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BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1889-10-25

comparados con los de igual mes
del afio anterior.
He aquf, segdn el estado en-
question, que vamos a extractar
las cantidades que de los principa
les productos del pals SO exporta-
ron en- Septiembre 6ltimo, CON su
valoraci6n y los derechos que por
los mismos bercioi6 el Erario:
Arttca2os . raafids. Valorss. Dsrsskss.
afs ...:.. - s7s'Ts| lot'sSo g a,Ci27'
Cueros ...- - "a, ,7S6. S.696.75
Ganado. ...I ICabzaI 675I 2O,25O.0W
MADEIRA ..IKiOgN 7,60Ol 304-00I 22-2
Mieles. ....I - 562575 I3,50l-8N
Tabaco. >. - 7l2,366 232,2l3.a4 l,567-1
62A,2A7-26i 3,eo2-o
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1889-10-25

Cont n1a el Emperador "a via.
10 de inspection y asistiendo {
las grandes maniobras militares: On
varlos cuerpos 30 ha cnsayado Ia
aueva p6lvora, que tieue las preCio.
,as cualidadee dc no hacer humo nj
ruldo; el resul5ado es maravilloso
y debe oaasar ana gran desmora-
iizaci6n entire las tropas enemigas;
zero hay que advertir que 90 como.
&c ~ en- Francia esba p6lvora dcs.
de haCe unOs tres aios.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1889-10-25


de nuestro Gobernante? lQue
hablar es Sstel Tambjen el Sr.
Labra condena desde Madrid IL
aieidencia autonomista, y, no obs
tante, El Clomor Ia sostiene y Ia
6eHende.
Y Itontos de nosotEos!; no ha
bfamos caido tampoco en- que o.
pombramiento NO fu4 debido, &C.
etn el co.ega, ! los mGritos , CON
diciones personales, preconizado.
por FL ClGmor, del doctor Do
mingueE; sino que el m6vil de-
$50 fu4 ofreceS una asdadito de
misl, para guitar el NAL efecto del
nombrsmient0 dol senor Echeva
sria para Are :ibo.
El colega anda siempre en- los
txtremof; 8 no ignora 10 MAJ
fudimentario, 8 sabe mas de 10
cusnta; no se entisnds con los
hechos, entire los cuales anda con
fundido, =, ain embargo, presume
entraf On 81 seereto de las inten :
clones, buscando d auid de las
eoaas, como Il dice. Que & 6sofo !
De todas susrtes, el tesultado es
igual. 81 colegs ataca el nom
brimisnto del sthor Domingues
por illegal, J 81 ST. &, levarria por
ss6tscO; 10 mismo da; la question
BE- buscar por donde censurar J
Ntaear. Pero 10 que mas nos
fssVsupa % que o. selega Olga
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A Pretty Pagan Queen.

His Majesty's name is perhaps the longest
OF any monarch in the world. 1t contains 81
letters, and he is called Chulalangkorn for
short He has ten different names in addi-
tion to this, and the full names of the royal
family, would, doubt not, fill column of
this newspaper. The Queen is not far from
20 years of age; she rules the harem, and she
is very pretty Siamese girl. Her complex
ion is light brown, and her oily black hair,
about two inches long, stands straight mn
and is combed backward from fair open
forehead. She has beautiful eyes. wears
diamond earrings and diamond pendant at
her neck, and her fingers are covered with
precious stones. She smokes cigarettes, as
does also the King, and she chews the beteI
nut, making her teeth as black as let. and
her lips stick out. The Siamese saw that
any dog can have white teeth, but that it is
only those who are rich enough to afford the
betel nut who can have black ones. Black
teeth are sign of beauty here, and all the
ladies of the harem chew and smoke.
visited yesterday the storehouse of the
purveyor to the King. It is an English
establishment, but Its business is to sell the
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Life In. the Harem.

