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BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1903-10-16
Puntos de economic poIltica

Iof streets and plazas, of colonnas and
towers and churches and monasteries
We English have built in ours Islands
as if we were but passing visitors,
wanting only tenements to be occupied
for a time. The Spaniards built as
they built in CASTLE; bnilt with the
same material. The palaces, the con-
vents, the Cathedral, are a reproduc-
ton Of Burgos or Valladolid. -. And
they carried with them their laws, their
habits, their institutions and their
creed 80.
l found Havana a grand imposing
City, City which might compare for
beauty with any in the world.
Spain the print of her foot is
stamped on the New World in charac-
ter which will not be effaced, and may
be found to be as enduring as our own.
Cuba is second home to the Spa
niards, a permanent addition to their
soil. We are as birds of passage, tenn
porary residents for transient purposes,
with no home in our islands at all.
TRADUCCION.
La Habana es una ciudad de pala-
clos, de GALES, de plazas, de alamedas,
de torres iglesiaS y moraSterioS.
Nosotros los ing)eses hemos cons
trufdo nuestras en- Islas, como 81 fuera-
mos excursionistas que solo necesitan
tiendas de campafIa.
Los eSpafloles construyen como en-
Castillo, con los :nismos materiales. Los
palacios, los conventos, Ia Catedral, SON
Ia reproduction de Burgos 6 Vallado-
lid. -. Y l1evaron con ellos sus leyes,
sus institucienes, sus costumbres y
creencias.
Encortre que Ia Habana era una
ciudad imponente, comparable en- be-
lleza con cualquiera otra del mundo
Espaf1a -. ST. Gello en- Nuevo Nundo
esta impreso en- caracteres tales, que no
Sc borrara y puede ser tan persistente
como Ell nueStro.
Cuba es TN segundo hogar para los
espafloles, una adici6n permanente de
su sue!o. Nosotros somoS como ayes
de paso, residences temporarios con
proyectos pasajeros, sin hogar en- nues-
tras islas".
Pero no solo la Habana, San Tuan
de Puerto Rico y otras poblaclones
ofrecen identicas manifestations de
progreso.
En- este islote de cinco kilometres de
largo, y una anchura variable de uno q
COS kilometres, podemos presentar mo-
delos de fortifcacion sistema Vauban.
Una ciudad hermosa, gentil, con casas
de mamposter1a, azotea cornizamien-
to de orden toscano. Gales cruzadas
en- 4ngulo pr6ximamente recto, forman-
do grupos de manzanas iguales.
Edifcios p1blicos magni6cos: Pala-
clio de Santa Catalina, Intendencja, Ca
tedral, Ayuntamiento, Casa Blanca,
Conventos, Benefcencia, Cuarteles, Car.
celeG, Hospitales y otros edi6cios, todos
de arquitectura toscana, compuesta y
corintia. Sin olvidar nuestro Santurce,
sus risuefias viviendas a todo hijo de la
pasada administrator de 10 que cay6 &
impulses de ia fuerza, pero que deja
eternos monumentos para la historic
de Ia deslindacion de las nacionalidades
DR.. .GmtOssiO Jose .fnsndeO.
(COntisSGr6).
Pto. Rico, Octubre IS de 1908.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1903-10-16

