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yet horribly excruciating must be
such death, as person who has
had the misfortune to set down on
nest of our tiny red ants, and hav-
ing them swarm over him and biting
in a hundred places with singing
sensation that would do credit to
much larger creature, may con-
ceive some inkling. If instinct
only that they have, it is very gre
garious one that prompts them in
South America to build enormous
cone hills that resemble in looks a
lot of different sized albeit gigan-
tic cigars piled in groups on their
big ends with the pointed ends
standing straight up and where in
these hills are located great ant
cities containing innumerable
millions of thrifty dwellers
In the eastern countries of
Asia is the home of the white ant
or termite as it is called and a
terrible Fostering scourge it is. 1t
is related of it that it can eat
through the hardest wood with the
ease and rapidity Of band saw
and literally perforates the floors
and walls of wooden buildings
that it succeeds in making a nest
in.
Probably the wisest of these
little insects is the agricultural
umbrella of South America,
gaining its name from peculiar
yet precautionary habit it has of
carrying bits of leaves furled over
it's head so as to protect itself
from the rays Of the hot SUM- The
wee mite uses the bits Of leaves to
fertilize little patches of ground
upon which it grows a small kind
of fungus that it feeds to a small
grub. which it uses as a mich
COW and perhaps also uses both
the fungus and grub for food.
What more does man do in his
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Some British members ofparlia-
nent favor a tariff on all imports
into British colonies by America
and other countries and the grow
ing Of produce such as raw cotton
and other kinds of produce in
Egypt, Ceylon and India, for
Great Britain with the aid Of her
colonies can support herself if
there is the proper amount Of
encouragement given by the home
government.
When England adopted free
trade there was no country TO
compete with her in the markets
Of the world except France and
she was never able to compete
with Great Britain to any extent.
America did not supply itself and
Germany was not very far adj
vanced in the export trade and it
was thought by a great many men,
bers Of parliament that other coun-
tries would follow suit, but they
have not done so. Although
British possessions in Africa,
America, Australia, India and
other colonies are under free trade
and manufactured articles are al
lowed to enter their ports at the
same rate as British goods-ex-
cept Canada; [ think there is a
small preferential tariff on British
goods.
There is also another thing
which the English manufacturer
has to grapple with and that is
the trade unions, which have be-
come so powerful that they are a
curse to the country, for the ignor-
ant masses who principally CON-
pose these unions do not fully
realize that the British manufac-
turer has to compete with the
United States where the work
men work longer and do twice the
work, thereby being able to fill
their orders in a shorter time and
thus secure orders which would
otherwise 60 to British manufac-
turers. Take for instance the
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1901-02-21
British Trade and its Regeneration. JOHN "s ao

