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BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1899-03-27
BUEh GOBERlAlTE

La mayorfa de los peri6dicos pa
risienses acogen con entusiasmo los
primeros actos polfticos del Fresi-
dente Mr.. Loubet, los cuales con
sideran como base de la prosperi-
dad y mayor engrandecimiento de
81 patria.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1899-03-27
GUERRA CIVIL

Sc agits cada vez mas en- Ell Con-
tinente ell rUmor dc una gderrra ci
vii que de un momento 1 otro ha de
estallar en- Suecia y Noruega, Gu
yos polfticos tratan. cmpleando es
tie procedimlento,..de dcstruir la dua-
lidad de aquella nacion.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1899-03-27
A SUECIA

El rey Oscar en- medic de su ex-
citaci6n nerviosa manifesto su pro-
posito de partir inmcdiatamente 4
Suecia, 4 encargarse de la Corona.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1899-03-27

trio algunos desoerfectos con mott
vo de Ia explosion allf ocurrida.
pero que 10 n egan algunos peri6
dicos de aquelIa ciudad martina.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1899-03-27
CONTRA La GUERRA

A Ultima hora Sc dice que los Pc
deres interpondran toda su inAuen
cia Por medic de sus Representa-
tes diplom&ticos en- Stokolmo para
impedir que la guerra civil Sc lleve
q cabo.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1899-03-27
CON FL GENERALISINO

FL sefior Mufloz Rivera ha vista
dc al generalisimo del Ejercito Gu.
bano, Maximo Gomez.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1899-03-27
tINCO NIL HOMBRES

Las guarniciones dc Baleares y
Canarias de haran subir 4 cinco mil
hombres.
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Aprobado.
GUY v. HENRY,
Mayor General Vo,untarios
Comandante.

Al t-ner el honor de ponerle mi firma
a la trascendental Ofden precedente he
de hacer p1blico que la gloria de haber
Ia cictado por primers VIZ en- mi pals,
corresponds lntegra al Honorable Gene
raj HENRY, no habiendo hecho yo otra
cosa que traducir fielmente sus deseos
de que aqui Sc vayan adoptando los pro
gfesivos metodos americanos.
Esta Secretaria espera de todos los
periodlcos de la Isla que publiquen inte-
gra en- sus columns dicha Orden para
que Sc divulgue y sea perfectamente CO.
nocida de todos.
Puerto Rico, 23 de Mario de 1899.
Hermiuio Dias Navarro,
Secretario de Justicia.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1899-03-27

L
msrgen de la inscription del matrimo
nio que la origine y producirs los efec'
tos siguientes; I 0 La separation def.
nitiva de los conyuges : 20. Quedar 10.
hijos baio la patria potestad y protec-
ci0n del conyuge inocente. S. ambos
fuesen culpabies~ qsedaran bajo la auto
ridad del tutor que sc les nombrars con
arregIo a derecho 8 La madre con
servara en- todo case a su cuidado q los
hijos memories de tres amos hasta que
cumplan esa edad 4 no ser que expresa-
mente Sc haya dispuesto otra cosa en- la
septencia; 40 La privacion del con
yuge culpable mientras viva el inocente,
de la patria potestad y dc los derechos
que lleva consigo sobre las personas y
bienes de los hijos. A la muerte del
conyugc inocente volvera el culpable 4
recobrar la patria potestad y sus dere-
chos 81 la causa que hubiese dado mar
gen al divorcio hubiera sido alguna de
las comprendidas en- los n1meros o,
20, 80 40 y7.o del articulo 49,
ST fuese distinta sc nombrara tutor & los
hJos en- la forma anteriormente prevent
da. La privacion de la patria potestad
y sus derechos no eximira al conyuge
culpable del cumplimiento de las obliga-
clones 6 deberes que tuviese para con
sus hijos; So La pSrdida por parte del
conyuge culpable de todo 10 que hubies.
sido dado 6 prometido por el inocente 6
por otra persona en- consideration a este
y la conservation de todo 10 recibido
por el inocente y el derecho de recla mar
desde luego 10 que lie hubiese sido pro-
metido por el culpable; g. La separa
cion de los bienes de la sociedad conyu
gal y la perdida de la administration de
los de la muj jer 81 fuere el marido quien
hubiere dado causa al divorcio y la mu
jer 10 reclamare; 10. La conservation
por parte del marido inocente de la ad
ministracion de los bienes de la mujer a
la qle debera pasarle aquel 10 necesario
para alimento.
DISPOSICIoNES GENERATES
23c Esta Orden tendra efecto retroac-
two en- 10 concerniente al divorcio; sola-
mente para los matrimonios pLramen te
civiles celebrados con anterioridad a
la misma.
20 Los matrimonios celebrados por
personas que hayan nacido fuera de es-
ia Isla Sc regiran en- el orden civil por 10
que prescriba la legislation del pals al
que aquel|as pertenezcan.
25o Las dsposiciones del Codigo Civil
references matrimonios religiosos y ci
viles quedan en- vigor, en- todo 10 Que no
contradigan a las contenidas en- la pre-
senta Orden general.
26c Del cumplimien,o de esta Crden
Sc encargara el Sr. Secretario de Justi
cia, mandando imprimir las hojas nece-
sarias para las solic tudes de los que de
seen contraer matrimonio, cuyas hojas
las repartira gratis entire los Juzgados
municipales y Alcaldiss. redactando a la
vez la formula como deben extenderse
las actas de la celebration de aquel.
Puerto Rico, II de Mario de 1899.
Muy respetuosamente:
Hfrmtnio Dias Navarro,
Secretario de Justicia.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1899-03-27

