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BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1902-11-21

ES,ahAn rccicn casadoss no hacia ocho cias
o,,e les habia undo en sanio laRo el cara &C
San Gines vivian en IN hcrsnoso cuarso SC
cundo dc Ia calle del Arcnai.
No hay ofcnSa 4 Ia neral III 4 las b1eaas
nox,u,al,rcs en- dccir Que dormian juntus ca
una an,p,:a casna dc mairimonio, y iampoco IN
hay On ascguTar cue Gran las dos dc IA madru'
gada. cnsndo sacedid 10 Que voy rcteiir.
one los r,cis. casados no dcsmsan. Hulacra
ssdo ilosico ain indigno. Las dos acas'aban
Dc sonar ea q p-cciaso rcloj dc In chiments.
rcgalo dc boda dc un Ssaador por de0echo pro
mo = como cS;o ocarffa en- cl mes dc AgoSio
hacia un calor horroroSo, 81 balc6n csiaba CT.
.rcabcT;a pcro ca In alcoba nupcial apenas
cn;raba cl aire. nj hacia falta.
La herInosa novia y el gailardo marido Co
:nenzaban quedarse cormidos 4 ese dc las
dos media. cuandc, de pronto. en e. piano
Que hsbiA cn q cuarto & cuatro pas S dc ellos,
sor6 una escaia enieTa: 'l)o-re-mi-ia-Sol-la
si-do'"
Andres sc scn;6 DC un sal;o en- IA cana, y
Teresa sc agarr6 Z 81 nnarido y escondi6 Ia ca
beza en- su pecho, como los nifios ouando sc
amedrentan.
-jlIas ofdo:-dijo e.
ST: ha sonado el piano! Ha soIado el
piano!
No, no me dejes no vayas, que me es
toy murendo de miedo.
-Serfa ridiculo.-
Andres sallo de la CANA y fue q yer 10
que sucedfa.
Daba luz la alcoba una "nariposa" ence'
rrada en- artisica lampara, coigada delante de
una imagen de San Antonio (muy expuesto ALI
4 nuevas tentaciones), y alcanzaba con su retie-
10 a iiuminar debilmente el salon, cuya puerta
de salida otras habtaciones de la casa estaba
cerrada. Quiero decir con este que Andres po-
dia yer 10 que en- e. salon ocurrieSe que la
puerta no Sc habia alberto.
No; no Sc habia alberto hi en- el arosento
habia nadie, menos de que ell pianista Sc hui
biese ocultado debajo del sofa debajo de algu-
Nd de las mesitas, cubiertas con llndos tapetes
hasta Ell sue!o lenas de artisticos cachiSa-
ches.
Andres 10 penso asi, levant6 los tapetes
alzo en- vilo el sofa. :. NO habia nadle
En- la casa no habitaba mas que ia criada,
Que dormia ALA del otro lado, muy lejos. -.
No hay nadie, dijo Andres, de pie en-
medic del salon, nagniico, en- toda la fuerza y
esplendor de sus velnticinco af1os, pero no sin
nirar constantemeute en- derredor suyo.
-Miralo bien, 1e decia su mujer arrebuja-
da en- las sabanas.
lie digo que no hay radle!
No puedo ser.
ESQ mismo digo yo, pero asf es. Sin
duda que al comenzar quedarnos dorb1idoS
hemoS Sonado 1naS tnaHuo qtS oi Pl"ho Solie
ba solo. 70 no creo en- 10 sobrenaturai' exc'a-
mo Andres, que habfa sido disclpulo de SAM
del Rio.
volv;6 ac-s' rise, y tardaron ea dornir
Sc los c6nyuges 10 meuos media hora, porque
4 pesar de las ideas positivas de el y de ia con
fianza que ella lie daba tener junto su cora
zon el de SIT valero5o narido, no Sc durmeron
del to1o, aunque 10 parecia.
Y prueba de clio fue que al dar ell reloj las
tres media, volvi6 sonar algo que no era
una esca'a entera competa, sino una suce-
si6a de notas disparatadas nlayores memories
ere 81 dofare dosi-sol-illi.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1902-11-21
SOPA DE CALABAZA

