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BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1903-05-11
Bobas de plata
de unos principles

Ell Principe heredero y Ia Princesa
de Sajonia Meinigen celebrara an dentro
de poc>s dias sus bodas de plata.
Esta ceremolia familiar, atrae la
atcnci6n pibiica no solameute en- e.
pals de Meinigen y en- la SileSia, sino
en- todo ell lmperio aleman, pues la
Prime sa Carlota es la hermana mayor
del Kaiser.
Naci6 aquella ell "a de Julio de 1860.
La popularidad extraordinaria de que
disfruta Sc debe en- primer lugar a su
caracter en- extreme jovia1 y SIM patico,
y despues a que, seg1n creencia mug
generalizada en- Prussia, ejerce gran in
fluencia cerca de su her;nsno, cl pode-
roso En1perador,
La Princesa Cario.a es enthusiastic
cu1tivadora de todos los sports. Caba-
llista coasumada, v6sela con frecuencia
asistir 4 las maniobras y prac tcas mi
litares, vistiendo Ell uniftrme de c0-o-
mel de granaderos de la Gdardia, reg-
mi.nto cuyo mando hOnorArlo poSee Ell
virsnd dc IN lecres0 Inperisl
FL Principe Bernardo, su esposo
cuen,a ciucucnta y dos aflos de edad
TIpo acabAdo de mililar alem IN jamas
abandona el uniforme nj tiene otras
preocupaciones que las que Sc derivar
del cargo que ejerce. En- Ia ac.ualidac
es jefe del Sexto cuerpo del ejercitt
alemSn.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1903-05-11
"BirresbOrn"


Ofrecemosesta aqua, que por
tantos afios Sc consumio en- la
Isla con excelentes resultalos
para las intermediates del esto-
mago, higado, rifiones, intesti-
nos, etc. etc, y como la mas agra
dable bebida para la mesa.
Pfdase en- las farmacias y col
mados, 8 a los
URcos IMPoRTA1oREs
GAMBIA Y STUBBE.
TETUAN 40. SAN JUAN. PR.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1903-05-11
Posta1es

Mas de 10000 postales acaba
de recibir ell gran bazar de Con-
.zalez Padin Hmnos, San Fran
cisco 38 ST.
Paisaies, .actrices, ruseos, etc,
etc, todas artfstioan1ente ACADIA
das y delsgusto, mas refnado.
Sd
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1903-05-11
PROV ECTO3 DE ITALIA

S0ift atribuye Italia el proyecto
de apoderarse de Trfpoli en- cuanto es
tale ell conf1icto en- los Ba 'kanes, por
serle entonces impossible al Sultan opo-
nerSe q dicha ocupacioa.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1903-05-11
Juventud alegre
BAILB,EN Ell PARQUE

Varios distinguidos j6venes de esta
ciudad Sc han puesto de acuerdo, para
hacer I'm bale. EN- e1 salon del Parq6e
aBorinquen" el proximo sabadp. 81
Sera por invitacion y creemos result
tara esplendido, pues los encargados de
Ia fiesta son gentes de simpatfas entire
las elias.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1903-05-11
EL POLO NORTE
SAN FRANCISCO 81.
ACREDITADO CAFE.

Aguas carb6nicas de prilnera calidad
Sc sirven refrcscos de t0das classes
helados y chocolates.
Licores fnos de todas clases.-
Cervezas, Tabacos y cigarrillos
81 mejor BfLLAR de San JuaI
est2 en- este cafe. ServiciO esmerado
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1903-05-11
E. FRANCS. E9HR2g!Hfso. FHzRSgszi

conservas
dos, ETC., etc. para bodas bautizos.
lmportaciones directas de todas procedencia.
Gran fabrca de chocolate al elaborado con cacao
az1car del pals
Premado en- la Exposition de Buffalo de 1901 con medala
de bronco LA de Charleston de 1902 con la de oro
Production diaria 500 libras.
Agente en- San Juan sIDRo a. SANCHEZ
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Donations of Books.

