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BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1901-06-19
FACTS Worth Recalling

In view Of constantly repeated semi of
fetal warnings from Washington that Ger
many and perhaps other European powers
are giving signs Of purpose hostile to the
Monroe doctrine; it is interesting to recall
that whole countries in South and Central
America and South Africa are practically
owned by individuals or business firms in
the United States or Europe. There are
republics in America which do nothing OF
consequence without first consulting the
firms whose interests are of paramount i'm.
portancs,
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1901-06-19
Saved tho Train.
A Track Walkers Prompt Act.

One hundred feet of the Lehigh Valley
Railroad track sank into an abandoned coal
mine last week. A catastrophe was avert
cd by the timely arrival of a track walker
Knowing that train was about due, he
rushed up the moountain incline and heg.
ged the tram as it was speeding around a
curve.
The train was brought to stop twenty
yards from the pit ,chere the tracks were
gone.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1901-06-19
Yr!lalh d Elg!leeE!!ng SkI!!.

The American locomotives on the Bengal
Central Railway are ost satisfactory. Toe
repor: of the the Indian Government engi.
neers on the bridge over the gorge at Gok.
tick, Burma, built by the Pennsylvania
Steel Company, is to the effect that it is a
triumph of engineering skill. The native
press is advocating the placing of further
orders for railway material in the United
States on the score of its strength and du-
rability.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1901-06-19
Visited Their Nations Slip.

Amid the booming Of guns laundering
the customary salute: Senor j. f. De AS
lss Brasil, Envoy Extraordinary and Min.
lster Plenipotentiary from Brazil, accom-
panied bv Seior A. +. XAVIER the Braz.
iian Consul General at New York, visited
their nations training ship, the "BeDjamin
Constant under Captain Jose Martins de
Toledo, anchored off Bedloe'S Island one
day last week
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1901-06-19
Linea Ferrea del OeSte.
G. TIME TABLE
In effect April lst, 1901
LEAVE SAN JUAN LEAVE BAYAM0N.
To Our Readers.

Our columns are open to correspondence
on everything affecting the coffee, sugar
and tobacco plantation aid farming generally
and we cordially invite criticism and discus
sion. Natural History notes will also be
welcomed, as well as all news Of interest ad
planters. Communications should be to
dressed: The Editor, BoLETIN MER-
OANTIL, ~ Plaza Alfonso, San Juan,
IS
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1901-06-19
Morgan IaycStS.

The Marquis de Balleroy has sold to
Mr.. }. Pierpont Morgan four large tapes
tries, after Boucber, from the Chateau de
Balletoy, for 2,0O0,0O0f. S 100000.
At the sale Of the LoriTer library, at
the Hotel Drouot, richly illuminated
Book of Hours, French fifteenth century
manuscript, was sold for 14,000f. ($2, 500.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1901-06-19
Bulletins.

The BOLETIN force made a fine showing
in the parade last night They carried a
big transparency and distributed neatly
printed greeting "Viva San Juan".
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1901-06-19
Prehistoric Neal.

The geological section of the Academy
of Sciences has received report of the
discovery near IrkutSk of mammoth 10
perfect preservation.
Even the eyes, abdomen aud other soft
tissues remained sound.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1901-06-19

Many people daily make mistakes, by
going to the old location of the telegraph
oflice. 1t is now located in the room for
mery occupied by the Woman's Aid So.
ciety.
Willmar tribune., 1901-07-03
TIMELY DAIRY NOTES.

The Importance of healthy cows
and sound milk cannot be over-esti-
mated. Too little attention has been
given to the matter in the past.
Butter may look nice, have the cor
rect grain and be salted to taste, still
if it lacks flavor or has a bad favor
it sells at reduced price, If at all. It
is the fine flavor in butter that all
seek after. ..,.
Are you testing those cows you are
now milking? Do you know the "star
boarler?'''. You wouldn't put up with
q hired hand who failed to earn YOU
a profit on his wages; then why do
you persist in throwing away valua-
bic feed on an Improbable COW? 1"
Many farmers who are following
'dairying and patronize the skimming
station place little if any value on the
skim milk. A dairyman with a
separator on his farm will prove to
you the skim milk has a value of
from 20 to 80 cents per hundred
pounds. {. +
If you are in the dairy business to
stay, there is more than one reason
Tor rai.ing your own calves, You
can not only develop the best milking
strains ia this way, but. you can be
more sure Of having quiet and gentle
COWS ebraska Farmer.
Willmar tribune., 1901-07-03

