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La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1905-02-09
& asunto de Ia
Junta Esco|ar de Canuv
Acta del Comite Unionista

En- ell pueblo de Camuy, a cinco
de Febrero de mil novecientos circo,
reunidos los sehores que componen ell
Comite Local de este pueblo don Pc
dro G. Amador, P~residente; don Lau-
rentino Estrella Aguirre, Vice-presi-
dente; y vocales don Francisco Mo-
rell, don Primo J.. Roman, don Juan
A. Olivera, don Jose Cruz y don JESUS
G. Rodriguez.
La presidencia manifesto que el
estado de cosas actual con relaci6n &
los individuos nombrados para la Jun
ia de Instruction de este pueblo. signi-
flea un abuse de autoridad cometido
contra la junta Y que bajo ningiu con-
cepto sstan %dispuestos 4 sufrir fundan.
dose en- los motives siguientes;
Primero. Qle para al nombra-
miento de los actuales miembros de
Ia Junta de Instruction pdblica no Sc
lie ha consultado nj tenido en- cuenta
para realizarlos, cuando esta Junta
entiende que ella es Is lnica persona
lidad con autoridad Official para re-
comendar & Ia Junta Central cargos
pdblicos On Ia Municipalidad de Ca
muy.
Segundo: Qle oil senior Aguirre &
quien Sc ha nombrado Presidents de
Ia misma residente en- Camuy, no tau
solo 40 Sc lie vic luz ell periodic cleo
toral ir & depositar su voto en- las ur-
mas, delando asl cumplido uno de los
mas sagrados deberes cfvicos, sine que
tambien ha manifestado en- tertulias
no ser politico y ha seguido en- TODD lo
que q la Marcia de nusstro partldo SC
referfs uua conducta que tan solo pc.
dfa producer efectos desastrosos On 81
Q n durante dicho periodic electoral,
Tercero. Que ell nombramientc
del referido sedor Aguirre 40 signif
ca NADIA mas que una burla para este
Comit6 que energicamente rechazamos
y que obedece q la intriga del senior
Inspector Landr6n que despu6s de ha.
Der cerrado dos escuslas en- este pue
bio de una mansra violenta 8 incali
hcable, no contorme con ESQ, ha pro.
curado encausar la Junta poniendl
en- practica todos los medios que lie har
sido dables para formar una Junta d.
instruction que llenase su deseo.
For 10 tanto, creyendo nosotroI
LOB abalo frmados que por los mott
vos expuestos no Sc le ha tratado cor
el oecoro polltico con que debs consi
derarse a todos los hombres que pro
fssan ideales patri6ticos y que luchaI
por 81 realization, presentamos nues
ira %renuncfa irrevocable porque aef k
impone nuestro honor y para que as
conste hemos acerdado que SO saquer
dos copias de esta acta, uua.para Gut
SO le presents & la Junta Central J
otra para 81 publication en- IN peri6
dico de nuestra colectividad.
Laursntino Estrella Aguirre, Pc
dro G. Amador, JESUS G. Rodriguez
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1905-02-09
CAPrrULO VII

Don Fernando Aruzs, ell Director y dueGo de Ia Hacienda
eEsmeraldas, ssntado frente Ssu escrtorio, haciA csIculos Y cal
cuos, AbStraido por complete en- sus operaciones.
A 50 derecha, aineados en- perfecto orden, eDcoAtrkbGnse
los lbros de c%ontabilidAd, y sobre su pupitre, gran n6mero de
cartAs, ~peri6dcos y cusdernos.
Por instantss levantaba los ojo', como para recordar algunA
cifra y volvfa & enfrGscarse en- sus n1msros.
Aquel dfa mOstrabase sstisfecho, pues con trecuencia deia-
b de escribir para frotarM las manos, ~reeinsndose sobre ell e-
psldar del sl6n, en- acttud beaN6ca.
-Esto marchA =. :-murmur6 para ST dos mil sacos mas,
que dejAn IN producto Asombroso... Pero, pocA ca6R, pocA ca
fla; vAmos YER -.
Cegi6 de nuevo ID pluma.
-QuedaH aun de este corte tsntas cuerdas, que, 4 tantos
bocoyes, deben producer en- Agosto. -.
Y volvi6 { escribr.
SumAba con asombrosa rapidez.
Por fin levant6ss y enpez6 & passar.
Sc Gcariciaba ell bigete, an bigote rubo y ensortijsdo.
La cara del Director era grussA y rubicundI, So nsiz abuI.
tda y sus oios szules, pero sin expression alguua.
Vestia IN ligero chaqust6n de alpaca y panttlones de IA
misma tela, aiustadoS por IN cntur6n de hebilA n~iqueads.
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1905-02-09