Poner cocer con aqua sal Tin pedazo de
calabaza, hasta que este como pa oilla Agre-
gar un POGO de manteca y dejar que de TN her.
vo-. Entonces mezclarle Ia leche cocida con
azdcar, y con parte de este caldo mezcar la
sopa, que Sc colocara entire dos fuegos lentos
para que no herva Sc empape.
al servir afiadir el resto del caldo bien Ca
1ente.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1902-11-21
COMMERCIAL

E. fallecimento de don Luis de astis
Dorval, no altera Ia marcha de Ia "Farmacia
Nueva", es!ablecida en- Glaya1,a, que continla
bajo la regcncia de don Ardses Rodriguez
Cruz.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-02-03
BY r. j. MERRIAM.

has been wonderfully successful"
To give the reader some idea of the
practical nature of these institutes give
below a letter from Mr.. o. G. Gregg, SUI
perintendent of Farmers Institutes in the
state of Minnesota. Mr.. Gregg is consider
ed one of the best institute managers in
this country. His letter is as follows:
LYND, Lyon Co., Mimi, Dec. Is, 1901
F. j. Merriam. Esq, Battle Hill, Ga.
Dear Sir: We acknowledge receipt of
your letter dated the 18th instant. / sin
cerely hope that your state will pass
bill for the maintenance of farmers insti-
tutes, because I have great faith in the
future of this country provided improved
agriculture is advanced as it should be.
We have our mines and manufactures,
but we must care for our soil and be as
great in agriculture as in everything else.
Our institutes have had such an effect
in our state and the measure of conf
dence has grown in the work that at the
present time the legislature adds to our
fund from session to session in accord
ance with our wishes. When we first COM
menced our work it was a fight in the
legislature, but that has become a thing
of the past. AS a result of the institute
work it is safe to say that the improved
agriculture, which includes dairying, fruit
raising, rotation of crops, improvement
of cattle, and kindred topics has been
greatly anu there - al avian
ening along this line all over the state
of Minnesota. Our audiences are continu-
ally larger and there is a growing inter-
est in the work by reason of the work
done upon the institute platform. We
would not. of course. state this to be the
only cause, but every one recognizes it to
be one of the great causes by which this
desired result has been attained. 1 cite
one individual instance. The general
freight agent of the Minneapolis and
st. Louis railroad asserts without hesi-
fancy that the increase of dairy work
which has brought the increase of cream
cries along the line of their road has of
itself been of sufficient value to fully re-
imburse the state for all the money that
ever has been expended over the whole
state at large. / also cite one letter lately
received from a single farmer, who said
that by reason of the institute work and
its teachings he had during the past year
received 81, coo more for his farm than he
otherwise would have received. 1 could
multiply cases, but these two will serve
as samples of the testimony that we have
received. The Improvement in agriculture
has advanced real estate decidedly. The
business men of our state without excep-
ton, so far as know, back the institute
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-02-03

The south is just now entering upon
that stage of her industrial development
which offers to the farmer a golden oppor-
tunity. The influx of capital and its in
vestment in manufacturing enterprises is
giving employment to labor at good wages
and creating. market for all kinds of
food supplies. The money brought into
our territory for this purpose, together
with that received for our cotton. peach
and melon crops constitutes the bulk of
our income. Now what becomes of it?
Does it remain in the pockets of our
farmer, laborer or business men? Are
the savings of these individuals increas-
ing more rapidly than heretofore, or Is
the money paid out and sent away to pur-
chase those commodities which we require,
but which are produced in other portions
of the country?
So far as the farmer is concerned he is
in as bad fi4 as when cotton was
cents a pound. The advance in the price
of cotton has not kept pace with that of
other things he has to buy and he is find
ing himself in an embarrassed and help
less condition. He hardly knows what to do
or which way TO turn. In many cases he
is unable to provide for his laborers, and
they are leaving him. He is told to con-
centrate his efforts. but how? He has
never done any intensive farming. The
idea of making good living on rs or even
so acres of land appears to him who has
been accustomed to cultivate hundreds as
ridiculous, If not impossible.
While it is true that Georgia has large
number of successful farmers scattered
here and there over the state they are but
a drop I'm the bucket compared with the
great majority a large part of whom
never even see a farm paper. How to
reach this latter class and instill into
them fresh enterprise and show them how
to successfully take hold of new lines of
farm work is the question which presents
itself to the intelligent people of Georgia
During a Conversation with Ex-Governor
Hoard, of Wisconsin. when on his visit to
Georgia, the question was asked him,
What ought we to do in this emergen-
cy?" Replying the governor said, Your
conditions here i'm Georgia are very SINH
lar to those which confronted us in Wis
consin before we started our farmers in
stitutes and agitated the subject of dairy
ing. The principal difference is that you
grow cotton and we grow wheat The
only way that 1 know of reaching the
mass of the farmers is by word of mouth
through these farmers institutes. That
is the way we did 1t and the movement
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-02-03

