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La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1896-10-24

-Sefor Juez, he sabido que mi vecino
me busca para matarme.
-Pierde cuidado, cue si Sc realiza ell In
tento, up cuarto de hora despu6s estark en-
mi poder, le costara caro-.
-SY no serfa mejor prenderle un cuarto
de hora antesg
Oonfesabase uno de prestar dinero con
usura
s -Si ell interes pasa del por 100, le de-
cia oil confesor. comete usted uu pecado no
divide usted que Dios todo 10 ve desde 81
cielo.
-Por ESQ precisamente, se1or cara. por-
que todo 10 We desde el cielo, presto al 8 por
100, porque ell 0, yisto dosde arriba, le pare
ce un 9.
Decfa IN Inspector un pilete que habfa
robado un relej un diputado:
--Ha tenido usted atrevimiento para ro-
bar IN padre de la patriaf
-Si, sefior.
-kOonque confiesa su delito9
y confeso que he hecho otra cosa peor.
-sPeorf
-Muchislme peor.
-iY cu&l esG
Ell haber cometdo la torpeza de deisr-
me prender.
FRUsLERfAs
81 algua enamorado que yiyiera
abrumados por dudas y temores,
IN conseio de amigo te pidiera
para salir con bien de sus amores,
deja que salga el solo de su apuro,
sigue la conducta que 20 sligo,
pues ii algo le aconaejas. -. lde SECURE
perderas ell consejo ell amigol
Alberto CdsaftaI Shakery
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1896-10-24

En Ia familia, como en- Ell Estado, es Ia oco-
nomfa la mejor fnente dc la riquezs- : Ctce-
r6n
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1896-10-24
REcORTES q :

Eo la familia, como On ell Estado, es la eco-
nomfa la mejor fuente de la riquezs. : Csce-
ron.
El poder del msriso propio, Sc abre paso.
Shakespeare.
In IN pueblo brutal salvaje co igual para
todos In condici6n de la pobrezs Smiles.
Los ejemplos demuestran ls posibilidad
del buen exito. Cotton.
LA INooEN NOIA
Dx corPfx)
Hija de Las pasiones.
Ia huerfana infeliz del carcelero
por el iufame patio luce airosa
ell dorado caudal de sus csbellos.
va cumplio cinoo abriles
cubre su blanca teZ trsje grosero,
y libre y sin pensar LENA la carcel
de animaciSn, de risas gorgeos.
Tai vez por divertirla
hace juguetes IN anciano preso,
y la arrullan Y meoan en- sus brazos
ell vicio 3uvenil ell crfmen yieio.
Y, cual la pssionaria
brotando ante ell patfbulo siniestro,
auu parece la nina N IS hermosa
cuando en- suplicio atroz matan un REQ.
Manuel Fernandez Jt4acoS.
RIMA
Unidas las cabezas,
los ojos en- el cielo,
mirabamos correr entire las nubes
la blanca luna como disco Immense.
Que alegre parecis,
al asomarse entire celaies negros,
nuestra dicha su luz iluminando
con pslidos destellos.
III amor nos unia
en- un abraZo estrecho
td, me interrogzbas con 10 ojes,
yo, te contestaba con un beso.
La ausencia SO interpuso
te fuiste de mi lejos,
dejandome tan solo con mis- penas
y con mis- pensamientos.
ssn Y al yer ahora La luna
lamar elft~e celajes sus refejos,
lpareceGca tan triste
como 81 iluninase un cementerio! 80.
Joaquin Alcaide de zs.fra,
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1896-10-24

va cumplio cinco abriles
cubre su blanca tez traje grosero,
y libre y sin pensar LENA la carcel
de animaciSn, de risas y gorgeos.
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1896-10-24

En- In Capital se estkn vendiendo raz6n
de dos pesos veinte centavos, los billetes en-
teros de In Loterfa provincial, para el pr6xi-
mo sorteo.
Bueno va.
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1896-10-24

