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BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1875-08-25
puede olvidarse, imb6cil, de que es hom-

pierde, reprobo impio, Ia esperanza
yno encueutra nj un placido consuelo,
nj un suapiro de f6 su pecho lama;
Si.al contemplar la luna solitaria
que los yermos sepulcros ilumina
su yoz no elsva en- tfmida plegaria
para implorar Ia protection divina;
81 olvida que no es suya au existencia,
que Dios para cuidarla sc Ia ha dado,
y rcnuncia 4 su Dios & su creencia,
O. hombre no es un loco les un malvado!
Y 5por que en- Iucha atroz copsigo mis-
(mo
Ell bonsbre Sc consume y Sc dcstroza
y abre baio sus plantas un abismo
do Sc hundc el trono que orgulloao gozaR
SPor cue su risa Sc convierte en- lanto
y ei nectar del placer en nm veneno
y del vergel el deciIioso encanto
en- d6aierto de abroios y De eienof
Ayl porque aua pasionea Ie arrebatan
por los llanos foridos de Ia vida,
cuaJ torrentea que raudos sc deeatan
sin que su arranquo diquo slguno impida.
Tambion 20 en- otro tempo de lusiones
he vivido entire orgfas mpioros
he brindado entire baquicas cancioneg
y he gozado dc aromas y pEaceres.
Instantes he gozado dc ventura,
de emooion, de eDtpsias,no de algeria,
y gu brazo5 del amor Ia heTmosura
vi fenecer y amanecer Ell dia.
Y al aura blandam6nte susurraha
en- torno tie la ffente de mi hermosa
y al fulgor de la luna contemplate
sus bellos ojos y au tez de rosa.
Y palpitar su corason sent;a,
y su cabeIio en- onduautcs rizos
sobge su aeno, aGbito Gaia,
ofFecie4do q mi amor nuevos hechizos.
Y en- largas boras de de}ioias llenas
de encantos J duiclsima ternura,
coronado de.rsas y aZucenas
apuraba la copa de ventura,
Y Al despuntar de Ia radiante aurora
y, al al0mbIar de la apacibe luna,
de mi feIicidad fascinadora
gozaba sin tenor nj pena 8lguua.
Serene el oiolo, plaoda la briea,
Ia bonanza Ia dicha prezagiahan:
= aeduatora, angelica sonriaa
de mi hermosa los labios me brindahan.
Mas iayl el huraean lego rugieodo,
sniestra nube confundi6 la luna,
Y dosa;ose ell viento, revolviendo
81 Oc6ano, ell rio y la laguna.
Y en- vez de aquelja hermosa tan garri-
ida
de esbelto talle y de turgente seno,
candida q II que embeIleci6 mi vida,
dc euyo aroma esta el ambiente IIeno.
Q06 veia?. -. un fantasma siIencioao
envuelto en- una tGnica h3tante
que en- medic dc la sombra del reposo
iba turhar nj sueno cada ms aate.
Una imagen cruel, aterrad0ra,
simnaoro de un bien que no existia,
sin una VOC do amor consaladora
que calnase el dolor que me oprirnia.
Maldiie entonoes mi funesta suerte,
la desesperacion me enagenaba;
invOcaba frenetien 4 Ia muerta
y mil negros proyectos meditaba.
No hay yaen Ell mundo para mi ventura
exclamaba fatfdco y sombrfo.
Es "a dicha de- mundo una loeura;
Ia dicba SO halla en- el sepulcro frio.
--..'s0s .--~.v..--..
Iba q cumplir mi barbara deseo,
cuando la VOC de la amiatad sincera
oye, diio no hay Dios para ell ateo;
pero e hombre cristiano, sufre, espera.
Sufre, espera, tAmbien, amigo mio,
sea mi vos de calma y de consualo
y ei pensaniento t6srico y Bombrio
lsnza lejos de II, y acude al cielo.
Romo" Rsis Egailaz.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1875-08-25
sALlDAs.

pat Jose Go3saies. 'ssSe'ea9ai
LII. ID. .---isa4 Naguails ial, an, sg,..s.,. ~.
Bcniiheio A4gtsssi T'A'H'"i Fsti
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1875-07-08
Elliot 0n EducatiOn.,-W Women taking
the Front Rank.

