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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-08-18

for food, and sit solemnly, household by
household, watching every movement.
HindOOs do not hurry themselves in any.
thing they do, but the M nksy has plenty
of patience, and in tue end, when the
crow has stolen little, and the dog has
had its morsel, and the children are all
satisfied, the poor fragments of the meal
are thrown out on the ground for the
"bhunder- logue," the monkey people, and
it is soon discussed, the mother feeding
the baby before she eats herself. When
every door has thus in turn, been visited,
and no chance of further feeding remains,
the monkeys go off to the we'll The wo.
men are all here again, drawing the water
for the day, and the monkeys sit and wait,
the old ones in the front, sententious and
serious, and the youngsters rolling about
in the dust behind them, till at last some
girl sees the creatures waiting, and Gin
the name of Ram" spills lotah full of
water In hollow of the ground, where.
upon the monkeys come around it In
circle, and stoop down and drink, with
their tails all curled up over their
backs like notes of interrogation. There
is no contention or jostling. A forward
child gets box on the ear, perhaps, but
each one, as it has satisfied its thirst,
its mouth. The day thus fairly commenced,
they go off to see what luck may bring
them. The graindealer's shop tempts them
to loiter, but the experience OF previous
attempts makes theft hopeless, for the
bunnya, with all his years, is very nimble
on his legs and an astonishingly good
shot with pipkin. So the monkeys
merely make their salaams to him and
pass on to the fields. IF the corn Is ripe,
they can soon eat enough for the day, but,
if not, they go wandering about picking
up mouthfuls, here an insect and there a
berry, till the sun gets too hot, and then
they creep up into the dark shade of the
mango tope and snooze through the after.
noon. In the evening they are back in
the village again to share in its comforts
and entertainments, assisting at the con-
vocation of the elders and the romps of
the children, looking on when the faquir
comes up to collect his little dues of salt
and corn and oil, and from him in their
turn exacting pious toll, listening grave
ly to the village musician till they get
sleepy, and then, one by one again, they
Chamber up into the peepul, and the men
sitting round the FIRE with their pipes can
seq, If they look up, the whole colony of
the bhunder-loeue asleep in rows in the
tree above them.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-08-18
The Serious Size of It.
New York Times. I

Although the emptiness of Gen. Han.
COCKS letter OF acceptance and the coarse
demagogism of that of Mr.. English are
calculated to excite contempt and ridicule,
the occasion is one of such grave impor-
lance as to give serious aspect to the
matter. These men are the candidates of
one of the great political parties into
which the people OF the country are divid-
ed; party which claims the support of
intelligent citizens in canvass involving
weighty questions of administration and
of governmental policy. If it has no bet
ter ground tor its claims than is presented
in these letters, that is of itself matter of
no small Significance, and must enter into
the considerations by which men are to be
influenced in their political conduct. The
fusome praise which Democratic organs
bestow upon the 'broad craftsmanship" OF
Gen. HancOck's sOphomorical compost
ton are too absurd for serious attention,
but it is assumed in some quarters that he
deliberately, and with more or less of pc.
litical sagaclty, evaded the practical ques-
lions of the time for the purpose of pre-
senting nothing for attack. He said q
variety of undlsputed things sin such a
solemn way" because they could not be
disputed and everybody would have to
agree to them. Ii this we're so it would be
dlscreditable enough, but the device, shall.
low as it would be, would be presump.
ton of more depth in the man than he
gives any evidence of. The fact is that
the emptiness of his letter is fair indica-
ton of the state OF his head. He writes
like school-boy because he has the mind
of school.Doy, just capable of grasplng
the conventional generalities of our poll
tics, but utterly devoid of insight and of
practical ideas Anybody can descant on
the nature Of our Government and the lm-
portance OF its proper administration, but
In the words of the astute Polonius:
"To expostulate
What majesty should be, what duty 10,
Why day ts day. night night, and time is time,
Were nothing but to waste night, day and time"
Gen. Hancock says that the latest
amendments of the Constitution are in.
violable, and their full force and effect are
not to be impaired or evaded This is
to be presumed, but the chance for dis
pute lies in the Interpretation of their
''full force and effect" and the means to
be taken to prevent their evasion. The
main purpose of the fourteenth amend.
ment is to secure equal rights among cit
liens, and at least one Democratic Judge
has attempted to interpret the life out of
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-08-18
The Greatest of Trotters.
From the Cincinnati Commercial.

