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BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1882-08-06
U MA G A r T A

Segdn ofrecimos en- nuestro nd
nero anterior, damos hoy publicidat
d la siguiente carta que Sc ha servi'
do escribirros don Juan Mayoral
Presidente de Ia Junta Directiva dc
la F@ria de Ponce. Hela aquf, mas
no sin antes hacer expresiva al Sc.
nor Mayoral nuestra gratitud poi
su delicada atenclon.
Sr. Director del BoLErN MERcANT11.
Puerto-Rico.
Muy distinguido senior milo
Termina Ia F6ria de Ponce, su Junta
Directive, al Oelebrar su primera 90.
sion, no he podido olyidar la parte que
on al 6xitc dc aQu6lla toca 4 Ia ilustra-
de prensa dc ests Provincial, que ore
CON sus scertados consejos, ora infun.
diendo el sliento = Ia animsci6n por
todas parties, ha Contribuido que di.
cho scto tuviera los felices resuItados
que se deseaban.
Por tanto, 1nanimemente ha acorda-
do tributaries este d6bil homemade de
gratitud, que espera tendr6 v. 4 bien
aceptar como Director del peri6dico 81
BoLErM MERoANTI1., parte valiosa de
Iiicha prenss, honra de este pals.
Oumplo lleno de satist Accl6n tan ius
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1882-08-06
GAcETA De HOY.

Hs sido nombrado 6eCretario muni.
cipsl de Hato : grande don Pedro Fer.
n&nde1 Laza.
Aprobado y nombramiento de don
n. Ner6n Longpr6 para el vice.Consu.
lado de Dinamarca On Yieques.
Nombrado primer suplente del Juz.
gaio municipal de NaraDjito don jose
Francisco Espinell. ~ q s@
Darante el mes de- Junio hubos en- el
Asilo de Bsne6cencia y Manicomio ei
siguiente movimiento m se.sg
Entrados 16, salidos 16. mnrieron s.
Quedaban 4 fines del mes 463 acogidos.
5NUHI III @a 9t---e4T iei 63g &s
Est& vscante Ia plaza de EjeCutor de
apremios del t6rmino lnunicipaI de Ma
yagiisx. & s. sosl9e = a,-57s.'1.'4 s-'As
T. 80 .IsSSaa easMEg So .s8slENit5@ Il 95
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-12-22
Athletic Games for German Bows.

German boys are TO be taught to play
games The Prussian Minister Of EdG
cation has determined it, and it will be
done Herr Won Gossler's circular on
the subject, Just published at full length
bv the Cologne Gazette, is a very able
and remarkable document. For some
time German public opinion has been
much exercised about the physical con-
dition of the boys in the higher schools
of the country. They were excellent
scholars, but rather poor specimens of
bovs-listless, inactive, unenterprising,
often appallingly shors-sighted, the raw
material of professors perhaps, bllt not
Of soldiers and men of the world. Ger
mans have awaked to the necessity of
better phys cal training, and, true to
their charac .er, they are setting about
it in their own thorough and methodical
fashion, with Minister leading the van
and the whole admirably drilled bureau-
cracv in column at his heels. There
can be little doubt that the action of the
Government, prompted as il is by a gen
eral widespread public feeling. will re-
suit in a remarkable change in the
character of German education. To in
door-drilling and gymnastics, already
pretty universal, outdoor exercises,
especially games requiring skill and
agility, are to be added. Spontaneity is
no longer to be sacrificed to discipline.
If ever German boys learn to play cricket
and football-both, by the way, recon-
mended by the Minister-or any equiva-
lent games, English schools will have to
look to it. English education is at
present as far ahead of German in the
training of the body as German is ahead
of English in the training of the mind
Pal lNaN G1zette.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-12-22
SCHOOL And CHURCH.

