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La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1904-06-08
Ell SELF GOVERNMENT QUE
Sc PRACTICA EN- PU
TO RICO.

DecfamOs aver que el elf-govern-
ment es una eSfnqe en- Puerto Rico.
Para demostrarlO basta con recor-
dar el desastre del emprestito. FL
tempo que Sc ha perdido Ell formarlo
discutirlo en- la Camara: ell dinero
que Sc gast6 inutilmente en- el viaje de
los comisionados i EstadoS Unidos;
para venir despues parar en- que no
han enprGStitO, porque asf Sc lie ha Ocu-
rrido los Consejeros continentales,
es la prueba mas triste del sistema de
gobierno que nos rige, y que ell decan-
tado bill Foraker tiene tanto de self
government, como nosotros de obispos.
El presupuesto de un pals, es un
relejo de Ia vida del Estado, como que
inhuye directamente en- la industria, ell
comercio Ia agriculture: aprobarlo,
modifcarlo q anularlo, equivale, pues,
regir la vida del Estado.
Todos recordamos la importancia
y trascendencia que las Camaras die
ron al famoso presupuesto. Conferen-
cias entire ambos cuerpos legisladores;
discursos pronunciadOs:e enmiendasque
costaron largas noches de discussion Y
acalorados debates.
az todo para que? En- un mo-
mento, en- una session de dos horas, Sc
hunde La obra cicl6plea que el pals
ayud6 levantar coadyuvando con
los representatives 4 la obra de la re-
generation ansiada por todos.
y un pals que no puede formar
libremente sus presupuestos; que no
puede concertar un emprestito; que no
puede solicitar mercadOs en- ell mundo
para la exportaci6n de sus frutos:
6puede. considerarse un pals ibre, nj
puede asegurarse que exista en- 81 nj
una partfcula de SELF government?
G.Y que hacen en- tanto los causan-
tes del desastre? 6Estudian ell modo
de levantar dc la postraci6n ell cada-
yer irredento? cBuscan nuevas ma
neras de conjurar nuestra crisis eco
monica?
No; huyen y Sc alejan en- viaje de
recreo, de la patria puertorriquena 4
disfrutar del ambiente democratico de
la Rep1blica, mientras Ell pueblo de
Puerto-Rico, que levanta protestas 4
veces por hechos baladies, Sc cruza
de brazos asistiendo impasible al apo
calipsis de ~ personalidad moral, So
cial y polftica. Tiempos pecaminosos:
tiempos tristes aquellos en- que un
pueblo Gala I'll silencio es el mayor
eneubridor de los crfmenes.
Fl self government no consiente
tomafas injusticias nj fomenta la di-
vision de los ciudadanos en- vencedo-
res vencidos, sino que por ell con
trario, ese espfritu de concession, como
10 llama el historiador Burke, evita
los antagonismos sociales y la insta-
bilidad gubernamental abriendo am
plios horizontes q Jos pueblos.
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1904-06-08
COnatO de incendiO

Anoche, como a las nueve, Sc des-
cubri6 un conato de incendio en- el
Ateneo.
Parece que dos hilos electricos
que cruzaban uno sobre otro Sc incen-
diaron, comunicandose el fuego { una
de las vigas del techo del salon princi-
pal. Las muchas personals que ha-
bfan en- el local acudieron apagar el
fuego 10 cual lograron despues de ha-
Der partido los alambres.
Como es consiguiente hubo sustos
carreras por los alrededores del cen
tro. Muchas damas que Sc hallaban
en- el local llevaron una gran impre-
sion
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1904-06-08
Mr.. KOPEL

I'll sefior Abraham Kopel que ocu-
p6 el puesto de director del eSan Juan
News,S cuando Mr.. Bird traspas6 ell
peri6dico Ia nueva empresa, mani
fiesta en- el editorial de esta manana la
resoluci6n de retirarse de La direction
de dicho peri6dico, debido q sus nu-
merosas ocupaciones ofciales que el
cargo De Juez dc Paz le imponen.
Sc encargara de Ia parte admins
trativa durante la ausencia del admi-
nistrador, II selor :. q. Boutwell,. el
eual hrmars todos los recibos.
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1904-06-08
U MA DE RACIA

Ha fallecido EN- Nueva York, vic
TINA de un accidente fatal, don Cesar
We've y Garcia, hiio del m6dieo don
Santiago We've.
FL Or. We've no pudo abrazar d
su hijo al llegar, pues habla perecido
ahogado on Williamsport.
rs probable que el cadaver sea traf-
do Puerto-Rico en- el vapor Phila-
delphia.
Lamentnmos esa desgracia.
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1904-06-08
f a|ca|de de Ponce