bridges supplied to Egypt and
South Africa.
1t is not that the American
mechanic is any better mentally
or physically, for the iron works
and shipyards in America have a
large percentage of British me-
chanics employed.
There is another method by
which England can keep pace
with the rest Of the nations in the
scramble for the dollar and that
is by education. If England
would but take over the manufac-
turer of intoxicants and the state
ownership of saloons and devote
the revenue derived from this
source to education. increasing the
age Of compulsory education from
IA years to Is years of age, they
would elevate the working classes
and by so doing increase produc-
ton and consumption.
The two greatest curses that are
dragging Great Britain down and
which will ultimately lead to her
downfall if not remedied are drink
and trade unions. If you will but
look at any city or town in Great
Britain on Saturday night you
will see more drunkenness than in
any other country in the world.
The principal cause for this
is what is commonly called
the "free and easy" or the saloon
and music hall combined.
The monopolization of the man
ufacturing of intoxicants by the
state is nothing new; it is being
practiced to a certain extent in
Russia, although [ have seen in
some American papers (which are
not very reliable) that drinking is
encouraged there because of the
revenue derived by the state.
Although I think that by depriv-
ing the music halls of their license
and the assumption of this burden
by the state it could be made to
decrease drinking. The reason
that there is not as much drinking
in the United States is because
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science of agrimony? He ferti-
Lies his ground, plants his grain
and either eats it as -four, meal or
in the shape of flesh.
There is fable extant that tells
Of an elephant rolling on an ants
nest and causing much damage to
the ants home. When the ele-
plant had rolled off, the ants
gathered in solemn session and
sent out a number of deputies to
ascertain the cause Of their calam-
ity. After the deputies had
made thorough investiga-
ton according to their theories,
they returned to the main body Of
ants and gave in their individual
deductions as follows: One said it
was a great moving tree. 1t had
been on the leg Of the elephant.
One declared it to have been an
other enormous earth like the one
they lived on. It had investigated
the elephants body. Another
emphatically avowed it to have
been large rolling stone. It had
been examining the tusks. Others
still, conceived it to have been a
large fan that had swept over their
city. They had been on the ears
Of the elephant. So after all the
theories had been submitted and
thoroughly discussed, the ants
were more puzzled than ever and
they gave it up, setting their
calamity down in their annals as
due to the effect of some unknown
cause.
In their theories, they we're not
much worse than many produced by
men Of science and otherwise con-
corning our earth and many pre-
vailing calamities. Only a short
time ago some men after ardent
investigation on their parts, de-
clared that the earth is not spher-
ical but is an octahedron. An
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Ants, Honey Bees and Men-A Comparative Study

other bright student publishes
a theory called Cellular Cosmog-
any, that tries to convince men
that they are living on ball,
that is itself only very small part
of thousand or more of sidereal
systems, swinging around in the
empty heart of another vast ball.
Thousands too of other strange
theories are circulated through
the medium of our newspapers as
scientific deductions and life is so
insecure and everything seems so
whimsical, that we are compelled
at times to exclaim as the learned
historian Macaulay did when a
young man.
'Here learn that all the griefs and all the joys,
Which now torment, which now begule,
Are children's hurts and children's toys,
Scarce worthy one bitter smile.
Here learn that pulpit, throne and press,
Sword, scepter, Tyre alike are frail;
That science is blind mans guess
And history nurses tale.''
The honey bee is another of
Gods little insect creatures that
makes men wonder how it carries
such an intelligent instinct, that
teaches it like the ant to prepare"
it's food in summer for the cold
winter months when it must go
into Information. One of the
most noticeable features Of bee
apiaries are that they are almost
exclusively ''she towns where
males are only tolerated for the
generic principle they emboby
and that too only in small num-
bers. For like all males in what
soever animated forms found, the
male bees have a natural repug-
nance to hard work and this the
thrifty little female bees will not
tolerate and work on the principle
that if bee will not labor neither
shall it eat. And forthwith when
cold weather sets in the little
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Paper Read Before the Chdutdltqud Circle.

Paper Read Before the Choutatqua Circle.
According to reports the trade
of Great Britain is larger this year
than ever before, but any man who
will go to the trouble Of looking at
the reports Of Germany and
America will see that we are not
keeping pace with these nations.
In the American papers we see a
good deal about the decrease in
the trade of Great Britain and be-
ing an Englishman look for the
cause.
Some Americans seem to think
that the English workman is paid
a great deal less than an American
workingman in this country, but
this is not so. If you will but
take into consideration the num-
Der of hours an English me-
chanic and the number of hours
an American mechanic is en-
ployed, which you will find are s
hours in Great Britain and 10
hours in America, and the amount
of work done by the two nation
zalities, you will find the difference
an wages very small.
This is the reason that the Ameri-
can manufacturer can compete
with the English manufacturer in
South Africa and other British
colonies though some American
manufacturers ascribe their sue
cess in the competition with Great
Britain to the improved machinery
in use in America, but [ cannot
see why this should be, for the
same machinery is used in Eng
land as rule.
There may be trifing advan.
tage to America in the possession
of large iron mines and other min.
eral deposits but this is counter.
acted almost in the difference Of
freight charges. Now then gen
tlemen, if England wishes tc
maintain her supremacy in the
expectation of manufactured goods
she must certainly do something
to counteract the competition OF
Germany and America.
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d. Paper Read Before the CIiautauqua Circle.

