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slime to her husband what a beauti.
full young lady, Who is she ?''
''She ees NOT what you say--a lady
She ees waitress FUN re eating house .
and who is the handsome gentle
man writing on her card?'
He ees not one gentleman, nv dear.
He ees re proprietor of re Mint 'Ulep y
Now Mrs. Wolfstine marveled that
this man should be there dancing with
the daughters of the best families in
this growing western town. But why
should he not be thereY Every fireman
on the division had sold or tried to sell
him ticket to the ANIMAL ball.
Society had not yet become stratified,
and this wolf was still allowed to romp
with the lambs.
After the ball, when honest people
We're asleep, he would go and mingle
with his own kind.
The fireman was surprised upon tax
ing Fanny's card to find that his rival
had already written upon it. A half
hour later he took the card again to Sc
lect a number and found the face of it
black with:
"Julep."
"Julep."
''Julep."
This man had been called by that
name so much that he had come to an
swer to it and write it, Indeed few
people in the place knew that he had
another name.
IT. N,oc two bo11,c =, fro, rl,4 ,,,l,,,,
the fireman opened the gate in front of
the little frame cottage where the girls
mother lived.
"Well, said the girl. putting the
gate between them, sswas the ball a sue
cess 2"
'For some people 1 think it was a
decided success.
"And for others?''
ga Hat failure.
"That's too bad, said Fanny, with
provoking carelessness.
''Oh. don know. Where there are
so many smooth runs and smooth run
ners there must always be few wrecks
and failures
Fanny yawned and ended it with a
forced. half aoologetic laugh.
Fanny said the fireman, 81 want
to ask you one question before go, and
I would like a frank. honest answer
"Well?'
edo you love me?''
81 have said that did,
"And you have shown. that you do
not.
''Then why do you ask me?"
''For your answer. If you can say
truthfully that you love me now, fresh
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His Vocation.

In we'll known college in one of the
gulf states an old negro named Timothy
and called old Tim by the students had
for many years served them in the vari-
Gus duties of general servant. OF course
the petty larceny which he steadily
practiced as q perquisite of office was
winked at by the students, who made
him the butt of jest and ridicule. One
day student who had received box
OF edibles from home missed half of
the ponderous fruit cake which his
mother had prepared especially for him.
He knew the thief, and when old Tim
came in sight he exclaimed:
CHOW. Tim. what did you steal that
fruit cake fort Allof us share our good
things with you. but suppose you had
rather steal them. All, old fellow. YOU
are bound for the evil one! Say, what
are you going to do, sir, when you get
down in his regions2''
81 dunno. Mars Ed answered Tim.
"douten jes' keep on waitin on de
students Exchange.
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The Weight of Rain.

1t is not until we take the rainfall in
the bulk that we can realize what a
stupendous quantity of water showers
down in Great Britain and Ireland in
one year. and even when we have the
figures before us it is difficult to realize
their magnitude.
To say, for instance, that 9, 262. 37O,-
600, 600 cubic feet of rain on an aver
age fall annually on the United King
dom conveys little or nothing, though
it implies something moist, and when
we further learn that the weight Of the
same amounts to 25s, 1876, $780, 900 tons,
except for a feeling of thankfulness
that it did not fall on our toes all at
once. we are only conscious that it
makes very pretty row of figures.
With the laudable intention of maxi
ing these figures look small we will
merely say that the total weight of the
rain that falls in one year on the Brit
ish isles is only equal to Lilo part Of
the weight of one paltry square mile of
the earth surface, from the surface to
the center Of the earth When we con-
slider that there are 1871, 900 square
miles OF such surface in the United
Kingdom alone one can understand
what an infnitesimal fraction of the
total weight of the British isles the an
nual rainfall would amount to. Why,
1900, 600 Forth bridges would almost
equal it, -Ludgate
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n a stretcher from the train across the