There was more hay grown at the south
the past season, it-is safe to say, than
ever before in her history. Many farmer
can look with pride on his full barns and
numerous hay stacks. He has very
comfortable feeling as he sees the price
of hay and corn mounting higher, for he
knows that even If his cotton does not
bring what he expected he will be all
right anyway.
But while the south has produced this
year a comparatively large crop of hay,
the industry is yet in it's infancy. The
majority of our farmers do not yet real
ize that hay can be grown more profitably
than cotton. or that ii can be made to fill
out a rotation which win help to increase
the yield of cotton per acre.
AS a rule it is not considered good econ
omy to sell hay off the farm as the crop
carries with it a large amount of plant
food. At ordinary prices it would I'M
doubtedly pay better to feed the hay to
cattle on the farm and return to the soil
the greater part Of the plant food in the
manure. At present prices, however, 1t
viii pay better to sell the hay, and even In
ordinary times we can make hay very
profitable as a market crop.
While it is true that 1t removes large
amount of fertility, the crop helps the
land by preventing it from washing and
teaching, thus utilizing a large amount
of fertility which would otherwise be lost.
This is especially true on those crops
which hold the land in winter, such as
the Gray Winter or Turf oats. These oats
make excellent hay If cut when in bloom.
and they do we'll on any ordinary upland.
We sold them last spring in Atlanta at
$500 per ton, and the price will undoubt-
eddy be still higher this year.
The fertility removed from the soil by
a ton of this oat hay is as follows: nitro
gen. 2S.S pounds; phosphoric acid, 1874
pounds, and potash sos pounds. The MI
trogen used by this crop would in large
measure have leached out of the soil and
been lost with the winter rains If the oats
did not use 1t. 1t is worth on the market
about Is cents per pound and therefore the
1857 worth of this element used by the
oats is really saved, instead of removed
from the soil. The other two elements
of plant food are not so expensive, being
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-02-03
WELCOME GEORGIA INTO
THE TEMPERANCE LINE.

The governor of Georgia has just sent
Mrs. Mary II. Hunt, superintendent for
Worlds and National Woman's Temper
ance Union of Boston, the pen with which
he signed the last Of these laws now pass
ed by the legislatures Of every one of the
forty-five states of the United States and
by the national congress, all of which re-
quire temperance physiology to be taught
all pupils in all schools under the state and
federal control.
SO says The New York Sun.
us it true?" Governor Gambler was ask
ed.
eyes, little girl asked me for the pen,
and I gave il 10 her.
"And it was sent to Mrs. Hunt?''
Yes, ii was sent to her.
''Well, it was a good thing that pen did,
Governor" remarked the woman at the
other end of the phone.
Eyes, it is a good movement. The only
thing 1 don't like much about it is the
great prominence the people there have
given TO the fact that Georgia is the
last state to fall in that temperance edu-
cation line. There's no use throwing that
at US and so often!'
AS a matter of fact Georgia, grand in
so many respects, is slow to act in these
reforms.
Even those who love her best must
acknowledge that and wish 1t were not
so.
This temperance education movement
was started in Vermont nearly twenty
years ago. 1t was through the instru-
mentality of one devoted woman aided
by noble workers, especially the Wom-
ans Christian Temperance Union, the
first temperance education law in the
world was enacted in Vermont. As state
after state placed similar laws upon
its statute books, they were represented
in white on the man of the United States
as an object lesson, while the rest OF the
union was drawn in black.
company of distinguished people
gathered informally in Mrs. Hunts par
lors Saturday evening, January 9th, 10
witness the removal of this last 'black
cap from the national map, and to well
come Georgia to the white sisterhood thus
made complete. Delightful reminiscent
speeches on all phases of the work were
i'm order, and congratulatOry letters were
read from Mrs. Stevens. president of the
National Woman's Christian Temperance
Union, Mrs. Livermore, Governor Gambler
of Georgia, who as a member OF the
house committee on education in 1886,
gave valuable aid in securing the national
temperance education law, and others.
This study that gives with other laws of
health the scientific reasons for total ab-
stinence is now legally engrafted upon the
educational system of this entire country.
and is fast spreading to other lands. It's
| benefcent results, already manifest in the
greater sobriety of the American work
ingman, and in the increased length. of
human life, are destined to become more
and more apparent. Their thorough en-
forcement will mean a new generation of
citizens too wise to stultify themselves
with intoxicants. and thus the peaceful
solution, through education, of the tenn
perance problem.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-02-03

