davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1904-08-12
La SituaCi0n del VatiCanO
ContinHa la tirantez
CON FranCia

hOo SOR1P CAOC QuCs oCS uA 0CSpdC1Oo
de Roma, exista gran preocupa aci6n eli
ell Vaticano por la act1tud del gobierno
frances, porque la Suppression de los
creditos para la EN- bajada cerca de la
Santa Sece es I'm hecho que abba por
81 mismo. El nuncio apost6lico en- Pa
r1s, monseflor Lorenzelli, continda pro-
curando infundir amino al Vaticano
con Ia esperanto de que Ell ministro
Combes abandonara el poder en- breve
va per creersele deseoso de hacerlo, va
porque la oposicion crece constante-
mente en- torno suyo. Lo primero es
possible, pero 10 segundo SON ilusiones
que el nuncio Sc forja
La comiSion de presupuestos que
|recomendo la Suppression del de la en-
ajada es presidida por M. Doumer,
que pasa por clerical disfrazade GUAM
do solo es adversario no muy decidido
del primer ministre. Gambetta Y Fe-
|rry, que nunca pasaron por clericales,
Sc opsndrian, siendo oportunistas, a les
metodos demasiado cortantes del doc
tor y ex.abate Combes.
La opinion mas esparcida en- ell Va
ticano es que el nuncio Lorenzelli no
supo mostrarse la altura de su mi
sion y que debi6 relevarsele antes.
Alegase que por tratar de sostenerse
en- buenos terminus con el gabinete
Waldeck-Rousseau Sc enajen6 las sim
patias de los conservadores, y cuando
Sc acentuo la politica anti-clerical con-
ira las Ordenes religiosas Sc halo sin
amigos. Esto puede haber sucedido
en- parte, pero hay otras razones mas
poderosas.
Francla, no obstante la agitaci6n
obrera y las hselgas, .atraviesa un pc
rlodo de prssperidad economical sin
ejemplo No solo gezan sus industrias
de un apogeo nunca visto, sino que a
sus pletoricos bancos acude ell mundo
tomar dinero prestado
En- tales circunstancias, cuando los
negocios llevan buena marcha, los pue-
bios Sc despreocupan de la politica y
pueden los polfticos, especialmente los
gobiernos, mangonear con mas liber-
tad. Es probable que la mayorfa del
pueblo frances yea con POGO agrado
las exageraciones antirreligiosas del
gabinete Cotnbes; pero sus negocios
prosperan y esta considerable lie dull
cifca el temperamento. Las grandes
masas Sc sacuden generalmente i'm
pulsos de grandes calamidades, como
en- tiempos de la gran revoluci6n.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1904-08-12
FL ferrOCarril SubterrdneO
de New York
PROXIMA INAUGURATION

Segun dice IN per1od1co de los ES-
tados Unidos, en- la conferencia que
tuvieron hace dias ell alcalde McCle-
liam y August Belmont, representands 10
la marlborough Rapid Transit Com
pany, quedo convenido en- que Ell 10
de Septiembre pr6ximo Sc Inaugural
ria ell ferrocarril subterraneo de Nue.
va York, llamado comdnmente Tran
sito Rapido. La Inauguration Sc ve-
ri6carz con mucho ceremonial
La obra comenz0 en- 1900, siendo
contratista John B. Mcdonald pri-
mer ingeniero William Barclay Par
sons (que actualmente 10 es del Canal
de Panama), siendo presapuestada en-
$4,000, 900, cuya cantidad proporcion6
ell municipio emitiendo bonos amorti-
FABLES en- 50 amos. Esperabase haber
efectuade la Inauguration hace algu-
nos meses, antes del plazo estipulade
en- el contrato, que es de cuatro amos
medic, 4 partir del dia de la frma,
pero Sc tropezo con muchas difculta-
des.
Las huelgas Sc sucedieron las
huelgas. causando graves demoras y
perjuicios los subcontratistas. Lue-
go, algunes tramos del t1nel dieron
muchisino que hacer. Especialmente
el de la calle 42a, lego creerse de
impossible ejecuci6n. Ademas ocu-
rrieron academies que costaron vidas
y retrasaron los trabajos.
En- muchos casos, como en- Park
Avenue, la perforaci6n periodical ba
los cimientos de las casas y la faena
de apuntalamiento era question seria
y trabajosa. Lo que ha de inaugurar-
Sc en- 70 Septiembre lleva costado
mas de $37.75o,ooo.
La idea del ferrocarril subterraneo
para Nueva York fu@ concebida por
Abraham S. Hewitt en- 1888, siendo
alcalde de esta ciudad, antes de Ia
consolidation de los cinco distrites en-
10 que es ahora Greater New York, y
no fue bien acogida, pero ella inAuy6
para que la Legislature del Estado
votase en- 1891 la ley Rapid Transit,
que sirvi6 de base a los planes bajo
los cuales Sc ejeeuto la obra,
La ley Rapid Transit fue enmenda-
da en- 1904 con una clausula sometien-
do ell asunto al voto de los ciudadanos
de Nueva York, quienes subsecuente-
mente aprobaron la idea de que ell
municipio construyese la Inca y luego
la cediese en- arrendamiento una
corporation. Esta corporation es la
Interborsugh Rapid Transit Compa-
ny, la cual Sc encarga de explotar la
lfnea por un periodic de 50 amos, al fin
del cual quedaran amortizados los bo-
nos y la empresa pasara ser propie-
dad del municipio.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-10-02

