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New-York tribune., 1902-08-31
FEATHERED HIG9wAYMAN-

ri. -,a7-a'-vsr hawk is q somewhat large
- .,5 an expert fisher but he does most OF
u sSbi-- in the air. When the BOBBY blrd
- - home from abroad he finds the man-o
- hsWk ..Iayin' for him; and however per
,-o--Ty he may seek TO escape by dasnlns
$50 ri+b much screeching and screaming, he
- mar before he can safely set foot on the
~ ne must disgOrge a fish or two, Whlch tne
-iF- r1l-Sl,er adroitly catches in the ar. II
9g10,+ however 10 be generally understood, as
-~o7re v5v=nGi between the usher ana the
- Tf-5s that their contentious were only on
- vrsng and that once on land, they shouiu
S~au peacefully IL their separate camping
r. ho1T7fas are awkward and unwieldy on
- and may De easily captured Ihey raFels
rasl- 10 escaue when man appro1cnes, but
s.r-s-or-e5 10 meet the dena ads OF thelF Ia
-,ffsr enemy the man-o'-war hawk by as
ro-p=rg fish in the air, they frequently feSCI
n the same process and lay at the teet OF @ lIle
;-r--dfrg stranger what stock Of fish they haN e
ovsiIsbla The man-o'-war hawks turned tAi0
r-sC-ioa 70 -thei- own advantage by folIo"lnS
ssf-er s-v nan who might appear arnohg tlS
nesting BIRDS circing in the air just oNetIleau !;
-saSv 70 nick I'D the fish which the frlghteneu
hooYjes might give up e peace offering- 1Ie I
-car-o'-var hawks were generally eager tor
anything and would hover closely, ready 10 10
tel-s from the hand of a man whatever ne niisHt
toss ia the air. On one occasion one OF ~ IhesS
bi-5s swiftly snatched notebook Whlch Lay
fo- : moment on the ground, and salleQ a"oy,
5ronning it however, on finding 1t TO De he4'4iei
Ssb nor rat.-(Century Magazine
New-York tribune., 1902-08-31
THOMAS 4. EDISON'S HABITS.
NOT ALLOWED TO BE so ABSORBED IN
WORK AS FORMERLY.

An amusing story is told in Success" OF
Thomas A Edson's first marriage Shortly
after the ceremony he was called away to his
laboratory on an important experiment He
plunged into the work. At midnight one of his
friends called to see him. He had just accom-
plfshed the object of mis- labors, and was pre-
pairing to quit work.
L guess I'd better go home" he said, as he
hurried into his coat and jarnmed his hat down
on his head. You know was married to-day
But the days OF complete absorption in work
have passed for him. The second Mrs. Edison
has undertaken the task Of keeping the inventor
healthy She will not permit him to neglect his
meals or to work more than she thinks is good
for him. She insists that he shall leave the
laboratory at a certain hour each night, and she
undertakes to see personally that he does 500
At times Mr. Edison objects, but in a very mild
wav to this regime. Not long ago, he was deep
Iv engaged in a certain experiment, when Mrs,
Edison called for him and insisted upon taking
him home After some resistance, he at last
consented saying, however, by way OF tinai
protest. as he stepped into the carriage:
Billy" (hs pet name for Mrs. Edison), you're
a nuisance"
Were il not however, for the saving influence
which Mrs Edison exercises over her husbands
it is doubtful if he would accomplish so much
New-York tribune., 1902-08-31
NO SMALL NAvIEs NOWADAYS.

