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BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1901-10-29

1t is rumored that Governor Hunt will
leave for the states on the 18th of this
MONTH There is nothing positive about
this information, and no confirmation Of
the report could be obtained.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1901-10-29

When President Mckinley died there
came from all parts Of the United States
reports Of schemes to erect memorials in his
honor or to change to his name the titles OF
institutions already established. All of
these schemes we're put forward through
patriotic motives, and the grief of the nation
found some Of its most sincere expression
in this widespread determination to do honor
to his memory In all parts OF tie Union
schools will he named after the martyr pres
ident, and new towns springing up will be
proud to bear his rame. None of these
memorials will however, pay half as much
true honor to the memory OF William Nc
Kinley as the everlasting tribute of this
grateful island. Within few days after
the unfortunate death of the President had
been cabled here, streets had been named
after him, a meeting of universal sorrow
had been held, snd even to-day the name Of
that great man is on the lips of all. Tue
uplifting of Porto Rico is the Creators me
mortal to the honor and the glory of William
Mckinley.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1901-10-29

You Can get glass of SchEiGS' Ger
man Beer at the Fashion Bar for q
cents. Its fifteen bottle, and two glasses
in bottle. If the arithmetic is wrong come
and tell us about it.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1901-10-29
SAN JUAN, OCTOBER 29
Editorial Comment.

When the idea of baseball association
first suggested itself to the few Americans
in Porto Rico, not in their fondest hopes
or most chimerical dreams did they believe
that they were creating means OF uniting
Porto Ricans and Americans, which IN
results already achieved, and being achieved
have far surpassed all legislation and official
enactments for public good and betterment
More than one thousand people went to see
the ball games last Saturday, and on Sunday
last the largest crowd that has ever viewed
q game in Porto Rico furnished day OF
much pleasure and rare opportunity for study
and satisfactio to the person interested in
The final Americanization OF the Porto
Rican.
Full three-fourths of the spectators at
every game are Porto Ricans and their
enthusiasm and enjoyment knows no bounds.
Already they have learned the names OF
almost every player and The technicalities
of the game are appreciated by them as
thoroughly as by any Americans that visit
the grounds. Good plays are loudly ap.
pluaded, and unfair decisions hissed so
thoroughly that it becomes necessary to look
lively to assure ones self that this is Porto
Rico. The children in the streets and IN
empty lots and fields spend their days play.
ing our national game, and some Of them
show unusual proficiency. All eager and
and anxious to learn and play. To the
theorist, the college bred economist, ard
the stateman who believes in legislation as
remedy and cure for all ills there is
no lesson to be learned from the success of
the national @ game am iR PoEto RieO, Bic 6as to
the times, and learn his philosophy from the
dciDgs of every day life, from the likes and
dislikes of the masses the lesson is an inn
portant and far reaching one, and one that
should bear good results.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1901-10-29
The only c. draft beer in Porto Rico at
ISycafe on the Plaza. 1 M

--(ooo)-
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-06-04
HOME OF THE KINDERGARTEN IN THE UNITED STATES.

weight, the Scent nickel piece and the
copper 1-cent piece being considered
ample to meet the wants of the people
of the West. Bank people and treas
ury officials have a very lively concep-
ton of the bother there is in handling
the present 1-cent pieces, the larger in
situations getting hundreds of pounds
of them sometimes on hand. The
weight as well as bulk cuts quite a
figure in these cases, and the addition
of another intermediate between the
scent piece and the cent piece would.
it is believed, but ;dd to this trouble
Vault room for storage purposes and
drawing facilities would have to be pro-
vided in proportion.
The old 3-cent silver piece which was
coined several years ago did not meet
with popular favor, and it was found
impossible to keep it in circulation.
The sub-treasury people fear that the
attempt to put out new one will be
but a repetition Of this experience.
In the West and Southwest the 1-cent
piece was slower in coming into favor
than in the East, and the coinage Of the
new piece is supposed to be to meet a
demand which the Scent piece is too
large for and the 1-cent too small
This would indicate if it is correct that
the Western people are relinquishing
their old idea that nothing less than 3
cents was worth counting In a business
transaction.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-06-04

