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BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1903-09-08

San Juan P R Sept End. 1908
Sealed proposals, in duplicate, for
the furnishing measuring and deliver
ing and delivering CT Fl 900 cubic met.
res Of Broken stone, More or less, for
the maintenance of insular road in diff
ferent localities of the island, will be
received at this Office until 10 a. m.
October 9th, 1903, and tken publicly
opened.
All Necessary information, a copy of
the General Conditions regulating con-
tracts for Insular Public Works. blank
forms of proposals; and instructions to
bidders will be furnished on app;icat-
ion
The right is reserved to reject any
and all bids.
A. STIERLE,
Superintendent of Public Works.
S-M-V.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1903-09-08
Monumento naci0nal

Subscription para erigir un mopumento
en- Madrid los soldados y ma
rinos muertos en- las 1ltimss
guerras.
LARES Dollars. Cents.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1903-09-08

Marquee y Co... 2
Severino Lecaroz ...... /
Baltasar Marquee ...... I
Pablo Canals. ...... I
Antonio Alcover ...... L
Salvador Lecarozl. 49,. L
Daniel Fec. I
Pbro. don Vicente Aqui-
lue. SO
Jose Ballesteros ....... 50
Bartolome Suat. .. 50
Miguel Coll ......... 50
Pedro D. BalleSter. ..... 50
Manuel Perez. ...... 50
Bernardo Suau ...... 50
Juan ARIZONA ......... 50
Manuel Lecaroz. ..... 50
Francisco E1izalde. 49,. 50
Miguel Coll Mayol. -. 50
Jose Zugarramurdi 80. so
Anselmo Garcia .. 50
Fermina A-amburu. -. 50
Pablo Vidal Rossello. -. 50
Lucas Bernat. ....... 50
Miguel Bernat 80. -. SO
Jose EnSeIat. 50
Bernardo Fiol. .... Is
Francisco Bujosa 49,. IS
Francisco Ranero. 49,. Is
Julian Estrada .... IS
Juan Estades ........ Is
Pedro A. Suau. ........ Is
Julian CarraSco ...... Is
Santos ViScasillas. .... Is
Bautisra Echevarria. -. Is
Ignacio Arrechea 49,. IS
Domingo Bernat -. :. Is
Ramon Novoa. -. -. Is
Antonio Tomas. ..... IS
jose Lopez. ........ IS
Baldomero Sierra ...... Is
Florencio San Martin -. IS
Bartolome Estades. ..... IS
Lorenzo Garcia ........ Is
Pablo Casanovas. ...... IS
Jose Casanovas. -. -. IS
Jaime EnSefat ....... 25
Juan Oliver. r.......... Is
Alfonso CasanovaS (hijo} IS
Gabriel Pons -. 80. IS
Ni1os Pedro y Lola No
v a,....... OS
Niflo Aurelio Bernat. -. o5
Nina Isabel Forteza. -. o5
Pedro Forteza ...... o5
Puertorriqueflos
Salvador Suau Carbonell 50
Salvador Ferrer ..... 50
Mariana .Carbonell. -. 50
s"ic2 solr e'ag F;ss ----- -
Total recaudado hoy -. "A 50
Suma anterior. ...,.. 700 o7
Total. 49,. $3.50 81
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1903-09-08

de dos solares situados en- ell barrio de
Ga Marina" cerca de la fabrica 'La
Colectiva," cada uno de los cuales mide
Sz6 metros 88 centfmetros cuadrados y
ambos lindan con tres Gales del terra
pl6n de las obras de Puerto.
Solo Sc admiten proposiciones:por los
dos SolareS.
Informes en- el Establecimiento del
ROLETN MERCANTIL
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1903-09-08
San German
UNA CERTIFIGACION

Don Juan Antonio Bulls y Pagan,
Secretario del Ayuntamiento de
Laias.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1903-09-08
ADVERTISEMENT
Department of the Interior

office of the Superintendent
of Public Works
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1903-09-08
Cambios en- San Juan

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The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1903-03-19

Women love clear, healthy COM
plexion. Pure blood makes it. Bur-
dock Blood Bitters makes pure blood.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1903-03-19

