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BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1904-03-12

Suponese que la manda e1 contraI-.
mirante Kamimura, y este da lrgar &
suposlc1ones de que pueda haber al
gun 1undamento en- la noticia de al
gun desembarco japones en- Possiet
con obJeto de amenazar Hardin in
comunlcar a VladivoStock Puerto
Arturo con el resto de Manchuria
Russia. Luego los continues ataques
contra Puerto Arturo no tienen, en-
opinion de estrategicos iupleses. otro
obJeto que cubrir operaciones terres-
tres en- gran eScala, y cftase el hecho
de que hayan sslido del Japon mas de
Glen trasportes con tropas, Y todas no
pueden haber lido Corea.
CreeSe por tanto, que puede ser es-
trategia del Japon atacar a Russia en-
tres puntos, Lao Tung. Ell Yal6 y Via
livestock. Los estrategicos alemanes
rechazan la teorfa del ataque a Vladi-
vostok por imposible.''
Referente q la escuadra que bloquea
a Vladivostock dice un telegrama del
28 de Febrero ppdo.:
ode Hakodate, Japon, frente a Via
livestock, telegraffan al DAILY MALI
que una escuadra japonesa tiene bio
queada a Vladivostock.
De esta noticia, dandola por cierta,
inferen los estrategicos ing1eses que
los japoneses intentan atacar Har-
bin, y hasta ser possible que Sc esten
dirigiendo ALA por terra en- grandes
n1meros. Hay en- este una singular
mixtifcacion, que es obra japonesa.
Las escuadras del Japon en- opera :
clones son dos, la principal frente q
Puerto Arturo, mandada por Ell vice
almirante Togo, y otra menor, al
mando del contralmirante Kamimura,
aparentemente operando entire el nor
te del Japon y Siberia. Ultimamente,
sin embargo, Kamimura ha estado fe-
chando sus comunicaciones en- Puerto
Arturo y de Togo NADIA Sc dice, y al
mismo tempo Sc lie supode en- todas
parties. :.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1904-03-12
TESORERIA

Las denuncias contra los infractores
de las leyes de rentas internas estan a
orden del dfa, como vulgarmente Sc
dice.
Los INVESTIGATORS no Sc duermen,
aigunos estan algo mas que sobre avi-
so, sin6 que 10 digan 8 sefiores de Ca
guas, uno de Gurabo, tres de Manatf
y uno de San German, que han sido
denunciados, y tendran que pagar las
multas que la Tesorerfa les imponga,
para que otra vez cumplan con los re-
quisitos de la ley escrita.
Por el correo de esta maflana ha re-
cibido el Tesorero senior Willoughby
tres documentos de embargos levan-
tados por ell collector de Ponce, dos por
el de Juana Diaz y otros dos por Ell de
Guayanilla, en- total (siete) propieta-
rios que salvan por este semestre sus
fncas.
;Dios quiera que puedan hacer 10
mismo con las contribuciones del 20
semestre del afio en- curse!
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1904-03-12
miguel CULLEN

Anoche, y tras algunas semanas,
de horribles sufrimientos, ha faIlecido
el tan justamente estimado maestro de
m1sica y organista de la Catedral.
nuestro querido amigo Don Miguel
CULLEN.
Bajo Ell infujo de una impression pro-
fundamente dolorosa trazamos estas
lfneas, para lamentar la muerte de uu
ser it'll, honrado y bueno.
va descansa en- paz.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1904-03-12

