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BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1889-12-11
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plLDORAS HOLLOWAY.

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mundo, rso0misndan diohaa Pildorss come
me1cr rcstaufativc de la salad que 80 oonoos
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BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1889-12-11
ENCUADERNACION
DEL "BOLETlN MERCANI|'II, !

En- esta secci6n de la casa, montada ...o
tOdOs los elementOs necesarios Drovssfa ~
materiales de primera clase, sc hacen es.cro..
dernaciones en- holandesa, carton6, casa q.
pamela, piei de ievante CON relieves toies mar.
fecto preclos reducidos. r''
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1889-12-11
Imprenta del "Boletin. ."

Sc acaban de recibir en- esta I'm.
prenta los articulos siguientes;
Elegantes pesa-cartas.
RELOJES de pared y desperta.
dores de 10 diferentes classes.
ESFERAS con cfrculos de metal.
OARTERA6 para documentos.
'LAPIOES mercantiless
PLGMAS dc orc.
LAPIOES de idem.
EsOBIBAN1AS elegantes dc 8
uS0s.
OARPE'rAS de mule y tafilete.
!. PLUMAS-fuentes.
PAPELERAS de varias classes.
MARCOS para retratos.
REGULEZ. - Ret6rica y Pos
tiea.
SENET. - Geometria analitica.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES CAS-
tellana.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1889-12-11

BOletil Nercantil dc PuertO-RicO.
PERIODICO CONSAGRADO
la DEFENSA DIG LOS NTERESES HACIOTALES EN- AMERICA
ORsAH0 DR. LOS EsPAOlRs NCOaDICIONlLgS Rg PFO RICO
coNDICIoNEs GENERATES acordadas por la Direction
para toda cIase de renitidos anuncios.
publication conaos pros
venconales que deteminaran los mismOs.
comunicEdos midcs gclas Gbsn auorizado
da del responsabd
mAs con Ia de persons responsible de q pago.
Los originates comuncados rsmdo gacsss
devueitos aunque no q pubhquen.
No responde de rotura nj extrsvfos de CichAa
La coumna del pe6co condsraa
dc largo
ri nunclsue nda derecho egr determnads para Ii
pubn do anuncos En- dssea concedarse paga
10 p.S sobre 81 preco de taaih.
anunciante env c publication anuucos ten
dA ana bonfcac6n de 10 p3 sobre los pssCos de tarh
Onnndo pore dc los yssos
anuncne rec psO de ntero case contrso 70 10
vara ell primer ntmerc
Para os no auscros del BoIsT Inca de gace communicate
nitido Esccitn correspondence 2s$ Csasgsos.
Los suscrpores ndrdn IS pS do onf bre prsco dc gs-
ceillas comnncados remitidos
III npoe de Las suscrpcnes anuncios g ssmdos comun.
Ados, anicllAdo.
81 po ipravisa dsaae 81 psr5dco q
nanans rsEtado sntas pubaconss
ieado do aalf.
Tari2a para la publication dc anuncios.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-03-06

How prone we are to count our indi-
vidual interests the chief interests in
volved in any issue of the hour.
"When does the next train start 2"
hurriedly asks the incoming passenger
of the train-Starter at a central rail-
way station, where trains are running
in every direction at almost all hours
of day and night. "Start for where ?"
coolly asks the train-starter, in quiet
suggestion of The fact that trains go
elsewhere from that station than to
this passengers destination. Have ]
time to get dish of ice-cream before
this train starts ?" is another passen-
gers question at the restaurant of that
Station. Which train do you mean ?"
responds the waiter, knowing tnat a
different train is to start every five
minutes for the next few hours. "A
ticket, please !" is another passengers
call at the ticket-otfice, window in the
same station. There is a touch of sar-
casm in the ticket clerks responding
question "Ticket for aUhere?" And
so it is that railroad officials get the
idea that the average man or woman
centres the public welfare in his or her
welfare. Nor is it railroad officials on
ly who have reason to get such an inn
preston in their minds.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-03-06

Women find sea of trouble in their
housekeeping. Some one says they Of
ten put as much worry and anxiety in
to loaf of bread, a pie, cake, into
the weekly washing and ironing as
should suffice for much weightier mat
ters. Suppose these things 60 wrong
to-day, the to-morrows are coming in
which to try again, and the thing is
not worth clouding your own spirit
and those around you, injuring your
self ard them physically-for the
mind affects the body-and for such a
trifie. When a thing is beyond re-
pair, waste no useless regrets over it
and do no idle fretting. Strive for
that serenity of spirit that will enable
you to make the best Of all things.
That means contentment in its best
sense.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-03-06
A NEW CHEAP LIGHT IN LONDON.