on stretcher from the train across the
river to the hospital
Engineer hurtl'' shouted Il frecliled
boy going past the cottage, proudly
spreading the news.
'sWho is it,"
Dunno said the boy. without
slowing down.
Eyes, it's him, said Fanny moth
er, coming back from one of the neigh
bors; Caught under his engine-leg
broke and badly scalded.
Fanny put her chin in her hand, and
the tears began to run down her pale
face. If only she could go to him, but
she had no right. Besides, he might net
care to have her. She had seen him but
once since they parted in the moonlight
at the gate. That was the day her baby
was buried.
Lifting her eyes from the grave that
was closing over the white coffin, she
had looked into his face, and, seeing
look of sympathy there, she had almost
thrown herself into his arms, so utterly
lonely and miserable did she feel, but
he turned away, probably to hide his
own tears
1t was week later that the kind
hearted surgeon consented to allow her
to visit the injured man.
He was asleep when she entered, and
she sat down silently beside the little
iron bed The sight of his pale but hon
est face SO affected her that she took
his hand and held it in hers The Sleep
er stirred slightly, and she put down
the hand, but not until she had left two
tears upon it. When he could collect
his weak and wavering mind, tie sick
man looked upon the pale, but still
beautiful face of the woman and whis-
pered the one word, the one name, that
had been the sweetest name in the Ian
guage to him in his youth. He had TAX
Ell her hands and now drew her toward
him. She turned her face away.
'Ah, Fanny. don't you think you
could learn to love me again ?''
II have never ceased to love you, .
she said, with her honest eyes upon his.
cit was all mistake-an awful, hor-
rid mistake. %
Here, here!' said the doctor enter
ing IF you're going to cry. I'll send
you away
ono, you won't" said the engineer,
smiling and taking her hand in his.
She S going to be my nurse"
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face was crushing. He remembered how
he had begged her to keep out of the
eating house and tried to hint to her
mother that the place was full of lures
tits only short step in the direc-
ton OF danger. he said. ga public din
ing room. camp meeting, the skating
rink and
"Stop!" said Fanny's mother. 81
Will not have yon hint even that Fanny
is capable of being bad.
And SO the fireman had been power
less to prevent thepure young girl from
putting herself in this Eden SO freight
ed with poisonous fruit.
Promptly at o'clock he called for
Fanny. She would be out in moment.
her mother said.
During the half hour in which he
waited for the expiration of woman's
moment the fireman noticed a num-
Der of new pieces of furniture also he
noticed that Fannys mother was a lit
tie mite remote. Fanny herself, while
amply deliberate was irritable and
nervous. Conversation seemed to 20
slowly with them. like heavy train on
an up grade, and when he shut off they
appeared to be going back.
When they entered the ballroom, the
fiddlers were already fiddling, and they
fell in line for the opening walk around.
Over in one end of the hall there was
bank OF plants and ferns, loaned by
leading citizens for the firemen S annual
ball, and just in front of the oasis stood
the Julep man, immaculate as ever and
wearing the only evening dress suit in
the room. My. but he was radiant, and
all the more so by comparison. for not
a few of the respectable black suits worn
by the firemen and their friends were
beginning to take on that unmistakable
shine that comes with agel
"Oh. Isaac. exclaimed Mrs Wolf
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i.
''Sit here, please, said Fanny, and
she stood with her shapely hands upon
the back of a chair that she had drawn
a little way out from the table 1t was
the boast of the proprietor that he had
the handsomest lot of table girls ON the
road, and the queen of the collection
was Fanny Mccain. That's how she
happened to be head waitress, for she
could not know much of the business.
She had come to the eating station part
ly because her widowed mother was
poor and partly to crafty consuming
desire to pose as the prettiest girl in the
place, for she had been consulting her
mirror.
The fireman frowned, hut took seat
next the proprietor of the Mint Julep.
The fireman's face, newly washed and
hard rubbed, glistened in the glare Of
the electric light, and the same light
played upon the jeweled hands and i'm
maculate shirt front of the Julep man
The fireman bowed coldly, and the 9TH
er, feeling a certain superiority in the
matter of dress and personal appearance
smiled
The head waitress, taking position
at one of the windows, stood locking at
the two men, both of whom had made
love to her She had purposely seated
them so as to get their faces in one
frame, as it Were for she had been un-
able to forsake one and cleave to the
other. She respected the freman-she
nod
edged it to him-but she was dazzled
by the handsome, we'll groomed proprie-
tor of the Mint Julep. Once or twice
the fireman ventured to look up, but
each time he saw her gazing upon his
rival, and his heart was filled with
dread.
"What time shall call?' he asked
as Fanny punched his meal ticket.
.'Not before 8. detest being first in
a ballroom. y
Suppose we say $50? 1t will be 8
by the time we reach the hall y
"Nine, said Fanny. smiling and
nodding at the Julcp man as he passed
out, with his chinchilla thrown grace
fully over his shoulders.
buG III Oh uhe reception commit
tee. %
"Tten go and recep and come back
for me. shan't leave the house before
8. My, how jay you are!"
The fireman went out with heavy
heart Fanny was getting on. She had
not used such language to him before,
and il cut him to the quick. He had
| fo1 Ir,% 20 h,v
and tell him of his shortcomings to his
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Some paradoxe..