Paper Re0G BEFORE inc CHUuCOuquU CtTCte.
The ant is one Of the smallest
of Gods animated creatures visi-
BILE to the naked eye of man and
no matter whether it be the white,
black or red ant, it is still the
same sturdy, industrious and eco
nomical little mite. Its ittleness
astounds US human beings with
the wonderful understanding i'm
planted in such small creature.
Human intelligence stands back
with it's bombastic assertion of
soulful knowledge and views with
,open-eyed establishment the saga
'cious ingenuity displayed by these
little insects in accomplishing
their ends whatever they may be.
Man nor any other intelligent
creature does not attempt to in
vestigate whether their motives
are actuated by a thinking mind
or only directed by instinct, but
makes all haste to get out of their
way, when as happens in parts of
Africa, a species of large black
ant, forms into vast armies. mil
lions strong and marches hundreds
of miles under the leadership of
generals and captains and with all
the strict disciplinarian order of
an army of human beings, devas-
tating the country they pass over
of every living creature that comes
in their path. Even going to the
tops Of the highest trees in quest
of their prey and no more cruel
death can be devised by the igno-
rant savages inhabiting that land,
than by tying their condemned
victims to stakes in the path of
these ant armies, where in fifteen
or twenty minutes after the terri
BILE little devourers set upon them,
only their skeletons remain to tell
that a human being had been
there. Although mercifully short
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Then send five cents for a sample
copy of the "Humorist," in St.
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ReVisando peri6(liCos.

La Revancha. Sc ocupa de las
privaciones = sufrimientos de los nj
nos pobres en- los campos y pobla,
cienes rurales y aboga porque esos
niflos se les de instrncci6n y alimen.
tos. .s.- e.:
La Brnia. Inserta nm artfculo de
Mariano Riera Palmer, atacando en-
forms cu1tfsima, Ia tests sustsrtada
por ell DR.. Guzman Rodriguez, de
que s.La Borinquefia'' no merece los
honores de himno por su caracter
jaranandoso Y bailable.
El OrioIlo. Acoge un artfculo
del Doctor Guzman Rodriguez. en-
que recommends Ia consideration
del pueblo puertorriquel1o el nom
bre del Doctor Trias, entusiasta Gu
bano que lucho sin descanso por la
Independence de su TERRA y presto
valiosfsimo concurso, q los, revolu
cionarios puertoriquef1os que perse
guian ell mismo ideal.
El Pals. Aprovecha las declara.
Clones de tia Democracia, y duda
de la neutralii lad del elemento espa
mol, en- nuestras cuestiones pol1ticas
Heraldo Espanol. al ilustrado
ecopomista Sr. Fernandez Juncos,
expone las causas de nuestra actual
situaci6n economics, situacion que
anunci6 con tempo Ia C&mara de
comercio, indicando edcaces RENE.
dios para conjurarla.
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las luces, para que en- la sombra to
dos seamos iguaies.,
acknowledgements eran tres espfri
tus superiores que andaban peregri
nando por este mundo sublimar, don
de sedan espectaculos tan sublunar,
como 81 del Transvaal, el de Filipi-
mas, y el que estan presenciando en-
essos momentos los pacientes corde
ros puertorriquef1os. }8s ss
-iCossi v&il mondo!-
J. A. DAUBON.
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MARcAs REeisTalDAs
ANS MI NINA

FABRlCA TN NANATI. PR.
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1901-02-25

