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"Now, Sacha, I'll tell you what I'd do. I'd go to the kitchen and
get some cake and a saucer of raspberry jam and a spoon, and I'd take
them out to him. What would be the good of whipping? The boy was
angry, wasn't he, and he hated you? If whip him, he'll hate you more
and more; he'll hate everybody; perhaps he'll hate all his life"
Sacha got the cake and the jam and took them to the boy. That
is all the governess told me, but know what happened as well as if l
had been there. Put yourself in the place of that lad, hanging about
the house, curious to know what was going to happen, wanting to run.
Instead OF an old gentleman with a switch, he sees a little girl coming
with jam. He wants to run worse than before, but he stays where he
is, Tor 1t IS not every day that little peasant boys get jam. He waits and
he looks sheeplsh and he sides up to the little girl with his tail between
his legs; some phases of shame a dog can express SO much better than
a human being.
Which child got the better of that quarrel? How shall a man, a
family, a nation. get the better of another, by resort to brutality and
un!eason or by Sachas method of good will and raspberry jam? The
little story is an alegory capable of many applications.
Whenever we acquire more than Sunday faith in the Golden Rule,
whenever we are ready on Monday to help found the kingdom of God
on earth, replacing an organization of life where division, deceit and vo-
lence are all powerful by a new order where reign concord, truth and
brotherhood, then w shall see that war, public Or private, between in
dividuals or nations, is wrong.
War is hate. Let us fill our hearts with love and look forth upon
our enemies with that love, and we shall see that a Christian war is as
impossible "a a Christian murder.
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SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

There are 20 German schools in
Italy. The largest, in Milan, has 172
pupils.
The daisy chain, which is carried by
the tallest and handsomest sopho-
mores of Vassar college during the
commencement exercises, is always
just as many feet long as there are
seniors. 1t is used to inclose the
seniors about the tree, and is much in
evidence during the graduating ex-
e~rcises of class day.
In the United States the majority of
librarians are ONE In Berlin q
school for. women librarians was
opened in 1900, which provides two
courses of instruction, one scientific,
covering a period of three years. Many
private libraries in the old country,
notably those of the Royal Historical
society, Manchester college, Oxford
and the Bradford Literary society, are
in charge of m
The Bible publications of the Ok
ford University Press have been is
sued for 0 years, and can be. pub
lished in $50 languages and dialects.
Every year fully 600 tons of paper are
used for this purpose alone. Orders
for 100, 900 Bibles are quite common,
and the supply of printed sheets is so
great that an order for half a million
copies can be readily filed. On an
average, from 80 to 40 Bibles are fur
nished every minute.
1t is interesting to know that the
question of the largest university in
the country has been finally settled
and hat the proud distinction belongs
to Columbia university, the entire
student enrolment, deducting double
enrolment, being 1851, as compared
with 5.O44 of Harvard for the last year
and 5,46S for this year. This registra-
ton includes. besides Columbia col
lege. Barnard college, the graduate
schools in philosophy, political sci
ence, schools of applied science, law
school, college of physicians and sur
geons, summer session, auditors, ex-
tension students.
Rev. James C. Bradley, a young
preacher of Guthrie, Okla, made a
funny slip of the tongue a couple of
months ago, but is very glad of it now.
He was leading the service at a young
peoples meeting. and in the course
of his prayer said: 20 Lord, give us
clean hearts, humble hearts, pure
hearts, sweet hearts," The last caused
a litter which nearly broke up the serv-
ice. After the meeting was over one
of the young sisters jokingly inquired
if he really meant it. Her question
gave him an opportunity to plead a
suit he had feared to suggest hitherto
and the culmination of his odd mistake
in the pulpit came in his union recent
" to the girl who had joked him about
1t.
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MOTHERS BABY.