The record of 2:131a made by the 6
year-old Maud S, in the third heat of the
race at Chicago is simply marvellous.
Only those who are thoroughly versed in
trotting records and turf history can ap-
preciate the wonderful performance
That mare just past the filly age, 10 her
second race, should accomplish what no
other trotter ever accomplished, seems in.
credible. The nearest approach to it was
by Goldsmith Maid, when she did sec.
ond heat at Rochester in August, 1874, in
2:144, trotting against Judge Fullerton
and American Girl.
The famous Dexter worked for years to
lower Flora Temples record of 2:199l.
ga wonderful performance" was the uni
versal exclamation when Dexter touched
2:17I. Goldsmith Maid trotted a thou
sand times and more before she acquired
the title of Queen of the Turf by making
a mile in 2:16l. Then the California
after many trials, earned the same record,
and the Queen went to work again to
show that her title was deserved She
lowered her record to 2:14A, and finally,
IN September 1874, at Mystic Park, Bos-
ton, with running horse at her sulky
wheel, she accomplished the crowning
work of her long life, and finished mile
in the then unparalleled time of 2:14 For
four years Rarus strOve to lower that rec
ord. At last, when in perfect form, with
all conditions favorable, he trotted against
time and beat it in 2:134 at Hartford, in
August, 1878. In the following month,
at Buffalo, he knocked off quarter of a
second. About year later ST. Julien,
the California phenomenon, after about
200 trials, trotted heat against time in
2:12A. Thus it will be seen that every
record lower than 2:144, except that of
Maud s at Chicago, has been made in
races against time by old horses that
found day and track to suit them after
hundreds of trials. In such races a trot-
ter can do from two to three seconds bet
ter than in contest with other horses.
He can be sent at the start at his top
speed, while competing horses must come
to the stand at much slower gait to in
sure a fair start. At Chicago Maud and
Trinket scored q $3.50 or 2 :35 gait, and
the great third heat could have been made
in much better time had the Cincinnati
mare gone under the wire at the start of
the heat. A glance at her time for the
quarter.miles will prove this. The first
was made in 33 seconds, the second in 80.
the third in 1921 and the fourth in 35a
Before the heat was trotted, Capt Stone
was requested to have the mare let out,
and as the judges were willing to take
down the distance flag, he instructed the
driver, Bair, to let Maud beat her Agar.
old record. but not Try to do better than
2:16. When Bair reached the distance
post he looked back and saw Trinket Just
coming into the turn. Knowing he must
be doing better than 2:16, he slowed up to
obey instructions. This accounts for the
time of the last quarter. Had he sent her
at her best on the last quarter, and had
! she been allowed to start at top speed, ii is
easy to see that her time would have been
all or better, instead of 2:131a.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-08-18
Doctoring the Southern Census.

NEW DIX, aug. III.
The Times thus comments on its special
dispatch on the same subject: There is
some reason for the alarm which South
Carolina Republicans express al the con
fdent statements OF Democratic managers
concerning large increase in the popu-
lation OF the State. Senator Butler has
declared that the new census will. show
an increase OF over 80 per cent. In popu-
lation, and another Democratic orator
prophecies that the increase will be SO
The theory of Republicans is that the
census returns have been manipulated to
cover the VIGOROUSLY fraudulent Demo
cratic vote in several counties. This
could not be done without corruption
of census supervisors. But it will be re
membered that South Carolina Republl.
cans protested vainly against the appoint
ment of these men, who were backed by
Democratic influence. Natural suspicion
is heightened by the fact that Democratic
managers have apparently got at the cen.
sus footings in advance of everybody
else"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-08-18
Monkey Life in India.
From the London Telegraph.