were paid four and one-half millions
of dollars by Giant Collarsandcuffs
He has been loyal to the state of
New York, where he first got his
chance to grow, for he, has given it
fifty-four factories, while all the other
states have fifty-seven between them.
There is not a town within twenty
miles of Troy now wherein some part
of the female population is not en-
ployed in some branch of manufac-
ture for him. At least one-half of all
the folk who live in Troy itself are
workers for Giant Collarsandcuffs
Many of the Troy people are kept as
busy as can be in merely Carrying the
finished and unfinished work from
factory to factory.
There are so many folks in that town
who have never done anything else
except to work for the giant that lots
OF them seem to have collars and cuffs
bred in the bone, and they bring
their children up to do just what they
are doing. They are whole families that
nave done only a certain piece of
work, such as button-hole making or
scanning, ever since the days of their
grandfathers, and their children learn
to do exactly the same thing. OF
course, that makes them wonderfully
expert and they are true specialists
who can always get lots of work to do
Giant Collarsandcuffs has an amaz-
the appetite. He eats up about thirty
hVe thousand miles of linen and cot
ton in a year, enough to go around the
world at the Equator, and still leave
material over to reach from the city
OF New York across the American
continent to San Francisco, and then
on across the Pacific ocean to Shang-
hal 1t is lucky that Giant Collarsand-
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-10-02
The Mystery of
The Green Cat
How She FIoafed TO the Roof.

Tim Dewire fed 10 the green cat for
refuge Immediately after his stepfath-
er had flung him downstairs for the
third time. The cat did not purr when
he appeared, but she gave him shelter
that, on a December night, was a great
deal. This cat had no heart. She was
a theatrical cat and needed no inte-
rior arrangements.
She had been made with a light
wooden frame. covered with strong
canvas, and hung by a hook between
her ears in front of an opera house
during the famous run of "Puss in
Boots" but at the end of the one hun
dred and fiftieth night she had wan
dered to the front of German Jake's
restaurant and sat down there as a
sign to attract customers.
Tim found her a. good friend, for with
his jack-knife he made a door in the
canvas at her back and crept inside:
and with a little labor he made a hole
in the cloth beneath one side of her
gigantic form and thus was able to
enjoy a free heating arrangement from
the hot air that came from Jake's
kitchen through a grating.
When he had obtained a few candle
ends, a heap of hay and some old
blankets, he declared with a grin that
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-10-02

all the tricks before large crowds by
and by, and that if 1 did them we'll
would receive great applause, l was
anxious to learn as fast as possible.
You may have seen me i'm England
and many of the things I have done,
for | have been with a circus for the
last fifteen years. l am the only ele-
plant who ever rode around a ring
on the back of another.
/ take circus pony in my trunk
and lift him over a horse and set him
down on the other side.
/ strike the ground head-frst and
roll clear around like a ball.
l stand with all my feet on a chair
and leap over the back OF it.
/ climb a ladder ten feet high. and I
get into a hammock and swing back
and forth and smoke a big cigar.
All these tricks and many others I
have seen doing in England France
and Germany for many years past,
but now 1 have come to America to
live and l want you to be on the
watch for me.
In my next chapter. which will be
the last, ] will tell you how my friend
Pete and ] went on a spree together
(To be continued)
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-10-02

