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BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1905-10-04
PreteriCiOneS en- las eSCueIaS

Seria conveniente que Ell Comisio-
nado de instruction y los Inspectores
de Escuelas Sc ocup ran TN POGO mas
de 10 que viene ocurriendo en- muchos
pueblos con los maestros de ingles.
EstoS Seflores ganan mejor sueldo
que los maestros graduados nativos
y sin embargo quieren trabajsr mu-
chiSlmo menoS y haSta imponerSe en-
cuanto a la direction de las escuelas.
Conocemos 4 una maestro america
ma de un pueblo cuya escuela tiene
tres sslones y en- la que trabaja uni
camente tres horas y media, cuando
los profesores nativos trabajan de ocho
y media a once y de una y media 4
cuatro y media.
Las korss en- que trabaja la maestro
de ingles son bora y media en- ell gra-
do mas alto, una en- ell internedio y
otra en- Ell salon inferior, 6 sea, ernpie-
"a su trabajo a las nueve de la ma
fana y termina 4 las once cuarto, v
por Ia tarde cOmienza 4 la una Y me =
dia y termina las Tres. bora en- que
Sc marcha para su casa.
La ley indica bien claro que todos
los maeStros trabajen las mismas no
raS, y por 10 tanto es de es 3erarse que
Sc eviten esas prstericiones los natl :
vos que por cierto ganan muy POGO y
trabajan muchfsimo mas que los exc
ticos.
Y mucho mas irritante es csc privi-
legio antilegal cuando existen cerca
de 900, 900 nifios sin que puedan asis-
tir 4 las escuelas, y en- cambio los
maestros americanos trabaJan dos ho-
ras y media menos que los maestros
de Puerto Rico.
Basta va de privilegios y contem-
placiones.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1905-10-04
On abuse pelBroIs'loI

Parece que varios sujetos Sc aedi-
can 4 efectuar instalaciones de luz
electrica sin los conocimientos nj Ia
practica necesarios, y es conveniente
advertirlo al pdblico para evitar las
consecuencias peligros que pudieran n
sosrevenir con .motivo de tai intru-
sion.
Aaemas, y como es de suponer, las
persouas que han tornado dicho oicio
sin la preparation correspondence,
emplean, para asegurarse maysres
rendimientos y halagar los propie-
tarios con una econsmfa 6cticia y NAL
entendida, materiales de la peor clase,
6 desechados ya de instalaciones an
tiguas defectuosas.
En- tales condiciones. Ia seguridad
del alumbrado electrico resulta muy
problematica y los riesgos de un in
cendio 6 complication casi inminentes.
: Damos, pues. la voz de alerta los
propietarios, en- cuyo interes debe
estar precaverse de peligros de la i'm
portancia del que tratamss, cercioran-
dose de la competencia de los muchos
instAladores sueltos que hay de luz
electrica en- esta capital. asf como de
la solidez y bondad de los materiales
que Sc empleen en- las instalaciones.
Y no estarfa de mas que los que
noten deficiencies 6 irregularidades en-
el slumbrado que les hayan proper
ciouado artistas desconocidos, proce-
dieran una revision rigurosa de las
instalaciones, va que el asunto es de
sumo interes para la conservation de
las fncas.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1905-10-04
80
Investigation
que Sc efectua

FL capitsn de la policfa insular don
Ernesto Lopez Dfas actualmente Sc
gundo jefe INFERNO do dicho cuerpo ha
participate en- ateata comu 1icsci6n al
distinguiao jeven, don Julio Palaeios
Salasar, que cosparesca esta tarde 4
las la ofcina Quartet de San Fran
cisco con todos sus testigcs, para pro
ceder & Ia investigation de la sueja
que formula contra el teniente del
mjsmo cuerpo, se[or Schettini.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1905-10-04
Para los EstadOs UnidOs

