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La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1894-12-03
Credito y ahorro Ponce1o
CONVOCATORIA

Creados para el servicio de esta Sociedad
los cargos de:
Director Gerente, sueldo de - 600
anuales.
Contador Csjsro. con sueldo de $500
anuales
T4nedor de libros COZ snedo de 81, 200
an uales
Auxiliar del tenedor de lihros, con caree
de corresponsal sueldo de 1900 anuales-
Seeretario, con sneldo de 5000 anuales.
Y conserje, con sneTdo de 1860 anuaiea;
Q1eda alberto desde esta fecha Ell con
ours para su prov sion, pudisndo los inte-
resados dirigir sns solicit. ie~, one habr4n
de ser escritas 6rma 'as por los mismos
aspirantes. esta pre- idencia hasta el dis
IL del p 6ximo mes de Dc embre.
En 81 supuesto de que 81 capital de Ia
Sociedad ha do hacer%e Elective 4 plszos
que por este motive los negocios On el pri-
mer alo han de ser de esca-a importarcis
mientrrs que los gastos de instaiac On han
de ser msyf res. ha arords1o 10 Junta De
Gob;erno que los sueldos srriba expresadoe
@ufriran m descuento de veinte por ciento
SOLO en- dicho primer a;so; reservkrdose, en-
pero. Ia facnltad de pfescindir de . y dis
tribuirlo rntre Ios rnianacs cue resulten fa-
vore~ido@ con FL cargo en- propiedsd, si los
bsns6eios aquiIos del primer balance 10
permitlsra-
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1894-12-03
La E|eganciia Habanera
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ofecemos nuesta crentel pdhio
es sartd doeon:
Fransias
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svales
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La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1894-12-03
A DiESTRO Y SlNIESTRO

O1ra vez Sc agita la question mo
meta en- Ssn uan.
la Cam dc Comercio senAi ace
fall, :. une, toma acueruos, tc'be
iespach hace el oso con toda la
gracia que leDda su sitaac;6n des-
gracis- ifsima
De Madrid dicen por cable que el
go'"erno Sc estd qwieto
Y todavfa cont,nt4n en- sus pues
tos los que soharon imponerse los
minis 20,
AUd les CONGO y no infunden mie-
10 aleuno.
o Sc acercan graves conf1i tos.
Que el psfs sc muere de hambre.
-Qle el orden puede perturb use.
Que el pueblo pide pan y pesos
espanoles.
Que ha ocurrido va el motfn de
las fichas.
Todos esos gritos de alarma fueron
& oidos de B. ezra, que dimitio por
que no lie fastidiasen los camariStdS y
los diputados.
Y s1a asi la directiva no dimite
Ell cange era bueno mas con de
fensores tales cada dfa Sc capita un
enemigo y Sc csea un obstaculo.
Villar, Egozcue y sus colegas de
comGrd Sc estan luciendo
Nj siquiera Sc da curse
al susodicho expsdiente,
en- su labor inpotentc
no les vale nj. Ell recurso
de la session pernsanente
Palabras de IN letrsdo conserva-
dor. que Sc llama don Francisco Pc
legri. que nacio en- Cataluna y que
nunca par;io migss con nosotros, los
liberales puertorriquefios:
d nominar un partido incondi-
cionalmente espanol, es sup ner que
los demas partidos no SON tan espe-
ciales como aquel; y estoy co1ven-
vencido de que tan buenos espanoles
son los conseivadores como los auto
nomistas, y tanto los peninsulares
como los insulares.'
Exacto; absolutamente exscto.
Pero que seria de los caciques 81
10 reconocieran asfg
Perderfan su prestigio y merms-
r1an sus huestes, porque en- las hlas
hay mucha genie de
ideas avanzadas y desde el punto en-
que no Sc las engane, diciendolas que
m ptienen un interee nacional, ven
dram nuestro campo luehar con
brio, I'm de alcanzar para ellos pa
"a sus h jos la aplenitud de las liber-
fades pa rias
En- el cristo grande vende ell secreto
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1894-12-03

