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La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1902-01-01
CenenteriO de Cata6O

Por ell Alcalde de BAyamon SO
ha otlciado al de Cata1o para que
proceda q hacer 81 proyecto de en-
sanche del cemeEterio de este po'
blado, aumentando 50 varas por Ia
pal to Oeste y 80 varas por el sur.
Falta hac1a Ell eDsanche de aquel
s&grado recinto donde va no habia
sitio para enterrar.
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Ga EstaCL0l'
CAFE REsTAURAN.


Sc sirven comidas tcdas
horss, & Ia carta y por abonos.
Irato esmerado y precios modi.
cos.
Constante surtido de licores y
refresc0s helados.
Rio Piedras n Is II
Ls bella poesfa de nuestro
querido amigo el sefior Negr6n Flo
res, leida en- el meeting que dio ell
se1tor Matienzo en- Ell presidio, ser&
impresa para distriEuirla gratis en-
tire les reslusos de aquel penal.
Gel Ahorros de Soliveras esta
siendo II tienda mas faYorecida de
Ia Capital y CON razon, porque las
conservss y turroues, one aln Sc
encuentrau son de primera calidad.
Dekde hoy dia 9 de Enero, la
ofcina postal de Santurce tiens su
cargo 81 servicio de eertificados, 10
cual no ocurrfa antes representa-
clio nna yentaja para aqu6l pinto.
Iesco poblado.
ara comprar bueno y barato,
hay que ir 6 la quincalla eLa Dnlce
Alianza1 de Calderon Avil6s & Ca
que es donde el surtido es exquisi.
to.
La distinguida sei1orita Tall
Martinez, se encuentra enferma en-
Santurce.
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timientos puedAn tener una nantes
taei6n tangible.
No esta demestrado, sin embar-
so, que no pudiera ser aceptado nm
ofrecimiento serio y disgreto de ne
gociaciones de paz.
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1902-01-01
ESpantOSa CatdStrOfe
CieltO Cuarenta ahagadOS

eThe Daily Express publica nm
dtspacho de B Jmbsy diciendo que
con motive de la fiesta de San Fran.
cisco Javier, una barcaza que condu
cfa muchos peregrinos & Ia colonia
portuguese de Goa se fue a piqua
On el momento de Anclar, perecien.
DO ahOgadOs lao pasajeros.
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Sala de SOCorrOs

Curado Genavo Oliver de contu
sion sobre la region embistal izquier
da por C aida con semi fcactnra del
hueso menor, de centimetros en- ID
region frontal derechA.
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ezlel one
al 1obierfao aIelfl a1l
DIAs DE EsPERA.
No se sabe si aecedera AlenaIlia.

New York Enero $50 p. u.
El Gobierno yenezolano, ha pa
sado una nota al aleman, contestan-
do Ell ultimatum solicitando cinco
dias de espera, para dar solnci5n
al conf1icto, sin que sea necesario ell
Pecurso Violento de las arInas.
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neluItos
PARA oRLEBRAk sEL ANo NUEyo.
Sc aeoie 81 rumOr con muestras de- pll
GENES.
New York Enefo / Lao P. /

New York Enefo ] I-30 r. me.
Ell Gobierno de Washington ha
preparado para conmemorar Ell dfa
de Ano Nuevo, muchos indultos
que Sc fjaran en- favor de aquellos
que hayan Observable meior con-
ducta en- los penales de todos los.
Estados Unidos. Sc cree que Sc ve-
ran con favor los panades que ten !.
gan mas familia. Esta noticia es.
vista con mueha simpatfa
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Mas que 9 rOS amos.
En- hin OH
hay IGUALEs Ia NIFEsTA AOIONEs
La satisfaction eunde.