Nuestro amigo ell prestigioso conner
ciante de Fajardo, don Antonio R. Bar
cello, la embarcado esta tarde acompa
fiado de su elegante esposa, y de sus
familiares dof1a Nicolasa y Maria Lui-
sa Bird, para los Estados Unidos abor-
do del Caracas.
Deseamos un felfz viaje y pronto
regres6 4 Puerto Rico atan estimables
amigos.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1905-10-04

PaiSeS CafeterOS
Il osASgHIBoaB Dl DICHe gsaSs

En- Mexico tienen varias plantacio.
mes de cafe en- Oaxaca algxaos ameri
canos qae envfan su producto a st.
Louis. El total do exportaci6n en-
1903 fue de 41,s3Y44e de libras valo.
radas en- $s,sa7 900, por tanto puede
decirse que la Repdblsca Mexicana
llegara { ser un pals productor de cafe
de gran importaneia.
~.
Costa Rica produjo en- igual fecha
3S,srr,479 de libras valoradas en-
$4,2I3,4ss.
San Salvador en- 1909 export6
$a96S,1sa; Guatemala EMBARGO es1
mlliones sos,oos de libras valoradas
en- $5,7Se73o, siendo exportado para
Alemania ell 81 por 100 de tales en-
barques.
Honduras exporto en- 1902, $1es $50.
Nicaragua, en- 1902 $r,4sE5s2.
Del puerto de Barranquilla Colon
bia) Sc enbarcaron en- 1903, 4s4.1ss
sacss. Brasil exporto en- Ell afio eco-
n6mico de 1903 1904, 11,1ss 500 sacos.
Ecuador EMBARGO para ell extranjero
$sss mil 7os. Venezuela en- 1.os, 10
siguiente:
Desde La Guaira I, 1,,73,s76 libras;
desde Puerto Cabello. 50 os4 AT libras
desde Aaracaibo s4,7s7 s7s de libras.
Cuba en- ell afio 1908 reo4, 1851, ,1ea
de liorAs valorA en- $1,3s7,61s.
Puerto Rico en- igual fecha "a mi.
llones, 3syo7a de libras por valor de
IS eo3 ss7.
Jamaica, por $s4s,4s1.
Haiti, 4zss3 SAT de libras, de las
que Sc exportaron para los Estados
Unidos por valor de $2Ss,sss. :*#
Santo Domingo produjo en- lao.
$500 ,soo de libras y memories cantida-
des las dem&s pequef1as Antilas.
Los Estados Unldos consumer las
dos quintas parties 1,a media de la
total cosecha cafeteria del mundo al
extreme de que mientras Alemania
Inglaterra, Holanda, Belgics. Francia
y Austria-Huugrfa sola n ente ha au-
menta1o desde 1884 ell So por 100 de
consume sea de I,I4o,74o. 900 de Ii.
bras han pasado 4 1876 447,ooo de IL
bras en- 1904 habiendo tenido un
aumento de pobls cion del 30 por 1oo,
en- la Rep6blica Norteamericanac casi
Sc ha duplicado, aumentando Ell con-
sumo por cabesa en- un a6 O por zoo, 6
10 que es igual de sa6 libras por ca
beEa ma llegado a rs por cabeza.
Ell consume de los Estados Unidos
en- rso4 fue de 960,s7s ,oso de libras.
De esa cantidad Sc importaron 74r
millones, 75s,9oe de libras del Brasil.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1905-10-04