must be leveled down when the cut
ting ceases. Keeping up the leveling
process will dispose Of most of the
weeds. The leaves after cutting, if
spread on the earth about the hills,
will also assist greatly in smothering
the weeds, besides having considerable
fertilizing value and acting as partial
mulch.
When it is desired to grow especially
large stalks of rhubarb for a choice
trade or for exhibition purposes, it is
possible to increase the natural size
by thinning out all but the vigorous
center buds, simply cutting them off
with sharp spade, allowing the whole
strength of the roots to go to the
large, vigorous looking buds, of which
not more than one or two should be
allowed to develop. TO stimulate the
hill to it's utmost, set large flower
pot into the ground between the hills,
in the row, as in the accompanying IL
lustration, and fill it often with liquid
manure of which too much cannot be
given. A good substitute for liquid
manure is nitrate of soda dissolved in
water, using about a teaspoonful of
soda to two or three quarts of water.
Varieties like the mammoth treated
by this plan will grow stocks of enor-
nous size and attract much attention.
orange Judd Farmer.
Willmar tribune., 1901-07-03
QUALITY OF BUTTER.
Tests Made mt tho Illinois University
Station Show Tint 1t Varies
from Day to Day.

At the agricultural station at
tached to the Illinois university, a
test was conducted last year for the
special object of studying the varia-
tions in the yield and quality of milk
obtained from a number of cows
specially selected for the purpose,
and the results obtained were very
curious, and in many respects very
conflicting. The experiment lasted
for period of close ON year. AS an
outcome of the results obtained dur
ing the period the officials having
charge of the researches came to the
following conclusions: 1. The yield
of milk from different COWS under
the; same conditions differs greatly,
and that from the same COW varies
greatly from day to day. 2. The COM
position of milk is highly variable;
the ratio of the fat to other solids,
and that of other solids to water are
not constant as between different
cows or for the same cow on success
sive. days. 8. The percentage of fat
or OF other solids is not always high
est in the smaller yields, but COWS
that give milk with a high per cent.
of solids generally show a low total
yield. 4. Fat is the most varia BILE
constituent of milk, and it's variations
are independent of those of the
other solids; therefore, the yield
of milk is better intedx of the
other solids than it is of the fat. S.
AS regards the first and last milk
drawn, the proportion Of solids not
fat is higher in the first, but the pro-
portion of fat is decidedly greater in
the last. 6. Neither day time nor
night time is shown to be superior as
milk7producing period. 2. Different
cows differ. in their power to make
milk from food, and the same COW
varies in this respect from time to
time. 8. Aside from the influence of
food or environment, each animal ex-
,hibit individual variations of her
own, and such variations tend to
show something like periodicity in
the separate functional activities of
the animal body.
Willmar tribune., 1901-07-03
THOUSANDS OF MILES AWAY.

New Zealand's crown lands are now
disposed of for 900 years.
The Jewish population of London
has more than doubled within 20
years.
The popula tion of the German en-
pire includes 100000 who use the
Polish language.
Germany and Holland are planning
to lay new cable to connect with the
Dutch East Indies.
Berlin has 10000 dogs. The tax is
$3.50, but officers and those who use
dogs as draught animals pay no tax.
1t is estimated that the cost of re-
storing the papal palace at Avignon,
France, would be about $1.4OO,OOO.
A boy and girl who offered to carry
a heavy package for an old woman in
the streets of Vienna have got into
trouble with the police for carrying
parcels without license.
After the model of the Rowton
houses in London, Milan will soon have
an Albergo Popolare, with room for
$50 men, It will have electric lights.
baths, clean linen, reading-room, ETC.,
and the cost will be only ten cents q
day per person.
Willmar tribune., 1901-07-03
NEVER FAILS TO WORK.

necessary to catch the idea. The IL
lustration represents the gap while
the water is low. During flood
everything passes over tho top. At q
glance some might think a water gap
made in this way would not turn
stock, but, wish to say that if prop
erly made no stock of any, kind will
attempt going through. The bars or
Stats should be sunk in the bed of the
stream several inches and then spiked
securely to the pole which crosses
the stream: The pole must also be
secured at both ends. by means of
posts or stakes. Should any drift ac-
cumulate on the Stats while the water
is low, as soon as the water is high
enough to flow over the top of the
gate, all the drift will be- washed
over.-Agricultural Epitomist.
Willmar tribune., 1901-07-03
HOW TO GROW RHUBARB.
Froduetion of Large Stalks for Ex-
hibitiOn or Choice Trade Is
Lucrative Occupation,

