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BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1897-09-17
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DE CUENTAS FORMADAS

DE CUENTAS FORMADAS
aplicables al cobro de jornales,
fraccionados estos en- octave de
dfa, principiando por un cuarto
y terminando en- Z dfas, con
precios ess,alonados desde un real
fuerte hasta tres pesos, = EXPIRE
sando cada Fraction su valor in
trfnseco Ell pesos, centavos y cen
timOs de centavo
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1897-09-17
La" EOSFATINA FALlERES"

La" FosFATlNA FALIEREs"
% ID aliment0 mas agradabie y el mas
~scomendado para los niiOs desde la edad
- seis siete meses, y particularmente
vi el momento del destete y durante el
srfodo del crecimtento.
Facilita nlucho la denticion; aSsegura
4 bNena formation de los huesOs; pre-
Tienc ' ncutraliza les dcfc. tOs que suelen
presentarse al crecer, impide la diarrea,
cue es tan freQuentc en- los ninos.
Paris, {, aysnss Victoria en- toias las farmacias.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1897-09-17
gNE7II N 'jntRtIH1IL DE PUERTO-RICO.
CONDOLENCES GENERATES AC0RDADAS P0R LA DIRECCI0N
PARA T0OA ClASE De REMITIO0S ANUNCIOS

publication medic de contrato
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No decX XraviO n
considerable cent1nrOS de
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90 solre el rrprio d." taria.
CLCTIES publication anunciOS
enda bifcacion de 100 sobre e pree de arifa
ecla de DlEZ PESOS menSua el
prime
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Has, rentiiOs
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anticipate
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1MyifN pMrN EA pHvsacNci3n de NMMMctOs.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1897-09-17

The Proprletors of the "R0LetLn
Merc0RtW " have the honour of
requesting English advertisers to
hand their orders to MN. MAYENCE,
FAVRE and c., who are the sole
Agents for all English and French
Advertisinq.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1897-07-24
Available Wheat Supply,

The condition of available wheat in
the United States, in Europe and afloat
on July LIST is summarized by Bradstreet
as follows:
THE amount of wheat bound for and
IN Europe amounted to 0,2OO, 900 BUSH
els. The decrease of available wheat
stacks in the United States and Canada
during June was nearly II ,0OO, 900 BUSH
els, about 5000, 900 bushels more than in
June, 1896, but nearly 1000, 900 less than
in June, 1895.
The total net decrease in available
stocks OF wheat in the United States and
Canada during the past six months is 40 :
29o'ooo bushels, compared with total
net increase in available supplies If
wheat here and in Canada during tho
preceding SIX months of only 14,l7s,OOO
pusheis, which is perhaps the most bull.
isil feature of the domestic wheat situ.
alton. In the first half of the cala,dor
year 1896 the total net decline in total
stocks OF wheat here and in Canada uos
only 4l,5S4,00O bushels, and in the lilo
portions OF 1894 and 1898 respectively the
net falling away was 81, 1852 900 bushels
ana So'525'OOO bushels, but in the frs,
nan OF 1890 the shrinkage OF available
wheat was 66,S99,00O bushels.
During July in 1890, 1892 and 100,
the worlds available supplies of wbea,
remained practically unchanged, but II
july 1891, there was u slight increas So
winch is unusual. During July. 1894
the worlds wheat stocks decreased abou
4,ooO'ooO bushels, in July, 1855, abou
Az'ooo'oOO bushels, and in July last yea
about 100000 bushels. With the pre-
ent dearth Of domestic supplies and tn
existing rate OF exports, the prospect i
lar a smaller available supply in thi
country and Canada on August | than
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1897-07-24

WITH wheat crop of5S5 million BUSH
els in sight in the United States and an
unusually light crop predicted in all the
other great grain-producing countries OF
the world, the prospects OF the American
farmer are bright. The recent issue Of
'Bradstreet's" which is usually very
conservative in its views as to the bust
ness future, Ecalls attention to the fact
that the stock of wheat in hand at pres
.ent is unusually light, being only IS mil
lion bushels, while nearly all the great
grain producing countries of The world
have unusually light crops this year.
Recent reports, it says, from Russia,
Germany, France, and Hungary point
to decreased wheat harvests, and that
India viii hardly supply her home de-
mand, with like reports from Australia
and Argentine, and adds: This brings
the United States to the front as prom
inent wheat exporter under similar con-
ditions to those which existed in 1879
over the revival succeeding the great
panic after five or six years of retrench-
ment and economy" The same publ
cation calls attention to the fact that
during the month OF June there was an
advance in Gotten, cotton-seed oil, to-
bacco, bacon, lard, rice, corn, peas, milk,
wheat, and other farm products.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1897-07-24

