qms 4 d - Aonrn dsmaniaao
yeas 20 lAaso dssses
dos paaa 10 GO decides
y hmsao 90 Foasosl
paso sAleaia hiIa ma
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Aay, J Asga - slArs asdes
Il qss @as - u
\ daa4ma. w-ss
taah<s &c dlas Z asosi
\ omlam1 qaa assv1ss
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- aal i a
- wsA III @ nmAsa
49, - 80 -
60 80 II = i1sA
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e.s Aaam nsm
- ansnA \ i ANsAzA
-. -
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1873-11-23

nante do que loo Maniciis no 4 dEa
erogar nj incluir On sus pre- puestOs Va
gsstos que los que scan de .racter r II
mente municipales, , esten iadoa Ok
samente en- su Decreta org'ico, had
dose cargo 81 Estado do tod los que r
de su resorte indebidameaD pesar
sobre los fondos de los pueblo. u
Sptimo. Reorganization. .ds IL Af
nistrsciOn de justicia; y Il
OctGvO.-La CIeacion de n Mlllcla !,
dadana bajo las mismas bases que fste
en- Ia Peninsula"
Daremos nuestra humilde opion |
sobre algunas de estas peticiones
La SUPPRESSION de los derech de
exportacion quitaria hoy pOr hoa la
Hacienda los medios de atendez las
mdltiples atenciones que pesan obre
ella y, por TO- mismo, creemos con-
veniente esta medida.
Sin embargo, deseando ardnte-
mente que So alivie 4 la agrioura
de parte de las cargas que la ahtan,
aplaudirfamos que Sc suprimie el
subsidio 6 contribution directa dan
do en- su lugar subsistence ell der,ho
de exportacion. Tempo hace questa
reforma hemos pedido, seguroi de
que la recibirfa el pats producto con
mas gusto que la Suppression dess
rechos de exportacion.
La Suppression del subsidio to-
rial traerfa cOnsigo la cesacion
odiosa desigualdad con que, por
de datos unas vecee, por EGG
otras, estan hechos los repartoa
casi todos los puehlos COZ gran p
clio de los propietarios menos fs
cidos pOr Ia fortuna; y el pobre
que solo oye hablar del Col Il.
central cuando le van q remati i
casa 6 gu dnica yunta de bue !,
que esta On la inteligencia de 4
Administrations econ6miCa es ID
cobra todo, incluso 10 que Sc pag |
los muoicipios y para Ia DipV Ia
provincial; el pobre jfbaro, del Ii
sabrfa entonces cuanto Ie cuDA i,
ayuntamienLo popG! guien j.
mia para compete Il
contribution. Por 9 4,
que ahOra omitimt n
que no 30 suprimira =
tras impe,e ESQ partla. v
tautas felicidades ha der. 4
ssta prdsperG provincia.
Suscribirfamos la segun i
Suppression 6 reduction de !
chos arancelarios con que & /
vadOs ndestros frutos & 81 I,
Ia Penfnsula) que hacen ! II
federales al Gobierno, 81 popAt |,
Ia juzgaramos irrealixable, dada
gustiOsas circunstancias por qu |,
viesa 10 Hacienda peninsular. I Il
tido que se dice ministerial {
reformista, no debe pedir cosas
sibles al Gobierno con ell cu4l
identifc0do.
No sc contentan nuestros adv,
rios con pedir 4 ese Gobierno SUI
mo que tamtO quieren Ia SUPPRESSION
los derechos de exportacion aqui
los de importation en- la Peninsu
sino que tambien piden que Sc reb
len los derechos que aquf Sc cobran
las importaciones que sc hacen de
Estados-U -Unidos. De modo que 4
crisis por que traviesa ell pals, C.
sis que ha cast paralizado Ia il
production de mercaderias, y merm
10 por consiguiente los ingresos fisc
les, quieren los reiormistas aiadir
SUPPRESSION de laGlrentas que recauda
Hacienda por el concepto de expo
tacion J u disminucion de las q
obtiene de 10 Importation.
Asi reducidos los recursos del T
soro 4 ~ mas minima expression, .
poniendo que el Sr Ministro de [
tfamar Accediese { las pretensiones
loo que squi - dicen sua eorreligi
narioa, sodavia 10 exigea eJtos sen
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1873-11-23


