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La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1900-12-17

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La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1900-12-17


Por incomparecencia de testi
gOS fue suspendidO en- la Corte de
Justicia do Ponce, el juicio oral de Ia
causa seguida contra don Luis Cos
tas Ferrer.
Comunican ue Lorenzo Mar
ques que corca de Phillipolis al Sur
de Orange, los bOcrs han tenido IN
encuentro con fuerzas de caballeria
inglosa, hacd dndcles 42 bajas entire
lnuertos hetidos Vo,aron despues
el pucrte te del Iferrocarril de Norvaie
PUut
De Par is telogratan que In,
g3atorra osta nogociahdo con mucho
empeno Ia co pra de las Ininas de
Silva Rosa, q Il la provincial de Lugo,
asi como otra 5 al norsste de Espana
inc'uyendo la procession de Salvado-
ra Sc propohe Ell Gobierno Ingles
loyar a cabO la negOciac:Qn con ca
racter particular.
Verdadero baratilio en- medas,
ca cetines, ca misetas de hilo de Els
cOcja y soda, lnedias de puro hilo
so ceptavos i 50 centavOs par, ca
brecors6s blencCs y crudps q 20
centavOs unOs esencias q 25, 80, 40,
80 IS centa Fos pote, jabones & 8,
I, y - cent tavOs, polyos sFlor de
Marfas sin bl smut Is centavos Ca
ia, Abanicos q 8, s, 10, Is y 25 cen
tavOs, encajbs desde is centavos
pleas, tambl len por varas, 100 pile
gos de papel fno Is centavos, platos
finOs q IS centavos docena. Lucas
Gimenez. San F'ranciscc41 2
Sr. Director
Don L bis NJ. Cuyar de Maya.
gtez ha rev bcado Ell poder general
que le hahla pOnferido en- sus intere.
ses los sen res don Francisco A
Orsin y don DIegario Lecumberri.
Dionis 10 Correa hirio aver, en-
rif1a q Dematrio Soils EI Juzgado
de San Fransisco conoce en ell asun'
Sc VHNDE una Estencia On
Santurce In foImara don EugsLio
Ginorio, Capital.
ALL
Aver fue herido por Pablo
Renitcz 81 IN dividuo E EIuardo Mojica
Ell agresor b halla prcao & di5posi
con dc los tribunales.
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El Sena dor Hanna pressnto 8

II oeuauOr daHua pr9ssHIO 81
COngresO de Washington ell bill pa
ra Ia cOntribu cion 1 Ia Marina NOR
canta, y este fue apoyado por 81 Sc,
rador Jones. Sometido votacion
triunfo por 81 votos contra 20 To
dos los repu5licanos 10 apoyaron 4
excpci6n de Wellington, que vote
cen los Demofratas.
Segun 4elegramas d. Washing
ton la Camara ha0 aprCbado ell biil
;tutorixando la celebration en- Ensro
l. pr6ximo, del centenario del eata
blecimiento en- Washington del sitio
IN CChiarnS
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Marsa ~BoIivar, csjas de 10 srus-
sss, ca eta tan l4aflo grande. .lncluso Sc
Hos $50 en- orc
oorrieute %54
Asrca sis trell fla nligeIa, &c |
gruesas:
Cajets tsmano grande incluso Sc
llO. j S3-S5 Ell orv
Sc venlet sn Ia caIls de Tetuau
nUm. II.
Puerto Rico IL Octubrs de 1900.
y 1910
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Dice La Bruj-" de Maya
etiez. que persona idonea & "teljgen
tie de aquela ciudad, ha sc.iritaao
permiso del alcalde para. cole brar
por su cuenta las hest2s de IL Can
delaria.
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1.-THE HELV ETA"

q Gale de la Cruz, q.
Gran casa de hudspedes '"la
BILE d H6te"
Aposentos para fam}!lAs y
persOnas solas.
BANOS
PROPrETARIO PEDRO SIRCHA.
a nd
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1900-12-17