FL poder del msrito propio, Sc abrs paso.
--Shakespeage
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1896-10-24

Tai vez por divertirls
hace juguetes IN anciano preso,
y la arrullan Y meoan en- sus braZos
ell vicio ,uvenil y ell crfmen yieio.
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1896-10-24

En- Santurce Sc organizan grandes festas
para solemnizar Ii inauguration del Velo-
dromo, que esta pr6ximo terminarse.
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1896-10-24

Y, cual la pssionaria
brotando ante ell patfbulo siniestro,
auu parece la nina N IS hermosa
cuando en- suplicio atroz matan un REQ.
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1896-10-24

In nm pueblo brutal salvs1e CO igual para
todos Ia oondici6n de la pobrezs. Smiles.
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1896-10-24

III maestro don Tomas Breton. que SO en-
cuentra actualmente on Laredo, Sc ocupa en-
escribir el ibreto de una nueva opera titula-
da RaqueL, cuya partitura emprenderk des
pu6s de terminar Ia mtisica de IN sainete de
Eusebio Sierra.
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1896-10-24

Hija dc las pasiones.
Ia huerfana ipfeliz del carcelero
por el iufame patio luce airosa
ell dorado caudal de sus cabellos.
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1896-10-24

La bicicleta Sc utiliza hoy hasta para ha-
Ger el clssico viaje de movies, como 10 han
hecho en- Boston, Estados- Unidos, la sefiori-
ia Jennie Morrill, y ell joven Henry W Ro
bins0n
PresentAronse ambos vestidos de viaje al
reverendo que los bendijo subieron en- Sc
guida s una bicicleta de dos asientos, y
acompafiados por los testigos y numerosos
amigos que los siguieron en- sus maquinas
durante largo trecho, dieron principle los
recien casados al Wis je que tenfan proyects-
do por todo ell New Hampshire.
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1896-10-24

Unidas las cabezas,
los ojos en- el cielo,
mirAbamcs correr entire las nubes
la blanca luna como disco Immense.
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1896-10-24

Los ejemplos demuestran ls posibilidad
del buen exito Cotton.
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1896-10-24

Que alegre parecis,
al asomarse entire celaies negros,
nuestra dicha su luz iluminando
con pslidos destellos.
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1896-10-24

Llamamos Ia atenci6n de nuestros lectores
hacia la carta de nuestro ccrresponsal en- Ma
drid Angel Guerra, que publicamos hoy.
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1896-10-24
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LA mo OEN OLA
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1896-10-24

F. Por exceso de material hemos retirado ell
articulo que anunciamos aver sobre fusiles
modernos.
The record-union., 1896-03-11
THE ARBITRATION CRAZE.

The Permanent Arbitration Commit
tee" people are now vigorously working
the English end of that new tangled
plan to promote peace. Great demon
strations," the dispatches assure us,
are now made in England in favor Of
the Chicago idea, namely, that there
shall be erected a permanent arbitra-
ton committee, to which all issues
arising between the United States and
England shall be submitted.
The Record Union has repeatedly
pointed out that such a system, if es-
tablished, will amount to the annexa-
ton of the United States to the Brit
ish Empire. We have held that such
scheme involves the surrender of our
diplomatic independence. The more the
matter is examined, the firmer is our
conviction that in these judgments there
is all soundness.
The Record Union" does not oppose
arbitration when it is meet, but it does
contend that wisdom sustains the idea
that every case should stand upon its
own bottom. But the permanent COM
mittee proposed would mean the ref
erence of every case coming to issue
without effort to settle on just lines
and through diplomatic engagements.
1t would mean that diplomacy should
be shelved, SO far as this nation is con-
cerned, while England would still main
-, sr,I1
day the chief fount and source of her
strength.
Let the advocates of the permanent
committee idea ask themselves some
swer to them:
What necessity exists for such a tri-
bunal? Why should not each issue. as
it arises, be considered so far as arbi-
tration is concerned as the circum-
stances demand? What guarantee can
be given that England will not for her
self determine what issues concern us?
Take the Venezuelan question for exam
pie; would not England say to us, hold
ing as we know she does, that is was not
a matter in which Of right we have any
concern, therefore it was not matter
te go to the permanent committee?
What guarantee can be-given that the
United States viii not pursue precisely
a similar course?
If the probability thus implied may
become reality, what becomes Of the
efficiency of the permanent commit
tee? Is it not a fact that we are weak
est in our diplomatic ability, and will
not such committee as is proposed
enervate us still more2 Is it not true
The record-union., 1896-03-11
Opening a s1u1ce cate