concebible terquedad y el insa-
no capricho de los que niegan,
sin razon y sin autoridad bas-
tante, la suficiencia del pals pa
ra darse cuenta de sus necesi-
dades.
Y en- medic de la gran voz
con que todo Puerto Rico pedia
el emprestito, Sc dejo percibir
muy acentuadamente otro la
|mamiento a la just1cia. que ha-
clan varios pueblos condenados
a la inanicion por una ley alb
surda. Tambien de esa manera
Sc exteriorizaba la voluntad po-
pular;; tambien asf era ell sobe-
rano sin mando, sin fu erzas y
sin autoridad, quien gritaba pa
ra dominar el tumulto de las
muchedumbres hambrientas pi-
diendo pan, por medic de un
emprestito para trabajos agri-
colas. Pero no fue escuchada
la reclamation. Ell pueblo fue
desobedecido.
Y hubo mas. Algo que serfa
I'm desacato irreverente 81 no
nos hubieramos convencido de Ia
triste y..desconsoladora realidad.
La voluntad conjunta del Con-
sejo Executive y de la Camara
baja, tambien resulta inehcaZ,
tambien resulta impotente.
Los municipios continuaran
dependencies, como 10 son aho-
"a, del gobierno centralizador.
No hay autonomfa municipal ;
contra Ell voto de ambas CANA
ras, esta ell veto del Gobernador
Hunt. Y de esta manera no
tendran mas remedio que con-
vencerse los pocos ilusos de
alquiler que restan todavfa, qui
zas por corto tempo, de que la
centralizaci6n gubernativa asu-
me, reune y dispone todos los
poderes en- el poder central abb
soluto, principle Y Tin de toda
voluntad y toda soberania.
Y es este mas sensible, GUAM
to que no parece que Ell gobier-
no Sc haya dado cuenta de la
situacion y sige con peligrosa
terquedad que no rectifica, nj
ante las advertencias, nj ante
las sdplicas, su marcha desas-
trosa, su rapido galopar, hacia
el precipicio de la total liquida
cion que hemos demostrado.
Decfa el insigne Chateau
BRAND que: cuando la libertad
desaparece, queda TN pals, perc
no una patria; aqui no va a que
dar nj ESQ, nj un pals sin volup-
tad y sin derechos, porque todas
Has iras desencadenadas del fiscc
convergen a un punto determi-
nado y fatal. La liquidacion y
al remate en- desastrosa y gene
lral subasCa.
| Y como 81 este no fuera sufl-
ciente todavia la prensa norte-
lamericana Sc empefia con sus
linSultos y suS torpeZas en- qui
ltarle una esperanza que tient
ell pals. la mas hermosa y mejol
fundada, la que confia en- la in
; Iteligencia que puede llegar a es
tablecerse, alguna vez, entire e
pueblo norteamericano que Il
! Ipuede todo Y ell puertorriquefl'
Ique todo 10 necesita, que todc
! tiene que pedirlo ahora, por qu'
Sc 10 han arrebatado.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1904-03-12

Ampliando los detalles anteriores
dice i'm despacho del Fl fechado en-
Londres, Y comunicado una ageucia
de noticias desde San Petersburgo:
~El general Plug Jefe de estado
aver del vifrey Alexief. comunica
que. eli I'd del actual una escaadra ia
g,onesa dc diez buqnes. fue aviStada
ffente Nladivostock. desapareciendo
en- "a nisna farde.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1904-03-12
desgracia

Nuestro estimado amigo don Deo-
gracias Fabian pasa por la pena de ha
Der perdido un hijo de corta edad.
Acompaflamos en- su gran dolor al
Sefior Fabian.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1904-03-12
Nota del dta

