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BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1901-08-13
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MER(iADO DE FRUTOS
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Sin operaciones.
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Debido a 10 reducidfsima Que es
exisencia, Sc opera muy POGO con este
artfchlo. notandose alguna disposition
para Obtener dicho grano. Con irme
a ciflran los tipos 5 $12a S13 porr
"Co5rientes cubanos", $l3 5 13! Dor
"pilfn" y 8 IA d s l44 por 'hacienda
Id moitud de este grano contiEda
muylmoderado cuya cotizaci6n cierra
foj9~ So fanega, habiendo abupdante
exiAsncia del mismo.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1901-08-13
Alianza entire Venezuela
y el Ecuador
Gestiones inuti1es de Colombia
ACTITUD DEL "TIMESn DE
LONDRES
(ServiciO telegrafco especial del Boletin
Mercantile

Nueva York, martes.-El gobier.
no colombiano esta hacienda esfuer
EOS por impedir la alianza entire Ell
Ecuador y Venezuela, pero ambas
repdblicas la desean y serzn indtiles
las gestiones de aquel, seg1n Sc
asegura en- los cfrculos diplomaticos
de Washington.
El Times" de Londres aprueba
la alianza y apoya la actitu del
gobierno del Presidente Cast.o.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1901-08-13
RON

Para atender a las nocesidades mo-
mentaneas de consume, solamente Sc
sOliCitan reducidas cantidades de dichO
Ifquido; y debido q la irregularidad en-
operaciones no SO ha normalizado ell
precio.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1901-08-13
SeIYiCio Especial
POR CABLE DEL
BOLETIN MERCANTIL.
Ratification del cores.
p0nsal
Compute de huelguistas
Ia MIL SOLO EN- NUMERO

(Servicio Oablegrafco especial del Boletin
Mercanil
Nueva York, MATES. s.-Por tele
gramas recibidos de los Estados
miceros y de fabrication del acero,
re ha hecho el compute del alcance
de la huelga, 10 que rarifica mi te-
legrama de aver diciendo que el
proyecto habfa fracasado.
Sc crey6 que ell ndmero de huel.
guistas llegarfa q $50 mil y este ha
sido reducido q IA mil en- todos los
Estados de Ia UniCn.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1901-08-13
La c0secha de papas

Ma1a y escasa
EL FRUTO Sc ADQUIRIRA EN- Ell
EXTRANJERO
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1901-08-13

P0r Latimer y Fernandez:
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pescada.
Hor Fritse Lundt y co:
a Troncoso hermanos y CO 1912 bIes
arenques.
Al Ochoa = hermano y Scrs de L
Villamil y co 40l2 bis macarelas.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1901-08-13
Ninguna
DESPACHADOS

Para varios puertos de Ia isla vapof
amer "Longfellown.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1901-08-13
SE VENDE

un aparato fotograhco en- VEIN
te pesos. go
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1901-08-13

Ell Tribunal de policfa de Catedral ha
despachado hoy cuatro juicios.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-04-21
The strangs
Things People
Believe.
800 SMpenSfifi0ms~>

going to be wedding, as is also averred
When any one stumbles up the stairs,
If salt is spilled there is going to be a
row or quarrel. but this can be ayerted
II the sp1ler will burn a pinch of salt
ana throw pinch over the left shoulder.
Again, II a chicken crows at You Or AZ
your door he is playing the part Of a
clairvoyant and is telling you you Will
have surprising bit Of news or receive
an unexpected visitor, which latter fate
is also said to 'befaH you If YOU dron a
pair of scissors and they should stick
In the floor, over which circumstance
others will also tell you you should wish
before speaking, while If needle sticks
IN the floor you viii receive a letter.
Again, should a pin be lying on the
ground with the head toward you. pick
1t up, as it denotes good luck; but, on
the other hand, avoid any which have
the points toward you, as to have any
thing to do with these means bad luck
A good housewife. especially IL she
nave proper respect for superstition,
VIII never sweep at night time but II
she is ever compelled to do SO she VIII
sweep tho dirt into corner, where she
Will leave 1t till the morning This Is
believed to prevent misfortune overtak-
lug the house during the night Nor VIII
she ever sweep the dirt out at the door,
but instead, she will lift its into a dust
pan and burn 1t, this, being considered
necessary to protect the family posses
sions. 5iaS
If you break dish or other article OF
domestic crockery ware evil VIII pursue
you till you have broken two more. Re
Vsrfsng to falling upstairs, another SUI
pcrstition has it that, IL unmarried. you
Will not be united In wedloek until the
next year, while If your chair stumbles
backward your chances Of getting mar
RED go with 1t for a year Getting out
the ensuing day, while putting out the
right foot first insures tile smiles OF
Dame fortune, as also will putting the
right stocking and boot or shoe on first,
but misfortune follows If 1t is the left
which Is 80 treated.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-04-21
Njmfep Life