Sc THNDE una Estencia On
San)urce Infolmara don EugeLio
Ginorio, Capital.
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Aver fue herido por Pablo
Renitcz 81 individuo Eduardo Moiica
Ell agresor : halla prcso & di5posi
c:Oq dc los tribunales.
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Dan la noticia de Cane L w =
que los generates ingleses kelii Re.
my y Hamilton h n emoar 2ado con
el General Lord Roberts eli Ell mis-
NO trans pnrte. 6 cc.nsecuancia &c
sus heridas recibidas en- comhate,
auuuu9 no sun d. carantar grave.
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Por incomparecencia de testi-
gos fu6 suspe enddo en- la Corte de
Justicia do Ponce, el juicio oral de Ia
causa seguiia contra don Luis Cos.
taS Fprrpr
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5res, Doley Smith g. Co

Segdn eli informe mensual de las
casas de monedas de los EstadOs
Unidos, CORES pondiente al mas de
Noviern Sc <scuf1aroD Sl6 J45, l2O
on esta forna En- orc 81 l>>o 900
Eu plata $3 13O 600 En- monelas
pequenas $3.50, 1923.
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Los Tribunaies de Justicia han
resueto favora blemente el pleitO de
divorcio entabiado por nuestro ami
go D Ramon Negr6u Flores, decia
rando q di:oiucion de su matrimo :
Mo
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Dionisio Correa hirio aver, en-
rina a Dematrio Soils Ei Juzgado
de San Fransisco conoce en ell asun'
to
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1900-12-17

Don L bis NJ. Cuyac de Maya.
gtlez ha rev'bcado ell poder general
que le habIa conferiio en- sus intere.
ses q los sen res don Francisco A.
Oraini don DiegariO Lecumberri
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l3 GALE I ETUAN, San JUAN PR.
GALE MARINA Ponce, PR
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La prensa hoJandesa dice que 81
Jefe del Goberno Mr. Piersou ha
declarado en- Ia segunda Camara, que
es impossible prever ell momento
oportuno en- que Holauda hubiera de
prcponer arnitrage entire 10glaterra
y las Rep6blicas del Sur de Africa.
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A Wise Answer.

1t takes but an ordinary man to re-
turn an angry answer to an insult. The
extraordinary man is he who, under
such circumstances, holds himself so
well under control that he controls his
adversary also.
Persia once possessed such man.
and was clear-sishted enough to make
him Judge. He was the chief judge
of Bagdad in the reign of the Calf
Hadee, and his name was Aboo Yu-
suph He was very wise man, for he
knew his own deficiencies, and was ac-
tualiy sometimes in doubt as TO wheth-
err he possessed sufficient wisdom to
give just decision in cases peculiarly
shrouded in mystery.
1t is related of him that on one occa-
sion, after a patient investigation of
facts, he decided that he had not suffi-
cient knowledge to pronounce on the
case before him. There was in his
: presence a pert courtier one of those
men who take long to learn that wis
dom and impudence are not closely re-
lated. m
pray do you expect that the calf is
to pay you for your Ignorance!" he
asked. hoping to place the judge at a
disadvantage.
Il do not" was the mild reply. THE
calf pays me-and pays me well-for
what | do know. Were he to attempt
to pay me for what do not know. the
treasures Of his empire would not suf-
fee"
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lmnressixe Imitation.

A man who had applied for admis-
sion into secret society. which. for
the purposes of this narrative, may be
called the Ancient Order of Queer
Fish, and had been accepted. presented
himself al the appointed time for ini-
tiation.
In accordance with ancient usages.
the candidate was blinifolded. nshered
into the lodge-roonl. marched in slow
and solemn procession around the
darkened hall. subjected to various
trying ordealS, including that of being
tossed in a blanket held at the corners
and sides by athletic members, and
having come through the ceremonies
alive and in fair preservation, was de-
clared duly initiated. and entitled to
the right hand of fellowship. The
bandage was removed from his cyss,
and the brethren crowded about him 10
extend their congratulations on the
fortiude he had displayed.
+ How did it impress yous" asked one
Of them.
cit was the most impressive cere-
mony. take it all around he answered,
that ever knew or ever heard of. !"
You We're aware. of course. that
there was a fire across the street While
!. We were putting you throughs'
WHY" rejoined the new member,
81 could hear the putting of the engines
the tramping of the horses on the stone
pavement. the yelling of the firemen
and the swish of the streams from the
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hose, and could smell the smoke, too,
but good gracious, / thought it was a
part of the initiation
Earliest strike