graves parish priest dining early at the
new home, contemplated the ''libery,' as
its owner called it, with amaZement.
Amt they all there, Father DonoVan?'
asked Margrave. Il hope you like my Sc
lection
Couldn't be better" declared the priest,
'f I'd picked them myself He had taken
down a volume of rare edition of Cor
neilus Iapide and passed his hand over
the Latin title page with scholars salts
faction.
Mabel had declined to go to the convent
which her mother selected for her; converts
were not fashionable: and she herself Sc
lected birmingham because she had once met
a birmingham graduate who was the most
stylish" girl she had ever seen. Since her
return from school she had found it con-
venient to abandon as far as possible, the
church of her baptism. There had been no
OTHER Roman Catholics at her school: the
Episcopal Church the official spiritual
channel of birmingham: and she brought
home a pretty Anglican prayer book, and
attended early masses with her mother only
to the end that she might go later to the
services of st. Paurs. to the scandal of
Fla Their Donovan, and somewhat to the
sneaking delight of her father. Margrave
held that religion of whatever kind was a
matter for women, and that they were en-
titled to their whm about 1t.
birmingham is 1t is well known, place
where girls of the proper instinct and spirit
acquire manner that is everywhere I'M
mistakable. Mabel had given new. grace
ard impressiveness to birmingham itself;
she touched nothing that she did not i'm
prove, and she came home with an ambf-
ton TO give tone to Clarkson society. A
great phrase with Mabel was The Men: this
did not mean the genus homo In any phllo-
sophical abstra ction, but certain young
gentlemen that followed much in her train.
There were few young women who Were
much in MabeIs company and who con-
scientiously initiated Mabels ways All the
devices and desires of MabeIs heart tended
toward one contamination. and that was
the destruction of monotony.
Mabel had announced TO few of her
cronies that she would show Evelyn Porter
how things We're done; and as the Country
Club new. she chose 1t as the place for
her exhibition. Mabel was two years older
than Evelyn; they had never been more
than casually acquainted and now that
Evelyn's college days were oyer-Mabel had
finished" several years beforehand they
were to live in the same town, 1t seemed
ex pedient to the older girl to take the in
itiative, to the end that their respective po-
sitiens in the community might be definite
ly fixed. Evelyn's name carried far more
prestige than Mabel's; the Margraves had
not been in the GARRISON Blue Book at all,
until Mabel came home from school and
demonstrated her right to enlistment
among the elect.
She dressed herself as sumptuously as she
dared for morning call and drove the
highest trap that Clarkson had ever seen
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signment of room with sufficient equip
ment and force, to repair and rebind such
volumes as may become worn or injured,
thus securing a long life of usefulness for
every book. Congress has recognized the
necessity for this very desirable work by
making appropriation therefor, and a fur
Their appropriation of $1,000 will be asked
for the coming year. During the past year
$3.50 books We're rebound and $50 period
icals bound, making total of 400 vol
umes restored to use by this department.
The anticipated increase in the circula ton
Of the books by the removal of the library
into its new and commodious quarters has
been fully realized.
During the six months, July-December,
1902, the total circulation was 70217 vol
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.tPEDIIH NICHOLSON

his wife was tmid, shrinking person who
viewed her daughters social performances
with wonder and admiration. 1t would
have been much better for Mabel if she had
not tried so hard, but this was something
that she did not understand, and there was
no one to teach her. She derived an i'm
mense pleasure from her fathers private
car, in which she had been over most of the
United States, and had gone even to Mex
1co. In the Margraye household IL was al
ways spoken of aa the ear" Its cook and
porter were kept on the pay roll of the COM
pany, but when they We're not on active
service in the car one of them drove the
Margrave carriage and the other opened the
Margrave front door.
The Margrave house was one of the hand
soonest In Clalkson. Marsrave had not
coursed in the orbits of luminaries greater
than himself without acquiring wisdom.
When he built house he turned the whole
matter over to Baston architect with in
structions to go ahead just as if a gentle
man had employed him; he did not want a
house which his neighbors could say was
exactly what any one would expect from
the MargraVeS. Cldrkson was proud of the
Margrave house, which was better than the
Porter house, though 1t lacked the setting
of the Porter grounds. The architect had
done everything Margrave kept his own
hands OF and sent his wife and Mabel
abroad 10 stay until it was ready for occu-
pancy. When the house was nearly COM
pleted Margrave took Wary Raridan IN to
see II and displayed with pride large and
handsomely furnished library whose ample
shelves were devoid of books
Now, Wary" he said, Il want books
for this house, and | want EN- right
never read any books. and | never expect
to, and guess the rest of the family ain t
very literary either l want you TO fiji these
shelves, and l don't want trash. Are you
on?'
The situation appealed TO Wary and he
had given his best attention to Margrave's
s.
representative library In good bindings. As
Mrs. Margrave was a Roman Catholic,
Wary thought it well that theological lit
erature should be represented Mrs. Mar
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CHAPTER XIV.
The Girl That Tries Hard.

