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The San Francisco call., 1904-10-23

kk~ o that's the way the land lies,
is it?'' asked Ivy Lyle.
q The sensitive face under the
big, rose-Iined sunhat was very
white. Her lips quivered a little. The
hands that held the vagrant sheet
trembled.
Il thought said the girl to her
self. II hadn't begun to care-in that
way. I was only becoming attracted.
But the shock-the disillusion-'
When she had started out an hour
ago for her usual brisk morning walk
along the crisp, shelving sands, she
had been one OF the most Indifferent,
ight-hearted of girls She was done
with college, and the two years Of for
eign travel that had succeeded school
as q sort Of polishing process. She had
perfect health. and misty dreams Of all
the veIled future held in its keeping.
She had esthetic tastes, and her skill
In athletic sports was the admiration
Of her less vigorous girl friends. Sho
had been having a beautiful time down
at this gay, unconventional resort on
the Michigan coast And now-well,
temporarily it seemed that her pleas
ure was spoiled.
And in her heart she knew that she
must have been beginning to think too
much OF the man whose attentions to
her had been so marked, or else this
discovery would not so affect her.
Sitting to rest and watch the white
crested waves come curling up to
break on the border Of the lake like
threads Of rarest lace, her attention
had been caught by a small, white,
whirling object that at first sight she
had taken for bird. It had whisked
lower and nearer. Then it floated so
close she could put out her hand and
grasp it, and she found it was a sheet
Of note paper covered with dininutive
chirography. IT was written on the
stationery OF the fashionable hotel
looming up on the dunes behind her.
At first she had been about TO crumple
It up and cast it aside. But in the very
act Of doing so a name-her own name
met her eye.
Even then she hesitated But the
three words were so significant she
must know their writer's full mean
ing The page was the continuation
OF a letter. And the first three words
at the top Of the page were love
Ivy Lyle- 1mpulsively, Swing her.
self no chance to weigh the niceties
Of honor in the balance, she scanned
the page.
love Ivy Lyle. I've fought against
it-for ! can't afford to marry her. as
you know. But she has rather swept
me off my feet, old chap. At first I
was taken with her innocent beauty.
There was no one at this big hosteIry
70 compare with her for good looks.
So ] let myself drift. 1 thought she
was just a dear little country girl, and
that IL would be easy to say a senti-
mental farewell when the summer was
over. You know what these warm
weather fiirtations amount to. So I've
been going TO see her steadily and TAX
ing her everywhere. We've gone dane
ing and swimming and boating and all
the rest Of it And-by JoveI for all
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those diamonds around her white
throat were worth a fortune. She
smiled up at his amazed countenance.
Aunt Agatha and I did not wish to
be bothered with attentions" she whis-
pered, so we've been living incognito.
l expected my father tonight and
dressed to do him, and you." sweetly,
what honor l could. You will pardon
me-" as she signed for a boy who had
brought her a telegram. and broke the
seal of the message. Detained" she
read. will be with you tomorrow"
She handed Ardsley the yellow slip
1t was signed Jasper e. Chase and
it was addressed to Miss Damaris
ChaseI"
That" she said. lis my name"
''Ivy!" he gasped
"Damaris Ivy Lyle Chase. You poor
boy! Come out on the balcony; they
are staring at u.s."
"Come-you base deceiyer!"
The San Francisco call., 1904-10-23
By Barry Preston

sticks he had purchased in the village
that morning. This he pressed into
service, and with a pencil inscribed
in large letters the pathetic appeal:
'Busted-Please Help!"
and tied it securely to the side of the
car
Then he curled up comfortably on
the seat, and despite the discomforts
of cramped quarters and voracious
mosquitoes, was soon snoring Justify.
He was awakened by peal of ring
ing laughter. He rose from the seat
and rubbed his eyes. Before him in
the dusty roadway stood q young
woman, and, as he looked, his heart
beat faster.
Miss Trevori" he cried.
"Oh, it's you'll" she said "I might
have known it, The sign and the
SHORES should have disclosed your
identity"
WAS I snoring?" Densmore asked
anxiously, as he jumped down from
the seat.
II have been following the sound
for the last mile or So" she laughed.
$50 you're in trouble, too?"
las you see,'' said he waving his
arm toward the car. "And your"
The San Francisco call., 1904-10-23
BreeZes Blown
By Hate M. Cleary