90 La suscripcion mensual a este
periodlco cuesta un peso ade
lantadO.
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EL ACORAZADO /" PELAYO "

Core con insistencia ell rumor de
que el acorazodo Rska10, que sc ha-
la en- los astilleros dc Toulon su-
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1899-03-27

mejor argumento que tenian contra
Ell actual Presidente.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1899-03-27
Ell ARRRGLO CON AGUINALDO

Ell acto del Presidente Mac. Kin
ley autorizando a la comisi6n ame-
ricana en- Filipinas para tratar la
paz con Agninaldo ha causado ex-
celente impression en- los E. u.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1899-03-27
Eteefos del dsv0yeiO.

2zo La sentencia hrme del diyorcio
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brain, like her tongue, is now warped,
and she could not tell the story coherent
ly If she would. But up in a narrow
house overlooking the bay lives another
woman who relates the story intrusteo
to her thirty years ago when she opened
her door to a richly dressed but pennl-
less fugitive, who declared herself to
have been a child friend of the hostess in
their native city Of Cordova.
'I never called her friend; l knew
her only as a playmate" said this lady
of old Spain. Our gardens adjoined. and
the governesses permitted us to visit
each other while they chatted with their
admirers. Her father removed to Madrid
before we were grown, and | seldom saw
her afterward though rumors came TO us
of her having rejected the suit of great
French general and subsequently marry
ing petty tradesman at Madrid. We
also heard that she was at court and had
become a great faYorite with Christina,
the Queens mother. This came with the
news of the revolution in 1868. in which
Generals Prim and Dulce figured so
prominently and it reached us after we
had, for political reasons, taken up our
residence here.
I'm those days when a boat came in
people talked about it. One daya steamer
arrived from New York and one of my
friends called to say that among the
passengers was a Spanish lady suspected
by her fellow travellers Of being politi-
cal refugee. She had scarcely finished
her story and left the house when,
answering a summons at the door, l was
confronted by a fashionably dressed lady
whom l could not remember having seen
before.
You DO not remember me- she said.
IT,
in Cordova and to whom you once gave
this and she showed me a little ring l
had presented to her upon a birthday
when we were children.
II vas glad, so glad, to see some one
from my old home. / embraced her and
welcomed her. but before she ate or drank
in my house she insisted on telling me
why she had crossed the sea to the new
land.
MY home is gone-my jewels, my hus-
band, all. The Queen hated me-Isabella,
who is now in exile at Pau-but l swear to
Won that / have been wronged. l have
not brought misfortune upon myself; it
has been brought upon me by the malice
of others. 1t has followed me since first
7 entered the Queens court. Would / had
never left my childhood's home'
"'In misfortune one should seek ones
narents You are far from home 1 re-
minded her.
.Homev she said. I have none!-nor
parents, for they are dead
land your husband? Is he. too
"She interrupted me: He is not dead.
No, no; but he grew tired of me. At that
corrupt court L was robbed Of his love. I
reproached him with his infidelity, and to
be rid OF me he fostered the suspicious Of
the Queen that l was in love with her
favorite, Marfari.
II felt the shadow of her dispelasure
even before the end came at san Sebas-
tian, where we were when the revolution
broke out. Ugh! i hated him, with his
airs over the order of Charles III he wore
so conspicuously, which she had made
them bestow on him as well as raise him
to the peerage-the vile opera singer!
81 was ono of those who braved the
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Began 6y Making
Broonn5 10 Sell
And Now He Is a
Dealer in farms