In India, where the monkeys live
among men, and are the playmates of
their children, the Hindoos have grown
fond of them, and the four-handed folk
participate in all their simple household
rites. In the early morning, when the
peasant goes out to yoke his plough, and
the crow wakes up and the dog stretches
himself and shakes off the dust in which
he has slept all night, the old monkey
creeps down from the peepul tree, only
half awake, and yawns, and looks about
him, puts straw in his mouth, and
scratches himself contemp latively. Then
one by one the whole family come slip
ping down the tree-trunk, and they all
yawn and look about and scratch. But
they are sleepy and peevish, and the
youngsters get cuffed for nothing, and
begin to think life dull. Yet the toilette
has to be performed, and, whether they
like it or not the young ones are sternly
pulled up, one by one, to their mother to
undergo the process.
The scene, though repeated exactly
every morning. loses nothing of its de-
lightful comicallty, and the monkey brats
seem all to be in the joke Of staking in
mamma" But mamma was young her
self not SO very long ago, and treats each
profoundest unconcern, and, as she dis.
misses one "cleaned" youngster with a
cuff, stretches out her hand for the next
ones tail or leg in the most business-like
and serious manner possible. The young
sters know their turns quite well. AS each
feels the moment arrive 1t throws itself
on its stomach as if overwhelmed with
apprehension, the others meanwhile sti-
fling their satisfaction at the capital way
$50. and-so is doing it," and the instant
the maternal paw is extended to grasp
the tail the subject Of the next experiment
utters piercing shrek, and throwing
its arms forward in the dust, allows itself
to be dragged along, limp and helpless
carcass, winking all the time, no doubt, at
its brothers and sisters, at the way it is
imposing on the old lady. But the old
lady will stand no nonsense, and turning
the child right side up, proceeds to put it
to rights; takes the kinks out of its tail,
and the knots out of its fur; pokes it's fin
gers into its ears and looks at each of its
toes; the inexpressible brat wearing all
the time on Its face an absurd expression
of hopeless and incurable grief, those who
have been already cleaned looking on
with delight at the screaming farce, and
those who are waiting wearing becom
ing aspect of enormous gravity. The old
lady, however, has her joke, too, which is
to cuff each youngster before she lets it
90, and, nimble as her offspring are, she
generally, to her credit be it said, man.
ages to "fetch them one on the ears" be-
fore they are out of reach
The father, meanwhile, sits gravely
with his back to all these domestic mat
iers, waiting for breakfast. Presently the
mats before the hut doors are pushed
down, and women with brass vessels In
their hands come out, and while they
scour the pots and pans with dust. ex.
change between songs the compliments
of the morning. The monkeys by this
time have come closer to the preparations
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-08-18
New Street Salutations.
From the London Daily News


The little town of Freiburg, famous for
its university, and more famous still for
its beautiful cathedral, whose spire almost
rivals Strasburg IN height, is at present
the scene OF a strange crusade. 1t is
struggle to put down an old fashion and
substitute new one, and the curious ele.
ment in the case is that the innOvators
are the professors of the old unsversity.
Eve, y one who knows the German nation
knows the fondness for the ceremonial
of street salutations. the friendly nod
by which an Englishman condenses q
great deal of meaning into very slight
gesture is quite foreign to the stately sa-
lutte of two gossips meeting in German
street. We are content to raise our hats
to ladies and crowned heads, and are a
little intolerant of the Difference of CONT.
mental usage. The Professors OF
the Freiburg University are for
substituting the English fashion, CT
at least for modifying it to Ger
man notions. They propose that in fu-
ture the military be substituted for the
civil salute, and that two fingers should
touch the brow, instead of the whole head
being uncovered when friends happen to
meet. It seems strange that of all per-
sons in society university dODs should be
the lnstigators OF q movement against
what is called in university towns soap
ping" But it is stranger to learn that
the Freiburg professors, bent on carrying
their point, have applied to the municipal
council for support. The Burgomaster
has considered the point, and he and the
local debtors, who take hygienic view
of the question, are resolved that at one
town in Germany the bonnet should be
for its right use, which, as Hamlet told
Osric some centuries ago, is for the head,
not for the hand.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-08-18

The Lord promised Noah never to have
another food, because He knew the
world was going to become so bad that
He couldn't find anybody to take charge
of an ark. and even the animals would
be breaking out of their cages. and eat
ing up the people ON the front seats.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1880-05-30
/ ID &C A E Nj 0 ST