| ocked you. dear. last night till fast
asleep
Your tousled head lay heavy on my
arm;
Your lips We're cucved in smiles that
seemed to creep
Across your cheeks in dimples, and your
form '
In childish sweet abandon all outsprawled
Lay in my arms close Struggled to my
breast
MY sweet rose-tinted baby,-and l called
You names, L did, and l was more than
blest,
And somehow l did hate to lay you down,
But held YOU closer. closer as the night
and brown.
And in the CRATE fires fitful dying light
/ fell to dreaming as you dreamed, my
sweet;
1 know not what you dreamed of but 1
dreamed,
TIL while l held your crinkled roseleaf
feet.
Dear dreams for you the while the
wood fire cleaned.
Dear dreams for you and Struggled you
so tight
My face was fairly hidden in your curls;
Dear dreams for you, and in the lumber
night
A Presence came, and mammals best of
girls
And mamma, too. We're raised against the
breast
OF Him who market cen the sparrow's
fail.
And all was well and we lay down to rest
With that sweet Presence broodins over
all.
j. NJ. Lewis, in Houston Post.
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have been gradually thinned out by
death until very few of them remain,
resting in their covent homes, tran
gully awaiting the final summons to
the land where conflict is unknown"
Four sisterhoods took part in the
civil war, the Sisters of Charity, Sis
tiers of Mercy, Sisters of St. Joseph
and Sisters of the Holy Cross. The
book containing the history of their
deeds is replete with stirring Incl
dents, one of them being particularly
pathetic. Sister Mary Lucy of the Sis
tiers of Charity of Nazareth. richly en-
dowed by nature, was the music teach
er in ST. Mary's academy, Paducah,
Kentucky. She volunteered as n of
the hospital nurses. She was assigned
to some of the most severe typhoid
fever cases, and the manner in which
she nursed these patients won for her
unqualified praise from doctors and
attendants. In the latter part of De-
cember of the first year of the war the
sister contracted the fever from one
The Tupelo journal., 1903-05-29
Smallest British Coin.

In the British crown colony of
Hong-Kong a coin is in circulation
known as the mil This is a tiny
copper coin with a hole in the cen
ter, intended to take the place of the
Chinese cash" which is one-ifty-
third of a penny, and is in general
use among the coolies in the colony.
The mil is one-tenth part of d cent,
one-one t~housandth part of a dollar,
and as the silver dollar in use in
Hong-Kong is at present worth about
40 cents, it follows that the mil is
worth about one-twenty-fifth part of
a cent. This, therefore, is the value
of the smallest British coin. Another
minute British coin is the Maltese
grain which has been issued re-
Gently in Malta; six of these go to a
cent. 1t is such a pretty little coin
that it has attracted the notice of
tourists, and is already at a premium.
1t can scarcely be obtained now ex
cept at the rate of five to the cent,
a serious difference in the eyes of the
frugal Maltese.-Stray Stories.
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RUN WAGONS BY TROLLEY.
Novel Method of Transportation Is
Displacing the Horse In


With the Lombard-GeFin system our
readers, says the Scientific American,
are not unfamiliar. The system util-
ICES two overhead wires-one positive
and II negative. Instead of driving
the vehicles entirely by motors on
nected with the axle, an auxiliary de-
wee called an "automotor trolley is
used which runs along the overhead
wires. In other words. the vehicles
are towed along by a s~elf-propelled
motor trolley. The towing trolley is
driven by a three-phase induction mo-
tor suspended between two conduct
ing trolley wires. The motor is ar
ried in a frame which also has bear
lngs for the two trolley wheels. Mo-
ton is communicated TO the trolley
wheels by the revolving field of the
motor.
The current is fed to the trolley
motor from the omnibus motor.
which latter may be regarded as a
combined rotary transformer and di-
r~ect-current motor. The trolley mo-
tor travels with a speed somewhat
in excess of that of the car itself.
From this peculiar arrangement of
causing it to lead the way, as it were,
the F%renchmen have termed the auto
trolley 1.-The blind mans dog"
The Lombard-Gerin system has
been tried on a line extending from
the village of Samois to Fontaine-
bleau, a distance of about five kilo-
meters. On this line the car or pm
nibus is driven by a double motor
at a tension of 500 volts
direct current. The time taken for
the journey is about 20 minutes. The
total energy used is 543 kilowatt
hours, or 60-foot kilowatt hours per
car kilometer.
1t is stated that the low expense
of equipment for a line of this char
acter renders it of particular value
for country districts, where an ex-
pensive track construction would be
prohibitive on account of the small
amount of traffic.
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HUMOROUS.