Todos los estadistas reconocen, que
los adelantos materiales ejercen la mas
benGfca Influenza sobre Ia moral de
IA poblaci6n. oE2
El bienestar p1blico trae el mejora-
miento de las costumbrtes. disminuyen-
dose Ia criminalidad en- todas las latitu-
dss entire todas las razas.
Con aumento y buena distribution
de la riqueza, estando los valores cir
culantes en- relacion con ell capital flo,
Sc desarrollan la actividad industrial, Ell
moviiniento, Ia algeria, y con este, el
mejor estado intellectual, ell gusto este
tico &, 10 que eS 10 misu1o Ia mayor cul.
tura de las gentes.
FL gobernador de una isla, de la i'm
portancia de Puerto Rico debe saber
ESQ, v tambien que hay dos maneras
de extinguir los pueblos: por medic de
la p6lvora por el hambre.
Lo dice la historic.
Los principles morales de una Socie-
dad dependen sieinpre de las condicio-
mes de su existencia, como esta depen-
de de las condolences de Ia production
economical.
La vida material determine Ell pro-
ceso de la vida social, polftica & intelec-
tual de un pueblo.
Oarle 4 este una mala constitution.
Un Consejo Executive con mayor1a exc
tica, indiferente, reacia, que lmplda
buscar los medios para Ia reconstruc-
cion economical, y pronto vereis la es-
casez Ia miseria en- todos los rincones,
Ia destruction, en- fin, de los mas gran
des ideales. -.
A ESQ estamos abocados. ESQ
nos conduciran las torpezas de funcio-
narios engreidos ignorantes, descono-
cedores de la evoluci6n historica social,
de las ensefianzas econ omicas inf1u-
ventes en- Ia prosperidad de las colect1-
vidades humans.
Todo ell que haya presenclado ell eta
dro de la desolaci6n y ruina, desrues de
San Ciriaco; las mas grandes meJoras
territoria1es destruidaS; el llanto de
muchos peqrefios propietarios, CONVEX
+idos en- braceros; intermediates "
muertes: todo ese c1mulo de desgracias
v ninguna ayuda, ringuna medida de
orden econ omico- fnanclero iah!. 81
es patriota .tiene que maldecir, como
Fl economista Mr.. Rossi LOS SA-
TURNALES DEL INDIVIDUALS
MO"
va 10 hemos dicho es esa una doc
trina economical fatal para nosotros, en-
estos momeptos diffciles.
Con la autonomfa de Espafia, segan
los precedentes historicos, habfa en- la
naturaleza del Estado elementos acci-
dentales. Una fexibilidad que le ha-
Gle sentir y refejar la accion de causas
exteriores, las circunstancias del me-
djo en- que funcionaba.
No era una institution, cuyo unico
obieto fuera administrar justicia y pro-
teoer 4 los ciudadanos. Todo 10 que
podfa contribuir al bien general; todo
10 Que corporal 6 intelectualmente po-
dfa aumentar la dicha y el bienestar de
IA comunidad, era del dominic del Es-
tado. forma exterior en- cuyo seno de-
ben realizarse los grandes progresses de
Ia civilizacion.
Baio esos principles altruistas consti-
+nv6 Espafia su gran imperio colonial,
r1,vos restos admiraba, en- 1888, el Illus
tire publicista ingles Mr.. j. A. Troude
Havana is a City of palaces, City
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1903-10-16
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Declarnciones de Silvela-Lss cariistas apenns
existen-Con vfIlavsYAO-Ua banauete dos 50.
81 naaorcs-Mucrte de un tersre-Antsnie Revertc
En- Ia Fsria de Observation-Disclosures de Gasset
n sran Derisdissa-O sullsss Dc serIS - iN1hy
bien!-Camin0s vosnaIas
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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-08-15
GHOST HELPS a PRosPEcToR
John Willis Claims 1t Showed Him
Location of Rich Mine.

Old John Willis, a prospector, who
has been familiar figure on the
streets of Butte, Mont. for several
years will do no more seeking in the
hills for the yellow metal-he has
found a mine so rich. he claims,
through the aid of ghost, as to place
him IN the ranks of the millionaires
of the country.
Willis has just returned from long
visit in the Blue Mountains, Oregon.
and the tale he tells is remarkable, to
say the least. With him he brought
back big sack nearly full of big mug
gets. which have been examined by
the assayers, who pronounce them
pure gold, running nearly $22 to the
ounce.
The aged prospector has interested
two of the local bankers of this sec
ton in his find. and part OF workmen
will proceed at once to the claim of
Mr.. Willis out in the hills.
Wits always has been a man of
mystery. He appeared on the streets
of Butte many years ago, but as to his
history he always has been silent
That there was romance in his life
he has admitted, but the nature of it
he never would disclose.
He has been regarded as eccentric
in many ways, and when he an
nounced on his return and told of his
find, that he had named the mine the
Haunted Lucy" he was looked on as
mentally deranged, until he exhibited
the nuggets.
1t is the claim of Willis that he was
led to the mine, which he says is a
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-08-15
EVANGELIST ATTACKS A JAG.
And Pictures He'll in Such lurid
CoIors That the Jag Coilapses.