nOtcias De Ponce
(De nuNStro COrfeSpOaSa})
(De nuestro COrfeSpOnSaO

PONCE, FEBRERo : DE 1895
Anoche di6 ell Casino una reception q
la ofcialidad de los buques america
nos surtos en- puerto, Sc bail6 hasta
tarde en- la noche, tocando en- la re-
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1905-02-09
Tomas Be[n3[dini De IA Huer'a
AVOCADO N0TARl0
Fierce ante la Core Suprema y dem$s tribunales insuares, prestando
servcios notaraes en- toda Ia Isa. Su bufete 90 hala estabectdo en- 10
Ciudad de Guayama, Gale Nueva ndmero %. Esmerado servicio de agencias
y modicdad en- los honorarios.
Guayama s15 de SeHamhre de 1904
FhR[lInI.l.C;lA RIVERA.
Sociedad en- Comandita
s PLAZA hAYlR [. p.oposa. AMcIB0, P0.- RICO,

Este antigua y acrsditada
la mejor do la localidad,
ha removable todas sus axistsnctas
& int9oducido an axtsnso suftido
de dEogas. Froductos q~uinicoa y
msdtcinaE do Patents dc los pr4n4
cipslss laboratogios de Europa y
Amsnca.
FL jsts del ostablec!misuto.
qua cusnta - amos dc sxp$Tian-
Gle en- tan delicGda profession, atien-
de cuidadosaments, auxiliado per
TN intsligents personal Iubal-
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1905-02-09

tc,no, al despacho dc las ~prsscrip-
clones facultativas.
La major garantia dc ssta ca.
--~w1sA
50 es Of crscisnts favor que 81 pa
blico arscibeno 10 dispense y Ia
especial recommendation que los
participates medicos de Ia ciudad
kacsn dc ella q sas clisnsas
PSecios. SIN compstsncia
So hacan analisis de ohnaa
ror an modico estipendio.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-02-07

for the reason, she said, that they had
contracted the habit of going about
every task as If 1t we're game She
feared that this would follow them
through life. And the danger Ia a
considerable one The action OF this
mother is valuable as suggestion to
those who go in heavily for games and
who give their attention too fully to
what should be merely recreation or
a means of exercise. Football, as a
game, was welcomed in the colleges
when introduced 1t afforded the tired
students an opportunity to relax their
mental powers while their physical
condition was being improved. But
when the rivalry between colleges be-
came so great that professionalism en-
tered into the matter the professors
suddenly awoke to the fact that the
game has gone too far and that the
college has become to many not an in.
stitution Of learning but huge gymna.
sum- - $3.50.
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HEPsuRN ON TOP

Despite the many criticisms OF Col.
Pete" Hepburn by his enemies, with
his freight rate bill as a basis. it APP
pears, now that the smoke of battle
has cleared away after the several
false starts and Misunderstanding
with, regard to the introduction OF a
committee bill that would embody the
views of the President, that Col. Hep
burn was right in the lead all the
time. Harold ]. Mahin, the Courier's
Washington representative, said in a
letter published yesterday that the
eighth district congressman is and has
been close to the President on the
freight rate question and that 1t was at
his suggestion that the Townsend and
Bsch bills we're combined and intro.
duced as one bill. The joint bill, Mr..
Mahin says, differs only immaterially
from the original Hepburn measure.
This is rather a hard blow to the
people who were so ready to give Mr.,
Hepburn credit for being defeated in
his own committee, but it liz reliable
information from the seat Of govern.
ment.
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impossible and violations Of the rules
are in many respects highly profitable
toward victory. This coaching from
the side lines, offside play, holding and
disabling opponent by kneeing and
kicking and by heavy blows on the
head and particularly about the eyes
nose and jaw are unquestionably profit.
able toward victory, and no means
have been found Of preventing these
violations Of rules by. both players and
coaches. Some players, to be sure, are
never guilty Of them.
THE rules forbid unnecessary rough.
ness in play, but there Is wide latitude
in the construction of the necessary
roughness. To strike a player with
clinched fists Is unnecessary rough.
ness to give him blow equally severe
with the base of the open
hand is not unnecessary rough.
ness. Even in perfectly visible cases
Of violation of the rules the game Off.
Gals often fail to punish the offenders
particularly If an offender on one side
can be Offset by an offender on the
other, and both are allowed to remain
in the game"
The mum erous complaints going UP
all over the country regarding football
and the prevailing tendency of educa-
t!onal institutions to give 1t too prom
inent place, is bringing about general
awakening. The Introduction Of bill
in the Nebraska legislature aiming at
making the playing of football a fel.
ony. is at one extreme and President
Eliat's recommendations are at the
other. Something should be done to
cut down the number of deaths and Sc.
rious injuries resulting from the game
and the other objections pointed out
by President Eliot add more reasons
for doing away with the game.
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WORK AND PLAY.