The New York Graphic says: The
elaborate paper of President Elliot, Of IIar
ward, in the current number of the atlantic,
shows how much thought is tending to edu-
cationai problems. 1t begins to be seen
that education is the Leg that unlocks the
future. Morever, it is perceived that
the higher education of the colleges and
professional schools will inevitably be de-
termned very largely by the quality Of the
instruction furnished by the public schools
and the kind of pupils they tnrn out.
Within half dozen years the thoughts of
the leading minds of the country seems to
have rolled back from the old questions as
to the relative worth of classical and scien-
tifc studies and kindered topics to the pri
mitive questions as to how boys and girls
shall be trained. This was the burden of
Carl Schurz'S great lecture last winter; DR..
MoCosh, Of Princeton, has written upon it
at length; and this is President Elliot's
theme
Mr.. Elliot thinks there is too much cheap
ening in cur educational methods. Com
rittees hare looked to the saving Of money,
forgetting to ask whether they were not
loosing IN other things vastly more than they
were saving in cash. lie thinks they have
employed female teachers oftentimes be-
cause their services could be obtained a
third less than those of male teachers, when
those Of the latter are worth twice as much !;
not directly, perhaps, but because they re-
main longer in service than females, who
frequently quit the school to get married.
This raises question of fact and statistics.
The general impression, founded On exten-
sive and varied experience, is that women
make better teachers than men. A great
many unqualified young women have been
placed in public SCHOOLS as teachers and
haYe failed; but good female teachers are
plenty, and excel male teachers OF the same
grade. Statistics gathered in special To-
longer than men. These points aside, how
ever, it is unquestionably true that much
OF the economizing in our schools has been
a scrimping of seed-grain to the detriment
of the harvest. In one respect in particu-
lar is this unfortunate ly true. President
Elliott calls special atte ntion to the evils Of
large sch ools He looks on the great pub
lie school house, bringing hundreds of child
ren together from whole ward or village
as injurious to education and morals. We
fail to see the point he tries to make. The
trouble is not in the size Of the schools
for, indeed, large and well-appointec
school Of twelve and fifteen hundred pupils
admits of grading and Classification, of {
better building and finer appointments an(
more helpful apparatus than school o.
fifty. The real trouble comes from larg'
classes under a single teacher. In somt
of the schools between 100 and 200 pupils
are crowded into single class, and in thi
city the average in the lower schools j
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RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR ENTRIES OF

RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR ENTRIES or
BuTrallcwed to compete must comply
with the following:
lst. Butter competing for premium
must be made in May, June and July,
sd. A written statement must accompany
each entry, stating the breed of COWS
the kind Of feed at the time the butter
was made, process of cooling the milk,
temperature tke milk room is kept at,
how long milk lawed to stand before
Skinned, and how 6ng cream is allowed
to stand before churning,' at what temper
ature cream is churned, condition of butter
when buttermilk is drawn off, process of
freeing butter from buttermilk, how much
and what kind of salt is used, how it ia
worked into the butter, what length Of
time butter is allowed to stand before re-
working for packing, if at all!
81. Process of packing, conditions and
of cellar or room in which the
butter is kept from the time it is manufact-
nred until it is placed on exhibition. All
packages must eoutain at least 20 pounds
10 compete for premium. Exhibitors can
choose their own style of package.
Blanks for making statements will be
furnished on application to D. w. Curtis,
Secretary Dairymens Association, Fors
Atkinson, Wisconsin.
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Certainly not. But this inscription on
the tooth picks must be very small. don
see how it can be read"
"Nothing easier, my dear sir. You see
each agent carries a small microscope to
assist people in making it ou: But that
isn't the only advertising plan l am in with
You see this piece of rag with my card
printed on it? Yes; we'll you probably
couldn't guess what it is for. I'll tell you.
Its for doing up sore finger"
"Nhat has sore finger got to &c with
adyertising?"
every thing, my dear sir, everything.
There are oyer a million scre fingers in
America every year. Alta very moderate
expense an Advertising firm ia P Philadelphia
prints my cards on rags like these, and
furnishes them to victims of sore fingers
free of charge, so they viii use them in.per-
/ ference 10 all others. A million Of these
rags are sent to all parts of the United
States, and am only required to pay $3.50
for the privilege Of having my name on
| them"
"And you paid II"
"Certa.nly did. l had to, in order to
I prevent any other man from getting chance
ahead Of me-"
"a sore finger, then you consider bet.
ter advertising medium than an established
| and popular newsparer?"
''WeH, yes, in this case. Been travelling
lately?
eyes; made a trip to Minnesota and Iowa
not long ago.
"Then you must have seen my business
card painted in black letters on white
beard, and nailed to the telegraph
pcles."
owe hadn't seen al! thing Of the
kind"
singular if you didn't. A man came
along last fall and collected 800 of me for
mailing such board on every telegraph pole
in the United States. That was the con
tract, and paid him the money On his affi-
Aa'iI NLal tuC NOl h hGS uODt. DuI per-
haps you wasn't noticing telegraph poles
No, l don't believe | will put any advertise
ment in your paper this week. You see
am advertising good deal now.
just tken man came in and collected
bill for sticking Punkinhead's card on
every balloon that went up during 1874, |
and effected a new contract for 1875, with |
what he called the diving bell supplement, |
agreeing to attach card to all diving bells |
that go down il 1875, without extra charge,
a compliment, as he said, to their regular
advertisers. when he left another adver-
.ioisss agent Wa tayi"1 DerUre I>anHTnhoad
the great advantage CT investing in patent
stamp to be attached to the seats of boys
pants when they go skating. When they
fall his name and business viii be neatly
stamped upon the ice, so that all who skate /
may read. When it comes to judicious |
advertising, the race of Punkinheads is
very numerous.
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WHOLE NUMBER, SS1.

nearly 100. No single teacher can do JUS
tice to over forty pupils, and it would be
better to restrict the number to twenty-five
than to rise above it. Very much of the
success of teacher, particularly with the
/ young pupils, is personal. But no teacher
can distribute her attentions over a hun
dred and twenty pupils and do them much
good. 1t is here that our present system
breaks dowp. The dali pupils determine
the progress Of the class, and the bright
scholars are kept back and suppressed, to
their permanent injury oftentimes, to ac-
commodate the stupids, who should be put
IN class by themselves. We are saving
. per cent, on teachers, but losing so per
cent Il Tfe .Jgress anJ training OF pupils
What is wanted is not smaller schools, but
sma!'er classes and more teachers, especial
ly in the primary department.
The boys in cur schools begin to leave
school in large numbers at l2 THUS far
all our costly efforts at public school educa-
ton have resulted in getting children
through the educational mill two or three
years sooner than formerly, ard before
they are old enough to be benefited by tie
discipline. Most Of them leave Just at the
:ime when the training begins to be 5ene-
fetal. This is a vital waste that ought 60
be checked. The gain in any position
these boyS may be placed IN does net begin
to balance the loss of two or three years at
school IN the most plastic and receptive
period Of life. But the girls remaiu longer.
And one os the striking facts connected
with our public school system is the excess
of girls over boys in all the higher classes. |
In the Normal College in this city the mum
Der of young lady applicants has almost
doubled in year, and The college will be |
filed to its capacity of | 800 at the present |
rate Of increase, N twelycmonth. The |
same fact appears elsewhere. All the
normal schools are filed with girls. Two |
new colleges for women will be opened in ,
Massachusetts this year, while Mount Hol- |
yoke is enlarging and Nassar has more
students than ever. The young women are
getting better education than most of the .
young men. Twenty years hence we shall
have large and powerful class Of well-edu
Gated women, superior in culture and ac-
complishments to TIE majority of men, pres
sing into all the professions and bringing
their il fuence to bear on The great ques-
questions Of society. This is fact that
cannot be ignored, and must be provided |
for. And it becomes a question what will |
be the effect of having the larger part of
the culture and scholarship and literary .
accomplishments OF the country IN women's !
brains and hands? 1t Is easy to see that
important changes are inevitable, and not
difficult to perceive what some Of these
changes viii be.
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MUM Of a Grand Silver Medal
rpFrvI7Frryr -
RULES AND REGULATIONS.