And Pictures He'll in Such lurid
CoIors That the Jag Coiiapses.
George Washington. negro evange-
list of Syracuse who plays the guitar
on the street was encountered by a
drunken man this afternoon who
shouted:
Give us s'thin' lively. Hit 'em up. .
The evangelist responded with
Keep in the Middle of the Road" and
the man with the jag danced, to the
entertainment of the crowd. When he
had concluded the evangelist stepped
to the front
Brethren he shouted, ''dar's hope
for dis yer feller. De Lawd sabed
Shadrack, Meschack and Abednego
out OBJ de fiery fu'nace. You fellers
like dis yere man wants to look out.
You'll be sittin' in de hottest paht OBJ
hell for a thousand years, and den
along1l come de debi1, and you'll say
Amt dis about ober?' and de debil
he'll say: 1T amt only jest beginnin,
and den he'll take you and drap you
in de lake of boflin' birthstone to cool
you Off"
The drunken man collapsed and was
led away by a friend.-New York Sun.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-08-15
LIE IN oLD-TiME CEMETERY.
All in Montana Graveyard Died "With
Their Boots On

Their Boots On"
Near Billings, Mont, is an old-time
cemetery which contains but fifty-two
bodies, yet the cemetery is a remark
able one, in that every person buried
there died with Ibis boots on
The graveyard is an old one, and the
memory of it almost passed from
the memory of the rising generation.
1t is one of the pioneer institutions of
the state, and to the minds of the old
timers brings many recollections-
There is not a headstone in the Gem
etery; if there were any they were
wood and have gone the way of all
the world. 1t is doubtful even wheth-
er any of the bodies buried there were
encased in collins
Montana was a territory when this
cemetery was started; the originator
throughout the West as "One-Arm
Bill" who conducted several games in
the little town that at the time oc-
cupied the site near here.
"One-Arm Bill is believed to have
been the originator of the expression
private graveyard and it is certain
tha, he did his best to increase the
population of his. OF the fifty-two
men buried there old-timers claim that
more than half were slain by Bill, who
was noted as a dead shot.
The rest of the occupants of the lit
tie city of the dead were men who
were killed in brawls and by accidents
men who died literally with their
boots on.
The existence of this old burial
ground had almost been forgotten
until yesterday, when human bones
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-08-15
Machine to Sew Up Wounds.

A wound-stitching machine is the in
vention of doctor named Michel. 1t
works very much more rapidly than
the old method of stitching by hand.
is painless and effective.
1t consists of case, or sheath,
holding a number of nickel hooks, or
bands, like those used for the corners
of cardboard boxes. They are put in
position with a pair of forceps and
can be adjusted at the rate of 25 a
minute.
Their rounded points do not pene-
trate the lower layer of the skin, but
only the epidermis and therefore the
pain caused by them is very slight
They have the additional advantage
of being very easily disinfected.-
Stray Stories.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-08-15


old, operates an extensive truck patch
and the produce she gathers she sells
from door to door, and by this means
earns during the summer at least $40
week, besides supplying the table
at home with vegetables enough to
last all through the year. Every
morning she digs and hoes on her
small farm, and every afternoon she
pushes through the streets with her
little go-cart, selling her fresh and ex-
cellent vegetables.
She has a host of regular customers,
and these customers wait for her
every day. And they do well to wait
for her, too, for she always brings
them truck that has been gathered
but a few hours.
Eleanor's farm is loaned to her by
the Philadelphia Vacant Lot Cultiva-
tion Association, a charity of an un-
usually beneficient kind. This asso-
citation has 200 acres of vacant land
that certain wealthy Phiadelphians
have entrusted to it until the time
when they shall need the land to build
upon.
These 200 acres are loaned in
patches to such people as are unable
to keep up the fierce struggle for an
existence in a great city.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-08-15
SNAKE IN HER HAIR.
Mrs WhaIen Woke Up to Find One
CQiIed There


CoiIed There.
Dreaming that she was putting up
her hair and having difficulty in dis
entangling it from her fingers, Mrs.
Ida Whalen of Logansport, Ind, woke
up to find a snake coiled around her
fingers.
She hastily flung the reptile to the
floor, and succeeded in killing it. In
the struggle the snake bit her several
times infiicting painful wounds. The
snake measured twelve inches and is
of the water snake variety, which are
not considered very poisonous.
The presence of the snake is ac-
counted for from the fact that the
family cat frequently brings them to
the house. 1t is thought the cat
brought this in the night and carried
it into the bedroom, springing upon
the bed with it-New York World.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-08-15

view there has been recently devised
the scrubbing brush shown in the cut,
which has not only the advantage of
covering a great deal of floor space
as it moves along, but the action of
its bristles on the floor is increased
as a rotary motion is impaired to it
as well as the back and forth motion.
This feature is said to decrease the
labor of scrubbing by half. Another
advantage is that it does it's work
without the necessity of bring the
operator onto his or her hands and
knees.
The scrubibng brush has two long
handles, one of which is held in each
of the operators hands. The handles
are pivoted to a post on top of the
brush head, and by means of a rack
and pinion arrangement carried on the
upper part of the brush head the
brush is given a rotary motion as the
handles are moved toward and away
from each other At the same time
the brush is given the usual forward
and backward motion. This device
has been invented by a resident of
the Far Northwest, and has been
tried on some of the Office buildings
of Tacoma and Vancouver, and, it is
said, performs it's functions with ease.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-08-15
Joke That Caused Death.