L talked with the dressmaker as to the
fashions affected by the Kings wives, and
was told that the ladies of the harem prefer
Siamese dress and that their favorite cos
tune is the surong or waist cloth, to which
they add a loose jacket trimmed with Swiss
embroidery and covered with bows of ribbon
set on in rows. Commonly they wear neither
shoes nor stockings, and the chief leg deco
ration is an .anklet of gold. They have
some foreign costumes, which they put on
when the court photographer takes their
portraits, but their common attire is more
that of jewelry and bracelets than of silks
or of satins. These ladies of the harem are
the most noble ladies of Siam. The last
King had wives from China and India, and
he was anxious to add Rell-bred English
girl to his gallery of beauties. He had, it
is said, chances to secure one or two French
maidens, but he had had so much trouble
with the French that he declined to receive
hem.
Once in the herein, it is impossible for
woman to get out, and in the case of flirta-
tions the offending woman is in danger of
being put to death. Many of the girls gam
BILE, and some of them do fine embroidery
and iancy work. Some become jewellers and
others make articles and sneak them out of
the palace to be sold The women are not
kept in separate palaces.and each does not
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The Sacred White Elephant.

Siam is known as the land of the white
elephant The elephant is the imperial
animal of the country and you see his pict-
ure upon all of the flags. The old coins of
the realm have an elephant upon one side of
them and the white elephant is here sacred.
He is supposed to be the embodied spirit of
some king or hero, and the people formerly
worshipped him and they do so to some ex-
tent now. Before going to see the palace
had read a glowing description of the white
elephant of Siam. I expected to see his
tusks bound with gold, to find golden chains
about his neck and a superb velvet coat of
purple, frnged with scarlet and gold, over
his snow white body. What did find was
four wild-eyed, scraggy looking elephants
with long tusks and with skins not
much whittier than those you see in
the American circus. The only white
part about them was their long happiug
ears, which seemed to be afflicted with the
leprosv. The remainder oil their skins had
the whiteness only of disease, and was
told, as rule, the white elephants of Siam
are mad elephants. These beasts were in
dirty stables and they were chained bv the
feet to great wooden posts. They had dirty
keepers and there was no sign of ROYALTY
about them. Their keepers fed them some
grass while we were present and they per.
formed some ordinary circus tricks for us.
The glory of the white elephant. has in all
probability departed. and the elephants of
the interior of Siam are made to work quite
as hard as their brothers all over the world.
One of the punishments of Siam is the
making convicts cut the grass for these
royal elephants. One of them killed his
keeper the other day, and this same holy
beast made snap at me with his trunk
when entered his stable.
FRANK g. CARPENrTsrR
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A Real Nice Position.

Looking at him it is hard to imagine that
he is the sacred ruler of from 6.00O,0O to
10, ,OO0, 900 of people and it is hard for an
American prince to appreciate his absolute
power and his holy dignity. The people of
the country are his slaves. He has the
right to call them into his service either
with or without pay and all men in Siam
are forced to give him either the whole or a
part of their services during the wear. His
word can throw a man into chains or put
him to death; can deprive him of his prop
erty or rob him of his daughter. Ali the
women of Siam are supposed to belong to
the King and no one is forbidden to him
except his mother. He is supposed to take
one of his sisters as his Queen, and the
mobiles of the country offer him their daugh-
ters bv the scores. His court is one of
intrigue and plotting, and the mobiles are
glad to have their daughters in the harem,
in that they may thus the better attain the
Kings friendship and powerful Offices He
taxes the people as he pleases and these
taxes are So heavy that at times some men
have to sell their wives and children as
slaves to enable them to pay him. Still his
vaults are full of treasure. Siam has no
national deot and he has an income of more
than SIC, ,00O, 900 year. He can spend tens
oil thousands of dollars in cremating dead
Wlie or In establishing petty navy, which
would be of no more good than SO many
Doy toy boats against the war ships of the
great nations
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-14
A Handsome King,