THERE is a great scarcity of farm help
in the Palouse country, and wages will
be high. The mines have claimed the
attention of hundreds OF young men, and
now the Klondyke discoveries are caus-
ing an exodus from all parts of the coun-
try and help will be scarcer than ever
Men are leaving the best of positions i'll
the sound cities, and going to Alaska.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1897-07-24
Stole a Faro Box.

Leonard, the ColfaX murderer now
occupying cell in the Spokane Jail, is a
rascal as well, says the Spokane Chron-
icle.
This was the verdict of Sheriff Demp-
sey Saturday morning. when he discov-
cred trick that the prisoner had played
on the sheriff of Whitman county, who
brought him up here. Leonard has al
ways been model prisoner, and the off,
GERS had so much confidence in his good
behavior that when they brought him
up here they allowed him to pack his
property in his valise and did not inspect
it. In the Colfax Jail the prisoners had
a faro box that the sheriff had secured in
a raid on gambling house, and which
ne allowed the prisoners to keep in the
jail to play with. About the time Leon
ard came away the box, which was worth
$50, was missed. Sheriff Dempsey was
notified, and searching Leonard's cell,
found the box. 1t was taken back to
Colfax Saturday by Deputy Sheriff Nessly
OF Whitman county.
Some of Leonard's fellow prisoners in
Spokane do not take kindly to the in
fragments on their privileges the arrival
OF the new prisoner has caused. For fear
that he will commit suicide Leonard is
not allowed a razor and for the same
reason the other occupants of the same
corridor are denied the same privilege.
This does not please the other prisoners,
who have no hesitancy in telling Leon
ard they wish he would go back to his
own Jail and not curtail the privileges of
theirs.
To Chronicle reporter Leonard indig-
nantly denied that he had stolen n $75
faro box when leaving the Whitman
county Jail. He says he did have for
five months in his possession cheap
faro box, which was broken and not
worth IS cents, whereas the one reported
to have been stolen WAS valued at $75
lie says the faro box was in his grip
when he landed in the Spokane county
Jail, and that it was not then searched,
nor has it since been searched. He says
when Deputy Sheriff Ed Nessly of Whit
man, who happened to be in Spokane on
olher business, called and asked if he
knew anything about the faro box, he
Immediately turned said article over to
the sheriff. The facts don't bear Leon.
ard out very well. The officers saw there
was but one faro box about the Jail, the
one that Leonard took, that it was no,
broken, and is probably worth $75. Sher.
if Sims missing the box, had a lette,
written to Sheriff Dempsey ut Spokane
When Nessly found it in Leonard,s nos.
session, the latter had already arranosd
to sell it. 1t was surmised that bo j..
tended to use the proceeds in brv;na
ing morphine and cocaine, AZ no + )
dope" ficnd.-Ciazette
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1897-07-24

now reported. Should the July decrease
amount to an average of recent years,
say 100000 bushels, it points to q
probable total of the worlds available
supply of wheat on Auguet of only
about GS,000,0 900 bushels, smaller total
than has been reported at like date for
eight years"
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1897-07-24
HOSIERY.

Ladies' Black Cotton Hose, at SC, 10c, 10 25c
Ladies' Black Cotton Drop Stitch Hose Silk Finished 40
Ladies' Fine Lse Hose, pairs for 800
Ladies' 40 gauge Ok blood Hose, at 25c
Misses and Childens Fine Ribbed Oxblood Hose 25c.
Boys Double Knees and Toes Black Hose, at Zoe.
Children's Black Hose from SC to Csc
Mems Black Hose, 5 pairs for Csc.
Mems Light Weight Black Hose sc.
Mems Black Hose, Seamless, pairs for Csc
Mems Black Hose, 40gauge Silk Finished, Csc.
Mems Black Hose, Fay Silk Mixed, soc.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1897-07-24

On June 18th the HERALD announced
To the public that Pullman was to have
a -four mill. Last week, just five weeks
after the first announcements the mill,
the Tribune discovered that Mr.. White
was to build mill in Pullman. If you
want the news while it is news read the
HERALD.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1897-07-24

THE Palouse hen should feel proud OF
herself this year, for she has not only
laid great quantity of eggs, but they
have been veritable nuggets in value.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1897-07-24
All advertisements will be continued and
charged for till ordered out.

