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PRESIDENCIA

Acordado por la Junta de Gobierno el
cobro del primer dividendo pasivo de vein
to cinco por ciento ha seflals do los dfas
que median entire ell el 30 del mes CO
rriente para que los senores accionistas We
rifquen el pago en-
Ponce, sefiores Viisf ca
Playa de Ponce, Mayo. Hermanos c.
Yauco, don Jusn E. Totti.
don Santos Palmieri.
AoJuh'as don Celso Caballero.
San German, & don Tomas Quihones
Guzman.
Jayuya, a don jose Fiol.
Y Juana- Diaz, don Victor Gutierrez,
cuyos senores estan autorizados para otor
gar los recibos provisionales.
Me complazeo en- comunicarlo los se-
nores accionist tas de esta Sociedad, en- con-
&C iapcia con 10 dispuesto en- ell art. IL de
los Estatutos los fines consequences.
Ponce, 10 de Diciembre de 1894.
FL Secretario interino,
j. o. PasareH FL Presidents,
m. Francisco PARA
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t-igan V hacen cada vez mas fuerte su
oposici6n, son los integristas de Cuba,
que en- yez de hallar en- ell gobierno una
fuerte resistencia. encuentran una com
placencia sin lfmites.
FL senior AbarzuZa busca hoy una for
mula de TRANSACTION entire esos elemen-
tos ell proyecto del senior Maura; for
mula i'm possible de encontrar, porque, 8
Sc adulteran las reformas Il gusto de los
integristas, en- cuyo case resultaran una
farsa, un engano, que desde luego no
esta el partido cubano dispuesto So
portar; Sc mantiene ell proyecto en-
toda su integridad, prescindiendo de las
pequeneces Y egoismo de un partido que
en- Cuba desea mantener todo trance
ell stotu quo, a cuya sombra medra Y
aniquila al pals el repugnante caci-
quismo.
Creiamos que ell nueso Ministro de u
tramar, despuGs de estudiar ell proyecto,
resolverfa de plano y con la urgencla que
ell asunto requiere.
Pero ahora vemos en- la prensa ma
drilena que ell se1lor Abarzuza vaclla
pierde ell tempo buscando formulas de
transaction impracticables. ST ell senior
Maura, padre de la criatura, Sc VIC obll-
gado salir del Ministerio por no hallar
esa formula / como ha de encontrarla ell
senior Abarzuza, que ahora por prlmera
vez estudia ell proyecto 81 ell autor
de la obra no ha podido enmendarla sin
que resulte un adefesio ecomo va pre-
| tender llevarlO q cabo ell corrector de
| pruebas ?
Una transaction, para satisfacer sola-
mente las pretensiones de los integristas
cubanos, seria una obra inicua, una bur
la sangrienta que concluirfa con la pa
ciencia de un pals que esta va cansado
de yer como los gobiernos no hacen otra
cosa que satisfacer los egolsmos de sus
eternos explotadores.
Una transaction, que terminase con ell
vergonZoso St0tt qe<O Y en- Id que toma-
sen parte todOs los partidos que en- Gu
ba tienen derecho intervenir en- la ad-
ministraci6n del pals, que no desea otra
cosa que paz, moralidad orden, serla
un paso decisive en- Ia regeneration de
estos paises. Pero esa TRANSACTIONS es el
m5rio 6tdnc0 de nuestra polltica. Los
integristas habrian de rechazarla como
rechazan hoy ell proyecto.
Pierde, pues, ell tempo ell senior Abar-
ZuZa, OIlSCanOO formulas Qe tran SACclOn
que convengan, no a Cuba Y Puerto
Rico, sino a los integristas, cuyos inte-
reses jamas pueden armoniZarse con los
de estos palses.
Va ha hecho notar este en- ell Congre-
so el notable diputado autonomista Gu
bano senor Giberga, en- I'm elocuente
discurso, que reproducira mas adelante
LA DEMOCRACIA.
'Hora es va de que callen los intere-
ses hablen los principles ., ha dicho
el senior Giberga.
A 6i Sc debe que ell debate ultramari-