she's mighty quiet, I've come to f1nd
out she's not the typical little country
girl at all She's well-read and trav
eled, though she seemed rather aghast
when she let that fact out And she
looks at a fellow in a cool, apprising
sort Of way that makes him feel pretty
cheap-if his spoken thoughts are not
quite up TO her white standard. But
she's not really in the social swim.
She's native 1 take it. It's been hard
to pin her down to any confidence
about herself. She lives with very
dragon of an aunt at farmhouse on
the edge Of town. She wears her cot
ton dresses and shade hats in way
that takes the shine out of the women
up at the hotel, but I've never seen her
sport any of the swell clothes they
wear to the hops here. Oh, confound
it, What's the use Of my incoming
away to you at this rate2 I've got to
go away and try to forget her before
it's too late.
"Damaris Chase and her father are
to be here this week, they tell me.
And she's the girl the heads Of both
our houses expect me to marry! She
may have the good taste to refuse
me-and 1 almost hope she will. She's
a great heiress, and the consolidation
Of the business interests would be
capital thing: but. oh. hang me If
thought II would be so hard to get
that little girls sweet face out of my
heart. I must do the sensible thing,
and go in for the twenty thousand
year. Lordi but I'm sorry for those
poor devils of kings who have to wed
for reasons of state. feel disgust
ingly like one of them. I'm sleepy.
Good night-Tll finish this in the morn
ing. Ten to one / dream of Ivy Lylei"
1t needed no signature. The writer
was easily recognized. She crumpled
the paper tightly in her hand and
thrust 1t into the blouse of her gown
as rapid, heavy step came crunching
down the beach. That step had be-
come too pleasantly familiars4 Could
he have known the sheet had been
whisked .out of his room? Had he
seen it blown down to the beach?
Good morning, Miss Lylei" He
flung himself down beside her. His
handsome, boyish face looked strained
and set, as though insomnia had
claimed him. You're out early. Will
Clear Springs?"
Il can'tl" she faltered.
And won't you come up Black River
to-day?" entreatingly. almost tenderly.
1T may be the last timeI''
He was Misunderstanding. On, that
cruel. cruel letterl But-the last time.
he had said.
She flung UP her head and smiled at
him. Yes, will goI" she said.
They were very gay that afternoon,
almost recklessly so. They had lunch
con at the inn near the springs, and
foated back between the wooded banks
just as the day was closing. When they
came to parting at the clump of lilac
bushes in the lane that led to the farm
house Jack Ardsley leaned forward and
looked into her eyes.
Dear" he said, II love youl I love
you, and can't let you go out of my
The San Francisco call., 1904-10-23

