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BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1897-07-09

Enjuicismiento civil, por Sslce
DO, tCm0.
Ley de- eDjuiCismiento civil. EN-
! Ito Keus, 6 tomos
Legislasi6n HipotecaEia per Ga.
IeE do, 4 tomos
Ley Hi2otecaria con ReglameD'
to, por M0rell. 1 tOmo.
AtsnCeies judiciales uara 10 ORR
m!naI.
Tacticas de Recluta, 40 cts.
Idem Secoi6n y Cosops6ia. go Cts,
1dem Battalion, 80 cts.
Manual dc Olaaes de trops, 2 to-
mca 5 2-75.
C6dig0 de Justici0 MiIltsA. 81
e1taYOs
L5OFos para La Academia
preparatoria
AritmetIcs, ,spoT.SaD,
nae, l tomG. 2 GO
Algebra, p0F idem 2
Gomo. Z DU
Geometrta por Orte.
ga, z tomos....-..... 800
Trigton0metria, p0r
Gomez : Palette, t.
GIV-a . 60 ss--..s.ss w
GEafH4ttra frsun2as
of,OteneFO, l tomo.. 500
Traduoifn, per Tra-
mani8, l tom0. %
Ar.tmeftca, pos Cor
tsxar, / tumo.----..- $50
Algebra por idem, ]
UJNdOss 0C
Geometrie, por idem
l .t0mo.-...~..-.... | "a
Geomet1f@ y Trlgo-
nometria, per Gavilani
COIHC.~- 5 ol
Aritmetios, pOr CSr.
din, l tomo.......... ! 5(
Algebra, por ldem, l
COnOo. -.-s. bi
GeomeGria, por idem
LoHlCs s.s..s---~s..s IL
0ksmatIca GFaDceeae
poT Obantgean. ] tOmp z 225
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1897-07-09
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tuAnooSe lgs .sltEsda2 80 Ia HabnDs
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NingnYo st sstoa yaporsa sOcsYs !
50 zes0rno 81 esusa lGoxmo.
LINEA LIZ eUEBT0-RIOO.
salsr Los disS 10 > 50 loa vaporss
gHs haosA Ok ssEyiaio &s UOlrsOs.
lAl dsi ola ~ toas ga Eusvitas. Gibbs.
Fas Barsoo&s auautsasmc, Oubg, rsho
Haitinn0 J 20gs-saa2 gincs Pusrtc fla.
IL. FoZ.3e, Gasagslcz. Agaadllla y gan
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baEs. BEsaeos,. .3uaatansmo, Cub san
9 D9aalago. PongS, zaassgusK, kgua
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Ma so pos las Nc,SasOa ygsgtoa.
Is oEna2ss2 ssiisado ds Puerto fi!3
lOs d. IL = : sespaealsanAsnte, ko8&.
in ta CDa las .4xs 50 = 5, i.ega "a;
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Iasses. essp0es as is Itsg%aE del Grs
ss pSS3agGs, 89p Ss9zia Ga Ssaus,
ilse&E4 Z. 81 zabaas lo@ ls2uags
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a@l'@l. 494 @asleSs 4aA as &c - s.Ssas.
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J .jsgaEa 3 ~ asbAQ% Ios nisgsoles.
R&1t5l4GAE,,.s
SssId aaiRgssa Als14s 3. gap9s A0OL
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ssas da @see. iais, hs selasaalSe Il
oncas pgEa sealQ%ss = Gs,laz x,@sa aae,
aESg0SE.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1897-07-09

PAPEL S4.kALlAI1U
aladrado por ana sola hoja.
q prop6sito para nlinutas, so--
bres do oiClOS, SIC.
DE vents en est& Lmprents
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1897-07-09
H~TT ~ EAS.
Sc. dc0b,,es de recibir en- la Inopren.
tG del B0Let1n:

para peri6dicos 6 impresiones del mas
delicado traDajo, en- envases de todo
peso. De dolores: azul, encarnada,
violeta, amarillo, verde y chocolate.
Estas tlltimas Ell envases dc 500 gra-
mos Y l. kilO.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1897-07-09

para escribir y copiar de diversas
marcas, En- potes pequenos hay in'
fnidad de classes.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1897-07-09
Lon GGj)RN MgITE Plbt tGI AlUNRRlOO DI m. .llnl.l
son los DE- Las MARCAeE iins6i INTO,
.,,. cn.,. .,-..~i l.. =. . .Ismn G7SE-j1 a@p peT
t''lUL BRllLANTEn. '1ELEEANTer. flf7aA .sgsas
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.tL NWWMka@