A NEW CHEAP LIGHT IN LONDON.
London is exercised over new and
cheap light. A tank is placed in the
roof of dwelling and filled with oil.
Conr ection is made with the gas pipes,
and the burner is capable of being
turned on or off: The light is white.
soft and agreeable, and as brilliant as
that supplied by electricity. The cost
is about one-third that of gas. An ex-
hibition was recently given in the
presence of the representatives of the
press. The secret of the new process
is machine, which is wound up like
clockwork and which separates the
hydrogen from the oxygen of the at
mosphere, and causes the latter to mix
with oil and give forth the excellent
light, which is the admiration of all
beholders.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-03-06

THE BELL OF JUsTICE.-In one of
the old cities of Italy, the king caused
a bell to be hung in tower in one of
the public squares, and called it the
"bell of justice" and commanded that
any one who bad been wronged should
go and ring the bell, and so call the
magistrate of the city, and ask and re-
ceive justice. When, in the course of
time, the lower end of the bell rope
rotted away; wild vine was tied to
it to lengthen it; and one day an old
and starving horse that had been aban-
doned by its owner and turned out to
die, wandered into the tower, and, in
trying to eat the vine, rang the bell.
The magistrate of the city, coming to
see who had rung the bell, found this
old and starving horse; and he caused
the owner of the horse, in whose SER
vice he had toiled and been worn out,
to be summoned before him, and de-
creed that, as this poor horse had rung
the bell of justice, he should have JUS
tice, and that during the remainder of
his life his owner should provide for
him proper food and drink and stable.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-03-06

RELIGIOUS PRoFEss1ON.-We often
say that we would be unwilling to ex'
change our hope in Christ for any
thing the world can possibly offer. IT
is not always that we measure the full
meaning of this affirmation. 1t might
be found that, were. we called to Sc
we're test of our allegiance, our avowal
is not much better than Peters, who
so speedily denied his Lord. We may
mean we'll at the time, but, like him,
we fail to understand our own weak
ness, and how important is that faith
which is not in word only. When, af-
ter having made such q bold profess
sion, one goes forth into life to forget
his Master and his Christian obliga-
tions for service, manifestly there is
room to doubt his perfect sincerity.
Better far that he had never spoken
thus at all, than that he should mis-
represent religion before others. 1t is
in this way that genuine Righteousness
is often brought into disrepute.
Through such inconsistencies many
are led to reject Christianity altogcth-
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-03-06
A Preacher Eating His Horse.

There was no church in Van Buren.
A Methodist itinerant was sent there.
One house was open to him-the tav-
ern-and to that he went and put up.
He interviewed mine host. "What is
the chance for q Methodist preacher
here?" The reply was that it was the
same as for any other man, if he had
money. "But if 7 have no money"
The chances were bad enough.
"What do you charge for board ?" said
the circuit-rider. The rates were CIV
en-. "Look at my horse" said he;
"what do you think he is worth ?"
The animal, doubtless, was good mid
ding, for our preachers are not novices
about horses, and no men have better
use for them. That preliminary set
tied, the preacher proceeded in a very
straightforward style with the host.
"Sir, turn my horse into your stable,
and when you think have eat up the
value of him, let ME know, and will
either change my quarters or provide
other means of paying my bill" He
went to work-laid siege to the place
in the name of the Lord-and before
the horse was eat up the town capitu-
lated. The people presented him his
horse, all charges paid, and his own
bill beside ). fitted out "the parson" in
d new suit of clothes, and from that
day Christianity has had firm foot
ing in Van Buren.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-03-06