The earliest strikes occurred about
1850 B. c., or upwait 81 thirty-three
centuries ago. Pharaoh was building
a new Temple of Thebes The ma
sons received very little cash, but a
quantity of provisions. which the con-
tractor thought sufficient was handed
to them on the first of each month.
Sufficient or not, they mostly ate it be-
Iore the time had elapsed. On one
occasion many of them had nothing
left quite early ia the month, so they
marched to the contractors house, be-
fore which they squatted and refused
to bulge until justice was done. The
contractor persuaded them to lay their
distress before Pharaoh, who was
about to visit the works, and he gave
them handsome supply of corn, and
so all went on well for that month.
But the same state of things occurred
Dy the middle of the next, and for
some days the men struck work Va
rlous conferences took place, but the
men declined to do a stroke until they
were given another supply of food.
They declared the clerks cheated them.
used false weights, and SO forth, ia
millar enough complaints in this coun-
try under the truck system. The con-
tractor not complying with their de-
mands, they marched to the governor
OF the city to lay their grievances be-
lore him. and he tried to get them to
return to work by smooth words, but
that was no use, and they insisted on
having food. At last, to get rid OF
them, he drew up an order for corn on
the public granary, and the strike was
at an end
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arms and shoulders and leaving only
his head protruding above the ground.
The captains orders were obeyed. The
OFFENDING soldier, still more than half
drunk, was packed in the sand hole.
his head alone catching the rays of the
semi-tropical sun, and a sentry was
placed over him. The sun was nothing
compared to the desert ants. The ants
sent out their couriers to the highways
ana byWays and dunes and hollows.
and it was no time at all before some
thousands of them, big, red, spider
like and ferocious, were running over
the soldiers head. They crawled into
his ears and his nose and his mouth.
and they caused him such unspeakable
agony that he shouted in frenzy. The
sentry finally reyolted against this
punishment, and his comrades joined
him. They threatened the captain, and
the latter, from fear of summary pun
ishment, permitted the prisoners re-
lease. The prisoner was taken to the
hospital, almost a maniac. The case
was reported at Washington, and the
result was revision of the military
code
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Early Dictionaries.

The first dictionary recorded in liter
airy history is the standard Chinese die
tionary, compiled by Pa-out-she. who
lived about HOO B. C. II contained 40
600 characters, each of which stood for
a word, mostly hieroglyphic or rude
representations resembling our signs of
the Zodiac. This was four centuries
before writing was employed by West
ern people. Anticlides. contempor-
airy of Alexander the Great, published n
Greek dictionary of the words in an
cient writings $50 B. C. Another Chi
nese dictionary was produced about
$50 B. c.. and yarro's Latin compila-
ton of an English dictionary were
made by Bullokar in 1916, and by
Coekerham in 1923. although a glossary
of old English words was prepared in
or about 975.
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REINDEER as Racers.

The popularity of horse racing in
Russia is seriously threatened by the
introduction of the reindeer as the ri
val of the horse says the Golden Pen
ny. The reindeer is among the swift
est Of quadrupeds and can outstrip the
swifteSt of horses. 1t is estimated that
he could give the fleetest Derby winner
a start of half mile and beat him cas-
ily over the Derby race course, while
for short distance he reaches a speed
of sixty miles an hour. A St Peters
burg merchant has constructed a spe-
cial course for this new sport, and the
novel excitement is looked forward to
with great eagerness by sport-loving
Russians. 1t is expected that before
long reindeer viii be harnessed to
sleighs and that most exhilarating of
pastimes made more exciting STILL
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awitcb. Hazel

According to Meehans Monthly. the
correct name for Hamamelis virginica
is not witch hazel. but wych hazel. Our
plant has no connection with the magic
of the water hunter. The blackthorn
of England Prunus Spinosa, was the
wood used in these divinations. or
whatever these superstitious practices
may be termed. Hazel had very wide
meaning in the olden times, and the
elm, as we'll as the nut now known as
such, was hazel One of these eIms.
now known as Ulumus Montana, was
the favorite wood for making wyches,
or provision chests. and was therefore
known as the wych hazel. In the pres
ent daysif is the wych elm. Our Ham
mamelis received from the early set
tiers the name of wych hazel from the
resemblance of the leaves to those of
the wych hazel or elm of the old world.
Language reformers imagining that
wych should be spelled witch are re-
sponsible for the confusion. Wyeh
hazel is the correct term for our plant.
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A win and n WAY.