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60 - psna y asasonsrslo;
q sabss qas soio aaAalg
eossesta Po1sEss vsg,
q ssbes cue M alagsla
- - dicka , hisnsstar,
a quS safriF y ooaltar
- safEimiasaa. kiia mimf
u. cANlos. Dseid, aanqas b Fssp@ss.
enal - vueslFa enkEms6nA
u las. Nusaa.
d. Ckis. tPw auSa
D. Ln6s. Pae3anaas
y. Dsago. tIsk.i
~ Tea Padre, - mi s.oFuam
No pusde naAis eouaar
- Peaasss qss ms aalg.n
J yaan enan6o aa9Fsnls e. oslwan
- - ~ q sssarvns.
~. C~aeA u les - hsn b aaisvaos
Pwo - cFeo fnnifkia
~.-ena nonminann inpaalkaa
e. esdaa y sla ensoisvta
\ Bee - qas Il 6olar lnaana
Sc .. vnauiEs rsslso - pinin
Eessta 4 sc ssiA qui.i.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1873-11-23

Dufante mi susencia dc esta re-
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1873-11-23
Suavits- in mOdO fOrtiter in re.

Habiendo cssadO las causas que
ca 20 dc julio pr6xirnO pasadO me
obligaron 4 retirarme de Ia redacciOn
del BOLETIx y habiendO sido llamado
por el paFtido de los espanOles sin
cOndiciones para hacerme el senalado
honor de confarme de nuevO su re
presentation an Ia prensa, VuelVo
hoy 4 emPrender las Aridas Y penO-
sas tareas que corrierOn durante
cuatrO meSes 4 cargo de mi dignO
amigo el Sr. LarrOca-
III pGblic0 me cOnoce bien y al
tener el gustO de saludar de nuevO q
los lectores del BOLETIS, me cree
dispensado dc hacer un pFOgrama de
Ia conducta que pienso seguir. Pira
los que han dado 4 mis- humildeF es-
crit0s un m9ritO inmensamente su-
perior al que On II tiensn, mi QScuro
e % un progTama,
-Dresentarme kOr seyunda
ate arena del Derio.
mo- 10nvsniente
hi mOdO
10
go
Lara
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1873-11-23
4 FOLLETIN.
b. Felix de IL Riberx.

LExEs~DA Eag VERSO
ORIGINAL DE q DE aAmnoCA.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1873-11-23