"A Massachusetts woman has made
bequest of $4,000 to Boston University
''for the purpose of clothing worthy
theological students.
in Prussia they appreciate the value
of health and the necessity OF exercise to
maintain it. The minister of education
has ordered that the boys ia all the
schools be made to play athletic games.
The Singing Pilgrim Philip
Phillips) and mis- son, who now sings
with him, are shortly to return home,
after successful tour of song through
his family will visit the West Indies
until April next.
From March 1 to November l the
American Sunday School Union estab-
Ished 49S new Sunday schools in the
Northwest aud brought POPS teachers
and 1920 scholars into them. besides
aiding l,033 old schools. which have
5,l49 teachers and A, 109 scholars
Chicago Times.
The First Presbyterian Ghnrchai@'
New Albany mas 3 s.ess<@s.. . syyz-. 49,
nell, who has held that RESPONSIBLE a4@
honorable Office for fifty years. A few
evenings ago the ladies of the church
celebrated his seventy-eighth birthday
as a mark of respect to his integrity
and Christian character. dtGllaootLS
journal.
Tight lacing has often been attacked
as injurious to the health, but now it is
said to be injurious to morals. A Phila-
delphia parson recently preached ser
mon on the subject, and argued that the
divine truth could not find its way into a
heart squeezed and cramped by corsets.
Philadelphia Press.
The teachers in the public schools at
Indianapolis have been in the habit of
sending out pupils 70 ascertain the
whereabouts of absentees. BY entering
houses where scarlet fever was raging
severaP of the scholars contracted the
disease, and now the School Board pro-
pose to put stop to such use OF the
pupils.
1t is said that curious old gentle
man in New York has been collecting
sermons until he now has about y, 600
of all sorts. He began nearly thirty
years ago. He laid up bound volumes
at first, but later he preserved the SER
mons he found in pamphlets or fully
printed in periodicals. In order that he
might arrange his material, he learned
book binding, and for all these years he
has given his nights and holidays to the
work of arranging, indexing and sys-
tematizing his material-N 7. Times.
-Chunder Sen. the leader of the Free
Brahmins in India-an almost Christian
sect. opposed TO idolatry and caste is 4
man of unusual attainments. He is
graceful orator, both in English and
Bengalese, and profound scholar in the
philosophy and sciences of Europe. He
has travelled much, having visited Lon
don and been presented to the Queen.
Personally he is of striking and hand
some appearance, being more than six
feet tall, and in the prime of life. He is
very wealthy, and at his own expense
maintains large church in Calcutta:
and edits and publishes paper called
The New Dispensation.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-12-22
The American Mother

The American mother-the mother of
the men who usually become our Presi-
dents nothing of matchmaking,
of laying bats TO catch eligible young
men of marrying her girls off. She may
not watch them as European mothers do,
and may trust too implicitly in their
good sense, but, at least, she never tries
to get rid of them.
She is no more ayerse than the mother
in the Cotter's Saturday Night to see
cher bairn respectit like the lave;'' to
have gentlemen polite to herr" but
when the respect and ''politeness''
turn into downright courting, and she
sees the danger signals ahead, and some
body comes one day, hat in hand, blush
ing like peony, to mention that 'sif she
has no objections, Jane HASN'T" she is
in despair. To lose her girl by matri-
mony is fearful blow. Why, the girl
is her owni The little baby that slept on
her bosom and held her finger tight in
its crumpled rose leaf hand was all hers.
The child that toddled after her, copying
her in miniature as she went about her
household duties, and who must have a
toy broom, and a tea kettle that held a
tablespoonful of water, and the scraps of
dough to make tiny loaf of bread with,
and doll to be treated in all respects as
mother treated the new baby, was more
and more her own little Janey.
The bigger, Janey, who grew sofast and
helped so with the little children, and
was her mothers right hand always.
was her very own, morning noon and
night. And now, the pretty young lady,
so capable and bright, so stylish in
her ''best things" who has stopped
taking lessons, and plays on the pretty,
upright piano in the parlor, who can cut
and make everything for the younger
ones, who helps her, and of whom she is
proud, is she not also her very own, to
love and boast little about? Jane, her
daughter, her one grown-up daughter
shall young Smith, or young Jones, or
middle-aged Tomlinson, take her for has
own, and carry her off to live elsewhere,
and have other interests?
The mother can not bear the thought,
and when that happens which does hap
pen to most pretty girls, though she
cannot wish her daughter to '.be an old
maid, her heart almost breaks and she
feels sorely injured. People congralu-
late her, but she can only sigh.
Mothers like these, often nice, plain,
country mothers, are not given to much
reading of fashionable foreign news;
but if they should, by chance, take to it
in despair after all their girls are mar
ried, think they would be astonished
by the glimpses of the mothers forever
plotting and planning to get their daugh-
ters off their hands, marrying them to
anybody who has money, and always in
a hurry to get the eldest off that the
youngest may follow in her steps. That
is phase of domestic life of which the
faithful American mother knows moth
ing.-N Y. Ledger.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-12-22
Thrashing.FIoors.