A estas horas, va Sc puede
hacer el balance exacto de los
perjuicios ocasionados al pals,
en- el extinguido perfodo legis-
lativo.
Los mas sistematicos optimiss
mos Sc estrellan y Sc anulan
frente al cuadro triste de la ver-
dad.
Ha sido demostrada la inefi-
cacia completa del regimen; la
inutilidad absolute de la CANA
ra, hasta en- los momentos en-
los cuales experimental una sa-
cudida reaccionante ese orga-
nismo desmedrado que debiera
ser una fuerza poderosa, una
condensation admirable de la
fuerza popular, y es sencilla-
mente, un recurso, una pantalla
de que sc sirve ell regimen vi
gente para perpetrar sus agre-
stones injustas contra la perso-
nalidad y la vida y la hacienda
pdblicas de Puerto Rico.
Es una verdad descepcionan-
te, triste; pero, verdad al fin, es
precise proclamarla
ST la Camara de Representa-
tes es la suprema condensation
de la voluntad popular. ell pue-
bio aqui no tiene voluntad re
conocida. Y 81 la voluntad es
una fuerza; 81 la voluntad es un
poder Y una soberan1a. aquf no
tenemos nj esa fuerza, nj ese
poder nj tenemos, tamt oco, esa
soberan1a.
En- cambio nos acosan las ilu-
stones. nos poseen, nos enloque-
cen v nos enfrescamoS en- elias
hasta ell punto de olvidar que
nos intereSan mas de cerca los
problemas que, a diario, Sc sus-
citan en- la vida.
Nuestro status econ5mico Y
politico Sc desarrolla en- regio-
mes puramente ideales y abso-
Iutanente teoricas.
Sc habla de la situacion eco
monica y Sc dice: Tenemos en-
las areas del Tesoro cerca de
dos millones de dollars. Ese
dinero aportado por Ell pueblo
mediante el sistema de tributa-
cion, pertenece como es natural
al pueblo de Puerto Rico; POI
10 tanto, tenemos de sobra. des
pues de cubierto con holgura J
esplendidez el lujoso presu-
puesto, ell cuantioso y arruina-
dor presupuesto, una cantidaC
de dos millones de dollars; ht
ahf demostrada nuestra fore
ciente situacion economical.
Y con referencia a la polite;
Sc dice:
La Camara Legislative es |;
mas fiel expression de la volun-
tad del pueblo. Legislamos pa
ra nosotros. Disturbances la des
centralizacion mas amplia. E
gobierno del pueblo por el pue
bio, auxiliado por ell orden y i
garantia que nos presta la pc
derosa Metropoli.
Due hermosa quimeral Per
apenas Sc vislumbra el intent
de armonizar eSas teorfas col
las realidades de la practice
vemos como Sc derrumba c
castillo, ell mundo de las ilusio
mes; Y como Sc reducen a mad
los suenos de soberanfa y d
poder acariciados con infanti
creduhdad.
FL pueblo guerra Ell empresti
to para la agriculture; la Cana
IA de representatives 10 guerra. !
aprobo y 10 voto por unanimi
dad. PEes bien; Ell emprestit
que el pueblo pedfa, ese qu
hubiera sido la salvacion de
pals en- el trance apuradisim
que atraviesa; ;ese emprestito gu
5no4.aha Il v01untad DODulal
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1904-03-12
CARLOAD

Han sido admitidas en- la Escuela
Pfa de nifias de Santurce, Maria y An
gela Aponte, procedentes de Barros, y
en- la de nifios Manuel Pascual Velez,
tambien de aquella poblacion.
Enel Manicomio ingreso, procedente
de Morovis, el alienado Modesto Dfaz
" Dfaz.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-09-17

HE peremptory demand for an
 interview which had been de. lfvered to Miss Moore during
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-09-17

It is claimed by the south that the south only can settle the negro prob lem that only the south suffers on ac- count of it. This last, at least, is not true. The women of every land have suffered because of race and class questions, and every woman in the United States may feel personally in terested in the present problem, since her assistance towards its solution can be great 1t is folly to say that one persons opinion or example does not count. It always counts for or against A child of no more than three years, seeing it's mothers affi- tude,, because of an impression re- ceived that has influenced. It took Americans some time to learn, but they did learn from European exam pie that one can eat in the room with a Hindu or Hottentot without receiv- ing contamination or losing principle. By repeated example southerners will learn that they suffered in ante-bel- lum days when they had them about their persons continually. Tn cros- sing the continent not long ago a, southern woman with her children and negro maid travelled in the same sleeper where had a berth, the maid occupying night after night one of the berths. No objection was of fered by any of the several southern passengers, although had the woman been alone she would probably not have been allowed to enter the car. That her position was one of service was what made her presence endura- ble.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-09-17

royal 1n it's size and splendor. l. be- ieve that I shrank quite unaccount- ably from this imposing piece of furni- ture when first looked at 1t, it seemed so big and so out of proportion to my slim little body. But, admonished by the look which I surprised on Mistress Callista's high bred face, quickly re called an expression so unsuited to my position as guest and, with gush of well simulated rapture, began to ex- patiate upon the interesting character istics of the room and express myself as delighted at the prospect of sleeping there N
 Instantly the nervous look left her., and, with the quiet remark, It was my fathers room.' she set down the candles with which both her. hands were burdened and gave me a kiss so warm and surcharged with feeling that
 The m arked mem oirs
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-09-17


