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BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1904-10-04

La obra mas sentimental del insig-
ne Emilio Zola es LA caida del Aba.
te Mouret.
Els esta novela de un analisis pro-
digiosamente admirable y nota ex-
cepcional por 10 delicada y exquisite
de aquella robusta y poderosa imagi-
nacion, del genio de la novela univer-
sal en- el siglo XIX.
LA caida del Abate Mouret," en-
dos tomos editados en- Barcelona por
la casa de Lezcano, Sc vende en- la Ii
breria del BoLETIN MERCANTIL al
precio de cuarenta centavos los dos
tomoS.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1904-10-04

Los contra tos de los maestros de
las Escuelas Graduadas de San Juan
EN- funciones, estan va en- poder de
Mr.. Falkner.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1904-10-04
COMPRA DE ALGODON "sEA ISLAND

Caldad
corresponsales
Isla, pagando preco alto del mercado
YetM6n G.AVDA1 q STUBBE
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1904-10-04
AS cts. LINEA
Lean los anunciantes

Hemos establecido una tarifa
especial de anuncios' limitada
exclusivamente a la isla-
Seg1n esa tarifa, los edictos
judiciales, communicates del CO.
mercio y particulares, articulos
6 sueltos de interes privado, pa
garan S centavos la Hne0, a una
coiumna.
En- las demas classes de anun-
clos hemos hecho tambien inn
portantisimas rebajas, xesultan.
do mas baratos que en- ninghn
Otro peri6dico.
De mas esta eg decir que sien.
do Ell BoLEr1N ell 1nico peri6dico
que trata con absolute indepen-
dencia todas las cuestiones que
afectan al presente y al porve-
mir de Puerto Rico, y el 1nico
are tiene un servicio IablegrA-
6co justamente conceptuado co.
mo Ell mejor y mas detallado de
cuantos Sc conocen, es al pre-
sente el diario mas soGcitado y
lefdo en- toda la isla.
Los anunciantes del BoLErIN
llevan una inmensa ventaja q
los que no Sc anuncian en- el
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1904-10-04

Ell captain Guerrero comunico el
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1904-10-04
Bib|iotcca Econ6mica

C.gP PENDU (E.)
Ell HOTEL DE NIoRRES. tres totnos.
10 Un Dia en- Versailles.
20 El conde de Sommes.
80 El Rey del Presidio.
Ell REY DE LOS GAvIERos, tres tomos.
10 Flor de los Bosques.
20 Los dos corsarios.
80 La conspiracion de los huevos
rojos.
Ell TAMBoR DE LA 81. MEDIA BRI-
GADA, cuatro tomos.
10 Ell camino de la gloria.
20 Ell honor de la bandera.
80 Los plomos.
40 La fiesta de pascua.
Bib TAPIN, cuatro tomos.
10 Los ChauffeurS.
20 CasSebras.
80 Ell ministro de Ia policia.
40 El camino del trono.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1904-10-04

)hra interesante A los Sres. Aedic0s.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-03-05
REGARDING SCHOOL BOOKS.
Farmer Children Need Farmer Studies,
It Is Claimed,

Farmer Children Need Farmer Studies
It Is Claimed.
Our educational system has been
made by city people, and the country
school finds it secondhand, ill-fitting
and unattractive. To this fact more
than any other. perhaps, is due the
backwardness of education in agri-
cultural states. The school has not
taken hold on farm life. Plants, soils.
animals, insects. flowers, the weather.
the forests and the sky, from all these,
things it has stood apart, while.i it has
babbled of subjects unfamiliar and un-
interesting to the country-bred child.
All rural education has been hacked
and hewed to fit the Procrustean bed
of the city model
This is a severe Indictment of our
present methods, but it is not whit
too severe. To find proof you have
only to examine the textbooks in use
in our rural schools. Apparently they
have been written solely for city chill.
dren. sons and daughters Of clerks,
merchants, bankers and traders. They
do not even suggest to the farmers
child the possibilities of science and
training in agricultural work. On The
contrary. the natural and logical infer
ence from our general scheme of rural
instruction is that education is not
indispensable to the farmer, but is in
tended chiefly for the commercial and
professional classes.-World' Work.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-03-05
SHAKESPEARE IN SCOTCH.
How the Master Would Sound in the
kaitvard Dialect