1t was in the north of China, that we
first saw the thrashing floor of the East
and of the Bible. When we were travel
ing to some out-stations in Mantchuria.
the road bounded on both sides by end
less fields of gigantic millet, there would
come farmer house and farm-yaTd, or
a small hamlet, and on the skirt of it,
the trodden spot of ground hard and
smooth rs stone But it was not till
some weeks later. as we were journey
ing slowly up to Pekin. and the harvest
was now gathered, that we saw it in use.
The grain was laid on the floor, and
pair of oxen were driven leisurely over
the ears. treading ont the corn. Another
form of thrashing was the stone roller,
which was drawn over the ears by oxen or
mules; and there was another still, where
a fiat board furnished with some pro-
iections, was drawn in the sare. way,
the driver or children, perhaps, sitting on
the board to lend it additional weight.
Sometimes the grain was piled up in
large heap in the center of the floor,
unsifted and then men with the winnow-
ing shovel (the Bible FAM would toss the
grain into the air, or else into fiat
basket, from which the man who held it
flung up the corn, and the wind carrying
the chaff away filed the air with dust.
One Bible phrase after another was re-
called to us. 1t was easy to see how the
Philstines could rob the thrashing floors
Mt Keilah. those open spaces in the field
on which the absence of any dread of
rain induced the farmers to pile up their
wealth of grain; or how the open floor,
open to the sky and smooth, became the
natural place to test the dew upon
Gideon's fleece while all the rest of the
ground was dry; or how, when the two
kings, Ahab, of Israel, and JehOshaphat,
of Judah, summoned the prophet, the
place to set the royal thrones was on the
smooth and empty thrashing floor Just
before the gate of Samaria; or how no
better place than this could be found on
which to build the altar that David raised
when he had purchased the site of the
temple from Araunah, the Jebusite, and
found in the thrashing instruments-the
wooden fans and boards and oxen poles
the wood for the sacrifice. 1t would
be easy for the oxen to stop in the midst
of the abundance they We're treading out
and eat: and the merciful Jewish law
provided that they should eat if they
would; there should be no muzzling of
them; "thou shalt not muzzle the OK
when he treadeth on the corn. - Good
WOrIs
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-12-22
whittier Tending.

Can any one tell what dairying is
drifting to? We hear Of all sorts Of
queer monstrosities, from lard cheese to
cotton-oil butter. No man knows what
he eats if he buys it. Stimulation is the
spirit of the a0e, and no end of science
and skill is employed to deceive. \
clever imitation IS what men prefer to
produce and the public are led to de-
YOUR. The simplicity of genuineness is
out Of the running, as things 90 in the
world. The public must eat what is
given them, asking no questions. The
oleorfar.sarino mon must haze done a
terrible lot of mischief, and offal is the
god whom they delight to honor and ex-
alt. At all points they aim to circum-
vent the dairymen and swindle the pub
lie.
The taste of the people is degraded
by sham butter and cheese, which seem
To be real. Mems stomachs, nova
days, are sepulchers for strange abomi.
nations which they ignorantly rather
than innocently swallow. This sort of
thing is leading them they know not
whittier. and posterity will pay the piper.
tits no longer that which comes out of
but that which goeth into, the mouth
that defiles. Meats and drinks of many
kinds arc not what they pretend to be.
and there is a good deal of ''tricks chat
are dark in what pass for dairy goods.
Whose fault is this? Wen, in a great
part, the dairymen's, for they have
spoiled good milk. They have given
an opening for the shoddy men OF the
dairy, who are growing rich out of of1al-
The law complacentiy lets men sell what
they like, and the sham is often enough
better than the real one Shoddv sells
well enough to be carefully made, and
so the makers of counterfeit butter and
cheese do flourish. Dairy men who
make inferior butter and cheese, no
matter how real the goods may be, are
out of the running entirely. If only the
palate of the public be suited, it matters
not if the article be real or pretended, so
careless dairymen can hardly make
ends meet and tie'' But one thing is
clear: The makers of really first-class
cheese and butter can hold their own and
will hold their own against all the nefari-
Gus stutfthat is made in any and in every
country. A weeding-out process is going
on, and goods which are mere simula-
tiOns will take the place so long occupied
by the products of milk that was spoiled
If, then, the oleomargarine business, the
melted tallow and other less creditable
things shall result in bringing about a
thorough reform in dairy methods. we
shall have reason after all to be grateful
to men for whom few of us entertain
feelings that approach to respect or affec.
ton. But let the public have faiEN
lection, let them know &knusna E.
then the dairymen will wiii14s
to, and if they don't, the fault is D.
own.-Pr0f. J p. Sheldon, IN Prairie
Farmer.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-12-22
straw in Place OF HAY.