AMONG the many who have left Seattle
for the Alaska gold fields is ex-Gov. Nc
Graw, who goes as common prospector'
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1897-07-24
TIME SCHEDULE:

For information, time cards, maps
and tickets, call on or write
j. S. KEENEY, Agent.
Or A. d. CHARLTON, Asst. Gen'l.
Pass. Agent, Portland, Or.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1897-07-24

I II hUUUII IION i I y
To
CHICAGO
WASHINGTON
PHILADELPHIA
New York ~
BoSToN AND ALL
POINTS EAST AND SOUTH.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-12-12

NEW YORK.-Yello chrysanthe- W nuns have supplied the decora- lions at many of the fashionable din ners given in New York thus far this season. Orchids and American Beauty roses figure also. Really effective table designs of violets are possible, now that high decorations are ruled absolutely out of order, and the supremacy of the flower is so nearly universal that violet dinners will be matter of course for months to come.
 Silver candlestieks and candelabra are in order, with silk shades of color to match the flowers.
 Ladies' souvenirs at one or two re- cent affairs have been so costly that the giving of formal dinner party is like ly to rank in the near future as an even more formidable task than the aspir- ing hostess has been wont to consider it. Gold bangle bracelets of original designs ordered for the occasion are examples in point.
 Nearly all the new dinner gowns put up some bluff in the matter of the train. X skirt not rounded down in the back to some extent is deplorably out of date. A skirt which touches the floor may pass muster. but "real' train is more modish.
 All dinner skirts are close-fitting. They may be said to cling. They in crease appreciably the number of fash ionabiy clad people that can be seated comfortably about a table,
 The dinner bodice has 8 medium blouse effect. though there are draped bodiees that are pretty. They are usually square neeled. Many are ex- tremely decollete.
 The sleeve of the dinner dress may be long, close-ftting and transparent; or if may be of elbow length. tight and finished with lace ruffies; or it may be short-a meager handful of ruflles or puffs; or, if the dress be of velvet, t may be an embroidered strap over the shoulder.
 Velvet is considered an appropriate material. even for very young women, and is best liked in black, gray, white,
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-12-12

scope attachment consists of prism placed over the outer objective"
 Of the photograph itself he says:
 "The photographs of the spectra of the stars taken at the Harvard college observatory differ in two respects from those ordinarily taken elsewhere. In stead of using a speetroseope with a silt, in which but one star is photo graphed at time, a large prism is placed over the objective glass of the telescope, and thus spectra of all bright stars in the field of view are obtained. The number of stars photographed simultaneously is still further increased by substituting for the object glass Il portrait lens like that used by the pho tographer, only larger. The field of view is in this way increased from two degrees square to ten degrees square, and photograph is obtained of the spectra of all the brighter stars in this large region. Many thousand plates, covering the entire sky, have been taken in this way at the Cambridge and Arequipa stations of the observa- tory.
 Tt was during the examination of one of these plates that the discovery was made that the spectrum of me teor had at last been photographed. Since it is impossible 10 foresee when these bright objects will appear, or what path they will follow, photo- graph can only be obtained when one happens to cross the field of the tele- scope A number of trails of meteors have been obtained both here and else where. when charts of the stars were photographed, no prism being used. But when the prism was in place no meteor bright enough to leave a notice able trail has heretofore been photo graphed on the many thousand plates examined.
 "The photograph shown was taken at about II p. m. on June IS. 1897. The eight-ineh Baehe telescope was on duty that night at Arequipa station and was directed towards the constellation Tele- seopium. Al the time mentioned a bright meteor appeared in right aseen- sion IS hours 10 minutes deelination- 1T degrees 10 minutes-and passed out of the field at right ascension IS hours % minutes deelination- degrees 30 minutes.
 s'To describe the spectrum with as little technical detail as possible, I would say that it consists of six bright lines whose intensity varies in differ ent portions of the photograph, there
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-12-12