The election of the staff of "The Nor.
NAL Eyte," the magazine of the State
Normal School, at Cedar Fall, Iowa, was
held Tuesday, March 3. Don Campbell,
of Pleasanton, was elected editor.in.
chief, Ethel Edwards, of Waterloo, local
editor, and Eugene j. Fielding, of Iona,
business manager. These positions are
worth several hundred dollars year in
cash to the incumbents, and to young
people working their own way towards
an education is great help. While the
money consideration is valuable in this
way, there is another side to it that ls of
even more value, and that is the ex.
perience and business training acquired
in performing the duties of those offices.
This will be of great practical worth to
them when they enter upon the stage of
actual world affairs. Our townsman,
Don Campbell, had also been chosen
captain of Co. D, Normal cadets, at the
beginning of the school year, last Sep
TENDER. Besides that, he was a little
later made manager of track athletics
Tor 1903 .-Pleasanto Index
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1903-03-19

Twin daughters, one weighing d and
the other 6 pounds were born to Mr.
aud Mrs. Curren Laughlin last Saturday
morning and at this wiring both moth.
er and twins are doing nicely. Their
oldest, also a girl, is only 13 months
old. Three children in little more than
year is quite q good start toward a
family for the young people. -Lineville
Tribune.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1903-03-19

Qua friend Tom Wellington makes Il
report on the value Of brood SOW he
has Of the Jersey Red breed. In eight
months sac has brought him % pigs. II
of which he marketed netting $l41.25.
He still has the mother and IL pigs.
Mr.. Wellington thinks this pretty
good record for productiveness and
value of this breed, and would like to
hear from anyone who can show bet
ter one. While we are talking about the
Jersey hog, w. 0. Wiley, of Blooming.
ton township, sold two of this breed
about two weeks ago aEat averaged $50
pounds each and sold for $3.50 hun.
dred Lamont Chronicle.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1903-03-19

Frank White, who was operated on
about three weeks ago for an Ankylosed
Bertha Greer receiving attention, is re-
ported doing we'll, and it is thought he
can be moved to his home soon. We
sincerely hope that Frank will be very
much benefited by the operation, and
make rapid and complete recovery
Lamont Chronicle.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1903-03-19

Its announced that Mrs. Roosevelt
is indisposeaa, ard Ard that all social engag-
ments at the White House have been
cancelled. The president has been say.
ing SO much lately in favor of large fam.
lilies that the women are suspicious
Carinda Herald.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1903-03-19

E. II. Smith has the distinction Of
having received the highest price for
both draft and driving teams ever re-
ceived by anyone in Lamont. Mr..
Smith sold team of draft horses last
fall for $3.50, and last Saturday sold his
driving team for 1925. These prices are
said to be the best ever received in La
moni.-Lamoni Chronicle.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1903-03-19

V. l.. Bedler, who has been attending
Highland Park College since leaving
kellerton, took the examination before
the State Board of North Dakota, March
3. Out of thirty-two who took the ex-
animation only six passed, and Vic was
among the successful ones kellerton
Globe
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1903-03-19
Raw or lntlamed LUNGS

Yield rapidly to the wonderful curative
and healing qualities Of Foley's Honey
and Tar. 1t prevents pneumonia and
consumption from hard cold settled
on the lungs. l.. NanWerden.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1903-03-19

A wheelman's tool bag isn't complete
without bottle of DIR, Thomas Eclec-
trio Oil. Heals cuts, bruises, sungs
sprains. Monarch over pain.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1903-03-19

Foleyss Kidney Cure makes the kid
neys and bladder right. Contains moth.
ing Injurious. l.. VanWerden.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1903-03-19

If you are looking for something to
tighten the hard work incident to wash
day, try Maple City lfWashlng Soap,
and it will be a welcome visitor to your
home ever afterwards.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1903-03-19
Dancers of Pneumonia.

A cold at this time if neglected is
liable to cause pneumonia which is so
often fatal, and even when the patient
has recovered the lungs are weakened,
making them peculiarly susceptible to
the deyelopement of consumption.
Foley's Honey and Tar will stop the
cough, heal and strengthen the lungs
and prevent pneumonia. L. VanWer
den.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1903-03-19

Every family should have its house
hold medicine chest, and the first bottle
in it should be Dr. Woods Norway Pine
Syrup, natures remedy for coughs and
colds
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1903-03-19

ltchiness of the skin, horrible plague,
Most everybody afflicted in one way or
another. Only one safe, never failing
cure-Doan's Ointment. At any drug
store, 80 cents.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1903-03-19

According to the Atchison Globe,
father has much to be thankful for if his
daughter doesn't look apolegetic when
he enters the room.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1903-03-28
A FIREMAN'S ADVICE.
Don't Jump from Burning building
Until Rescue Is Utterly
Impossible.

