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BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1896-06-28

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villspi' ' 90, 500 cla pasta. Men
dizabl y 90 5 fdoa tejidcs. F'n'
| ? vidll 2 ers tejidos. s Oha7s
ri 5 as tejidos. Ahumads y o.
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2 V R[ buches baoalao. Oh On
CTS iabn. s P 300 sts arroe. Pr
2 bocfes vino 2 sls garbanzos. /
| F 25 ikIs vino.
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land, d Latimer y Fer andez con
cargo 10 trAnsito.
De Nltimore, berg amer 'Hewy
B. Oleaes' q Mullenhof y KorDer
532. 3Slkilos carbon.
asRADAs DR oABorAJE
Bdras esp. "Maria Artau", de
Arroyo.
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yagnez.
Sandals DE zRAvzsIA.
Para Bosna y esoalas, vap esp
SaturniDl despaohado por s de
EzquiagalOO 81 cate 11,037 kilos.
Por j Oclps y Hermano, $50 sl ca
f6 13,4OO hlos. Por BolivaE Arra.
"a y 20, y sts almid6n. Para Oien
|tuvgos, pr j Ochoa y Hmno, 30
ss cafe 4j0 kilos.
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despachado por'Latimer y Fernan-
,4ez con calga de transito.
sAIpAs Da OABoTAJn.
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N4Jar0O.
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BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1896-06-28
aEkMAIZ g. co.
-T.-I1TUAE-I;l

importadofes en- grands esc.,..
de mezcanoias de tolas prooeden.
iiIaE.
sus tiendas de detail La LUZ
GLkOTKlOA y La. VILLA DR
BILBAO scn sem Dre ias major
a0fLlJ&A,
11enen SucutRaies lmp0rtadoras
en- Axeuibo y Humacso.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1896-06-28
sues 1E 0ECjSlTkS &c

mportadoEes de mercsnciaa d.
tod& classes J prooeQencias.
Ventss oil poE mayor, Orux 2:.y
al detail, en- sls tlendas Flor dc
Julio y Gallo de Oro, calle de Ii
Fortaiesa esQuina 4 la Orus.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1896-06-28
fk&@iISs San Joss enaaiaa \ Az
> ssN&GOs tcEs9 XII:

|o9s0ante surtid0 de relojes, y
plenoerfa de orc CON briilantes y
pAo0ras hnas de 10 mas modern o
que pueda desearse, Garantixan los
oO]etos y venden 4 precios m6di-
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1896-06-28
DRDiOATORlA.
LA RAZoS DEL rIrULO.

DRDiOAToRlA.
LA RAZoS DEL rIrULO.
SUMARIo.--Luchemoa.-Eld debcr
eumplido.-La generation que 81.
be.-La justicis humanA-Pretex-
90 criminales. - La formula del
progreso.--Rl peogreso y sus ma
nifestaciones. LA opinion p6blica.
ri perlodtSmo.-Lp que debe ser
el periodismo.-Lo que % hoy la
prensA.-LA prensa y lAs loyeA-
- pcliticA--Lo que debe ser la
po,itiea.-Como % hscen ,los poll
tiSuA.--C6mo nscen loo pArtidos.-
L . progrGmAs poligicoA--Arti6-
eios politieoA-K eArnaval politi-
20 ---Mlseries polttioas- - Hincosi-
dad yol. ueA-FAnatismo politioc
IL mocsaoiA-Principlos de-
mo ~ u o. --AbsIrdos democrAti.
Goa --s liros dsmocrAticos. - l.
iDcr o. 10 CascdrA.--LborsAd
contra - teono.--LA lgnAldAd %.
slAl. .-- Ia lgaAldAd ea lA AlssorlA A--
la lguAldsd ante la rAsoa.-LA 20,
| beFAalA.-LA demAgogtA.-Los Ann
nos moaerno4-~LA revolrai6a-
L4as AuelgAA--loniesioa ! eAos.-
81 niAiilsEao.-~PropssAaaAa ssmo
| sedot-A --l4nc1E soe4Al.--Anuno-
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boLaxsx AzAcAxTaL-
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AFca sseaa2AAI.
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s*NstaA - y assa assa ssaAssA, Eaaae-
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BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1896-06-28
falscO.al rama dol Dals. !