N
an 800 q guarniou, llueve mana
us Il nj zen yojas queirvsn para yes
oue tu ypSa lleuar fas necesldades
nnro w. All lalss esta subtdinada Ia exis-
.r;on rH ten, delos eiercitRa, resulta claro
mos como I luz del meddfa que en- las
: an medidIa econ6micas etOrmlstas va
go. envueh4la SUPPRESSION dt nuestros pa
1e Il tallonestee Inca. La su'reslon de los
.onss 20 volunts Is esta contenica en- la crea-
.o.Ar cion deSa milicia ciuddana que tan
r.; buenos lVultados ha dacO en- Carta-
!. gena etatras ciudades F0dorales dc
= PII. Pepfn-la. Como de Este asuntO
inportan, mo contamo'. o;uPsfnCS
..;o;or con Ia ati4ion que su lmPortancla
o dsre- reclama, dejaremos & un lado Por
aors- ahora, paIAcuparnos de Ia SUPPRESSION
.ds ~ de IL guarditivil, hoy sollcltada Por
onsvos ~. m todos los jefedel partido peo-tederal'
ora no va no es i simple ayu ntamlento
Ias an nj dos los que den ell desarme dc Ia
loo 90 auord;a civil. an ma iunta de repre-.
Ju par sentantes de tOs los Co@ifes fe.Or. u.
! tsIsa. MucffSs sfhaTgas
mes pOdrfamos aducir 81
,.uesemos a lnalizar c1&les puedan ser
los m6viles yue hayan dadO orfgen al
encarnizamitnto con que Sc mira esa
benemerita institution que lleva %
amos de existsncia en- la madre patria
y que ha side respetada, admirada y
Il estimada por todos los partidOs que
od han turnado en- ell poder desde 1874;
J \ pero las dejamos por ahora al buen
los criterio del Miristro, cue sin duda sc
la le ocurriran esas parecidas dudas;
ri "Tribunales de Puerto-Rico, decid-
m me, preguntara S. E., l4ue delltos
na han perpetrado los guardias civlles en-
cal esta provincial en- los tres amos que
: Ia evan de existepciai-Ninguno, con-
! ID testaran una los jueces civises y mi
or Itsres todos; sin embargo de las mu-
lue chas causas que sc han incoado en-
averiguacion de hechos imputAdos a
u Ia guardia civil nj uno solo de sus
'uA niembros, desde guardia cOrOnel,
Jl- In sido condenado pena algana por
de sentencia judicial; solameute han sido
io- mandados & preside, despues dc de-
10 pOrada Ia verdad legal, variOs 2aisa-
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1873-11-23

lvil & lmpllcltamente ia
eiercito J de los volun-
! impIicitamente pOrque,
derechos de exporta-
, los de Importation, no
bierno ell million dos
sos que, segun E1 rs,
iuesta al GobieFno el
to-Rico. Y como nj
.s, nj On los edi6ciOs
NJ. 4:l;&o-oc nroctaYI
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-04-04
Speed of the Carrier-Pigeon.

The speed of the carrier-pigeon has
been generally overrated. Careful ex
perments have shown that thirty miles
an hour is the average, although, in 3
few well-authenticated instances, thrice
that speed has been attained. In 1906
an English gentleman laid large wager
that his pigeons could fly thirty-five
miles an hour. To decide the question.
three of his trained birds were taken
exactly that distance from his residence,
and let loose in the presence of wit
nesses. They arrived home together in
Just fifty-three minutes, or seven min
utes ahead of time. In 1888, during
the great annual trial of carrier-pigeons
at Ghent, twenty birds were let fly
at Rouen, one hundred and fifty miles
distant, at five minuter before ten in
the morning. Their flight was care
fully timed. One of them reached
Ghent in one hour and thirty minutes,
having traversed the distance at the
marvellous rate of more than ninty miles
an hour. Sixteen made the journey in
two hours and a half. Several was
never heard from. In the East wonder
full stories aIe told of their speed and
endurance. The traveller Lithgow tells
us that one will carry a letter from
Babylon to Aleppo in forty-eight hours,
the places being thirty days journey
apart by the slow modes of travel used
in the East. But the stories of early
travellers are to be taken with many
grains of allowance Although for O
short distance, or in exceptional cases,
the carrier-pigeOn may attain a much
greater speed, thirty miles an hour is
probably its average. 1t could not sus-
tain long flight with greater velocity.
Even this speed can not be maintain
ed without ST, for the carrier-pigeon
has not the endurance which belongs to
many birds of passage. 1t always de-
scends at night for shelter and repose,
and hence it can rarely fy across a wide
expanse of water. To this was partly
owing the failure of the attempt To use
them for conveying intelligence from
the arctic explorers, and partly TO
another cause. Some writer's, chiefly
poets and romancers, would have us be-
lieve that the carrier-pigeod finds his
way home from remote places by kind
of instinct but this is not the case.
It's flight is guided by sight alone.
When let loose from confinement il
rises to a great height in the air by
series of constantly enlarging circles
until it catches sight of some familiar
landmark by which to direct its course
If flown on foggy day it soon becomes
bewildered, and either returns to the
place of flight or is lost. Let loose
from balloon on clear day, and too
far above the ground for objects TO be
discerned even by its piercing vision,
instead of rising, it drops perpendicu-
larly, like a plummet, until it nears the
earth, when it begins TO wheel round in
a descending spiral. constantly increas-
ing in diameter, evidently for the pur-
pose above mentioned of ascertaininP
its locality, and discovering some indi-
cations for the direction of it's course. -
Ha rpeT'S Magazine.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-04-04
Borrowing and LENDING.