Were you ever caught in fire?
Pray that you never may be, but if
you ever are one of the unfortun-
ates, heed this advice given by the
veteran Chief Swingley, of the St.
Louis fire department, who says that
in 40 out of every so cases where per-
sons jump from burning buildings
and are killed or injured they would
be rescued il they waited until the
arrival of the fremen, says the Wash
ington Star.
What persons should do il cut off
from escape Is to shut the door OF
the room in which they are and make
for the nearest window. The best
way is to crawl. There is always
space next the floor where the air
is good Smoke always rises. ! don't
care if building is filed with dense
smoke, n window can be reached by
crawling and keeping the head close
TO the floor. Persons should get on
the outside Of the window. The
room may be filled with fire, but il
will take some time before the fire
reaches them. Persons should wait
until their clothes catch fire before
jumping. 1t is almost sure death to
jump.
burning buildings do not fall inn
mediately. They are generally burn
ing at least half an hour before they
begin to fall. Even If the building
does begin to fall, the portion where
one is may not fall. OF course, when
persons are placed in great danger,
minutes seem like hours. The en-
gines get TO fires in the majority OF
cases within n few minutes after the
alarm has been given. Another thing
that ! am reminded OF is the fact of
how few persons know the location
of fire alarm boxes nearest TO their
residences, and how TO give an alarm.
Everyone should familiarize himself
with the location of the box and how
to turn in an alarm"
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1903-03-28
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SUNDAY MILK PROBLEM.
Inventor of the Can Here Describe
Thinks That He Has solved
Ii Successfully.

The greatest difficulty the milk
man has to contend with is temper
allure. He can handle milk well in
winter, but cannot get such good re-
suits in summer. In the first place,
we must assume that every milkman
has an ice house, and that the milk
is placed in ice as soon as MIXED, be-
cause the germs producing sour
milk multiply rapidly at tenn
perature above 20 degrees, while at
so or lower uey are held in sus-
pense. After much annoyance and
trouble with sour milk l devised a
simple method for controlling II,
shown in tbs cut. had made a
cylinder of lslyanized iron, same di-
mansions as the mouth OF the milk
can, and running through the can to
within about Ia or two inches OF
the bottom, and held in place by n
fange at top of same shape as the
mouth of milk can. This would per-
init of the lid or cap being placed
on the can, or cylinder, and prevent
the escape Of either milk or water
formed from the ice. AS soon as the
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1903-03-28
SLOW ABOUT i" POPPING"
Young Men OF To-day Are Not I'm Any
Very Great Haste 10 Propose
Marriage.

"Man proposes" begins the old prov
erb, but il is very apparent 10 those
who are watching the signs OF the
times that he doesn't propose nearly
so often as he used TO. One can
help seeing that the good old insu-
tuition of matrimony is regarded with
less favor by young men than was the
case few decades ago, says an OBJ
servant contemporary.
Whatever the reason, the remedy
should be discovered, and applied with
out delay, provided there is one. Three
theories are advanced TO account for
the modern popularity of celibacy; The
increased cost of living, the lower
wages of men, because OF feminine
competition, and the greater comfort
of bachelor life, through the spread OF
apartment houses. To these may be
added a fourth reason, the growing
independence of young women, who
have ceased 10 regard matrimony as
the supreme end and aim of existence,
says the Housekeeper.
No discussion OF the subject can ig-
more the part played by the bachelor
girl. The potency of a woman's will
sinks into insignificance by compar-
ison with woman's "won't," and ii
takes two to make a match, as well as
quarrel. 1t is interesting 10 note the
excuses offered by bachelors them
selves for their unfortunate condition.
"Can't find an old-fashioned girl"
writes one poor old fellow TO the ed
itor. Girls heads nowadays are filed
with scraps OF poetry and science, and
things they've learned at women's
clubs. After all, when you come right
down to it, marriage should be the
most practical thing in all the world.
It's sweetened by flavor of romance,
and the better for it. But the kind OF
wife most men in moderate circum-
stances want is the one who can keep
house, phrase that comprisesa whole
science in itself"
This practical bachelors vigorous
declaration may be condensed into
few lines:
A wife filled with ideals
Seldom TO man appeals
He likes TO feel
That some one real
VIII superntend his meals.
II is a common complaint this, from
bachelors, that the practical girl, the
girl who knows how 10 do things, can
not be found among their acquaint
nnces
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1903-03-28