crops would bring the best profits. For
the next twenty years that Chandon con-
Quoted his farm there was not a pound
of his grain sown by other than himself,
and all other branches of the work were
under his own personal supervision.
Horse breeding was an industry to
which he devoted a great deal of his time,
raising nothing but the finest stock.
For said he, 'it costs as much to feed
a plug as 1t does to feed a high-bred ami
NAL" With him horse trading proved as
profitable as teaming, and the sharp-eycd,
sharp-witted man did not exist who could
beat him on a horse trade. His opinion
of a horse carried more weight than that
Of many a veteran in the business There
was never defect in an animal so slight
that it would escape the scrutiny of his
finely educated touch and his developed
judgment.
He raised and sold hundreds of fine
horses until Blind Chandons" stock was
known to every horseman.
He invested in stocks which jumped al
most at his touch, and whenever an op-
portunity to proftably invest in real es-
tate presented itself he never over
looked it. Having worked as hard as any
of his employees for thirty years, Chan
don concluded to cease laboring and spend
the remainder of his life in ease, and well
could he afford to do it, He leased his
ranch, held an auction sale of his stock
and removed to San Francisco, where ne
has made his home.
Mr.. Chandon claims to possess faculties
Of which other men know nothing. and he
is well able to verify MS boast He is IA
miliar with the State from one end to the
other and can describe buildings and seen
cry in nearly every town. While riding
on the train he will comment upon the
scenery as would a most careful observer.
In passing a building on the street he can
tell the style of architecture and the ma
terial of which it is constructed, mere
ly," he claims. "by the manner in which it
echoes the sound
He knows San Francisco 'like a book
ard can go to any part alone and without
making an inquiry. He can direct a
stranger more clearly than many an older
resident who has his eyes to assist him.
He is fond of controversy and can argue
or any subject. Being of a decidedly hu-
morous temperament, he can amuse one
for hours with his funny stories, many of
which are incidents in his own life. He
never forgets the sound of ones voice by
which he recognizes his friends after an
absence of a year or more. A never -erring
Judge of human nature he can distinguish
q saint from a sinner merely by hand
shake.
AS accurately as the magnetic needle
can he turn in any location and point to
the north. Fond of good cooking, he
boasts of being a good cook himself and
IS SO familiar with the anatomy of a fowl
that he can carve a turkey better than
many man who has his eyes.
He loves good music and is an excellent
performer, both on the flute and the vio-
.iAlthough.' he said. 'I would give all
I have for the restoration of my sight.
since my aff1iction the Almighty has given
me senses to take it's place with which,
had l not been endowed. l would have
been swindled out of all l have long be-
fore now.
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R0MANCES
OF STRANGE CONDOLENCES

way prison. Although it was clear that
the man was a practiced burglar, it was
found impossible to identify him and
thus trace his career IN crime
Fate or coincidence, however, did what
Scotland Yard was powerless to do. One
of the warders of Wormwood Scrubs,
who had served in the Scottish Borderers
in India, saw the prisoner and recognized
in him an old soldier comrade named
Hely, who had been imprisoned for felony
at Calcutta. This clew was followed up,
and led to the disclosure of long list of
crimes and convictions
An almost incredible triple coincidence
was noted in France a few years ago.
In 1884 the deputy for the Ardennes was
a NJ. Ferry; for Loir ct Cher, NJ. Brisson,
and for the Vosges. NJ. Hugo. In 1793 101
years earlier, each district had been rep
resented in the chamber by man of ex-
actly the same name.
BY happy coincidence the three sons
of Birmingham man named Howes all
returned from different parts of the world
unknown to each other on the same day
One son, who was in the Cape Mounted
Rifles, had started home without his
fathers knowledge, and to the latter's in
tense surprise met him on his return from
business in the evening. Father and SON
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LFE WORK. BLIND SIN FRANCISCO CAPITALIST
Lost His Eye5iQht.
White a Poor Lad
But Sci Out 10
NdkeHi5Fo Fortune