reforma dc la ensenanZa en- IN
glesf
IEsto Sc explica de algun mo-
dor Que necesidad habia de
eso7 mo oyeron los reformistas
el clamor que sc alz6 en- el pals
protestando del cam bio de lido
ma, en- clase, cuando Sc anunci6
ell menguado proyecto9
5> Y, ademas de DIR este, han
podido notar tam b1en la pertur-
baci6n que ha llevado a los
alumnos la recommendation en-
la Central Grammar School" ,
recommendation hecha de cual-
quier manera, al bulto, sin fjar.
sc en- ell ndmero de alumnos ma
triculados. nj en- la capacidad
del cuartel de San Francisco, nj
como es consiguiente, en- ell n1-
nero de niflos que Sc ban que
dado en- la calle.
Muchos padres de familia Sc
han acercado & nosotros con es-
ia queja. hemos dido rumores
de que existen algunas diferen.
cias. por esta misma causa, en-
ire la unta Escolar de San
Juan y ell Departamento de ms
truccion; 10 que no hemos po-
dido saber, 10 que NO sabe uadie
es 10 que hace nj en- que Sc ocu-
pa Mr.. Falkner, 81 efectivamen-
te, como alguien supone, esta
practicando nuevas y profundas
disquisiciones sobre la Educa
cion y la Democracia, Q Sc ocu-
pa, mas modestamente. en- ms
pecciopar por 81 mismo, sin far
Sc de 10 que nadie le quiera de
cir. Ia exactitud, la valdez del
titulo de todos esos profesores
americanos que han venido d
suplantar q los nativos. Por
que pudiera suceder que 81 sc
deja la manga ancha, el mejor
dia en- una de esas escuelas exc
ticas. salga alg1n professor ha-
blando de mantequilla 8 de fo-
rrajes. creyendose que esta en-
ell ejercicio de su verdadera pro-
fesi6n, y que en- vezde educan-
dos tiene en- su compa1lia a los
appendices del oficio'
ST es en- averiguar este en- 10
que Sc ocupa Mr.. Falkner acaso
consiga que no yengan escu
darse. tras el pretexto de la en-
senanza en- ingles, verdaderos
ignorantes y gente de la mas
burda patulea intellectual, a la
que presta alas la ignorancia y
allentos la osadia para Greer que
pueden, merced a I'm viaje de
cinco dias y a un lijero ambio
de latitud, transfigurarse en- pro-
fesores, los que apenas pueden
llamarse, hablando con justicia
alumnos aventajados de una es-
cuela de primeras letras.
Guide mucho de que no Sc
cuele ning1n intruso entire los
maestros y asi, por 10 menos, Sc
lie habra quitado hierro a la Ill
TINA reforma mogrebina de la
instruction.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1905-10-04

En- ell Caracas" regresa de Vene-
5uela para los Estados UaidoS Ell Tuez
Mr.. W; J.Calhoun y seffora. que esta-
bs en- Ia capital venezolana investt-
gando el case del "Lago de asfalto"
de la New York and Bermddez Co.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1905-10-04
Ell senor Larrinaga

A fines de ines embarcara para los
Estados Unidos ell Comisionado de
Puerto Rico residente en- Washington
nuestro estimado amigo ell reputado
ingeniero don Tulio Larrinaga y To
rres Vallejo.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1905-10-04
NOta del d1a