finally landed in Liverpool, and with
the other elephants I was taken to a
large building just outside the city to
rest after my voyage and be put into
the hands of a trainer.
In these days ali elephants who go
with circuses must be trained to do
tricks. and as 1 was a dwarf, they
wanted to teach me to do many cute
things.
Il was two weeks before was
brought out into a ring, and, of course,
] did not understand what was wanted
of me. l was coaxed to put my front
feet on chair. but l was afraid the
chair would break down.
The man did not understand my
fears, and after a bit he jabbed me
with an iron hook. The pain made me
furious, and 1 seized him in my trunk
and hurled him across the ring with
such force that he had his leg broken.
There was a great shouting over
this, but a man came running in and
said:
Haven't l told you not to lose your
temper and strike an elephant when
he fails to understand? This little fell
low is not ugly, but is afraid. Let him
put his feet on a box first"
A new man then took hold of me-
and they also brought in a big dog
named Rover, and in a little time L
was doing very well. When l had
come to understand that l was to do
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-10-02
A PiraticaI Misadventure


do you refuse TO obey the orders
of your chief?" demanded Tim Stew
ems sternly.
Eyes. I dol" stoutly declared Liut-
tenant George Taylor, "Il be a
private all right. but I'm not going to
be a policeman"
Look here" pleaded the chief,
dropping his authority. It's the
chance of our lives. Wen get the
s., 900 reward and we can buy a launch
instead of the old thing" kicking the
side of the fat-tottomed punt which
had once seemed so desirable, though
not exactly the long, law rakish craft
of piratioal fiction.
This put a new face upon the mat
ter. One by one the band consented
to engage in the hazardous enterprise
There were fourteen in the band
not counting Jimmie, George TaylOr's
brother, who thought only seven, was
admitted to piracy because they met
in the Taylor barn in the winter, and
Jimmie would tell his father unless
sworn to secrecy over the terrible
traitors head" which was in reality
a pumpkin covered with a towel, but
which did we'll enough when the can
didate was blindfolded.
Fourteen boys should be a match
for one man, even though he might be
the bank burglar for whom a reward
had been offered. They had found him
fast asleep in the pirates lair that they
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-10-02
To Make Magic
Plant Grow
Simple Way to Produce Real Plants
Almost Before the Eyes.

The famous Oriental trick of MAX
ing mango plant grow from the
ground in front of the beholder is
one of the most fascinating of all
magical tricks. 1t has held it's in
terest for the world throughout the
generations, although it is well known
now that there is no mystery about it
at all, and that it is simply feat of
extraordinary clever jugglery.
But there is a way of making plants
actually grow before the eyes of the
! observer. and the growth is natural
There is no jugglery or legerdemain
about it at all.
Set fire to a quantity of straw. Bean
or pea straw is the best, because it
contains the most fertilizing elements.
Sieve the ashes thoroughly till you
| have the finest kind of powder. Now
set it aside and soak some parsley or
salad seed in strong brandy for TWEEN
| ty-four hours.
Dig up about twice as much fine,
loose, black garden earth as you have
ashes. Sieve it thoroughly and mix
the straw ashes with it until the result
is beautiful, smooth, soft black
mold.
Now mix the seed in, and spread the
entire mass out in a very shallow fiat
box SO that the earth will be about d
quarter of an inch deep.
Sprinkle it all carefully with luke
warm rainwater, being sure to put
only enough on to moisten it all thor
oughly and not so much that it will
make mud. Sprinkle as often as the
earth shows signs of having soaked
up all the moisture.
Inside of quarter of an hour you
will begin to notice the first faint
flush of green over the earth, and
belong long the little plants will be
seen SproutinS.
If it is not possible to obtain straw
ashes the garden mold may be mixed
with little unslacked lime, finely pull
verified. In handling the lime and
grinding it or breaking it up, be care
full to keep it well away from the eyes.
If even the merest bit of dust from
unslacked lime reaches the eye, the
moisture there sets it boiling, and 1t
may destroy the sight.
Hemp, flax and similar seeds will
grow on a piece of felt or other SINH
lar stuff if it is kept wet constantly,
and all sorts of pretty figures may be
made out of it.
The little plants will not, however,
live long, for their roots cannot get
the proper food or nourishment.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-10-02