Ist. All cheese to compete fer premi-
ums at the Wisconsin Stat Fair of 1875
must be manufactured on the 10Th day
June, 10th day of July and the 10th day
Of August.
%. Two cheeses of each months make
must be entered in order to compete for
the premium.
Sd. A written statement must accom-
pany each entry, stating the number Of
COWS 10 factory or dairy, what breed,
and what kind of feed at the time of man
ufacture. Temperature of milk when rem
net was applied, temperature at which
curd was scalded, to what extent acid was
developed before salt was applied to tie
eurd. How much salt per loco pornd5 os
milk and what kind. 4 what temperature
is curing room kept FIRST 10 days after cheese
is made and temperature after that tine; /;
manner in which curing room is construct
ed. One cheese Of each months make that
is awarded the FIRST premium shall be donat-
ed to the society for the purpose of being
tested and inspected by all cheese dealers
and manufacturers Blanks for making the
statements will be furnished on application
TO d. w. Curtis, Secretary Dairymen' Z
Association, Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin.
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He Didn't Advertise in Newspapers.

No, he said, he didn't believe in adver-
tising in the newspapers. Didn't think it
did him any good-money thrown away.
"But don't you advertise in any way?'
we asked.
och, yes" he replied. 81 spend a good
deal of money in advertising. Now, here
is good thing 1 have invested in today.
It is tooth-pick with my name and busi-
ness stamped on it. l have paid man
$50 to have my business card stamped on
every tooth-pick used at the hotels in this
city for ore year
GLOW does he manage it?
Easy enough. He keeps an agent sta
toned at each hotel day and night, furnish
ed with stamp, and when man steps
up to take tooth-pick he dextrouslY
stamps one for him, and there it is on the
tooth pick:
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SELECTED MISCELLANY.
DLESSEDNESS.

II Will never marry, never" said Will
lard Blake to his father; patient, weary
looking man, with thin gray hairs streaking
across his bowed head. lie answered re-
ectiyely-"Well, think you're right; there
are men that can manage women; but your
mother has been too much for me-"
cit seems half selfish for me to 90 of
and leave you alone xith her; but what can
one do, with work that wants planning,
and that continual scoding in one
ears?"
'It's the crying fits that master me,
though said Mr.. Blake, "when she sits
sniff shifting into her apron, looking at me
that reproachful, till I'm half brought to be
lieve that have committed murder, or some
thing in my sleep"
Il sometimes think, dc you know, father,
that in those times it is that she is sorry;
for her temper is, in fact, repentiag."
cts an awfully unpleasant, unfair, kind
of penitence, then; but | don't know; she
been buzzlng In my ears so long that ! get
fairly bothered sometimes, and don't feel
clear about anything'
I'll tell you what you must 90 when she
gets past bearing just como OF to me; it
won't be far, you know"
$50 | will, my boy; so ! Will"
Accordingly the next morning, when
Mrs. Blake put in the day with prophetic
indications of being what she called upset,
her husband prepared TO escape, greatly to
her displeasure. She had resented Wills
removal and setting up for himself" bu'
then as Mr., Blaze remarked "she couldn't
he any crosseT than she was before" so he
departed in comparative comfort.
Wills room was poor little place. He
Vas not earning much as yet, and he said
anything does for ones self, with desc,
iute air that somewhat contradicted hi:
philosophy of loneliness; still his work i'm
proved wonderfully, and in that he was al
ways happy. Will was a designer O
mouldlngs.
Mr.. Blake found him busily stitching a
sn old coat.
"Turued tailor, Wlll?" he asked.
"Tisn't work enough for tailor, aud
an afraid my bungling would not pass fo
one, either. | tried glue, but somehow j
wouldn't answer, and enc must keep ones
] self looking decent. am going after or
ders BY and by"
"N omen is of some use affe, all, if the,
WASN'T such unreasonable creatures" sait
the father, with an involentary glance at th,
table, which looked rather like the wreck
of kitchen, heaped up as it was with 1
little Of everything.
VIII was accustomed to have all his tool
round him in his york, and so had graiuall
gathered the household implements togeth
er IN the same fashion.
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POETRY.
Press Room Bill.


