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La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1903-07-28

Por ell tratado de Paris Y poT
declaraciones posteriores hechas
por ell gobierno americana, esta es.
te obligado q respetar TODD 10 eXis-
tente en- Puerto Rico, en- cuanto
leyes derechos, siempre que no
Sc hallen en- pugna con la COnsti-
tuci0n nacional.
PerO tantO case Sc viene ha-
ciendo de esas declaraciones como
de las consignadas por ell general
Miles en- su fan1OSd proclama.
Aqufse marcha a la absorcion por
todos los medios posibles; pero no
4 la absorcion moral de un pueblo,
alo que podrfa tomarse por trans
formation del alma puertorrique-
1la en- alma americana, porque pa
ra esa labor serfa necesariO un GU
mulo de libertades, de derechos y
de bienandanzas, que nos hicieran
bendecir ell momentO en- que los
americaros pusieron sus pies en- es-
Ia isla: v en- ese sentido NADIA Sc
hace: Dor ell contrariO, Sc labora
para Que ell sentimientO americana
no SO arraigue en- ell pals. La alb
sorci6n, pues, de que SO trata es La
absorci6n material; el acapara-
miento de, todas las industrias y
fuentes de production que pOseen
los nativ0s.
Muy pocas industrias puerto
rriduefias existen en- ell pals; pOr-
que ell espfritu de asociacion no ha
sido nunca el esp1ritu de nuestro
pueblo. Sinembargo; en- la pro
gresista ciudad de Ponce Sc esta-
blecio hace cinco 8 seis aflos una
planta electrical, con capital pom
ceflo, que empezo a funcionar con
arreglo a las leyes vigentes en- ell
pals.
Adquiri6 dicha compaflfa de-
rechos y propiedades; coloc6 pos
tes, focos, alambres, etc, y estable
clio un servicio de luz electrical,
que por todo ese tempo ha venido
llenando las necesidades de aque-
LA ciudad a satisfaction del vecin-
dario, pues no es una cOmpan1a
explotadora, sino una cOmpafl1a
poncena, establecida por hijos de
Ponce, con ell principal objeto de
atender a una de las grandes ne
cesidades de que adolec1a aquella
poblacion.
Esa empresa desde que Sc es-
tablecio en- tiempos de Espafia, ha
venido satisfaciendo tOdas las con-
tribuciones que el TesorO impone
a las campafifas de esa fndole, sin
que basta la fecha haya faltado
en- NADIA a sus compromises.
Pero establecese ell aflo pasado
en- Ponce una compaf1fa americana
titulada &Ponce Railway and
Light COS con ell objeto de poner
un tranvfa electrico entire la ciu-
dad y la Playa. Todo ell mum
do aplaude ALI ell prop6sito de la
Companfa: representa- un progreso
para la ciudad, y aquel es un pueblo
de esp1ritr Prqgresista. Pero pronto
comprende esa Compa1fa la necesi-
dad de ensanchar su esf6r2~ de ac-
cion, y esta blece una planta eI6ctri-
ca para servir la luz en- competencia
con la va establecida. Hasta aquf
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1903-07-28
PROTESTA

Ell obrero don Alfredo Santana (so-
cialista), nos escribe participandonos ssl
protesta, por los hechos ocurridos en- Ell
pueblo de Bayam6n con ell senior lyle
sias demas compafieros suyos.
Ell senior Santana espera de sus Dig
nos compafIeros, que no permanezcan en-
silencio, para entonces saber 81 en- Puer-
to. Rico existe no un Gobierno que se-
pa yelar por Ell bien de las classes traba-
jadoras.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-05-08
IN HOTEL LoBBIES.
The New General MANAGER.