cuffs in such a good spirit, for you can
imagine how surprised seafarers would
be if we were to be inclined to wicked
ness and were to stretch all that mass
of material around the world so that
the ships would suddenly run into
linen and cotton where they had al
ways been accustomed to open water.
There are some persons living to-
day who remember little Fairy Col
larsandcuffs when he first arrived in
Troy.
Before his arrival folk had been
wearing shirts with collars and long
wristbands all in one piece. After he
had taught the wife of the blacksmith
how to manufacture the collars and
cuffs in separate pieces, a retired
Methodist ministers, the Reverend
Ebenezer Brown, who was keeping a
small dry goods store, was clever
enough to see that before long every
body would be clamoring for them.
So he set to work at once to make
them in large quantities, and he be-
came very rich because of it. At first
these separate collars were made only
by the women of Mr.. Browns house
hold, but tn increasing demand for
Browns store collars" encouraged
him TO hire help, and before long the
wives and daughters of the most of his
neighbOrs were. at work making col
lars and cuffs for him, taking their pay
in goods" from his store. He must
have been a shrewd bargainer, for
when he sent work out to be done,
each instalment was accompanied by
a card saying In pay you buy my
goods at my prices"
The collars were tied around the
neck by a tape and were commonly
called "string collars"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-10-02

got along finely until she came to
up rose old Barbara Frietchie
then''-and just at that moment she
saw Pedro come in at the door and
begin to milf up and down the aisles.
A boy tried to catch him by the
collar and several children Uttered.
Patsy felt her face getting hotter and
hotter. She couldn't remember what
came next. The teacher looked up
at her surprsed-then the next mo-
ment Pedro made wild rush, jumped
up on her and barked joyfully.
rs that your dog, Margaret" said
Miss Murphy sternly.
Patsy nodded, choking with embar-
rassment and shame.
You'd better take him out, them"
continued the teacher, and please do
not bring him again"
The whole room echoed with laugh
ter Selling Pedro by the collar, Patsy
rushed with him out of the door,
down the stairs and into the front
yard.
"Oh, you naughty, naughty dog"
she cried, sitting on the steps, the
tears starting into her eyes, you've
spoiled my nice piece and made Miss
Murphy hate me more than ever
what shall I do? Oh, dear! oh, dear!"
Pedro crowded up close to her and
licked her face.
"Oh, but you're not sorry" said
Patsy. you're only pretending. How
can 1 ever love you AGAIN."
Pedro only Struggled closer and
licked harder.
GO home!" said Patsy suddenly. IF
you were. one bit sorry you wouldn't
have to be told. Go! Go this minute!"
she cried. driving him off.
Slowly very slowly. Pedro went
away toward home, and Patsy return
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-10-02

ed to her room. 1t was dreadfully hard
to go in again. but she did not dare
do anything else.
Lessons had begun. Everybody
looked at her and Miss Murphy did.
too. Patsy's face burned.
We're on page five of the geogra-
ply" Miss Murphy said. Patsy found
her place and the afternoon dragged
slowly on.
Just before dismissal time Miss Muir
ply told every one to put away books
and drop the waste paper in the bask-
ct. Then she looked at Patsy
Would you care to say your piece
now, Margaret" she asked
For a moment Patsy was frighten-
ed; then she realized that the teach.
er meant to give her a chance to re-
deem her disgrace.
Yes, please" she replied, and got
UP and did it beautifully, never for
getting single word nor gesture.
After school was out Patsy went to
Miss Murphy.
please, l didn't bring Pedro to
school," she said. 81 tried to make
him go back He's very obstinate"
Miss Murphy looked up at her sharp
ly moment.
Very WELL" she said, "but please
do not let it happen again"
Patsy was pretty sure she wouldn't
if she could help it. She had not en-
joyed Pedros first day at school.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-10-02
FAIRY TALES OF THE UNITED STATES
Fairy of Linen, Which Has Made an American City
Rich and Famous.