Germantown home until 1882, when
she died Of old age. Her tomb is in
st. Nicholas cemetery adjoining the
home.
Not only is Columbus the cradle of
the first practical Kindergarten work in
the United States, but it is also the
site of the first training school for kin
dergarten teachers in the State of Ohio.
The house where this first Ohio train
ing school was conducted still stands
in good preservation.
From this little training school went
the Misses Eddy, who established one
of the first kindergartens in Chicago.
Subsequently Mrs. Ogden Joined the
Misses Eddy and became the teacher
of the first training class in Chicago.
She also established schools in Cleve-
land, Washington and in many cities
through the West as far as the Da-
kotas. United States Commissioner Of
Education Eaton sent her to New Or
leans to conduct a model kindergarten
school during the exposition. She is
revered as the greatgrandmother Of
kindergartens.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-06-04

GAINESVILLE, and subsequently to the
Lutheran orphanage at Germantown,
Pa. In that institution she found a
home, and in 1865 introduced there the
kindergarten system which prevails to
this day.
Beyond a few articles on Froebel in
an educational journal nothing had
been said in America relative to kin
dergartens, nor had any attempt been
made in the East to put Froebers the
cries into practice. 1t was ten years
later that Elizabeth Peabody, after fu-
gitive efforts through correspondence
with Froebel, went to Europe, studied
FroebePs own kindergarten, and after
ward returned to Boston to put his
theories and methods into practice. All
this, however, was after the establish
ment of the Columbus school. Miss
Peabody is said to have visited Miss
Frankenberg at the Lutheran home
and to have obtained from her many of
FroebePs ideas.
Miss Frankenberg remained at the
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-06-04

hole being about One-half of the diam
eter of the coin. 1t will prevent one
of the difficulties which handlers of
small silver coins were troubled with
when the metal money began to circu-
late after the era of paper money. The
small coins, which got into the hands
of children, and some classes in the re-
mote districts, were treated as curiOsi-
ties and great prizes. To secure their
safe keeping favorite method was to
punch a hole in them and tie them on
a string. This destroyed the circula-
ton value of the coins, and dealers who
subsequently took them in had to stand
the loss, a fixed scale being finally ar
ranged for deduction for punched
dimes, nickels, or other pieces. The
new piece can be strung without injur-
ing it.
1t is the general opinion of Govern
ment officials that there is no crying
need for an additional subsidiary coin
of small value and large bulk and
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-06-04


had been in her heart ever since that
touch of Mrs. Cameron's hand at the COM
munion table, and the matter was as
good as settled when MIR. Mcfarlane
asked it, for his sake; but they gave her
no opportunity to tell them so until they
had overwhelmed her with their COM
petitiyu eloquence. They would not let
her say that she had recently changed her
mind. Indeed, the minister, having got
his second wind, was starting in afresh
when she reached out for John and Het-
ty, caught one of them with each hand
and banged them together, exclalmlng:
There! There! Take her before they
talk the head off of me! / hope you re
all satisfied now|
Hearty laughter, congratulations and
expressions of good wishes all around
followed. Then John, taking Hetty' 5
hand, drew her up to his left side in
front of the minister, saying:
Now! Go ahead!'
Hold on. Hold on Wait a minute!'
protested Uncle David.
You're always wanting US to waltz
objected John. Whats the matter with
you now?"
only wait a moment until l come
back! Keep your placesw answered the
giant, hurriedIy trotting away.
While they were still wondering what
new notion possessed him, he returned,
almost out of breath, bringing with him
Johns mother and demure little Miss
Mary Elder. To the latter he said:
Last night you gave me your promise
that you would become my wife at the
same time Hetty married John. Accord
ing to the terms of that agreement, you
have less than two minutes to remain
Mary Elder"
"Ohl But-good gracious, Mr.. Hen
derson! | never dreamed of anything so
sudden as this!'
You surely would not attempt to set
up your lack of provision as bar to full
fillment of your part in a deliberately
made contractY
''N-n-no."
''Then take your place here beside me.
That's right. Now go on, Mr. Mcleod"
''Wait d moment" interpOsed Mr.. Nc
Farlane.
Everybody wants us to wait." com
planned John to Hetty. ut looks like a
conspiracy"
Only for a moment, john" pleaded
the Scotchman.
In view of what was settled between
us last night, Mrs. Mulyeil, don't you
think we might as we'll follow what ap-
pears to be a contagious example, and
avail ourselves of at least as good an op-
pOrtunity as we. will ever have in our
lives?"
"Oh, Mr.. Mcfarland! protested the
widow. How would it look for me to
be married at the same time as my
daughter"
1T would look as if your daughter
were being married at the same time as
YOURSELF" he replied.
Lucid as King James and true as
Bobby Burnsr' exclaimed Uncle David.
You may as we'll fall into line, Mrs.
Mulveil, and let me be the last one who
calls you that"
SO she did; and in short order the Rev.
Mr.. Mcleod performed what he ever
after characterized as ''the largest whole
sale matrimonial job" he had ever done
in one day.
Fortunate matches all three proved, for
each couple was we'll mated, and in the
light of their happiness the last clouds
of The Old Grudge between the Null
wells and the CamerOns faded forever
away.
CThe end. }
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-06-04
Ex-Gov. TANNER LAID TO REST.
Last Tribute Paid TO Memory of For
mer Illinois Executive.