William A. Garrett, who was recently
appointed general manager of the Queen
and Crescent, is an intimate friend Of
Superintendent NJ. NJ. Richey of the
Southern in Birmingham. They had a
pleasant meeting while Mr. Garrett was
here yesterday and afterwards Mr..
Richey, in speaking of his friend, said:
MIR. Garrett is one of the finest men
and one of the most polished gentlemen
l ever knew, and in addition he knows
all the details of the railroad business.
He was born August 49, 1861, and first
entered the railway service in 1876 as a
messenger in the ticket office of the Ohio
and Mississippi. Then he was for a long
time in the employ of the ST. Louis Union
Depot company, serving consecutively as
office messenger, clerk In the car depart
ment timekeeper, assistant paymaster
purchasing agent. superintendent secre-
tary and assistant superintendent.
I'm 1898 he became superintendent of the
St. Louis Terminal Railroad association,
then terminal superintendent of the Wa
bash at st. Louis and also superintendent
of the st. Louis Merchants Bridge Ter
mlnai railway. In 1896 he became super
intendent of the western division of the
Wabash, and in 1897 superintendent of the
middle division of the same road. In
1899 he was made superintendent of the
Philadelphia division of the Philadelphia
and Reading railway and in 1900 was SUI
perintendent of the New York division
of the same road. He was later made
general superintendent of the same road.
which position he held until May of this
year when he was made general manager
of the Queen and Crescent, which In
cludes the Alabama Great Southern rail-
road.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-05-08
Currency and Debt.

In 1861 the per capita circulation In
this country was 1885. In 1878 it was
1882, and 1t has been rising ever
since. In 1900 1t stood at S2694; In
1901 at $279S; in 1902 at $2S.43, and
in 1903 at $3.50. These figures were
all record figures in their own re-
spective years, and there is more
money per head in the country today
than ever before.
The aggregate runs to big figures.
The sum total of our standard silver
dollars, subsidiary silver, treasury
notes of 1890, United States and ma
tional bank notes and bullion footed
up on April 80 last $3.50, 34O,932, but
nearly one-half of this amount lies In
the federal treasury in the form of gold
coin or bullion. The amount thus held
by the government on April 30 was
1,267, 303,579. AS this is just about
one-half of all the circulation in the
country, it is plain that the per capita
amount of money in actual use by the
people should be reduced one-half, ex.
cept, of course, in statements by re-
publican spellbinders on the stump.
The money in circulation is, how.
ever, supplemented by various evil
dences of credit, and perhaps these
would make good the amount held in
The federal treasury.
The United States is now considered
the wealthiest nation in the world,
outranking in order Great Britain,
France, Germany and Russia, and our
national debt is but one and a half per
cent of our national wealth.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-05-08
EVENING.

BY Percy Bysshe Shelley.
The sun is set; the swallows are asleep;
The bats are fitting fast in the gray
air;
The slow, soft toads out of damp corners
creep,
And evenings breath, wandering here
and there
over the quivering surface of the stream.
Wakes not one ripple from its summer
dream
There is no dew on the dry grass to-
night,
Nor damp within the shadow of the
trees;
The wind is intermitting. dry. and light.
And in the inconstant motion of the
The dust and straws are driven up and
And whirled about the pavement of the
town.
Within the surface of the feeting river
The wrinkled image of the city lay,
Immovahly unquiet and forever
1t trembles. but it never fades away:
Go to the
You being changed. will find it then as
now.
The chasm in which the sun has sunk is
shut
BY darkest barriers of enormous cloud,
Growing and moving upwards in a
crowd,
And over it space o. watery blue.
Which the keen evening star is shining
|.YsEA throneh- H as &2 ffarx
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-05-08
From the New York Sun.