Hoy ha regresado para Ponce el
senior don Antonio Arias, alcalde de
aquella ciudad.
FL senior Arias tuvo aver una con
ferencia con el Gobernador podeinos
asegurar no es cierta la version que
circul6 de habersele pedido al senor
Arias Ia renuncia de su cargo.
FL alcalde de Ponce sali0 muy sa-
tisfecho de su conferencia con el Co
bernador.
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1904-06-08
TRIBUNALES

Aver fu6 suspendido en- la Corte
del Distrito el iuicio oral del proceso
seguido Vicente Mariana Santana
Manuel Oquendo, por el grave deli
to <contra natura~. cuya defensa esta
encargada al Lcdo. MARTINEZ Quinte-
ro. Fl individuo Marcelino Davila,
cuya defensa estaba tambien encomen-
dada al referido abogado, que era
acusado de hurto menor. obtuvo la
absoluci6n.
Hace pocos dias que Juan de Ma
tn Espinosa. Socorro Torres, Rosa
Morales, Marcos Garcia { Isidoro Co
llazo, acusados de hurto, obtuyieron
su libertad, asf como lose Trinidad
Ruiz. denunciado por falsa represen-
taci6n, siendo defansor de todos ellos
el mencionado abogado senior Marti-
nez Quintero, quien tambitn debe su
absolucion el joven Ramon Quinones,
perseguido por el delito de seduction.
AIuy pronto sc veran algunos JUL
clos en- que lleva la defensa de los
procesados, el citado letrado, entire
ellos los de los cinco hermanos Vaz-
quez. IN tai MARTINEZ y otro individuo
de apellido Conception, de Vega Baja,
por acometimiento y aggression el de
Pillar Rodriguez otro por adulterio
Marcelino Segarra y Salustiano Ce-
defo, por hurto Francisco Gasc6.
tambisn por hurto. Y algunOs mis-.
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1904-06-08
Consejo Executive

Esta tarde q las dos tendra lugar
una reunion del Consejo Executive ig-
norandose 10 que ha de tratarse.
Cast hay la seguridad de que esta
session solo sera para asuntos de fran
quicias.
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1904-06-08
DON MODESTO BIRD

Sc halla en- San Juan y nos ha
dispensado atenta vista, nuestro res
petable amigo de Guayama don Mo-
desto Bird.
Deseamos al senor Bird agrada-
bic estancia en- esta ciudad.
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1904-06-08
La Borinquen
de TARGAS yC'

Sc ha trasladado a la ca1le de
xMuhoz Rivera,~ frente al Parque
Central
No olvidar que esta casa es Ia
que mas barato vende y que cons
tantemente introduce nuevas mer-
caucias Y articulos de alta move
dad. Vista hace fe.
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1904-06-08
GRAN tIoteITeStdurdnt 'NGLATfRRA"
HOTEL DE PRIMER ORDEN
Tetuan 10 y t2.--Cruz z y FortaIeza Il.

Construdo EXPIRE Hotel Capacdad pa
Stuaci6n lalnas centca Vistas Ia bahia las
Tetuan m la
mor de las Anlas Tene departamentos
del plan antique De coid Ell istem1 drguo del
ujo. traucores
igua hacen
las comidas.
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1904-06-08

HORTELA NO:-Se solicita uno
inteligente. Informes, en- Catafo,
quinta SPahnar1 San Juan, San
Francisco 81, altos.
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1904-06-08
HOTEL 0LIMp0
SANTuRCE
AIS minutes de San Juan

= 10 TnlHUTOS ue san Juan
El mejor hotel on este china.
Espl6ndida ventiiacion. Par
que, jardines y Kiosco d la
inglesa. Excelente servicio de
carrua jos. Precios moderados.
So hacen reduccioDes para ia :
milias. Alumbrado el6ctrico
moderno.
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1904-06-08
Sufria Con Enfcrmedad de los Rin0neS
v del iiisado Duarante Doce Amos
La Peguna lie SanO-SleHte MejOr
AhOra que Ha Sentido en- veinte
Amos.