A young man, riding on a street
car in the Boulevard Haussmann,
Paris, noticed a friend passing along
in cab a few feet beneath him. As
the cab came alongside the car his
friend yawned, and the young man, for
joke, tossed down a good-sized wal
nut, which fell squarely into his
friends throat Immediately the lat
ter's body writhed in pain, his face
grew purple and his hands wildly
clutched the air. He was choking to
death, the nut having lodged far down
his throat Cab and car were stopped,
and the nearest doctor summoned
But it was too late, and the victim
died in a few minutes The perpe-
traitor of the grim Joke has been
asked to hold himself at the disposal
of justice.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-08-15
Last of the PiIIory.

third anniversary of the last infliction
of the punishment of the pillory. in
London The anniversary, however.
was not celebrated. A note relating
to the last victim, which appears in a
London paper, will not be uninterest-
ing to American readers. One Bossy.
convicted of perjury, was sentenced
to one hours pillory in the Old Bailey.
six months Imprisonment in Newgate,
and transportation for seven years He
stood in the pillory for sunny hour
on June %, 1890 The pillory was
abolished on June 80, 1897, Just seven
years and eight days after its last in
Fiction in London
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-08-15
DOG A CUSTOMS INSPECTOR.
He Smells Out Cigars and Other
Things Subject to Duty.

Things Subject to Duty.
Many will doubtless have read of
the chiens de service which are at
tached to the police force of Ghent in
Belgium, and which are trained to act
nightly duties.
But recently we came across a dog
whose service is self-imposed. He is
little fox terrier belonging to one of
the customs officials at the Hook of
Holland, and every morning he trcts
down to meet the boat, and when the
baggage is deposited for the necessary
es shifting at each piece.
AS there were evidently no contra
band articles amongst the luggage on
the occasion of our visit we were un-
able to ascertain his procedure should
he have discovered any undue quantity
of cigars or other dutiable goods, but
his actions were very amusing to
watch.
Another dog who has also taken on
himself duty which he performs
more or less effectively will have been
remarked by those who have had oc-i
casion to visit the isle of Wight
This dog is also a fox terrier and on
the arrival of the boat from the island
of Portsmouth Jack watches for and
catches the rope thrown on to the
stage for making fast the boat, and
drags 1t to the man waiting to receive
it.-Ladies' Field.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-08-15
The AutomobiIe of the Future.

After all the effort and money that
have been and are being expended
upon automobile construction and all
the necks that have been and will
yet be broken in automobile races,
the machine that will abide with us,
and in time supplant the vehicle
drawn by horses is one that will av-
erage ten or twelve miles an hour on
fairly good roads, and which can be
kept in service without expenditures
for repairs that viii greatly exceed
the feeding and care of pair of coed.
reliable horses and the ordinary re-
pairs which a wagon or carriage re
quires. The prejudice against auto
mobiles that is felt by nearly every
body who is not able to own one will
disappear before the advent of the
machine which is built for use in
stead of speed alone
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-08-15
AN OLD MANS DARLING.

Here Is the Latest Example of May
and December.
This is Viola Carlstedt, the chorus
girl who is declared by Attorney Lew
is D. Dent of Chicago to be the most
beautiful woman in the world.
Miss Carlstedt is five feet eight
inches tall. She is slender. She has
masses of brown hair.
Her eyes are big and brown. Her
nose is inclined to the retrousse.
Her mouth is cupid's bow. Her
chin is firm.
She weighs 120 pounds and is pret-
tier or the stage than she is on.
Her forehead is high and the gen.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-08-15

rod, which rises from the box, turns
to the feet, then to the head, and re
turns to the middle of the figure,
where it is fastened.
This peculiar arrangement of the
wire makes it possible to pass the
hoop over the figure, as the diagram
shows. The horizontal part of the
wire is hidden by the figure, the YER
tical part is invisible against the
black coat of the performer, who
stands behind it. The trick ends
when the figure sinks into the box,
from which the real woman presently
emerges.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-08-15
Frenchman in Hard Position.