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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-02-03

worth only about FIVE cents per pound.
They are seldom leached out of any soil
and may, therefore, be considered as re-
moved by the crop. OF the two. potash
constitutes by far the largest amount of
the plant food removed. We can, how,
ever, well afford to return to the land in
the shape of chemical fertilizer the SS.11
worth of fertility represented by the phos-
phoric acid and potash, especially on a
crop which pays as well as a hay crop.
Another advantage of the oat crop for
hay is that it can be harvested in time
to SOW the land to cow peas and thus
grow two hay crops on the same land
inside of twelve months. The oats also
come in in June and reach the market
at a time when the price Of hay is at it's
highest point. At this time it will sell
for as much as timothy al other seasons.
With the COW pea the principal element
of plant food removed from the soil is
nitrogen. A ton of this hay contains $5.S5
worth of 1t, but it cannot be claimed that
this is really removed from the land, for
the COW pea obtains its nitrogen from
the air and actually leaves the soil rich
er in this element than it found it, even
though the vines are cut and removed
from the land. There is also about $1.47
worth of potash and % cents worth of
phosphoric acid removed in a ton of this
hay, or with a crop of two tons per acre,
about "a worth of fertility.
The main thing in growing those hay
crops proftably for market is to see that
the mineral elements in the soil are kept
supplied. If the COW pea hay crop is well
fertilized each year with at least 600
pounds per acre of a fertilizer analyzing
10 per cent phosphoric acid and 10 per
cent potash, and the oat crop is also fer
tilted in similar manner there win be
a steady gain in the fertility of the land
while producing paying crops of hay. II
your soil is a very stiff red clay the potash
in the above fertilizer may be reduced
about one-half, as such land contains
more potash than loamy or sandy soils.
1t is needless to say that the land for
these crops must be thoroughly prepared.
We cannot expect results from the appli-
cation of fertilizers on land which is
merely scratched over. There is one
thing which is just as necessary as fertili-
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-02-03

orator is being substituted fer his Drawn.
He can accomplish more, in these days OF
electrical advancement and phenomena,
by thinking than he can by plodding. In
years gone by the operator who could re-
main longest at his key and pound the
hardest and fastest was the highest paid
and most appreciated. Now the intelligent,
thinking man. who can abbreviate words
and curtail sentences without destroying
their meaning, is the particularly sought
after.
To spell out and send thirty words a
minute is a fine average for hand send
ing today. But an operator who can do
nothing more than this would find him
self all alone. He must do more. In send
ing thirty words, the human hand makes
many times one hundred and fifty Morse
characters, sometimes as many as a thou
sand. for he must not only make the
letters. but each letter is composed of
several characters. The letter p for
instance is five dots. To make a period
the operator makes six characters on his
KEY. In spelling out the word "have''
eleven dots and dashes are necessary.
The word mississippi" has thirty-two
dots and dashes. To obviate so much
work a code has been adopted, sometimes
a single letter meaning as much as two
words In the Phillips code. which is now
used in transmitting the Associated Press
cuts are taken. The word 'Potus" does
not mean Potus. Translated it reads:
1.-THE president Of the United States"
econ" means correction" Sax is the
code for the term: :'Shot and killed"
'Icw" means "in connection with" ''Kbl'
reads KILLED by lightning" and "dbf'' is
DESTROYED by fire." Thus IL will be seen
that instead of thirty words a minute. the
press operator is sending from fifty TO
eighty words the strain being upon the
mind rather than the hand Of the sender
and receiver.
OF course in fast sending, where each
letter is composed Of several characters
and each word is abbreviated, some anus
ing things are calculated to happen. The
receiving operator, a thousand miles away
from the sender hasn't the alternative CT
breaking the sender and ask him to repeat
except in rare cases. He copies on his
typewriter as fast as his fingers can fly
what is sent him. He is likely to get into
all kinds of complications and cOmbina-
tons. but he must think like lightning
and never lose one metallic click of his
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-02-03
The Author Of aouo vadls.D