Hon. William Watson Washburn,
Presidente del Club Comercial de Louis
lana, un cabaIlero muy conocido de
Nueva Orleans, La, escribe de 637 Canal
street:
"Estoy convencido que no hay mejor
remedio delante del pdblico hoy dia que
La Peruna. He tenido enfermedad de
los rinones y del hfgado por cerca de
doce aflos, aveces he estado bastante
enfermo, incapaz de eumplir con mis-
deberes. Estuye por Greer cue no habfa
remedio que me mejorara, cuando uno
de sus libritos fue traido mi oficina Y
la lei en- una hora desocupada. Resolvi
entonces de ensayar la Peruna en-
contre que al fin habfa conseguido el
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1904-06-08
La AntiIIa Pequena
De CARLOS IZQUIERDO
GRAN CAFE
San-jUAN

Montado con todo Iujo y apara-
tos modernos, servicio especial en-
refrescos. licores, cafe. chocolate,
helados, dulces, emparedados. le-
CHE batida, cervezas de las mejo-
res marcas acreditadas. Lunch
gratis en- servicio de 1cores.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-01-19

away into Mexico. They derive their
 name from the large stout bill which
 is characteristic of the whole family
 The evening grosbeak is the only spe-
 eies seen here. Flocks of them are of
 ten seen in the pine woods on the Cas-
 cades and Blue Mountains as late as May, being on their way from the South
 to their summer haunts in the far
 countries of the North. They are seen
 at different times Wisconsin and as far East as the New England States.
 gthea Ont oes(fg -girhestHrtbiea
 They are supposed to visit the city when the snow gets usually deep in the
 mountains but their movements apear
 to be capricious. The blue. pine and
 rose breasted species of the grosbeak are of more showy plumage than the evening grosbeak. which is of modest
 colors, but still is a beautiful bird, be- ing of a dusky olive color shading to yellowish on the trump: the forehead, line over the eyes and under tail cov-
 erts, yellow; crown, wings and tail black; bill, greenish yellow, conspicu- ously large. In this species the female differs but slightly from the male. but is easily distinguishable. In some of the other species the males are gaudy with red, blue and white markings.
 During their visits here they appear very tame and unsuspicious, and their only note while feeding consists of a single rather screaming call. In mat l ing season the male has a warbling whistle not so pretty as the robbins song.-From the Port Oregonian.
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GOING SOUTH.

The course Of empire appears to be changing to South in this country. and so is the course of wheat. Once again the tendency of wheat to seek the for eign market through the Gulf ports rather than from New York or the other American Atlantic coast cities is brought to notice From the gov ernment's report on foreign commerce for the twelve calendar months of 1903 lit is learned that the falling off in the export of wheat was heavy at all the Atlantic ports and approximately large at the Pacific ports. but that there was only a relatively small de- crease at New Orleans and a large in- crease at Galveston. Of the total loss Iof about ffty-fve million bushels in the years shipments nearly thirty-five million bushels were lost at Atlantic shipping points. while New Orleans and Galveston together increased their shipments about five million bushels.
 New York held it's own with other At lantic ports, but fell far behind each of the two principal Gulf ports.
 There are good reasons for this
 change, and it is likely to increase, un- less there is a railroad pool. or ''gen-
 tlemen's agreement" or something of that kind to check it.
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SOME STRONG FACTS.

Prohibitionists are finding much sup
 port in some facts concerning prohibit
 tion and crime in Texas. Texas has 9
 local option law which assures that
 prohibition of the saloons shall be en- acted only where it can be enforced by
 public sentiment. There are in that
 State twenty-three prohibition counties that have no convicts in the peniten- tiary, and nine with only one convict each. In thrty-nine prohibition coun- ties there are only twenty three con- victs in all. San Jacinto county alone, with population of 10,277 and the open saloon, has twenty five convicts, and Montgomery, with open saloons and IT, o67 population, has twenty-one convicts l in the State prison; and these are two poor counties in the piney woods. Col lin county, with 5OOO0 people and no saloons, has twenty convicts; Lamar
 county, with 4S,0OO and saloons, has
 ninety-six. A large part of Texas has no saloons, and las one convict in 1,50O of population. while the territory with saloons has one convict for every 800 of Gropulation
 These figures are certainly good ones for Prohibitionists to talk about, and they will be much used. Prohibition in
 Texas seems to be a success.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-01-19
AN EF}L WRATH.