no haya tornado proporciones importan-
tes en- el Congreso.
Esperemos, pues, el resultado de ese
debate 81 al fin contintlan ell senior
Sagasta y ell senior Abarzuza, en- sus va
cilaciones de siempre, sin atreverse d
abordar ell problema de frente, con valor
energia, rodemos prepararnos darle
un adi0s de despedida a las reformas ul-
tramarinas Y la esperanza de que los
gobiernos de la Metropoli cumplan ia
mas sus ofrecimientos.
MARIANA ABRIL.
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HabIa un hombre en6rgico, inteligen-
te, de posici6n suyo, no un 'burocrata
que ansfe persiga ell presupuesto por
llenar ell est6mago habla ell senior
Brussi:
"No Sc pens6 al inicio de las diferen-
cias de familia, al menos por parte de la
disidencia, en- menoscabar las fuerzas
del partido, restandole elementos mas 9
menos importantes Sc pretendia SIM
plemente corregir los procedimientos
que daban margen al oaciquismO Y q
ciertos monopolios Y negocios, que 81
bien no los autorizaba, los consentia Y
toleraba ia burocracia Unconditional, con
gran periuicio de la dignidad del NOM
bre collective: Sc guerra llegar al ca-tigo
de los explotadores de la buena fe, de Ia
ignorancia aun del miemo ciego pa
triotismo de algunos, medrando al am
paro de una idea sacrosanta, Y convir-
tiendo Ia colectividad en- degradante
Instruments Y asqueroso resorte de sus
medros, Y 10 que es mas, en- arma san
grienta de venganza, cuando Sc trata-
Sc de obstaculzar impe1ir la realiza-
ci0n de vergonzosos trafcos Y operacio-
mes clandestinas.
FL partido Unconditional, que en- epo-
ca remota tuvo su raZon de ser, no res
ponde 4 ninguna de las necesidades que
reclam6 su creacioD. Por otra parte, su
programa, 81 de tai pueden caIfiearse
los seis artfculos del credO que 10 infor
ma, es por denas defciente; NADIA dice,
NADIA concreta NADIA precisa, abriendo
su concisi6n poca diafanidad ancho
campo a la Interpretation la duda,
V por ell mismo hecho las arbitrarie-
dades V especulaciones del turiseiSneo
ncondiciOan. Mas que partido politi-
co, tiene rl caracter de oln cuerpO de Sc
gur5dad y cigilonci0 2orovinciaL'
De este mOdO, sin reparO,
contra la iniusticia clama
un almogavar preclaro:
bien por Brussi: ESQ Sc llama
sentir hopao y hoblar claro.
Ahora dicen que 81 ell Comite central
no convocaHna junta magma, la convo-
caran los dNdentes.
Que aceptaran las reformas de Maui
ra. como credo ilnico del neO- -reformismo.
One levantaran la bandera mauritania
V lidiaran baio sus pliegues famantes.
Y que Nillar y Alvarez Perez Y demas
patriarcas Sc quedaran solos y mustios
en- el pante6n de Cangrejos.
S,ten0 el RIO. del dgua qUe UeUe va
dara cuenta ell porvenir.
ST la di>idencia no vacila en- sus pro-
p0sitOs, este es ell instante de cumplirlos
plenamente.
ST Sc reduce la inaccion al silencio,
no culpe nadie de su propia nulidad.
Pintan calva la OCCASION, y qulen de-
ia que pase sin asirla, debe quedar en- ell
olvido, por incapaz de subir y levan-
tarse.
Hoy nunca: tai es ell dilema.
Con propagandas de botica no Sc va a
ninguna parte.
Con iatergje,c de pe1i6dicos no Sc con-
quista ninguna victoria.
Es precise decir' 0lgo la vez que Sc
hdce mucho.
Otra cosa es confundirse con las hues-
tes burocraticas, que solo andan a su
gusto por campinas pobladas de nancy.
Cuando Sc tienen hombres como los
que tiene la disidencia, ToDO es possible.
Mas aGn, ToDo es facil.
Pero hay que inter tsrlo ToDo.
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VINO NUTRITIVO
EOla, coca carTe peptonisada, de Torregro