nos O.
| nnA =
u esptGl 70 d
slienala
=
|, mos en-la;tn1n u
,e6Das .petE6leo ta1Se
On Los 1stAdoe q Aea
como en- Cuba. 1AleS
y .otsoa peiass. soSs 1ss
no anpesioress AlguAle6
q lOA me)oresl aQa0, 10
imporAAAl del eRfsapaea
20, bat0 Alvessep Aep.
ores y smNeAeJ - PEE
sus buenaa eul dAaAD
Iumini6tA 8, 6uant t0 ~ 10
seguridat Que Of ea,
& Gauss nde sius sltAa
gfsduadiOMes On Iasnsip
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1897-07-09

Dc vsnta, on Ii lmprensa..
BoLsTIN MRRoAETIZ.
10 bolsa, Sl ComeEcIo 7
las s0oledades MoEcau-
tiles, l tcmo.-~--..--- {
LSocjones de Derecho Mey
cantil. pcF vsrios alum
COS de doE Luis Sisvela, ]
tOmo-~n.~-.-a .4p~-.- ..~. ]
yAbro de laa Satiras, por
dom Ventura Ruix A 9ui-
lera, comprende: EAti-
Eas, La arcadia moder-
IA, Grands1as dc los
peque1os, EpigEamas y
IetYillas. Varias f&bulaa
yMorslejas, / tomo, rds.
tica 260 pAginaR...-.-- !
s1Andido, Novsla por don
Mariana Ramiro, l TO
mao r6stsca -.--.... .....-.-..
nlnconete y CoEtadillo y
El liCencIado Vidxiera
por iden, un to1ao-..-.
Loa Bahos de Argel, co,
media, POE Id, IN tomo.
al gaIlsrdo espah0l, idem.
por idem, un tomo. 49,.
In leTenda de Noohe-hues
r& ,-~4-~-~-~ ~~~-u.-. s.~-.-n.
al hljo del 8acgistan, poa
dan CarlCs Froutaara.
q toln0a. .-.. .~...-.......
felipe 2: Estudio Hist6ri.
CO Oxit'Oo, por v. Co.
mez, / tono~~---...
Homenaie Postico, Poe.
sias de So ingerios, .
EomO--a---..- ..---.--..
rhseEro. Nstrdio Oientsfl.
90, poe dom Julio a6-
meg E~~-~~-v.s ~~as
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1897-07-09
I,IRROS RELIGIOSOS.

xe "A recfbido en- esta IrnpFeKts
mn notabse auEtido de obrss rellgo-
saa. selsctas todas, entire Las cu8~
les Re encuentran las siguientes;
lmitscs6n dc Cristo, Kerapis.
,.dici6n eCon6mic&...--~-& eO.zO
ldam de idsn, idem, ediCion
de ujco... ---~~~sa-S~~~~ 1>oU
Ac~ora da gaIvaci6n< --.-. sol
Nisrcicio Cotidian0 e....... ~
nj Devote Feligr6s, enCua-
iernaoi6n imitaci6n maEA l.S9
f.uz divine, enOuaderEaCi6n
mel negga con brooches. .- 2.09
''Ss as g5s.a, rIsaroao lufO.. ..... .-- ;;s.pcI
rrx dlyina, e4cuadernacl6A Il
an p:el de Australia y ME
rs keI.4-~-.. s,.~ s--~~s'.~-~ 1'V5
t1eoio del d Domingo...s..ss 400
penuefio OflCio, enCuadernse
oi6n i1nitsOi6n marfl.. .oU 800
tlfeioa Ffnebres, encuader-
S"nsoi0a de piel con celievea 800
u d1arnaoi6n 1s.u M de pie. ....... 800
'sls riSel....... Ss1ssse' ....... 800
! ~ ,SoSa6sa-.~-.----...--~--.--- sd 800
Tncologio Hspanol, encu8- rg
dernsci6n de carey con i0a
erC staciones de nacar. .-la se,00
T. n uier cat6lioa, anonAder-
ysei6n de n&car con zelie-
esss--.::--...---..--.... le;o0
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1897-07-09

d1 ye,ta oparado. prueoe &C. tuee sev.das
FahEenhe esCepconales condconeA ataN h 3
$50" combnssoa szportaaea G AAus ANs oIer L vi
Ademss do odo anotado haeen prefeibles euan
loi venaaA Dc proec0
mas reduoldp an< los le Lac xsraneraA -
AgeSsss ga1atss Isla HOBRNOE DNl1NQUlkAA
san Juan, Puerto koo Us Gs FoEAeka n6meEo 11
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1897-07-09

i?ass5ESPiSgLgS CORggNDg ass AsTislst
y trasportes nil.tares
10 6ObEinoS dt Herrera, Hsban&.