Relieves a dam of a supera bundance of
water. The bowels are a kind of sluice
gate of the system, and serve to carry off
superf1uities which would otherwise flood
and damage it. Constipation obstructs
this avenue of escape. Hostetter's Stom-
ach Bitters opens it and relieves the sys-
tenn. This it does gently and gradually,
but completely, and does not, like vio-
lent purgative, grippe, convulse and drench
the bowels, and leave them weak and unfit
for efficient service afterwards. On the
contrary, it invigorates and regulates at
the same time that it relieves them. 1t
also strengthens and imparts activity to
the stomach, liver and kidneys, counter
acts a tendency to rheumatism and in
vigorates the nervous system. For the
relief and prevention of chills and fever
bilious remittent, dumb ague and ague
cake, it has no peer among modern reme-
dies Persons convalescing or suffering
from the debility or infirmities of age
find if highly haneficial
The record-union., 1896-03-11
GOVERNMENTAL 1NrERNEDDLING.

The New York Dispatch well holds
that the less Government is concerned
in the conduct of business usually un-
dertaken by private individuals the bet
ter for the Government. The demand
by the few, who do not stop to study
the history of such endeavors, that the
Government should undertake the con-
duct of railway business, is a demand
that flies in the very face of American
ism, or, as the Dispatch" well puts it;
1t is an encroachment upon the the
ory of our institutions. Any legisla
tion, even on the interstate commerce
order, that goes beyond the province of
police control for preservation of ma
tional order, is with us unconstitu-
tional, and a step toward old Rome's
way of doing business. Napoleon's
ideas of government left nothing for
the people, and it would seem that
Henry Georges theory, carried to its
analysis, is to bring about a Chinese
state of affairs with necessarily foun-
tain-head or ruler in the person of a
monarch or dictator and everything
vested in the people in common from
socialistic point of view producing as
a natural result in time race wholly
devoid of ambition for personal aims,
and ruled alone by the common will and
desire:
To adopt the system of the radical
''reformers" of the day would be to ac-
cept the doctrine of the Roman Gov
ernment with it's failure in full view.
Mexico has some thing of this system,
and it's example is not an encouraging
one, we submit. It's operation can be
studied in Russia, where the individual
is about as nearly eliminated as any
where on earth. 1t is an easy thing to
theorize on this subject in favor of pa
ternalism, but it is impossible to close
our eyes to the established truth that
the Government is best where there is
least governmental interference with
business that belongs to individual am
bition. China affords US a fine exam
pie of this truth, and that Japan is
breaking away from such a system is
emphasis put upon that truth.
The record-union., 1896-03-11
A Big FIRE AT PERKINS.
Cause of the Alarm Sounded at Midnight
Last Night.
The Village Had Narrow Escape
The Store of Warren Brothers
Destroyed.