Probably there is not the remotest
corner or little inlet of the minute
blood vessels of the body that does rot
feel some wavelet from hearty laugh
ter, shaking the central man. The
blood moves more lively-probably its
chemical, electric, or vital condition is
distinctly modified it conveys q diff
ferent impression to all the organs of
the body as it visits them on that par
ticular mystic journey when the man
is laughing, from what it does at other
times. And so, we doubt not, good
laugh may lengthen mans life, con.
veying distinct stimulus to the vital
forces. And the time may come when
physicians, attending more closely
than at present, unfortunately, they
are apt to do, to the innumerable sub
tie Influences which the soul exerts
upon it's tenement of clay, shall pre-
scribe to a torpid patient $50 many
peals of laughter, to be undergone at
such and such time," just as they
now do that far more Objectionable
prescription, a pill, or an electric or
galvanic shock and shall study the
best and most effective method Of, pro-
ducing the required effect in each pa
tent.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-03-06
Reverence.

The quality of reverence is an attri-
butte of noble minds. 1t is the result
of perception of the great and wor-
thy in another. If that other be a
man, it enables us to render him the
due need OF respect and honor. II
the other be God, it brings us in lowly
yet honorable alteration to His feet.
The ability to perceive certain qualities
in another is a sure mark of possessing
those qualities yourself. This holds
true as well of bad as Of sood qualities.
None is so apt to detect deceit as the
deceitful person, none so ready 70 ac-
knowledge honor and truth as the
honorable and truthful man. 1T is for
this reason that truly great minds are
such q mystery TO the great mass OF
mankind. Incapable Of his lofty
thoughts and noble aspirations, the Or
binary man sees in the truly great one
an enigma which he can solve in no
way but by attributing his success to
luck or favoritism, and his course OF
conduct to we'll stimulated goodness
put OH for selfish purposes. To the
pure oil things are pure hence, an
honest man is most easily made the
victim of fraud and sham. This cleW
will also assist us in solving what has
puzzled so many-namely, the fact
that many great men have fallen so
completely under the influence OF the
base and designing.
Reverence is an elevating quality.
Its possessor is unconsciously uplifted
and ennobled by the perception and
recognition of the greatness it admires
and almost involuntarily initiates.
Hence, to cultivate reverence is one
sure means of becoming noble and
lofty in mind and purpose. The feel
ing of reverence is honorable to its
possessor. The measure of your re-
spect for another is often the true
measure of your own worthiness of it.
Your readiness to believe in another's
honor and purity proves the whiteness
of your own soul. 1t is for this reason
that the pure in heart, and they only,
can see God.
Our people are not reverent. Go in
to our churches and mark the free and
easy way in which our people act. In
some cases the congregation can scarce
ly become properly subdued for devo-
ton until half the service is over. In
some churches whispered converse
ton, noisy entrances during prayer,
men failing to remove their hats, and
even protesting Christians never
kneeling in prayer. One cannot but
wonder how such people are ever to be-
spiritually reached and profited. Pro-
fessor Stuckenburg. in the Homaletic
Review, has this to say Of our want OF
reverence:
Parents should carefully inculcate
reverence in their children. Allow no
fiippancy OH sacred subjects. Preach
ers should set their people the example
of a sober and godly department in
the house of God. And people who
are habitnally irreverent in the house
of God need only read Ecclesiastes ",
l, to see what their position is in the
sight of God. "Holy and reverend is
His name." l.. V. y.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-03-06
PUT 1T IN WRITING.-Verba co

PUT 1T IN WRITINd.-Verbal con-
tracts occasion more trouble, dispute
and litigation than any other business
transactions. The wise merchant,
taught by experience, will endeavor to
have writing executed by the party
to be charged in every case of import
ance arising in his business. This is
especially necessary of guarantees. A
man enters your office whom you
know to be perfectly responsible. He
tells you to sell Brown a thousand dol
lars worth of goods. Brown is all
right; he will answer for that, etc.
Make him sign a memorandum.
A customer gives you large order
for future and installment deliveries.
Make him sign it in writing. You en-
gage a salesman for a year, or for a
month, or for trial trip. Have it all
put down in writing and signed. You
save taking your chances before ajury,
who nine times out of ten prove un'
certain and too sympathetic with that
party whom they consider is the "un'
der dog" 1t Is only little trouble at
the time, but it usually saves heap OF
trouble In the future.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-03-06
The Slaughter Of Birds.