Les vspofes de egta smYssca sfcc.
susrsn 60 Bsiii;s dsste sata pusrsc e,
los d1as ., 10, Is. 30 Sc e oa.3s mes
) sas , de h tsFe50 81 i0p d'se d, lsboi
Z 3 ias IL dsl osa Sc ,oa Gsativos.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1897-07-09

zss1d amRTssa Als14s q. gap92 A0OL
4. Eossnts gasa gsmo: aes pVs In
ssas la sas4. lais, hz 2lslkaaGSe Il
oDDas QgEa as2lQ%sa = Ess1az E:@sa aa,
saEg9&G.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1897-07-09

DOCTRlAA CRlSTlAEl
aPOR Gil. ESTEVE.
Nuera edicioD ,pertectameute
impress y encGsdsruada en- car
ton. \ NUEVE PESOS grassa
81 contAdo.
Tomando 10 gruessa ae hasa
un buen descuentc.
De vents en- essa ImprentMs
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1897-07-09
Ll1ROS BkRATOS

De vsnta, on Ia lmprensa.. dAl
BOLATrN MRRCAETrE.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-09-02
PROSPERITY AND DEFICIT.
PrOtectionfsts Have Been Given the
Lie by Events.


Lie by Events.
The republican organs positively as
sured us some months ago that we
could not hope for any prosperity so
long as there was deficit in the treas
ury. There is nothing in this wide
world. said they, in effect, that will take
the starch out of business like deficit.
The merchant might as well expect a
rush of trade with roaring lion stand
ing in his front door as to hope to dodge
the sheriff when there is deficit in the
federal revenues. The catalogue of po-
litical ills is long one, but deficit is
the boss i'll and as good as any two
among the toughest of the lot. The
extra session of congress was called to
wipe out the deficit and save the coun-
try, and yet we are now in the enjoy
ment of high degree of prosperity
while the deficit continues to transact
its pernicious business at the old stand.
Of course, there are those who say
that the prosperity we are now enjoy
ing is all on paper. but they are of the
breed called calamity howlers." They
have an interest of one kind or another
in hard times; the harder the better.
They don't want prosperity themselves
and they don't want anybody else to
have any, and when there are no hard
times they try TO deceive themselves
and others by bowling that the times
are simply awful. They are not to be
considered. The fact is that we have
prosperity in abundance. and in spite
of the terrible deficit. Nothing is
clearer than that the protectionist or
gans shamefully misrepresented the
deficit, for we are prosperous and hap
Ply people with the deficit still on deck.
If the protectionists are not little
more careful about their utterances
they may run the risk of getting popu-
lar credit for saying what is not so.-
Rinrhamton IN. " Leader
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-09-02
pIrH AND POINT.

~ hear that Barnes did not make
continental success of Hamlet across
the water" mo. His success did not
amount to continental. "-Indianapo
lis Journal.
OVERRIDING 1.-THE Absent-Minded
Professor-NDo you know, my dear, I
was so busy remembering what you
asked me to buy you, that I forgot to
stop and get Truth.
An Avenue of Escape.-"Wigby has
joined the Total Abstinence society,""
What's that for?' only way he could
get out of drinking his mother-in-law's
homemade beer."-Chicago Record.
An Inducement Wanted She
What do you think of the proposition
to tax bachelors with view to encour-
aging matrimony?" He-'I think it
would be much better to give bounty
with wives. Truth.
-McLubberty (who has picked up
part of laundry ck)-"Phwat's this
quare mark on this PAIGE av paper?"
Oliver O'Haggerty-'A Choinase char
acther, Oh behave" McLubberty-
"Thot's a loi. TIL Shoinase have no
chaEacthers, gorra!"-Judge.
One day, at the late dean of Ely's
table, legal gentleman was lamenting
the gaps which death had recently made
in his profession. I'VE have lost" he
said, solemnly, mot less than six emf
nent lawyers in as many months" The
dean, who was quite deaf, at once rose
and repeated grace: For this and all
His mercies," etc.-Tit-Bits
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-09-02
Further Extension of Time Refused.