Press Room Bill.
BY BRET HAErE
Bill was the cuss;
Slept all night on pile II stock
Hard as a rock.
But what'd he care. Had no friends,
That would make muss,
If he slept 10 the streets.
So he sends
For pot of beer, and a bite ta eat,
In the press-room,
Where with les room
To stretch ont straight,
He'd wait,
Till the boys got round in the upper region:
And by Regions,
He'd feed the'sheets TO the hungry maws,
And iron jaws,
OF the press.
You can CESS
How he loved the machine and his work
He shirk?
When he gave his word
That settled it sure. Whatever it was,
You could be poz
That he'd do as he said ifit took leg,
Not peg
Would he move, whatever he saw or heard
To break promise
Was fatherest from his
Thoughts of what was the duty OF man,
And where the law or right began.
One night the boss
(Member Of Congress. now they say,
Came down stairs,
Putting on airs,
His usual way
Pretty soon he came across
Bill who was putting the forms in place;
Bill, says he,
II want a copy brought up to me
At four o'clock, in any case;
For leave at five
BY an early train,
So look alive;
Or''-here his language became insane
You'l do it, Bill:''
Says Bill, 4 will"
That night at just about halfpast one,
The bells begun
The awful clangor that tells of fire.
Twas our old place
That was being burnt.
When Bill learnt
The fact, by his linen coat tails blaze,
The room was getting about red hot.
There was just one spot
That the fire had managed, so far to spare,
And the Press stood there.
Bill wasn't a crier,
And when he saw
There was no Us trying to save a thing
Out ofthe fiery dragons nav.
He gave one spring
For the stock-there wasn't an atom left.
Bill says the hcft
Ofhis heart. when he found there wasn't one
ILdcntical sheet that he could use
Was morn n a ton.
IN his two hours snooze
lie hadn't taken his garments of.
They came off now.
That is, he stripped as flor row,
Down to the bag.
Let Us draw a veil,
And end this tail.
With scene that morning sharp al four,
Bill knocked at the door
or the boss house and cut he came
Not knowing the place was all atame;
"Got the paper:" Says Bill, &.You'r right
The id old office burnt down Tonight;
There wasn't no one hurt.
And I give You a copy" Here he gave
The boss. who was just beginning to rave,
An impression struck Of on his shirt
p. S.-Fwas Bill's shirt, not the boss's,
l tel! YOU Bill was one ofthc hosses.
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A. PUNKINHEAD,
GROCERIES AND THINGS.