There Is much to President Eliot's
objection to football in addition to the
points he makes against the game. To
the observer who is entirely outside of
college life one of the greatest disad.
vantages appears to be that during the
football season the game, occupies the
minds of the undergraduates to the ex.
clusion of their studies. No matter
whether they are on the team or not,
there are few able bodied young col.
slege men who do not take an absorb
ing interest in the gridiron squad !.
There is something about it that at.
tracts with an attraction that cannot
be resisted and is far greater than that
attraction exerted by studies. The re-
suit is that during the football season
the average scholarship decreases as
the interest in football increases. The
students brain is full of football and
the money he spends for an education
is being wasted.
After an intelligent and watchful
mother had allowed her children to at
tend famous Kindergarten for some
months she took them from the school
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-02-07
THE CRAZE FOR SPEED.

'I've come back to America to bury
my sonny son that thought more
of than any father can tell l won't
say he was all the world to me, but he
was great part of it. do not con-
denim him for his recklessness, but I
do think the young men Of today are
not sufficiently careful. They do not
seem to realize the pain they cause. y
These were the words of Richard
Croker, former chief of Tammany who
returned to this country from England
a few days ago to attend the funeral
of his son. Frank, who was killed in
an automobile accident while practic-
ing for the races on the beach at Or
mond, Fla. 1t is not, however, to young
men alone that the warning should go.
The death of young Croker should be
g lesson, costly, it is true, but for that
reason the more impressive. He was
killed while speeding in motor car
at gait almost unbelievable. His
Chauffeur was killed instantly and his
employer fingered for day before he
succumbed to his injuries.
Though Croker gave his life to save
others. his death is the direct result
of the craze for speed which Is secur-
ing such hold upon the minds of the
people of today that the trend is dan,
gerous and needs careful and serious
consideration. Croker was driving
swiftly along the beach at Ormond
when he saw motorcycle directly in
front of him. Realizing that to swerve
would wreck his car and doubtless
kill him and his chaffeur he knew also
that to strike the motorcycle would re
suit in the death of the rider. He took
the Drawer and more. heroic alterna
tive, turned his own machine upside
down in the surf and met his death
Now his father, who loved him de
votedly mourns for his son and cries
out against the reckless craze fol
speed which caused his death.
The automobile has brought this
frenzied condition Of affairs to crisis
and has widened its scope and its pos
sibilities. The number of deaths from
automobile accidents in 1904 was as
tonishing.
Nearly every one of them could
have been prevented by adherence tc
the laws regarding motoring and the
authorities everywhere should see that
the laws are enforced The automo
bile as a carrier is a splendid convent
ence, one of the most marked indica
ticns of the advancement ard the pro
gress of the age, but when used by 8
man who is impelled by dangerous
craze for speed, for it is craze in
deed, it becomes most dangerous
death-dealing agency.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-02-07
THE MlLLloNAIRE,s FRAILTY.

1t is good for us. in these times OF
frenzied finance, watered stock and air
castle trusts, to learn beyond any ques-
ton that even those men who are be.
hind such schemes as make mems
heads swim, when the consider the pa.
per capitalization, are yet only human
ESucn criticisms as have been published
Of almost every rich man in America,
of Wall street as the abode Of all that
is crafty. scheming, underhand and
full of refined and double distilled
graft. But to the side of these men OF
finance, at this time when their repu
tations are suffering, comes an able
champion. Alfred Henry Lewis. whose
ability to tell story in pleasing style
would, If turned into the channels OF
business, result in making him at least
a millionaire. is the author of a little
story in a current magazine. which he
calls wall Street and It's Wardens'
and in which he reveals some side
lights on the personalities of the men
whose names at the bottom of checks
mean millions.
Mr.. Lewis, going on the theory that
zone touch of nature makes the whole
world kim has told of the frailties OF
some of the big men Of finance. That
they all have their little peculiarities
and that. under hard business sur
face. they are all true men with hearts
and human sensibilities, is the burden
Of his story. That Andrew Carnegie is
not the only man who gives away mil
lions, but is rather one of many is q
surprising fact that the readers Of Mr.
Lewis article will learn. Indeed, he
says that the Rockefellers and Russell
Sage are the only millionaires who
pinch their money. It is not that the
others throw their riches broadcast
but that they ere willing to share II
generously witt who need it, and
have their syl, they are willing
| to pay for favors a services, they are
not stinting in providing for the wants
and desires of themselves and sstheii
| families.
Regarding Russell Sage, most &c.
centric of rich men in America, Mr.
Lewis has the following, not over
complimentary, remarks:
Mr.. Sage, ever cautious, always
sure, is not mariner Of finance. but
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VERTICAL WRITING CONDEMNED

