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BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1900-01-29
25O AMOR SIN NoMBRB

No tenfa NADIA de noble, nj de gene
roso, nj de caballerO.
Podfa decirse que contaba precisa-
mente con las cualidades contrariaS.
Tenfa una doblez que pudiera cOnsi-
derarse ingenita y connatural en- el; y
le era sumamente facil expresarse en-
tonos completamente distintos y
opuestos sobre una misma cosa, pare
ciendo en- ambos casos sentir de todo
coraz6n lo que sOstuviera.
Esto, que fuera del sagrado de ia fa-
milia, puede constituir una notable
cualidad de diplomaticO, y asf suele re-
putarse generalmente, en- el seno de
aquella es un crimen, 8, por 10 menos,
algo extravaganza y sup6rfluo que ha
de conducir por fuerza la iniquidad 6
la desconfanza, palabra la Ultima
que por 81 solo significa la discordia de
un matrimonio.
Por ESQ, mientras en- ell mundo de la
diplomacia, le habfa pr0pOrciOnadO
grandes y hasta Tuidosos triunfos, al
lado de Elvira Dermenier solo habfa
producido miedo y horror.
La sonora MailIot no podfa nunca sa-
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1900-01-29
j. RENAUD DE VIENNEs


Der cuA serfa ell verdadero pensamien-
to de su marido; y sin tener en- cuenta
sus palabras, recurrfa siempre adj
vinar 10 que podrfa haber de cierto en-
elias, en- cuya penosa tarea no todas
las veces era afortunada.
El Conde de Maillot estaba poseido,
por otra parte, de sentimientos pobres
y raqufticos, y bajo el prisma dc ellos
apreciaba los sentimientos de los de-
mas.
Su tactica, que es la de muchos
exhaustos de espiritu y de nobleza,
consistfa en- engaiar, captandOse ante
todo la confanza y las simpatias de
la victima, para caer luego traidora-
mente sobre ella puilal en- mano; y co
mo no todos los habitantes del plane
ia Sc dedican a la misma mission y no
todos .estan en- ell case de concebir la
maldad y la rastreria lleyadas tai ex-
tremo, el Conde de Mallot tenia fire.
cuentes ocasiones de saborear con
satanica satisfaction las victorias que
obtenfa sobre los hombres de bien.
El creia que todO el mundo Sc pro-
ponia recabar las mayoles yentaias po-
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1900-01-29

NOTAS.-La isla de Curacao, 81
tuada al Surde la de Puerto Rico, ofre-
ce q los puertorriqueflos analogas con-
diciones climatol6gicas que esta.
Ell viaje de Puerto-RicO Curacao
es de un dia Y medic.
Para mas informes, dirigirse al ISr.
Inspector de Instruction P1bl1ca III.
letin Mercantil," San Juan.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1900-01-29

Sc NECESITA un caballo de coche,
&c siete cuartas mas de alzada, que sirva
indistintamente solo, 9 en- pareja, y al tirO
dereeho 10 mismo que al izquierdO. Escri-
ban a Q. r. apartado del "Boletin".
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1900-01-29

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una espaciOsa habitaci6n con dos balconies
San Francisco So, altos 50 a
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Interes personal.
Want Column.

A fine saddle horse of the best Porto
Rican breed, and seven "cuartas in height.
Price 5 $50. Those wishing to see the hor
Sc will please address L. d. Post office,
Box G.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1900-01-29

FOR SALE. One American saddle in
good condition and very light Address
for particular j. e. V. E, cIo. Boletin
Mercantil.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1900-03-01
Johnston's Sarsaparilla
QUART BOTTLES.
a MosT WONDERFUL CURE.
l Grand old Lady Gives Her Experi
QUART BOTTLES.


A Grand Lady
Brighton,
venerable highly respected
of the Hebron Washington Co.. New
She Michigan In 1870 the Of "pecanoe and Tyler
faculties exceeny
of her early
Of Of
wit
the
JOHNSTONS SARSAPARII inherited tendency
disposition terribly which
lives thousands marking
tins of the death Transmitted from generation IT
peance
goe erupions varied forms Attacking the membrane
catarrh the head
and often is, the prime consumption.
Speaking
with bad skin disease My limbs would break in OF
dshargng yellow My swell and became
unghy My body covered with uous erupons
blood
frequent intervals and had
miserable condition. had remedy had been
mendd doctor had failed the physicians
the state told die Of serofuous internal
beginning FORM at length Johnston Detroit and
his saparia bottle
thing else as had no faith in It, and greatly agreeable surprise
better taking
bottles But steadily improved until entirely we'll All tho
81 years not but remarkably health
since then firmly believe
greatest blood purifier and the best medicine
scrofula medicine"
not lok to be than sixty and
life was saved by JcHNsToNS SARSAPARILLA"
nHrczErcEAS DRUG COMPANY, zo1rrzacoIr,
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1900-03-01
To catch and fix q flckle heart il