 sct ano.a.er < ls4, rom me which cans ny temper when rouseds Do not force ne into position which will cause us 10th endless regret
 Perhaps the father answered; per 0aps he did not. The children heard nothing further, but they witnessed the gloom with which he rode away to the White House the next day. Re membering the generals threat, they imagined in their childish hearts that their father had gone to give up his post and newly acquired honors. But he returned at night without having done so and from that day on carried his head higher and showed himself more and more the master both at home and, abroad.
 "But he was restless, very restless, and, possibly to allay q great mental uneasiness, he began having some changes made ill the house, changes which occupied much of his time and with which he never seemed satisfied. Men working one day were dismissed the next and others called in until this work and everything else was inter irupted by the return of his late un- welcome guest, who kept his appoint ment to a day,
 At this point in her narrative Mis- tress Callista's voice fell and the flame, which had thrown partial light on her countenance, died down until I could but faintly discern the secretly tnquiring look with which she watched me as she went on to say:
 Reuben and I-Reuben was her brother were posted in the dark cor ner under the stairs when my father met the general at the door. We had expected to hear high words or some explosion Of bitter feeling between them, and hardly knew whether to be glad or sorry when our father well comed his guest with the same elabo- rate bow we once saw him make to the president in the grounds of the White House. Nor could we understand what followed. We were summoned in to supper. Our mother was there, a great event in those days, and toasts were drunk, and our father proposed one to the generals health. This Reuben thought was an open signal of peace and turned upon me his great round eyes in surprise, but I, who was old enough to notice that this toast was not responded to and that the general did notfeven touch his lips to the glass he had lifted in compliment to our mother, who had lifted hers, felt that there was something terrifying rather than reassuring in this attempt at good fellowship. Though unable to reason over it at the time, have often done so since, and my fathers attitude and look as he faced this strange guest has dwelt so persistently in my mem ory that scarcely year passes with out the scene coming up in my dreams with its accompanying emotions of fear and perplexity. For perhaps you know the story-t that hour, was the generals last. He died before leaving the house. in that same dark li- brary concerning which you have asked so many questions. T fro RR cfYSrIst TT,
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-09-17

, shelf; by the removal or those in front was enabled to draw this book out,
 I soon saw why it had been relegated
 to such remote place of concealment
 on the shelves of the Moore library.
 It was a collection of obscure memoirs
 written by an Englishwoman, but an
 Englishwoman who had been in Amer
 ica during the early part of the century
 and who had been brought more or less
 into contact with the mysteries con
 nected with the Moore house in Wash
 ington. Several passages were marked
 one particularly, by a heavy pencil line
 running the length of the margin As the name of Moore was freely scatter
 ed through these passages as well as
 through two or three faded newspaper
 clippings which I discovered pasted on
 the inside cover, lost no time in set.
 ting about their perusal.
 The following extracts are from the
 book itself, taken in the order in which
 I found them marked:
 Tt was about this time that I spent q week in the Moore house, that grnnd snd and hltstorlc his ,,st sstrncture concerning which AAACAO 01C UAOCl. 1 huGW LnGn of it's discreditable fame. but from the first moment of my entrance into it's ample and we'll lighted halls I expert enced sensation which will not call dread, but which certainly was far from being the impulse of pure delight which the graciousness of my hostess and the imposing character of the place Itself were calculated to produce. This emotion was but transitory, vanishing, as was natural in the excitement of my welcome and the extraordinary interest l took in Callista Moore, who in those days was a most fascinating little body. Small to the point of appearing dlm1nuhve and lacking all assertion in manner and bearing, she was never fheless such lady that she easily dom- mated all who approached her and pro- duced, quite against her will, am sure, an impression of aloofness, seasoned with kindness, which made her most and entertaining study to the analytic observer. Her position as nominal mistress of an establishment already accounted one of the finest in l Washington-the real owner, Reuben 1 Moore, preferring to live abroad with l his French wife-gave to her least ac- l ton an importance which her shy if | not appealing looks, and a certain | strained expression most difficult to | characterize, vainly attempted to con- tradict could not understand her and soon gave up the attempt, but my admiration held firm, and by the time the evening was half over I wan her obedient slave. think from what I know of her now that she would have preferred to be mine
 was put to sleep in great cham Der which I afterward heard called r The Colonel's Own It was very grand and had a graat bed in it almost !
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-09-17