Higgelty-"Poor chap! he's walking
on his uppers." Piggelty-'Dear, dear!
Can't even call his sole his own!"-Har-
ward Lampoon.
The Critic.-"Does she appreciate
good art??" Il guess so; she punctured
Dauber's latest with her UMBRELLA
Detroit Free Press.
Percy-"Miss Sweetly. do you think
you could be happy with a man like
me?' Miss Sweetly-"Well. perhaps
if he wasn't too much like you'll
Comic Cuts.
Pertinent lnquiry.-Biggs (smok-
lng)-"Ihis is something like a cigar,
old man" Diggs (Ggetting a whiff)-
Yes e~r-something like. What is
1t, anyway ?'-Chicago Daily News.
What's Jinks a-doin' of now?"
"Settin' still an growlin' at the world
What for?" "Well. the world won't
rise up an make a living for him.
Atlanta Constitution.
Jonathan-"I say. Britisher. can YOU
spell horse?" Englishman-"'Orse?
Why. certainly. 1t honly takes a
hatch and a no and a har and,a hess
and a he to spell 'orse."-kansas City
Journal.
why, there isn't enough room in
this fiat to swing a cat said the man,
contemptuously. THAT needn't both
er YOU" promptly replied the ianitor.
I'VE don't allow cats here."-Philadel-
phia Press.
Would Seem So.-Gunner-''I am 60
ing to look in the front of this maya
zine for the best pictures of the day"
Guyer-"Oh. you should look in the
back. The best magazine artists are
illustrating advertisements these
days. Chicago Daily News.
Johnny-''Is there any difference,
pa, between sleeplessness and insom-
MAJ" Pa-"Yes. indeed, Johnny, a
great deal of difference. Anybody can
be sleepless, but it is only persons who
have money and a place in society
who suffer from Observation-Disclosures
Transcript.
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of her convalescent patients, and in a
very few days she died. She was given
a soldiers burial. Several files of SOL
diers marched with muffied drums and
noiseless tread to the Ohio river, where
the coffin was placed on a boat under a
flag of truce and carried back to
Paducah. A guard of devoted soldiers
watched the coffin day and night from
the time the body was taken to the
hospital until it was buried in conse-
Grated ground. At night the tender
hearted warriors kept their vigils
around the coffin with torches made of
pine knots.
Three of the sisters who occupied
most responsible positions became es-
pecially conspicuous because of
their superior a~ttainments. One of
these was Sister Anthony, who
served all through the war and won en-
during %laurels at the battle of Shiloh.
Another was Sister Gonzaga, who had
charge Of the Satterlee hospital at
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death, Then the horror of his anar-
chy had been forgotten, Kate Field
and a dozen friends bought the old
Brown farm, at North Elba, and
turned 1T over to the state as a pub
lie charge. 1t is near Lake Placid
n the other resorts of the northern
Adirondacks, says the Four-Track
News.
frequently during the summer So
Jonrners in want of amusement go
over to the place and rest for a few
minutes in the ~low-roofed, two-story
mouse. Everyone knows the story of
John Browns repeated business fail
ures, his visions, in which a voice"
told him to free the ~slave-, his part
IN the slavery war in Kansas, and
the attack on the arsenal at Harper's
Ferry.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-05-29
JOHN BROWNS BODY.
RepOses In q Grave Near Lake Placid
Among the Northern Adj
rOndacks.