To catch and fix a tickle heart is
task which tempts all women and
man finds something intoxicating
;st the tears Of tenderness and JOY
which he alone has ha6 the power
to draw from proud woman. But
attractions of this kind are deeep-
tive. Affinity of nature founded on
worship Of the same ideal, and per-
feet in proportion to perfectness Of
soul, is the only affinity worth any
thing.
Jealousy is terrible thing. 1t
resembles love, only it is precisely
loves contrary. Instead of wish
ing for the welfare of the object
loved, it desires the dependence of
that object upon itself, and its own
triumph. Love is the forgetfuluess
Of self; jealousy is the most passion
ate form of egotism, the glorification
of despotic, exacting and vain
egotism, and which can neither for
get nor subordinate itself. The
contrast is perfect.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1900-03-01

CHARGING TIKI JURY.--It some-
times happened during the era Of
Reconstruction IN South Carolina
that the quondam slave was pro-
NOTED above his former master. SO
it happened that Pompoy Smash,
a coal-black negro, became a Trial
Justice.
1t was not long before Pompoy
had a case before him. When the
jury arose and began moving to-
ward the adjoining room for con-
sultation one Of the lawyers inter-
posed and said May 1t please your
honor, you have not charged the
Jury
Whereupon Judge Pompey gath.
cred up himself aud with all possi-
bic dignity safd
'Gen'men OF dis jury, as dis is de
iust time have had you befo' me,
| cha'ge each one Of you one dol.
lah and half.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1900-03-01

CAN CATS SwIM?-"Can cats
swim ?" was asked BY an old fisher
man.
"Why, certainly" was the reply,
Hand that reminds me Of cat |
Gace tried to drown that swan
ashore. Surely there must have
been hundreds or thousands Of
people who have drowned cats in the
same way, but nevertheless this was
an experience of my own. We had
a cat that we wanted to get rid Of,
and as humane a way as any
to kill it was by drowning. So |
put a couple OF bricks in the bot
tom of an old grain sack and put
in the cat and tied the bag up care
fully and securely and walked down
to the end OF wharf, and STOOD
there, and swung the bag with the
cat and the bricks in it round like
a sling until | could give it good
momentum, and then lot it go, and
slung it out to fall and sink in the
water, ! should cay 20 feet away.
81 supposed, Of course, that that
was the last of the cat, but the next
morning the first thing saw when
went out Of the house was the cat
sitting on the yeranda.
al suppose the bag had a weak
spot in it somewhere. The bricks
we're heavy aud sharp cornered, aud
swinging the bag around that way
started it more, and the cat was
desperate, aud with the bug that
way it scratched and tore its way
out and got out to the wharf and
clawed its way up and came ashore.
"Can a cat swim 4? Why, surew
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1900-03-01

IEG.-Yankee exagger.
alton is a trick that works both
ways. 1t is most amusing, perhaps,
when it takes the form OF under
statement.
An old lady was alone in a very
old house when the walls suddenly
collapsed and the house came tumb.
ling down around her. Her escape
was little short of a miracle; bat
she was taken from the ruins en-
tlrely uniDjured. When asked what
her sensations were when the house
fell, she said
"Well, to tell the truth, | was
considerably skeered; | RELY was. "
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1900-03-01
Farms for Sale.


Farm OF 300 acres, fertile, good -.
buildings, situate about miles from
Oakville and -four miles from steamboat
wharf Good state Of cultivation. Price,
$4,000. Terms easy
Farm 10 acres, good buildings, fine
soil and well improved Suitable for
trucking. Price, 81 900, Near 81. 10.
seph's Church. Terms easy
Farm 40 acres on 81. Clements Bay.
Fine two-story dwelling. New. Suita.
bic for cultivation Of fruit Beautiful
view. Terms easy
A small farm, u miles South Of Chap.
tico at Cross Roads Two miles from
steamboat wharf N acres Common
improvements. Good stand for business,
mercantile or mechanical Suitable for
fruit. Price, 500, Tafms easy.
Small tract Of land on tributary OF st.
Clcment'a Bay Good dwelling. About
s acres Good for trucking. Price, ti50,
Terms easy.
10. +. MORGAN,
Lconardtown, Md.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1900-03-01