A Frenchman named Li1lier is in an
awkward position. The Paris author
tiles have forbidden him to live in
riat city, while the military author
ties have ordered him to remain in
Paris. He was arrested, the other
day, on a charge of theft and sem
fenced to one months Imprisonment
If that sentence is served out in a
Paris gaol the civil court may further
imprison him for residing in the city.
If he is sent to a country prison the
military will prosecute him.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-08-15
GIRL FARMER OF 12.

ROW Eleanor keefauver, Pretty
Huckster, Supports Family.
With the responsibility of family
of seven on her dimunitive shoulders,
little Eleanor Keefauver, of West
Philadelphia, is making a plucky fight
for existence, and already she is
known as the youngest and one of the
most successful farmers in America.
This small farmer, only II years
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-08-15
Drinks No Water,

John L. Rosso, of New Brunswick,
o. j., has not had a drink of water
since 1862. For the past forty years
he has drank nothing but whiskey,
wine and beer, always in moderation.
Mr.. Rosso is now IS years old, is
strong and robust, and says that he
has never been i'll day in his life
He has forgotten the taste of water.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-08-15
NOT A CASE OF HYPNoTIsM.
Simple Solution of Apparently I'M
possible Trick.

The floating lady" trick is probably
the most astonishing ever performed
The woman is ..hypnotized" and laid
in a box, from which she rises and re-
mains floating in the air while the
performer passes a hoop over her
several times to prove she is not sup
ported by rods or wires.
As a matter of fact the woman re
mains in the box unseen. THE float
ing lady" is a doll made to initiate
the real woman. 1t is a balloon in
flated with gas, and is SO light that
it can be supported by small steel
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-08-15
jackson Voter stin Alive.

Loyal l. Wright, of Cornwall, VT,
claims the distinction of being the
only man in the state who voted for
Gen. andrew jackson for president in
1882, and he has been q faithful dis
ciple ever since. Mr.. Wright walked
. distance of thirteen miles, from
Cornwall to Weybridge and back. He
is 81 years of age.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-08-15
Old John willis Being Haunted.

OIu 1OffTI Wits 6cfTg FIdUhteu.
world-beater, by the ghost of a woman
named Lucy. This. woman has been
with him in the spirit, he says, for
more than twenty-five years. and to
her he lays his good fortune
This is the first time that gold in
any quantity has been found in the
Blue mountains, and already a stam-
pede for the new fields has set in.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-08-15

were unearthed by a man who was
putting in the foundation for a house
he intended building. A pioneer was
in the Office when the coroner made
an examination of the relics, and he
explained how all the bodies came to
be buried there.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-08-15
Relic of Pioneer paxs

There is on exhibition in a Haver.
hill, Mass. window hatchet which it
ls said was used by the Indians in the
fnmous massacre at Dover, N H, dur
ing the early days. when twefve white
anonle were murdered
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-08-15

Serious Attack of Hiccoughs.
During a prolonged attack of hic-
coughs Thomas Mcdonald of Ply
mouth, Penn, was the victim of .
peculiar injury. The paroxysms be-
came so violent that two of his ribs
snapped and were seriously fractured.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-08-15
Things Quaint and Curious
Gathered Here and There
A BIOGRAPHY OF ADAM.

Some ACTS m the EITe OF OUT OHI-
versaI Father.
Celebrated as the original father of
his country. Also noted as the dis
coverer of sin. In his day the gen
uine "only thing that ever happened" q"
Only man that ever told the truth
when he told his best girl she was
the "only girl he ever even thought
Of" Owing to Irregularities, which
he was mean enough to blame on his
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-08-15
MAKES scRussINe A PLEASURE.
Practical Device of Great Value tc
Hard Workers,

With the great number of office
buildings which are going up con-
stantly there arises a demand for
some means of scrubbing their enor-
nous floor areas superior to the old
time scrubbinS brush. With this in
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-08-15

wife, Adam was relieved of his job as
head gardner in Eden. He married
well, his wife being the first lady
of the land" At one time he held
the record for old age-being $50.
This record was afterward smashed
by Methuselah and Noah. Is repudi-
ated as an ancestor by most of our
first families, as that would entail
the acknowledgment of too many
poor relations. Was the first father
who ever had trouble with his sons,
but not the last-Boston Globe.