Halfway between the Mohawk
river and the Canadian line, in Essex
county. N. Y, shut in by a dozen
towering peaks of the Adirondacks,
are the living place and sleeping
place of "Old John Brown" The
living place il the home from which
Brown went out to fight in Kansas,
and the sleeping place is the grave
beside a giant granite bowlder-the
grave in which they laid his body aft
er the execution at Charleston, in
tDe. Thirty-seven years after his
The Tupelo journal., 1903-05-29
Knew what He Wanted.

well, Moses" began the senator,
as a grinning African was ushered
into his presence at Washington,
what brings you here?"
"Mars joe" replied Nose, use got
'portant business, sab. l wants er
orfice."
"You want IN Office! Why, what
can you do?" DO, Mars Joe? What
does everybody do that's got er or
flee? Bless yer heart. Mars Joe, yer
don't un'stand ole Nose. I amt
look'n fo' work, sab; / only wants er
Observation-Disclosures Public Ledger.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-05-29
Christian War and Christian Murder
By ERNEST CROSBY,
Disciple of Iolstoh preidentc Civic Council Of New York, Author Of Plain Talk in Psai
@ Parable"

Some years ago, while I was visiting Count Toll
stoi at Yasnaya Polyana, the English governess of his
children told me this story:
Tolstois ten-year-old daughter Sacla (diminutive
OF Alexandria was playing one day with a peasant boy
when the lad hit her with a stick, hurting her arm.
Sacha ran crying to the house and begged her father
to have the boy whipped, but Tostoi, taking the child
on his lap, said to her:
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Has Voted since 1S30.

Mr.. H. i. Morse, of Buffalo, n. Y, has
voted in 63 state and Is presidential
elections. His first vote was in 1889.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1903-09-14
RepubIica
franceSa
Papel secundari0
AIianza mas intinna

Considerable la posicion antigua y
favorita de protectora del catolicismo
en- Oriente, at1n no del todo abandona-
da, las atlas dotes diplomaticas de su
ministro de Estado Delcasse, y sus vi
tales intereses en- el Mediterraneo, de
que Ell Adriatico, ell Jonico, Ell Egeo, ell
de Marmara vel Negro son meros
brazos prolongaciones, no puede con-
ternplarse sin asombro Ell secundario,
insigni6cante papel que Francia, la
vencedora en- Crimea, representa- en- la
actual question de Oriente, y otro tauto
ocurre en- Inglaterra. su aliada de en-
tonces. La ConSecuencia mas directa
que Gel case de Francia puede dedu-
cirse, eS que Su actual alianza con Ru-
sia es mas fntima que nunca, puesto
que Ia vemos seguir todos los pasos de
eSta. ES induda Bile, con todo que hay
entire ambas un acuerdo, impuesto por
Francia, de que las maniobras rusas en-
to.no del Bosforo no hayan, al menos
hasta mas yer, de traSpasar ciertos IL
mites, puesto q1e con Ell Unconditional
apoyo de la replblica, podrfa Ell cooso
del Norte entrar en- Constantinopla a
todas horas, y 81 no 10 hace, no son, a
buen segnro, conSideraciones al Sultan
las que le detiene.
No menos sorprendente es, 10 mismo
en- Inglaterra que en- Francia, yer cuan
silenclosoS Sc mantienen los respectivos
bota-fuegos de sus gabinetes, sefiores
Chamberlain y Pelletan, de ordinario
tan dispuestos levantar cisco. Es
que, por ahora. en- ambos lados de la
Mancha Sc piensa solo en- polftica inte-
rior, que por parte de Francia Sc con-
creta 4 discursos provinciales de poca
consecuencia. Suponemos que va no
queden muchos religiosos que expulsar
y 81 ha de continuarse la campafia anti
clerical, menester es que haya contra
quien. El clero regular frances 6 esta
como suele decirse, metido en- puf1o, 8
la separation de Iglesia y Estado no es
tan inminente como ls.-ecia dfas atras.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1903-09-14