New York Enero l $50 p. M.
Sc asegura por todos los habi-
taDtes de Ia Union que este ano la
celebration del A1o NueYo ha re-
sonado mas que en- amos anteFioGes.
Ell pals siente ell placer de su pres
peridad y 10 manifesto con sus
expontaneas manifestations de- re-
gocijo.
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Durante las ceremonies que han
de lle0arse & cAbo en- el Teatro de
San Juan en- la maflana del2 de
Enero proximo CON motive de la
lectura del menssie del Gobsrnador
& Ia As&mblea Legislative, las dos
primeras filas d lunetss estan reser
vadas para los Consules y otfas dig
nidades oficiales.
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sigue enferno.
S. Leon XIII
NO MEJORA.
Su estado iusplra serios temores. Los
desmay0s Sc sueeden.

New-York Enero | l-30 p. M.
EI Jefe de la Iglesia Catolica
sigue padeeiendo desmayos, sin que
Sc acentde crisis alguna favorable.
Las eminencias m6dicas que 10
asisten dicen que ese estado es
alarmante pues no puede resistir
la constitution debil del anciano
enfermo esos academies continues
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Sc vende en- santurce, calle de Ce
ira, nrla casa de altos y bajos con
jardin y huerto, aqua, luz electrical
6 inodoros: Informaran Sol 1054
ma 16-11
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81 Desea colocarse una ssfiora, de
anna de nsves, 8 de compafIfa. In.
formaran en- la casa ndmero 20 de 10
calle de Ia fartalezs. 9 9
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En- Msyaguaz tomaron una pr
tima algunos individuos de la tri-
pulacion de la Goleta eFrederik
Scheep.
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Vapores que saldran
PARA NEW-YORK

Relaci6n de los vapores que sal
dram del puerto de San Juan para
ell de NeW-York.
Caracas 10 Enero.
Ponce i'd.
Philadelphia Is Id.
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Tabaco en- rama y Lozas d.
Canarias para pisos.
Venden A. Vicente y c..
Deposito 2--Marina.
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De Espana
Regocljos con motive
DEL ANo NUEY0,
Todas son alegrlas.

New York Enero l 1-30 P. n.
Dicen de Paris que las Capita
les mas importantes de la penfnsu-
la espanola, estan hacienda gram
des demostraeiones de regocilo con
motive del dia de hoy. El Gobierno
ha iniciado manifestations d fin
de que ell pueblo espanol Sc entire
que q celebraP ell aflo nuevo, con
objeto de que refine la algeria y Sc
olviden pasadas rencillas.
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1902-01-01
En- elcentro esparol de IL Gin,
dad del Oaste Sc ha llevado q cabo
IN esplendido bale Ell dia 81.

Ia llegado & Mayaguez, des.
pues de graades trabajos y sacrlfi
clos, procedentes del HawAy un indi
viduo de apellido Cancio. Dice este
que un tai Colon, porque preten'
di6 escaparse fue muerto de IN I'll
ro,
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Il, srD,. su.rI.. /, orr..i,Es, Z Ca.

Partioipan sus olientes y al p1blioo en- ge-
neral 81 traslado de su casa-almaeen al local
anexO 4 IA HTJA De B0RINQUEN" Forta-
le2A 25 esquina Cruz, cuyo estableCimiento
tambi6n han adquirido.
AproYechan Ia OCCASION para desear sus
lavoFeeedores muy felioes PasCuas y prosperi-
dades Cd 81 nueyO Aiio de 1902.
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Don Miguel Torres Vallejo
Juez de Policfa de Tfuiillo Alto.
reclama tres meses de haberes atra-
sados.
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1902-01-01