A fire alarm was sounded at midnight
last night for Twenty first and r
streets, but inquiry of the Sunset Tel
ephone Office ELECTED the information
that the fire was in the village of Per-
klns, five miles out of the city, on the
line of the Placerville Railroad
For time all efforts to secure tele-
phonic connection with that place were
fruitless, the only information obtaina-
bic being from Mayhem Station, a few
miles beyond That was to the effect
that what appeared to be a big fire was
raging at Perkins, and it looked as if the
village was being destroyed
About ! o'clock Deputy Sheriff J. J..
Hinters, who lives at Perkins, tele-
phoned to the Record Union that the
first report was exaggerated, and that
the only building destroyed was the
grocery store of Warren Brothers.
The citizens formed bucket brigade
and by hard work managed to save the
adjoining buildings, though at one time
it looked as if the village, which is quite
compactly built, though small, would be
swept by the flames.
As soon as the Southern Pacific Rail-
road office learned through the Capital
Telephone Company that the place was
threatened the fire-train was got in
readiness and dispatched to the scene
The run was made in very few min
utes, but fortunately the danger had
passed when the railroad fire-fghting
crew reached. there with their powerful
locomotive pump and big tanks of
water
The city fire department responded to
the call from box II, but after an ex-
tended run discovered that the fire was
out in the country.
Mr.. Hunters reported that the origin
of the fire was a mystery. 1t was the
fourth mystery of that kind that had
occurred since the Warrens opened
their store in Perkins. Three times
their place had been set on fire, and
each time saved, but last night they
were less fortunate, the entire contents
of their store being burned.
The record-union., 1896-03-11

that we have not, as we should have
done. cultivated the art of diplomacy,
and that in consequence European ma
tions have outwitted us in about all
diplomatic fencing?
The truth is that a state of prepared
ness is the best condition for peace
promotion. Let US take positions that
are true and just and stand to them,
and we win command respect among
the nations and secure protection for
our citizens abroad. Let us arm, not
for war, but for peace. Let US not
shackle our diplomatic freedom and put
leg-irons upon our national gait Agree
ment to submit all issues to a perma-
nent board will do just that thing,
while resolution to be just and fear
not to assert American principles and
stand to their defense; to do justice
and to enforce it in our own behalf; to
avoid war, but to have no fear of it; to
meet all friendly offers for settlement
of issues halfway, but in each case
according to the circumstances there
of; to study diplomacy and train up a
school of diplomats, that we may not be
outWitted by others in the interna-
tional fencing of wits-these will secure
us respect abroad and confidence at
home and prevent the development Of
issues 1t will make us the nation that
we ought to be, and not a thing to be
snapped at by every whiffett State or
decaying monarchy of the globe, as in
fact we are treated now from the six
by-nines of Central America to the
State Of the slippered Turk, who sneers
while he refuses us, and down to the
Spaniard, who has so little
regard for our prowess, or esteem for
our wisdom, that he is ready to engage
our ability to trounce him, and pre-
sumes to tell US that Americans are
asses.
The record-union., 1896-03-11

Our report of the proceedings of the
City Trustees Monday night shows that
the President of the board took the
floor and stated that officers of the new
telephone company had told him that
the object in view in pushing the pass
age of the resolution to remove the tele-
phones of the old company from public
offices and the fire houses was to force
the people to subscribe to the new COM
pany in order to be telephonically re-
lated to the fire houses and city offices.
That is to say the officers of the new
company frankly admitted to the Presi-
dent of the board that they wished to
coerce the people into patronizing the
showing. The average American citi-
zen may be coaxed and induced, but to
attempt to drive him is, as a rule, a
thing not to be accomplished, where he
as to what he will do The statement
made by the President of the board is
precisely in line of confirmation of
what the Record Union" said in the
outset would be the natural effect of
adoption of the resolution for the re-
moval of the telephone boxes of the
old company; it is bulldozing resolu-
ton, and is not capable of any other
construction whatever. 1t should be
hardly necessary for the Record
Union to reassert that it took the posi-
tion it did wholly regardless of par
tiality for one company over another
We take no account of what company
asks the passage of such a resolution;
the case would be just as the same and
our position precisely what it is, if the
old company had asked the Trustees to
throw out the boxes of the new COM
pany. It is the principle of the thing
for which the Record Union" con-
tends. We hold it to be-to put it
of official power to
use it for the advancement of the inter-
ests of one company and against the
interests of another; that it is uneco-
nomic to cut off either company from
connection with the public offices; that
it is an outrage to say, as the resolu-
ton in effect does say, ''if you wish to
be telephonieally related to the public
offices, you must use one line only, and
the one which the Trustees designate"
The record-union., 1896-03-11