WASHINGTON. Aug. 2s.-Acting Sec
rotary Meikeliohn yesterday heard
parties interested in the contract for
the construction of locks and dams on
the Monongahela river. Some time
ago the contract was awarded to James
McCarron, who thus far has failed to
furnish the bond required. Two ex-
tensions of time have been granted
and the acting secretary has refused to
grant further extension.
The Houston Con struction Co.. of
Philadelphia, whose bid was 1904, 63s,
and about $40, 900 higher than McCar-
ron's, is the next lowest bidder, and is
asking the secretary to award con-
tracts to the lowest responsible bid
der. Secretary Meikeliohn is consid-
ering the advisabilitY of readvertising
for bids, but protests have been made
against any further delay in begin
ming the work.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-09-02
GRAPE Upon The pooR.

rsomber Grape. somber Grape, morsel NOR
tails use to drape
Doors through which Death unlimited came
In dread and awful shape,
waving slow to and fro that the thought
less throng may know
One home-sunbeam was eclipsed beneath a
cloud Of bitter woe
Thou hast been through long years emblem
OF earth's countless tears
When darkest certainty replaced alter
nate hopes and fears;
"hen torn hearts long on the rack turned
like thee lack-luster black,
And the stars no longer shone in heavens
once hope-illumined track
Yet those years have brought to me bet
ter views and thoughts of thee,
For each sorrow hath it's morrow which
experienced souls may see:
have learned that meath thy veil shines
the light which cannot fail,
Harbor-beacon reckoning homeward
through the darkness and the gale
Badge of grief. badge of grief, back of
thee, in grand relief,
Lies the glory which the reaper finds with
in the golden sheaf;
Death is life. end OF strife close of years
with evil rife,
The beginning of the winning: rest when
sheathed the surgeons knife.
Ours the tear, theirs the cheer, and Heaven
vistas vast and clear,
Where their wings may spurn the chrysalfs
WHICH hampers
Where each Joy they can see with new
views from earth-mists free,
Proves the story of the glory that is
promised you and me.
Somber sign, proof benign of thought
full love divine
Which hath made Death but its messenger
to lead US DER the line
Welcome. friend, who canst end woes and
shattered spirits mend,
Unto thy kindly ministries in grateful
trust we bend
]. EDGAR JONES.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-09-02
OPINIONS AND POINTERS.

Isn't it odd that Mark Hanna
hasn't claimed the Klondike gold strike
as logical outcome Mckinley 8 cleo
tion?-St. Louis Republic.
Mark Hanna is quoted as saying
some time ago that mo man in public
Office owes the public anything" In so
far as Mr. Hanna has any power in the
matter, he has seen that the public
gets nothing, except the worst of it.
Binghamton IN. " Leader.
The revival of prosperity through
the bounty of nature in this country
and failing crops elsewhere comes de-
spite restrictions on trade for the bene-
fit of plutocrats. The Arake of" for
the favored few provided for by the
Dingley iniquity is merely a fly in the
Louis Post-Dispatch.
when the Dingley tariff was be-
ing made up Alabama iron manufaetur-
ers declared that they did not want any
protection, because they could sell their
product abroad without any. They have
been shipping iron right along under
the Wilson tariff to England and other
countries of Europe and they can con-
tinue to do so.-N. o. Picayune.
We are told in one breath by the
republican organs that the effect of the
Dingley tariff will be to restrict inn
portations, and thus insure favorable
balance of trade, and in the next breath
that the Dingiey tariff viii also increase
the revenues and keep the treasury full
OF gold. Unless there shall be large im-
portations there cannot be large rev
enuecollected from imporfations. IL the
Dingiey Law shall stop importations it
will stop revenue.-Philadelphia Rec
ord.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-09-02
TYPICAL ExrRAvAoANcE
Republican Government In Always
Varv fSaafHw