After several years OF laDOrlng unOeT
false Impressions business men all
over the country are realizing that yer.
teal writing Is worse than useless, that
it is harmful and should not be taught
in any school for any purpose. Several
cities and towns have adopted this plan
in preference to the old swinging Spen.
cerian hand during the past few years,
giving as excuses several reasons that
sounded fairly good at the time Among
those school boards which did not look
with pleasure upon the vertical writ.
ing scheme was that in Ottumwa. Con-
sequently, the thousands of children
who have been educated here have
studied the Spencerian style and have
become proficient. The writing Of OF.
tumwa students has long been a
source of pride to the teachers Of the
city and specimen sheets have been
taken from the local schools to exhibit,
lions in several different parts of the
country.
Now that the vertical style has been
tried in several cities. among them
being Chicago, it is being condemned
by business men and educational au-
thorities generally. In Chicago, where
business Is Ln6 ITSJ COlSluSIdtlOu Will
the great majority of the citizens, yer.
tical writing is just now receiving the
most uncomplim entary notice. At a
meeting of school principals yesterday
the question was brought up and a re.
port from interviews with some thirty
business men in Chicago was read
showing a general prejudice against
vertical writing.
Some critics Of the system went SO
far as to say an applicant using the
vertical system Of writing taught in
the schools has very little chance OF
obtaining employment with them. One
| firm declared the system is not only
inartistic, unnatural and slow, but pro
vokes profanity in the user and reader
AS 1t now stands, nearly all our EN-
ployes from public schools must learn
to write after beginning to work, which
naturally retards their progress"
| Ottumwa may congratulate herself
upon the absence of such disturbing
and damaging element in her educa
tional system. The ability Of Ottum.
wa students as writer's is one of the
many marks of the excellence of the
| local educational plan
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lists and Treasurer Dana has nothing
Whatever to do with them further than
to allow the use Of the books in his
office The books are simply lists OF
the property owners in each assess
ors district, giving the list of property
held by each taxpayer at the time Of
the assessment nearly two years ago.
Sinct that time there have been many
changes In ownership of which no
record Is held in the treasurer's Office
and which cannot be foretold till the
parties come into the Office to pay their
taxes
II the amounts In the list opposite
the Taxpayers name does not conform
to his idea as to what the tax should
be he should not go to the treasurer
with his troubles until he is ready to
pay his taxes. Treasurer Dana will
then look up every detail of the matter
and will charge him just what he owes
and not one cent more What is more
he will stand by the hour and answer
all the fool questions that 1t is posi-.
BILE to ask him and never turn
feather.
But, and this is good advice, don't
you go into see him unless you are
ready to liquidate at least half your
taxes. The presence In front Of the
treasurer's railing of man without
money in his pockets and with no in
tention or desire to pay in his heart
and mind is to the treasurer like the
haunting OF red flag before bull.
just take the advice of the cub re.
porter who knows of what he speaks
and don't tempt fate. There is trouble
brewing for somebody at the treasur.
er's office and 1t would be whole lot
more pleasant to have 1t be for the
other fellow. Then you could read
about the affair in the Courier
and consider it great sport, while
otherwise you might be In the OF.
tumwa hospital with q corps Of physi.
clans working over you.
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ness. But this great $4,000, 900 cor
poration has been unable to pay its
interest charges amounting to $4,000.
The recefvership Is with the consent
OF the directors. 1t is simply a pro,
cess of closing out in which the d.
rectors will probably not be losers to
any great extent.
To show the frightful practices OF
watering the stock of such corpora
lions. 1t may be stated that the plants
are not worth more than S2,5OO,00 A
careful business investor might not
buy them at even that much. But
there are $2,740,000 of 6 per cent bonds
outstanding and $7500,000 of income
bonds, besides the stock II An
attempt was made to make the $2,500,-
600 worth of property earn dividends
and interest on five times that valu-
alton. Fortunately the trust promot-
ers have not been able to make their
