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BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1904-08-22
RAYO DE ORC

-Comprendo, todo ESQ esta va bien ejos.
-Adem 4sreplico ell notario, estoy agobiado de ira
bajo, os agradecere que digais brevemente que
deseas.
Al momento; pero sempre es bueno reconocerse. -
Ahora va somos dos antiques amigos; lno es verdad7
-Cierto-respondo ell notario gesto
rado.
-Yo no he poddo hacer nads; he tenido mis- ALIAS
bajas en- el negoco.
Al hecho-dijo el hombre de ley mpacente.
-Pues e, negocio de que me he encargado que
casa, puede ponerme sobre ell psnoche.
iSobre Ell ptnoche--excam6 ell notaro sorprenddo
-lNo es asi como decis cuando uno Sc hace rico?
-Sobre ell pinaculo.
-Pinacuo, pinoche .es 10 msmo.
-Si, conlnuad-dijo Ell se6or Raimbault
-Parece ser que hace tempo tuvisteis como clente
joven.
He tenido muchas jovenes clientes
NO 10 dudo pero la que 20 me refiero era una
cliente particular. Sc llama Enrqueta... Muy
bella. La aman Paris Rayo de Ore por cabe1los
verdadera curosidad. No por alabara pero tie
ne nina de Ia cabeza, al cambio de hoy. Es
ia joven hace tempo recibfa de pension.
-Doscientos frances mensuales.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1904-08-22
"A BIBLIOTECA DEL BOLETIN MERCANTIL
-cC6mo sabeis7
La Saint-Felix Sc sonrio.

La Saint-Felx Sc sonri6.
-Es una de mis- gas; soy 20 quien lie ha puesto
Ell cuarto . iAh me ha habado copfrecuencia de su
vizcone Bye arc,e No sabe que nctario pero yo
os he visto una vez dos en- Ia antesala he
cdo en- seguda pero va ve que soy dscrea pueS NADIA
he dicho, y Santfuettl jgnorara sempre....
jPor favcr CALL caad!-dije ell notario miranda
una pequeha puerta que exsfa e fondo de su des-
pacho.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1904-08-22

ns in effect and after July rst 1904 between San Juan,
> Arecibo, Camuy Aguadila Maysgues and Ponce.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-10-28
PEARLS OF THOUGHT

Do not the good things of life rob
you of the best things?-Maltbie D.
Babcock
The highest form of good life is self
denial for the good of others.-Rev
DR.. Park
Look, expect, watch; look as if you
wanted the blessing, and you will get
it.-Joseph Parker
The permanent things are the stars
and the sun. and not the clouds or
the dust.-Senator Hoar
| have no genius; it is only patient,
concentrated toll that gives me sue,
cess.-Sir Isaac Newton.
Unless he is feeble-minded, it is nev.
er safe to trade upon mans ignor-
anee.-Cora Lapham Hazard.
The memory OF the past is only
worth preserving as a motive to the
future.-Sunday-school Times
There are lighthouses all along
our lives and God knows when it i.
time to light the lamps.-Saxe Holmes
quiet, sympathetic look or smil
many time unbars heart that needs
help which you can give.-Josephine
Pollard.
We cannot truly know anything
without sympathy, without getting out
of self, and entering into the feelings
of others.
The surest method of arriving at a
knowledge Of Gods eternal purposes
about us is to be found in the RICH
use OF the present moment.-F. w
Faber.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-10-28
A Dog With a Grudae.

Eureka is a small dog, very much
devoted to her master. Occasionally
her master takes an early train TO
New York, returning at night, On
such occasions "Reke" sits On a box
at the window, and watches him out
of sight; and, when the whistle blows
for the evening train, she takes her
place again to watch for his return.
One evening he did not come; but
seeing another gentleman coming Ut
from the station in the dusk, she mis-
took him for her master, and, whin
ing for the door to be opened. she
ran out, wagging her tail and man
tested her joy in every known way
until she had nearly reached the
stranger.
When she perceived her mistake
she turned with an expression of e.
IRENE disgust and ran back, head anf
tail lowered, and looking as sheapisl
as possible.
When he laughed at her, she with
drew to corner and lay there fcl
the rest of the evening.
Since then she never allows tina,
gentleman to pass without barking al
him; and once, when he came to tbs
the house on business she made such 4
time that she bad to be put out. Ev-
identity she thought ne had insulted
her
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-10-28
CARE IN TESTING FLOUR.
Big Mills Take Pains to Ascertain
Quality of QIifnuf