Unless prompt measures are taken
to put stop to the useless slaughter of
the little birds, simply for the purpose
of ornamenting the bonnets and h&ts
of the ladies, the luxury will be dear
one. Nearly Sl,O0O,OOO,OOO is lost
every year from the depredations OF
insects, and without the aid and as
sistance of the birds we will be power
less to protect ourselves. Nor can the
matter be postponed. The birds are
being reduced in numbers, and the in.
sects are increasing. Every seasons
delay renders the determination of the
insects more difficult, as the birds will
require several years to regain their
numbers, while the insects will be
more strongly entrenched. 1t seems
but very insignificant matter to kill
a bird, and the enormity of the de.
struction is not comprehended, because
they are slaughtered here and there,
but over 10000 are annually kill
ed in the neighborhood of Cape Cod.
The statement is made that dealers in
New York handle 100000 bird skins q
year, and it is time the cruel business
be stopped. If "gentle woman" her
self will allow her finer feelings to
prompt her, the murderous practice
will cease. 1t is cruel, injurious, aud
entirely at variance with refined taste
Leaving the little birds to take theil
chances with owls, hawks, and Other
enemies, is subjecting them to risks
enough, but when the trap, snare and
shotgun is used against them, they
will be fortunate if they avoid exter.
mination.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-03-06
Happy Children.

II know now," said lady not long
ago, "that my mother loved me ten
derly but during all my childhood
doubted it. If were really dear tc
her, I queried, why did she never tell
me so? Why did she never caress me
and assure me of her love? She
thought her actions spoke loudly
enough without words, and so they
did, but I could not comprehend the
language they spoke. I could not un'
derstand them as 1 can now, and how
I longed to hear her call me loving
names and to have her lap me in the
sweet embrace of q mothers love-"
Many little heart aches as did this
lady's for the spontaneous utterances
of maternal affection. These car
make it happier than gifts of beads, OF
dolls, or fine clothes, or costly toys
AS house-plants cannot flourish with
out sunshine, so children cannot
thrive and be happy without love.
Children who grow up in this con
slant atmosphere of love are rarely
mischievous, never vicious. The
mightiest of all agencies to lead the
young in paths of virtue is in the
hands of parents, and to command
this agercy they need but give eA'
preston to the natural overflow o.
their hearts. Children to be happy
need encouragement and praise. lie,
US give to these darlings of our hearts
the sunniest, warmest spot in the
household, and we shall see them grow
up in symmetry to be fair women and
brave men.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-03-06
BAD TEMPER.-According to tt


BAD TEMPER.-According to the
Boston Journal of Hedlth: "The ef-
feet upon the bodily health, of the
mind harassed by bitterness and an
ger, is to propagate arrangements and
infrmities. The appetite lessons, di-
gestion is impaired, and then follow
other functional disorders. The ner-
vous system suffers from continual
mental irritability and hysteria head
ache and other painful affections often
owe their origin to this prejudicial in
fuence. AS has been said, AN irrita-
BILE and fractions temper, whether due
to an active temperament or other
causes, becomes, necessarily, the in
strument of its own punishment.
And it furthermore poisons the happi-
ness of all within the circle of its in
fuence. TO so many occasions of an
noyance, to so many petty vexations
are we all, even the most fortunate of
us, exposed, that the happiness of the
naturally irritable man must be con-
tinually eHcountering obstacles, and
his health consequently be ever liable
to injury"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-03-06

A TRAINING SCHOOL FOR SEX
roNs.-Our sections ought to have a
seminary. They occupy very impor-
tant place in the church. In New
York their names are on the tablets,
whether the PASTORS is or not. They
can freeze out an audience, roast 1t out,
blow it out with draughts, or poison it
out. Some close up the windows and
keep the Sunday atmosphere as care
fully as if it was sanctified and pure
air satanic. Besides, they like to
economic on dust brushes and mus
cles. We have been in churches
which smelled like a cemetery, and
people wondered why they had head
aches, or grew so drowsy, while the
preacher wondered that he was able to
get through such mephitic and poi
soned atmosphere. Magnify the office
of the doorkeeper. David wanted the
position, though he was king. Teach
him how to do his part so that Gods
house shall be the purest, the cheeriest
and the most healthful place in the
world.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-03-06