time he comes into the house. His
8. H will call the dog a darling. and
hubby a brute, but the huntingdon
misery hubby don't mind little thing
like that
II a wife has a past regarding which
she is particularly sensitive. the hus-
band should never forget 1t himself,
nor allow her to do so.
Every time a husband wants to 90
out wife should start in with a tear
full rage that she knows that he is go
ing to see some other woman The
more soasmodic she becomes the bet
ter will hubby be pleased. 1t tickles
his vanity to know that she thinks
he can fascinate another woman, and
a husband raves over a wife who Is
jealous and suspicious to the verge
Of insanity. 1t makes him feel so un-
comfortable and important. II she
punctuates her reoroaches with a few
finely drawn hysterical fits, the misery
will fairly bubble over.
Another misery whOOper-in is the
question Of finances. A stingy man is
a perennial misery bloom Tell a wife
that she would ruin a Carnegie, and
poke your nose into every detail OF
housekeeping 1t will prove an unfail-
ing misery breeder.
Criticize each other in the most vi
cious manner. a husband should
never fail to tell his wife that no mat
ter what she puts on she'd still look
like a fishwife on Saturday market
night, and praise in the most unstinted
ho
adding that he wonders why he did not
marry so and so. instead Of tying him
self to a diIaDidated- looking trump
Snarl and sneer at each other Ike two
haIf-sick, nl-natured terriers, and 1t
will surely send the misery I'D like
mercury in the SOS.
II the husband does not or will not
work, he should hang around the house
all day, finding fault with everything
and everybody. incidentally cuff1ng the
kids. This is one Of the prettiest mis-
ery-etchings known-a real work OK
art.
OF course there are other more bru-
tai ways OF scooping up matrimoniaf
misery, but we could not indOrse them
A drunken man is too horrible. but the
husband who artistically festOons him.
self with Il w-cut-decollete-swall
tailed-dress-s ss-suit-club-hOuse jag can
make things equally lively and divert
ing, and can generate tankful OF mis-
cry on surprisingly short order
II the foregoing recipes do not dish
I'D a copious. highly spiced Hungry
eoulash of misery, then some people
will have to make the best OF existing
conditions and try TO reconcile them
selves to the old-fashioned matrimonial
state Of things. and be happy though
married.
The San Francisco call., 1904-10-23

EGGY met him first at one Of
n ] the Wednesday night hops at
the waconessett Inn He was
somewhat more than passably
good looking, fair haired, Of a mill
tary build, and German. His name
was understood to be Munsterberg. He
danced a number of times with Peggy
and finally they began to sit out
dances in a quiet corner Of the veran-
da, where, with their chairs close to-
gether, he talked to her in English
with the faintest of German accents,
and she replied in American-made
German that set them both laugh
ing.
The advent of the German was
timely for Peggy. She had just fallen
out with Donald Macomber, had sent
him back the ring, and being In the
after-throes of a broken engagement,
she was sadly in need Of diversion.
The German seemed to give good
promise of this. He was well bred,
possessed of that urbane finish that
much travel alone can give and. more
over, after that first dance with Peg
gy it was plain to be seen he was very
much in love with her.
Peggy, ostensibly to relieve the va
can't feeling in her heart, began a
desperate Irritation. In a weeks time
Munsterberg was her slave. Where
Peggy went there went he. He drove
with her; he sailed with her on the
lake; he climbed the mountain with
her. AS Peggy's satellite he seemed to
have found his true vocation.
1t is doubtful If Peggy entertained
a really serious thought OF the Ger
man until the day Jack Motley dis
covered-by means Of a crest on
silver brandy tiask-that ,worthy's true
identity.
Peggy may be forgiven If she dreamed
of manv things after that-of an old
gray castle in the hills of Coburg: OF
three letters and royal title preceding
her own name: stationery bearing the
crest of the triDle-headed eagle. In
fact, she did dream much Of these ad-
vantages at first, and the interesting
German of that first Wednesday night
hop was suddenly vested, in her mind,
with much romance and much eligibil-
ity.
Then-oh, heart OF womani-after the
first romance of the thing had woEn OF,
and his Royal Highness had begun to
repeat his rather slender store of
bright remarks. she found herself
dreaming Of Donald Macomber, ana
wondering why he had not come back
to her as all the others had. She re-
membered that Macomber had always
been masterful and high-handed, even
as suitor, and that it was because he
had been unwilling to yield some trivial
point that she had broken with him.
The San Francisco call., 1904-10-23