Vehlen { preciOs m6dicos 3. A
LlSneEa Hermano On 90 almscku
icAle de- II Eortalesa n6uerO 10.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1896-06-28
GERONIMO. O..zERBl

OORREDOR DE COMEROIO, Y
A6ENTn DE NEGOOIOS tiene
estableoida 80 Oticina en- 10 cslle
De 10 Fottalesa, h6mero 10, de- esta
CiudLd.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1896-06-28
BOLIVAR ARRUzAy CA.

4lmscenistsa importadores de
peovisionee. Vsnta al por mayor.
tsDuefios de Ia antigua ; acredita-
da Fabsica de k'6aforos, estableci-
da On SanJurce.
Mareas BQLIVARy CCNILL.
-0ep6sito Tstuzn LII
Agentes de la aoreditada marca
de clgarrillos Paiar1toI Bellesa y
LibertAd.
FSbrlca de G0Ores de todas clsses
Admitan R2dcares & consipns.
ciOn.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1896-06-28
<7UzA LOCAL. 4.
S0BRINos De Ez0uIAeA
ECETALE2A,, II,

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A&sntas dc loa vapots tss-cosrsos ds ],
ocmp&fita ItasatIAntirs Espan6la.
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'znhga y Uo., Dc Liverpool.
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=. <compafita "La Flscba") Do ID.
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II : sis y Oo., Linea do "Serra".
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ItUsa dc "Ssrfa".
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ontralncsaalos osnontnAdu ls0 Eo.
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BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1896-06-28
ESTANCIA: :

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6AD Juste, a.-~h&sa.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1896-06-28
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t)pnRA CLONES DE BUQU7s EN Pro.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1896-06-28

1istas de votantes en- las Ultima:
elecciones de Diputados Cortes.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1896-04-14
Rubber Tires on Carriages.

The number of rubber tires in use
OH carriages appears to be all the time
Increasing Oftener and oftener now
UPTOWN especially at night, when car
rtages largely predominant and the
sound of them is not blended as it may
be by day with the sound of many
other vehicles, you hear the clatter Of
horsea hoofs, but not the old-time ac-
companying rattle Of wheels The cab
or carriage has rubber tires
am not so sure that l like this.
always did like the sound of a well
built carriage, with everything about
it keyed up snugly; no rattling or play
anywhere. but With everything fitting
nicely. and the carriage running cas-
lily and smoothly The wheels of such
a vehicle make music on the street
pavement | think / like that sound
better than I do the noiselessness of
the rubber tires
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loo HIncn .Itrmmncr.

The ambitious young suitor was
standing, hat in hand, in the hallway.
"Tell Mr.. Swaggers that a gentleman
wishes to see him." he said to the but
ler placing his hand on the doorknob
in case OF extreme emeI gency The
butler did as he was told.
HUH It's you, is it?" said the blunt
old gentleman, advancing from the
library, glancing sourly over his glass
es.. Well sir?"
The young man plucked up all his
courage
81 wish to say, sir" he began timidly
that I love your daughter and desire
to marry her. l have talent in my pro-
fession. some money, am man
ate, and member of four
swagger clubs work hard and
1t Is no exaggeration to say that-er
' He clutched the doorknob
"That-er-we sir?' The old man
advanced a step threateningly.
"That-er-" he stammered as he
opened the door a little wider, that
er-I have before me a brilliant fu-
ture-"
Yes, broke in the irate papa as he
glanced at the brilliantly lighted street,
you havew And then the cyclone
struck the ambitious young suitor amid
ships so that when he landed at the
bottom Of the marble steps he saw 20
600 900 stars before his bedazzled vision.
yes" pondered the poor fellow, as
he picked himself up and began to put
the pieces together again, 81 was sure
that had brilliant future but b'Jove!
/ didn't know it was going to be such
= lightning display Of fire works as all
thatw
And he went down the street whist
ling the sad sweet strains Of Good
Bye. Sweetheart. Goodbye. st. Louis
/ Post Dispatch.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1896-04-14
THERE WAS NO SECOND VERSE
afr Dash Didn't Know lie was Hear
ing tho Lords Prayer.