HABITS OF BUGS, WORMS. ETC
wonder why 1t Is that little boys are
so fond of catching "craw daddies' and
"woelly-werms" and frogs and all sorts
of creepy, odd bugs. and NAL king pets
and playthings of the queer creatures?
asks a writer in the st. Louis Christian
Advocate.
AS the frost goes out Of the ground
what a lot of these homely. quiet. little
folk will come crawling to the surface
and look UP with blinking eyes OF they
have any, at the blue sky!
What becomes Of all these small wan
derers in the winter? Their food freezes
up, and besides getting hungry, how can
they hide away from old Jack Frost?
We may be sure our Heavenly Father
has His own way of looking after their
safety and comfort, but he slows them
away In such odd houses and beds that
perhaps we shall like to read about them.
A writer in the Child Garden says:
We may begin with the familiar earth
or angle worm. Unattractive and uninter.
esting though they seem, they have their
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-04-21
hospitality.
Is 1T ALWAYS GENUINE?
Is 1t a Virtue ?

Is II ALWAYS GENUINE?
It may be SO, but sometimes it very
distinctly Is not, but is merely a sort
OF commercial enterprise.
Hospitality so called, is not generally
the outcome Of benevolenoe, but policy.
We must ask tat tiresome old Miss
Brown-Jones to dinner. for she knows
all the best people, and one meets them
at her parties" and ''it is no good to ask
the Smithson girls. They are 90 pretty
that the men have eyes for any one
else. and then, too they are so tmpossi-
bly, poor!"
These are samples OF the remarks one
hears from society people who are 'given
to hospitality. and If there Is any kind
ness in their motives it Is so well COW
cred in seifishness that it Is hard to dis
cover.
Dives does not as a rule give ban
quets to Lazarus, and when he does his
action Is usually heralded with a -four
ish Of trumpets, SO that people applaud
him, and he gains social distinction
Without the trunapets one might find the
hospitality virtuous. but with them one
merely sees that an opportunity OF self
advertisement has not been neglected
Homely gatherings Of intimate friends
may be the occasion Of the most charm
ing hospitality, but they are not fash
fonable. It is money grubbing and
ambitious age, and it seems that the
majority' are keenly anxious to earn
money and spend it, not In real enjoy
ment for themselves or in giving pleas
ure to others. but in giving dinners
to and feting generally people somewhat
higher in the social scale than them
selves in order to further their own I'd
Vaneement.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-04-21
MAN IN THE MOON.

The man-in-the- Is one of the most
popular, and perhaps one of the most
ancient. superstitions in the world. The
name Is given to the dark lines and spots
upon the surface Of the moon which are
visible to the naked eye. In aln1anacS
the moon is always represented with
face in 1t. Some say that these lines and
spots are the figure OF man leaning ON
a fork, on which he carries a bundle of
thorns Or brushwood, for taking which
on Sunday he was confined In the moon.
Some Of those versed In such lore ex-
plain that this story undoubtedly he& its
origin in the incident recorded in the
fifteenth chapter of the Book of Numbers,
thirty-Second verse. With the Italians,
Cain appears to have been the offender.
The Jews have some Talmudical story
that Jacob Is in the moon, and they be-
lieve his face is visible Bishop Wilkins
writes that "as for the forme of these
spots some of the vulgar thinke they
represent man, and poets guess tbs the
boy Endylnion, whose company she loves
so well that she carries him with her;
others will have it onely to be the face
Of man, as the room Is usually pictur-
ed; but Albertus thinkes rather that it
represents q lyon. with his tail toward
the east and his head to the west; and
some others have thought Il TO be much
like a fox; and certainly 1t Is as much
like lyon as that IN the Zodfake, or as
Ursa Major Is like a beare.'
EVERY DAY BELIEFS.
II he who runs Will only observe as
we'll he viii find much in this everyday
domestic time of ours to give him pause.
and notably the vast amount OF super
stition which, our boosted education not
withstanding still exists in domestic life.
Thus in ordinary households 1t will be
found that If the housewife drops a
dtshcloth she will at once assert that she
will have a visitor shortly, while If she
let fall a knife a strange woman is COM
ing, If fork man. and If spoon a
fool. II two knives, forks Or spoons are
placed in a wrong position when the
table is being laid for any meal there Is
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-04-21
= APPLE ORCHARDS.