Ha fallecido en- oil Corozal Ia
distinguida sef1orita Maria Inocen
cia Berries.
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Don Manuel Strong que ser
via Ii est&ci6n de TallAboa ha sido
deetinado d IL de Ponce.
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Sc diSe que ell dfstingnido Ca
pitan Mr.. Maguines, del eiercito
americano que presta servicio eu ell
Regimiento de Puerto Rico, ha sido
destina1o q Fflipinas.
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Muerto de m tiro, Sc ha en-.
CONTRADICT en- Tallaboa 81 indiyiduo
Daniel Galarza,
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Desde muy temprano estAn ST.
tuadas en- 10 plaza de Alfonso XII.
dos mesas con dos dependencies,
dOnde Sc distribuye Is limosnR que ha
dado q los pobres Mr.. G. Hunt, y Sc
We mucha concurrencia de pobres
Loado sea Dios.
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1902-01-01

Han ing resado en- Is sociedat
de csrterosd de Los q stados Unidos lol
carterss de Ponce.
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MerCadO de NeW-YOrk
Cotizaciones de hoy

Harina de Trigo xEl Gigan-
teS saco. . 3-95
Harina de Maiz xGoldon Mai
ZeS saco. 5 $50
Harina de Trigo <El Premio
Mayor saco. ) 3-65
Harina> &Caballo VolanteS : 3-05
Alimento para caballo
xStock FoodS saco. 5 l-3O
Tocino de Norton (CIF) $l9-l24
e Woodlwn s 1925
Jamones California; las 100
hbras. 5 S-2S
Salchichones $l2-0O
Manteca &La VencedOra~
.corriente} 5 700
Manteca &La PrimeraS (pu-
ray 5 $50
T0cino <CrecienteS $l7-5o
Quesos (young) america $L2-0o
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Pfoyecban vArios se11orea dc
Ponce dotar de nuevo instru mental
q Ii b . n d q de mnsica d j Bombe
res
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Han contraido matrimoEio en-
CiaIes dofia Maria Vidal y don Jcsa
Dolores Fuentes; dofia Isabel Soto
= don Bias Osvaldo Collazo, y dof1a
Rosa Rodriguez CON don Miguel Ra.
nairez
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1902-01-01

EI Tribunal de Distrito de San
Juan reclama q los procesados vi
cente Feliciano natural de Ceiha por
el delito de robo. Y aJuan Morales
Varela natural tAmbi6n de Ceiba y
.vecinos ambos de esta Capital acu-
sado este 6ltimo en- causa seguida
por rRptO.
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Cuentan con toda clase de aparatos para insta Ia
clones electricas.
Especa1idad en. instalaciones propiaslpara hacien
das, sea cuaquiera Ia potencia lum1nca de fuerza
motrlz que Sc necesite.
Apaltado de correo NUN. sol.
% SAN JUAN.
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Sc AL0UILAN

habitaciones y IN hermoso y venti
IAdo mirSdor, en- Ia casa n1mero 2o
de Ii calle de San Joss, preeios
m6dicoS.
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Sc hallan en- Ponce don Con
RADIO PalAn y ell abogado don Da
mian Monserrat.
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Don Pedro AOnclova, de Jua. /.
.na IDiaz, ErabSja activamente por
one eese III tirantaz que exfste entire
g eIensnto repnb blicano 81 auueIla 10
caIidad,
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DON Juan Fernandez, de Ia ca
sa de Sobrinos de VilIamil & Ca, de
Rio Piedras ha regregRdo de su via
ie q Espafa.
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Sc asegSzra que en Mayaguez,
s. sslebrarSn espl6ndi danaente ~
Sestas tKonaIes
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BUENA OCCASION.