The chief thing, however, that wise
parents should din into their children's
memory, and impress on their conscience
almost from the first hour they are ca
pable of understanding it, is the misery
and bondage, and even disgrace that
come with debt. Borrowing seems so
easy, and lending so natural, and youth
is buoyant with hope, and conscious of
integrity. ''It is only for short time,
and payment will easily be made; and
who need know?" But tendency of
this kind should be burned out of a
young mans nature as with hot iron.
1t is fault toward which an irfexible
sternness is at once the kindest, and the
only effective remedy. An indulgent
easiness in the early days of youth may
foster habit, which will paralyze the
sinews of robust action, and reduce ul-
timately it's victim to the contemplate
condition of being either a mendicant
or thief If the earliest commission
of fault of this kind is severely pun
ished at the moment, the first fault may
be the last /; while one condOned offense
may be, not only to the offender, but to
all the rest of the family, false symp
tom of parental weakness, that may re-
suit in harvest of sorrow. 1t is true
that if no one would lend, no one could
borrow. But not all lending is to pay
debts, and not all borrowing is to dis
charge them. AS a rule, it is sometimes
better, where there is claim of blood
or friendship on you, to give half rath-
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-04-04
GLEANINGS.

Archbishop Purcell of Cincinnati
has laid down the rule, especially aimed
at trades-unions, that no Catholic car
unite with any association requiring an
oath as a condition of membership and
the sacrament of communion is being
denied by the priests of his diocese to
to the knights of st. Crispin and all
sich.
"A newly-made bride in Trumbull
county, O., threw sulphuric acid upon
the members of a serenading party,
binding one, destroying an eye for
another, and badly disfguring the faces
of several others. She was arrested
and bound over for trial.
They have new grievance ut San
Francisco, the 6mnoria lignorum. He
"goes through" the piles and wooden
erections in the harbor of the Golden
Gate, in a way altogether childlike and
bland and won't leave anything of the
wooden docks in few years.
Madame TagliOni, who was 80 cele-
brated ss a dancer. 40 years ago, is now
giving lessons in London. She is 65
years old, and still charming She says
the women nowadays have no manners.
Nobody knows how to bow; but the
young American ladies please me best. !"
"A "pool" has been formed in Au-
gusta, Ga. Five dollars entry, open TO
all, until March Is, to test the skill of com
petitors in making estimates of the cotton
crop of 1872. The person coming near
est the number of bales, as determined
September /, is to take the money. A
thousand subscribers are expected.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-04-04
VOL. XVIII. NO. 80.

er than lend all. Where there is deli
cacy of feeling the request is not likely
to be repeated from the same quarter,
and often you are as happy to aid, as
your friend to be aided. There will Of
ten also be cases where, from the con-
viction that the granting of loan would
be mischievous or useless, for very
friendships sake, though painful, it is
our duty firmly to say, No But lend
ing, as a rule, from friend to friend or
relative to relative is always very haz-
ardous proceeding on one side, if not
on both; for the time of repaying is
never quite convenient, and a borrow
er's memory is often treacherous. 1t is
cynic's remark, founded on painful ex-
perience of average human nature, that
to get rid of a man you don't want, the
shortest way is to lend him money; and
it is beyond question, that in money
transactions between near kinsmen,-to
avoid feeling of painful obligation to
the one, and the possibility of real in
convenience to the other,-the best wav
of managing it, is as a matter of bust
ness -lSI55lddU Af100zitlo
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-04-04
Curious Facts About Whales.