Last Tribute Paid TO Memory of For
mer Illinois Executive.
EXGov. John Il. Tanner was laid to
rest Sunday afternoon in Oak Ridge cem-
etery, near Springfield, within the shadow
of the tomb of the martyred Lincoln. The
funeral ceremonies were most impressive
and were attended by large number of
people.
The funeral was of a distinctly military
character. The State paid its last respect
to the dead Sunday morning. when H.
600 persons filed through the capitol
building from a. N. until 1870 in the
afternoon while the body lay in state.
During these hours a never-ceasing
stream of humanity passed on either side
of the casket and took a farewell look
upon the familiar features.
The hand of death left no shadow upon
the face of the Ex-Governor and he seem
ed as if in a quiet sleep. Upon the left
breast of the blaze; broadcloth coat was
attached a small silk flag. 1t had been
placed there Saturday by the Springfield
circle of the Ladies of the G. A. r., WHO
performed their flag service over the dead
at the English home. Flags, flowers and
living plants formed patriotic ana fra
grant setting for the scene. Two immense
American flags curtained the east corri-
dor from the rotunda. The broad stair
way leading to the second floor of the
building was banked soidly with floral
tributes from sorrowing friends. Several
We're of unusually elaborate design.
At 1870 in the afternoon the body was
removed from the adjutant generals Of
fees, where the family took a last fare
well; after which it was borne to the
church, which was filed to OVERLOOKING.
The services here were conducted by
Archdeacon Taylor, assisted by Bishop
Seymour. and were of an impressive
character.
These ended, the march to the cemetery
was begun, three bands leading the mill
tary division, which was headed by Gen
Charles Fitz Simons of Chicago. In adj
diton to the militia, G. A. X. and citi-
zens, 1000 coal miners and members of
other labor organizations were in line.
At the grave brief services were held.
three volleys with blank cartridges fred
by the regimental escort and taps sound
ed by a trumpeter.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-06-04
Rules for Preserving Life.

DR.. D. X. Pearsons, the Chicago phil
anthropist, when celebrating his eight
ieth birthday. gave these rules for long
life:
No pies or cakes; no pains or aches.
Most men dig their graves with their
teeth.
If you overwork your liver, it will
soon tell our your brain.
Live like a farmer, and you will live
live prince.
Men can live ten days without eat
ing. They can't do without pure air for
five minutes.
Don't get angry and don't get excitel.
Every time you fret you lose minute
of life
Let man abuse his stomach and he'll
get fidgety and cross to his family.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-06-04
Vast Acquisition that
Gave a New EN-
pire to the United
States.


theory was that the purchase would in
volve an expenditure of about $2,000,000.
The proposition to buy clear through to
the Pacifc-all of the holdings of France
at the much larger figure, came from
Napoleon.
The Louisiana purchase was larger in
area than Great Britain, France, Spain
Germany, Portugal and Italy thrown into
one. Out of it have been carved entire,
Arkansas, Missouri Iowa, Nebraska,
North and South Dakota and Indian Ter
ritory; nearly all of Louisiana, Oklahoma,
Kansas, Wyoming and Montana; about
two-thirds of Minnesota and one-third Of
Colorado. In 1890 the population within
its limits exceeded twice that of the Unit
ed States at the time of the purchase.
To-day it is the greatest mineral, graz
ing, timber and corn and wheat region in
the United States. The value of the ag-
ricultural products Of the territory for
one year would pay the original cost one
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-06-04