kOla, coca y ear,se peptonisGdd, de Torregrosa
Alimento reparador para los organismos
d6biles.
Poderoso t6nico en- todas las afecciones
del coraz6n. ~
Para la anemia no hay ferruginoso que
le ayentaje.
Levanta las fucSzas fisicas del individno
repurando al propio tempo las funciones
todas de Ia nutrici6n.
Es an antidoto e6caz contra el abuse de-
los licores
Todos estos preparados de Torregrosa
han sido premiados con medallas de orc
en- la Exposition Universal de Chicago en-
Ia regional pc Puerte-Rico.
Dep6sito en- esta ciudad, en- la FarmGcid
de GddeG.
erosa. A9usdilla, plaza princips'.
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G r O n | G 4.
VaciIaciDEaeS

El correo de La Peninsula nos trae no.
ticias del giro que va tomando la discu-
sion del problema ultramarino.
En- la question de las reformas Sc ha
visto que todos vacilan, ministries Y di-
putados; vacila Sagasta y vacila Abar-
zuza. Los dnicos que vienen Y van, in
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RRVlSTA BXTRADGRRl

No solo i Europa ha recurrldO la Chi
ma, en- demanda de Intervention.
Solicit6 tambiGn la de los Estados L nj
dos del Norte, cuyo gabinete Sc muestra
muy dispuesto mediar EN- ell duelO CHI
no-iaponGs.
Entire las condolences que serla nece-
cedora Sc resigne entrar EN- negocia-
clones, figuran estas dos: la Independents
cia de la Corea Y el pago de una indem-
nizaci6n de guerra, por parte de los fla
cos combatientes del celeste imperiO, que
estas horas no es III lmperlo nj
NADIA, sino un mont6n infinite de men
tecatos que en- gu vida han sabido
hacer mas que conner arroz, fumar opio
V envolver en- ridiculOs misterios su
egoismo, su debilidad Y su impotencia.
Todavia, antes de que Sc establezca la
paz, hemos de yer & estos benditos huir
como ramos delante de los ieros ven
cedores.
Cosa singular, que explica la bajeza
de esta raza degenerate. Cuando So
breviene una derrota, y son tantas como
cOmbates sc libran, Ell el mismo terrltOrIo
chino, los vencidos, en- vez de favOrecer
q sus atribulados cOmpatrlotas, los sa-
quean les maltratan, como 81 Sc trata-
ra de extranjeros y de enemigos, por
anadidura.
CuGntase qae el iaponGs, por el contra
rio, asiste consuela al chino indefenso
y matrecho que encuentra en- su camino.
Bastan esos detalles y otros analogos
para dar raz6n del l6gico resultado de
esta guerra, al parecer descabellada y
desigual
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| a MOdiSta

TERESA BERIO DE oBRER, participa dis
tnguda centea pdbco general que ha trasladado u
taller la cae de Isabel nmero A. bajos donde tam
arregan somberos capotas segn los tmos
bordan trae de ninos
dbujos L
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La E|egancia Habanera
-16 ATOCHA 16

dc Caserta reoaado Ia ahra de la poca
cHentela pdoieo general los ta
mas
sgusto nj
Ias eciente mpor Jones par nues
pocedenc nges
avaIesu para
calzoncll 8 "a
ble. Meriu fnos 20 casnes an doe
Acudid la Eegancia complaados
me- Novem mbrs de
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NO MAS HERPES |
Ct4raci06 radical por medic de la Herpe
tina de 1OTregTosd.

Numerosas certifcaciones de individuos
curados de esta fatal dolercia atestiguan la
bondad de este medicamento. La HER
PETINA Sc emplea al propio tempo con
la LOGON ANTIHERPETICA DE TO
RREGROSA que, tan brillantes resultados
visne dando para extirpar ias pecas, barros
y'manchasde la cara.
No hay empeine que Sc resista al trata
miento de la Herpetina de la Loci6n A'I-
tiherpetica de Torregrosa.
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Sc VENDE

FL antigua acreditado establecimiento
de merceria y quincalls, fundado el afao
1916. sito en Ia plaza principal n1mero %
Informsra 81 dneno don Antonio Z Moli-
m.
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Los mOnop0Iios
en- ell COngreso
MIGUEL Nova.

Ell Sr PRE5IDENTE: Tiene la palabra
el ST. Soler Y Casajuana.
Ell Sr. SOLER Y CASAJUANA. Ne han
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GRAN DEPOSITO
dc calsado y peIeterta dc jaime Rulldn
Atocha, 6 Ponce.