Hoy por 10 msnana atrac6 &
nuessro muelle el transporte Ameri-
cano sRawlinss en- al cual embArca-
ran los soldados puertorriquolios
que van los Estados Unidos.
Hemos dido quejarss ( los pre-
sos que hacen IL Hmpieza de las
letrinas, de que Ia jupts de Sanidad
no les pags 10 que se les tiene asig-
nado por cada limpiesa que son 20
CentAvOs. " S..--.< %
8 esssde s Si s: =. s: :sso
aaSaaos svisndo & no as doior Sa 11S sasso a.s-
Dc :b.aa. my Z. s, q
sSs ess. sc1 osod g fss1 leS
= atm: e: Ss@
Nesly ha salido de los Estados
Unidos en- el .vapor eM4xicos para
ser conducido & Ia Habana. Mani.
fiesta que puede explicar satisfacto.
riamente todos los cargos que % le
hacen con respecto & los frsudes que
SO dicen realizados en- las oficinas de
ccrreos de Cuba.
ma u VSpO1 GJullo1 00VlO p016
Santo Domingo IL Porto Rican
American Tobacco CO varias maqui.
narias para fabrication de tabacos
y cigarrilios.
IA ingresado en- ell hospital dc
Santa Rosa ell individuo Luciano
Gonsalez, empleado del Asilo de Be-
nefcencia, que recibi6 vsriss que.
maduras graves en- Santurce, & cau-
sa de haberse inflamado nm quinqu6.
Sc necesita nm hombre ioven,
fuerte, robusto y que entienda slgo
de tortelano. Debe ser peninsular,
sin familia y Que presente buepas
recomendaciones de conducta intA'
chable de personas conocidas. Infor.
maremos en- esta redacci6n.
1O-5
AL Juez municipal de Bsyam6n
90 tide explique el motivo porque
no auxili6 & Francisco Qoinones de
Cataiio amena1ada de muerte por %
marido.
Ell telegrafista D. Ramon Rodri.
guez ser& destinado desde el mes
pr6ximo, & Ia ofcina de Csyey.
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lot in the Plaza of Adjuntas bounded
east by the Plaza; sonth by The read to Utua-
do; north and west with Jose Jacinto Rivera.
Appraieed at $50 dollars.
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>EStancla
en- Sdnturce.

Sc vende uua situada entire los
kilometres z y 8 de Il carreterA cen
5tral, de cabids 80 cuerdAs. teniendo
165 metros frente & dicha carretera.
Est4 atravesada por ell ferroca.
rril de circunvalaci6n = tiene $50
palmas de COCO y 8 cuerdas de malo
jillo. i.
Tene construido m caf1o de- 500
metros de largo que comunica con el
de Martin Pe1a y 81 puerto de San
Juan, navegsble por botes , Ian
chas:
IuformAr&a San Justo no 81 al
tos.
s. 8-6
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Sabana Grande.