II am informed" he continued, "that
four thousand, eight hundred and seventy
two tooth picks are used in the Cincinnati
hotels every year, which is equal to that
many business cards of mine distributed to
the public. Now $50 couldn't buy that
number of business cards and issue their
distribution -
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The Dairy Fair,

The Wisconsin State Agricultural Society
literally acceding to the request of the State
Dairymen's Association have entered into
extensive arrangements for holding a Dairy
Fair at the next State Fair, Large pre-
riums for bothButter and Cheese have been
offered, and judges appointed who are we'll
known dealers in dairy products in Milwau-
kee, Chicago and New York. Tde society
will also arrange for the exhibition of
Dairy Implements and manufactures will
eud it TO their interest to be present with
samples Of their goods. Dairymen from
all parts of the state are earnestly requested
to compete, as this will prove a splendid
opportunity fer advertiSing the character
of Wisconsin dairy products to the trade
representatives. who viii be present from a Ii
tie chief cities of the country. The fol
lowing are the premiums offered and the
rules and regulations governing ontries:
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premeditated speech. any name is Willie,
too; couldn't you take me for your broth
err" 'Oh, no, she answered with direct
simplicity, ''he was so naughty, the darling;
l never could have him out Of M thoughts
for a r.oment''
Alice herself had this kind of naughti-
ness for will, and now, living in her room,
lie seemed to be encompassed by her pres
ence; his tools and work felt rough and
coarse amid the little dainty arrangements
that marked a womanly hand.
"lf it hadn't been for knowing mother"
be unused. one evening, 81 might fall in love
l do believe; as it is, know better"
So knowing BETTER" he shrank from al
intercourse that might, in some sharp an
swer, bring Alice down from her pedestal,
on which he still choose to place her, justi-
flying his bright dreams by saying, 1T is
pleasant to make believe, as the children
say"
! Alice, meanwhile, had found cheering
employment in putting Wills room straight,
- f5' ,,
so clever, too"
.Ls.. .~t,'..,y,~ 1o.rra
''-1,,. ,,-.,' UN' 'i',.'
Win coming for book, found her thus
ca;I s,,;l;,r
"Tbav are No psa. don't want
tbor, ,,
ssT hor sooor, u.or,aorf,,i - mo ;, sbo said
Iooking nm frankly
cant inst os womon,s vorl 1oas 70 ne
~ >,
- l' 0A '-'
;,
III iiu''Vieu Soiiie'uins "ooh' tfouo-
ing her' ou' sue answered. ought 10 10
any '"ii'H can you uoh Aho" "ha' soou
A"9 c""iise Vi foonis mas uohe me-
suppose IL Is IKE fich Id iieS gong cut OF
town.
You have made grand improvement
here, said VIII, looking round; the same
room the same furniture; but what had
been a dreary confusion was now fair
peace.
81 wish you would stay here always, he
added.
Alice was about to answer 81 do not
mind" not UNDERSTANDING him. bpr some
thing in Wills eyes made her own droop.
the little fingers trombled over their WORK;
suddenly Wills hand caught them, ''Alice,
VIII you stay here? vii you let me love YOU
be mv-w;fe?"
Sho -hr.n, away from hln,, 81 must not
! must not'
NV by net! tell me daring
'iother s"'d wien she died' child, nev-
eF. fathef maze her So "fetched.
:" are kindred IN trouble, chen, that
Is an. S"lu WIN; mo'hcf somehow tor
meh'eu my la'her SO th"t resolved to i've
anu ui7 ''oi'e.-ie' US po'n give up 0uf nara
P".roso "a '0u n''Ue'
III tunes Pi'''eo "e''eF ''l"h his
"olDs' 'Hey H"'"eu ni'ii 'iie victory
Iioni 'iie "iech oi past seiilea 10 spring
d or'S"' la'ure''iAe 'he mowers rom out OF
i"S' year oeau iea'7S'
by ana Dy 'hefe was a "edd'ng; the
notheriy iahuiaay gave A'ice away ana
" III 'o0N N'' Do 'No siea' S'' VI HIS
me-
."ey 'a''0 "oli-' - 0'h .N0 e'i'i o''' "e
sa'u' oriSh'iN we nave oo'u resigned
''ngle oleSseihesS' WHAT shaii We nave H.
stead!
one lestieu cioSe W Aliii anu ans"erea'