Prof. S. Shaler, upon the authority
of Capt. John Pease, an old and obser-
want whale fisher, writes as follows,
concerning the frequent struggles be-
tween the male sperm whales
The conflict between the males of
sperm whales cause great damage to
the lower jaw; the evidence goes to
show that at least two per cent are
crooked more or less, and one in several
hundred very badly bent by those
struggles. There are two specimens in
the small museum at Nantucket which
are singularly contorted one of them
is bent literally into one turn of a spiral.
Capt. Peas tells me that he found one
that was bent sideweys at right angles
to the proper position and finally fixed
there, seeming to be permanently fas-
tened in this singular position. In
fighting, the males rush at each other
with open jaws, and strike in passing.
The great speed and power of these
massive creatures must lead to the most
serious results from such collisions.
Capt. Pease once found sperm VIII lie
nearly dead on the water, with the lower
jaw hanging by single band or liga-
ment few inches through. Sharks
and crustaceans were devouring the
creature, but the wrench which had
crippled him must have come from one
of his own kind"
In the same article Prof. Shaler men
tions fact which, if it can be proved,
may certainly become strong argu-
ment for the Darwinists. 1t is as fol-
lows
''The captain is convinced that the
right whale has trace of hair within
the skin. He says that when the skin
is fresh, if it be scraped with knife so
as to remove the superficial parts, there
will be seen a trace of hair in the inner
section. This point is worthy of atten-
ton from those naturalists who have
opportunities for such work. It is evi-
dent that if the whale is the descendant
of some land mammal form, it would
be likely to preserve a trace of the
hairy covering. In this connection it is
interesting to note that, in the museum
at Nantucket, there is tooth of a sperm
whale with two fangs after the fashion
of an ordinary mammalian canine. The
specimen was taken many years ago,
but with it is the statement that the
other teeth of the whale were of the
same fashion. This clearly looks like a
reversion to some higher mammalian
form of dentitiOn"
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-04-04
African Fetichism in Jamaica.

newspaper correspondent tells
story of African feticbism in Jamaica,
which shows method in the madness of
the supernatural A strange appariatiOn
haunted the Port Royal mountains, rear
the harbor of Kingston. 1t was called
the =" rolling calf" and came rolling
down the mountains in wheel of fire
ON a road leading to the harbor. In the
wheels, fastened with chains, was the
figure of a man with calf's head, and
it came with great rattle and roar, and
passed out of sight in the direction of
the city. 1t was believed in by the ne
groes, and seen and wondered at by
white men, and no explanation was CIV
en- by anybody except this: cit was
the way the disembodied souls of those
butchers were punished who in lifetime
took away the young calf from its moth
er and slowly tortured it to death by pc
riodical bleedings. This was sufficient
for the negroes, and the people general
ly had faith in the thing and this expla-
nation 1t appears to have had deep
er meaning, however, and may be ex-
planned upon rational business basis.
The cOlOred policemen were III the dark
about its nature and origin and purpos-
es, as well as everybody else, and 1t was
perfectly right that they should be.
They took its appearance as matter-of-
fact, and questioned no further. The
they were not in secret was this
Valuable smuggled goods were landed
at night at Rock Fort, and had to be
conveyed to the city by some safe means.
1t was notorious fact that the rolling
calf appeared soon after the arrival OF
certain steamers. Whenever 1T did so
the people Stunned the vicinity of its
operations. 1t effectually cleared the
track for smuggled goods. That was
the reason and method of it. 1t was in
its glory in 1868. Lately one who had
observed and shot at it then, while roll
ing, told the story in the house of
planter near Kingston, and the planter
laughed heartily at it. He said he had
a man who could do the specter. The
specter was performed on the same
night, but the man who did it refused
to tell how it was done, and the process
Of the trick remains unexplained. The
performer had reputation as an Ohcah
man. and had been imprisoned and fog
ped for l1Yaofisino fetichiSm