didn't take it to heart. They didn't want me, but they wanted the auto graphs of the statesmen. I'd sing 'em song like this;
 Why, cert, I'd be delighted to oblige you. Nothing would give me greater pleasure, But you know I can't go on the floor. My friend the doorkeeper, however, can get just what you want. but it will be some trouble to him, and he may charge ten or fifteen cents, and
 "'Oh, that's all right, the girls would say, and nearly everyone would put down quarter a sig. And every quar- ter went into my pocket, for that gulf about not being allowed to go on the floor was all blind Sos they wouldn't see me, I'd just tackle the statesmen somewhere else.
 "Then I got onto the money to be made in strikes. Every time a bill was introduced that would hurt some one or some big interest, I learned all I could about the matter there, and wrote to q friend in the city who looked up the other end. Then l would write to the parties something like this:
 /" A bill detrimental to Your interests has been introduced here. Better come up and see about it.
 When they reached Albany. never failed to get my reward for putting them on.
 There was another way of coining an honest plunll. worked all the boys l could for passes. Those who didn't go home over Sunday were willing to give up, and those who could get more than one I jollied into turning the ex- tras over to me. Then I sold them to fellows who couldn't get even one pass or who wanted two or three.
 By these gratis l managed to live pretty well and saved every cent of my salarv."
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-12-12

by showing that the light of the meteor changed as it's image passed across the plate.
 "The approximate wave lengths of these lines are 3.o54, 4,121, 4,195, 4,34f, 4,636 and 4.s57, and their intensities are estimated as 40. 100. ?, f3. 10, aud 10, re- spectigely. The results of close exs animation of the photograph show all important resemblance between me- teors and stars having bright lines in their spectra. and may aid in determin- ing the conditions of temperature and pressure in these bodes.'
 Encouraged by the success Of this photograph of meteorie spectrum Prof Pickering tried during the re- cent November shower of meteors to take photographs of both trails and spectra; but the fates were against him, the heavens being obscured by such pail of haze during the time the meteors were falling that it was not possible to obtain a photograph of any kind. This failure leaves the picture here represented still the sole photo graph of it's kind in existence; and it seems likely to remain so for long time.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-12-12
AN.EASY GRAET.
The "Reformcd FaIxir'' Explains How He Worked It nt the Capital.
 Tconvrfph4 1Se7

i've earned an honest living in many ways" said the Reformed Fakir, when he vas raking over the dead leaves of his past the other night, "but I never struck such graft as was up against the year I wintered in the state capital. A friend got me little job there that paid me couple of dollars day. I might have starved if had been so exl elusive as to try to live on this alone. So set my wits to ferreting.
 q hadn't been there long before all the pretty girls in town were after me No. as 1 don't pose as a handsome man.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-12-12

mousseline over blue satin and pink chiffon over pink satin are two eombina- tions that l remember. Both these waists were embellished with black vel vet ribbons. Low-cut corsages of this sort are apt to be the lowest cut of any corsages worn. The neck opening IS square.
 The informal dinner calls for high evening waist, and models of this va riety are plenty and pretty. The sleeves may be long or to the elbows, and the cut varies little from the low bodices except in the neck particular A handsome example is of pale blue and white brocade, cut as smart coat basque over a waisteoat of pale blue chiffon, with rows of gazing. There is large square collar covered with cream guipure The belt is of blue vel vet. The long transparent sleeves are of gagged chiffon. If the regulation silk or satin skirt is not available, waist of this kind makes a good cloth skirt much more presentable.
 Dog collars of diamonds or pearls are the favorite dinner ornaments with women who can command them. Hand- some jeweled pins, as many as you like, are stuck on the bodice front.
 The hair is dressed on the very top of the head, but hair dressers say that it will tumble to the nape of the neck almost immediately. It is waved lit tie at the sides and turned back from the forehead. Louis XVI. bows in dia- monds are the proper hair ornaments. These are copied in cut steel and are made up also of velvet ribbons. Each bow carries an asprey in white or col ors.
 When it comes to picking out indi- vidual dresses for comment, I think first of q simple toilette worn at a small dinner few evenings ago. It was of pale rose glaee, striped with black and had square bodice, made full and closing at the left side under pretty looping of lace. The rose vel vet waistband was finished with bows and ends in front. The elbow sleeves were tightand finished with friilings,
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-12-12
TIE GOSSIP OF GOTHAM.
Little Incidents from the Coun-
 try's Metropolis.
As the Average EngIfsh1nun Sees Things Ameriean-E. (. Benedict Again in TroubIe--A Piano
 Trust Talked Of.
Copyright, 1S97.I