The Girl That Tries Hard was giving a
dance at the Country Club. The Girl That
Tries Hard was otherwise Mabel Margrave
wherein lay the only point of difference be
tween herself and other Girls That Try
Hard There was hardly room In Clarkson
for ciiques; and yet one often heard the
expression Mabel Margrave and her set.
and this indicated that Mabel Margrave
had a following and that to some extent
she was leader. She prided herself on
doing things differently, which is what The
Girl That Tries Hard is forever doing
everywhere. She was the only girl in the
town that gave dinners at the Clarkson
Club: and, while these functions were not
necessarily shock to the Clarkson moral
sense. yet the first of these entertainments
at which Mabel Margrave danced skirt
dance at the end of the dinner, caused talk
In conservative circles. 1t might be as
sumed that Mabers father and mother
could have checked her exuberance. but the
fact was that Mabels parents welded little
influence in their own household. Timothy
Nargrave was busy with his railroad. and
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up Porter Hill. The man beside her was
the only correctly liveried adjunct of any
Clarkson stable--at least this was Mabels
opinion. Whatever people said of Mabel
and her ways, they could not deny that her
clothes were good, though they were usu-
ally trifle pronounced in color and cut
She wore about her neck long, thin chain
from which dangled silver heart. Mabel's
was the largest that could be found at any
Chicago jewelers. Its purpose in Mabel 9
case was to convey to the curious the i'm
preston that there was photograph of d
young man inside. This was no fraud on
Mabels part, for she carried in this trinket
the photograph of a popular actor, whose
pictures were purchasable anywhere in the
country at twenty-five cents EACH While
Mabel waited for Evelyn to appear, she
threw open her new driving coat, which
forced the season trife and studied the
furnishings of the Porter parlor, criticising
them adversely. She was not clear in her
mind whether she should call Evelyn Miss
Porter or not. Clarkson people usually
said Evelyn Porter when speaking of her.
In Mabers own case, they, all said Mabel. "
When Evelyn came into the parlor she
seemed very tall to Mabel, and impulse
solvent the problem Of how to address her.
Good morning, Miss Porter
She gave her hand to Evelyn, thrusting
1t out straight before her, yet hanging back
from it archly as, If in rebuke of her own
!, forwardness. This was decidedly Tyring-
amiable and useful things she had learned
at Miss Atoms school. -
Mabel sat up very straight in her chair
when she talked, and played with the silver
heart 4
II didn't ask for the others, as it's a
wretchedly indecent Hour to be making a
call"
"Oh. the girls up and about said
Evelyn. II shall be glad"
"Oh, please don't trouble to call them!
came on an errand. You know the Coun-
try Club has just taken new lease of life.
Have you been out yet? It's bit Crude
this phrase was taught as separate
course at Tyringham-"bu there's the max
ing of a lovely place there"
Yes, I've barely seen it, / went out the
other day to look at the golf course. The
golf wave seems to be sweeping the coun-
try NJ
do you play?" -
"A little; we had.a course near the col
lege that we used e
You college girls are awfully' athletic.
I'm crazy about golf. y thought it might
be good sport to ask few girls and some
of the men to go to- the club for supper-we
really couldn't have dinner there, you
know This heavenly weather won't last
always. Wen get a drag and Captain
Wheelock will see that / don't drive you
into trouble. He's very safe whip. you
know, If I'm not; and we'll come back in
the moonlight. This includes your guests,
of course
THAT will be delightful said Evelyn.
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CHAPTER XIV.
At the Country Club,