thinks that peanuts grow on trees. l
have been raising peanuts some years
now, and my humpbacked nuts are the
vogue-at least around here. Why they
grow humpbacked 1 don't know; per-
haps the soil is so rich they try to grow
too hard
you would be surprised to see pea
nut ranch" continued the owner of
one, eff you have never seen one. 1t
looks like a field overgrown with
weeds.
'The plant is low and clings to the
ground. running along it, and when
the nuts begin to appear they try to
bury themselves, and by the time they
are ripe they are several inches under
ground; so peanuts are dug something
like potatoes.
of peanuts for a nickel, but if they
knew that bag of peanuts doesn't cost
five mills they wouldn't think so.
But l think there is more money in
peanut Oil-yOu know, perhaps, that
good peanut is from % to so per cent
LhCJ are easy W udI est w HGL
they are ripe we run over the vines
with a digger, which hauls up the
vines, or they can be raked up and ar
ranged in rows, and then comes the
hard wOrk-picking them.
Each peanut is attached to the root
by a stem, and a great many have to
be picked to make ton, and n ton of
peanuts fills heap of space. But, after
all, raising peanuts is an easy matter.
They require but little care and seem to
grow we'll in sandy soil.
Il can sell them to the trade, or roast
them myself. l generally sell about
half my crop to San Francisco at from
81 to s. per bushel, depending upon
prices, and roast the balance, and you
would be surprised how many l sell.
People think they are getting a lot
oil, and good oil. too After it is deo-
dorized it is good to eat. In Italy about
all the poor people get in the way of
oil is peanuts.
You have no idea how many pea
nuts are sold in this country, but it
RUS up into thousands of Isis. They
are raised in all the Southern states.
where they are called groundnuts and
gouba peas. but they cannot supply the
demand, and vessels come from Italy
and South America with hundreds of
bags of them, and that is where the
best peanuts come from-South Ameri-
ca and Africa"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-06-04
rlLlMAN AND M,LAuRIN our.
Both Senators Resign as Result of
Bitter Personal Wranglc.

Both Senators Resign as Result OF a
Bitter Personal WranGlc.
What promises to be the most exciting
senatorial campaign South Carolina has
ever known has been precipitated by the
designations of Senators Tiliman and Nc
Laurin. Both resigned Saturday as the
immediate result of hot debate, preced-
ed by n bitter personal wrangle. IheIr
designations are nov in the hands of Gov.
McSweeney and beyond recall. Both
agreed to appeal to the people and seek
reelection on the issues involved. t
has been intimated that the Governor
may end the fractional fight by retiring
both men to oblivion and naming new
Senators for South Carolina.
Illlman represents the Bryan and Pop-
ulist Democracy of the State, while Nc
Laurln stands for the new and conserva-
tive Democracy, which is a protest
against Tillmansm and all its so-called
neresieS and fantasies. Between both
men and their followers there has been
bitter war. The feeling resulted in a
challenge debate on the issues Saturday.
At the close of the debate McIaurin
challenged Tillman to resign his seat and
he would do the same and both would ap-
peal to the people.
"McLaurin made bluff at me and did
not think l would call it," said Tillman
afterward. ''He tainted me by saying L
would not leave my six-year bomb-proof
position. l called the bluff and in so do
ing believe l have made a ten-strike for
true Democracy. Now it is for the peo-
pie to decide"
The approaching battle between Sen
ators McLaurin and Tillman will be
watched closely by all Americans who
take pleasure in a warm political fight.
The two men have stripped for the fray.
Each has thrown off what is called the
senatorial toga." The Governor holds
the designations of both of them to take
effect in the middle of September. A
Democratic primary election is to be held
a month or so thereafter, and the men
designated b. it are to be appointed by
the Governor to till the vacancies. This
is a novel way of settling a dispute be
tween rival Senator's as to who best rep
reSents his constituents.
The stakes are not equal. Senator
Tillman has six years yet to serve, and
Senator McLaurin but two. The former
will lose much more than the latter in
the event of defeat, but he does not ex-
pect to be beaten. Probably he will not
be. There will be a hot campaign next
fall. Innumerable speeches will be made
which would have led to bloodshed once,
but which will not have deadly conse-
quences now. Nearly every South Caro-
lima Democrat will go to the polls and
vote for men for Senators who exactly
represent his principles
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-06-04
(The end. }
FEAR A HAUNTED SWITCH.
Railroad Men Who Dread to Pass a
Certain Fatal Spot