1t represents bright-eyed, slender young
man of Sc, dressed in the gorgeous uniform
of Siamese royalty. Small in stature. his
head is crowned with golden pyramid Of
jewels, rising in circular tiers, diminishing
as they 60 upward until thes end in long,
pencil-like point, which extends nearly two
feet above the forehead of its kingly owner.
His body is clad in gorgeous coat and vest,
heavily embroidered in gold and Jewels,
and in place of pantaloons he has the rich
brocaded surong of the Siamese about his
Joins and waist. 1t comes down below his
knees at the front and it looks here not un-
like pair of fancy knickerbockers. Below
these pair OF shapely calves in white silk
stockings are thrust into jeweled-covered.
heelless slippers, pointed like the
shoe OF the Turk, and the whole
makes costume brilliant and
grand. His majesty sits on foreign arm
chair and his sword lies on a table at his
side. He is pleasant-looking fellow and
his olive brown face is plump and un-
wrlnkled. He has beautiful LIQUID black
eyes, broad, high and rather full forehead
and short, straight, black hair. Under his
rather short and half-fiat nose there is a
silky black mustache, and below this the
lips are rather thick, and the chin plumn
and well rounded. His hands and feet are
well made, and he is, all told, as good
specimen of Siamese beauty as have seen.
He is the ninth son of Maha Mongkut the
last King OF Siam, and he was picked out
of family OF "a children to be placed upon
the Siamese throne. He has "a half
brothers and 49 half-sisters, and he liked
one of his half-sisters so well that be mar
ried her and made her his Queen.
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A Golden Grove,