How the Master Would Sound in the
kaityard Dialect.
In the August Reader, Bert Lesion
Taylor makes a suggestion for q yer.
sion Of Shakespeare in Scots, and
gives up portions of Hamlet Just to
show how delightful it would SOUND
in this "liltins language"
ACT I-SCENE V.
Mar.-Iaird Hamletr
Hor.-Heeven be wi himG
Ham.-Aweel
Mar.-Hoots, toots, ma laird!
Ham.-Hoots, toots, callant!' COON
hurdle, COON.
Hor.-Whit news, ma laird?
Ham.-Och, uncos.
Hor.-Gude, ma. laird, tell't.
Ham.-Nae, yen let bug, if ali telrt.
Hor:-Ah'1l nae let bug, ma laird.
Mar.-Ah'm doom, ma laird.
Ham.-Cros syer bert?
Mar:-Ay, cross ma bert, ma laird.
Ham.-Awee1, awee1. Wisht. There's
There's nae nae vee1ain in a. Den.
mark but he's a leean knaye. D.ve
ken that?
Hor:-Ay fto Marce1lus)-He's DAFT
ah'm thinkin'
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#tolh her own, room. thae: anxiety had ban.
ished sleep, and So she had come to
hear the worst. Nigh be that she
needed him vet little while, al though
Milton Iennox' s 4 words had merged
the present into the delicious bliss OF
an almost forgotten past. 81 IA IL i: I
It was as Marie had prophesied. Bar
bara's passion Blinded her-no doubt
crossed her mind. And. looking on
the helpless form outstretched before
her, the: long, faithful years of his
service were obliterated, the very fact
that the life-blood the surgeons in at
tendance struggled so valiantly to
stanch in its deathsbearing flow was
poured out for her sake she ignored.
She saw in him only tool. valuable
IN the past, perhaps useful in the fu.
ture.
AL mat moment his eyes opened for
the trst time since his hurt, and rest
ca with Wistful entreaty upon her face.
1t was the glance dumb animal might
SEND 10 the soul of the master whose
hand had slain it.
he recognized you, madame" said
one OF the surgeons. ut is a favorable
symptom. With great care and watch
ful nursing he may recover
The next morning, before she had
left the room, Feline requested admit
lance at her door. lie held q newsna.
per open in his hand
"Thcre is some news here I thouoht
might be OF interest to madame, he
began. respectfully, IF She will ner,
mit-cn allusion to the past
what is it. Feline?" she asked
II placed the newspaper on the ia.
b., before which she was seated and
pointed with his finger to a column ex,
tending down the page
| It was f1attering obituary notice of
the Earl of Bertram.
/ She glanced at 1t indifferently. and
from it with an. air of surprise at the
impervious face of the valet.
How does this interest me. Feline ?''
she asked
More closely. perhaps. than YOU
imagine. The Earl of Bertram was
once known by another title, before nv
the death of his father he came into
possession of the earldom."
A dim perception of his meaning
stole into her brain.
and that title WASP" she questioned
breathlessly.
ITO Be continued.)
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sssler NDs one vas In sight Except the
chers, All had retired
Up the stairs she glided,; until she
reached q long and seemingly desa ted
hall In q door at Its furthest end
She inserted q small key It noise
.lessly turned In the lock and the door
flew open. She carefully fastened it
behind her before proceeding on her
way. " f.: ". " =. - !: tt:Ts@
XIII "A smaller hall divided the entrance
from a tiny reception room, luxurious.
~ fitted up. .Itawas empty. The piano
was closed. Every book was in It's
place. The misery that dwelt here
could not forget itself in music or lit
Nerature. The room beyond was a
sleeping chamber. She entered, shAd-
ing the candle with her hand.
On the bed, fallen asleep in an atti-
tude which showed the abandon of
grief with which she had flung herself
upon her pillow, lay Avice.
The thick lashes were still fringed
with their weight of tears; the lovely
lips Quivered; sob rose in her throat
and echoed through the room, even in
her dreams. But no pity was in the
glance of the woman watching her
though physiogamist would have
said there was strange likeness be-.
tween the two beautiful faces, though
one was distorted with passion and the
other refined by suffering.
1T would be so easy!" muttered she
who watched. 1T would be so easy!
Who could know? who could suspect i?
Why should I hesitate?"
Hank! what was that? Sometime
sounded through the room. Again that
childs vail. Was she, too, going mad =?
Her hand trembled- same dead
ly sense of suffocation stole about her
heart. In that moment Avices eyes
slowly opened and rested upon her
ashen face.
Quick! water!" she gasped, sink
ing beside the bed; while Avic6 for
got her own misery in fighting off the
deadly faintness that had overcome
Barbara.
At last it passed away and Barbara
rose to go.
"Sleep well. my child She said gen.
tly. Remember you are in my care,
and try not to be unhappy"
But my brother-why does he not
come for me?''
"You forget he is not your brother.
Have / not told you before? They
have all given you up to me. When
you are satisfied and content, will
give you your freedom. Until then. /
cannot"
Then shall die a prisoner" the
girl answered, YEARLY, listening drear-
lily as the key turned once more in it's
lock. "Alone again-alone!" she Sob
bed "Oh, God, why can 1 not die::''.
Because you shall live and BECAUSE
I shall save you!" answered a voice
She turned. A woman she did not
recognize stood beside her.
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CHAPTER XXI.
A Newspaper Notice.