Wn tOQO8 los pi8nteteS ue 0n6e-
.f1anxa de esta poblaci6n ha tenido lu
!gar el dia 81 del corriente animAdas
festAs escolares con motivo del ami
versario de Jorge Washington.
En- la escuela principal que diri.
BE Mr. Sawyer se reunieFon los alum
nos de las escuelas graduRdas 4 car.
60 de los Sras profesores Cordero ,
Negroni,
a las 2 de Ia tarae comens6 81
festival. a. I. -@5ss i. :. :
AL isarse Il bandera nacional 70
dos los nifios cantaron 81 himno<The
Star Sp6ngle6 Banner. Despues la
Srta Providencia Baex recit6 un her
mos discurso acerca de Washinton.
Las Srtas Fslfcita Lopez, Carmen
sGaztambide, Isabel Yunque, Andrea.
Soto = los nilios Francisco Ayala =
Alfonso Soto recitaron bellfsimas
cOmposiciones en- verso y prosa, al
fernando con patri6 6ticos himnos ma
cion2les.
Los protesores D Modesto Cor.
dero y don Santiago Negroni habla.
ron respectivamente acerca de Ia nj
f1ez y vida polftica de Washington.
Fueron muy aplsudidos.
Ell Sr Presidente de. Ia Junta 10
cal, DR. D Felix Ti6 y Malaret, cerr6
el acto con frases llenas della mayor
elocuencia exhortandQ & los nif1os &
imitar las virtudes deLinmortal Was
hington. Entire otras frases recor
danes 6stas del Sr i6 y Malaret:
<Habra en- Ia historic ,Ruerreros mas
notables que Washing ton, Jestadistxs
mas insignes, pero ninguno habr4
que pueda superarle eo Ia honr2dez
y bondad de corazon, nj en- el amor.
8 su patria.2 .ts. @rssIs ~ -e#t
Felicitamos al: Sc professor Z.
r. Sawyer 2or el exito obtenido en-
el festival asf como &los dem&s pro
fesores, ninos y niflas que dieron
realce & tan lucido acto.
Como detalle hermosisfmo nos
place consignar qua frente al retra ]
to del immortal Washington Sc desta
caba Ia dgura de nuestro prestigioso
ilustre coterr&neo DR. Betances.
Sabemos que varios vecinos de
uno y otro bando polftico han soliei.
tado del Hon: GobernadOr Civil Sc
eliza para ell cargo de Juez de Poll
cfa al Sr don Miguel Schettini El
feferido Sr Schettini hace dos alios
jur6 la .nacionalidad americana y
desde largo tempo ejerce su carrera
de farmacia en- esta poblaci6n. We
riamos con gusto que a Ct lbernador
atendiera Ia moci6n de los peticiona
rios sabanef1os dadas las simpatias
de que goza dicho Sr. N
7 Ell CORRESPONSAL
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HECH0S Y DlCH0S.
Cr0niqQila del dia.

Nos dicen. que un Delegado de
la Camara, hace frecuentes. :viajes
por Gurabo, y que celebra largas-
cohferencias con cierta personalidad
de aquel pueblo.
No estamos seguros 81 la aludi
da pershnalidad es Don Celestino,
pero sospechamos que Be trata de
persona que Sc parece 81 por de
tras y hasta por delante.
Hay alguuos federales que es
tan escamsdos con esas entrevistas
y no son pocos los concentrates que
hacen
Parece que por Toa Alta no res
petan que SO halle en- aquel pueblo
el Reverendo Sr Obispo de Ia Dio-
cesis.
Aver talde, al oscurecer, Sc ar
mo en- la misma plaza p1blica una
fenomenal sarracina.
Ha resultado un muerto y va.
rios heridos.
Por esta vez, nos dicen, no Sc
trats de encoLos polfticos 90.
Del NAL, ell menos.
~
Nos informan que desde el pri-
nero de Mario, solo hebr& en- Gaia
no una pareja de policfa insular y
ninguna en- Palo Seco.
Si esa version es exacta, habra
que confesar que andan POGO acerta
dos los jefes del caerpo
Catano y Palo Seco principal
mente; y Dorado y Toa Baja luego,
son los sitios donde van a parar
todos los ladrones qae icencian an
San Juan. e
Son los focos donde convergen
esos Sres tomsdores de 10 ajeno
Valga el aviso.
Nuestro tranvfa el6otrico CONT
nda suffendo Ia PARALYSIS, en- cuanto
llega a la ciudad. i.
No sabemos por que causa, Pc
70 es 10 cierto que no entra nj sale.
VA prop6slio.
En- los caFritos que hacen el SER
vfcio ext:amuros, han fijado unos
carteles avisando que, por disposi.
cf6n de Ia Junta Superior de Sani'
dad, se impondran Is dollars de mul
ia los que escupan dentro de aque'
Hos.
Decfa & prop6sito de ESQ un jfba
70 vendedor de yucca.
eAntes ellos fumaban & noso'
tros nos dejaban escupir, pero ahora
nj ESQ.,
~
A puertas cerradas Sc celebr6
aver Ia reunion del Comit6 consult
vo del partido Federal. =,
Las dfscusiones duraron cuatro
horas.
Dfcen los que tfenel buenas ma
rices que Sc acord6 10 siguiente:
Fundar un peri6dico en- Washing
ton, escrito eh ambos idiomas, y di
rlgido por el Sr Mufloz Rivera.
Aplazar para dentro de dos me
ses, la fundacion de dicho peri6dico,
y duranue ellos agen eiar los fondos
nec7sarios para fundar y sostener
la publication.
Antes de marchar para Washing
ton ell Sr Muf1oz Rivera, nombrar
un Oirectorio que lleve la represen
taci6n del partido
Aplazar Ia resolucf6n que con.
venga & los intereses de Ia colectivi
dad, sobre los derroteros que deba
segair el partido.
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N0TICIAS