decorated with smilax. ferns and other
green's, the prevailing colors being pink
and white Here and there were clust-
ers and sprays of beautiful pink bios
SONS, intermingling with the delicate
shade After a few pleasant hours had
been spent in whist playing, the guests
were served with a delicate collation.,
and all departed TO their homes de-
lighted with their evenings entertain
ment Those present were: Misses Ida
McMullen, Iva Hughson, Lille Eber-
hardt, Edith Bradley, Dora Willis, Lot
tie Neubourg, Lulu Sherburn and Lille
Ebert, and Messrs. Warren, Charles
Harrison, E. Pope, George Basset, Ed
win Stokes, H. Burkhardt. II. E. Gates
and H. Stephenson.
i
The next party of the Deux Temps
Club will take place Thursday, the 18th,
s,1cfaoH of Wednesday,
The record-union., 1896-03-11

Rudini has renounced his views
yields to the war policy of King Hum
bert and accepts the Premiership Of
Italy. So the war against the legal de-
scendant of the Queen of Sheba is to
go on, the soil of a people entitled to
govern themselves as they choose is to
be taken from them, their chiefs are to
be deposed and foreign rule established
over thenl-that is, if the Italians prove
able to carry out their scheme of con-
quest If we should for moment put
ourselves in the place of 'the other
fellow how would we like it?
The record-union., 1896-03-11
SEALED PROPOSALS.

BIDS WILL BE RECEIVED AT THE
office of the Board of Trustees until >
dozen 1 inch taps, dozen 81 inch taps.
Said taps to be of good quality of brass
and free from sand or blow holes, finished
in workrnanlike manner and of a standard
suitable to machine of City Taper, and
to weigh not less after finish than lbs
for 1 inch taps and 2 lbs OF for q inch
taps A certified check for 10 per cent. of
amount of bid must accompany each bid.
Board reserves right to reject any and all
bids
Attest: NJ J. DESMOND,
mr7-St City Clerk
The record-union., 1896-03-11
SEALED PROPOSALS.

BIDS WILL BE RECEIVED AT Of
flee of Board of Trustees until o'clock
D. m on March 16, 1896, for 1000 feet of
6 inch castiron water pipe. Said pipe to
be of good quality castiron and weigh not
less than 80 lbs per foot, and be well
coated with asphaltum or tar, and be de-
livered at freight sheds or steamer land
ing in this city. A certified check for 10
per cent of amount of bid must accom-
pany each bid. Board reserves right to
reject any and all bids.
Attest: NJ. j. DESMOND,
mr7-St City Clerk.
The record-union., 1896-03-11
NOTE AND COMMENT.

Here is a chance to make money.
There is going to be rise in the price
of tinfoil for the demand is to be great
ly increased. And this is how it is to
come about: It has been discovered by
NJ Denis Lance, Docteur-es Sciences.
and NJ. de Bouillane, a skilled photog-
rapher, that with the Roentgen ray the
contents of sealed letters can be photo
graphed, and that, too, in fifteen min
utes. Worse than all, Gustave LIE Bon s
experiments prove that it can be done
with ordinary rays of light. There is
only one thing that will beat it, namely,
to inclose our letters in tinfoil before
enveloping them. So up goes tinfoil.
The Los Angeles Record" says: mo
woman has yet attempted to exI Nlin
why her sex are so attracted toward
men who murder women. The dis
patches relate that women constitute at
least two-thirds of the crowds that
have have been elbowing each other
to gaze upon the two young men ar
rested for Pearl Bryan's fiendish kill
ing" And then the Record" goes on
to say that presumably some of these
women carried flowers for the accused
and delicacieS for their palateS. Our
contemporary says this cannot be ex-
planned Yes, it can; easy enough. 1t
is all because woman is an emotional
creature, and thank God that she is. Of
course, If it IS said that this is incompat-
ibIe with according woman the attrib-
ute of justice. we have nothing to say,
except that nature ordered it so. and
nature never made mistake. Our Los
Angeles contemporary winds up its
honlily with this question: What
would we do if in every State of the
Union women sat on juries?" Do2
What would we do? Why. be hanged or
jugged, and stand up to it like gallant
men,.
The record-union., 1896-03-11
Academia Tonight.