Once upon a time. so long ago that
none of you were on the earth when 1t
happened. and yet not so long ago but
that all your grandfathers were alive,
there was a great country whose peo-
pie were always wanting more work to
do. This was quite different from 9TH
er countries of fairy tales. where no.
body ever did anything except to fight
dragons and look for buried pots of
gold.
The lands of the fairy stories where
no one worked have all vanished now;
but the land that this fairy story de-
scribes has grown bigger and bigger.
Because they did not waste their time
in searching for buried pots of gold,
the people found millions and millions
of pots brimful that were in plain view
all the time only. of course, they could
not have been seen by folk who kept
peering into holes and caves. Instead
OF looking for dragons TO fight, these
wise people minded their own business,
and that. as everybody knows who ever
has lived where dragons are, is quite
too deadly for these monsters. They
only thrive wnere folk spend their days
IN gazing at lneln ana DelnR AFRAID OF
them. So. IN this country. whenever
anybody cried aloud that he knew of
"a terrible dragon, all the other folk
kept right on working. If the fright
ened person continued to lament, the
rest laughed merrily. And at the
sound of laughter from persons who
have work to do a dragon melts into
thin air.
You can tell at once that this story
Is a true fairy story, because the coun-
try Is the United States of America.
And YOU all know that there are no
dragons here now.
Well, once upon a time. seventy-five
years ago. there we're many folk who
wanted new work TO do. They Won
dered and wondered. and looked and
looked, and thought and thought.
While they were all thinking, there
was an honest, hard working black
smith I'm the town OF Troy. In the
state OF New York. Troy was a great
place for blacksmiths then. This
Blacksmith had wife who had heard
OF all the folk who wanted a new
work TO do and he. too, was wonder
ing and thinking and looking.
Now II was a well known fact that
the United States was full OF fairies
az that time as n is now. But they
were not the kind Of fairies that you
-. near OF IN other fairy stories. that ap.
pear 70 mortal when he throws him
self down in the grass and weeps be-
cause everything Is going wrong.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-10-02

to go near the green cat again. for It
so happened that the locality was
extra we'll guarded.
He decided to quit the city, and
the brilliant mind of a companion in
crime evolved a scheme to bring the
boy and the stolen goods to a safe
place at once.
Together the two climbed the rear
fire escape of the restaurant to the
roof at eleven in the evening. carry
ing a wire clothesline with a large
hook attached
In the darkness they dropped the
line over the cornice and after awhile
hooked it to the ring in the cats head
and hoisted the animal from the side
walk
Tim. who had just lighted candle
end, felt the jar of the first pull and
promptly went outside to investigate.
Not understanding the situation, he
remained watching proceedings from
the walk. AS the cat rose to the
second story it turned half around
and the light through it's great yellow
eyes shone full in the face of German
Jake, just turned over in bed for his
first nap.
With horror in every nerve he ran
to the window. only to see the cat
rise out of sight. He rushed to the
street. and Tim left the vicinity. So
also did the thieves on the roof as
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-10-02

They would have run and flown and
jumped a million miles away from
such distressing person. These real
fairies never appeared to a person
until that person was thinking with all
his or her might. like the blacksmiths
wife. for instance.
She had not been thinking so very
long, before all at once a funny little
figure came trotting up the road. II
was not human shape, nor yet an in
sect. nor yet "a bird. nor vet an ami
NAL. 1t was unlike anything that ever
was before.
1t ran right up to her and bowed
low.
Mrs. Blacksmith" said the queer
being. 81 am a fairy and have come
to show you what new work there is
to do"
why goodness me-" said Mrs.
Blacksmith, "who and what are you.
you dear funny little thing?"
Il am the Fairy Collarsandcuffs.
said the little creature.
The blacksmiths wife had never
heard of fairy with such an odd
name. But she was wise. and she was
aware that all American fairies know
of pots of gold that they will give
to any one who treats them right. She
took little Collarsandcuffs on her lap
and learned all that is bad TO say.
Collarsandcuffs saw at once that
Mrs. Blacksmith was just the person
for him. So he remained in the town
OF Troy and never went back to his
caverns again.
1t was quite wonderful how the air
agreed with him. He grew visibly.
Indeed, he grew so fast that now, in
stead of being tiny little fairy he is
one of the great American giants.
Such a giant is he that he furnishes
so much work that not only a great
part of the town OF Troy. but also
many thousands of people everywhere
In the United States are kept busy all
their lives by him.
He has given America far more
than one pot of gold. Last year. for
instance, he gave a pot containing
more than $4,000 TO about two hum
dren children, who are all less than
eighteen years of age. This pot OF
gold represented their years wages
earned by working for the good
giant.
This was a pretty good pot. But
IL was nothing TO the others that he
distributed among the grown-up per-
sons who worked for him. He has be-
come so mighty since that day when
he appeared 10 the good wife OF the
blacksmith that now there are almost
eighteen thousand persons laboring
for him. and they divided ten millions
OF cold dollars between them last
year for IT,
The women OF the country alone