efforts good. They could not force out
of the people enough money to make
the charges. The people who bought
the stock, and the bonds will be heavy
losers. 1t Is safe to believe that the
men on the inside Of the deal will not
lose their monev. They have probably
made their millions out of the promo
ton Of the concern.
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q beach-comber. 1t Is the storms that
bring him his profits; the hurricanes
that furnish his harvests. When fl
nance blows a gale and others founder
Mr.. Sage puts on his oilskins and
walks the shore, waiting for what the
waves cast up. In this way he Is
rich without risk and men credit him
with possessing more ready money,
marking the sum as high as $50 ,000,-
600, than any one who ever lived.
1t Is the boast of Mr.. Sage that he
has no vices, and that his daily ex-
penditures between breakfast and tea
are within the narrow walls Of forty
cents. The one luxury he permits him
self is apples, and his daily bickers
with the lady who sits on the curb
and sells that fruit, in efforts to beat
dition.
When at home Mr.. Sage plays with
his cats that climb purringly about his
knees and shoulders, and lays plans
for reaping money on the morrow. He
never goes to the theatre, never, in
deed, goes anywhere when off duty
save to bed.
1t is not pleasant for us to hear Of
such Darsimony in one SO rich and
were all millionaires of this stripe the
socialistic doctrine would no doubt
have more followers. But fortunately
this man is the exception to the gen
eral rule. The other rich men, except
! ing the Rockefellers, senior and junior,
are humanity prone to afford them
selves and those who depend upon
them the pleasures their vast riches
can obtain for them. Summing up the
peculiarities of few Of the prominent
Wall street men, those points in their
natures which are open to skillful ar.
rows from the bow of those who know,
Mr.. Lewis says:
Mr.. Keene's weakness Is the race
horse; Mr.. Morgan's is pictures; the
late Mr.. Whitney's was rugs che is
said to have paid $4,000 for one, and
the transaction would have been all
right had he left the two last ciphers
off the price,; Mr.. Brady's-of the
Tobacco Trusts black pearls; Mr.
Addicks-of Bay State Casts emer-
aids; while Mr.. Lawson will go in
pawn to buy a ruby.
Mr.. Lawson travels beyond fads, and
owns to superstitions. He pins his
faith to the numeral three and its mul.
tiples. His telephones are 1888 and
1899; his offices are 33 State street;
one of his pet copper mines is the
Trinity; and he begins his great en-.
kterprises on the third of the month.
His "big medicine" as the Indians
would call it. is chain of 333 golden
beads, each with a gypsy girls face
enameled thereon; and this fetish he
consults and communes with In ways
known only to himself.
Just as in the knickerbocker days
the school bully would stop in the
midst of q fight to pay his respects to
a white horse and to look for the girl
with the auburn hair, so the bully OF
finance will turn from the most excit
/ ing chase to worship at the shrine OF
his pet hobby 1t is refreshing, In
these days Of money plots and counter
plots, to be given this inside view Of
the rich mems clique. 1t strengthens
ones belief in human nature and In
4 men
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United States commissioner of labor.
Carroll ID. Wright retired from that
office January 81" says the Centerville
Citizen. Twenty years OF service and
no government investigation. Not
such bad record after ALL"
The attention of those who are
fundamentally opposed to injunctions
because they have been sometimes is
sued in labor cases is called by the
Cedar Rapids Republican to the fact
that the arm of the law Is now prov
ing most useful in the government
procedure against unlawful combtna-
lions in restaint of trade.
For state that has SO many sa-
looms, Indiana makes rather remark
able showing at the polls" observes the
Burlington Hawk Eye. THE new gov
ernor of Indiana Is teetotaler, never
enters saloon, does not use tobacco,
Is pillar in the Methodist church and
teaches In Sunday school. This is 4
brighter official record than prohibition
Kansas has made with some of it's
governors and senators of late years.
The dubuque Telegraph is going to
walt and see. 1t says: What the eff
feet Of the decision of the highest court
will be on the operations Of the pack
ers remains to be seen. For the pack
ers to ignore the injunction of the SUI
preme court Is to invite punishment
that will. If occasion requires, be
speedily administered'
o.
The control of prices both Of buy
Ing and selling, not only Of beef pro-
ducts but the control of produce prices
through the refrigerator car service
Is 0rH IA III Ia