II did not know you," Avice repeat
ed, gazing at the woman. who seemed
to have sprung from the very ground
at her feet.
Poor girl! For days she had been
delirious, and the mist had as yet
scarcely lifted from the clouded brain.
She remembered only that she was a
prisoner and unhappy. and she knew
that she longed for the sunlight and
for freedom.
you do not know me, madcmoi-
selle? Waltz" and the woman disap-
peared in the adjoining room.
In moment she returned, but so
changed that Avice could scarcely 3e-
Neve her the same
A red wig, surmounted by an ugly
cap, with huge pair of spectacles, al
most concealing the piercing black
eyes. and a few lines carefully and
.skillfully inserted about the cheeks
and mouth, rendered the TRANSFORMER
ton complete. She recalled to the
girls mind some half forgotten dream.
Surely you know me now, made
moiselle?'
Eyes, yes, know you'll" cried Avicc,
with gladness in her voice 1T is my
good, my faithful Marie! Oh, Marie,
save me-take me from this place!
How came you here?"
Hush, mademoiselle! Not so loud
I am in madame's service I will aid
you, if you will be patient yet a little
while"
II am very patient" Avice answered,
passing her slender hand across her
forehead with a bewildered air; "be-
sides, where could go? have no
home. Travis has cast me off. Milton
has deserted me. All, remember!
Florence will receive me-. She was to
have been Travis wife, you know. l
will write her little note. Oh, will
you see that she receives it?'
''Give it to me, mademoiselle. She
shall have it. And now," Marie con-
tinued, when the note had been penned
and confided to her keeping, good
night. Try to sleep and regain your
oCA>AoSA' DSAoA . AoAy yOu AAc6G
have need of it,
"Ah, madame" the maid murmured
to herself as she slowly and cautious.
ly descended the stairs, her disguise
once more removed, 1.-The web is being
woven about you, cunning though you
be, and through this girl, whom you
have such reason to hate, shall the
last blow be struck. Pierre, Pierre!"
she added, in an awe-struck tone, as
though addressing some visible pres
ence, marie has not forgotten. Sleep
| quietly in your grave my friend. You
shall be avenged"
I A moment she stood without the
| threshold of that one room in all the
house where sleep had not entered,
| then she softly opened the door and
! stole in on Hp-toe. r..
Two surgeons stood by the bed, one
with his fingers resting on the pulse OF
| the unconscious Richard Hayes. Bar;
| bara knelt at the foot of the bed, her
eyes resting with an anxious expses-
| sion upon the faces of the men VINO
were to. render . verdict Of life or
1 death. 55& 0 l.5 1. 5.ss 395S.5t
53 She had not 10 cant to sec Richard
lsto-night. but she had found, on goins
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FROM THE PENCILS POINT.

A rolling stone does not make much
of an uphill fight
Scolding women are less ridiculous
than swearing men.
Sometimes a mans shady character
keeps him in hot water.
j. What pity it is that popular
theories are not always practical.
Some men would die young II they
were compelled to work for a living.
The gentleman with the cloven hoof
usually travels with the gentleman
who has a cloven breath.
Lots OF men have so much genius
that they are unable to do anything
but sit in the shade and think about
it.
If q mans wife doesn't think him at
least three times smarter than he real
man.
A married woman is disappointed
when she starts away for two weeks
visit unless her husband looks heart
broken.
It costs at least ten times as much
to live according to the requirements
of fashion as it does to live according
to the demands of nature.
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bird caroled forth its song upon the
trees, whose branches saw their re-
flected images in its clear waters.
Through the leaves cau.e the CLINT
ing rainbow tints of the dying sun.
Tonight it seemed dipped in blood,
and cast it's red embrace upon all ma.
ture, as though prophetic of the CON-
ing struggle. when stern, iesolute and
silent, two fellow creatures moved to
their appointed places on the daisy
strewn sod.
No attempt at reconciliation was
made by either second One had the
casual expression of an Indifferent on
locker; the other the set, white look
which showed him equally Interested
with his principal.
The distance was marked A hush
sang less loudly, and the birds notes
ceased.
'One, two three!" rang out upon the
stiffness. Two shots, a binding fash,
followed, and one man fell to the
earth. A bullet had pierced Richard
Hayes lung, while Milton Lennox
stood unhurt
Have I killed him." Milton in
CURED of the surgeon in attendance.
He is not yet dead, but there is a
very narrow chance of life. Your aim
was deadly, and I would advise you to
leave Paris without delay
mo, sir, l will face my action, If It
comes to the knowledge of the law;
but unless DR.. Hayes dies l think it
will hardly do SO, and even then 1
fear nothing. My action was justiia-
BILE. in the eyes of men, at least. In
that Of higher power, am content
to stand alone at his tribunal"
The wounded man moved and
groaned ieebly, as the surgeon probed
for the ball.
ANSWER me, Richard, burying tor
the moment our animosity," Lennox
said, almost gently, STOPPING beside
the PROSTATE form of the man whose
moments had perhaps been cut very
short by his hand-"answer me before
death seals your lips. Where is Az
ice?"
Milton bent closer, but the red life
blood Gurgled up, flowing in crimson
stream from the white lips, and the
sentence remained all unfinished as
the speaker relapsed into unconscious
ness.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-03-05
CHAPTER Xxx,
BY Passion Swaycd.