del triunfo, que solo aprovecha & los
que saben explotarlo.
Y lay del gran partido 81 sc des-
poia de esa mentira, de esa mascara
que constituye la esencia de sus fun.
clones politicas
sQuiere, Pelegrf. que ruede
por pueril y suspicaz
csc partido en- agraz
Pues rodara, 81 nj aun puede
mantener Ia integridaz.
Cantidades que ,ha satisfecho este
p=r;6ii 20 por fcanqueos para el inte-
rior de la isla durante ell cuatrimes-
tire que termino en- Octubre:
Mes de Julio 5 As
de Agosto. ....... i, 40 81
de Septiembre.. ;, 6I -
de Octubre .---- 81 "a
Con esta progression ascendente. y
con ell hecho de contribuir la renta
lie cl municaciones por una cantidad
,e todos juntos no alcanzan los pc
ira 10 que afirma Las Noticias
Que La DEMooRAcIA no tiene
eco en- el pats.
Ore sus propagandas eaen en- el
vacfo
vQue esta siempre dando paios dc
ciego
Ore en- nosotros es todo purs
garruieffa.
" que vamos morir cualquier
dfa de anem de consuncion.
Muy bien y en- cambio nosotros
en- honor del colcea estas
frases atinas del Gloria ia ercetsiS:
--Tu soius sanctnS
-Iu solus dominMs
-Tu SoluS alttsimus
-Tu s0luS viviras por los 81 los de
los siglos con Alvarez Terez por
mango y con Lard Iognins por con-
terra.
Els tan gracioso el colega
que nos hemos de dar trazas
para que don German Vega
escriba, vellon la ent-~gs.
Cabezas y calabszas.
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1894-12-03
LA QUESTION
PALFIIANI NI'E'
LUCAS AMADEO

Las reformas, cuya disc asi6n EN-
pez6 de manera tan borrascosa en- las
cortes de Ia paci6u, habran de ser
un hecho f~cundo en- las Antillas
Las ideas racionaIes Y i6gicas que
tienden ensancher Ia esfera DE- &C
ci6n del espiritu humane Que tieneu
por OF j 70 que ell hombre entire ma
en- possession de su destiro, SO reali
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1894-12-03
GANGA

Sc vende por la mitad de su valor
un juego de sala compuesto de II
sillas, q siIlones grandes y un sofa
todo de regiila y un seibot de caoba,
en- magnifico estado.
En- esta jmprenta informaran.
Nvhre TO he 1904 2m a..
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1894-12-03
COIOcNcSONps

Las hay en- Ia Herreria fundici6n de don
Roberto Graham, Ponce, para un BUEN he
rrero bieu entendido en- todo los trabaios
de Fragua. Tambien para un BUEN fund.-
dor, entendido en- todos los trabajos de
moldear y fundir hierro bronco
Para personas aptas, constantes cum
plidas estas. colocaeiones serfan permanen-
ties.
Ponce, Noviembre 2s 1894.
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1894-12-03
Sc Vende

Tn predio r6stico compuesto de cincuen-
Ia cuerdas de terrenos prop'os para cafe.
sitas en- el barrio de Caunilla-abato, lugar
do ia Palmasola, del termino municipal de
Juana-Dfaz.
La persona que los interese, puede en-
tanderse para Ia compra, con e! Agente de
Nsgocios don Enrique Lopez con don = n
tonic Castafier, en- Ponce.
Ponce y Nvbre. 20 de 1894 ms.
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1894-12-03
COcheS

Por once pesos puede hacer el visje de
Ponce Ia Cepi al 8 vice versa.
En- los Precios f JOS de esta localidad V
en- la Bsysmonesa de San Juan de Puerto
REQ, expi1e los correspondientes bilietes,
Y daran ipformes-
Tambien ietan coches elegar ts- c6un-
los 4 precios convencionales
FSo-oo Ne,--;a.e k-o >, 1904
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1894-12-03

Es condici6n precisa, que para garsntiEar
81 desempefo de sus cargos, hsbrsn de- de-
postar el ID rector Gsrents al Cont@dor
Csjsro. In su'na de dos mil quinientos mil
pesos respectivamente, "a sea 81 Elective
va en- valores que los..representeu positive
mente.
Ponce, 4 80 de Nov;ambre de 1891.
We Be-El Presidente, Francisco Parra.
Ell Secretario INFERNO, y. o. Pdsare1
- 10 IN
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1894-12-03
EI nuev0 Presid ente
del Brasil

Ell doctor Prudente de Moraes. que seg1n
telegrama de aver ha tornado possession de ls
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1894-12-03
Buen negOciO

Sc yenden los aparadores y.
traperfa de la tienda Palmieri,
calle del Comercio.
francisco Para
Ponce, 0ctubre % 1894. | m. D
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1894-12-03
ssLa Aurora
DE SALVATELLA

Este establecimiento de conservas
y licores sc vende. FL que 10 intere
SC dirIase su dueiio que suscribe.
y SdlU0telIa.
Ponce ? Noviembre 1894.
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1894-12-03
BUEYES Y CARROS