Leavenworth, Kan, stands at the head
OF American cities in the shipment of
apples. Indeed, more apples are ship
ped from Leavenworth than from any
other point on either side of the Atlantic
ocean In addition to the large number
of local packers engaged in the business
at this place, hundreds of packers flock
to LeaEenworth annually from other
parts. of the country for the purpose of
shipping away fruit. There are two i'm
mense cold storage plants in Leaver-
worth. one of which is built to accommo-
date $4,000 bushels of apples. This plant
Is owned by a firm which is said to
pack more apples than any other firm in
the country. Leavenworth county has
the largest apple orchard in the world,
that of T. w Wellrouse, which con-
tains 1,400 acres of healthy trees. mostly
all of the Jonathan, Winesap, Willow
TwiS and Ben Davis varieties. The next
largest orchard consists of 500 acres. and
on the farm of ex-GoV. E n Morrill, are
$50 acres in apple trees. There are any
number Of orchards ranging in extent
from ten to a thousand acres. The re-
turns from township assessors show that
LeaYenworth county has 2O3, 600 apple
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-04-21

Some of the Big
Things of the World.
OF large Size.

bearing trees, and it is estimated that
double this number of young trees are
coming on, planted in the last few years.
FEATHERS.
All sorts of birds and feathers are ex-
'amlned by the proper division of the Gus
toms officials in New York. A box was
opened this week in which it was esti-
mated there were nearly 5000 Japanese
sW allows. These little birds are caught
by the Japanese in Immense numbers by
means of nets. Their plamage is very
plain, but their wings, which are ex-
traordinarily long. make them especially
valuable to milliners. The birds when
imported are rudely stuffed with cotton
and each one is made up into a little roll
about the size and shape of an ordinary
cigar Before being used they are
twisted into various shapes and dyed,
the wings spread and new feathers add
ed, and they are made into gay and
fancy birds.
goods that passes through the appraisers
hands is undoubtedly the aigrette This
feather is worth more than its weight
in gold. The aigfette is obtained from a
Japan. Egypt and South America, and
sometimes in Florida. Some Of these
feathers come directly from South Amer
lea, where, along the upper waters Of
the Amazon, the Indians shoot the birds
with blow tubes and small arrows But
Paris is the market Of the world for
algrettes, just as London is for ostrich
plumes. and the greatest Of the imports
come con directly; from the French capital
to the value of $4,000 have been i'm
ported.
There are two varieties Of the aigrette
the long and the short, and their value
is in inverse proportion to their size The
short variety, which Is obtained from
a smaller bird, is extremely delicate and
f1ne and Is worth from $50 to SIS an
ounce. Only a few feathers on each
bird are valuable. and it is estimated
that fifty or sixty birds would have to
be killed to obtain an ounce of the small
er aigrette. The long aigrette is worth
not much more than half as much.
These feathers are looked after as care
fully by the appraisers as are precious
stones. They are imported in soldered
tin boxes, and are locked up and guard
ed until they are examined They are
1nvoiced in the Brazilian unit of value,
refs. which is very small. so that figures
giving the values of the imports are
often startingly large. One importation
of these feathers was recently invoiced
to the value of 500 refs, an amount
which in American gold is equal to about
800.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-04-21
THE MODOC WAR.