Driven rapidly in his carriage to-
ward Paris. Milton Lennox for the first
time remembered note that had been
handed to him as he was about to
leave for the scene of the contest.
He now drew it forth, and by the
light afforded by the carriage lamps,
read these lines, in handwriting he
knew but too well. They were from
Avice:
Milton: 1 hear you and Richard
are to fight. For my sake desist from
your intention. know how greatly
wronSed you, but spare me the
Wretchedness of robbing me of my
lover. l deceived you ALL Forgive me
and forget me. -Avice.'
Lennox groaned. The note had come
too late. He was perhaps her lovers
murderer:
Obeying a sudden impulse. he di-
rected the driver to take him to the
house Of Nine. Meredith, as Barbara
publicly had avowed herself. After all,
the position had awakened but a ten
days scandal: then her beauty, her
wealth, her luxurious apartments, her
husbands silence, had CLOSED it over.
and she could have thrown open her
doors to have had society at her feet,
had she so willed it.
But for a time she preferred soil
tude; so it was that she sat alone in
her drawing room when Milton Len
nox was announced.
A wave of crimson surging over iler
cheeks and brow was the only evil
dence of the agitation she otherwise
so successfully concealed.
What had he come to tell her? Had
he and DR.. Hayes met, or had the note,
to which she had forged Avice's sig
nature. done it's work? Suppose ne
had killed Richard? What could she
do without Richards strong arm to
help her?
All this flashed through her mind as
lightning Eliminates the dark storm
cloud, yet she stood waiting for Mil
ton to break the silence, little, cour-
teous, ironical smile about her mouth.
Barbara, have you no welcome for
me?'
Had the cloud burst and the thun.
ders swallowed her up? She had hum.
bled herself for the last time in ap.
peal, in effort, to win him back! Sc
she had sworn. Could it be that some
! whirlpool had borne him back in its
returning eddy to his allegiance?
It was like the delicious strain OF
some long-forgotten music. She had
stood so long in hey attitude of Meme
sis, that suddenly the ground seemed
giving way beneath her feet A thou
sand tender memories swept over her
She forgot the man who had gone
forth perhaps to die for her sake. She
remembered only him who had
scorned and repulsed he--who now
asked her the question ..Have you nc
welcome for me?'' s;sS.., &: ts --''e
| With all others she was the actress
With him she was the woman! :. Il Ii.
"A welcome, Milton!" she nur
INJURED. Car it be that you plead fol
my welcome e. n
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A Mlsnomer.

A very pompous woman attempteo
to leave a car white it was in motion
and the little conductor detained her
with the usual
Walt until the Car SHOPS, Teddy!
Don't address me as lady st,,'"
she said. haughtilv.
Il beg your pardon, ma: am, but W.
are all liable to mex mistakes" was
tno immediate reply.-Lippincotl 3
Magazine
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SAYS s. ! J { :. | Owl g