"Nobody will be glad TO hear it,"
continued Mr.. Cavanaugh, "but il
is fact that the villainous race re-
Gently driven off OF this hemisphere
by Schley and the other men behind
the guns knows more about sansages
than all the rest of as. They inn
port long, thin, narrow sausages.
smoked until they are almost as dry,
black and hard as a piece of wood,
and call them Vic. Catalan and
Basque sausages. They are finer
than any sausage that comes to this
country, or than any other people
on earth can make. And l guess /
know something about good eatin'
myself"
And he does. Big Tom Cavanaugh
knows more about delicatessen than
any other man In this ten-miles-
square seat of government.
These people who used TO call us
American hogs have good ideas Of
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1903-03-28

German-born citizens import wild
boars and hares, and a singular con
lection called matzapan, which is
. made Of white sugar, cream and
'blanched almonds. They also import
various kinds of bread and pastry, oc-
casionally bringing in German cab
bages and potatoes. Their cabbages
are very small; little baby cabbages, in
deed. But they are OF finer fiber and
more delicate flavor than ours. Their
potatoes are very small and every way
inferior TO our product; and yet, cab
bage soup, enriched with those potn.
toes, will stick TO the ribs, and make
you send up your plate for second
helping; indeed, they expect you TO
call for a second dish of soup of their
own importation and OF their own
making. III you are being entertained
by German-born friend who wants TO
give you a full fatherland meal YOU
may expect goose breasts, which have
been dried, smoked and picked, and
you don't dare turn up your nose at
this delicacy. either. All of their vari-
Gus kinds OF ham are delicious, and
their mushrooms. grown in caverns
llong the Rhine, are almost fjt for
angels food.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1903-03-28
Musty Fodder KIN. Calves.

A dispatch comes from Creston,
Ia, that Hazard Dunn, living a short
ways west OF there, has recently lost
13 head of yearling calves from too
much feeding on dry and musty fod-
der. All the calves but one that were
taken sick died and reports come
from other parts of that country
that there have been many more cat
tie dying there from the same
cause. The wet weather has been
such that much OF the fodder this
season is unfit for feeding except I'm
small quantities, and then the closest
watch must be kept on the catt,e
fed II now appears that the enor-
nous loss OF cattle reported from,
the east end of that county some
weeks ago is attributed to this same
cause.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1903-03-28
GOOD PLANT WINDOW

suitable FOR summer as winter. or
may he changed from one window tn
another. In coolest weather, plants
should be set in the living room to
prevent freezing The uses and ad-
vantages of such a window garden
are many. IL is a good place for
foliage plants to develop their beau
tiful forms and colors; seeds may DO
prepared for outdoor planting early
In the spring; dying or backward
plants around the house can be kept
together for individual care. ana
carpets and the surface of tables
around the house are no longer de-
stroyed or married by flower pots
and spilled water. The warmth %
the ordinary house gives sufiicient
heat for moderate weather, and a
small lamp provides necessary
warmth for quite cold spells.--C. r.
Morse, in Farm and Home.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1903-03-28
AN ICED MILK CAN.

milk was aerated IL was placed in
the can, the cylinder inserted, and
this cylinder filed with ice; or If
preferred the milk can be kept in
some cool place until ready for de-
livery and then put in can, the cylin-
der inserted, which being filled with
ice, soon cools all the milk surround
ing. i made test, when the Their
mometer was registering almost 100
degrees otuside and found the milk
in the can TO be at 40 degrees.
could deliver milk-requiring FIVE
hours In the delivery-and the last
would be as good and sweet as the
first, and not particle of butter
formed by the rocking OF the wagon.
route was commenced would last for
the five hours in midsummer.
We would milk at 4 a. IN. and y.
m, using the morning milk TO cream
for the next morning delivery and
the afternoon milk for the morning
sweet milk. On Saturday we made
two deliveries. In the morning we
used the milk OF the previous day,
while in the evening we used the
milk as gathered that day. The only
difficulty we found was that we
could not obtain sufficient cream.
The can TO which / refer was an
idea of my own and worked TO per-
lection; / never saw one used before
nor since. II anyone wishes to use IL
they can do so, as no patent is at
tached TO it.-Rural New Yorker.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1903-03-28
Tn. mueh-MaIIrned CROW.