Not many of the thousands Of Ameri-
cans who read and marveled at Quo
Vadis'' know that the man who wrote
this great book was himself for some
time a resident Of this country. In the
February number of the Ladies Home
Journal Clifford Howard brings out this
interesting fact in describing the beauti-
ful home of Madame Modjeska in south
ern California. Sienkiewicz came TO Amer
lea about the middle Of September. 1876.
with a party of thirty Polish immigrants,
not such as we usually picture to our
selves as landing at New York, but ladies
and gentlemen of culture, many of them
persons of national reputation in Poland.
They had been imbued with a desire to
live in the land of liberty by Modjeska
and her husband Count Bozenta. And in
due time they found themselves in the
beautiful Santa Ana Valley. Here they
lived in perfect contentrnent, but in time
their funds grew low. and one after an
other they drifted back to Poland. Sien-
kiewicz among them. leaving behind only
the great actress.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-02-03

charge the battery and make certain kind
of instruments that would hurry things
along. He was not taken seriously at first,
since the best operators could not in
crease their speed, and who ever heard OF
a wire doing more than the operator
could ? But this young man went to work
while others laughed. He constructed what
is now known as the "quadruplex," mean
ing, as the name implies, four Four men
work a "sqdad" at each end, making
eight men on a single wire and four mes
sages at the same time. How the same
wire carries four messages at one and the
same time is still a mystery with the
men who do the work. The quad" made
it possible for one wire to carry four
times as much as it had ever done before
In other words, it increased the speed ca-s
pacity of a single wire to 100 words per
minute. This was a saving of three wires.
A wire is supposed to be worth about $50
year per mile. To build a new wire
from Atlanta to New York would mean ar
outlay of about 600. Thus it will be
seen the great economy in saving wires
by making one wire do the work of sew
eral.
THE quad" was good enough as far
as It went, but there was a growing de-
mand for haste i'm the delivery of bust
ness. A few weeks ago the Western I'm
ion office in Atlanta found it had more
business than wires. There are always a
surplus of operators, but wires are too
busy.
Then it was determined to put in a very
expensive and delicate instrument, known
to the telegraph world as the wheat
stone" This instrument, or set of instru-
ments, is now in operation in Atlanta. 1t
is one of the wonders of the present cen
fury. Its speed is $50 words per minute-a
speed so great that the instrument works
perfectly noiselessly, there being no time
for the 'sounder" to respond. II defies in
it's speed all human energy and skill to
compete with it.
The messages to be sent are handed a
corps of men VINO punch the Morse char
acters on a tape. The punching requires
long practice and absolute correctness.
The tape, after being perforated with nu-
merous large punches and small ones, is
A switch is thrown, opening the circuit
dashes and hurls it to New York. or,where
rate of 1,OOO words every four minutes"
To keep the "wheatstone" busy, eight
men are required to make the tape ready
and two men are necessary to feed the
machine. Ten men could send the same
amount of business by hand, but it would
require ten wires. if each were at a single
wire. CT If ''quads' were worked IL would
take two of the latter duplex" BY the
new labor-saving device many thousands
of dollars will be saved annually in wire
construction and maintenance
Gradually the brain of the telegraph OPP