Several years ago an effort was made
to collect all the chimney sweepers in
The city Of Dublin, for the purpose Of
education Among others came a little
fellow who was asked if he knew his
letters
"oh, yes. sir, was the reply
do you spell.'
"oh, yes, sir" was again tlfe answer.
do you readT'
sOh, yes, sir
"And what book did you learn from
ooh, never had book in my life.
sir"
"And who was your schoolmasterY'
Il never was at school"
Here was singular case; a boy could
read ara spell without book or mas
ter. But what was the factT Why.
another little sweep. little older than
himself. had taught him to Rad by
showing him the letters over the shop
doors which they passed as they went
through the city. His teacher. then.
was another little sweep Ike himself.
and his books the sign6oards on the
houses. What may not be done by try
ingx Where there is viii there Is q
way. The Myrtle.
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has are on the sure and safe road to
liquidation by the automatic operation
Of the sinking fund device. BY this
means the city of Glasgow will, inside
of fifty years, furnish free water to its
citizens; give them the best electric
lights free; electric or water power at
cost; allow them to ride on its electric
road at the nominal fare of cents for
any distance, and furnish to all free use
of a magnificent, public library.
The city affairs are managed by bust
ness men with the same prudence with
which they would manage their own
affairs; the question Of party politics
enter into 10 local election, and it seems
to be the object of the municipality to
administer the city's finances in an
economical way, to improve the public
health in its physical and moral basis,
and to give brightness and the posi-
bility OF happiness to civil life. It's sue
cess in all these has been so marked
as to command the admiration of the
civilized world and to gain for itself the
appellation Of the best governed city
on the face of the globe.-American
Magazine of Civics.
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We know farmers whose yearly secs
We're more in some of those years than
their farms we're valued at before the
war. We knew others who boughs at
high prices abouE she close of the war,
and found that as prices of farm prod
nee went down they could not sell
enough TO pay the interest on the mort
! gage. and lost all they had But farm
ers were not the only ones who made
money when prices went up. or lost
money when they went down. Manu-
facturers found themselves unable to
sell their finished products for as much
as they had paid or agreed to pay for
their raw material. There is lesson
in this for farmers. If there is boom
and a season of high prices for farm
products, do not get excited over it,
with the expectation that it win last
forever. Do not contract obligations
that cannot be met if prices go back TO
last years. rates. Exchange.
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not; Alexandria has the appearance or
newness. but was twelve hundred
years old before the 6rst stone of the
present capital was laid. But the
Cairo of to-day is only the develop
ment of Fostat, Old Cairo. New BABY
Ion. and Heliopolis. probably. There
has always been great city there 1r
Whereabouts, changing in appellation
with its locale.
The visit to Egypt has become almost
as essential to Americans-and fully
half of the eight thousand winter visit
ors are from the States the pilgrim
age of good Mohammedans to Mecca
The MOhammedans' religion TAKES
them but once to the sacred city of the
prophet. but pleasure draws those fs-
yored by fortune to the Nile canitai
time after time. Cairo is more than i'm
teresting; it is fascinating The anti.
quarian. the student. and the savant
have always been at home there: and
the invalid. real or imaginary. seeking
a climate, finds in and about the khe-
dival city the superlative of air and
temperature.
Artists never weary OF reproducing
Cairo's picturesque scenes and vivid
colorings. The blue of the skies. the
splendor of the setting sur. the Turner.
esque afterglow. and the delicate
browns of the desert. seem to be best
suggested in water-colors. Like Venice,
Egypt demands a master hand in oils.
The traveller of impressionable ma
ture yields to the fascination Of Cairo's
quaint Eastern life, as perfect as if met
far beyond the Orient's threshold. and
doubly satisfying. because found with
in a half-hour of the creature comforts
of hotels eonspicuously modern. To
walk the streets of an Oriental capital
wherein history has been made, be-
tween meals, as it were. and delveN by
day in museums and mosques perpetu-
ating mysterious past. and dine de
rigueur in the evening. with the best
music in Europe at hand. explains
charm that Cairo has for mortals lik-
ing to witness Eastern life provided
they are not compelled to become part
of it. If Egypt disappoints. the indie
cisive idler can in four or five days be
back in Paris or the Riviera.-Century.
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ned three spokes. His arms were
stretched until there were three or four
spokes between his hands. Then feet
and hands were firmly bound to the
felloes of the wheel If the soldier was
to be punished moderately he was left
bound in an upright position on the
wheel for five or six hours. If the pun
ishment was to be severe the ponder
Gus wheel was given quarter turn
after the soldier had been dashed to it,
which changed the position of the man
being punished from an upright to a
horizontal one. Then the prisoner had
to exert ali his strength TO keep his
weight from pulling heavily and cut
ting on the cords that bound his upper
arm and leg to the wheel.
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eooD-LookINe MEN WANTED.