UNA FIGURA GRANDE
Los peregrinos franceses

Ignoramos 81 con la nueva polftica
que parece entroniZarSe en- ell Vaticano,
ganara 6 perdera la Santa Sede en- eX-
cesitud; pero en- ell terreno de las CO.
sas practicaS no promote sufrir menos-
cabo. Desde luego, la perSonalidad del
nuevo Pontifice Sc ha hecho mas cons
pfcua en- ell POGO tempo que lleva de
apacentar ell immense rebaflo catoliCo
que ninguna de .sus antecesores, no
obstante la &usencia de todo golpe de
efecto. Cosa curiosa, n6tase en- la We
neranda atmosfera de San Pedro cierto
descenso de misticismo que nj amen2ua
nj afecta al respeto debido a la institu-
cion, I'm Papa mas humane sin perder
Ell rehejo de divinidad que Sc supoLe
debe circundar al Vicario del Rey de
Reyes, que Sc acerca mas a los hombres
sin por clio alejarSe de las alturas, pues-
to que Dios esta en- todas parties. Los
indicios son de que las mas activas in
huenoias extremaS, 10 mismo antireli-
giosaS que ultramontanaS, encontrar an
un grave obstaculo en- la conducta, a la
vez prudente y frme, de que Pic X
empieza a dar inequfvocas muestras
desde su elevation. Entire sus prime
ras medidas cuentase la orden dada a
unos peregrinos franceses de que esco
jan otra fecha que la del 20 de septiem-
bre, aniversario de la caida de Roma,
para ir a rendirle homeaaje, a fin de
no chocar con ell sentinliento patriotico
italiano, y el drsengafio que acaba &c
sufrir el carlismo con las declaraciones
din asticas de S. S. favorables Ia fa-
milia 1einante en- Espafia. Asf, pues,
va sabe el pretendiente hasta que pun
to puede presumir de sus relaciones
privadas con el ex-patriarca de Vene-
cia. Llevado de su exquisite pruden-
lcia, todavia no nombro secretario de
Estado, de suerte que 500 CONFETTI
ras ha lugar 10 que sera su pontfhcadc
en- relaciones generates, y esas confetti
ras no pueden menos de ser favorables'
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1903-09-14
La exposition de San Luis
Gran Jardin de rosas.

Un million de rosas f1oreceran en- el
eX-enso jardfn de rosas de la Exposi-
cion Universal, que en- breve Sc celebra-
"a en- San Luis.
Sc han plantado cratro acres con ro-
sales fuertes y vigorosos. va 80 de los
principales expositores han enviado sus
mas seleCtas semillas y cada expositor
procurara alcanzar ell primer premio de
los juradcs.
Este jardin, con sus 10000 plantas,
esta situado al Este del Palacio de Agri,
cultura, magnffco edifcio de 1000 pies
de largo y 50 de alto.
Cada collection, 4 pesar de estar Sc
parada y de ser distilta de las demas,
forma parte de TN gran concurso arts
tico, rodeado por un sendero hermoSo
de follaje de cuatro ocho pies de an
cho. Las cuatro acres de rosas estan
atravesadas por caminos en- todas di-
recciones y en- ciertos puntos Sc veran
preciosas fuentes, cuyas aguas refresca-
ran la admosfera.
La labor de sembrsr las 10000 plan
tas de roSas, que va est an creciendo en-
este gigantic jardin, el mas grande que
jamas Sc haya concebido, ha entreteni-
do a centenares de jardineros expertos
y gran n1imero de o5reros. Para cada
collection Sc han hecho excavaciores
de IS pulgadas de profundidad. que fue.
ron rellenadas luego con buen abono y
fertilizadores de la clase que mejor Sc
adapta para cada especie de rosas.
La mayor parte de las 10000 rosas
que han sido sembradas son de terrenos
arenosos y semiarenosos; pero muchas
de las variedades que no Sc esperaba
poder cultivar en- Saint Luis por 10 ri
guroso de su invierro, Sc podran con-
templar entire los eJe:nplares a la vista
de la Exposition. Dnrante este vera
no y parte del otofio entrsnte, las plau-
tas continuaran creciendo, y al entrar
el invierno, los jardineros tomaran pre-
cauciones para evitar las escarchas. Sc
echara abono y paja en- las raices de
cada planta y una capa de paja cubri-
RI los rosales durante ell invierno.
De esta manera estaran cubiertos has
ia la primavera proxima, cuando fore
receran para delete de los visitantes de
Ia Exposition.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1903-09-14
UR1 C0ngreso
international