AS big as whale" might be rather
small, as there is species of the ceta-
cean genus hardly three feet long. Nor
does the expression "as awkward as a
crab apply on some Of the south sea
islands, for the crab is found there that
not only runs as fast as an average
man. but climbs trees with the ease of
schoolboy.
Nor does 1.-THE busy little bee improve
each shining hour" down in Mexico
On the contrary, it soon learns that. as
there Is no winter there. there is no
necessity for laying in store of honey,
ana degenerates into thoroughbred
loafer. Exchange.
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CHAPTER Ill

Fanny had just returned from the
Ettle stony graveyard that had grown
up with the town. The grass of two
summers had grown green upon the
grave OF her dead baby. Her husband,
me Mint Julep man, was no more His
light bad gone out in the midst of de-
llfium. and his body had been sent back
east to his people.
They had seen men carrying man
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CHAPTER I'LL

how strangely sad the organ sounded
IN the mans ears! He could scarcely
remember when he had been inside of
a church. Its all rot, Fanny, Gle
gal he had said. S'nough to give a
man the jimjams. I"
Mother of God. walled the woman
falling upon her knees beside the small
white coffin, take my baby, my baby
And then she lay and sobbed above this
mite of cold. cold clay.
The man turned his bloated, distort-
"a face from the window, drew a sill.
handkerchief from his pocket and fic,.ed
the dust from his patent leather boots.
And that's how the Mint Julep man
happened to hear the organ.
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IRON the radiance OF that tinsel god
J'1levs shall trust you. I"
"Oh. you don't need to trust me if
you don't want to! I'm sure l never
"s.;ed you to. Good nightl''
Fanny, exclaimed the fireman,
ssTete ling his arms over the gate. sis
This the end of my dream?"
The girl twisted the little gold en-
easement ring from her finger and
thrust it across the gate. Now the fire.
man wondered that he had not until
DO" noticed the beautiful diamond that
siarkled even in the pale moonlight.
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Indian Hop Picker..

1t is the proud boast of the state Of
Washington that her hopfelds are the
largest and yield the best quality of
hops in the world At all events. hon
picking time is the most joyous season
OF labor. The bulk Of the hops are
picked by Indians. who have dizziness
and skill never equaled by the white
man. Old Indian women in their dotage
and almost blind will pick their three
boxes OF hops day, while the most ex-
pert white man can seldom fill two.
The white pickers go into the bust
ness mainly for the beneficial effect.
Fale seamstresses, nervous housewives,
grow strong and rugged in the hop
fields.
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Stop

that cough. Take Knauls White Pine
Cough Balsam sold at csc and soc per
bottle. If it does not cure you bring
back the bottle. We will cheerfully 70.
turn your money, what more do Won
ask. Yours,
r. KNAUL.
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E| aIcohO|iSnO en- ,Francia

va ha terminado sus sesiones en- Pa
ris ell Congreso international contra el
abu so de las bebidas alcoholics, en- las
cuales Sc ha puesto de manifesto una
vez mas 'os multiples y hororosos peii-
gros del alcoholismo, que como siniestro
au xliar del cIimen y de la locura, serd
ca a dia Ia llaga mortal de la civilia iaacion
m derna.
Francia, penosamente sorpren iida, ha
vis'o Goa horror que en- su bello pals do
nina ell vicio alcoholico, que LENA con
sus victinas las caias de locos, de co
rrecci5n y las carceles, no sin ergen1rar
bnjo el puato de vista heredtario una
degeneration en- los indvidurs cada dia
ma tangible, 8 en- uaa pAlabra. que su
acc 0a de tructora mella las fuerzas vi
vas de la nacion.
81 Sc relacionan los datos estadisticos
y sc tienen en cuenta los hechos que Sc
de5prenden de los mismos, Sc allega el
da:o DE- que ell consume meoio por ca
beza cs de 81 itros 2S de alcohol a 81
) 20 cull representa- 3,9oI sean diez y
me LA de estas por dia y por ind.viduo.
kxiste una consideration que no es
olvidada: la borrachera hoy en- nada Sc
asemeja la borrachera de otros diaS;
an es era alegIe, exuberante e inofensiva;
5. resolvia en- cantar y bromear; hoy la
borrachera es brutal y. agresiva. deb.
a que Sc absorben alcoholics cargados
de sustancias toxicas, que S; disirazan
con los nombres de licores y esencias de
pla ntas aromaticas, cuyo uso reite:a 10 y
diario nina sordamenie el ORGANISING
hunaro, provoca desordenes gr-vismos
conduce al alcohoismo
Pongamos aqui punto final. aplazando
para otro da dar noti'ia de los medios
indicados para destruir la playa que
combatimos.
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NARAULLAS DBL TELEEONO