An old oolored man living near Olds-
burg. in Fottawatomie County. named
Shannoff, has a queer kind OF cal
endar. The old fellow can neither read
nor write. and TO tell the days or the
week he has seven spools on a string
Every morning he moves a spool 10
the other side OF the string. but owing
to his present sickness he forgot 10
move the spool, thereby losing a day
He told the doctor that the day was
Wednesday. so the doctor moved an
other spool down the line and put the
old man right with his calendar--To-
peka (Kan.) Capital
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a few years Ill work so hard at
my profession to give you everything
that shall be sure to win"
She had not been mistaken in letting
herself love him then. For she did love
him-she did. And she had known it
all the while. She lifted her shy, flushed
face.
i will be a good wife to you, dear!"
she promised. And he kissed her on the
lips.
That night when he sought her at the
dance at the inn he stood amazed. That
lovely lady in the snowy, shimmering
gown his demure, little country lassie.
How superbly she carried herself. And
The San Francisco call., 1904-10-23

Hfe-ever! You don't know much of
me. Ivy. but-will you be my wife?"
What" she faltered, what about
Damaris Chaser"
He took her shaking hands and held
them fast.
who in the world has been telling
you OF her? I've never seen her, but
our fathers have vast interests in COM
mon. and have been anxious to arrange
a match. 1 don't say didn't think of
being complaisant. Darling, some time
I may get up courage to tell you how
near l came to being paltry coward
The San Francisco call., 1904-10-23

Miss Trevor flushed.
Il shall cut the tow loose" said she.
why don't you cut it?" said he
II haven't a knife" she faltered.
Would you if you had one?" he per-
sisted.
There was long wait before she
vouchsafed reply.
No." she said gently.
The San Francisco call., 1904-10-23
When the
Prince WOOed
By Richard B. Shelton

She began to think seriously and to
compare his Royal Highness with Dom
aid. And when the comparison. point
by point. was ended, Peggy was a very
unhappy girl, to whom the castle In
Coburg was a nightmare
And because OF all these things ths
throne Of Coburg- -Gotha barely escaped
losing its heir.
1t happened one August evening. His
Royal Highness was padding Peggy
slowly about the lake. singing. a. he
padded, little sentimental German
songs. and looking very contented-
Peggy gave the song no heed. She
was watching a solitary figure In an
approaching canoe. The figure bent to
the paddle in an easy, familiar manner
There could be no mistaking those
broad shoulders and that curly brown
hair. The two canoes drew nearer.
The man In the other canoe looked up
Peggy smiled and bowed The man
nodded coldly and began 70 paddle
faster.
Something seemed to clutch her
throat. The Prince was quite forgot
ten. She realized only that Donald
sight and out of her life.
''DonaIdI" she cried
He padded on with never q glance In
her direction.
Donald" she cried again. as he still
gave no heed, she tremblingly stood up.
His Royal Highness gasped-
"Sit down-sit down." he urged
Peggy deliberately put one little foot
on the spreader. and In a moment they
were in the water.
When she came TO the surface she
was seized by a strong arm. and a big,
tender voice said evenly:
Don't struggle, dearest; you are safe
with me-"
And Peggy closed her eyes and was
very happy.
Not so his Roval Highness OF Co
burg Gotha. He was fioundering about
miserably and shouting spasmodically
between choking gurgles:
''Help-in God'ssname. help! do not
swim!"
The rescuers hshed them out-Princs
Ludwig Wilhelm OF Coburg- -Gotha first.
for he was far spent. And while at
the inn they were rolling him In hot
blankets and pouring brandy down his
throat, Peggy was laughing and cry
ing Historically on the shoulder OF
the other Prince-although he was not
known to the world at large by his
title, It is true-and making most
absurd confession. When she had nm
ished, Donald's face was very grave.
But If he had drowned. what then.
Peggy?" he questioned
"Coburg- -Gotha could have got along
without a Prince better than could
without you."- she said
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Densmore caught her hand in his.
IT said lots OF things about this car
when 1t broke down on me this after
noon. but I'll take them all back" he
said.
The girls eyes were intent on tho
feecy clouds drifting across the sky
Breaking down isn't half - bad.
after ALL" she mused.
The San Francisco call., 1904-10-23
BY KATE THySON f1ARR