Sc venden las casas, Gale de re
tuan ndmeros q y 90 que tienen sa-
Ida & la Marina.
Como In construction en- Ia Ma
rina de la Estaci6n Naval es un he
cho, facil SO hace comprender 10 q
aumentaran en- valor las propieda
des en- ese sitio.
Dsra informes D. B snito, Care.
r&s. N. D,
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Los bomberoa de Ponce Se-
cundino Rodrigueg Jnan Garyasio
Rivera b Luis r Gnzman, fueron
asIgsciadcs con premics en- u sorteo
Gel sbrado en- Il reYista del cuerpo.
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Esta en esta Capital y hemos
tenido mucho gusto en- saludarle
nuestro querido amigo don Pedro
j. Bssosa DalegA1o de ID Camara
Legislative.
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En- LaNPiedras nm rayo mat6
al individuo Manuel Hernandez que
estaba en- 81 campo en- las faenas de
arado de IN terreno.
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90 useinoa lie Ii marina SEP:
tsntxiDnnI as ifsa s0lfci ta daT
fle "a axxse rs su ca
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Ell AYuntamiento de L.ares,
tigne satisfechas tOdas sus atencio
nes del mes de Diciembre. jBien!
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La Directive del Club Ciclists
de Mayag1ez, SO ha serVido invitar.
nos para La fiesta de Inauguration
que SO celebrara el 10 del corriente
Gracias por la atenta inYitaci6n.
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Alelnania esta dudosa

espera "a llegada
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Sc sirven comidas q tcdas
horas, & Ia carta y por abonos.
Trato esmerado y precios modi.
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La distinguida sei1orita Tall
Martinez, se encnentra enferma en-
Santurce.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1902-09-18

We said to the captain: eve are
played out, and a ship is as likely to
find us here as anywhere else. We
can't make land anyhow" "Pull, men,"
said the captains wife, "pull just for
tonight" and she gave little wine in
our water. She had offered us some
once before, but we didn't like to take
it from her. This time we took some.
She tried to sing for us but we asked
her to stop as her swollen tongue made
her words sound uncanny. We pulled
five or six miles that night and in the
morning steamer sighted us and
picked us up. If we had refused to 60
on when the captains wife asked us to
the steamer would never have sighted
us.
The steamers crew took good care
of us and landed us at Delagoa Bay
where two of our crew died from ex-
posure and the hardships they had
undergone. S SINBAD.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1902-09-18

engines which derive their power from
solar energy stored in coal. The cleo
trio car is driven by current generated
by dynamo, and the dynamo in turn
by a-steam engine, which is fed with
the sunbeams OF bygone ages. The
electric light, which turns night into
day, is stray sunshine. Nearly all the
heavy work of the civilized world is
done by the sun.
Bread, the ''staff of life," comes from
wheat which has been stimulated in its
growth by the sunbeams, and moistened
by water lifted by the sun. If the mill
which reduced the wheat to flour was
driven by the wind, we find the source
Of the wind in heat produced by the
suns rays. If the mill was driven by
water power or by steam, we still say
that the sun supplied the power which
turns the millstones. Even the final
process of baking the bread is an ap-
plication of heat originally derived
from the sun. A mans muscles obtain
their strength from the food which he
has eaten; in the food has been stored
the energy of the sun. In fine, we owe
to the sun the sustenance of our bodies,
the maintenance of our physical ener-
gies, the comforts which we enjoy, the
cooling breeze, the gentle shower and
manifold beauties of nature. H. N.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1902-09-18
A Romance.

ClR! How dare your thundered
the irate father. aMy daugh-
~ ter's hand? Never! l.! And you
only the junior member of a
banking firm! Out of my sight before
[ forget the cocktail waiting for me-"
The handsome youth turned to 90,
but there was q look of determination
depicted upon the mouth concealed
beneath his Van Dyke. Ere he reached
the bottom of the marble staircase
Ethelwyn de Wander Snort stood be-
fore him. Tears dimmed the azure
lights in her beautiful eyes and the
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1902-09-18
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER IS, 1902.