It is not merely that the American navy ranks
among the first world five. AID lesser fleets
nave disappeared There are no small fleets to-
day There were even twenty years ago. Two
centuries ago Holland was still equal to an even
fight with England in a contest that had en-
dured for a century, and might have endured
longer but for the peril in which Louis XIV put
the Low Countries The battle Of the Baltic
had it's centenary only last year; it will be five
years before that of the Danish surrender to
Lord Cathcart and Admiral Gambler (whose
conduct in the Basque Roads had its recent
parallel IN our seryce), and until these twin
events Denmark had still fleet deemed worth
destroying at the cost of an act of atrocious
bad faith. The Barbary States had fleets up to
a century ago equal to naval warfare 1t is just
over third of century since Austrian fleet
destroyed the Italian at LisSa, a battle with the
twin lesson that ships alone do not make a
fighting force. and that naval commander
may, like Admiral Tegetthoff, know how to
win the greatest naval victory between Nava-
rino and the Yalu, and yet use his fleet as to
make its influence unfelt and inapprecable on
the general conduct of the war To-day Aus
tria has not a first class battleship carrying a
12-inch gun, and but two modern fighting yes
sells of the second class worth considering
They brought Turkey to terms. They would be
feared by other power. When Secretary
Tracy wrote his first report, he ranked both
Austria and Turkey as stronger than the United
States, which then ranked twelfth in the list,
taking the mere numerical strength OF armored
vessels anu cruisers. In 1877 Turkey had a
fleet which held its own asainst Russia in the
Black Sea- and under a commander like Hobart
Pacha would have sustained the traditional
reputation of its flag in the Levant. Since the
Ertogrul foundered in 1890 off the coast of
Japan, with loss of SAT out Of 600 men. no
Turkish vessel has ventured on a voyage,
though a Turkish yard in 1893 launched an
ironclad which was laid down in 1873. a Lon
don engineering weekly, in April, 1888, ranked
the Spanish fleet above the American. Since
July, 1895 such estimate has been made.
The Spanish navy is now of little more con-
sequence than the fleet it's only great admiral
defeated at Lepanto Chill, in 1881, had
stronger fleet than the United States. There
were then at least dozen flags capable of Civ
n a ia of themselves,
been through all the history of organized Euro
pean naval warfare. So far as the reckoning
of the day goes, they have disappeared The
| little folk among the nations have ceased to
maintain navies. The fighting force of the tive
great nations has become so visible and so cal
| culable that nothing else is considered The
| lesser powers own vessels. They longer pos
sess a navy in any proper sense Of the word
| (Atlantic Monthly.
New-York tribune., 1902-08-31
SEPTEMBER MAGAZINES
lotions FROM THE FALL NUM-
RERs OF THE AMERICAN
hONTHLIES-
MAGAZINE EDITOR AT BAY.

..rr about the degradation of style
VIZ has contents OF the magazines have
rery emphatic woro 10 say Lhe inen n' VIZ VIZ
wTiie, g. :. 1iterature-I mean the men who have
:eIhpet .,,ass a. Of style-seldom have any ideas.
soue who have ideas cannot express them
The l hen educated man takes great pleasure
50 th1s thsIn OF course, this is a sweeping
u rtS1izat tion No man need receive II unto
essTF but he is at liberty 10 apply II 70 an ms
siIhssho-s The truth is our style must become
re1snp We do most things better than we
eet.o F7fective style is changing. The some
49, 1eisllrely style Of generation or Two ago
rnaI she small circle Of readers within its
pieASS mere little company which by cemparf-
rea0-5eht have been got into one room a COM
sy soL Who had leisure and VINO liked 10 read
pa lind OF writing. Now the great world Is
thAt forward in au its departments OF
feIes+ as IN all its industrial development, and
thoue I-itea TO our time is different The man
SO oT,Id write convincingly or entertainingly
sho sh.f--s of our day and our time must write
ol ,,3ore directness. with more clearness, with
Ni.a- W. nervous force; and the teaching of COM
s-.-ion and the practice or style nave not kept
pos-t'i+b the development of our intellectual
pa :, The United States. should, as poor an
~ NJ as I am. undertake to make 8 better
e----z;77o than you have ever seen, If could
tiers who could write well enough about
h-,-.a79raraneous h-,- subjects; and every other eoi-
1-bo Is struggling TO do his duty would tel
ro1 the same thing
=. Inblish more critical articles?" In the nrsI
Isce ~ nobody cares for them: in the secono
Fiace nobody produces them IN an tha+ is nn3
PS;.n A magazine deserves to die tnat Is @ ioL
s@esae-i-g Now the gentlemen and the iaoles
m 49, ones generally-who write critical ut
s.e 20 not make il interesting BESIDES
eTse-I0 - ken TO critical literature There
" We LsrlaTs. enough in our language to make
: Gss6Bseta6.e Bect. number Of volumes IN your ora 5
TesteSN - -7ol1odv ever asks you for them' ana
Tles, o oGt --o - them from the shelves.
you s seIoe ne[T question is rs writing adequately
aid foTg@ Great writing never was asa and meyer |
p2lG -Oi ~ GOOD writing never viii be. But
VIII oe- = : - = Generation poor writing is paid
n IN ms ms (4S and thrce-twalter H Page in The
Worlds Work
New-York tribune., 1902-08-31