Big Mills Take Pains to Ascertain
Quality of Output.
1T is surprising to note the differ
snce that exists between the various
brands of -four said o. D. Hutchin-
son, the representative Of one of the
big mills in Minneapolis, MINI. ut
al depends on how the -four is milled
and on. the Kind of wheat from which
It is made. Flour made from hard
spring wheat will give from twenty
to forty more loaves of bread per bar
rel than that made from the softer
winter wheat. 1t contains a larger
percentage of gluten and absorbs
more water. The mills are exceeding
ly careful about the kind of -four they
send out, and the testing department
Is one of the most important
branches.
AFTER the -four is ground comes the
crucial test A sample Is taken and
made up into bread We have four
bakings a day. and from twenty to
thirty loaves. are baked each time,
each one representing sample of
-four. After the test has been made
the bread is turned over to the Asso-
ciated charities.
you may have noticed that the col
or of -four is no longer a marble
white, but q creamy white. This comes
from the fact that the rich portion OF
the grain. right under the woody coat
ing. is ground into the -four, What is
left can hardly be called bran, for il
is only the coarsest part of the outer
fiber."-MiIwaukee Sentinel.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-10-28
MODERN JAPANESE GIRLS.
Have Entirely Adopted Occidental
Education Methods,

IN an article in the Far East, Nine
Uchida, wife of the Japanese Consul
General in New York, tells of the
japanese women as they were and
are. She says:
I'm our mothers generation The
girls were taught simply to become
good wives to their husbands and
good mothers to their children; there,
fore they were educated to be mod
est, obedient and capable of control
ling themselves. They are taught
also how to keep house, how to sew,
how to read and write, how to ar
range flowers, how to make and serve
tea, and very often they also studied
music and literature, but they receiy,
ed no school education such as they
receive now.
Girls of the present time all re.
ceive modern school education. Jap
anese ladies in 1904 are not content
ed merely to stay at home and take
care of their children They attend
lectures, meetings and entertain
ments. They publish women's maya
zines and discuss their rights and du,
ties.
Il think there is no girl now in
Japan who cannot write her owr
name, for the parents are compelled
by law to send their girls as well
as their boys to school when they
reach the age of six In the pri
mary school girls receive the same
education as boys, with the additional
study of sewing. After they grad.
uate from the primary school many
girls attend the high school.
"a fact that might interest Amer
lean readers is that the women in
Japan never get stout when they
grow old. although they take hardly
any exercise.
Young men and women while they
are in school or college. take much
outdoor exercise, but as soon as they
leave schoui they give it up. Tennis
is popular game among young la.
dies"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-10-28
WOLVES INCREASING IN NUMBER
Large Amounts Still Paid by Western
States in Bounties.

The wolf is more dreaded of hui
mainly than any other animal No
doubt we of to-day inherit that dread
from ancestors who had occasion to
fear the long-fanged quadruped, for
there are few portions of the world
to-day where the wolf is really dan
gerous to mankind.
Dangerous to mans pocket, to his
herds and focks, he is still to-day in
many portions of the country. A
ranch in Montana or New Mexico
may pay many hundreds of dollars
year for gray wolf scalps. Such a
scalp is cheap at s12 or SIS to the
rancher, for the gray robber would
certainly have destroyed many times
that value in calves or colts from
the range. Yet in spite of all the
warfare made upon them, and all the
prices put upon their heads, these
dreaded, mysterious, ghostlike, terror
inspiring creatures still hold their
own. Outcasts for ages, hated, per-
secuted, they still endure, each for
himself, and without a friend on
earth, even among his own kind.
Last year the State of Minnesota
paid over $4,000 month in the best
Of the wolf season. One day of the
month of last March the State Au.
ditor paid $6,15S.5O in wolf bounties.
The total for the few months proceed
Ing was s36,548.50. On this basis the
current year will foot up nearly as
much as the two years preceding,
which appears TO indicate that Broth
er Wolf Is holding his own, even as
matter of commerce. In many
parts of the Western cattle range
the gray wolves are increasing rather
than decreasing. -Field and Stream.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-10-28