Years ago there were many Modocs
They lived in Southern Oregon and
Northern California, along the banks If
Sprague river and klamath lake. The
whites invaded the country without an
attempt at treaty. A frontiersman named
Ben Wright lost a friend or two in a.
Ekir;Gish with the Indians He plotted
revenge At first ne formed wagon
train and into each covered vehicle he
loaded armed men. The train had the ap-
pearance Of a peaceful settlers caravan
The wagons were driven into the Medocs'
country The warriors came to the hills
looked at the train, and did not attack
The rUSe failed. Then Ben Wright put or,
tAe garb of peaceful trader, and send
ing out some runners induced men,
women and children of the Modoc tribe
to meet him at the base Of some foot
hills. there to exchange pelts for some
coveted Sewgaws The Modocs came I'M
armed They squatted in group in front
Of the supposed trader. Suddenly the
hillside was aflame The rifles of more
than 100 concealed men opened on the de-
fenseless Modocs. They broke and fed.
but left scores of dead and wounded be-
hind. The whites saw to 1t that the
wounded speedily joined the ranks of the
dead. Capt Jack as a boy was present
at this massacre. Years afterward when
STANDING IN the shadow Of the galIoITs
upon which he was hanged, he ironically
asked the hangman for list of the pale
faces who had been convicted and hanged
for the killing Of the Modocs It was
some satisfaction, doubtless, to this Mo
COO warrior to hear that not long before
Ben Wright had been lured from his
cabin and killed at the doorstep by tie
son Of one of the victims of his treachery.
The government asked the Modccs to
leave their ancestral home and take res
idence on the klamath reservation.
Through the influence of Supt. A. B.
Meacham they were induced to move
No sooner were the Modocs settled on
the land than the Klamath Indians be-
gan to modest them. They were moved
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-04-21
How Some Little
Creatures Live

place In the economy of nature. At the
approach OF winter. they burrow down
deep below the frost line. ard there they
remain during the cold weather. often
tSa o''. as deep as eight feet below
They are extremely Sensitive to heat,
ana TINS Is proven by the fact that they
SO quickly respond to the first warmth OF
early spring, ofttimes coming from their
Underground retreats as early as Feb
ruary when warm ram has thawed the
surface somewhat. We may see the cast
ings OF these primitive tillers of the SOIL
long before we see any Other sign of the
awakening of the underground world.
Earth worms have no Visible eyes.
Their seeing apparatus consists of spe-
cial single cells. scattered among the
epldermal cells of the skin. and connect
ed with little bunch of nervous matter
in the body by means of sensory canal
RMS simply enables them to distinguish
light from darkness, which for them Is
sufficient, as they live underground any,
way In burrewing the head is swelIed by
special action. and the dirt Is pushed
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-04-21
Photographs.
SOME WORTH MONEY
rRY YOUR HAND

TRY YOUR HAND.
Every body Is trying to make money
quickly nowadays, and photographers,
amateur and expert form goodly per-
centage of the total included in every
body" Here are a few subjects that
would fetch very high prices.
A house being struck by lightning.
We have photos Of lightning flashes,
but no picture of the kind which shows
a flash actually striking a house.
Two trains In collision. Photos Of
wrecked trains are common enough, but
a snap shot at the very occurrence OF the
smash remains unrecorded.
The crew of a lifeboat in the act Of
rescuing the sailors of sinkingAship In
a fierce storm.
A negative of an Atlantic liner battling
with an ocean tempest. II you could
take snap shot Of this subject from the
deck of another liner 1t would be worth
a good sum.
A photograph of sprightly earthquake
in country which is troubled In this
way 1t would be well to hang UP your
camera and make it work automatically.
as earthquakes are not to be played
with. Such q picture would be jump
ed at.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-04-21
= = | THE FAMILY FORUM

Dorothea Brooke, Gwendolin Harleth and
Fedalma are specimens of this class of
women who also figure in fiction
The central figures OF present day au-
thors make up the s'lfving type" and
some of those mentioned are Mrs. Hum
phry Wards Katherine Elsmere, Mar
celia and Laura Fountain; Thomas Har-
dy's Tess of the d'Urberviiles, George
Meredith's Diana of the, Crossways and
Hall Gaines Glory Quayie.
Whatever may be the general opinion
Of the position of these women of fic-
ton there can be little doubt that they
are women of interest. }'S
When 1t comes to the growing type"
the idea Of women attaining higher in
dividuality of their own. Charlotte
Bronte's Jane Eyre, Shirley and Lucy
Snowe are mentioned in company with
Mrs. Brownings Aurora Leigh.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-04-21
Sunday Study.
Appearance at EN-