En- Bie1feld, de Westfalia, acaba de
reunirse un Congreso International de-.
Adivinad de que....
Pero no, es inttil. No hagais esfuer-
zos. No podrfas nunca, nunca, adivi-
mar.
I'm congreso de bailarines, al cual
han concurrido gran n1mero de per-
sonas de todas parties del mundo. Y
10 mas extra aordinario es que no Sc
trata de TN debut.
va en- 1901 Sc reunio en- San Pc
terSburgo y en- 1902 en- Munich. Solo
que entonces sus SeSiones sc reduieron
& buscar, por medic de. discursos, los
medios mas adecuados a propasar en-
ell mundo entero la a6ciou al bale.
Por ESQ nadie hablo del asunto.
Hoy, en- cambio, seg1n parece, ell
mundo entero esta preocupado por cau-
sa de las resoluciones del Congreso de
1903.
lEl Congreso de Westfalia!
Suena bien esto. Parece una reu-
nion de emperadores.
~ sabeis por que preocupa tanto ST
obra7
Tampoco; impossible. Como vais 4
saberlo! Estas cosas no Sc adivinan.
Old:
"Preocupa, porque en- sus agitadas
sesiones, Sc ha dispuesto dar muerte al
CAKE aU4Ike."
Lo dice la gave Goccta de Coiosta
| Y 10 dice gravemente.
FL instigador de esta sentencia fuE q
professor Knoll, alemSn. FL acta de Ia
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1903-09-14

session cuarta dice: "Luego Mr.. Rnoll
insistio en- que Sc Erme I'm e0mby0mtsS
en- Ell cual los congresistas den palabra
de combatir en- todas par.es, en- todas
circunstancias, con todas armas. esa
DANA de negros hoy, tan en- moda y
que tan consraria a los principles CO.
reograficos es.
La GaeetH publica algunos fragmen-
tos del discurso de Mr.. Knoll.
SefloreS:
"El cake-walke no eS sino I'm epilep-
tiCo boston q dos tiempos, una zaraban-
da deScabellada, I'm grotesco movimien
to de salvajes. No 10 bailemos. Sea-
mos, 6 mejor dicho, tratemos de ser de
nuevo los hidalgos de antafio. Pero
para este es necesario que todos y cada
uno de nosotros no divide nunca que
cada DANA debe ejecutarse como 10 in
dica su teoria y como 10 manda su abo-
lengo."
Bravo!
Este bravo no es m1o. Es e1 eco del
grito unanjme Gel Congreso. Un grito
enorne, en- efecto, I'LL clamor entusiasta
saludo al orador.
Y en- seguida Sc 6rmo Ell comby0maso.
Cuidado, pues, ioh, locas amigas de
las novedades! iCuidado con ell cake
aUalke! No 10 baileis nunca mas. No
10 apIaudais No 10 contempleis siquiera.
Es una cosa ridfcula.
Es una invencion de negros, de locos
y de poseldos. 81 quereis estar de acuer-
do con las "buenas doctrinas", y dar
gusto al sefor Knoll, recordad las m1-
sicas de antaf1o, aquellas suaves mo-
notonas mt1sicas, que salian aleteando
discretamente del clavicordio, y ballad,
como mufiecas de tapices, minuetos y
pavanas arcaicas...
E.Gomez Carrillo.