Ancche en- ell cafe Ella Lindas .
de Ia Gale de San Jose SO promooi6
nm gran escandalo, entire jose Garcia
y Jose Esturzy, rompiendo nm mar
mol de una mesa
1ntervino la policis y los condu
10 al Dep6 sito, ocup6ndole al Garcia
un revolver cargado.
Visto hoy este case ante .el tri
bunal de Po]icfa resultaron condena
dos. Garcia & S10 J Estury & IS que
edAndo. decomis ada el arma del pri
nero ~
Ha pssado al Jusgado de San
Francisco el incideLte ocurrido en-
ire Belen Perez y Encarnaci6n Pc
rec, en- que Ia primera atropell6 de
obras q 10 segunda.
Todo el mundo est4 convencido
y 10 confesan ingenuamente las da
mas hasta en- sus conversaciones in
timas, de que el mejor y mas barato
surtido de camas y colchones es el
de eel CielO,, vease camas elegant.
simas, moderLas. de pilares muy al.
tos que es Ia mods, con So colch6n
&25, camas de una plaza con colch6n
$13 80 colchones de 2 pla5as & 6, z
y IS y sigue el barati]lo de piqu6s y
seda cruda & 10 centavos en- Gel
Cielo.,
Hoy ha practicado descargs de
carbon en- el Arsenal el vapor car.
bonero xEannibal, de estaci6n en-
nuestro puerto. 49,
Psrece que 6los Estados Uni.
dos no conviene la adquisici6n del
dique fotante que tiene ell Gobierno
espal1ol en- 10 Habans. L. Junta de
reconocimiento informA que vale
mas hacef IN dique nuevo
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E pluribuS unuDQ.

Interesante es contemplar uni
embrollado ribazo vestido con mu-1
chas p1antas de muchas classes; can.l
tando los pajaros sobre los arbus.|
tos; escapandod de un lado para otro'
varios insectos, y arrastrandose los
gusanos por Ia terra, y rslexionar
que estas formas, elaboradanente
construidas y tan diierentes unas de
las otras, y dependiendo, sin embar
go, entire ST de una manera tan com
pleja, todas han sido producidas por
leyes que obran en- derredor nuestro
Estas leyes, tomadas en- un sentido
mas amplio, son crecimiento con re.
productions; herencia que casi va i'm
piicita en- Ia reproducci6n;1xariabili,
dad, resultado de la acci6n dEecta 6
indirects de las condolences de vida
y del uso y desuso; aumeuto en- una
proportion tan alta, que conduce a
una lucha por la existencia, y como
consecuencia, q 10 selection natural,
la cual trae consigo Ia divergencia
de caracter y la extinction de las for.
mas menos mejoradas.
Asf, es consecuencia directa de
la guerra de Ia aturaleza, de la es-
casez de Ia muerte, el objeto mas
elevado que somos capaces de con-
cebir, 4 saber: Ia production de los
animales superiores. Hay grandezs
en- esta opinion de que Ia vida, con
sus diversas facultades, fu@ infundi
do en- su origen por 81 Creador en-
unas pocas formas, en- una sola; y
que mientras este planets, segun Ia
determinada ley de ID gravedad, ha
seguido recorriendo % 6rbita; innu-
merables formas bellfsimas y llenas
de maravillas Sc han desenvuelto de
un origen tan simple, y siguen STEM
pre- desenvolviendose.