ecolares.
EI conflicto no sc ha hecho
esperar; tai como Sc aguarda ba
ha surgido. con las consiguien-
tes protestas de los padres de
familia, las innecesarias moles-
tias causadas a los escolares y
los senslbles perjuicios a la ms
truccion.
Todas las reformas del De-
partamento producer los mis-
mos resultados perturbad ores
Esta Ultima. en- v1rtud de la
cual han quedado sin escuela
mas alumnos que en- ell curse
anterior, es mOnst1uOsamente
centralizadora y enemiga re =
suelta del profesorado puerto
rriquelo.
Como obra de uno de los
miembros de la congregation
reverenda. tiene su parte peril
da y su parte gedeonica. Es la
primera la que desplaza a los
profesores nativos; la segunda,
la que pretende hacer del lido
ma espanol una asignatura que
explicaran q los profesores
amerlcanos(O
Esto es pira tnidal Hombres
Q mujeres que no conocen tai
vez nj su propio idioma, nj 10
hablan, nj 10 tscrib n, ensena i
do Ell castellanU d unoS nihos
que desde que nacen, 10 ha-
blan mejOr que sus llama1os
profesores.
No sc puede negar que este
ser1a delicleso para IN salnete,
ST nos limitara mos a yer la par
te bufa de la innovation y no
nos fjaramos en- el fondo amar
go y traglco de las reforma, en-
su extra1lo signi6cado y en- su
brutal alcance; pero es este 10
que solicita nuestra atencion y
la del p1blico, sin que a nadie
le haya hecho complete gracia
ell anuncio de que en- la Central
Grammar School los pajaros
van a tirarle a las escopetas. ell
castellano va 4 ser relegado la
categor1a de una asignatura
cualquiera, la enseflanza sera
expllcada en- ingles por un inc
fable cuerpo de sabios y emf
nentes prefesores de exporta-
cion.
Desgraciadamente, no sc ira.
ia de un proyecto. Nos halla-
mos en- plena implantacion de
la reforma. estamos tocando va
sus funestos resultados.
Por 10 pronto, y merCed a las
combinaciones que han sido he
chas para llevar alumnos a la
fuerza, q una esCuela de marca-
do color continental han queda-
do muchos alumnos sin tener a
donde II, sin saber a donde, por.
que los cambiCs las innovacio
mes, las reformas son va tan
cotinuadas y tan frecuentes. y
tan molestas para los alumnos.
que parece como 81 Ell gobierno
estuviera hacienda un favor
sosteniendo las escuelaS que es
tan funcionando, y no fuera su
ineludible deber. su estricta
obligation ell hacer algo mas,
mucho mas de 10 que, en- ese
sentido, hace actualmente.
Las reformas sin objeto plau-
sible, por el gusto de innovar,
de perturbar, de revoiver, cons.
tituyen denLro de los nuevos
metodos y amparadas por estos.
una seria amenaza, que ha lie
gado a preocuparnos honda
mente.
lSe nos puede decir d que
obedece el guitar de las escue-
las graduadas los grades mas
importantes, para crear una es.
cuela nueva que ha de ser como
ell campo experimental de la
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one woman in twenty-five but what
suffers with some arrangement of the
female organism, and this is the secret
of so many unhappy homes.
No woman can be amiable. light
hearted and happy, Joy to her hus-
band and children, and perform the
duties incumbent upon her, when she is
suffering with backache. headache
nervousness, sleeplessness, bearing.
down pains. displacemento of the womb,
spinal weakness or ovarian troubles.
Irritability and snappy retorts take
the place of pleasantness, and all SUP
shine is driven out of the home, and
lives are wrecked by woman's great
enemy-womb trouble.
Read this letter:
Dear Mrs. Pinkham:-
81 was troubled for eight years with irregu-
larities which broke down my health and
brought on extreme nervousness and despon-
dency. Lydia f. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound proved to be the only medicine which
helped me. Day by day improved in health
while taking it until was entirely cured.
can attend to my social and household duties
and thoroughly enjoy life once more, as Lydia
f. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has made
me well woman, without an ache or pain. >
Mrs Chester Curry, ~ Saratoga Street,
East Boston, Mass.
At the first indication of i'll health.
painful or irregular menstruatior,
pain in the side, headache, backacho,
bearing-down pains. nervousness CT
1.-THE blues" secure at once q bottle OF
Lydia f. Pinlham's Vegetable Com
pound and begin its use.
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ODE TO "RooTERs."