El que suscribe vende IL yuntas
de bueyes y ; caEros nuevos al con-
tado, 8 plazo con garantia satisfac
tora. y. II Ortiz
Bsncs &c Qci "a, Nvbre 10, 1894
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1894-12-03
GRAN DEPOSIT0


I'm este antigua como acrsditado ests-
blecinaiento hay constantemsnte m elegan-
70 variadfsimo surtido de tods ols . si@
calIado dc todos prscios, y cue sc..rsnne-
va mensuslC.ante por los vapores directos.
Existe tambisa IN coppleto surtido de
toda clase dc nAseriales para =apateros
tslabarteros, driles eamisas nailorquinH~,
malstAs de viaje ba sles amer;eanos.
Vsnta MI Dor mayor MI detail 5ns
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1894-12-03
A Los HAcENDhDos DE CANA

.,oa rloseacio Santiago. Dc Cosno, tsens
Do vents novillos fnos prcpios para yugo-
The St. Johns herald., 1894-09-06
FASHION CAN'T BE FORGED.
Style in Costume Generally the Result of
 Accident or Incident.

Style In Costume Generally the Result of
 Accident or Incident.
 From the first beginnings of the his tory of dress, which date from the gar den of Eden, there is no instance of the deliberate adoption of a costume. No person or body of persons has ever said: ''GO to, we will now make fashion," and has made it. The his tory of dress is the history of the acci- dental and the incidental. It does not require a very long memory to look back over the futile efforts to force fashions, supported by the most unan- swerable arguments, on the unoffend- ing women of this country. The New York Evening Sun instances bloomer costume, which was organized and pro- noted by Mrs. Amelia Bloomer, now a hard-working woman in long skirts out west. A few years ago the divided skirt, which Lady Barberton has for twenty years tried to coax English women into, was busily taken up and eloquently promulgated in this coun- try. A nu12ber of outwardly well-clad women were really persuaded to put it on. It proved to be not only ugly, but a nuisance, and the same women not only discarded it, but put on tights; it is easy to go down hill. The pro- moters of the divided skirt now call themselves national council, and have put forth another scheme of dress for women. National is a large word. It is pretty safe to say that unless the national council is backed up by the army and navy there is very little hope that their costumes, even those un- qualifiedly supported by reason and anatomy, will be adopted by the wom- en of the country. Neither reason nor anatomy has ever had much to do in enforcing a fashion.
The St. Johns herald., 1894-09-06
A Wood-Duck's Tomb.

At the farm of G. W. Hutchins, seven miles from Marysville, a bee tree was found near the east bank of Feather river, which was cut to obtain the honey. After the tree was cut down to the ground an investigation was instituted and the honey located in a hollow halfway be tween where it was cut and the top. On cutting open the body of the tree they secured about eighty pounds of honey, eleven duck eggs and dead duck. It appears that wood-duck had formed cavity through hole that was originally large enough to admit her body. After laying eleven eggs she had commenced setting to hatch them and while doing so the bees had filled the hole with comb, so that she could not get out and she died on the nest.-Red Bluff (Cal.) Democrat.
The St. Johns herald., 1894-09-06
GEAR PETERS JOKES.
4 Great Monarch Who Was Decidedly
 Brutal in Ills Sense of Humor.

A Great Monarch Who Was Decidedly
 Brutal in Ills Sense of Humor.
 At one of the grand dinners given by the Czar Peter, says the London Tele- graph, hugh pie was placed in the center of the gent]emen'S table, out of which, when the carver broke the crust, beautiful dwarf lady, in puris naturalibus, all except a head-dress, stepped out, proposed in a set speech and drank in a glass of wine the health of the company, and then retired to her snug retreat and was carried from the table. A man dwarf was substi- tuted at the ladies' table. Did not Peter say he could reform his people, but not himself? A dinner party at the czar's must indeed have been a sight not conceiva ble out of Bedlam, and could only have been planned in the maddest brain on earth, if manu- script among the Sloan papers in the British museum is believable. Such practical jokes! such wild grotesque gambling! the frolics of leviathan! the laughter of Titan, as frightful in his fun as in his fury! There was ac-
 