A, r. De Fluent, editor Of the Journal,
Doylestowu, Ohio, suffered for a num-
Der Of years from rheumatism in his
right shoulder and side. He says "Ny
right arm at times was entirely useless.
| tried Chamberlain's Pain Balm, and
was surprised to receive relief almost
immediately. The Pain Balm has been
constant companion Of mine ever since
and it never fails" For sale by VIM F.
Greenwich & Son, Leonardtown, and all
country stores.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1900-03-01

Lawyer-Yes, my first case was
famous. | defended murderer
and the only difficulty was that the
jury hung on a point Of evidence.
Client-What was the prisoners
diflicultyP
Lawyer-He hung on piece Of
rope. Philadelphia Call.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1900-03-01

He-Borrowby can't dine with
US tomorrow, his father in-law has
just died.
"What a sad loss y
"The loss is fully covered by In.
surance. Life.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-11-29
oLD-FAsHIoNED CAKE.

1t is the part of the good manage
ment of a good housewife to have
something on hand for emergencies.
In colonial days, when cold weather
came, a portion of the regular duty of
the housekeeper was to prepare mince
meat, head cheese, fruit cake, cookies,
|jumbles and the like, and to store them
for safe keeping in huge stone pots,
with layers of buttered paper between.
These articles were very convenient in
emergencies and the only wonder is
that the present-day woman does not
provide herself with a similar stock.
The propinquity of the bake shop
and the travelling bakers wagon have
Internationally had much to do with
this change in the methods of house
keening. Besides this, the making Of
some old-fashioned cakes is practically
a lost art. Very few cooks can make
good jumbles and the sugar cookie,
which is the delight of the youngster,
and is perfectly harmless when prop
erly put together, is rarely found in
the average household. A recipe for
sugar cookies fished out of an old
recipe book will be appropriate to the
season and the finished product will
be highly appreciated by children Of all
stages OF growth. Cream together in
a large earthen bowl two cups of gran
ulated sugar and one heaping cupful
OF butter. After these ingredients have
been beaten and stirred to cream
add one egg, beating it thoroughly
through the sugar and butter. Crate
in a quarter Of a nutmeg, and if one
likes add also level teaspoonful CT
caraway seeds Gradually pour ~
cupful of milk, stirring gently thrdsgm
4 the mixture. Sift two and hall cup
lfuls of flour with three teaspoonfuls
of baking powder into another dish.
Gradually stir the flour into the mix
ture in the earthen bowl. If this
amount of flour does not make paste
stiff enough to roll out, add a little
more. The paste, however, must be
soft to give them the delicacy so de-
sirable. Roll the dough out quarter
of an inch thick on a Toured board,
cut with the cutter and bake in rather
a quick oven, watching closely that
they do not burn. In order to have
them crisp and snappy do not put in a
jar OR box until they are quite dry
after baking.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-11-29
How Plants Gain Weight.

AS far as is known the first botani-
cal experiment ever performed was
conducted by Dutchman. He placed
in a pot 200 pounds of dried earth,
and in it he planted willow branch
which weighed five pounds. He kept
the whole covered up and daily wa
tered the earth with rainwater. After
five years growth the willow was
again weighed and was found to have
gained 1854 pounds. The earth in the
pot was dried and weighed and had lost
only two ounces. The experimental
list, therefore, lookedSupon this expert
ment as supporting She theory that
plants required no food but water. But
lie was wrong. tats it Was discov.'
cred that much Of the increase in
weight of plants was derived from car
bonic acid gas in the air. Vegetable
cells contain liquid known as cecil
sap" which is water holding in solu-
ton various materials which have
been taken up from without by the
roots and leaves. Thus it is in the
living cells Of the plant that those
digestive" processes are carried on
which were once believed to occur in
the soil.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-11-29
THANKSGIVING.