Mr.. Long doubtless got the hint Of
his ridiculous book from Mr.. Thomp-
son.Seton's story OF the crow, where
in he speaks OF a certain old pine woods
as the crows fortress and college:
"Here they find security in numbers
and in lofty yet sheltered perches, and
here they begin their schooling and
are taught all the secrets OF success
in crow life, and in crow life the least
failure does not simply mean begin
again. Ii means death. Now the
idea was IA false one before Mr.. Long
stole II, and he has pushed IL TO such
length that il becomes simply ridicu-
lous. There is not shadow of truth
in it. IL is simply one OF Mr.. Thomp-
son-Seton's strokes of fancy. The
crows do not train their young. They
have no fortresses, or schools, or col
leges, or examining boayds, or diplo-
mas, or medals of honor, or hospi-
tails, or churches, or telephones, or
postal deliveries. or anything Of the
sort. Indeed, the poorest backwoods
hamlet has more Of the nIpur-
tenances OF civilization than the best
organized crow or other wild animal
community in the land!-John Bur
roughs, In Atlantic.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1903-03-28
DUAL PURPOSE AGAIN.
Why IL Is Almost impossible TO Cross
Beef aud MIX Strains with
Any Success.

This reminds me OF the fellow who
proposed to produce world beater
by breeding a kangaroo and a giraffe.
These dual-purpose fellows forgot
that the law OF selection is just as
likely to choose the small frame OF
the Jersey for the beef repository
and the low testing milk of the other
strain, says n writer in Dairy Pro-
duce and Review. II we could cross
the Holstein and Jersey and get the
flow OF the one and the high per-
centage of fat IL the other combined
in the progeny, what n glorious con-
summation! We all know q . result
OF such a cross. But when you come
TO crossing beef and milk strains
you might just as well mix ice cream
and Tom and Jerry. Nature has de-
creed that the food consumed by a
beef animal shall produce tissue,
while that OF the true dairy animal
as surely passes into the tactical
ducts. The horse browses the lus-
cious alfalfa and converts the same
into muscle, the sheep turns il into
wool, and the hog produces fat. Now
The wise breeder does not attempt
10 change the edicts of nature and
mix things up by crossing the hog
and the sheep; but he seeks to make
nature produce sheep with a little
more wool and a hog with little
more fat. In this the great skill
of the breeder Is shown. II he sue
ceeds in producing a progeny better
than it's ancestors he is progressive;
but you might just as well start 10
walk TO New York and Honolulu at
the same instant as 90 hope 10 succeed
in producing an animal that shoots
bath WAYS.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1903-03-28
DEPTH OF PLANTING.
Does IL Affect the Bearing Qualities
of Fruit Trees, ms So Many
Growers BeIieves

The statement has been, made by
some fruit growers that fruit trees
which are planted deep deep enough
so that roots may be formed above
the graft are heavier bearers than
trees which depend upon the roots
on which they have been grated.
We fail to grasp the theory of this
method, as has been expressed, says
the Inland Farmer. We have no cx-
perience in this line, and cannot give
any practical results which have
been derived from deep or shallow
planting
The heavy bearing quality may he
influenced in two different ways by
the above method, first, by the graf&
forming roots and thereby nourish-
ing the tree by roots Of its OWE
kind, or, in other words, by roots
which are more in harmony with
ingredients which other roots ARE
not able to gather, and in this way
the tree becomes stronger and pro
duces more fruit.
The other theory which we draw
from the argument is: A tree which
Is planted deep Is more able to with
stand drought, cold and the other
elements, and in this way the pro-
duction is increased. We shall make
n number of trial paintings this year.
and give this method thorough test
We would like TO hear from fruit
growers who have made observations
along this line.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1903-03-28
40 Dividend. No SALARY.

The directors in German compa-
MES get no SALARY unless the annual
dividend exceeds per cent, and the
limit they may receive is $4,000 a
year. The law forbids the manager
of company being a member of H.
board. Detailed statement must he
printed for stockholders prior to a
. stockholders meeting.