During my absence this house had been released from surveillance. But the major still held the keys, and I had no difficulty in obtaining them. The next thing was to escape its owners vigilance. This managed to do through the assistance of Jimmy, and when midnight came and all lights went out in the opposite cottage I en- tered boldly upon the scene. As be- fore, l went first of all to the library.
 l wished to make certain that I had exhausted every suspected as we'll as every known clew to the information I sought. In my long journey home and the hours of thought it had forced upon me had more than once been visited by fitting visions of things seen in this old house and afterward nearly for gotten. Among these was the book which on that first night of hurried search had given proofs of being in some one's hand within a very short period. The attention I had given it at a moment of such haste was neces- sarily cursory, and when later a sec ond opportunity was granted me of looking into it again I. had allowed a very slight obstacle to deter me. This was mistake was, anxious to rectify. Anything which had been touched with purpose at or near the time of so mys- terious a tragedy-and the position of this book on a shelf so high that a chair was needed to reach it proved that it had been sought and touched with purpose-held out the promise of clew which one on so blind trail as myself could not afford to ignore.
 But when had taken the book down and read again its totally uninterestine and unsuggestive title and by another reference to its dim and faded leaves found that my memory had not played me false and that it contained nothing but stupid and wholly irrelevant statistics, my confidence in it as a possible aid in the work had in hand departed just as 1t had on the previous occasion. was about to put 1t back on sAe shelf, when I bethought me of running my hand in behind the two books between which it had stood An, that was 1t! Another book lay lat against the wall at the back of the
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-09-17

NHH peremptory demand for ar
 interview which had been de.
 nvered to Miss Moore during
 the half hour preceding her marriage had come not from the bride groom. as I had supposed, but from the so called stranger, Mir. Pfeiffer.
 For all thAs proof that MT. PfeifRer was we'll known to her, if not to the rest of the bridal party, no acknowl- edgment of this was made by any of them then or afterward, nor any con- tradiction given either by husband or wife to the accepted theory that this seeming stranger from the west had gone Into this fatal room of the Moores to gratify his own morbid cu- riosity.
 On the contrary, an extraordinary effort was immediately made by MT. Jeffrey to rid himself of the only wit neSses who could tell the truth con corning those fatal ten minutes, but this brought no peace to the miserable wife, who never again saw really happy moment.
 Extraordinary efforts at concealment ergue extraordinary causes for fear. STully to understand the circumstances of Mrs Jeffrey's death, it would be necessary first to know what had hap lened in the Moore house when Mr. 5Efrey learned from Curly Jim that ssle man, whose hold upon his bride had been such that he dared to demand an interview with her just as she was on the point of descending to her nuptials, had been seated, or was about to be seated, in the room where death had once held it's court and might easily be persuaded to hold court again.
 The encouragement afforded me by my late discoveries was such that I felt confident that nothing could hinder my success save the necessity of com pIetely pulling down the house. Be sides, all investigation had hitherto started, If it had not ended, in the library. I was resolved to begin work in quite different spot I had not forgotten the sensations had ex, perienced in the southwest chamber,
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-09-17
TO DANCE

at Miss NELLYE T. REEDS Dancing Academy, 1O8 Bank street, Jones-Mof- gan building. CiSss for beginners Tuesday evening, Sept 6. Weekly class receptions on Friday eveningS. Children's class Friday afternoon from 4 to 6. Opening reception and danc0 Friday evening, Sept 16, in Academy 1OS Bank street. Music by Laniern orchestra.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-09-17
We'll! We'll! Well! Here I Inn EeaIn

as I have not been driven from hone as yet, and if the good work keeps on my chances are good for the winter here, am offering you the best goods on the, market for the least money. carry the best four-coated enamel ware made. All imported Austrian ware and Swedish, also the American two and three-coated ware, all first quaiis ty. also carry seconds in gray, and I tell you about it. All can offer you is from 20 to 40 per cent discount one anything I carry. Go get your priceE and call1 and see me.
 Certainly we carry leather cobblina sets and shoemakers' supplies, and . full line of Hardware.
 Magner's
 N Y. Bargain House.
 s1 EAST MAIN STREE.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-09-17
By ANNA KATHARINE GREEN,
CHATTER xx.
'sThe Mystery of Agatha Webb.n d os

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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-09-17
WOMEN AND RAGE QUESTION.

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