To show that she was not limited to her
own particular set in her choice of guests,
Mabel had asked Raridan, whom she wished
to know better, and Wheaton, who had
danced with her at the carnival ball. to be
Of her party ChaperOns were tolerated but
not required in Clarkson. For this reason
Mabel had thought 1t wise to ask Mrs.
Whipple, whom she wished to impress; and
as she liked to surprise her felow-citzens.
it was worth while in this instance to yield
something to the cQnvenances. The general
was too old for such nonsense; but he was
willing to sacrifice his wife, and she went.
giving as her excuse for taking that Mar
grave girls bait" that she was doing it in
Evelyn'S interest.
The coach rolled with loud yodeling to the
Porter door, where there was much laugh
ing and bantering the guests set
tied into their places. When the locked
wheels ground the hillside and the horn
was bravely blown by an admirer of
Mabers from Keokuk, it was clear to
every one that Timothy Margrave's daugh-
ter was achieving another triumph The
young man from Keokuk was jealous with
the horn a four-in-hand was not often
seen in the streets of Clarkson, albeit this
same vehicle was always to be had from
country turned admiring eyes on the party
as the coach rolled along in the golden
haze of early October. The sun warmed
the dry air; and far across the Missouri
flats it's light fell mildly upon yellow bluffs
where the clay was exposed in broad sur
faces which held the light. The foliage of
the hills beyond the river was lit with color
in many places; shower in the morning
had freshened the green things of earth.
giving them new. brief lease of life, and
there was no dust In the highways. In such
day the dying year bends benignantly to
earth and is fain to ioiter in the ways Of
youth.
. The paint was stiH fresh In the club
house. which was a long bungalow. set in a
clump of cottonwoods. There was an am
plitude of veranda, and the rooms within
were roughly furnished In Texas pine. The
older people OF the town looked upon the
club with some suspicion as something new
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and untrfed. The younger element was just
beginning TO know the implements and vo-
cabulary of golf. The first tee was only
rev 1eet from the veranda, that a de-
gree of heroiSm and Christian resignation
was essential in those who began their
game under the eyes of a full gallery
There We're the usual members of both
sexes who talked a good deal about their
swing without really having any worth
mentioning; and there were others more
given to reading the golf news in the golf
papers at the club house than to playing
to the end that they might discuss the
game volubly without the discomfort of ac-
curing practical knowledge
Inc walls of the dining room had not
been Smoothed or whitened. They were
hung with prints which ranged I'm subject
from golf to Gibson girls. Mabel had sup
plemented the meager furnishings of the
club pantry with embellishments from her
own house. and had given her own touch
to the table. AS her touch carried a GER
tain style, her crystal and silver shope to
good advantage under the lamps which she
had substituted for the bare incandescents
of the room. The young man from Keokuk
who was Just then, as the gossips said de
voted to Mabel, had supplied a prodieal
array OF flowers, ordered by telegraph from
Chicago Tor the occasion. The table was
served by colored men, who had been pre-
viously subsidized by Mabel, in violation OF
the club rules; and they accordingly made
up in zeal what they lacked in skill
Mabel talked a great deal about informal
ity, and drove her guests into the dining
room without any attempt at order and
they found their name cards with the sur
prises and EXPLANATIONS which usually
characterize that proceeding
Capt. Wheelock sat at the end of the OBJ
long table opposite Mabel, who placed the
man from Keokuk at her right and Raridan
at her left. Evelyn was between Raridan
and one of Mabefs men," who was evil
IDENTIFY impressed by this propinquity He
was the Assistant General Something of
one of the railroads. and owned a horse
that was known as far away from home
as the Independence, Iowa, track There
was great deal of talking back and forth
and Evelyn told herself that it did not
much matter that her guests had fallen into
rather poor hands. She was quite sure that
Capt. Wheelock, who liked snowy girls would
not be much interested in Annie Warren
who was distinctly not snowy Belle
Marshall. with her drolery was not likely
to be dismayed by Wheaton's years and
poverty of small talk. Belle was not easily
abashed and when the others paused now
and then under the spell of her dialect,
which seemed funny when she did not
mean 1t to be SO, she was not distressed.
She had grown used to having people listen
to her drawl, and to complimentary