Digna de consignarse es la ocasion re-
ciente, solo possible en- esta adolantada
epoca moderna, en- que una reunion de
estudiantes del Institute Tecnologico de
NJ Issachussetts pudo escuchar en- Bos-
to l los discursos que en- Nueva York,
S.. Luis. Pittsburgh Filadelfa pronun-
ciaron Edison y otros dlstingudos per
sCnajes de este pals.
Sentarse una mesa repleta de exqui
Sitos manjares. participar del OPT paro ban
qrete, entire sorbos de aromatico cafe
y espirsles del suave humo cue, segnn
nos dijo el eminente B-llo:
d" Solazara ell fasti1io ell ocio inerte |"
escuchar, por via de raro ! delicioso en-,
tretenimiento de sobremesa los inspira
dos discursos que desde puntos remotos
pronuncian los mejores o.adores dc la
nacion, es un luj1 exclusivamente reser-
va io para loo -..as, k-. i>3o->
te 'contemplar la agonia'del portentoso ST
GO que termina.
La misma gloriosa fiesta que Sc cele-
bro en- Boston Sc reprodujo simultanea
mente en- varias grandes ciudades del
pals, y los alumnos de las divetsas su
c1rsales del Institute Tecuolosico pudie-
ron disfrutar la vez del magnifco privi-
lego de percibir las elocuentes c inspi
radas frases que, gracias 4 las admirabes
conexiones telefonicas, llegaban q sus
atcntos oidos
Y tcrminados los discursos, vino la
mus;ca 4 solazar cl espiritu, grata con
clusion de este multiple y simultaneo ju-
bileo de la civilization moderna.
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The examinations made in this di-
rection have proved absolutely friutIes'.
The Transport City of Be'Iin, which
conveys Commodore Watson. carries
besides regular troops f'r the Pin lippine
campaign.
Rear Admiral WIS N propos 5 to
give greater impulse to the war opera
tions, b'ockading completely the island
Of LWon.
For this porpose he will make use
of al the cruisers, gunboats and trans
ports at anchor in the Manila.
The Duke Of Connaught presided
at the magnificent funeral of Lord Straf
fore which took place in London.
The French Minister Of War is
studying the mode of recompensing be
coningl} Commander Marchand
The fact of the Fllipinos having at
tackled gunboat OF the Union has cau-
sed profound surprise in the State.
News from Manila report new en-
gag'ment fought. in the neighbourhood
OF Santa Cruz.
The rebels made use of the artillery
which they managed with skill and pre-
cisin.
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ROBO I'm NUNTECARLO

El Tribunal Superior del Principado
de Monaco ha dirigido la siguiente cir
cular los Gobiernos amigos
"En la tarde del Gel actual, un NAL
hechor penetro en- la casa del Sr conde
de Bertora, en- Villa Lu;sa Montec rio
apoderandose de una vitrina que conte-
MIA tabaqueras de orc rodeAdAs dc bri
antes relojes del msmo met j, que
constituian una collection de mucho
valor.
Los objeros robados son los s'guientes:
Una miniature en- esmalte represent
tan 10 a Napoleon | con un autog'ato
hrmado en- Santa Elena, y un estuche
con ell nombse del doctor O. Mcasna
Una tabaquera con una miniature del
Gran Duqne Constantin Una tabaque-
ra con las cifras V. r. Dos tabaqueras
con las elf as V. T. Dos baqueras con
miniatures de la ieina Sofli de IIolanda
Otra idem con una miniature del rey
Ma timilieno de b .viera. Otfa idem cor
e retrato del antigua hey de TGnez. Otrs
idem esmalt&da Ell blanco Otra con
una l. y una corona. Ora con la cifra
w una corona. Ora con una + y co
roma. Otra con Ell retrato del rey Oscar
lie Suecia. Otra en- esmalte representan-
do la educlcion de Aluiles est 10 I'm
perio Otra esmaltada en- blanco, Luis
XVI. Un reloj Luis XVI con triple
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NUN II8

GAIA por un lado, de orc repujado, re-
presenta una escena biblica, y por Ell
otro un 8aInaiat verde de fabrication
inglesa Un REQ de orc renuiaio pc.
quefo modelo estlo Luis XVI. Otro
reloj Luis XVI esmaItado en- azul y
oro. 0 ro reioj estilo Luis XVI, de for
ma octogona slargada, y rodeado de
diamantes y rrbies, con los dos cristales
dc roca".
Como Sc We, todos estos objetos, de
los cuales algunos soi regalo de sobera-
nos. tienen ademas ell valor material del
orc y brillantes, tepresentando en- total
una suma considerable,
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1899-05-19
ESTAlO METEOROLOGICAL
GACETA DE HOY