0HERE has been much pungent
discussion lately as to how to be
happy though married, wherein
preachers, critics and happy fam
ty experts have reduced their
embonpoint worrying over the propo-
sition, while the starved majority who
love 10 riot in misery have been left
TO their own ignorant and unaided de-
vices.
In my sympathy I have burned sew
eral ounces of midnight sDermaceti In
Formulating a code that cannot fail.
CHAT sounds like patent medicine in
stead Of a real misery ADD
Happiness is doled out in honeo-
pathic doses, but misery is dished up
In real appetizing chunks. That is more
expressive than elegant, but 1T demon
strates truthfully.
As a misery eye-opener. be sure to
call the soul of your soul" a fool or
an idiot on every possible occasion. It
goes without saying that he or she was
or he or she would not have married
you, but that part need not be referred
to.
AS first matrimonial course, be ever
,
body tells you of your spouse, particu-
larly If the information is real nawsty;
1t viii then be such a soothing syrup
10 your wrought up feelings.
Never miss the opportunity to i'm
press on your b. H. what a fool you
were TO marry when and as you did.
This reiteration is to married life what
the lemon peel is TO the cocktail-im-
parts the flavor.
The husband should always remind
the wife that she has grown so ugly
that the very sight Of her upsets his
digestion, if he adds that he don't know
how Qn a cuss word) he could ever
have thought her pretty; it gives a
dash of paprika to the entree.
When a husbands bachelor friends
call he should not fail to just rub it
IN, what a lucky dog he is to have es-
capped matrimony. There is a wild
thrOb Of misery in that.
Never neglect to impress upon a
wife that you only married her be-
cause she was so stuck on you
that you felt sorry for her. If she
sasses you back and says that you
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1904-02-04
Rusosy japoneses

lHabra guerra entire Russia y
Jap6n? lSe complicara, 81 la
hay, con una guerra europea3
He pedido opinion a un ruso
muy ilustrado, Tcherkessof, el
que trata en- su contestaci6n un
punto que no ha sido tratado
por la prensa europea.
Dice asf ell sabio ruso:
Como Inglaterra Sc apodero
de Gibraltar, de Malta, de Chi
pre-, del canal de Suez, de Alden,
etc. para protejer sus comuni-
caciones navales, ell Gobierno
russo Sc esfuerza en- obtener en-
la costa de Corea un puerto que
proteja, en- case de guerra, sus
comunicaciones entire Port-Ar-
thur y Vladivostok. Pero Russia
const1tuira un formidable peli-
gro para el Japon, 81 posee un
puerto en- ell mar de este pals,
! y ell Gobierno japones esta obi
gado a resistir por todos los
medios a las pretensiones rusas.
Preferible le sera declarar la
guerra que ceder cobardemente.
Y, sin embargo, desde el pun
to de vista de los estadistas, es
impossible que Russia renuncie a
sus reclamaciones. De aquf el
conlicto a la crisis actual.
,Asi, pues, es inminente una
guerra ente estas dos potencias.
En- Ell momento actual, el Ia
pom esta mejor preparado que
Russia para una guerra en- Orien-
| te. No solo los rusos no tienen
bastantes tropas en- las provin-
cias marftimas del Extreme
Oriente, sino que estan obliga-
dos a enviar refuerzos. municlo-
mes y todo 10 que es indispensa-
BILE al ejercito, de Petersburgo,
de Moscow 8 de Varsovia, a una
distancia de 9 a 10000 kilome-
tros, al traves de un pals cubier-
to de nieve, helado hasta 30 y 40
grades del centfgrado -.
He aqui la razon de que la
diplomacia rusa sc esfuerce, CO.
mo sc esfuerza, en- aplazar por
todos los medios las conferen-
cias, procurando prolongarlas
hasta la primavera, cuando me-
nos.
lLo conseguira la diplomacia
rusa7 Hay que dudar de ellie,
porque detras de los japoneses
Sc distingue a Jos "nsfstoneros'
ingleses....
Estos misioneros son la preo-
cupacion de Paris y Francia.
lEsta Francia preparada, como
aliada de Russia, a una guerra
con Inglaterra. aliada del Japoni
Los reaccionarios dicen que
no. Hay que recordar que de-
clan que 81 cuando la guerra
del 20.
Luis Bonafoux
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1904-02-04
A los viajeros