The audience chamber, or rather the
throne room of the king, is a grand hall
with a ceiling made of many colored pieces
of glass and producing the same effect as the
glass wall which Tiffany built between the
vestibule and the long corridor of our
White House. The light shining through
this makes it look as though it was made of
jewels and the room is lighted from the top.
This ceiling is, judge, 80 feet from the
floor. 1t is vaulted and the walls below are
frescoed in gold. Three immense glass
chandeliers like those of the East Room of
the White House hang down from this cell
ing and these were made for the palace of
the Emperor of Austria, but were bought by
the King of Siam. The floor is of marble
mosaic and the King sits on great chair on
a rostrum at the back. Five steps lead to it
and beside him are the kingly umbrellas
and over him nine-story, pagoda like
crown of white and gold. Around the room
there are gold trees and gold bushes, and
the leaves of these are of pure gold, while
their trunks are heavily plated. There
were perhaps dozen of these on each side
of the room and they ranged from the size
of a Christmas tree down to that of small
currant bush. These are the offerings of
the rulers of the various provinces under
the King, They make these presents of
gold trees every year and some of them are
worth fortunes. Not few were of silver
and the silver trees were placed on one side
OF the room, while those of gold were placed
on the other.
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.rades, and with these picked men concealed
about my person, would return, full of in
formation and blubber, to lecture on the
Solid North.
Il am naturally of q rowing disposition,
and dearly love to seek out new dangers
which can defy by mail.
You also have an extinct volcano near you
which would be glad to pry into, and see
what it is that causes the nausea which in
variably seems to accompany this phenome-
non. Some scientist ought to go down into
the crater of an extinct volcano and see why
it is that lava always seems to lie 80 heavy
on the stomach of Vesuvits, for instance
Some think would be a good man, and
perhaps would, could get very good
petition asking me to do so, but I hate to go
down into the bowels of the earth, not know
ing how will be received. I am brave,
but at the same time keenly sensitive. I
would hate to find after it was too late that
my presence rather exaggerated the nausea
which seems to be the curse of volcanoes s
very existence
HE THANKS THE CLUB.
Addressing the Oregon Alpine Club
through its Corresponding Secretary, wish
THUS publicly, in all candor and sincerity,
to thank the club for the honorary member
ship thus SO worthily conferred, asking only
the freedom OF some OF your most praise
worthy fountains, with the right to climb
them at such time as I may elect, but not
before that time. In that way I shall be
honored and shall endeavor to avoid, so far
as possible, in any way disgracing your or
ganization farther than to accompany you
BY means of livery team mostly, on your
ascents.
Socially, you will find me great acquisi-
ton. am full of small talk and science,
literature, art, political economy, travel and
the common school branches. can be
earnest or playful, as the mood changes,
like sunlight chasing the summer shadows
across the glorious mead. can provoke
the listener to merriment with my pathos or
jerk loose the scalding tear by means of my
sunny humor. So that in selecting me your
club has made no mistake.
When is the first annual dinner of the
club?
If you will let me know, will put my
Alpenstock in shawl strap and come on.
Remember me to the conchologist and
tell the entomologist that l have found
something at "Teaoreggs?" Hotel which
would interest him, know. 1t looks like
an early dwarf terrapin and smells like a
case Of :fermeDted oblivion. So no more at
present from your true friend,
BILL NYE.
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possible In their researches I shall take
with me on those trips large scrap book
containing press notices and autumn leaves.
can read from this tome to the club the
Kind things said of me by the American
press, wherein it has been stated that have
called, or that was seen, on our streets,
ana other encomiums which can read to
tne club as you pause to wipe the perspira-
ZION from the brow Of the mountain or while
l tie a nosebag over my. horses head and
sock few much-needed oats into him. Then
the book can be afterward used for squatting
Terms and other fauna so that we may carry
tnem home with US and think about them
next winter.
see that under the provisions of Section
2, OF Article ", of page z, of the revised
statutes of your association, under the title
OF membership, that "no person shall be-
come an active member, after the organiza-
tlon is complete, who has not climbed at
ieast one snow mountain to its summit"
NYE WILL PROCEED SLOWLY.
This harsh ruling will for some time yet
prevent me from becoming an active mem
Der, though if you could relax this rule SO
as to let in man who had been gently
toyed with by cyclone and lifted by that
agency to where he could look over into Ga
briefs watermelon patch, I might get in at
an early date.
!! would like to climb some of your more
obdurate mountains, however, in the near
future and take my share of the suffering.
Some day would also like to join an Arctic
expedition and do some more suffering in
the higher latitudes. think would sue
ceed there first rate, as am used to sub
sisting on my friends when very, very hun
CRY.
My idea would be to join the club, first as
an honorary member, then gradually be-
coming an active member, walking long
distances and climbing haystacks by means
OF my Alpenstock, until I became very ath-
letic and strong; then climb tall trapped
mountain, freezing both ears till they swelled
up on nv return like pair of baked apples,
then would go abroad in search of the coy
and prudish North Pole. Finding
the pole, would cut my name
in the bark. eat a few COM
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dear Miriam does; for, do you know, have
learned to call Mrs. Titcomb Miriam, and
we have not been afraid of each other since
that very first minute when I left you at
Andover. And, my dear Aunt Huldah,
you will be proud Of your own little girl.
for really believe that am almost as good
q tentkeeper as you are housekeeper. Il
is not for nothing that you have tadght me
how to keep pots and kettles clean. Miriam
is not ashamed Of me at all, and am not
at all ashamed of my breakfasts or my din
ners. We are not getting on as fast as Mr..
Titcomb expected we should, but, as say,
we are getting on faster than Anost
of them do, and, for my part,
like the life. Il walk every day
three-quarters of the way; I have often
walked 15 miles. Then the boys are very
eager that shall ride, and some days I have
ridden all the way. We have Side saddle
for me and for Miriam, but she rather pre-
fers what she calls the luxury of the wagon.
We make long halt in the middle of the
day, for the sun is beginning to be hst. and
it is better for the beasts. This gives
chance for the cows to come up, and for the
boys to go off tor their shooting. In fact,
both my boys are away now; hear every
now and then the crack of their guns, so I
shall be quite ashamed of them if they DO
not bring US in rabbit or two for supper.
We have good deal of time for our read
ing, and it will quite surprise you to know
how learned we are beginning to be. Do you
know, dear aunt, that your dear Mr.. Cowper
can be quite as jolly as he can be sorry?
Miriam has brought with her newspaper,
in which there is the funniest song, or sort
of ballad, rather, that you ever did see. 1t is
about the adventures of man who went out
on a trolic with his wife, and never came
near her from the minute they started from
his house in London, because his horse ran
away with him. She will give me copy Of
it, and will send it to you when we come
to the Muskingum. When that will be, I
will not
And here the reader must give up this
little day-by-day gossip for, alas, the long
yellow page has given way here, by much
folding backwards and forwards, as differ
ent loving descendants have read the story,
and so we are not able to print the auto
graph of Sarah Paris, in the nineteenth
year Of her age, as we should be glad to do.
But good geographer who chooses to
plot on the map of Pennsylvania the route
which they were following, from such hints
as he can get from the diaries of other emf
grants, and from this story about the Dutch
man, will see that they were nearly at their
land journeys end. 1t was not many days
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the boys, for they might come to places
where there would be neither grazing nor
corn nor grain to be bought. For the rest.
every essential which the experience of the
earlier settlers had suggested, which would
De needed in the building up of the new
home on the Muskingum, was packed away
somewhere.
OF these stores Cephas Titcomb, the
father, was the nominal steward, but in fact
dear Mrs. Titcomb knew better than he did
where this or that could be found, from a
horseshoe round to Bible, if there should
be sudden demand. The wheels were
quite high, and space was thus given under
the wagon for singing several boxes or
guns, with one or two pistols and Cephas
Titcomb's old cavalry saber, hung from
hooks on the right and left, above the heads
OF the women as they sat in the wagon. At
night, by simple enough processes, the body
OF the wagon became a bed. on which the
women folk" slept, arranging their places
according to size or other convenience. For
the men, they spread bearskins or wolfskins,
having the shelter of the wagon to creep
under if the night should be rainy, or, as
sometimes happened as they crossed the
higher ridges, if the snow were falling.
When morning came, the frying-pan and
teakettle were lifted down from the hooks
on which they hung, and the fire in the
open air made by the earliest boy, was
ready to prepare the hot water for the
inyariable cup of tea and the Goals
for the invariable salt pork. If
by good luck there were eggs, why, there
were eggs, and Mrs. Titcomb and Sarah We'd
with each other in showing in how many
ways eggs could be cooked. As they went
on; indeed, their skill in using their scanty
kitchen equipage, under the nindrances Of
open air life, became greater and greater.
They arranged with each other to take turns,
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The Royal Palace.