the half-asleep condition Of the drug
ger with the certainty OF sickness and
disease ahead
1t is a matter each individual must
decide for himself. He can be a lead
er and semi-gol il he will, or he can
80 along through life drugged clown,
a cheap newer of wood or carrier of
water"
Certain 1t is that while the Great
Father OF us all does not seem to
"mind" il some OF His children are
foolish and stupid. He seems to select
others tperhaps those He intends for
some special work. and allows them TO
be threshed and eastigaicd most fear
fully by these Jewellers"
If a man tries flirting with these lev
elers awhile, and gets few snps rs
hint, he had better take the hint or
good solid blow will follow.
| When a man tries TO live upright,
manifesting as near rs he knows what
the Creator Intends he should, happi-
ness, health and peace seem to come
to him. Does 1t pay?
| This article was written to set peo-
pie thinking, to rouse the God with
H." for every highly organized man
and woman has times when they feel
a something calling from within for
them to press 20 the front and 'be
about the Fathers business" don't
mistake it; the spark of the Infinite
is there and 1t pays in every way,
health, happiness, peace, and even
worldly prosperity, to break off the
habits and strip clean for the work
cut out for us.
| 1t has been the business IF the writ
er to provide practical and easy way
| for people to break away from the
coffee habit and be assured of return
to health aud all of the good things
| that brings, provided the abuse has
not gone too far, and even then the
cases where the body has been rebuilt
on a basis of strength and health run
ito the thousands.
1t is an easy and comfortable step to
stop coffee instantly by having WELL
made Postum Food Coffee served rich
and hot with good cream, for the COL
or and flavor is there. but none Of the
caffeine or other nerve destroying ell
ements of ordinary coffee.
On the contrary, the most powerful
rebuilding elements furnished by Ma
ture are in Postum and they quickly
set about repairing the damage. Sci.
dom is it more than two days after
the change is made before the old
stomach or bowel troubles or com.
plants Fof kidneys, heart, head OF
| nerves show unmistakable evidence OF
getting better and ten days time
changes things wonderfully.
Literally millions of brain working
Americans to-day use Postum, having
found the value and common sense in
the change.
c. w. POST.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-10-28
Tale of the Erie Canal

| At Amsterdam, for Fonda bound,
| We hauled the rope away,
| AM left the dock at 10 O'Clock
The fifteenth day of May.
| Our boat 1t was the Mary Jarfe,
| The crew Was-Jim an me;
| hain't seen Jim ner boat again
They both are gone, you see.
| We took a risk, the gale was brisk,
Bilge two foot in the hold;
| But what's the use to kick. abuse
A stanch friend of the old?
Says Jim to me, says l to Jim:
Its touch an go, you get
He says to me, l says to him:
1.-THE weather's summat. wet"
We're loaded down from keel to crown
A draft of fire brick;
We hauled away. fifteenth Of May.
To do the job up quick.
But two mile out OF the home port
The off mule took the heaves:
He quit the Job, played out sport
He sleeps, the willer grieves.
We drug along with lit an song
Serenely as you please;
We hit rock with hefty shock.
An settled there at ease.
Twas years an years an years ago,
From Amsterdam outbound.
The Mary Jane sagged soft an slow
In mud her bottom found.
Jim stole the mule. the gol darn fool.
An skated out of sight,
[ swum ashore in tempest roar.
Dressed in the garb of night.
[ could tell more. but hain't the heart.
On a clo'es line I got
some trouser legs to hide the pegs
That drug me from the spot.
Horace Seymour Keller. :
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-10-28
ARTISTIC PARTISAN JEwELRY.
Novelties In Rings, Chains and PEN
dants seen at French Capital.

t@9fSttfG& tH> ntu9Sy MAINS ana rem
dants Seen at French Capital.
Artistic medals are among the pref
test trifles upon which votaries of
fashion feast their eyes. A new and
effective design in this charming line
is the creation OF the eminent Sculp-
tor and Is called "Patria" Gather
land). 1t comes of chased matt gold
or silver. and represents half-veiled
woman's head, whose textures are
marvelously treated. The reverse of
this medal represents cock announc-
ing the rising OF the sun. Such med
ais. the popularity of which is greater
than ever before, are carried suspend
ed from the long chain.
Brooches are also greatly in evil
dence. This line comprises a great
range of effective and original de-
signs. Womens heads, figures or
flowers are the prevailing decora-
tons. the brooches being mostly made
OF chased matt gold. enriched with
precious stones. Striking in the ex-
IRENE is the brooch OF chased matt
gold representing flowers and foliage
of the bind weed. This motif. very
ably worked out, takes the form of
a shield, ending with large baroque
pearl.
In sash buckles the greatest fancy
prevails. Most OF the new specimens
are of very large dimensions, vary
inc fufn
nine heads to graceful plants or flow
ers.
In the way of neck pendants the
most fascinating designs are shown.
AS an example let me mention an
artistic pendant, beautifully enamel
ed and representing two swallows
with cutspread wings contending with
each other for the possession of
small ball of coral. Other tasty pat
terms of chased matt gold are rectan-
gular in shape and representing de-
,ightful landscapes, in the front part
of which are swans swimming males
tically between reeds. These attrac-
tive specimens are handsomely enam-
eled and adorned with precious stones
principally diamonds, pearls and ru-
bies.
The newest and daintiest styles in
rings for women are those OF chased
matt gold, adorned with floral decora-
tions.
Long chains are extensively shown.
These dainty articles keep their popu-
larity. The most favored patterns
are composed of links of matt gold
alternating with cut cabochon stones
CT motifs of chased matt gold repre-
senting flowers and foliage handsome
ly enameled.
Besides the artistic medals above
mentioned many amusing breloques
are attached to the long chains. These
charms are of chased matt gold or sill
yer, and represent various animals,
such as cats, dogs. frogs, ETC., in COM
ical attitudes. Rubies serve as eyes.
-Jewelry Circular-Weekly
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-10-28
VILLAGE TYPEs-rHE spINsTER.