Too many fertile imag atoms pro
duce nothing but weeds. S.5
# girl says NO three consecu-
tive times it's a. hopeless case. #Nss$ s.l
+ Trying to pick out the winner at the
race track is a One-horse affair.
A stiff upper lip is good thing in 4
connection with a1rigid under jaw. NJ
Without his needle the mariner |.
could not thread his way across the
sea. t,ss4@&
Apparel OFT proclaims the man, but
usually the woman claims the ap-
parel.
The pen may be mightier than tho
sword, but it isn't in it with the pretty
typewriter.
Don't aspire to the limit of dignity
or some near-sighted person may mis-
take yon for butler.
Yes, Harold, it's better to be turned
down by the girl than to be thrown
down by her strenuous papa.
Circumstances occasionally force a
man to admit that other peoples
troubles are almost as great as his
own.
II man could believe everything
he hears about his neighbors he would
soon be hauling his self-conceft around
on truck
There is a deaf and dumb man in
Missouri who can neither read nor
write. Nature evidently intended him
for juryman.
A writer who probably doesn't have
to stay awake nights to count his
money says that justice always thinks
twice before indicting a millionaire.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-03-05
WHAT ONE WOMAN OBSERVES

Be sad, and everybody will avoid
you.
Be independent, and people win say
you put on airs.
Be tactful, and people will wonder
what you are driving at.
Be unconventional, and people will
onder if you are better or worse than
you seem.
Speak kindly Of others, and people
will say: You judge as you want to
be Judged"
Be attractive, and women will be
Jealous, and seemingly wonder what
men can see in you.
Treat your friends, and If you get
down in the world people will say you
deserve exactly what you got.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-03-05
Regular Paydays,

young man. said the earnest min.
lister, ,"yoa are a hard worker. You
serve this corporation faithfully. You
give it your time and labor and thought
to the exclusion of higher and better
things. Reflect moment. Does It
pay?" (. TT: ..&'.eae,. L.. -,
!. Sure" replied the young man brisk
~. = get my money every Saturday
night" W.: =.>5ff $Sfls ss@I Y 4 &
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-03-05

Physicians are not the onlyAnen who
follow. the medical profession; the un.
sdertal egssare not far behind. !.
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WHAT ADAM ESCAPED.

Adam never lost an umbrella.
Adam never rocked the boat.
He didn't have to tend the furnace.
He never blew down the muzzle OF
loaded gun.
He never passed a plugged quarter
on the minister
His wife could never threaten him
with his mother-in-law.
And he never squandered his weeks
wages on ten to one shot and then
lied out of it, 49,,
OBJECTS OF HORROR. .:
The sallow-faced girl with a bright
blue veil. ~
The fat woman with her skirt
dragged tight around her. -.
The 4. child in a crowded trolley car.
one sticky mass Of candy. q .s......--. !
The unfortunate people who h.y. =
stand between the :seats pf N Omen
trolley car. Il
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-03-05
OBJECTS OF HORROR.

, The sallow-faced girl with bright
blue veil. -" ~, .~''
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-03-05

And he never squandered his weeks
wages on a ten to one shot and then
lied out of it. w..
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He never passed plugged quarter
on the minister.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-03-05

The fat woman with her skirt
dragged tight around her. -.
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The child in a crowded trolley car
one sticky mass OF candy. r +: 4,. 1..-. +
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Il dare not, ne answered. "Find
out for me all would know, and you
shall then forget the past in the pres
ent"
Long after he had left her she stood
living over the memory of those words.
Her youth seemed to have returned to
her.
If only this girl were swept from her
path-were dead-if she could prove it
so-perhaps the old dream might meet
with it's fulf1llment.
All, what was that?-a baby's wall
that echoed through the room? No.
no!
She covered back on the sofa and
covered her face with her hands. She
was innocent of that far-off wrong.
Her child was dead, but she had not
killed it. Butch, that this girl had
died in infancy and her own baby had
lived! Perhaps her life might have
Leen different then.
Feline's entrance aroused her. She
for the first time remembered the sick
mans presence in her house.
He is not dead, Feline?" she ques-
toned, springing to her feet.
mo, madame, but the doctor saws
there is very little hope. He has been
wounded in duel. Will madame see
him." III.
"Not tonight. My nerves are over.
strung, and I have another visit to
make. How is she, Feline?", .@=
""The same, madame, like some poor
bird beating its helpless wings against
the iron bars of it's cage. Part.of the
time she seems to remember and
grows frantic in her efforts to escape:
at others she is passive and despair
Ing" >5E- ri: f&a ~ y. %#as =. RI.
+ "she will soon grow reconcifed. !
will go up and see her when the house
is quiet i ~ sE,.. Il 45.s
1 An hour later only q light sholnve
in the sick rqom as Barbara, with can san.
die il hand, 4 her beautiful hair IN IN
bound sstepi lea lightly out into TIE
corrt g, dor and peered s. 1ionsly about
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5E. The Gu unfortunate people who have Is
stand between 4. The eat s = open