ing the Lords Prayer.
The occasion was one of the semi
musical Sunday evenings which We all
know well, says the New York Herald.
Mrs. Dash had attended from genuine
love for the hostess. but young Mr.
Herbert Dash, her son, was there only
out Of filial respect and an ardent de-
sire to please his mamma.
The host was a musical devotee, but
made the unfortunate and familiar mis-
take Of over-rating his own voice and
its power to please
Young Mr. Dash had done all that the
strictest adherence to good form could
ask He had listened and he had ap-
plauded until finally. finding himself
tete-a-tete on the sofa with charming
Miss Blank, he yielded to natural i'm
pulses and listened to the music of
her voice rather than that which came
from the piano. In his own mind he had
become convinced that in truth vir-
tue is its own reward. His conscious
ness Of a duty we'll done had pervaded
his very soul. Satisfaction beamed
from his eyes.
Miss Blanks power Of repartee kept
him constantly on the alert He dearly
loved conversationalist who was wit
ty in an honest, wholesome way. In
their secluded corner he felt no re-
morse in enjoying the good things the
gods had sent. The group about the
piano was not disturbed, and the semi
confidential attitude consequent upon
the subdued tones lent an additional
charm. All was peaceful as a summers
dream.
Suddenly there was a lull. The voice
at the piano ceased Those near by
murmured their applause. Mr.. Dash
locked up, paused moment in his chat,
clapped in the subdued fashion appro-
pirate to Sunday night, and exclaimed,
Charming! Excellent! My dear sir,
could you not give us the second
verse;"
Instead of the expected eager re-
sponse and the consequent renewal OF
the music, under cover of which the
condolences mig also be renewed
silence fell upon the entire group. Pres
emily voice arose:
Herbert" said Mrs. Dash, chat was
the Lords prayer"
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The herald., 1896-05-01

price of the support of himself and his
following plank in the next Republi-
can platform that will declare for such
coinage at such a ratio. Unlike the
Canton tariff builder, there is nothing
ambiguous about Senator Teller when
it comes to talking on finance. He is
painfully plain.
If the ST. Louis convention makes
concession that will suffice to hold Sen
ator Teller and those he stands for. it
will be made at the expense of eastern
states that the Republican party can
rot win without. If the convention
adopts financial plank that meets the
ideas of the membership in the east ii
WILL if Senator Teller's position means
enything, loose western states that are
equally essential to victory. Really it
begins to look as though dissension and
division would constitute the chief fea-
lures of Republican politics for 1896.
The herald., 1896-05-01
Grocery Store Politics

AS / sat the other day on my accus-
toned box in Hams grocery store, mus
ing upon the political situation, a phi
loSophical old-timer came in, Sauntered
around to the cracker box and in an
absentminded way extracted a crack
er, after which he carelesSly strolled
over my way and leaned up against a
pile of soap boxes with a manner which
seemed to imply that all was vanity OF
vanities, that life itself is but the merest
incident, and that he was there at that
particular time and place simply by way
of parenthesis.
Il want it understood he said, that
l am for McKinley-firSt last and all
the time; but it seems to me that the
Mckinley people are taking things too
blamed serious. Why, they are making
regular business of Mckinley.
like to see people make something of a
stir and take an interest in politics, but
the Mckinley people suit me too we'll
they are altogether too much interested
to suit the occasion. Why should we
insist so vehemently on any one man, as
though there were no others fit to be
president? Why, to hear the uproar
you would imagine Mckinley the only
man eligible to the place. And yet
don't believe he himself is half so anx-
ious about it as some of his followers.
Some of them have just tied their little
craft to the Mckinley tug in order to
get toWed into port. And yet they may
find themselves all at sea- at last"
And the old-timer nuSed silently over
the prospect for few moments, doubt
less rejecting upon the uncertainty of
political fortunes. Then resuming:
The idea of the Mckinley people"
as he designated the mana gers of the
great Ohioan's campaign, still running
in his mind, these Mckinley people.
as l said to begin with. take themselves
too much in earnest. l like to see people
a little more casual and incidental and
not quite so much - absorbed, so to
speak"
There is Col. II. G. Otis, now. of the
Los Angeles Times. To see him astride
of the Mckinley boom. cavorting
around like cowboy on a bronco, just
makes me tired. He seems to think that
he and Mckinley are running the whole
country. and that Mckinley don't have
much to do with it. either. Say, did you
ever see Col. Roberts dash down Third
street in his little one-man buggy be-
hind his bow-necked colt, with his little
cap pulled so far down in front that
his for'ed sticks out behind, and at
tending so strictly to business as to
leave all the balance of the world en-
tirely out of the question? Well, that
is about the way Col. Otis is riding the
Mckinley boom, and he has almost
come to think that he is Mckinley him
self. San Bernardino Free Press.
The herald., 1896-05-01
FORGERY