Her nams it was Lucin1a Brown,
The preUticst in all the t)wn-
At least tsyas SO reported when
Shs won the prize at the glass show.
Perhaps her graces blinded men
Some thirty years or more ago.
Her features they were regular,
Her satin cheeks bore ne'er mark.
Ali then they used to rhapsodize,
Those poet singers of the parts,
Who praised her beauty TO the skies
While Cindy only smashed their
hearts.
Demurely she glanced over all
The SWANS who came at beck and call.
She'd buggy-ride with them all day,
Or lean with them upon the gate.
When they talked business she'd stay
Their fervor with: Its growing
late"
Her mien, so said, ii was thing
To win the rapture of king.
Her dainty head, in equipoise
Upon her sloping shoulders, won
The ardency Of all the boys
But Cindy only called it fun.
The sweetest old maid in the town
Her name Is still Lucinda Brown.
She courts the sunny side the street
Where little children rOmp and play,
And in their laughter gay and sweet
She hears the songs of yesterday.
Horace Seymour Keller, IN the New
York Sun.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-10-28

banter at MIN Tor deserLlng them, sno
Strengthened up with blazing cheeks
aid the fire of battle in her eyes.
Its the silliest, the most ridiculous
thing evos heard of. And you're the
meanest. meanest man alive! / should
think you'd hate yourself to DEATH"
Il don't aspire to great wisdom or
perfection" he returned, serenely,
driving on
you know how I've looked forward
to this afternoon. and what plans
we've made for it,"
IF you hadn't Systematically dis
arranged so many of my plans | might
be more considerate of yours"
Its SO contemplate. your trapping
me like this."
You came voluntarily. I've right
to market. my hay when please"
"Ycu don't mean" But they were
entering the village. and she crouched
down again out of sight. He did not
stop. and when they had left the last
house behind. she began. piteously:
Il was never so hungry in my life!
I'm positively faint"
You know how to sympathize with
the poor, them" he suggested.
"Ycu don't care how much you make
me suffer, and you profess to-" She
broke off in some confusion, conscious
that she was too near the brink"
Yes, profess to love you" he fin
ished for her. 1--WE never tried to hide
it-and | suppose, after all, there is
little need of words. l ought to have
understood without having it said.
You've shown me plain enough that it
is useless, and yet-"he halted, medita-
lively. Some intuition within him de-
elared that she was not so Indifferent
as she had assumed to be.
NO" he continued, Il will have ii
in words! Dora, you know | love you
devotedly, with all my heart; will you
be my wife," He turned to her with a
deep tenderness in his face and shin
ing in his serious eyes
Cousins can't marry" she evaded.
My step-mother's niece isn't very
close cousin" he commented. But
ought to thank you," he went on. pre-
sently, with a rather wan smile, You
might have been more harsh in your
refusal of me-
He turned the horse about, saying,
You will not be very late at the
game" Then he turned his back in a
stolid silence. If he suffered, she
should not see it.
The minutes passed slowly as the
horses logged along the hot, dusty
highway. The sun poured down it's
scorching- rays. Nat sat at his post
like a craven image, oblivious alike
to the blistering heat and the presence
OF his pretty and unwilling passenger.
The silence was suddenly broken by
a storm OF sobs from Dora. He writhed
anxiously, until he could bear it no
longer, and burst cut
Don't cry, Dora, darling. I'm a
brute, a perfect beast! / don't know
how to treat girl, even when | love
her so-you did right to refuse mel"
"But-but-I haven't refused-y-
you! II said cousins co-couldn't
marry didn't say"
Dora" he spoke sternly. you
must net play with me any longer, |
can't bear it."
I'm not playing now But if you
you don't want to understand-or if
you-you think I'm going to say 'Yes.'
any pl-plainer-"
She sobbed the rest on his shoulder.
Louise G. Strong in the Housekeep-
err.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-10-28
After a EarqaIn.