En- este antique como acreditado ests
blecimiento hay constantemente IN elegan-
te variadfsimo surtido 10 toda cis so ,ie
calzado de todos precios, y que se.renue-
va mensualmente por los vapores directos.
Existe tambsn IN corpleto surtido dc
toda clase de materiales para zspateros y
Venta al po- mavor al detail 3ns
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al senior Lastres, esta misma tarde: "s Els
que vamos pasar en- silencio las OPT
niones de los agricultores de Puerto
Rico
Es que vamos dar ell espectaculo
de que la isla eliza diez Y seis diputados
para que ninguno, nj adn siquiera como
informalite, exponga 10 que opinan
aquellos Y otros elementos de riqueza del
pals p
= POr tanto, Sc nos viene enclma una Sc
sion en- la cual los diputados estaIan per
fectamente de acuerdo en- que no pue-
den estarlo, nj en- 10 de la moneda, nj en-
cosa alguna.
Lo dicho: de aquf en- adelante cada
diputado procedera por cuenta propla
algo ganara la Isla, y por clio debe-
mos alegrarnos todo 10 possible, aun-
que para alegrarnos de verdad serian ne
cesarias otras ake5atyaS.
~
Fl senior Garcia .Molinas, dada ell alza
inusitada de los cambios, q consecuencla
de la depreciation de la moneda y de la
ruptura de relaciOnes comerciales con los
Estados Unidos, ha presentado al Con-
greso una proposition de ley solicitan-
do que, en- tantO no Sc sOluclOne salts
factoriamente Ia question monetaria pen
diente de estudio Y sc promulguen los
nueyos aranceles, poniendo un remedio
Immediate para que los articulos indls-
pensables al sustento del pobre, como la
harina, Ia manteca Y ell tocino, que han
sufrdo an aumeuto superior un 5OiS ,
ba ien de precio, Sc les imponga d estos
Ia segunda coumna del arancel en- vez
de la primera, impuesta hoy consecuen-
cia de aqueIla ruptura.
A 90 Sc aliviar1a la angustlosa situa-
ci6n lie la clase proletaria (D sin que Sc
periudique EN- clio la production naciO-
nal \ solo traneitoriamente mientras no
Sc normalice la situaci6n monetaria.
DespuGs de leida esta proposition en-
contrGme con don Paco en- el salon de
confcrencias, y, aunque mi los pobres
de la plaza no me han dicho una pala-
bra, creo que sc pOndran cOntentOs: abri
los brazos estrechG entire ellos al Di-
putado por San Juan, el cual me dijO:
Amigo Ricardo, es ell primer ablazo
que me ia usted en- esta casa.
No es milo el abrazo solamente, sino
de los pobres de Puerto Rico, de quie-
nes usted Sc acuerda ~ suelen estar
sempre tan olyidados! -.
Me dej6 con la palabra en- la boca y
saIi6 disparado hacia ell despacho de los
MinistrOs
Este don Paco . olga 10 que quie
ra, resulta 10 que yo, en- mis- muchas dis
cusiones con 6l, le he repetido
-Si no tiene listed facha de conser-
vador . y yeces. -. nj hechos.
RICARpO NONz
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0) Esto es dscutible la 2'' columna SO
10 tiene un 10 por 100 de rcbaja sobre la T."
no 'alterar;t ese o por ciento, sobre los de
rechos. DO sobre las mercancias, el valor de
6stas al detall-N. de {0 II.
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guna gloria para Espana, nj para los
espanoles.
Porque al eabo de amos mil
de servicios singulares
de constancia viril,
sera la Guardia Civil
ell terror q 0s iaSatldres.
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SOUTH CAROLINA.

There is talk about organizing a $780,
600 fertilizer factory at Spartanburg
George A. LeMaistre of Wilmington
Del, is getting up the company. AL
ready over so per cent. of the stock has
been secured.
Samuel Joyner, who was convicted of
killing Branham at Eastover, and who
the judge and jury and solicitor recon-
mended to the mercy of Gov Tillman
Friday, had his sentence committed to
life Imprisonment in the penitentiary at
hard labor.
The book dealers in Laurens have re-
fued to sell school books at prices set by
the publishers, and the teachers associa-
ton has asked the superintendent of ed
ucation 20 ask the publishers % appoint
some man who win sell the books at
agreed prices,
The governor has commuted the sem
tence of Edward Dargan, colored who
was to have been hung in Chesterfield on
the 18th, to life imprisonment in the pen
itentiar. Such action was recommended
by the judge and solicitor. Dargan had
killed another negro.
Mage Henderson. white man who lives
at Clifton, got into some trouble with a
negro named Tom Turner Saturday Tur-
uer owed Henderson for some wood and
they We're having a settlement. They
could not agree and a quarrel followed.
Henderson pulled out his pistol and killed
Turner. Henderson was put in jail
The secretary Of state has issued n
commission TO W. A. Courtenay of Newry,
John r.. London of Rock Nm and u. c.
Robertson and Allen Jones Of Columbia.
ass corpolators Of the Laudsford Water
Power Company of Rock HIM. The com
pany rs also given power 20 establish cot
ton mills, etc. The capital stock Is to
be $4,000. divided into coo shares at sl00
each.
Wednesday night the old mcfarland
house at Cheraw, which belonged before
the war TO COL Allen Macfarland. was
burned TO the ground with nearly an OF
the furniture For the last eight years
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FLORIDA.