70 the popular mind the word
Thanksgiving" stands for a day OF
festivity. But they who lose it's sub
jective meaning in mere creature en-
joyment suffer a misfortune and miss
an opportunity.
To our fathers, Thanksgiving was
sacrament. 1t was one of their acts
of religion to set apart for it an an
nual day. Heaven had blessed their
harvests, and they wished to express
in special way appreciation OF its
favors.
Nothing in their example was more
sane and sensible than the creation OF
this November family custom, now be-
come national. There have been
changes Of our social life since the
old time. These have made it less easy
to observe the day so generally with
public rites of worship, but the ordi-
nance holds its place with pleasing ft'
ness, and with ample reason.
| We have a thousandfold more to be
| devoutly glad for than our fathers
had; and the feeling and the faith
they carried with them to the Solemn
assembly" we can radiate in brighter
homes and wider activities of kind
ness
The unfolding Christian age has
given us the larger thought Of the
meaning and mission of freedom am
OF civilization; the grander type ant
idea of benevolence; the tenderer be
liefs that sweeten life and death wit!
hope. For all these let us thank God
Gratitude is not only "a natura
function of the healthy soul";; it il
it's wealth. Invest it. Its interest will
enrich the character, and uplift tn
whole life.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-11-29

The train due at Paris Junction at
1888 was ten minutes late on Thanks
giving morning. AS it halted before
the little station. which stood amid
bare brown fields at the crossing OF
the two railroads, a gentleman and a
lady stepped to the platform.
The lady gathered her sealskin cape
around her and hurried into the depot.
She was a plump, middle-aged woman
with clear, dark face. When the
gentleman entered the room, she was
addressing the station agent.
How long before the next train
west on the other road? she asked in
voice of peculiar sweetness
The man started and drew nearer.
There won't be mother tran till
4:1O."
But there is one due in few min
,utes.'
Its gone. Your train was late"
She gasped. What am l to do? l
must be at Latimer before 81
II don't know"
She turned appealingly to her fell
low traveller. He stepped forward,
lifting his hat
A glance into the strong face lighted
by frank gray eyes. and she gave a
little cry, soft rose-pink flush stain
ing her cheeks.
Leon Barley! How do you hap
pen to be here?" and she timidly ex-
tended her hand.
II am on my way to spend Thanks
giving with my old friends, the Her
ringtons, at Latimer"
And l to eat my Thanksgiving tur-
key with my cousin. Lulu Myers"
A moments silence fell between
them. The station agent had retired
to his little den, which contained his
desk, leaving the two travellers in pos
session of the room. There was brisk
fire in the stove, and the air was laden
with the fumes of the soft coal. Aside
from the stove, the sole furniture OF
the room consisted Of a wooden bench
which extended along two siles. The
uncurtained windows were dingy and
dirty.
OUTSIDE there was only the Shining
tracks and the fields. At little dis
lance solitary farmhouse could be
seen.
They were reused by dash of froz-
en- sleet against the windows. Bart
ley advanced to the door of the little
inner room, saying:
81 will see if there is not some way
out of our trouble"
Left alone, Zoe Freeman drew her
cloak around her and let her mind
wander back to the past Fifteen
-yearS before she had been the prom
ised wife of Leon BARLEY. They had
quarreled and, in fit of pique, she
had married Robert Freeman. Wealth
and social position had been hers, but
Freeman soon became helpless in
valid, and life held little for her save
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-11-29
8 CHAPTER M.

It was two days after the reception
at the West End mansion of Sir Henry
Lennox, the well-known Queens Coun-
sci. who was considered one of the
wealthiest men connected with tho
legal profession.
Enderby had seen Cecil Lennox but
for few minutes. but she had then
been able to utter the words that
thrilled Enderby through as no other
words could have DONE
"Come to see me on Friday. 1t is
not my day at home, but shall be
at home--to you"
Paul Enderby was thirty, was bar
rister, and was prosaic, yet his heart
and pulses throbbed like those of a
sentimental boy of twenty as he was
admitted into the presence of Cecil
Lennox.
She was certainly q very beautiful
woman. AS she came forward to greet
him, her tea-gown of pale sea-green
and billowy lace falling in graceful
folds about her, Enderby thought that
no woman who ever lived could have
excelled her in beauty and grace. But
there were others who might have
thought that the beauty Of Cecil Len
nox-of the soft. exquisitely tinted
face, of the rounded chin and throat,
the red-lipped, smiling mouth, the
deep, changeful, soft, violet eyes-had
something sensuous and voluptuous in
| it.
Enderby did not think so. He loved
the woman-or was it the woman he
imagined her to be?-and that was
enough.
Cecil let her soft little hand lie in
| his for a moment, then she drew him
towards the silk-coveSed couch from
which she had risen.
ut was good Of you to come" she
said, in her low. caresslng voice. eve
shall have tea presently. I suppose
needn't ask you how you enjoyed
my crush? People never do enjoy
crushes. Why do we give them at
all? Oh. often wish I had the cour-
age of my convictions, and could throw
off this yoke of social fashions and
conventions, and be what I should like
best to be-a simple human being.
asking to my house only those really
cared for, and being able to inter-
change thought and friendly kindness
with them!"
AS a matter of fact, Miss Lennox
would not have given up her social
fashions and conventions for any
thing that, could have been given her
in exchange. But she was clever
enough to suit her tastes, as we'll as
her conversation, to the individual
characters of her companions.
(To be Continued.)
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-11-29
Mining In Peru.