Railroad Men Who Dread to Pass a
Certain Fatal Spot
Walter r. Burton of Harrisburg, Pa,
tells the following ghost story: Il had
occasion some time since to go through
the plant of one of the big steel COM
panies in my State, and was riding ON
a shifting engine through the yards. L
entered into conversation with the en-
gineer, a squatty little old man who
had been in the service Of the company
for many years, and had climbed up to
the position of engineer. We were in
the open-hearth department waiting to
shift some molds of steel to the heat
ing pits, when the subject of the con-
versation turned to ghosts. He said:
If you will ride down with me to No.
house I'll show you haunted
switch.
LAS we rode along down he pointed
out the switch and told me that. he
had on as many as two occasions,
while he was conductor on the shifter,
turned the switch, and that a headless
apparition had Immediately replaced it.
He told me he never came over the
switch if he could help it, and never
alone. 1 tried to persuade him that the
ghost was a creature of his magma
ton. but he would not be persuaded.
His conductor, young boy, also avow-
ed having seen it, After much effort
1 got him to come back to the open
hearth over the switch, and 1 noticed
that the rails were nearly covered with
sand and dirt-an evidence that they
were very little used. 1 found, upon
questioning others of the employees,
that they, too, entertained the same
belief and were all equally as firm. 1t
seemed strange that men who take
their lives in their hands every moment
during their work hours around those
great furnaces of molten steel should
fear such a thing as haunt, but their
conviction of its existence was firm and
their fear genuine. ''-Washington Star.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-06-04
MONEY WITH A HOLE IN 1T.

Uncle Sam TO Coin a 3-Cent Piece Like
Don hnut.
Uncle Sam. it is said, is to coin q new
Scent piece. The new coin is to be Of
nickel, and its radical difference from
all other coins with Uncle Sans mint
mark on them lies in the fact that it
viii have a hole in the center. 1t Is
the supposition that this hole in the
middle will enable the hurried handler
Of the coin TO detect It's value by the
sense Of feeling. Some such safeguard
is considered necessary, for the reason
that il is 10 be about the size and
weight OF the present nickel scent
piece. The size Of the center hole ia
the proposed coin will be large enough
TO make it merely q ring Of metal. this
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-06-04

The acquisition of Louisiana, which is
to be commemorated by the coming in
ternational fair at st. Louis, renders
timely an account of this great event
The acquisition of the region was plan
ned by Thomas Jefferson, who became
President of the United States in 1901.
Originally the region known as Louisiana
was a French possession, through La
Sales discoveries in the seventeenth cen
fury. But by a secret treaty France, in
1862, conveyed Louisiana to Spain. 1t
was an expensive province-France was
glad to get rid of it. Forty years later
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-06-04
THE LOUISIANA
PURCHASE.
another secret treaty conveyed louisa

another secret treaty conveyed Louisiana
back to France That was in 1900.
Jefferson realized that the United
States must control certain territory
near the mouth of the Mississippi river.
When he began negotiations for a pur-
chase it was with Spain; when it was
ascertained that Spain had conveyed the
region back to France, Mr.. Jefferson and
his representatives were surprised.
France was at war with England, Napo-
leon was in dire need of money; Living
ston, the American minister at Paris,
was assisted by James Monroe as a spe-
cial commissioner; negotiations progress
ed we'll; on April 30, 1903, a treaty trans
ferring all of Louisiana to the United
States, the consideration being $15,OOO,-
600, was sent to Washington for ratif-
cation; it was ratified Oct. II of that
year. As has been said, Jefferson's first
intention was to buy simply a belt of
territory adjacent to the Mississippi. His
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-06-04

A friend asks: What is baby?"
1t is the prince of walls: an inhabitant
of lapland; the morning caller, the
MONDAY crawler, the midnight bawler;
the only precious possession that ever
excites envy; key that opens the
heart of all classes, the rich and the
poor alike. in all countries; stranger
with unspeakable cheek, that enters
the house without a stitch to his back.
and is received with open arms by
everyone.