Families who move on to new farm
will find that the quickest way to pro-
duce supply of material for pies,
sauces, ETC., is to set out rhubarb
plants. If these are obtained by divid-
ing old hills they will begin growing
at once, and can be pulled little the
first season. A dozen hills will supply
an average family. 1t may also be
grown from seed. One pound will sow
about six average hotbed frames and
should yield at least 1000 plants.
A practical way to blanch stalks in
spring is to throw up the soil with a
plc'w about one foot thick over the hill,
Nearly the whole stalk will then be
blanched and more delicate in color
and flavor. This covering of earth
Willmar tribune., 1901-07-03
AMBROSE M'KAY'S CASE.

Rockbridge, Mo-, June 24th:-The
neighborhood and particularly the
members of Rockbridge Lodge, No.
435, A. F. & A. M, are feeling very
much pleased over the recovery of Mr..
Ambrose Mckay, prominent citizen
and an honored member of the Ma
sonic Fraternity.
Mr.. Mckay had been suffering for
years with Diabetes and Rheuma tism.
which recently threatened to end his
days. His limbs were so filled with
pain that he could not sleep. He was
very bad. 49,
Just then, someone suggested new
remedy-Dodd's Kidney. Pills-which
has been much advertised recently, as
a cure for Bright's Disease, Diabetes,
Dropsy, rheumatism and Kidney
Trouble.
After Mr.. Mckay had used few
doses, he commenced to improve. His
pain all left him, and he is almost as
well as ever. He says Dodd's Kidney
Pills are worth much more than they
cost, They are certainly getting
great reputation in Missouri, and
many very startling cures are being
reported, "
Willmar tribune., 1901-07-03
EF'@7 " fIEtt W NC 6s. 3EES4IEI '!hNIINI
ut Of our saddles and got be hind our

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out Of our saddles and got behind our
ponies. .j,....,,..>,f & :. ~
The fellows were suspicious of. .
larger force aclose at hand, or. they
would doubtless have charged us ct
once. They, looked about rather
anxiously, scanning the creek banks
above and below. C.. "a, =. .~.:.
AS the dust had cleared. somewhat,
we could see their faces quite plainly.
They were not more than so or GO yards
away. Three of them were dressed as
cowboys and looked like ordinary line
riders. The fourth, and apparently
the leader, wore q blue wooden shirt
and stiff hat. He had dropping
black mustache and long hair. s~- !,
Presently the four got in line and
began moving. slowly towardus. They
evidently wanted to make sure of US
at the first fire.
Halt: where you are or somebody'll
get hurt!" shouted Ferd. The rustlers
glanced at each other. Two of them
grinned wickedly. They came on with
out pausing.
Scared as I was,. I was far more
frightened in behalf of those reckless
men than on my own account. If they
could have known, how quick and cer-
tain Ferd is with a rifle, they certainly
would have kept their distance. Iknew
one of them must fall at my brothers
first fire. and if they charged in sad
die did not doubt he would kill them
all before they could reach us-he is
just as quick as that on the trigger,
and he works his lever as a bow flips
marble. His rifle was already leveled.
covering the leader.
''Halt, there, tell you!" he called
again, and in tone that would have
stopped any but the most desperate of
men. The men fingered their Winches-
ters: They were about to begin the
fight. Then in breath and out of the
dust that still banked along the sleeps
Florence came galloping at them.
The fellows turned their heads quick.
ly at hearing the patter of her pony's
hoofs, and the leader wheeledhi horse
sharply about. The latter lowered the
rifle he had half-presented when he
saw girl confronting him. 1t was
we'll enough for him that he did so.
Florence coolly pulled up in front
and little to one side of this aston
ished rustler.
'Those are my brothers down
there" we heard her saying in clear
voice. II am going to help them drive
the horses. I guess my stirrup-strap
is breaking loose" And she stopped
over on the side opposite the man, as
If to attend to her footing.
Then, before the leader or his men
could recover from their surprise, Flor
Willmar tribune., 1901-07-03