Those who are looking for a chance to do good and incidentally make a little money should consider the offer of $5O,- 060 made by the State of Texas for a remedy, either of a poisonous, chemical or mechanical nature, which will de- stroy the cotton boil weevil, CT give pro- tection against it's ravages. The in- genuity of the nation and the cotton growing South has been directed against this destructive pest, but so far without effect. The cotton boil weevil first made its appearance in this coun- try some ten or twelve years ago. It invaded Texas from Mexico. In that part of the State where it entered cot ton was sparsely cultivated, so, inas- much as the weevil feeds entirely on cotton, it's advance at the start was slow. After a lapse of years, however
 it finally reached that section of the State where cotton is the principal crop, and then it's terrible powers of destruc-
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ton became known to the whole coun- try. The boil weevil has spread rapid ly, and to-day it infests one hundred counties in Texas and covers thirty-two per cent. of the cotton area of the Unit ed States. The damage done last year in Texas was s5O.OOO,O 900. The damage done in other States has not been esti- mated, but it was so enormous as to excite a general alarm that the staple crop of the South is menaced by a great danger. The Secretary of Agriculture has made an earnest recommendation that congress appropriate s5OO,OOO to ar rest the progress and lessen the rav- ages of this insect; and bill to secure this assistance and relief has been in- troduced and debated in the house Of representatives
 The boil weevil is certainly pesky and discouraging insect, and an insect which ought to be discouraged if it can be. Perhaps it would ultimately fade out or be destroyed by some natural foe. but nobody interested in cotton feels like waiting. and it is to be hoped that the attack on it which man can make will be successful. Our twelve cotton States produce eighty-one per cent. of the worlds supply of cotton and the boil weeviI has done much harm and may do much more.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-01-19
THE DEATH TRUST.

There are several trusts which have succeeded in getting themselves dislik- ed, and now what the Chicago Medical society calls ''tfe death trust is add ed to the list. The secretary of the so- ciety has issued an official paper in which he says that the anti-toxin trust is nothing more or less than traffic in human life. According to his state nent, three concerns which nlanufac- ture and practically control the anti toxin supply of almost the entire coun- try have seen fit arbitrarily to advance the price os the product one hundred per cent. This discovery was made by the department of health of the city of Chicago. when in ordering it's needed supplies for charity work it was met with these increased quotations. The department felt compelled to call public attention to the evidence that a combine had been formed which effectually con- trolled the price of the only known rem edy for the most dread scourge to the child life of the country and prim- arily to the immediate effect this would have on the death rate of chill dren in Chicago. Since the discovery of anti-toxin the department of health has done all in it's power to encourage its use and has provided anti-toxin in all cases where the people were too poor to buy it. The increase in the price made bv the trust means that the city ot Chicago will be compelled to appropriate double the sum to do the same amount of charity work in diphtheria cases for 1904 that it did in 1903. This the city can do. and doubtless will do, but this burden will fall heaviest on the self respecting, self-supporting heads of families of modest incomes should diph- theria invade their homes.
 The suggestion is made that every State in the union should have a labor atory of it's own for the manufacture oi |anti-toxin serum. It ought to have if there is. or is going to be a death trl1st
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-01-19
hl5GiBLE.

"ls Maggie a good pianist?' "Is she? Wy you should hear her play de Holy City in rag time !'-- Puck.
 ..Is he an eligible young man? T haven't had time to think about It. Its enough for me that he's young man. n."-Cleveland Plain Dealer
 He-A woman would rather talk than listen. She-Well, that depends. He-Depends on what? She-Whether or not man is mak- ling her proposal. --Pittsburg Dis patch. Gushr-Your wife has such soft, liquid voice. l Gabble-Y Yes. There's only one objec- 1 ton have to it. 1 Gusher-What is that2 Gabble-It's almost impossible for me 1 to turn off the fiow.-Chicago News. l Benders-I wonder how it feels to have so much money you don't know what to do with it? Spenders-I was that way once. 1 Benders-Get out i Spenders-Fact! I only had so much and my creditors were demanding as much again. Philadelphia Press. l Charlie, dear,'' said young Mrs. Tor kins, don't some of these South Amer
 ican generals remind you of race horses ?''
 "In what way?' l ''Why, they have such funny names,
 and you never can tell who is coming out ahead. Washington Star. fore was married I always had a new
 bonnet every time I wanted one.' Yes answered the brutal husband.
 without looking up from his paper, 'and I put fresh cheese in the mouse trap every night until I had caught
 that mouse in the pantry. Annie Seed-Oh, Mr Tallyheau, you lshould have seen MT. Seidham-Hunt
 take that high hedge! MT. Tallyheau-The ideal I didn't think the horse he rode was much of a Jumper.
 Annie Seed-Oh, the horse didn't take lthe hedge; Mir. Seidham-H Hunt did it lalone e.-Tit-Bits
 "So your husband gets up early in the morning now? What made him lchange his usual cusrom?" asked Mrs links.
 Well" replied Mrs. Junks, The took a lcourse of How to Run a Furnace in lone of these correspondence schools land he wants to sec if he has been
 cheated. Cincinnati Times-Star.
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Did Jerome.