The palace of the King at BANGKOK was
built only few years ago. 1t looks much
like one of the great palaces of Europe. 1t
has several stories, and under the bright
rays OF this Siamese sun it appears to be
made of marble. A closer inspection shows
that the marble is stucco, and the golden
elephants. each about half life-size, which
guard the entrance, change as you come
near them from massive gold to iron gilded.
Wide stairways lead by marble steps
through these into a great vestibule, the
ceiling OF which is about 40 feet high, and
the walls of which are hung with old
Slamese armor. At the right of this is the
Kings audience hall. His throne is bed.
and he lies on his arm or sits Siamese
fashion, la Turk, while he receives his
royal council and discusses the matters of
his kingdom. The ministers and mobiles sit
on leather cushioned benches, and the por-
traits of Siamese heroes, in oil, BY Euro
pean artists, look down upon them from the
walls. Just back of the King there is
portrait of a shaved-headed, crooked
mouthed, pale-faced, halEnaked Buddhist
priest. It is the high priest of the king
dom, and thus the proceedings go on under
the very shadow of Buddha himself The
priests, by the way, claim that the royal
family are lineal descendants of Buddha.
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after Sarah had written this letter before
they came out on the Monongahela river
the same which, in her grandfather's DAYS,
had been made famous when a certain
George Washington covered the retreat of
the troops Of certain General Braddock.
Our friends, however, were not to marchs
down to the bottom land on the side of the
Monongahela, but were to build for them
selves here an lark of safety" which was to
float them the rest of the way. Here, there
fore, a camp was made, while Mr.. Titcomh,
and one or two of the men who went with
him, with some other pioneers from Old
Newbury-men, all of them, skillfuI
in Woodcraft, indeed, in ship build
ing, should frame and build the
boat which took Its name from Noah's, in
which they were to complete their voyage.
For the women and children, this fortnight
in July, spent under canvas in delicious
climate, was rest after the fatigue of travel
ing, and rest with a sort of feeling that they
were back in the shepherd life again. Our
modern life knows no such harbors in the
midst of our daily storms; but the men and
women Of hundred years ago were none
the worse that they lay land-loeked some
times for two or three weeks at time.