From the New York Sun.
A mighty effort has been made to create
a scandal out of the Vanderbilt wedding.
Whereas, with the exception of Roman
Catholics and Episcopalians. ministers Of
religion are constantly performing such
marriages without any protest or sense
of scandal.
The discussion of the Vanderbilt we'd
ding In London makes pertinent some ex-
PLANTATION regarding the English marriage
law. Years ago a marriage could not be
performed in England except by a clergy
man of the Established church, and no
divorce could be granted except through
the house of lords. Clandestine marriages
were frequent, and clergymen imprisoned
as debtors in the Fleet" secured their
liberty by performing such marriages. In
those days any clergyman Episeopally
ordained could celebrate wedding any
where aad at any time.
The s,~pdals to religion were so great
that marriage act passed by the British
parliament provided that marriages could
only be celebrated in England by licens-
Gu CltTES Iildif VI ILe ESldDiSHtu
and under the following conditions:
Firstly the publication of the banns
of marriage. in the parish church. imme-
diately after the reading OF the second les
son. These banns must be published in
the parish in which one or both of the
parties must reside for three Sundays.
And the banns must be published on three
successive Sundays.
Secondly the bishops license, which
can be obtained from a surrogate, who Is
really the deputy OF the ecclesiastical au-
thority. This license costs IS. 1t au-
thorizes any clergyman 10 celebrate the
wedding In the parish church of the dis
trict. in which one of the parties must
reside for three Sundays. The rector Of
the church is obliged to perform a we'd
ding unless some other clergyman is
invited.
Third-A special license. obtainable only
from the archbishop of the province, le-
galizes a wedding celebrated in private
house. This license is very seldom given
and the fee is large.
When the divorce act was passed by
parliament. about fifty years ago, it be-
came necessary to change the law for the
relief of those incumbents of parishes who
object to marrying divorced persons. Con-
sequently the rector or vicar of a church
can refuse to celebrate the wedding of d.
vorced persons, but he must allow any
clergyman duly ordained to perform the
ceremony in his church. so long as the
A.. ia
This was the case when Mr.. Hadden. a
well known socialistic clergyman. cele-
brated the Vanderbilt wedding
BY curious oversight the learned DR..
William Crosswell Doane. Bishop of Al
bany. has said that the Bishop Of London
was in no way responsible for the Van
derbilt wedding. as the license was issued
by the chancellor" But the license was
| Issued by the bi-hop's chancellor and
! IN tha name and bv the authority Of the
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-05-08
NE ONLY DAILY ErwsPAPlR IN ALABAMA
Tobacco Instead OF cotton.

The boil weeyil is marching millions
strong steadily towards Alabama, and
when the pest arrives here in force,
no top crop of cotton can be grown
and only diminished early crop. The
department of agriculture says the
march of the pest cannot be stayed. 1t
may be checked somewhat, but it can
not be turned aside or stopped The
disastrous invasion is as certain as
death or taxes.
And this is one reason why Alabama
farmers should send for all the bulle-
tins issued by the department of agri-
culture relative to the adaptahility of
the red soils of the state to the grow
ing of high grade tobacco, having all
the flavor and excellent qualities of
Cuban or Samaritan leaf.
Secretary Wilson says he has found
the best OF tobacco land in Alabama
and South Carolina, and he hopes to
find equally good tobacco land in Mis-
sissippi, Louisiana and Florida. He
knows there are such lands In Ala
bama and South Carolina-lands that
by analysis and by actual growth ties is
produce high class tobacco with all
the desired flavor. He says the soils
found in Alabama and South Carolina
were, when analysed, found to be of
like nature with the soils of Cuba and
other countries which grow the best
qualities of the aromatic cigar tobac-
Goes. He is very proud Oh his discoy-
cry, considering 1t the most valuable
made by the department in some
years."
The farmers of Alabama who have
such soils should study tobacco grow
ing without any delay The boil
weevil will be due here in 1905 or 1906,
and even ii the insect should not
come we should grow fine tobaccoes as
largely as we can. Tobacco of that
sort is far more profitable crop than
cotton, and we cannot begin too early
or too earnestly to grow tobacco in
this state. The boil weevil will not
touch 1t,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-05-08
Postoifice Scandals.

The Washington correspondent of
the New York Herald says the post
office scandals have grown to such an
extent that they involve almost the
entire department, including many of
the postoffices throughout the country.
The important scandals thus far I'M
earthed are these:
Collision of The chief of the law de-
partment with illegal concerns denied
| the use of the mails.
! Operations OF the alleged Machen-
Beaver ring for the distribution of
patronage and the selling of postoffice
promotions.
Unusual and illegal methods employed
in the division of salaries and allow
ances.
Alleged connection of Superintendent
Machen with mail box companies and
other contractors for supplies in his di-
vision.
Distribution of supplies to various post
offices in the country in excess of their
needs
Collusicn in the supply department with
favored contractors.
Other scandals are constantly COM
ing up, and if the present investiga-
ton be sternly pressed, no doubt more
far-reaching scandals will be disclosed
than the department has ever before
known. The postmaster general is
first and always a politician, and his
Investigations are warranted not to
hurt his party just before a presiden-
tial election.
1t is stated, however, that Mr.. Payne
intends to have every large postoffice
investigated-all, that is to say, whose
annual receipts exceed half million
dollars. This cuts out all Alabama
postoffices, for even the receipts of the
Birmingham office are but $150,000 q
year, and the receipts at either Mobile
or Montgomery do not exceed one half
that sum.
Fourth Assistant Postmaster Gen.
eral Bristow has charge OF the pending
Investigations, and he has about TWEEN
ty postoffice inspectors at work in va
rious parts of the country, and the
number will have to be largely in
creased if the scope of the investiga-
ton is extended to all the larger post
offices in the country.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-05-08