At this evenings meeting of the Aca-
demia the subject will be: "Sacra-
mento-Its Early History and Pro-
gress." There will also be musical
nrngramne
The record-union., 1896-03-11
Auctiou Sale.

Bell & Co. will Sell at auction at 10
a. m. to-day, at 927 K street, a large
consignment of furniture, carpets and
household goods of all kinds, billiard
tables. bar mirrors. crockery, glass
ware, etc.
The record-union., 1896-03-11

Many specimens of worms and the
larvae of insects are not provided with
eyes Their habitation being in the
earth, eyes to them would be useless.
The record-union., 1896-03-11
nioe Game s.Pnlled ;.

officers Ash, Pennish and Higgins last
night arrested three Cinnamon for con-
Quoting a percentage dice game in
Chinese store at Fifth and streets.
The record-union., 1896-03-11

weddings, engagements, society notes and
on one side of the paper and give your
name and address, not for publication but
as guarantee of good faith0
Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred J. Brown en-
tertained a number of their friends at
an evening of whist last night in thenr
cheerful little home, 2419 L street. Ferns
and palms placed in appropriate places
gave it very cosy and welcome ap-
pearance, and at $50 the guests sat
down to the tables prepared to do their
best at whist. When several games had
been played the jolly group were in
yited in to the dining-room to partake
of the repaSt which was before them.
Later in the evening games, singing and
ether amusements were resorted to,
and when the evenings pastime had
come to an end it was voted a very
pleasant affair by the following ladies
and gentlemen: Mr.. and Mrs d. w.
Carmichael Miss Daisy Hunger, Thos.
Schad, Miss Lily Lancaster of Alameda,
Walter Dosch, Miss Lima Bainbridge,
Sherman Paine, Miss Mollie Rob and
Sterling Nourse.
Last Friday night a party was given
at the home of Miss Louisa Buckman,
at Twenty-ninth and x streets, by her
friends. A pleasant time was spent in
music, recitations and games, after
which refreshments were served. Those.
present were: Misses Mabel Bradley,
Tecla Erickson, Constance Mielenz,
Cecie Rider, Matte Williams, Lena
Buckman, Eta Fuller, Lottie Finch,
Helena Gropp, Letta Smith, Mabel
Mariner, Messrs. John Farrell, Ernest
Eckhardt, Frank HAITI, Ammon Clay.
Charles Studarus, Herbert Scott, Chas.
Lewis, John More. Mr.. Hintch, Frank
Coin, Frank Atkinson, J. Hintch.
Quite a unique whist party was given
last evening at her residence, 529 J
street, by Miss Lille Ebert to a number
of her young friends The spacious
The record-union., 1896-03-11
NEW FIRM.

RERT MARTIN AND WILL H.
Young are now ready to receive the pat
ronage of all their friends who wish to
be served with firSt-claSS meats of all
kinds Place of business northwest corner
Twelfth and o streets. Give the boys
The record-union., 1896-03-11
For Whom 2

Hurried. busy, nervous women are the
ones for whom Paine's Celery Compound
was especially prepared. These m men 9.an1 ana d
nourished need lust the invigorating,
% strength-giving effect of Paine's Celery
Compound. Use it now, and keep Well
The record-union., 1896-03-11

Several species of jelly fish are pro-
vided with eye spots-that is, rudi-
mentary eyes-which probably give no
more than an impression of light.