nection about the merits OF this particular con-
troversy. There may have been a failure, on
the one hand to recognize democratic rights;
on the other, lack of appreciation OF a SIN
cere desire of man of power to benefit his fel-
lows. But If the efforts of the company had
been discontinued, II does not follow that they
had been a failure They had accomplished a
mission in the transformation of homes and an
elevation of lives
One feature of the Dayton experiment, as re-
ported to me, has special significance The girls
were furnished a luncheon for one cent apiece,
although it was alleged that the luncheon cost
the company four and half cents This fact
was perpetually advertised-perhaps not pur-
posely-and the girls were made to appear as
benefciaries. Now. it is said, the girls pay five
cents for the luncheon and like this arran ge-
ment better. This is most suggestive. Does it
not accord better with the democratic sentiment
OF our day to make addition to wages, and
then charge what this luncheon costs, than to
furnish the luncheon for less than cost? It is
after all, only point of view, for those who
receive a free luncheon a luncheon below
cost can look at what they receive as a part of
wages. Yet a point of view has weight in in
dustrial affairs.-(Richard T. Ely, in Harper's
Magazine.
New-York tribune., 1902-08-31
.TNDI-sTRIAL BETTERMENT' AND ifhh
INDIVIDUAL.

The two movements aiming to secure tba lIGas Iras
+iaI betterunent clash now and then at tne p7 pre-
= - IA - ar5 their interreIatons are desLlneu
to engage our attention increasingly as Cnsb Hie
zoos on At Dayton, Ohio, the Natonal CaSi 81;
6o;ster CouoDanv conducted an experiment III
Industrial betterment which became hhomH 1orHd
+bronghout the length and breadth OF the ; IaIlu;
5 II US Justly famous, for 1t trahSioriiIeu %
go ar+ of the city called "SHdertoWn mo
.sSdJ1+b park" an attractive working PeoplT
eac+fon improvements were encouraged py tLS
president of the company, beautiful MOVERS anu
1aII kent gardens took the place OF nesIeG'eu, eo
I,,,Isive looking yards; prizes were oilereu m IoI
+ba hest results in this direction; al cohyenl- l
enCes and comforts in Cleveland Whcl NO
faen described were here highly developer an ~
indeed served as a model for CIeEeland. an ALtd
1-a+ a strike broke out in this Eden! Inc pres
da7+ of the company was grleEed' ana li llie
benevolent public disappointed. The deIroGra!lc !
T9oyenent had clashed with the patefhai@lSIIc' @
iaI1or organization had attacked beneVoIehce-
Rut an adjustment Of difficulties seems 10 nav We
Tean at last reached, the experiments more or
loss modified are continued, and the denoCFdtlc nc
movement has secured a recognition OF LABOR
organization ,o+ nm
Ne have nothing to say in the present eon-
New-York tribune., 1902-08-31
LABOR UNIONS FROM THE INSIDE.

What do the tri-weekly meetings in that red
plush hall in -fourth-st mean? That a
band of lynx eyed labor scouts continually
scour the city for violations OF union principles,
and gather every other day to swap notes and
plan. Better go now said a delegate
afternoon was IN the room as the body came
TO order Here's where we begin to rob the en-
ployerS. We must do it secretly" and his eyes
twinkled at his joke. But the ten strikes
week were explained: what could escape this
band whose very bread and butter depends
their keeping alive to every chance to benefit
their constituents. A non-union man, let US
say steam filter, goes to work on a growing
structure. That means lost chance for some
unemployed union man on the business agents
list, and if the steam filters agent has happened
not to visit the building, some other agent has,
or the word is passed from union man to union
man till it reaches an agent. At the meeting
say on Tuesday-the notes are exchanged. The
proper agent hies to the employer. Obdurate.
he is reported to the meeting on Friday. Satur-
day morning there is sound OF hammer or
clink of metal on the building; the scene is
aggressiveiy quiet; building has stOpped-every
trade out. On Monday the offending non-union
man hunts for work, a union man has cheerily
taken his place and the work goes on.
How long are these strikes-these ten
Week?" l asked an agent.
They average a day" said he. I'D be
ashamed Of managing one that lasted longer
than three. one man let Us strike for month
but it cost him 1000 to get the men back. We
fined him full wages for the idle time-and now
no more strikes for him.
To this very agent came three employers. l
saw this little episode
We want men, they said.
L haven't any he replied.
Can we put on non-union men. if we ask
them to join?' said they.
No said he.
ExpostuIatfons ensued He said nothing. The
employers pleaded. Finally he turned to an
other agent.
can you furnish these men?' he asked.
The other agent couId-and did But gasped.
Where was the traditional relation of master
and man? The employers begged for the
workmen. not the wOrkmen for employment.
The workmen made all the conditions eight
hours 81 double pay for overtime and all the
rest of il. A dispensatiOn! And to make
one union generalization let me say that in one
form or another this is what union men regard
as the right, normal, natural procedure. Equal
ity of bargaining they say. Take my labor
on my conditions or leave it-'-(Worlds s Work
New-York tribune., 1902-08-31