La Empresa de Manuel .J5msesse<,
de Aguadilla, hace saber al p1blico la
auu'ac On del convenio con la Compa
MIA del ferrocarril para la venta de los
asientos en- Ell coche correo entire Ca
nuy y AguadiIla. Desde Ell 10 dc
Febrero el pasaje valdra $3.50 obte
niendose los billetes Ia llegada de los
trenes. Ademas ofreee coches para
Wales entire estos puntos q preclos
modicos.
I5i-hs6f
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1904-02-04
EUGENE PRUNIER
NUEyc FERRUGNoso NO EsTRENIENDo
American Railroad Company d Porto Ril
SERVICIO De AUTOMOBILES

A partir del dia primero de Febrer,
1904 sc establecera un se.vicio dc
AUTOMOBILES. entire Camuy Agda
lila. en- conexi6n con los trenes de la
Comrafffa del Ferrocarril de San Juan
4 Ponce.
Este servicio estara cargo del ex-
psrimentado automovilista Mr.. C. H.
Martin.
Los itineraries actuaIes seguirxn en-
vigor por el momento.
Quedan ia disposition del pdblico
cinco asientos en- 81 autom6vil, pudien-
do reseryarse eseos asient6s IL antenna-
no en- las estaciones del Ferrocarril q
|en el snismo tren. 81 preci0 del asien-
ito en- autom6vil serz ieuaI al del coche
3 sea de $500
6i-hs
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1904-02-04
Ell DR.. don Gustavo MunOz Dfaz

Ha trasladado su despacho 4 II ca lie
de la Fortaleza n1mero 80. piso bajo,
don DE- recibira 4 sus c'ientes.
En- Ell mismo local sc atender4n todos
'os avis IS para la vista domiciliaria.-
Telefonos n1meros Io4 y 1929.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1904-02-04
E. FRANCO. EHzRSg5z1 E9HRfg!REse,

Ell rejor COLMADo contera reposteria. ncores vines
eOnservas
Sc encargos dulces vizcochones coIinetas
dos ETC., etc. para bodas bautizos.
Importacones direcas de todas procedencia.
Gran fabrica de chocolate al vapo elaborado
ax1car del pals
Premiado Ia Exposition de Buffalo de rnedaM
de buncs, la de Charleston de 1909 la de
Production dia-ia 700 lbras
AGente San Iuan ISIDRo A. SANCHEZ.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-04-22
Present ito Relief Corps,

At the last regular meeting OF the
Woman's Relief Corps, Mrs. Clara A.
Lukens presented the corps with a
beautiful set Of four silk flags to do
the flag work with. The flags are
the largest size used in the flag work,
complete with standards and base to
hold the Standards. 1t was a beauti-
ful and thoughtful gift. In present.
ing them Mrs. Lukens said we were
the largest Relief Corps in the state
and we have a Department, also ma
tional officer in our number and she
felt we must have good flags to do
our work well. The president in a
few we'll chosen remarks, expressed
her gratitude and pleasure and called
for a rising vote Of thanks from the
members. Each member felt a vote
OF thanks a slight expression Of the
way we felt.
On Friday, April %, the members
OF the corps are to have a FIVE o'clock
tea in the G. a. r. rooms, each one
to invite a friend to attend. 1t is Of
a social nature and all the members
are urged to be present. Due notice
will be given later.
Press Correspondent.