NE Of the most remarkable success
es in life which can be found in the
State is that presented by the life
story Of blind capitalist living in
San Francisco. Many thousands
with sight and health and opportu-
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SHE WIS Il MEMBER OF
QUEEN ISHBELLE' S SPLENDID COURT
Pathetic Ending in San Francisco of Refugee v
to Escape the Hatred of the Queen.

danger of going with Isabella TO Biarrttz
in disguise that night. when she went to
implore the Emperor Napoleon TO aid her
against the revolutionists. for she was
sure he would not refuse because of his
love for his wife, Eugene de Mondjo, who
had been her subject.
The Emperor. however, would not
risk interference, and she was prostratcd
with the disappointment. We returned
from Biarritz, still disguised, in the gray
of morning. Marfari met US as we were
gliding in by the side entrance to the royal
apartments.
lin the dim light and changed by dis
guises he very naturally mistOok me for
the Queen, ard thinking to console for
her disappointment. news of which had
been whispered to him, he raised my hand
to his lips.
Her badly concealed anger showed
him his mistake. He soon made his peace
with her, bur she still doubted me and
dismissed me from her suite, though that
was unnecessary, as she was compelled
to leave San Sebastian at once and could
no longer maintain a court.
MY husband professed to believe her
statement. | was Inundated in the eyes
of our world. My parents, who were
aged, had both recently died. l had no
separate fortune, and the law of our
country did not compel my husband to
maintain me. No womans condition was
ever more pitiable.
4 sold my jewels and wardrobe and
went to Paris. What was there in that
gay city for me now. forsaken friendless,
poor? l remembered the little girl with
whom / used to play when our govern
esses talked with their sweethearts.
had heard that she was happily married
and far away from the scene of all my
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State is that presented by the life
story of blind capitalist living in
~ San Francisco. Many thousands
with sight and health and opportu-
mites have struggled through life
about him with rarely a $40 piece to put
BY He has had no opportunities that
were not open to others but triumphed
from the first in the face of appalling diff
ficulties, and is now evenly rounding out a
picturesque life career that points les
son.
He is Frederick A. Chandon. who. pen
niless and blind when but boy. is now an
old man and worth a quarter of a million
of dollars, all of which he has earned him
self.
Although he was born In Missouri. he
Fwas but a child when his father, thinking
TO increase his wealth, with his family
Joined a party of emigrants and crossed
the plains TO the gold fields of California
But the gold was not put there for the
Chandon family. One misfortune followed
another, until three years after their ar
rival in California the father died, in 1851.
leaving no estate over which his heirs
might quarrel
Almost at the start Of his frontier life
young ChandOn was taken with the symp-
toms of failing vision. Medical attention
was neglected for two reasons-oculists
were almost unknown here then and he
WIS poor EdtH ItultuN bN litA pei lCliNGu
hands served about as oil upon a fire. His
condition went from bad to worse until
I'm a very short time he had lost his sight
forever
Chandon. though boy. knew that ne
was doomed to a life Of darkness. but he
would not allow himself to become dis
c0uraged Other blind men had earned a
living before him, and ne considered him
self as good as any unfortunate like him
self
The making Of brooms and baskets be-
ing the stereotyped occupation of the la
boring blind at that time, ChandOn quite
naturally turned to that occupation.
Brooms and baskets were high in those
days. He acquired great skill in their
manufacture. consequently he made good
wages out of which ne contributed to the
support Of his widowed mother
The knack of saving money" said Mr..
Chandon. was a. virtue of which ! knew
nothing and thought little of until l had
lost my sight With me to see was to
want. and to want was to have Without
my eyes l could see nothing, and seeing
nothing I wanted little; therefore my
earnings were saved"
firing in a few years OF working for
others. he saw. or rather felt, an oppor-
tunity to make a deal" as he expressed
it.
On a ranch in the vicinity Of the broom
factory in MaTysville, where he was en-
ployed. a farmer had a crop of broom
corn. After an examination of the field
with what faculties he possessed Chandon
made an offer to buy the crop. His offer
was accepted.
Jnassisted with his own hands he gath