for a breakwater four hundred metres long
dredging to a depth of eight and one-half metres
below mean tide, and the construction of
wharves. The desire of the Mexican Govern
ment to construct railroads to every place on
the Pacific Oce-.n suitable for port. which
can be converted into one. explains the interest
Of President Diaz in the Kansas City Mexico
and Orient Railroad. which by a traffic ar
rangement with the Chihuahua and Pacific
brought about by the intercesson of the Presi-
dent himself, will traverse rich cattle, timber,
mineral and agricultural country, and reach
the Gulf of California at Topolobampo, fifteen
hundred miles from Kansas City. The i'm
portance Of this Pacific outlet can be seen when
il is added that the shortest railroad connection
OF Kansas City with San Francisco is 2O94
miles with Portland is 204S and with Seattle
is 2,eIS miles.-(Ainslies Magazine.
New-York tribune., 1902-08-31
THE HEADsMANs PERoUIsITEs-

Strange and unreasonable laws guarantee
80 thA 6ea6sman his full share of ernoluments-
Ea was well paid for his work, ana never
.1~erAd from q dull season From the Oo"hS
ha -aoei.ed poultry and fodder, from the mon
asteTies fish and game. The Abbaye de SAINT
GERMAN gave him every year pig $ heau:
the Abbaye de Saint-Martin five IoaFeS OF pIeau
hi-, On the eve Of Epiphany For each leper
N the community he exacted-HeaFen knows
yhv-a tax at Christmas time Les mes oe
seize in The market place as much corn as ne
could carry away in his hands, and the peas
ants thus freely robbed submitted without
rr71rr1r1~ crossing themselves with ferVor as ne
passe5 He had the power TO save from death
any woman on her way 10 the scaftoid, pro
yided he were able and willing TO marry her.
sc MS the first official called to the body OF
a suicide and standing on the dead man
breast he claimed as his own everything he
could touch with the point of his long sword
LAgnes ReppIier, in HarPers Magazine
New-York tribune., 1902-08-31
CROWDED NEWPORT

Nowhere in America is there such green and
luscious turf as here in Newport. Were it wide
spread, as in The parks Of England and France.
one would be relieved from the sensation of
croWdlng that OppreSseS the foreigner; but
where should be stretched a generous carpet is
but a niggardly border an art square of lawn
in front Of the houses. The effect is to make
Of a concOuTse of country houses a mere sub
urb, cluster of mansions robbed of their
proper perspective. Houses that demand
sweep OF a mile before them cramped with
in a ffty-yard edging Of garden Vast palaces
stare stOnily through at from the other
side Of the fences, denied their due dignity Of
aspect by reason OF their prOpinQuity. Gate
ways that should frame long viStas give upon q
few yards OF graVeIled carriaSeWay, ridiculinS
their massiveness.-( Smart Set.
New-York tribune., 1902-08-31
RAILROADS IN MEXICO.

Hrxtco stands first in railroad building Of the
Iatir-Arrer5can countries. In message 10
Congress on April l. 1897, President DIaz saId
fat +-a +oraI mileage was 7429. Mexico City
had not only been connected by three lines with
the United States but was in touch with the
capitals Of the States on the great centr4l
plateau 4 line had been constructed from
Gusy-,as On the Gulf Of California, TO NoSaIes,
Ariz on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Re;
Tie first l--er0ceanic railroad, the NatIoha4
Tehuarteuec. had just been completed; Man
zarl-5. on The Pacific, had been Joined TO Co
lima. and the Mexico, Cuernavaca and Paclfc
Rail7ay was pushing on through the state oL
Guerrero 10 The admirable Pacific harbor OF
AcauuIc9. \ branch IS now building 70 the port
c. SIhuacanej0. This Pacific road Is opening up
al immense region Of virgin forest and the rlcn
Balsas River mining district, which aboundS IN
gold. silver copper. lead and iron Edgar n
s1Ioot OF Washington has the contract Tor ma
proving the haEbor AZ AADzanAIo, WHICH CALLS
New-York tribune., 1902-08-31

beings wherever il touched There were also
displays of lightning within the upper cloud
lightning Of marvellous effects and rapidity.
Sparks shot along the summit in every drec-
ton, and it was noted that this lightning played
incessantly the St. Pierre side.-(ROoert T.
Hill, in The Century Magazine
New-York tribune., 1902-08-31
ONE OF FATE'S IRONIES.