teemen of the Lily White organiza-
ton, but seventeen is Just half Of the
committee. If the seventeen stay
away from the meeting of the commit
tee to be held in Birmingham on May
IL, the committee will be deadlocked
unless. indeed, Boss Wellman proceeds
to fill vacancies.
But the triangular squabbles among
the party of the referees, the party of
the Lily Whites and the party of the
Black and Tans need not concern us.
What does concern us is the aid and
comfort given by the referees com
bine to the esteemed Mr.. Crumpacker,
for the conference solemnly resolved
that the Alabama congressional del
egation should be reduced at least one
half. Crumpackerism will quote this
resolution on the stump and in con-
gress with all the gravity of owls, as
an indication of public sentiment,
when it should be quoted as desire
for offices.
The referees are solemnly pledged
to a reduction of the Alabama deie-
cation to four, or at the most five,
members, and if seniority is to be the
test a brother of Referee Thompson
will have to walk the plank 1t would
be cruel to go on and name the other
members who would be dropped, but
after all there is many slip between
a referees conference in Montgomery
and the congress sitting in Washing
ton. There are others in the game of
politics.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-05-08
ENGLISH MARRIAGE LAW
AND VANDERBILT AFFAIR

fright Honorable and Right Reverend
Father in God Arthur Foley Wilmington
Ingram, doctor in divinity, by the divine
permission bishop and metropolitan of
the see of London"
Here is the real scandal-a scandal
which threatens the existence of the ma
tional church. Bishop L gram objects to
the marriage of divorced persons. He re-
proves those clergymen who perform
them. HIS actually refuses to enter
church for confirmation or visitation in
which such marriages have been celebra-
ted, yet the law of the state church COM
pels him to issue a license for such mar
riages. 1t is here that the Importance OF
the Vanderbilt incident can be seen, COM
ing as 1t does at the very time when the
Church of England is divided over the
Church discipline act' now before the
house of commons
1t is very difficult to understand why
people in the situation of Mr.. Vanderbilt
and Mrs. Rutherford should make such
persistent efforts to secure Church
wedding" AS in America so in England
they could have been married without .
religious ceremony.
1t Is not likely that either in England or
in America such marriages will be for
hidden by the civil law. 1t is true that an
attempt at prohibition is being made in
the United States, but the law of divorce
which has existed in England for at least
fifty years has never been opposed by
public opinion. All that the clergy of the
Church of England demand is that such
marriages shall not be solemnized by the
clergy; and the Vanderbilt incident will
certainly effect some change In the
church law.
I could send you the names OF a dozen
poor ministers, with small pay and large
families, who have refused to marry d.
vorced persons when very large and
tempting fee has been offered, and among
them. AN ANGLICAN CLERGYMAN.
New York, May T.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-05-08
Referees Conference.

The referees, backed up by black
and white politicians in, or desiring to
De in, office, in about equal numbers,
net on Wednesday in Montgomery, and
proceeded to repudiate the Lily
Whites. The referees party is a mix
lure of Lily Whites and Black and
fans, being neither the one nor the
,ther, but being unanimous on one
point. namely, a desire to control the
delegation to the next republican ma
:ional convention. There met with
he referees seventeen state commit
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-05-08
HATS OFF IN ELEVATORS.