cred the corn: with his own hands he
made ii into brooms, and with his own
hands the brooms were sold and delivered
to the government" The government"
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sorrows felt in my heart that she
would not refuse me refuge 1or at least
a time So | sailed for America, 10 'he
city with the dear Spanish name TO peg
shelter with you. Do not turn me from
your door.
II did not doubt her story" the gentle
old lady declared The favors of royalty
are feeting and husbands are sometimes
cruel when they cease to love. was not
moor in those good days Of Cahfornla'
and nv husband as well as mysel1 mace
her welcome
WHY did she marry the man VINO is
so poor. so far beneath her former SO
cial position? She desired a home OF her
own. and when the news of her husband
death came we advised her to marry
again. There were no Spanish do2s seek
ing wives in San Francisco, but the
American senors brought gold from the
mines and won wives by displaying thelr
wealth. The American with his bags of
gold dust met and loved her. Then my
husband died, and l learned that | should
be very poor and could not give her a
home any more.
"Ah. how his gold disappeared after
they were married. He denied her noth-
ing. while he speculated in stocks; and at
last it was all gone. He was not good
business man and he had no profession
Then from constant grief came illness
that awful stroke which 'Dok away her
beauty and strength. which made one
half of her dead while the other half was
living
They had doctors at first; but doctors
must be paid. and they soon had nothing
with which to pay No, she never told
him who she was, now far above him she
had been reared, and he believed her to
be but a poor Spanish widow. cared for
by friends, and was glad to think he could
give her a home. He was very sorry for
her sake when the money was all gone,
though. but for himself he never appeared
to mind Whatever he may have lost, he
still had his heart left. Yes, Jesu Maria,
his heart is still left.
We thought of the room which had
formed the background to the woman on
the step-the room with it's bare floor, its
rusty stove its table with broken dishes
and the bed In the corner with its ragged
coverings-as contrasted with the splen-
dor of a Spanish court and with the gen.
tie old lady thanked Providence for that
compensation of a faithful heart.
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AT the last moment he escaped, and for
several years wandered about the States
in fruitless search for his wife and daugh-
ters. He finally settled down at Bloom
field. a brOken-hearted man, and lived
there for many years, until a serious ice
accident took him to the hospital to die.
He had not been in the hospital a day
when he recognized in a lady visitor an
old Virginia neighbor of his, who knew
the whereabouts of his lost daughters.
Within few days the daughters were at
his bedside, minstering to the father they
had lost for thirty-five years.
1t was almost more than coincidence
which brought together few months ago
two lovers VINO had been parted for near
ly fourteen years. In 1885 4.larles Della
var the son of a wealthy Philadelphia,
was engaged to be married to Miss Char
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was a man who kept the general store
and who was looked upon by the mining
and farming community as a sort of deity.
Fortune favored Chandon. and it was a
question of but a short time when he
owned the ranch and raised the corn him
self. Buying out his employer without
competition he operated the broom fac
tory of Marysville'
Little by little his profits We're invested
in land adjoining his farm. New machin-
cry to meet the increasing trade was put
into his factory. His business grew until
other than his own personal supervision
was necessary to conduct his affairs.
Then he employed the services Of a young
man named Roberts, whose sole duty it
was to "see" fer Chandon. and it is 20 the
eyes of this youth that Chardon owes a
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had barely reached their home when
knock at the door heralded second son.
who had unexpectedly come from India;
and later in the evening the family circle
was made complete by the arrival of
third son from London.
In no case had either the father or sons
any suspicion of the strange chance that
was bringing them all together from the
corners of the earth
A very touching coincidence recently
brought his two long lost daughters to
the deathbed of a man named Nails, in
the Bloomfield Hospital, New Jersey.
During the Civil War Nails had fallen
into the hands OF the Confederates. and
after a long term of Imprisonment had
been sentenced TO be shot