Inserta el resultado de las oposiciones
de Notarias vacantes. las cuales seran
provistas en- Ia siguente forma:
Para la Notaria de Mayaguez. el Abo-
gado don Alfredo Alnaldo Sevilla,
Para la Notarfa de Vega-baja, don
Manuel Valdes Cajas.
Para la Notaria de Aguadila, don
Juan Mercsder Rodriguez.
Para la Notaria de la Carolina, don
Jose Celestino Schi oder.
Para la Notaria de Hato grande, don
Martin Gonzalez Lopez.
Publica la Tarfa de derechos de com.
probacion y la Tabla de la utilidad de
las mec.idas, segIn su peso. lopgitud y
capacidad, y material de que Sc com.
ponen.
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CABLE NEWS

The Eng ISL battle shid Centurion left
Minila yester lay on an unknown route
1t is assured that a secret mission to
the Government, Of the Shah carries her
to Persia.
In Columbo [Ceylon] falsi6catioD
Of the Bank of England notes has been
found out
Up TO now twenty three prisoners
have been arrested The constabulsry
force has oonhsc te ! printing press,
property of the delinqpents.
Among the defined are three Ita
lians.
Maxine G omez Intends making a
tour throughout the island OF Cuba.
To wards the South OF Luzon, new
rebelions nucleus have appeared as
suming a hostile and bellico;e attitude.
1t is believed that these forces are
made up of the coasingents which the
Vi,ayos have offered to contribute to the
insunection movement
MIR. A'get communed yesterday
with President MIC Kinley upon the
conveying Of re nforcem .nts to the Phi
lippnes and upon matters relating to the
Colonies
Much importance is attributed to
tie future of the antilles in the m.eting
celebrated between the Secretari Of the
War and President Mac K'nley.
kilograms from New Yo k say that
the steps which few Cubans were max
ing in that city to OBTAIN the relieve Of
Genera Books have b=en defeated.
His H ghness the Pope borne in the
arms in his chair attended yesterday a
reii, .ious service in the BasiIica OF San
Pedro
Leo XIII addressed his hearers
pro- ouncing a sympathetic speech in
which he advocates disarmament the
basis of peace, and universal harmony,
and hopes that at the conference at
the Hague it will be consolidated.
Every day the disconte1t in Cuba
is becoming more ma 'ked, owing to tn :
mode OF distributing the three million
The American General Mr.. Corey
and the Commission Mr.. Robert P Por
ter think that the distribution of said
sum ought to be deferred.
Slid opinion hasproduced a deep
agitation in some departments of the is
land, many asserting that they will not
accept the sums which have been assig-
ned them.
The Washington Press affirms, that
the greater part of the soldiers will not
lay down their arms, notwithstanding
Maxine Gomez's denial to the contrary.
The American soldiers patrol the
streets of Havana fearing that the public
order should be disturbet.
General Brooks has ordered a few
OF the troops to be garrisoned.
New Yorks papers state, that the
order given that the Cuban soldiers
should hand in their arms to the mayors
of the towns has contra effective ten
dency.
In this case, the press adds the Ci-
ty Houses will only be considered as arm
deposits, which defended by the magis-
tracy Will be always at the disposition o.
the public.
Said papers advocate the delivering
of the arms to the Military Department.
the charge Of which is under the com
mand of American otii cials.
Nothing is known of the pieces o
artillery which the Cubans had during
the insunsetion.
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Los cablegramas que preceden son de
la propiedad del BoLErrN MERoxNTIL,
y pueden reproducirse en- cualquier for
ma abonando a la empresa 20 pesos por
cada uno que sc utilize.
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No HAS QUE PARQUES

En- este case, ahade aquella
prensa, las Alcaldfas no seran mas
que parques 6 dep6sitos de armas
que, defendidss por los cdilcs, que
daran semprc la disposition del
publico.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1899-05-19
PIDEN FL RELEIO

Telegrdmas de New York dicen
que han fracasado las gestiones
que en- aquella ciudad hacfan algu
nos cubanos para conseguir el re-
levo de MIR. Brooke.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1899-05-19
ES CONTRlPRODUCElTE

Periodicos de New York dicen
que es contraproducente la dispo-
sici6n dada fin dc que los solda
dos cubanos entreguen Sd anna
mento 4 los Alcaldes civiles.