The readers of the Herald are to-
day presented with a set of affidavits
that expose one of the boldest and most
villainous schemes to deceive the con-
gress of the United States ever at
tempted. 1t is a scheme of fraud, for
gerry and fiction that illustrates in most
startling colors the unscrupulous char
acter of the Southern Pacific's methods
and the baseness to which the Hunting
ton corporation is willing to descend in
order to accomplish it's nefarious pur-
poses.
The lobbying of Huntington at Wash
ington, the utilizationof specially
paid experts, the influencing of con-
gressmen by any and all means,
and the bully-ragging of local
citizens in behalf of the mo-
nopoly harbor at Santa Monica were all
to be expected, but the deliberate manu-
facture of signatures by the hundred to
petitions to congress in favor of its
plan to acquire valuable harbor with
public money and at the expense of a
free harbor, is a little more than even
the people of California, familiar as they
are with the methods of the Huntington
tribe, would look for. The attempt to
promote congressional action with
forged and fictitious signatures is, as an
act mo better than an attempt to pass
a forged check or note and is in princi-
pie many times more heinous in that
the deception is practiced on whole
people instead of on one or few in
dividuals.
This resort to the methods of the
criminal should, when known in Wash
ington, as it will be Immediately, ad-
minister the death-blow to the harbor
plans of Huntington. The United States
congress cannot afford to cater to the
wishes Of a corporation that employs
men to do things which fit them for the
penitentiary.
The herald., 1896-05-01
Mckinley's Weakness

Baron Hirsch will live in history as
character no less ideal than any created
by human invention. Inheriting wealth,
he preferred a life of action to one of
ease. Every pleasure conceivable open
to him, he adopted the luxury of doing
good"
To this ingenious and interesting
character eastern Europe owes its first
development of railway systems whose
direct effect has been to mitigate hard
ships of life for the poor, to develop Co
mestic trade, to abolish bigotries by
abolishing Instructions and compress
ing distances. To his liberatlity thou
sands, perhaps it is juster to say hun
dreds of thousands, of human beings
owe eXtrication from social and politi-
cal misery, and opportunities to live
worthily in a world better than that to
which they were born.
Large as was his purse, his largess
was broad as charity itself, knowing
neither race nor creed; and he had the
rare privilege of succoring princes while
he moved great masses of the more de-
serving of the human race to larger
thoughts of brotherhood and pleasanter
paths for toll.
Romance contains no more pictur-
esque figure, and Christianity itself
should bow a reverent head to the pass
ing form of this exalted Jew.-Chicago
Times Herald.
The herald., 1896-05-01
SENATOR TELLER'S THREAT