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Tickets at cheap rates will be on sale
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Willmar tribune., 1901-07-03

ence Strengthened up and flung q hiss
ing cracker at his pony's head.
At IS feet she ought not to have
missed, but the pony lodged at the
motion, of her arm, and her big yell
low cracker struck tho rider some-
where about his belt and exploded.
The man was, knocked or thrown out
OF his saddle, sprawling like strick-
en- frog. The pony sprang away, reel
ing from the conclusion.
One of the mounted men yelled:
"Dynamite!" and all three put spurs
to their dancing ponies, and were out
of range and out of sight in no
time.
Ferd and I now advanced, with our
guns covering the fallen rustler, who
had raised himself to sitting posture
and seemedrto be cropping for his Win.
chester. He was blind and dizzy as
yet from the shock he had received.
+ Florence had dismounted and Sc.
cured his gun: - 8
: I'm dreadfully sorry I hurt you.
sir" we heard her saying, ruefully. II
only meant to stampede your horses
and keep you~from shooting at my
brothers" sEgt,s afsT; ;
She had,indeed done execution. The
mans shirt front was blown away, his
breast and face were blackened with
powder, his mustache and eyebrows
were singed off, and his eyes were red
ard bleary, and rolled like those Of a
drunken man. q ~! &, -
& He was still light-headed when Ferd
and 4; came yup.sssWe got him to his
feet and walked him around a bit.
Florence ran to pool and brought
water in my wool hat. He drank
eagerly. 49,. 49,.
When he had fully recovered his
senses, we knew that he was not Sc.
riously. injured. He sat down upon
the ground presently, and although
the pain of his burns must have been
acute, he grinned at us in kind of
grim humor.
"weA"he ashed, "goin' to shoot
me .up?y s.a, txs
I had already caught his horse. =
f0CC CS1AEOsyOu1 SdUU1c; auu SeG OUT
OF these .parts,"" said Ferd. "Try to
make anshonestt living in4 future, and
no one will hurt you" <,l
The man, with"a. grimace Of humil.
iation, mounted his animal and rode
away We were glad enough to see
the last of him. . -
We overtook: the main herd of stam
peded horses near. the summit of the
pass. That night we slept upon beds
o1 spruce boughs. We reached home
about eight O'clock in the morning,
and found the rest OF the family
awaiting US. They thought we must
have gone to Lander. 49,. & !: I.:..
When the ockmen came back from
Lander they were in q great state OF
indignation. There had been no cele.
bration, and they had ridden hun,
dred miles and back for othing. Il
soon turned out that the rustlers
themselves had caused the false re.
port to be circulated. =s.5 ss=I
81 must say that Florence is now 1
person ott consid derab;e reputation II
these parts Youth'a Companies.
Willmar tribune., 1901-07-03
Annual Loss Of Fertility.

The loss of fertilizer from rains can
not be estimated. The water courses
carry millions Of tons of plant foods
to the sea. The Nile alone pours more
than 1000 tons into the Mediterranean
every ~ hours. The annual loss from
the earth's soil is: greater than the en-
tire deposits OF guano, even before
they were exhausted. Unless a large
portion of the fertilizer is reclaimed
from the sea q time may come when
the worlds average yield Of crops will
be exceedingly low. /.
Willmar tribune., 1901-07-03
fronting us.. AS the tran wa. . plain
one, she had had no difficulty III fol-