Col. T. D. Curtis has been expert
menting in feeding farm animals upon
straw in place of more costly hay, and
finds profit in it, provided a suitable
amount of grain be given with the straw.
Last winter he found himself short of
hay but with plenty of straw, and he
pives in the New York Tribune his ex-
perience in substituting the cheaper for
the dearer fodder. The straw was fed
chiefly in col weather, as the animals
had a better appetite then than after the
weather became warm in spring. A
horse ate eighty-four cents worth of meal
and sixty cents worth of straw in seven
days, that would have eaten two dollars
worth of hav in the same time, if hay
alone had been his food, thus making a
saving of more than one-fourth. Mich
COWS, working oxen and young cattle all
did well with straw and corn fodder as a
part of their ration. The butter made
was of excellent quality and the milk
Weld highly satisfactory. He found that
bright straw for horses driven on the
road is superior to nay, as they will not
so readily over-fill themselves as with
hav. Plenty of grain must be given
with straw to animals at hard work. He
believes that farmers can afford to sell a
portion of their hay, and then purchase
grain to feed with their straw and make
a profit by the exchange 1t is no new
thing to feed straw in winter to farm
animals, but it was not till such exper-
imenters as Professor Sanborn and the
agricultural chemists showed the philos-
ophy of the practice, that farmers have
felt free TO adopt it as sound policy
Nea0 England Farmer.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-12-22
PuNGRNT PARAGRAPHS.

"A Boston fiirt, on receiving an offer
Of marriage, rushed into the hall and
called up stairs, "Mother, am | engaged
to anybody now?'
-Metamorphosis extraordinary: A
young man who was supposed to be un-
commonly soft, has been found running
away from his tailor as hard as possible.
The Judge.
That's lovely necktie you havs
on. she remarked. "Glad you like it;
l thought it rather neat myself" Yes,
it would look so well in the silk patch
work quilt | am making. - E1erGted
RaitroGd journal.
The mushroom crop is so scant this
fall that gatherers think there is mush-
room for improvement. Meanwhile
hasty pudding is a safer thing to put on
your table. Hungry children have lots
of mush room. Pittsburgh Telegraph.
-'How can keep the cattle from
breaking down the fence to get into my
garden at night?h said an Austin mau
to neighbor. That's easy enough"
'.But how can l keep the cattle from
breaking down the fence?" by leav-
ing the gate open. " Teras SJtings.
The sting of a bee, it is said, when
compared with the point of fine needle
under a powerful magnifying glass, IS
scarcely discernable. But the trouble is
that when a man gets bee sting, he
forgets to compare it with a needle;
hence it always is discernable, and by
large majority. Boston Transcript.
-"'Tis a poor rule that does not
work both ways Yesterday l was at a
dinner party, when a glass OF wine was
spilled on the table. Herr Meier put
nd n
Subsequently, the salt-dish was capsized,
and | poured grass of wine on it,
whereupon / came near being thrown
out of the house. Fliege,sde B utter.
The smallest county in Pennsylvania
is the most modest. Its strong point is
its Lack-o' '-wannaty. The most evenly
balanced county in its profit and loss ac-
count is Lose-earn. The -agpickers'
county is Aley-gainy. The most stai-
wart county is Armstrong. The most
disreputable county is Snider. Ibe
deadest county for education is SchuyS
philadelphia Bulletin.
An humble Sausage thus Addressed
naughty Seal Skin sack: "How does It
Happen, my Friend. that you do not
Recognize me, when it was only Two
Months ago that you Used to Skin up a
Tree whenever Iapproached?' To this
the Seal Skin Sack saucily Replied:
''You had None the Better of Me then,
Mr. Sausage, for while 1 was SHINING
up the Tree, you forsooth Were Sailing
down the Street with Tin can tied 70
your Tail. "-DenUer Tribune Fables.
Then you are thinking of build
1 ing residence next season. sug-
gested Flub to one of our heavy
pockets. Eyes thought / should get
up something in that line.n "What
stvle of architecture Gothic, or Doric,
or Corinthian, or-?' 80. little of
everything. My wife inclines to the
Mary Ann style; but guess I'll put up
genuine Betsy Jane cottage, with q
| pizarro all around it. That'1l suit me
well enough. - Chicago Times.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-12-22
Weed Ont Now.