Republican Government - Always
Very Costly.
The result of republican extrava-
gance has manifested itself in unmis-
taxable form thus early in the life of the
Mckinley administration. July was
the first month of the new fiscal year,
and Secretary Cages treasury balance
shows deficit of $11, 000, 600. When the
enormous anticipatory imports to es-
cape the duties of the Dingley bill are
taken into account, together with the
unusually heavy payments into the
treasury by the brewers to save the re-
bate on beer stamps, the conclusion is
inevitable that the deficit is due to the
reckless use of public funds.
The amount paid out of the treasury
in July exceeded by Ss,00o,000 the
amount paid out during July of last
year. This excess represents the diff
ference between republican govern
nent and democratic government. In
costs $4,000, 900 more month than dem
ocratic government.
One of the items of extra cost was
contained in the pension account. Pen
sion payments for the month of July
aggregated nearly $15.000,00O, almost
81, 900 900 in excess of the amount paid
in pensions during the corresponding
month last year. When the pension
lists reached the $30,oo0,000 mark in
the early part of Grants second admin
istration he apologized for the amount
and predicted that from that year on
the pension account would decrease.
A few years afterward Samuel J. Ran
dali as chairman of the appropriations
committee submitted a bill to the house
carrying less than $40,000,000 in pen
sions and explained that the commit
tee believed the high-water mark in
pensions had been reached. Instead of
decreasing, the amount paid in pensions
every year since has increased, and this
year the prodigious sum of $141, 900. 900
was appropriated by the republican
congress. This exceeds the total cost
of any of the various huge standing
armies of war-scared Europe. 1t is
more than enough to equip and put in
the field an army strong enough to sue
cessfully cope with any of the finely
organized and terrible war engines of
Europe on land or sea. The absurdity
of such extravaganza is too obvious to
require analysis. Where or when it
will stop no man pretends to know.
Certainly there is no hope of checking it
as long as the republicans hold the
purse strings.
National gratitude has it's limits.
Men who were incapacitated for self
support in saving the union deserve ma
tional aid. This doctrine of Scion has
the Endorsement of modern enlighten-
ment. But it is now more than 80 years
since the civil war closed. Even if all
of the more than 100000 men who
fought for the union were alive and en-
titled to pensions, under a strict and
honest Interpretation the amount
would not be much greater than it now
is. Indeed. it probably would not be
as large if rigid honesty were applied
&c the question of pensions. The laws
have been so loosely and dishonesty
administered that the cost of pensions
swells when there should be steady
decrease.-St. Louis Republic.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-09-02
SHE WAS A NEW WOMAN.
But when the Dogs Began to Follow
Her She Weakened.


There is no earthly doubt as to her
being new woman. She was not born
a new woman, neither was new woman
hood thrust upon her; she achieved it
and is unreasonaIDly proud of the fact.
Nature cast her in round, soft, COM
Portable mold. But she has risen SUI
perior to nature. She believes with all
her heart, with all her soul, with all
her mind, in the right divine of woman
to govern, wrongly, perhaps, but still
to govern. She is one of those Patrick
Henrys in petticoats whose burning
eloquence brings conviction to the souls
of hundreds who already agree with
her. AS already stated, there is no
earthly doubt as to her being a new
woman-in theory, at least. In prac-
tice? Well, that's different.
She's the sort of woman who shrinks
and climbs on the table if anyone sug-
gests that there is a mouse in the
room. She believes the placid old fam
lily horse the fiercest sort of a steed,
and knows that her life is in danger
every time she climbs into the phaeton.
She stands paralyzed with terror if she
spies u COW at the far end of the field,
and would probably faint if a little
garden snake crossed her path. The
dogs of the neighbors-she lives in the
country, where no household is COM
plete without several of them-filI her
mind with mad, unreasoning fear.
One day she went down to the VIII
lage and was tempted to buy some pies
for the family meal. As she was Dear
ing them home in triumph large New
foundland, waking from his MONDAY
nap, stalked out to meet her, shifted
at her pies and fell solemnly in behind
her. At the next place she passed two
more went through the same ma
neuvers, then one, then three, then
two, and so on till every place she
passed had yielded its quota of dogs.
One by one they fell into line. SMELL
ing her pies and following her loving
ly, they joined in the procession, pac-
ing solemnly after this timorous new
woman.
Her heart was as water and her
bones were as wax. She knew that it
would be heroic thing and worthy
of her new womanhood to die in de-
Tense of her pies. She saw visions of
the neighbors finding her mangled
corpse, but still faithful to her charge:
of slender white shaft in some peace
full cemetery bearing the inscription:
Faithful Unto Death" Then she
thought of her motherless children, her
sorrowing husband, with only heroic
memory to console them, and her cour-
age failed her She felt that it was
better to live new woman than to die
a hero.
So she gently laid the pies down on
the path that the dogs might devour
them in peace and unmoIested sped
swiftly homewsrd.-ChicaGO Chronicles.