deepest detection was painted on her
lovely countenance.
"Oh! Harold" was all she could get
rid of.
"No, light of my life, 1 may not even
kiss you, but swear that you'll be true
and will yet break the will of your
proud papa"
Forever" was all she could murmur,
and the vestibule door pushed him far
out into the night.
CHAP. II.
Pingpong de Wander Snort sat in his
sumptuous study, when the door noise
lessly opened and four footmen entered
bearing card tray. He raised his
head and glanced haughtily over the
ivory table. Then he said: "Bring
him up" the footmen disappeared to
return moment, later with eight deaf
and dumb mutes bearing a solid gold
brass bedstead. They noiselessly en-
tered the apartment. At sign from
the occupant of the bed they halted
and Harold Brigewist leaped lightly to
his feet. "Sir," he said, 81 come again,
not to beg, but to demand the hand of
your daughter, and unless you at once
consent 1 will crush you like dog.
All ha, proud parent, the tables are
turned and little ye wot to see this day.
But for her sake, l spare you." The
proud father was in an agony of fear
and could only gasp, "You own dia-
mond mine?" A look of scorn was his
answer.
"What no there, warden of the treas
ure, come forth, 'and an officer covered
with medals entered, followed by a
regiment of soldiers and two platoons
of police. In the midst of these, sur
rounded by drawn swords, was giant
Ethiopian bearing two buckets of coal.
The father gave one look and with a
despairing cry fell on his knees before
the noble youth. Harold gently raised
him to his feet as the swish-swish of a
woman's skirts were heard and the fair
Ethelwyn entered. ooh Harold" she
gasped. He took one long look into
those azure depths, then lightly throw
ing necklace of nut and range over
her golden head, "My Queen, My
Queen" he murmured and folded her
to his breast. III. E. N.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1902-09-18

Paper Read Before the Chautauqua Circle
~ A1sL the heavenly bodies
the sun is of the greatest i'm
~ portance to man. Without
its steady gravitational pun
Oh the earth our. planet would fly away
to unknown regions of space and the
chill of death would settle down upon
it. The oceans would stiffen into glass;
the rivers would halt in their courses
all the higher forms of vegetable life
would wither and die, and humanity,
having struggled in vain against the
inevitable, would perish of hunger and
cold, for the human race is dependent
upon the energy which the sun radiates
so lavishfy.
The sun stimulates the growing plant
to disengage carbon from the embrace
of oxygen, feeding on the carbon and
leaving the oxygen, which is necessary
for the life of men and animals. It's
heat evaporates the waters of the
oceans, which rise, form clouds, and
descend again as rain or dew, quench-
ing the longings of the parched earth,
nourishing vegetation, cOursing in ma
jestic rivers to the sea, refreshing the
bodies of men and animals and giving
delight to all intelligent spirits.
The energies of the sunbeams were
stored ages ago in primeval forests: the
forests were overwhelmed by the
mighty deep and buried in sepulcher
of stone. Today men dig up the num-
miied suhbeams and burn them in
their furnaces and freplaces. The egenial
light of the CRATE fire is due to those
ancient sunbeems which are now re-
leased from their prison house. The
flying locomotive, beneath whose inn
petuous rush the earth trembles, gets
its speed from the sunbeams. The
white-hot glow Of q bessemer converter
comes primarily from the sun. The
water which flows into our homes has
been purified by the sums rays and has
been forced through the pipes BY great
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Doc and tbe Lady.