At this time of the year the whole herd
of cows should be in pretty good order,
and the chances are that the poor mixers
are in better flesh than the heavy milk
ers. This makes it a most admirable
period in the years cycle to weed out
Not by Immediately selling off in all
cases, though it is a good time if the poor
mixer is over fat, but instead of putting
the weeds on cornstalks and swamp
nay, let them be well fed. and little
extra feed withiwarm shelter viii not go
amiss, and in month or two when eX-
posed and i'll fed cattle have fallen below
a profitable market value, these well
housed and well fed cows will go to the
butcher with fair profit. Not only Will
this profit be made but large loss viii
be avoided by getting such cows out of
the herd before the milking season comes
around again. By this time tits to be hoped
all dairymen know the fact that it is only
the good cows in the herd that pay
profit on the years work and expense OF
keeping, while the poor mixers not only
do not pay for their own keeping, and
the labor expended on them, but they
draw directly on the profits for thar
maintenance. The good ones have to
carry the poor ones You will make
more money by making manure OF poor
cows than you will by carrying them
A dead cow does not eat, a poor one eats
her head off as many times a year as the
ratio of her non -productiveness isto her
voraciousness of appetite, so to speak.
This is an old subject and somewhat
shreadbare, but it evidently needs rub
Ding in, aud every farmer should take il
20 heart until he is absolutly sure tina
s7ery cow in his herd is profitable
.--knserican DaSrussG,s.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-12-22
"seeing It's You."


''Do look particularly green?" ked
3 prominent citizen of q Free Press re-
porter yesterday.
"WelI, moo. l have seen window
blinds that could give you points.
II received a special confidential
offer this morning in the shape of cir
cular through the mails. 1t informs me
that for $50 the sender will send me
SI25 organ, and that this is the only one
he will send into the county. Does he
take me for fool2'
Nothing of the kindi He merely
tempts your cupidity. Experience shows
that a large number Of people will buy
that which they do not want, provided
they think they are getting it for less
than It's value. Thischaracteristic would
make blind man buy pair of spec
tacles."
"Why should this man think / want
an organ? I'm no machine politician.
How should he know anything about
me?''
ses. I1s-d doesn't Hegot Your name and
address out of the City Directory. As
for his sending yon, and you only, of all
the people III Wayne County. 1925
organ for S75, that 5 all CANNON He
would send one to every person in the
county if they forwarded the S75. His
is an old game, but it works well vet.
He is liable to catch lot of gudgeons in
Wayne County. And then, they are to
be found in every county in the coun-
try"
.To how many people in Detroit do
YOU suppose he has sent this confidential
circular?
That will endeayor to ascertain at
the postofIice."
And this is the reply of Chief Clerk
Hardy to an inquiry as to how many of
the circulars were received at and dis
tributed from the postofice.
There was a big bag of them, from
T, 900 to l, POO. ."-DetrOit Free Press.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-12-22
De Brazza, the American Explorer.

Truth thus describes Lieutenant de
Brazza, Stanley's rival in the explora-
tan of Congo: His is an Italian and
has very remarkable head. To the
front view of his face, Euclid's defni-
ton of a line Qength without breadth)
is applicable There are, however, a
pair of cleaning, intensely keen black
eyes, the ironical expression of which
must have been CALLING to Stanley. As
to the profile, it is made up of violent
curves. The forehead is bumpy and
strongly modelled. Avery -bridged
nose 1higher than the Duke of Yelling
toms, but not so abruptly outlined,) dips
at the end in rounded point, so far
down as to be almost horizontal with the
mouth. The chin advances in another
strong curve. Brazza's head ;s tlorin-
tine, In Leonardo picture of 1.-The Last
Supper" there is such head-and it is
upon the shoulders of one who betrayed
with kiss. Judas has not, however,
cleaning eyes and an expression of
scorching irony.