h ri It's Appear rance at e M
The International Sunday school lesson
for April Il, is found in Luke xxiiii 1871
the event being the appearance of Christ
to two disciples after He had risen, the
I date being Sunday, April 8, d. A. 20 and
the place on the read between Jerusalem
and Emmaus. The two men who started
on the trip were not disciples. but be-
levers. Their hearts were full of the
death of Christ and the unbelieved re-
ports that he had risen. The appearance
OF Jesus to these men was that of a way
farer with whom they fell in. Custom
permitted, more freely than with us such
accosting Of strangers. BY what Cause
their eyes were holden" we do not
know, but may suppose it lay in jesus
| appearance rather than in any miracle
by Which their sight was made defective
Jesus inquiry was such as would
naturally be made by a stranger who
noticed their earnestness and their grief
The question increased their sorrow and
they paused a little before Cleopas re-
sponded Jesus led Cleopas on to g. fun
statement Of the matters Of which the
I two had been talking, not of course for
| information. nor even, probably, to play
the part of ignorant stranger to the
end but chiefly to help Cleopas to say
aloud what was his belief CIeopaS'
answer makes clear his love for Jesus,
his admiration for his work, and his sor-
row in what seemed the disappointment
Of his hopes. These disciples had not
heard a report from any one who had
actually seen Jesus, the account OF the
women having reached them IN an in
complete form. The events of the morn
ing were therefore for them only a series
OF rllmors which added to their confusion
of thought. Jesus discourse, proving
that the Messiah must suffer death ana
afterwards be glorified was opened with
a rebuke more severe In sound than in
meaning The intensity of the disciples
feeling prevented the sudden change OF
tone from leading them to recognize
Jesus. The discourse itself was arranged
in such q way as to mass together the
types and predictions OF a suffering Mes
siah, which the Old Testament contains.
and to show that Messianc passion must
preeede Messianic glory.
The invitation to spend the night in
Emmaus was urged upon Jesus because
these disciples were attracted to Him by
His discourse on the way. The time in
Dictated by the disciples statement might
be an hour or two before sunset. The
assumption by Jesus of the place at the
head of the table was unquestioned. The
fact indicates that the disciples were not
In their own house. These disciples can
hardly have been familiar enough with
Jesus to recognize him by any character
istic movement or tone at the table.
Perhaps they saw in his hands the nail
prints more probably the identity OF
their companion dawned upon them with
out any special cause. The two dis
ciples made speedy return to Jerusalem,
no doubt, but found that~the incredulfty
of the morning had now given way to
joyful belief
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-04-21
LITTLE THINGS.

LITTLE THINGS.
Here's to the one who loves to do
The little things of life.
Who let's no large ambition WOO
Him into worldly strife:
A kindly man content to work
At any useful task,
Who has no duties he would Shirk.
No favors he would ask.
Here's to the man. where'er ne bel
And O, thou gentle one.
Remember, in thy ministry
The good that he has done
The happy words, the helpful deeds,
So tender and so true!
For those who have no selfish needs
Alas. are all too few.
All, he who takes a humble part,
In trade. in church, in state.
And lets no envy fill his heart
With hatred for the great,
Can watch the wheel of fortune roll
It's luckless fayors out,
Conscious that he has won his soul
Who conquerS care and doubt.
This health to him who learns to feel
That little things in life
Make up the best of human veal
The worst of human strife;
Who hides his anger in a smile,
His worry in good cheer,
And lives without a trace OF guile,
And dies without a feari
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-04-21
ANNUAL CONVENTION.

The next annual convention OF the In
ternational Sunshine society will be held
at Hotel Savoy, Fifty ninth street and
Fifth avenue, New York, on May @ each
branch is entitled to two delegates.
Delegates from distance viii be en-
tertained. 50 far as possible. at the homes
OF the New York or Brooklyn branch
members. In order to make suitable
arrangements for those who are intend
Ing to come, It Is necessary to send
their names to the president general. So
Fifth avenue, New York city at least
one week in advance Of the convention.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-04-21
THE INCREASE
OF WOMEN.

Ing left to their own resources which
are seen In Europe and Asia. Such re-
SUITS have been achieved only after a
ieng ana arduous struggle and Benefit
the very women who opposed their de-
ve1opment.
women cannot rely on the charity OF
men. however, when It comes to uues-
lions or sef-tnterest, but IL the suffrage
is ever wrested from men we should find
ner one OF the ablest advocates Of uni
versal peace and better social conditions
FOR her ancient antagonist not onlv on
hlgh theoretical grounds. but on the
colo, practical plane that war and op-
pressfon deprive her of a natural help
meet ana drive her to mode OF life
that is uncongenfal and. destructive oY
her better nature