Senator Teller spoke cut in meeting
IN his reply to Senator Sherman We'd
nesday in a way that ought TO send
an icy chill chasing up and down the
back of the Republican who has been
hugging the comforting belief that his
party would have Walk-oVer in the
next presidential contest
The Colorado senator has announced
in unmistakable language his inten-
tion of seeding from the political Or
xanization to which for more than forty
years he has yielded unquestioning
obedience in the event of that organi-
cation refusing, when it next assem-
rles in convention, to accede to the de-
nands of the silver interests. The at
titude of Teller possesses peculiarly
deep Significance in view Of the fact
that he is in every sense a representa-
tive of the silver wing of the Republican
party and is more closely in touch with
the sentiment of that wing than any
other Republican leader living. Where
he leads, western Republicans by the
ten of thousands will follow. He has
laid down the proposition that the free
and unlimited coinage of silver at the
Is to 1 ratio is the issue of fundamental
10portance, and he has asked as the
The herald., 1896-05-01

ity report ever made on river and harbor
bill. In this fact the great power of Hunt
ington Is manifested Heretofore senators
never failed to make such allowances for
the states of one another as resulted in
unanimity. But the Santa Monica-San
Pedro case presented peculiar difficulties
TO some OF the committee. AS narrowed
down 1t was question of whether Sena-
tor White or Huntington should dictate.
ana senator White was turned down for
the all-powerful railroad magnate. Nat
urally Senator White is highly incensed.
lie proposes to make the hottest fight of
which he is capable to prevent the adoption
of the committees report when it comes
up in the senate. His case appears to be
so clear that it is difficult to understand
how the senate can resist his arguments,
except on the theory that Huntington eX-
ercises an actual control over that body
The Santa Monica steal will not succeed
in the senate. 1t is learned upon the best
of authority tonight that a canvass of
members of this branch has been made by
men friendly to Huntington and that the
poll shows forty-nine votes against Santa
Monica, a clear majority for White and
San Pedro and n Knockout for Hunting
ton and his associates
The herald., 1896-05-01
A Sweet Story About Stanley

When Stanley was writing his "ThrouglI
the Dark Continent" in London he used
often. from want of fiat surface to
and one day the cat of the house. which
had taken an extraordinary liking for the
great explorer. and passed most of her time
was spread out on the hearthrug. BY and
by the chart was wanted, and one of Stan
ley's assistants was going to turn puss off
of it,. when the man who found Living
stone stopped him. Don't disturb the
cat, he said. I'VE can get along without the
chart until she wakes up. If you only knew
how, good the sight of that English cat
cozily curled up i'll front of that fire is TO
me, you would never let her move from
where she is He had just come back from
weary and trying time among uncivilized
tribes, and the sleeping cat was to him
the symbol of comfortable security, peace
and of hOme.-The Kennel Journal
The herald., 1896-05-01
Not "the Mckinley Tariff" in Reality

The fact is-and it is fact which can
not be too earnestly or steadily borne in
mind-that Mckinley had very little to do
with framing the measure referred to
and called by his name. 1t was really the
work of the protected industries who pro-
fitted by it. Mckinley pushed the button,
but that is about all he did. They did the
rest: and it was by far. the greater part
of the job Mckinley is justly to be blam
cormorants and permitting them to get
what they wanted; but he is not as much
He is certainly entIued to very little praise
from the men and the industries for whom
he acted mainly as jackal.-Detroit Free
lrnSS
The herald., 1896-05-01
He VIII Not Hustle for II

The office of president of the United
States is the highest elective post in
the world. 1t is so regarded by the peo-
pie and by every man who has been so
fortunate as to hold it. All our presi
dents have not been great men, but they
have been honest and respectable, and
have shown a proper respect for the
dignity of their great office. No one has
ever been made chief magistrate yet by
"hustling' for 1t, and Mr.. Carlisle rec
ognizes this if his critics do not 1t
may not come unlooked-for, but it can
not to be met more than half way.-Lou-
iSVille Courier Journal.
The herald., 1896-05-01
A JEST OF THE SEASON

We done fix up in our fines' STYLE foh ter
welcome Mist SIS Spring
De posies nod in de velvet sod. an de birds
Staht up ter sing:
DE leaves looks out f. ON de timber tWig an
dey whispers taint so COOL"
But de groun' hog set
In de snow an wet
An he holler Aprile fool'
I sees by de almanac she's due, but it's all
in vain L tries
Fob ter read dat news. dat we'd hate ter
lose, in de meadows an in de skies.
Yves got bouquets an our Sunday clothes
in accordance wifi de rule,
But de groun' hog wink
An he laugh and blink,
An he holler "Aprile fol''
Washington Evening Star.