Without unre mitting labor, success
in life, whatever our occupation, is i'm
possible. A fortune is not made with
out toll, and money unearned comes
to few. The habitual loiterer never
brings anything to pass. The young
men whom you see lounging about
waiting for the weather to change be-
fore they go to work break down be-
fore they begin-get stuck before they
start. Ability and willingness to Ia
Dor are the two great conditions ofsuc-
cess. 1t is useless to work an electri-
cal machine in vacuum, but the air
may be full of electricity, and still you
can draw no spark until You turn the
machine. The beautiful statue may
exist in the artists brain, and it may
also be said in a certain sense to exist
in the marble block that stands before
him, but he must bring both his
brains and his hands to bear upon the
marble, and work hard and long, to
produce any satisfactory practical re-
suit.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-03-06
Ruskin's Idea Of a Wife.

Ruskin, in speaking of the wife,
says: IA judicious wife is always nip
ping off from her husbands moral ma
ture little twigs that are growing in
the wrong direction. She keeps him
in shape by pruning. If you say any
thing silly, she will affectionately style
you SO. If you declare that you will
do some absurd thing, she will find
some way of preventing you from do
ing it. And by far the chief part of
all commca sense there is in the world
belongs unquestionably to women.
The wisest things man commonly
does are those which his wife counsels
him to do. A wife is grand wielder
of the moral pruning knife. If john
sons wife had lived there would have
been no boarding up of orange peel,
no touching all the posts in walking
along the street, no eating and drink
ing will: disgusting veracity. If Oil
yer Goldsmith had been married he
never would have worn that memora-
BILE and ridiculous coat. Whenever
you find a man whom you know little
about oddly dressed, talking absurdly,
or exhibiting eccentricity of manner,
you may be sure that he is not a mar
ried man; for the corners are rounded
off, the little shoots pared away in
married men. Wives have much
more sense than their husbands. The
wife's advice is like the ballast that
keeps the ship steady"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-03-06

Two WAYS OF PUTTING IT.
Sneakers who wish to carry a point
generally select their comparisons to
suit their arguments: In the legisla-
trre of Ohio some years ago there was
:, ~ .rn hisnntr whsthcr q ccpain pro-
,....,.i ,a:lr,:,i ....:';.' .,,.rr;rn"c ,;t 4
.iruu pn,ut tuw'li, ." II i rtTl.t.u m!Hc"
up the river.
"Who ever heard" said down the
river advocate, "of beginning any
thing at the top? Whoever heard of
building a chimney from the top
Whoever saw a house
begun at the topw
Up jumped Dutch member from
an up the river county.
"Aleester Brezident, dc jentlemans
zay dat dces beeZness ees all vom
peca,ise wee wants to Pc
geen our railroad NIT de top of de
shtatc, und he make some scaly COM
barison about de houze und de schim-
ney. I veil also ask de Gentleman Won
question. Fen hees bart ov de shtate
ven dey pegins to build Won veil, do
dey pegins nit the bottom ov de veil.
OF do pey pegins init de top ov de veil?
VIII de jentIemans bleese answer me
dat leetle Won question ?" ~
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-03-06

FEVER AND AGUE.-There are some
situations where fever and ague pre-
walls every season, and this is the case
in the vicinity of creeks and swamps.
An acquaintance Of ours, who has re-
sided for several years on one of these
creeks, never has had a single case of
fever and ague in his family, while all
his neighbors have been more or less
affected with it every season. He at
tributes his immunity from this troub-
lesome disease to the use of good fire
in his house every chilly and damp
night in summer and fall. When the
Indians travel at night or early in the
morning in swampy regions, they COW
er their nose and mouth with some
part of their garments to warm the air
which they inhale, and this they say
prevents chills and fevers.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-03-06

1t is a strange thing, considering the
demands of God, and the manner of
life that most people follow, what
crowds of them go to heaven when
they die. Nearly everybody goes to
heaven-so somebody tells US when
people die. There may be some mis-
take about this-O how many! The
priest, we are told, who announced the
death of that reprobate, Louis Nv,
put it as follows: "Louis the beloved
sleeps in the Lord" Carlyle's COM
ment on this was this: "If such q
mass of laziness and lust sleeps in the
Lord, who, think you, sleeps else
where"