Hacienda duo La Prensa de Ma.
yagiiez 4 La Descioilizacion, en- su
deseo de desprestigiar al BoLETIN
entire sus correiigionarios, dice
Gal abusar de una confanza, al que
rer (el BoLETIN hacer respoHsables q
sus correligionarios de sus absurdos y
de su maquiavelismo, va el mismo mi.
nando la base donde descansa su omni.
potencia politica, y excitando Ia mofa y
81 ludibrio de sus advarsarios, que aca-
baran por hacer con 81 10 que las ranas
de la fabula con el zoquete que les en-.
vic Jupiter -
"No negaremos que, debido d sa per-
nictosa infuencia, nuestrc progreso ha sidc
dyicd q lento: no Sc nos ocultan los da.
nos causados { al reformismo) por su
maldad, pero todo este 1 que importa,
81 al fu ell triunfo sera nuestro? La de-
cadencia moral del BoLETIN no puede
escapar sonaba el ciego que veis q
la observation de los mas pusilanimes.
De- 1871 1880, ha lido creciendo su
desprestigio, y ell que era antes un Jd-
piter amenazador, Sc ha convertible en-
una especie de titiritero politico."
CoHque ! es visible la decadencia
moral del BoLErIN desde 1871, en-
que empezamos nosotros q dirlgirle,
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1880-05-30

MICA; explicsdme por que, despues de
haber subido toda la esencia del paga-
nismo la cabeza de un solo hombre
que reabre los temples y reanima los
oraculos, la idea nueva Sc apodera de
otro hombre que arranca ell tirso violen-
tamente las manos de los sacerdotes
y la corona q las sienes de los senado-
res, para compelerlos q hincarse, NAL
de su grado, ante la cruz que vencia al
eterno Capitolio; explicadme por que
ALA en- la octava centuria, papas, reyes,
principles, senores, guerreros, corren
refugiarse en- el regimen carlovingio,
como 81 la Roma imperial resucitars, y
cuarenta amos mas tarde ell Oceano
aborta la raza normanda, y el suelo pro-
duce las lanzas feudades que van q sus-
tituir la unidad con el caos; explicad-
me, en- fn, por que pasamos de los te-
rrores del ano mil, q cuyo pavor nos
confundiamos con las tetricas fguras
bizantinas de nuestras iglesias romani-
cas-, al empuje de las cruzadas, movidas
de una ciega confanza en- la victoria, y
por que desde los reyes bienaventura-
dos del siglo decimotercio, como San
Luis, San Fernando, caemos en- los re-
yes crueles del siglo d6cimocuarto, CO.
mo los Pedros do Castillo, de Aragon,
de Portugal por que las empresas ha-
ola Oriente en- pos del sepulcro de Oris-
to se truecan en- las empresas hacia ell
Occidente en- pos de la cuna de la liber.
tad por que, al abrirse la era moder-
ma y renacer el arte, coincide con la
muerte de Grecia on la toma de Cons
tantinopla la resurrection de la estatua
griega On su sepnlcro de Italia, que nos
da la forma humane psrfecta y los
viaies de aquel que descabre ell nuevo
paraiso terrenal, y las reyeiaciones del
sabio que Ala el foco de las elipses pla-
netarias on nuestro sol coincidsn con Ia
palabra del prpfsta que levanta sobre
las supersticiones religioass a eterno
snminsr Dc RasssFs poaeieRqih HAY'
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1880-05-30

ducida experiencia, sino en- otro ipfini.
to- en- la idea Mas la sencilla obser.
vacion demuestra que ideas y senti.
mientos y voluntades Sc modifcan pro-
fundamente en- 81 tempo y en- ell espa.
clio, al infujo del hogar, del lenguaje,
de las relaciones m1ltiples que compile.
tan dilatan una nuestla vida. Exis.
te, pues, el espiritu de un siglo como
existe el esplritu de. un pueblo que,
perdurables ell sentir, ell pensar 81
querer, cambian por las leyes de la va
riedad sus modos de ser al movimiento
de los successes y al poder de las trasfor-
maciones.
Renu6vanse en- el cuerpo humane de
tai suerte los at6mos, que toda nuestra
sustancia varla en- ell discurso de brew.
simos periodos, como en- ell cuerpo So
cial Sc renuevan de tai suerte las ideas,
que cada cincuenta afios unas genera.
clones maldicen de otras generaciones,
a veces con notoria iniusticia. NADIA
inmovil bajo ell cielo. Esa China idea
da inerte por la inocencia la ignoran-
cha de la antigua historic, hoy aparece 4
nuestra critica con feudalismo monar-
quia, con sacudimientos peri6dicos, con
tumultos plebeyos, con los mismos hu-
racanes que han trastornado nuestra
atm6sfera y los mismos terrsmotos que
han subvertido nuestro snelo. Si cada
siglo no tiene su espfritn propio, su
unidad de pensamiento, explicadme por
uu6 los ostOicos DersoOuidos. acosados.
proscriptos en- ell siglo primero, reinan
con yerdadera. soberania en- el siglo de.
gundo, 8 infdnden su ciencia asf al I'm
perio como al derecho romano expli.
cadme por que 4 Ia idea de- la unidad
imperial, que dura tanto tempo, suce-
de, q fnes del tsrcer siglo, aqnella ten.
dencia invencible 4 divertir las fnerzas,
4 separar las regiones, & extender las
tribus, 4 erigir oludades frente ciuda-
des y pueblos tfente pneblos, tenden.
cias precursorst ds h AnAEqnia geEmk.
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SENOREs AcADEM1Cos /:

SENOREs ACADEM1COs
Llamado q compartir las tareas y los
honores de vuestro institute, en- dias va
leiauos, retarde adrede este instante, d
yer 81 tempo trabajo de consume me
grapjeaban algunos titulos, justifcati.
VOC de vuestra election y de mi atrevi.
miento. Mas, desesperanzado va de
conseguir por mis- meritos gracia debi
do q vuestra bondad, t6calne tan sole
expresaros mi agradecimiento y deciros
como alienta mi palsbra la persuasion
de haber arrsncado este lauro, antes q
vuestro caE;inoso atecto que yuestro
juicio. Sncedo, en- silla ilustrada POI
Navarrete,8 q IN sabio, que asi poseia
las ciencias de la nsturalezs como las
artes de la palabra; y 81 puedo suceder-
le, 30 puedo en- manera alguna susti-
tuirle, aumentandose con estos contras-
tes entire sd competencia y mi incompe-
tencia, al par de toda la pobreza de mis-
calidades, todo el poder de vuestra
magnanimidad, mucho mas propio para
obligarme que 10 hubiers podido ser
vnestra justicia
Consagrsdo desde mis- mocedades, en-
pNri6dicosay libros, en- tribunas y cete-
dras, q servir, entire nosotros, la vida del
espiritu moderno, creo correspondence
con Ia solemnidad de este acto el con-
vertir vuestra atencion h&cia los con-
ceptos fundamentalea De nuestra edad,
demostrando la poesfa en- ellos conteni.
da, cuyo yigor promote aspeotos nue.
Yoa y arte. como los did "a tapto M
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espiritu humane en- busca del Ser eter-
no absolute, realidad de todos los pu-
ros ideales, elevado en- las cimas del
universe y diiandido por todas las crea-
clones.
Pues bien, 20 declare que en- los con-
ceptos fundamentales de nuestro ITEM
po, respecto la naturaleza que nos ro-
des, y la sociedad que DOS educa, y al
Estsdo que nos gobierna, y al espacio
infinite donde todas las cosas SO contie-
nen, y al tempo eterno donde todos los
hechos SO suceden, "a los horizontes
celestes de cuyos arreboles baja sobre
nuestra alma la inspiration, y d las ver-
dades cientifcas sin las cuales aparece-
ria 10 creado y 10 increado como esos
jeroglifcos qua no han tenido int5rpre-
to, Y las mismas inefables comunica-
clones entire 10 faito y 10 in6nito; en-
todos estos conceptos de la razon y en-
todas las realidades varias de ellos pro-
venientes, SO encierra hsrta materia pa
ra obras po6ticas y artisticas sin cuen-
to, como en- aquellas canteras del Pent-
helico, doradas por ell sol de Atica, dom
de los helenos tallaban el marmol para
las armoniosas estatuas de sus doses.
Y cuenta que no creo ell arte copia de
la natnraleza, rcmedo servil de la rea-
lidad, sino 10 ideal en- esencia. Para
mi el artista penetra de una ojesda con
la intuicion donde no pueden penetrar
los sabios con 81 raoiocinio: esparce ms
nua Contianan In ptarna ra.
de la hermosura crsa espon-
obras yarias q guisa dc esas
fuerza natnrales que cinen de nieves las
y de lirios los valles; obede-
ca 4 su interior vocacion, cual q un
divino, J es absolutamsnte IL
bre da leyes y no conoce ninguna !;
reune 4 Ia actividad dirigida por la con-
ciencia otra actiyidad ciega J sin con.
ciencia, en- cuyos misterios So ha creido
W IN gsnio angelical 8 ya IN
nrotssvQ dsmonio extfae de- todas lee