When I'm dead, on my tombstone I hope they will say: Here lies an old fellow, the foe of all care;
 With the juicr of the grape he would moist en his clay. And, wherever he went frolic followed him there. With the young he would laugn, With the old he wonld quaff,
 And banish afar all traces of sorrow old Jerome would say:
 Though the sun sinks today, It is certain to rise up as gayiy to'
 morrow. Tho the snows of old age now may wh'teu his brow.
 It never hy gloom was a moment oercasti His age like the sunset that gleams on us now, .,. Chased away with it's brightness the clouds to the last.
 With the young he would lauSh, With the old he would auaH,
 And banish afar all traces or sorrow Old Jerome would say:
 ''INho' the sun sinks to-day, 4. It is certain to rise up as gayly to
 Al0'fV"' Samuel Beazley.
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the naples have fallen. evidently fiad- ing something eatable there.
 These birds did not vsit the city last winter, it was supposed on account the season not being severe in the of mountains and forests. where they have their haunts. There are several species of grosbeaks scattered over North America. from the Far North
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-01-19
ADVERTISING RATES.

Situations. Wants. Rents. and ether small advertisements, One Cent Word each in- eertion; Five Gents Word for full week.
 Display advertisements. per Inch. one h. eertion, $i.20; each subsequent insertion, 40 cents: one week. s3.20; one month. $1o; one
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-01-19
THE EVENING GRosBEAK.
A Pretty Little Bird That Visits Pacii

A Pretty Little Bird That Visits Pacific
 Coast Cities in Severe Winters
 A flock of evening grosbeaks, the pretty little birds which usually visits this city Curing tEe winter, arrived Lcre a few days ago. They have been fiit- ting about and feeding nthe seeds of the locust trees, the pods of which still cling to the branches, and pecking aE the stems from which the seeds cf
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-01-19

Hildesheim Hanover) town council has decided to preserve the ancient ap- pearance of it's streets by ordering that all new private buildings must be in the seventeenth century German style.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-01-19

Carts, wagons, drays, trucks, etc, are not employed largely in Syria and Palestine. On the farms wagon of any description is hardly ever seen. Grain is brought in on the backs of tamels and donkeys. Delivery wagons are unknown in Syrian cities.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-01-19

The Brooklyn Eagle thinks the fact that a New York audience can sit, quiet and resigned, through four hours of utter solemnity, in 'Parsifal." is a promise that if the theater managers wake up. some day. and replace "A Dead Hen," "Ten Little Snipes' and "A Gutter Hero with something equally serious in real plays, they may be able to scare up an audience.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-01-19

The Hungarian journals are making merry at the expense of Count Tisza. the Premier, who, although Liberal, is not free from the foibles of his caste One of these is a love to appear at ali functions in his uniform as a reserve lieutenant of Hussars. At a recent public funeral, since his accession to office, this led him into a ludicrous scrape A regular captain of Hussars, of Tory principles, who happened to be on duty, spied the Premier in his re- serve uniform, ard therefore, in the po- stion of his subordinate. As one or two little details of the uniform had not been donned, the captain peremptor- fly ordered the lieutenant out of the church to dress correctly, and the Premier had no appeal Home he ruhsed to rectify himself, but when he got back to church the funeral was over
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-01-19

It is my opinion, says J. Sargent Cram. ''that Mir. Croker will never re- turn to this city. I spent four or five hours with him in London just before sailing. and we discussed a variety of subjects as we dined together. MT. Croker, as you know, has bought place in Ireland. He laughingly .ulu me he was going over thereto prepare the Irish vote for Tammany. To that extent will he engage in politics and nothing rlore''
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-01-19

Near Santa Catalina island, off the coast of California, was caught recently the largest sunfsh ever taken or per- haps seen. It was literally impossible, even with all the available tackle used in lifting huge tunas and black sea bass, to weigh this fish entire or to life it from the ground, so that it's weight was guessed at ton, while conservative es- inmates place it at from 1SO0 to 1900 pounds. The captors discovered it while fishing from a launch. It was swim ming with it's huge sharp-like fin above the surface; yet the launch was steam ed alongside and a boatman thrust a heavy gaff into it; immediately the fish began a series of elephantine struggles which more than once threatened the boat After three hours the fishermen subdued it and with no little difficulty lowed it in-o port.
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A curious incident occurred in an English police court recently where a man named Travis was sentenced to a months imprisonment for obtaining a postal order by false pretenses. He pleaded that he was Officially dead. ; and his story was that when with the British army in South Africa he desert ed, obtained some clothes from the Kaf- frs. made his way to the coast and worked his passage home. He then dis covered that he was reported dead, and though he subsequently, gave himself up as a deserter the war office gave an of acial assurance that he had died at the front and would not arrest him.