 about one hundred, but the grim hu- morist always issued invitations to twice or thrice that number, and left his guests to elbow, jostle and fight for chairs and places, and retain them against all corners and claimants if they could. Not unfrequently free fight was extemporized and noses tapped, and even the sacred persons of ambassadors have been profanely touched and trifled with. The czar sat at the head of the table, broad grin on his face, rolling the spectacle like sweet morsel under his tongue. The guests are so closely packed that feed ing room is not to be thought of, and ribs are often blackened and almost driven in by active and vigorous el- bows, provoking fierce recriminations and quarrels. The kitchen is so near the dining-hall that there floats through the latter a fragrance of onions, garlic and train-oil, mellowed and tempered by the more delicious aroma of the roast. The more knowing and initiated guests wave away soups and such like edibles, and manifest special appetite for hams, tongues and viands that cannot be tempered with, or made the vehicle of practical joking, for as often as not it happens that bunch of dead mice will be drawn out of the soup or discovered snugly inn bedded in dish of green peas, and sometimes, when his guests have we'll partaken of certain pastries, the czar will courteously inquire if the cat, wolf, raven or other unclean animal proved savory or delicious morsel, with what result let the imaginative guess. The approach toa regular Donnybrook was hastened on by liberal supplies of brandies, strong ales and wines so adroitly served out as to expedite the grand climacteric of drunkenness.
The St. Johns herald., 1894-09-06
Crime and Immortality.

The international pickpocket art is, in Europe at least, almost entirely car ried on by Roumanians, Servians, Bull garians, Russians and Galicians. They outrank in cleverness by far the once world-famous English and American professionals in that line. The in- crease in all civilized lands of crimes against morality, religion, public peace and the government is mostly due to the socialistic wave which permeates all classes. While crimes and crim- inals will always exist as long as the world lasts, the next few centuries in their onward march of education and civilization will bring about a marked decrease, and the criminal statistics and annals of the present time will read like fables to the people of that remote future.
The St. Johns herald., 1894-09-06
INVITED TO HER SUICIDE.
Chinese Woman Calls in Her Friends
 to Witness Her AdIau.


 Mir. Medhurst, for many years British consul at Shanghai, tells of singular ''card of invitation" which, says the Million, he once received n China. It was from lady, intimat;ng her inten- tion to commit suicide at specified date. She was very young and attrae- tive, and belonged to a wealthy family; but the Chinese gentleman to whom she had been afiianced from childhood, having died just before the date fixed upon for their nuptials, she gave out that she deemed it her duty to render her widowhood irrevocable by dying with her betrothed. So she sent cards around to the local gentry giving no- tice of her purpose. at7
 No attempt was made by her refa- tives or the local authorities to frus- trate her design, though Mir. Medhurst appealed to the mandarins, the gef- cral opinion belng that she was about to perform meritorious act. Eventu- ally. on the day named, the woman did deliberately sacrifice her life in the presence of thousands of spectators. A stage was erected in the open fields, with tented frame over it, from which was suspended slip of scarlet crepe. One end of this slip she fastened round her neck, and then, embracing little boy presented by one of the bystanders, she mounted a chair and resOlutely jumped off, ''her little clasped hands saluting the assemblage as her body twirled round with the tightening cord"
 The woman was not bounded on by frantic mob, as was the practice at suttees in India, but immolation ap- peared to be an entirely voluntary act Sacrifices of this kind, according to MT. Medhurst, are not uncommon in certain districts of China, and, strange to say, they are rewarded with monu- ments, sometimes erected by order of the emperor.
The St. Johns herald., 1894-09-06
A Joke Tried by Jury.

A North Carolina paper tells the following: At Hafnett county superior court. few years since, Judge Shipp presiding, the trial of cause had been protracted till near midnight. The jury was tired and sleepy and showed hagging attention. Willie Murchison, who was addressing the jury, thought to arouse them, so he said: Gentle men, will tell you an anecdote." h. stantly the judge, the jury and the few spectators pricked up their ears and were all attention, as Murchison was admirable in that line, had fund of anecdotes and no one could tell them better. But he soon proceeded to tell one of the dullest, prosiest and most pointless jokes possible. Everybody looked disappointed. The judge, lean ing over, said in an unmistakable tone of disappointment: "Mr. Murchison, I don't see the point to that joke" ''Nor l, either," replied the witty counsel. "But your honor told it to me on our way down here and as l thought the lack of appreciation must be due to my obtuseness concluded to give the joke trial by jury"
The St. Johns herald., 1894-09-06
4 Strange Sight.