From The Boston Globe.
The official executioner of Toxic, japan, in
crossing a railway track was struck by train
and decapitated as neatly as if by his own ofl-
ciaI weapon.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1902-09-24
The Treasury Gold HOLDINGS,

Treasury officials have called attention
with patriotic ardor to the interesting fac
that our treasury now contains more
gold than that of any other nation now
or at any other time, with one excep-
ton, That exception was in 1894, when
Russia. preparing to resume gold pay
ments, had amassed $59S,ooo,ooo of the
specie.
:. The U. S. Treasurylast Saturday had
a weed ago only $4,000 oooo less
than this sum; and the announcement
of this fact last week was accompani-
ed by the information that this comfor-
table supply is increasing at the rate Of
between 100000 and 100000 day,
Treasury officials naturally look upon
this gigantic pile of gold to the keeping
of the government as tolerably substan-
tial evidence of prosperity and especial
ly of it's most esteemed handmaiden,
confidence
The Treasury figures are particularly
impressive when compared with the
period in 1893 when the drain upon the
gold reserve under the Sherman silver
purchase act, had reached its limit
In June of that year, when President
Cleveland issued his call for the extra
session Of congress, the Treasury hold
ings of gold coin and bullion had sunk
to SIo6ooo 900. While there were other
periods later, notably in 1895, when the
gold reserve was very low, the COM
parison with 1893 is of particular inter
est because of its Retrospective bearing
upon the claims of the free-silver
agitators Even Mr. Bryan would have
some difficulty, we should think, in
sho wing wherein We were better off in
1893 with great part Of the gold supply
boarded away in private hiding places
because of fear that our government
might default in honest payment of its
Obligations The fact is, of course, that
the increase from less than 100000, ,ooc
to not far from 5000, 100000, which the
Treasurys gold holdings have undergone
during the last nine years, accurately
measures the progress which our credit
as nation has made ii the eyes Of the
world
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1902-09-24

cent. less work for a given outlay 1t
should be noted here that Commissi-
oner Wright thought that it would be
worth while for the operators to concede
a nine-hour day to this class of laborers
AS an experiment, for six months.
Change in the method of weighing
coal, where payment is made by the
ton, is not one of the things demanded
in Mr.. Mitchell's proposals for arbitra-
ton, but the present system is pronunc-
ed a serious grievance. He says that,
while consumer of coal gets 224o
pounds for a ton, the miner is required
to send up 2.74o to 31eo pounds for a
ton-the extra weight to compensate
the operator for slate and other impu-
rites which cannot be sold; and that
even then the miner is subject to the
docking of 10 or IS per cent more of
his wages if the inspector thinks that
the i'm 2urities exceed the average
outturn of the mine. Commissioner
Wright thought that complaints against
the system of weighing were well
founded, and that justice required a
reform in the method of paying by
weight.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1902-09-24
(3|0|eTQ R0geS AglIn
|n The Philippines
Soldiers And Natives Die
Blythe Hundreds
Lateness Of Rainy Season
Makes Epidemic More Dangerous
Special Cablegram to Boletin Mercantil.
Special Cablegram to Boletin Mercant.

New York, September 24th.-Advices
from the Philippines declare that the
cholera epidemic which had been raging
in the islands for several months has
returned with greater virulence than
ever and that hundreds Of soldiers and
NATIVES are dying every week,
The War Department has just re-
ceived a report from tha army ai1thori.
tics TO the effect that the cholera
now threatens the entire army, and
that unless the rainy season which is
very late sets in at once, the pro-
bability is that the death rate will be
In Manila, the chinese and
natives are dying like cattle, and there
seems to be no help for them.
The army has maintained vigorous
quarantine, but with little success
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1902-09-24
Son JU1l oDd RID PiedIly
kndGIgQ||c1 Schools

Three kindergarten schools will be
open to the children of San Juan and
Rio Piedras between the ages of a and
%. Two of these schools will be located
in the buildipg of the Lincoln School;
Fortaleza Street, and the other in a spe-
cial building conntcted with the Nor.
NAL School at Rio Piedras Parents
who desire to have their children ad-
mitted should present their children and
make application either at the Lincoln
School or at the Rio Piedras School on
Monday morning, September 2o.h at 8
o'clock.
The number Of children who can be
admitted is neces. .arily limited, and ap
plicatjon Should therefore be made on
the opening day of school. and will be
considered in the order in which they
ale presented, the fitness of the chill
dren to profit by the work being taken
into consideration
The schools will be thoroughly equip
ped and conducted as model Kinder
gartens following the American system.
SAMUEL M. LINDSAY, 81
Commissioner.
San Juan, PR, Sept. 24th, 1902.