The Hon. G. P. Collins, of Bradford,
Pa, president of the Inca Mining COM
pany, which owns the santo Domingo
mine, in the province of Carabaya,
with Mr. and Mrs. Hamsher, have just
arrived at the mine in perfect health,
writes George r. Gepp from Lima,
Peru, to the Chicago Record. All are
deeply impressed with the immense
mineral wealth of the locality, and are
convinced that the company has got
possession of paying property. In
fact, Sandia and Carabaya seem to be a
South African Transvaal. 1t is likely
that various other mines belonging to
this company will now be worked; al
so that an electric tramway will be
laid down from Tiripata to Santo Do
mingo, and perhaps even as far as the
borders of the River Madre de Dios.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-11-29

home dirt was too plentiful. 1 saw
we could not think of dining there
made my way to another house, only
to find it locked. However, there is
postoffice near, where the agent as
sured me would find a store There
well, the contents of these paper
bags will tell the story
She laughed as merrily as a child
and began to peer into the bags. Soon
they We're seated, she in the chair, he
on the bench in front of her. Sheets
from a newspaper he happened to
have in his pocket were spread over
their laps, and on these they placed
crackers, cheese, peanuts and sticks of
red and white striped candy.
I'm sorry" BARLEY began, cycling
the spread with evident disfavor, but
it is the best the land affords Here is
part of every eatable thing in the
merchants stock, save gum, molasses
and articles that must be cooked. 1t
| is a poor Thanksgiving dinner to offer
you, Zoe"
The name slipped from him I'M
awares She blushed and began to talk
lightly. All constraint vanished. The
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-11-29
Thanksgiving House Parties.

The country has its charms for not a
few Thanksgiving lovers. Country
house life has grown in popularity OF
recent years. Thanksgiving house par
ties at the great country mansions on
Wednesday Thanksgiving Eve) last
until the following Monday.
Twenty-Five people at least, perhaps
thirty, are invited for these festivities.
The girls bring wardrobes. They must
have ball gowns, morning frocks and
athletic costumes. The days are de-
voted to sports, the evenings to sing
ing and music. There are horses, BIZ
cycles and carriages for everybody.
Thanksgiving day itself is marked by
a superb dinner. A ball follows.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-11-29

the cares and duties of a nurse. A
year ago death had set her free.
Leon BARLEY had never married.
They had met occasionally, but never
since Freeman's death.
Here her thoughts We're interrupted
by the return of Barley.
ut is as you feared. There is no
way you can reach Latimer before S.
There are few passenger trains upon
either of these roads. am very sorry
for your disappointment"
Her face flushed, then paled. eve
must wait with what patience we can,''
she said, unconsciously using the plu-
raj.
He brought for her from the inner
room the only chair in the building.
A few moments later the station agent
said:
"I'm goin' to the house awhile"
He strobe away, and they were alone.
Outside the sleet confined to fall. Zoe
turned from the dreary picture framed
by the window with sigh that
sounded strangely like one of con-
tent
They talked fitfully. Both avoided
referring to the past, and the present
held little in common for them. Yet
as they talked of the events of the
day, of books, and of people whom
they both knew. an unconscious change
came over them. AS in the days of
old, she was aware of tender defer
ence shown toward her. a Difference
that was genuine and had in it moth
ing of patronage.
After time BARLEY glanced at his
watch and rose to his feet.
II am going to raid the surrounding
country and see what l can do in the
way of Thanksgiving dinner"
Not in this storm" she cried, and
her clear dark eyes fell before his.
II have an umbrella. Besides I am
used to storms. y
He was gone some time. When he
returned. she was at the door to meet
him.
see you were successful" pointing
to the bundles he carried.
He shook his head. ''Ypu will think
It . poor success. At the agents