speeches from you No'the' mes" on her
charming accent. Evelyn found that 1t
was unnecessary to talk to Raridan; he and
Mabel seemed to get on very well together.
and in her piQue at him. Evelyn was glad
to have 1t SO.
(To be continued tomorrow)
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I'm sure We'll all be glad to go. I'm anx-
ious to have the girls see as much as posi-
Bile. l want them to be favorably i'm
pressed, and this will be an event.
When Mabel had taken herself off, Eve
lyn return to the tower where Belle Mar
shall and Annie Warren awaited her. These
young women were lounging in the low
window seat exchanging "reminiscences of
college days.
1T was Mabel Margrave," explained Eve
lyn shes asked us to go coaching with
her to the Country Club and have supper
there, and 1 took the liberty of accepting
for YOU
Whats she like?" asked Annie.
"Tyringham," said Evelyn succinctly.
"Oh! your words affect me strangely,
child" drawled Belle, casting up her eyes
manner.
How are her a's?" asked Annie.
Broader than the Atlantic. l think she
wants to patronize me- She's real Tyr
ingham in that she thinks us college women
very slow"
well. they do have style" said Belle,
signing. You can always tell one of Miss
Atoms girls"
'Yes, there's no doubt about that" re-
torted Annie coolly. She had taken her
education seriously and was disposed to
look down upon the product of fashionable
boarding schools.
Cheer up! The worst is yet to come"
declared Evelyn. You'd better not encour-
age the 1Qoa mere tnat we are Ql1Ierent from
young women of any other sort! I've got
to live here! I'm going to be pretty lonely.
too, the first thing your know, after you de-
sert me-
You'll have plenty of chances to root for
the college," suggested Belle. You won't
have anything like the time I'll have.
In Virginia we have traditions that
I've got to reconcile myself to. in some way;
out here, you can start even."
Yes. and we have the birmingham type,
and a few of the convent sort, and a few of
the goods to combat"
well, there's nothing so radically wrong
with the goods. is there?" asked Annie,
who believed in education for it's own sake.
only the ones that want to go in for
politics and that sort of thing. There's
LADY, said lady-doctor of philosophy
here in town who casually invited me to be-
come candidate for school commissioner a
few weeks ago."
I'm not sure that you oughtn't to have
done it, said Annie, assuming that you
declined. 1t would have been good stroke
for alma mater.
mo: that's what II wouldn't have been"
said Evelyn seriously IF you and believe
that college education is good for women.
we'd better suppress this notion that's
abroad In the world that college makes a
woman different. I hold that we're not
necessarily unlike our sisters of the con-
vent. or the Tyringham teach-you-h how to-
enter-a-room Variety" Evelyn drew her
self up with an oratorical gesture and in
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visitors many of whom came for the pur-
pose of consulting reference books during
the months of April. May and June, 1903.
was nearly 5000
AS many as eighty persons at one time
have been found occupying the reading
rooms
The fact that The Public Library Is by
law made part of the educational system
of the District of Columbia has not been
lost sight of. Particular attention has been
paid to school reference works. Requests
have been made for sets of books for he
use of different grades in the public schools
Present Force Inadequate.
The present force is inadequate to dis
Continued on Nineteenth Page.J
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the public for donations of books. These,
donated by the class, section, or alcOve in
such manner that their donors name may
be perpetuated with his gift, thus erecting
within the walls of the library a monu-
ment of his beneficent act to the commun-
ity or donated in single volumes from per-
sons in more moderate circumstances, will
be most thankfully received a record made
thereof, and the volumes placed in circula-
ton and preserved.
The number of books in the library June
30, 1902, was 80, 500; June 80, 1903. 1881,
and, at this date, October 81, 1903, about
81 600.
Preservation of Books.
Provision has now been made, by the as
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An advertisement in the
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its proposition to prospec-
tive customers when they
are in the mood to be in
terested and enlightened.
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Election. I'm here to defend my rights as
a human being"
You will be hit with a pillow in min
ute" remarkable Belle, rising and preparing
to make her threat good. Lets talk about
what to wear to Lady Tyringham's party"
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