Victor Smith in New York Press.
Only countrymen remove their hats in
elevators in public places when women
ride. And after the farmer has been in
town a week he becomes as callous as
the rest of us. In hotels and city, state
or national institutions-in fact in any
building not devoted to business pur-
poses-the hat should come off when
women enter the elevator. The man who
removes his hat in a business elevator
might just as well do so when he enters
a Fifth avenue, stage or Broadway
car. I have seen men take off their hats
in an elevator to show their Difference
and gallantry, and in the next instant
brush the female occupants roughly aside
to be the first to leave the car. I have
seen the same men dash out of big swing
ing doors and leave them slamming back
in the faces of women following.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-05-08
PEARLS AGAIN HIGH AND
EXTREMELY FASHIONABLE

tiny articles with pearl matter by deftly
fastening these objects inside the
shell, and in course of time they become
covered with mother pearl, but it is
impossible to leave any foreign SUBJ
stance in the flesh of the moIlusk, as it
Is bound to be swept out by the oyster.
Pearls do not exist for ever, and some
that were found in the grave of the
daughters of a Roman general who were
buried about 400 A. D., crumbled to dust
on being touched. There are instances
of large and once brilliant pearls used
In the professions of Indian rajahs which
have lost their 1ustre with age. This fad
ing lustre can be revived by skinning.
The pearl is formed by thin layers of
nacre one over the other, and whenever
pearl gets discolored and loses its
lustre the only thing to be done is to re-
move the outside layer. 1 found out, more
or less accidentally many years ago,
that this could be done by cropping the
pearl into wineglassful of pure water
to which had been added about three or
four drops of hydrochloric or muriatic
acid. BY the aid of a magnifying glass it
will be noticed that minute bubbles of air
arise from the pearl, and, after a short
time when 1t is taken out it has a dead,
fish-eye-like skin which easily chips off.
The removing of this skin is delicate
business and it has to be done carefully,
without scratching the pearl. The result
is pearl bright and clear as when it
originally came out of the oyster.
The story of the pearl dissolved by
Cleopatra in cup of vinegar or acid is
a pure myth. HydrocnIoric acid is the
most efficacious acid in dssolving pearl
matter, and the first layer of nacre has
to be removed before the acid can act
on a second.
Besides this, any acid that is able to
dissolve a pearl would have produced
serious injury to the dusky queens stom-
ach
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-05-08
SAVED HIS INSURANCE.
From Deathbed to Pay Premium With
out Wife's knowledge.

st. Louis, May 6-From his dying bed
Frank s. Powell arose, went down town
and paid the premium due on his $4,000
life insurance policy and returned home
without the knowledge of his wife or any
one in the family. That night he died.
The fact that he had even left the
house did not become known until nego-
tiations toward settling up the policy
were begun. In a statement of the cir
cumstances of Powell's death, Charles
W. Morgan, secretary of the Merchants
exchange, who managed the matter for
the widow. told the insurance company
that Powell was confined to his bed for
seven days prior to his death.
Later on the agent of the company
called on Morgan, and in the course of
the conversation remarked that Mr.. Nor
gan had made a mistake in saying that
Powell had been kept at home so long.
HE was down town and paid the pre-
MUM to me the day before his DEATH"
asserted the agent.
Mrs. Powell was asked to decide the
point. She was positive that she had been
with him constantly during his illness,
and that he certainly could not have been
outside the house without her knowledge.
Told the agents story, she recalled that
her husband had asked her to go down
town for something he desired and had
asked her to tell other members of the
family that he was not to be disturbed
while she was away. She said she had
gone down town by the most direct route
and had returned without delay.
On her arrival home she found her
husband in bed He said nothing about
having left the house, and did not men,
ton his life insurance.
Powell was a well-to-do commission
man and lived at No 2729 Stoddard street
His illness had lasted barely week.
when it terminated fatally
1T is the strangest case 1 ever en-
countered," said Mr.. Morgan tonight
1.-THE evidence would seem conclusive
that It could not have been possible for
Mr.. Powell to leave his nome at ALL and
certainly not to go down town and back
without being noticed by any one of his
family. Yet the agent received the pre-
MUM on the policy from Powell, whom
he knew well. He recalls that Powell
looked pale, almost ghostly. and had
nothing to say. l am almost tempted to
believe that, If there Is any such thing.
Powell projected his astral body into the
presence of that agent and paid him the
coin of the spirit land. 1t makes my flesh
creep to think about it,.