 M EW Y0RK.-If you have ever had
 the privilege, or perhaps had bet ter say, if you have ever been doomed to meet q specimen of the average British literary gent" on his travels n America, you were probably obliged to listen to lot of ill-humored, querulous, and perhaps babyish criti- cism of the land in which he was a guest, and where he was beyond ques- ton being well treated-and the more average the literary gent, the more unceasing his complaints. Of course, the "blasted American railway sys- tenn" always comes in for a good share of such objnrgation and so do Amer ican cooking, the American hotel, and if the complainant be an entertainer of any sort, the American audiences whose members give up their good dol lars to his profit suffer most of all at his hands.
 Word comes via Maj. Pond that Mr, Anthony Hope Hawkins, now touring the United States under the gallant majors direction, is by no means an average specimen In this regard. On the contrary, he is one of the most uni formly patient and courteous persons the major has ever had aught to do with. Hope never forgets his smile. He never kicks when railroad trains arc late. he eats the most indigestible meals at country hotels and perjures himself like a gentleman in declaring them to be good, and he is almost en- thusiastic over the intelligence he de- clares he sees in his audiences.
 More yet, he doesn't kick when the audience is small. At Syracuse the other night, there being more shows" in town than usual, the hall in which Hope read was much less than half filed; but the young author was as conscientious and enthusiastic in his readings as he could have been before crowded house, and he has invariably done as well before cold-hearted audi ences as those most emphatic in the expression of their approval.
 It is needless to say that the major thinks Hope ga dandy''
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-12-12

willing to venture, too, that he is no more at variance now with the powers that be than he has been at any time for many years.
 "It's not for me to call in question Father Ducey's wisdom when he was young in entering the priesthood, any more than to criticise who would dis. cipline him, but it can do no harm for me to say that I believe he might have served the world to better advantage in some other capacity than as priest. Ducey was born in Ireland, but he came to New York when mere boy and was brought up by the late James T. Brady, who educated the youngster for the law. But the seIf-denial of the ideal priesthood appealed to young Du. cey's youthful fancy, and his foster father yielded"
 Father Ducey is idolized by the parishioners of St. Leo's parish, the cornerstone of whose church he laid some IS years ago, and ia which he has since officiated without compensa= ton.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-12-12
METEOR PHOTOGRAPHED
Prof Edward c. Peckering Has
 Accomplished This.
An Important Scientific Happening at the Harvard obserxntory--fi'e First One in Existance-
 What It Gs Like.
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 After many years of patient waiting, and numerous attempts that have re suited only in failure andi disappoint- ment. Prof. Edward c. Pickering, of the Harvard observatory, has at last succeeded in taking a photograph of a meteor as it was in the act of fall- ing from the heavens. The photograph is one of the most remarkable in ex= istence. as no one had ever succeeded in taking one until Prof. Pickering $ long looked=for opportunity came, and the meteor crossed the field of one of his photographic prisms with the re- suit shown in the accompanying illus tration. To scientific men the inter- est attaching to this absolutely unique photographic curiosity is very great, for although the composition of the meteorites that have fallen to the earth is well known this spectrum may deter mine the precise condition of shooting stars before the great heat engendered in passing through the earth's atmos- phere has had time to consume the more fusible eomponents.
 Prof. Pickering describes the instru- ment with which he took the photo- graph as follows; "It is what is com monly known as photographic doub- let, having two aehromatie objeetiyes of eight inches diameter, one behindl the other and separated by about two feet. The focal length of the whole combination is 45 inches. The spectro