fronting. us. AS the tran was q plain
one, she had had no difficulty IN fol.
lowing. i ~. 81 !. - r.
II can't stay behind!" she an
nounced, breathlessly.. II should die
of fright. I4don't believe those men
will fight when they see girl along"
, So that was her reason for coming!
We looked at each other in dismay
and some disgusts%s But she was q girl
of 16, a capable horsewoman and Of a
determined spirit. We could not COM
Epel lher sto stay behind IL ; :
Then we hit the trail again, and
Morences followed. 4 looked back to
see that she was crying, although she
rode brarely, and was truly sorry for
her. q. 4s
In the course OF three hours ofhard
riding we came out of q sharpcut into
the canyon of Two-owe-tee. A brief
examination convinced us that we
should find no better point at which
to make break in the herd and turn
them back upon the rlstlers. The gap
of Two-owe-tee was here some 200
yards in width, with inaccessible
sleeps on either hand.
We rather counted on a fight, and
Ferd planned for it like general. He
even consented that Florence should
take q part in, cannonading the herd,
whereat she at once became a calm
and superior person. She agreed to
keep close in to the mouth of the cut,
after we should get the herd going,
and in certain length of time to take
her flight back oyer the trail by which
we had come.
. Even when we told her we should
fight; pointing out from height the
high banks of a dry run where we
should make our stand when we had
run the herd over the rustlers, she ap-
proved the plan.
"You can stand them off easily!" she
declared. "Their bullets can't hit you
in there, and if they charge you can
stampede them with crackers"
I We rather thought so ourselves. We
then ate bit of dinner and rested,
listening meanwhile for the tramp of
the herd. It was nearly four o'clock
when we heard the rumble, of their
hoofs and sighted their trail of dust
up the canyon.
We quickly took our places. Florence
stood just outside the mouth of the
cut, with several giant crackers and
some matches in hand. She was lit
tie pale, but cool and collected, and
showed no sign Of fear. .
Ferd and I sat our ponies on either
side the creek-bed and waited, must
admit, in state of considerable ex-
citement. We had no fear for our
seats, however, as our ponies were
Willmar tribune., 1901-07-03

gun-broken to firing from the saddle,
and would not shy even at. cannon
shots. They were, in fact, accustomed
to the crack of dynamite and black
powder, used in breaking rock and
splitting logs near our house.
The foremost horses of the herd
were soon close at hand. OF course the
dust they raised completely hid us
from view of the rustlers in their rear.
They were coming at free trot on
each side of the creek channel. We
waited until the leaders had halted,
snorting, in front of us. Then we light
ed our crackers and flung them-eight
or ten-one after the other. Florence
took her part IN the cannonade, throw
ing her crackers as far as she could
toward the horses.
- For half minute the canyon roared
and reverberated with an astounding
racket. This thunder and smoke flung
the leading. horses back upon their fel-
lows until all were punched like flock
of scared sheep !
: Then we rode at them, each of us
flinging a final cracker upon their
heels, and all of US yelling like crazy
Bannocks, at frolic. In no time I'VE
had them going-just "hitting: the
wind" in the widest kind of a '.couun-
ter-stampede." We followed, awareat t
first of the active, operations ! of
zrustlers. in our front. The swerving
lines of horses told us plainly enough
where they were. The DUST and con-
fusion prevented our seeing anything
more than half dozen yards distant. :!
By great good luck, we came togeth-
er in crossing curve of the creek-bed.
We rode atathe tail of the herd until
assured that the frightened horses
would run as long as they were able
that our stampede could not be coi1n-
tered for an hour or more. We knew,
from the time which had elapsed, that
the rustlers, not fearing Immediate
pursuit, had Saved wind and speed for
long chase ]
And now we turned back, determined d
to take our stand in the mouth of the
cut and guard the pass until the stock
men should begin to come in from
EandeE IT was only through the gap
sof Twd-owe-tee that The rustlers cohld
hope to run stock off our range.
p Dust ungsHeavily in the gap, and in
order to- dodge the ;if possible
we rod eabaclsd own the lcEeek chanhhel,
which held only here and there pools
of water. = -. 5
But luck turned against us just as
we had reached point nearly opposite
the mouth Of the Ecnt. While riding
Fa%dss asAat where tie ditch .w,as||ex,
treme1y shallow, we sighted -four
horsemen scouting cautiously, evi-
IDENTITY trying to discover the cause OF
the tremendous racket which had
turned the stock. They might easily
,havest thought that miners e:atwork
blasting rock som eWhere NEAR oubt-
less they had come to some such CON
Eclusion. 55s5Z55s... z: Z5=.5 ,gs5
But they saw Us before we could get
to- cover. They were bel tween us and
the mouth IS the cut, and they whe eled
IN an ugly fashion, holding their
Winchesters st ready We slipped
- sgl EG.
Willmar tribune., 1901-07-03
He stopped His PAPER.

"Sir!" exclaimed the oldest citizen, a.
he walked into the business office Of tho
daily paper, II see in your, sheet of today.
sir, an article to which take EXCEPTIONS,
and l want my paper stopped, sir! And
when James +. Anderson says stop, sir, ha
means stop, sir!"
Phil" wearily murmured the circula-
ton manager, ''go out and tell Bobt' stop
tn press an lock up; OF man Anderson
has quit us!"-Denver Times.