BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1901-10-01
How He Saw The
Sunday Ball Game.

| Federico We derous Jones stood on the
porch Of the HOiei K'mpo. Fredenco was
INDEED a happy IN n 1t was Sunday, it
was so about 2 80 IN the afternoon OF as
beau i'ul day as the good people Of San
turce Dad ever seen. AS h. stoud waiting
for the electric chariot that was to carry him
to his old perch on Il 'oter's Roost, h. look
ed indeed picture OF satisfei humanity, Of
benign tranquility. AS be kept repeating
10 h'mself some DeW ones TO throp at the
UDp'r-, the distant clsng of the trolley
hell Vas heard. Jones started to walk to
the front gate, he heard an 'm nous stir in
the room 10 back of him, ald just as
poor Jcn's had oae foot on the step of the
Car ard he conductor was about to pal' I'll
bell. tn calm q1letude of tbs bsautIfu
Ssbbatl day WAS sent hurrying heIter skelter
to little rock just outside of San Geronimo.
Hare you Federico Veederlous Jones
where are you going, and wat do you
Mean 7" cleft the air like a thunderbolt.
ioor Jones, unhappy Jones, unfortunate
Jones, ss ne walk d back to the porch
he remembered tbs pitcures of Happy
BooIIgau he had seen in the New York
journal, VISIONS of s'Give me Liberty or
GIVE me Death came to him. {. Well u
| We u came from behind the closed shutters.
.'FrederIck Jones you have'ot ans wered my
quesu0n as yet. no you haven't and l don't
suppose you will" But don't cajole
yolrself into the belief that don't knop
isdur schemes, and what you meant-tO dol"
'.Frederick Jones, pm modern woman,
and t3e day man of your stamp Can fool
Inc hasn't come yetn. sDesecrat,ng the
Ssobatb day" mo! No! YOU needn't tell me
YOU didn't ecsuso l k1ou you meant to".
sDou'G tell me any Of your fairy tales, | don't
tel evs word Of it" .Goiug In town to
ser If the man from Bogots was still hancl
ling STANDARD Or. mo Sir / viii! not be-
i'sve any sucu prevaricatlon, aud IT. yOn ever
attempt TO agaln lie TO me Pll take next
TUESDAYS boat ard you can have your
besut full Porto Ricon all TO yourself
'.HaddiSa, Ind suits me Sir. " Aud
Les.des dou'G want you to have any
tlng 10 do with that Bogota man,
and he inst the worst either, that there
canned beef rascal Ven ! mean
= 'indig, he's the one that puts ali tnis base
ball uouesence in your heAd;" and turning
to her companion At her side Mrs. Jones
TegaIned her lost breath and smiling sweet
ly said ''Oome Dear ycu and wilt have q
glass of Soda, and s'See hear you Frederick
JOues don't you dare to leave this porch"
AS the last faint sters Of the ladies' dissr-
peariog IN the direction of the refreshment
pavilion wers heard, the light went out Of
jones' eyes, aud the most detected looking
mortal In all POr;o Rico sank into the near
est rocker For five minutes he never NOV.
cd, TO all appearances the man was dead,
beyond the pale of mankind, he belonged TO
another world, but appearances were never
more deeeivlng Poor humble Jones IN The
most ord nary rocker ON that porch, was
Matching out a scheme, plan OF action,
that he had n, Yer dsrei to dream Of before,
to him 1t was the BEGINNING OF new era, it
was g,nng TO mark g. epoch 10 his life. fbe
blood Of Revolutionary aDcesto, Q rebelled
| against this y ranny, his maj hood had been
bumbl.d d, his Amerlcanlsm, his Republican.
ism, the very fundamental principles OF the
constltntiOn for which his fore fathers had
fought, bad been dragged from tbeil throne
and trampied under foot. Jones thought
hard, and Jones thought long, and when
Jones got up out of that rocker he looked in
tie mirror to see il it was the same man
whom h. had known as Jones some ten
mInutes before
| Then posing himself before the mirror,
be raised his right arm, and with all the
energy and iDdignali0n that an outraged
human being could command he cried.
"L+t this be my slogan, Give me Liberty
or Give me Death,n From the mirror ne
went straight TO that refreshmeut pavilion,
and the walk was that of man of determin
auon, every step shook the house, and the
waters fairly dropped their dishes with fright
as Jones came into view at The rear of the
building. He took one look around, saw
the girls sIpping pink lemonade through
red, white and blue straws, and tnen and
there FFederico VeederiOus Jones proved |
that the shortest distance between two
points was a straight line. Woman he |
begsn, ssWomanD, he repeated, and lhen |
again aB if to impress, the fact upon the la |
dies, he re.repeated ..Woman' my name is
Federico Veederous Jones, free born,
white and twenty -oLe. y . i oTuan Pm going I
to that bal game, and I'm going there
quick, and the woman don't live in Porto
Rico, that will stop me,v ssWoman Pm
tue boss Of tbs shack, and mean to show
nay authority right here and at once, and
WON'T be inIerfefed with.p
Mrs Jones tired to get in here, but with a
wave of the arm, and mtjestic stamp Of
ths foot Jones' stopped her s'Tut, tut,
Woman, don't yon dare interrupts mel.
remember that your supreme Lord and
master stands before you,, Womsn want
respect, aud want IL 10 large dosesp--just
then something happened. Even to this day
poor Jones mentioos it with fear and heslt.
alton, aud never before booking the entire
length OF the porca to see who is within hear
ing Of his voice Az the last word left
jones' mguth. th6lady Of bis choice, his bet
ter hall, his ninety nine and thirty thres and |