It was evident that she was trou-
bled.
Il think l prefer this" she said, in
dicating a roll of cloth on the coun-
ter. ''Ycu say it has been marked
down from IL to 10 cents yard?"
yes, ma'am," replied the clerk.
Its really what l want" she con-
tinued, "but this" and she indicated
another roll, has been marked down
from 12h cents to 10 cents a yard, as
l understand your"
yes, ma'am."
Then | should think the other
ought to be down to 911 cents
That would be cheaper than we
can afford to sell it, ma'am."
But you have taken 2h cents off
the price of the other and only 2
cents off this" she protested, taking
up the first roll again. THAT makes
the other the better bargain"
TITS very cheap at 10 cents yard.
ma'am."
Il suppose it is, but it isn't as
good a bargain as the other"
Il can't make it any less"
Then I suppose l will have to take
the 121a cent goods, but it seems a
shame when I would rather have the
other. You may give me ten yards"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-10-28
A Pulpit Protest.

A prominent clergyman contends
that there is neither health, sense
nor religion in full mourning. He tells
his congregation that bit of black
ribbon, worn in some way, will tell
the story of Bereavement just as well
as a, complete mourning suit A bit
of crepe on the bell pull gives the
hint to those who pass by, and it Is
not considered necessary to cover the
whole front with drapery. Why, then,
will not bit OF ribbon on cloak or
coat answer the purpose and a weight
of useless expense and costume that
is always gloomy, and in warm wealth
err very uncomfortable, be taken from
the shoulders of bereaved mourners?
Christians, he is convinced ought not
to take a gloomy view of death. There
are glorious hopes linked with the
sorrows, and the hopes of those who
are gone before should be symbolized
rather than the sorrows of those who
are left behind He would have cheer
full garments worn by the mourners
in token of the triumph of the glori-
fed ones, and bit Of ribbon or crepe
as simple memorial of their own
sense Of bereavement. The rest of
the full mourning he would send to
the heather, who in their sorrows at
the grave have no hope.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-10-28
EuTIdIngs Of Ancient Greece.

At the recent unwilling Of mural
ablet to the memory of the late Mr..
:. C. Penrose, F. R. S., in the crypt Of
st. Paul's Cathedral, London, Sir L.
Alma-Tadema remarked that Mr.. PEN
roses accurate measurements revealed
how far the Greeks had gone beyond
the use of the straight line into COM
prehension Of the hidden curve. He
showed, for instance, that the lines
Of the base of the Parthenon were
curved in order to appear straight.
and that columns on the same plane
were made different in size In order
to create more perfect and harmoni-
Gus impression of uniformity. 1t was
Mr.. Penrose who directed the strength
ening Of the Parthenon after the earth-
snAke Of 1894
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-10-28
"Pen StammerInq.~

"Pen Stammering" is the name CIV
en- by DR.. Berillon, of Paris, TO diff
ficulty IN writing analogues to STAN
mering in speech. Many persons, he
says, are incapable of writing even
enc of the letters of word as long
as anyone is looking at them. Hyp-
MOTTO suggestions he thinks, will cure
this nervous trouble, as well as wri-
ters' cramp.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-10-28
= Paper CIothinq.

The Japanese some years ago de.
veloped trade in paper garments
which is now booming again and be-
coming very popular chiefly owing to
the war. The expense of ordinary
wearing apparel have increased con
siderably since the outbreak OF the
war, so that paper clothes. which are
extremely cheap, are now generall..
worn by the poorer classes. These
clothes are made Of "a very durable
grained paper lined with linen, and
though they are not actually water
proof. will withstand good deal o.
rain. A paper suit costs about SIS Of
our money
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-10-28

tacks of kidney disor-
ders which kept me in
the house for days at a
time, unable to do any
thing. What I suffered
can hardly be told.
Complications set in,
the particulars of
which / will be pleased
to give in a personal
interview to any one
who requires informa-
ton. This l can con-
scientiously say, Doan's
Kidney Pills caused a
general improvement
- ,,1x- l~nIkI< 7sh an