Handsome, Vigorous Persons Desired
for Positions of Importance.
I'VE hear a lot of talk of pretty
women getting all the best positions as
clerks, stenographers, and so on, re-
marked the understood little man to his
chum. 1T never seems to occur to
people that good-looking men get all
the best jobs in mems work. But they
do. A tall. portly, well-dressed man
will make his way with half the brains
of an significant-loolling, carelessiy
dressed fellow. In n;nety-nine cases
out of a hundred a successful politician.
professional man, or business man is
handsome, or big and fine looking as
they say.
"A few days ago a friend of mine lost
a job that pays $4,000 a year simply
because he is homely and weighs only
120 pounds. A manufacturer wanted d
superintendent in one of his mills. He
wrote to an editor, IN old friend. in
Chicago, and asked him to recommend
somebody. The editor wrote back:
James Gregory is the very man for
you. He has had experience, he is
clever, and l can recommend him
from twenty years acquaintance The
manufacturer telegraphed Immediately
for Gregory to come and take the place.
Gregory reported for duty at manu-
featuring town 200 miles away He
wore his best clothes and WAS through
ly well groomed But Gregory is small
and pale and looks like a school boy.
" L am James Gregory he said when
he arrived ct the manufacturers Office.
"sOh, are you? Well, ali! the fact is,
ah! the fact is, Mr.. Gregory, l didn't
expect And the manufacturer
shook his head in despair
+" Expect whatY
".Well, ! thought you'd be big. fine
looking fellow. The fact is. you won't
do at all. Gregory. I'm sorry, but you
won't do at all. Why. the men won't
be bossed by a man who doesn't weigh
more than two sacks of four
"That ended it. Gregory lost the job,
and he was an expert, too, as far as
knowledge of the work in hand was
concerned. Chicago Inter Ocean.
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TO kill geese. have a place where you
can hang them with the head down.
and then stick a sharp knife through
the neck close to the head, anu let them
bleed. This causes the meat TO be very
clear and white. After they are through
bleeding roll them up. one at time,
in three or four thicknesses- of blanket,
and put them into boiler of hot wa
ter. iatting them remain there about
one minute. afterward lay them where
they will drain for about ten minutes
more, and pick them. They will then
pick very easily. 1t is the steam that
causes the feathers TO loosen. 1t is an
everlasting job TO diy-pick geese. and
this is sure process. The entrails
should be Immediately removed, the
head cut off. and the skin neatly drawn
over the neck and tied Afterward
place them where they will keep cool,
but not freeze.
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Soil for Strawberries.

We think the soil has the most to do
with production of large crops of
strawberries and large berries. Sandy
soil produces the finest berries, but not
the largest or as many per acre. The
reason is plain to those who have tested
the matter. If you want large crops,
select your heavy soil, pillow and subsoiI
deep, then repack the soil just as hard
as you possibly can, but do not work
while too wet Strawberry roots viii
penetrate the hardest soil, and will de-
yelop tire best fruit buds and produce
the finest berries. Constant and very
shallow cultivation is best. Sandy soil
cannot DE packed so hard, hence it will
produce fine plants, but not such large
crops OF fruit.-Western Fruit Grower.
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Bncking and Gagging.

Although the new regulations ex-
.pressly forbid the punishment of ''buck-
ing and gagging," men have been buck
ed and gagged in the United States
army within the past dozen years.
Bucking and gagging consists in tying
refractory generally a SOL
der who is man1acal with drink and
very abusive-hand and foot with
cords and gagging him with block of
wood Whitfield to fit his mouth. The
gagging part of this punishment came
near choking number of soldiers to
death. which accounted in part for it's
erasure from the punishment list.
One punishment much affected in the
light artillery was called tying on the
spare wheel" Springing upward and
rearward from the center rail of every
caisson was fifth axle, and on it was
spare wheel. A soldier who had been
insubordinate was taken to the spare
wheel and forced to step upon it. His
legs were drawn apart until they span