One of the most amusing spectacles of the Columbian exposition was seen in front of the California building on the day of the state celebration. 4 free distribution of fruit had been widely advertised, and carloads of fruit had been sent-great luscious peaches, plums, pears, nectarines and half-yard punches of white Muscat grapes and flaming Tokays. Great booths were erected outside the build ing, and a dozen fine young California men, her best products, handed out fruit to vociferous, struggling, eager crowd for seven long hours. 1t was a sight to be remembered. Sometimes the air was full of the larger fruits, which were tossed out among the crowd and promptly caught, but the punches of grapes had to be treated more tenderly. Hats, hands and bas- lSets reached out for the generous punches, and hundreds came away bearing their well-fought-for burden to share with friends. On this occasion many had come from distant parts of the grounds.
The St. Johns herald., 1894-09-06
REAL SOURCE OF THE NILE.
Dr. Baumann's Explorations Seem to Set
 tie Long Disputed Point.

tie Long Disputed Point.
 The problem of the ultimate source Of the Nile seems finally to have reached a solution through the recent explorations of Dr. O. Baumann, says the New York Evening Post. Thirty years have elapsed since Spoke sent to the Royal Geographical society of Lon- don his famous laconic dispatch: ''The Nile is settled" announcing the dis covery by him of the great equatorial lake Victoria Nyanza, supposed to be the main head basin of Africa S mighty river. This discovery was followed soon afterward by that of a second, seemingly still larger, equatorial lake, the Albert Nyanza, which divided the honors of "Conqueror of the Nile" be- tween Spoke and Sir Samuel Baker The progress of more modern African exploration, while it has served in many ways to bring about a truer knowledge of the mutual relations of these two large lakes than was known to Spoke and Baker, and to establish the more positive claims of the Vic toria lake, had not, until Dr. Bau- mann's journey, answered the still sig nificant question regarding the posi- tion of the headwaters of these lakes; in other words, the actual fountain head of the Nile had yet to be discov- cred. This is now shown to be on the eastern face of the height of land" which closely borders Lake Tan ganyika on the northeast, the source of the Kagera, or Ruvuvu, western and the most powerful tributary of the Victoria Nyanza. This position was reached by Dr. Baumann on the 18th of September last. With it's source thus placed between the third and fourth parallels of south latitude, the Nile traverses thirty-fve degrees of latitude and becomes close rival in length of the combined Mississippi-Mis- souri system of rivers.
The St. Johns herald., 1894-09-06
WHY OIL STILLS OCEAN WAVES.
The Wind Passes Along the Oily Surface
 with Reduced Power. ,

The Wind Passes Along the Oily Surface with Reduced Power.
 F A great deal has been written about the influence of oil on waves at sea,
 and of the practically useful action of
 oil in many cases there is abundant testimony, but little has been heard of
 the reason for the results obtained,
 says the Chicago Tribune. Experi-
 ments made in shallow, broken water
 on the coast, where the wind and tide
 confiicted, have shown that little or no
 advantage can be traced from the use
 of oil under such conditions; that is to
 say, the wave motion being disturbed
 and under forces not wholly those of
 wind action, the oily film becomes broken up. In deep water, however,
 where the waves may be considered as
 wholly formed by the wind, their forms are more regular, and it is in such cir cumstances that the recorded exam
 pies show to the best effect. These eff
 fleets suggest the real action of the oil
 According to some theories the oil acts as it does when applied to bearings in machinery, and thus the wind glides more easily over the oiled surface than it does over the water surface. It is difficult to see. however, that the fric- tional resistance between air and oil should be less than between air and water, as the oil is a less mobile fluid that the water. Again, when we con- sider the surface tension of fluids, and can often observe their restraining ac- tion on ascending air bubbles or small floating objects in glasses of water, we might suppose that by the addition of the film of oil sufficient resistance was offered to the uprise of the upper part of the wave, and thus the tendency to break would be restrained. The ac- tion of the film of oil is one of separa- tion. When we consider the tendency of air to become saturated with watery vapor due to evaporation and of water to retain air by absorption, we may readily conceive that the impact of air on watery surface will tend to cause commingling at the surface of air and water which will thus offer sufficient resistance to the motion of the wind to throw the water and mixture in- to an undulatory movement and, there fore, when this forward movement has exceeded the speed due to the periodic motion in the wave itself, the upper part in falling forward from the effects of the push of air from behind shows foaming rush of broken water; that is, the air incorporated with the water and the water itself. Arguing on this basis there is no difficulty in accepting the theory that the film of oil spread over the surface of the water effect ually prevents the formation of broken water: as the air and water are kept separate the tendency to mutual ab- sorption at the surface is checked and the wind passes along the oily surface with reduced power of wave making.