"If.a young lady had rubbed my hair
backward ?'
EYES,"
81 don't know, Doc, but I-Tm afraid
| should have let her rub"
"Hmpp snorted Doc; "wen, L
wouldn't. But Pm we'll bred dog,
and l didn't want to insult her, so
pricked up my ears, as if 1 heard a
fight outside, and then tore out of the
room, barking like anything. Oh Pm
no mopgrel, and i know thing or
two"
Every cleverw said I.
"But what good did it do? This
morning l was stretching my legs in
the park, chasing few sparrows, just
for exercise Il wouldn't catch the little
beggars if 1 could you know, when
heard someone say; Why, there's dar-
ling Doc. Here Doc! Come here to see
me, good old fellowp Before thought,
[ looked around and may I be fed. on
bread for dinner if it wasn't that wom-
an again! I couldn't escape without
seeming very ill-bred, so strolled over
to her, and what do you think she asked
me to do?"
"Chase a stick for her, likelyY"
"Chase nothing. That might have
been some fun. 1t was worse than
that"
Jump into the park ponds"
mo. Oh you could never guess. I
suppose it was because we were alone
together; for she had, evidently been
thinking aloud when she first spoke"
swell, what did she ask you to do?
Come, I'm getting curious"
"You won't tell anyone, will you? OF
course she's an awful fool, but it
wouldn't sound we'll if she knew I'd
been talking about her. 1 hate a dog
that's continually Dragging of his con-
quests"
"Of course won't tell. Come, don't
look so like a whipped puppy. Out
with it."
SWELL" said Doc, nervously biting an
imaginary flea in the middle of his
back, as an excuse to turn away his
head. "if you must know, she-she
asked me to kiss her. There!'
"Doc, you lucky dogw cried.
sLucky nothing!" he said disdainful-
ly. ~
"But you did it, Doc, didn't your"
"Well, what else could I do? She
had sat down on park seat and lifted
me into her lap, SO couldn't he rude.
| gave her couple of licks, and when
she reached for her handkerchief slid
away"
"You did:"> l exclaimed incredul-
ously.
II did!" he asserted, looking some
where far away over my shoulder. l
looked around and beheld Miss Nor
timer approaching.
"You sly dog!" I cried, "you have
been waiting here for her."
"NOt bit of it," answered Doc.
springing up, "I'm going to the kitchen.
Ii she asks for me, tell her Pm dieting
on raw meat and getting savage. Tell
her I'm particularly dangerous when
eating and that Pm especially fond of
feminine calves, as side dish. Good
day" Ar. s.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1902-09-18
In An Open Boat.
w TE WERE bound from New
NV York to Rangoon, India,
Y Y with q cargo. of coal oil,

and when we got off the
coast of the island of Madagascar we
ran into a terrific thunderstorm.
Lightning struck the fore skysail- mast,
ran down the mast into the hold and
set fire to the oil. Then there was a
rush for the boats, for we all thought
the ship would blow up at once. There
never is anything ready on board a
merchant ship. Accidents at sea in
one of these vessels is like death on
shore-no one looks for them until they
come. In emigrant ships you are pre-
pared for whatever comes, for there is
always an insurance copper" aboard
aud the captain knows it. The "cop-
per" may be a sailor or he may be an
emigrant, but he is always on hand.
Well, to get back to my subject, we
made grand rush to get the boats
over the side and to get provisions and
water in them. This took time, for
they were lashed with wire to the skids
and the water had to be pumped from
the tank with little pump that sucked
up bucket full every five minutes. So
before we had half enough water the
deck had become too hot to stand on
and we took to the boats as they were.
They were half full of water and we
had to bail constantly from the time
we left the ship until we were picked
up eight days later. When we broached
our small casks of drinking water we
found that they too were half empty
from leakage. This necessitated half
allowance of water from the first.
The mate and half the crew took one
boat and the captain and the second
mate the other. was in the captains
boat. His wife was with US. We lay
in sight of the burning ship all night
and lowered about the spot part of the
next day in hopes that some vessel
might have seen the blaze and started
to our rescue. The mate aud his crew
sailed away for the coast of Africa
during the night. They were picked
up the following day and were taken
into Delagoa Bay, from whence the
American consul sent schooner to
hunt for us.
She never got sight of MS, for wind
and heavy sea came up from the
southwest and we had to run before it
or swamp. That sea drove us a thou
sand miles from nowhere and left us
in a dead calm to pull back. And we
didn't sing "Pull for the Shore Sailor
either. There was no romance'in that
pull for the shore. We had had half a
pint of water in forty-eight hours
which dribbled down to winegIassful
in the last two days. The wind would
not blow for US. During the day it
was too hot to pull, and on the eighth
night we refused to work any more.