Another new enterprise for Lake City
is a steam laundry within the next thirty
days.
Within the next sixty days there will
be nearly 600 students in attendance at
the various schools in DeLand.
Dring the past year the property val
uation of DeLand has increased nearly
$4,000, the aggregate now being nearly
$35O,CO
The steamer City of Jacksonville will
resume her winter runs on the st. Johns
beginning this week. She had quite a
time getting down from New York.
A oolored man by the name of Luther
Smith died of dengue fever at High
Springs a few days ago. His death was
the result of exposure and taking bad
cold with the fever.
The body of a dead negro was found,
one day last week, in the woods near
Chattahoochee. His gun rested against a
tree near the corpse. A bloody fence rail,
with which he had evidently been killed,
lay on the ground at his feet No clue to
the perpetrator of the crime.
Jim Wells, the negro who was wanted
for the shooting of young Pitts at Fort
White some weeks ago. was captured at
Ellaville Saturday by officers there upon
information furnished by Sheriff Cone
of Columbia county. He was brought to
the city Saturday night and lodged in Jail
to await trial.
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was destroyed by fire aud he concluded,
from various circumstance connected
with the burning, that IL was the work
Of an incendary. Upon the recOmmenda-
ton of Detective r. H. DobsOu of York
vile, Mr. Barron employed Joe Wimbush,
a negro detective, TO work up the case.
He commenced operations on sept p and
at that time obtained SIS from his en-
ployer, telling him that he would need
money with which to splurge and make
the negroes OF the neighbOrhood think
lac was some pumpkins" A few days
later he reported to Mr.. Barron that
he had spotted his men and would soon
be able to pull them, and at this time he
pulled Mr.. Barron for SD more. VIM
bush failed to turn up at the time agreed
upon and his employer became suspicious.
He found that the negro had been
"splurging' and that he was about TO
leave the country. Tie sent 70 his
brother. J. R. Barron of Glover 20 come
and assist him. During J. r. Barron s
absence from Glover Wimbush called on
his business partner, Zeb Neil, and, on
the strength of a story that he was then
on his way to Ciastonia TO arrest the in
cendiaries, procured another S35 from Mr.
Neil. Wimbush was now $ll3 ahead. The
two Messrs. Barron then went to work
theoretically to catch the negro. They
telegraphed to various towns, includ-
ing Charlotte and Atlanta, and secured
his arrest in the former city, When ar
rested the negro still had about S35 on
his person, and $50 of this amount was
found in the hem of his trowsers. He
maintained that he was still at work
on the case and had no intention of run
ing away. He refused to return TO York
county without a requsition, and at
last accounts, the proper papers were be
ing prepared
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tories. These privileges must be obtained
or Japan can never reach that eminence
of civilized freedom for which she is strtV-
ing. 1t is possible too, that these convic-
tons are more pungent to her than TO us
foreigners. A sick man is usually more
sensitive to his pain than his friends are.
Nothing viii 90 China more good than
to receive from Japan a severe thrashing;
and this writer, for one, hopes that 1t
will be laid on with a mastery hand. Her
conCeited conservatism has ever stood in
the way of development Anything that
viii annihilate that hoary bigotry, even
though it should be war that would eX-
terminate a million pigtails will be bless
ing to the nation. When we read of the
killing of 20 900 men in one battle, we are
apt to let our sympathies for these semi
civilized people get the better of our
judgments. 1t is not only possible, but
quite probable, that very few of those
being killed would ever be any better or
any more civilized than they are now.
They may, however, be worth something
to humanity if by dying at the cannon's
mouth they can advance the cause of
Christian civilization.
Christian churches need have no fears
as TO the final outcome of this war. A
few missionaries will have to suffer; but
if China can only get the conquering she
needs, their work may be advanced more
by one year of war than by ten years of
conservative peace. Even II the war
should result in China's favor, she has al
ready suffered sufficiently to make her
feel the need Of more light and a better
civilization.
The war has already shown Japan the
advantage of western civilization over
oriental heathenism. She will come out
of this contest more than ever disguised
with her ancient follies and more deter
mined to utilize every good thing on
which she can lay her hands.
The commercial nations will suffer some
financial damage during hostillties; but
the Improvement that must inevitably
come to the two nations engaged in the
conflict will give an uplift to commerce
that will more than compensate for all
present loss. o. G.. Mingledorff.