Now bark ye. merry rooters. for the rattle
of the fray;
All hail the joyous season that began on
yesterday
The training in the Southland is a matter
of the past,
Behold the last years pennant proudly
floating from its mast
Behold the long and crowdirg puo; reluc-
family it waits,
Its progress all too snail-like as Il surges
through the gates
Bring forth your tr.-y.s megaphone. your
score card and your pass.
when the grass is on the diamond and the
shortstop's on the grass.
In far q Cincinnati. in the palace Of the
fam,
mighty din betokens the arrival of the
Chicago in st. Louis. and Boston in New
York,
And everywhere horde of fans with hearts
as light as cork.
And everywhere a panic with the umpire's
strident call,
And everywhere the ecstasy that ereets the
cry Play ball!'
Say. is IT not a picture no great artist can
surpass.
When the grass is on the diamond and the
shortstop's on the grass?
The same old demonstration az the warm
ing up begins.
The same old laughter when foul bounds
of the catcher's shins.
The same old trusty pitcher with his ''slow
one" and his speed
And other tricks a pitcher turns IN order
20 succeed
The infield all a-cuiver. the outfield calmly
tense
The long. hard drive that caroms on the
~farthest bit Of fence.
And many a merchant shrieks with Joy.
ana many dainty lass.
When the grass is on the diamond and the
shortstop's on the grass.
w. +. Kirk. In Milwaukee Sentinel
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KISSING ADVERTISEMENT.
Paris Restaurants Wherein the Cash
Ter Pc2B Peculiar Premium
on Checks.

In many Of the European cafes of The
cheaper order it is the invariable Gus
tom to print the daily menu on the
napkin provided for the guest, so that
when the latter desires to study the
bill Of fare he has to raise his serviette
from his knee IN order to do so.
But perhaps the most extraordinary
custom in connection with restaurant
life, says a writer, is that which OBJ
tains in certain little cafe in the
suburbs of Paris, where every custom
er whose bill amounts to one shilling
or over is entitled to receive a kiss
from the very attractive young lady
who acts as cashier to the establish
ment.
So used has the damsel become to
the oscillation routine that she goes
through it without the slightest reti-
cence, looking upon it purely as a mat
ter Of business, and 1t is reported that
the proprietor of the restaurant is
more than satisfied with the result o.
his curious device for attracting
patrons.
Another enterprising restaurateur
has instituted the practice of making
. present of box of Havana cigars
every New Years day to those patrons
who have been pretty regular in their
attendance at his establishment during
the preceding year.
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A NUMBER OF FRIENDS OF MINE.
any consideration chat is for any con-
sideration that usually prompts people
to the cleaning of windows).
1t is the home of number of friends
of mine, and a whole world of hopes
and hates and fears and ambitions and
passions and tragedies goes on among
them all day long. They are only little
brown spiders; but anyone who watched
them closely and did not discern that
they were very much like human be-
ings must be dull-eyed and slow Of
mind The window is barred on the
inner side with iron rods lido not jump
at the conclusion that / am in Jail,
please), which the spiders probably as
sumo were placed there to serve as sup
ports for their webs. Innumerable
flies, gnats and tiny unclassified winged
things throng to the sunlit window, APP
parently perfectly unconscious of the
nets and snares that await them.
Some OF the spiders are SO tiny that
they look like notes hanging on their
almost invisible webs; but they are all
evidently of the same species, and these
l take to be the babies of the commu-
nifty. From the size of the head of
a pin they range to that of large pea
Each one has his own separate Web
the smallest no bigger in circumference
than a silver dollar, and with threads so
fine that eyes grown dull by staring vim
dictively at columns of figures can
scarcely see them. Although they are
so close to each other that when one
Is touched by gnat it shakes the three
or four adjoining ones, only the spider
whose net has actually made the cap
ture ever pays any attention to it.
They appear to respect each others
boundaries absolutely, even the very
smallest making his capture and en-
joying it unmolested by his neigh
Dor, who may be much bigger than him
self.
are too weak to hold prey as strong
as fly, so these very little fellows con-
tent themselves with minute gnats, and
flee in terror to crevices in the window
sash when musca blunders into their
homes and tears the fairy work to
pieces with his buzzing wings. Some
times kill fly, or disable him, so that
he cannot struggle much. and care
fully place him in the web of one Of
the little spiders, but the small owner
runs away all the same, and will rather
make a new net in another place than
return to the old one while the dan
gerous intruder remains. | believe 1t
is not generally known that each thread
of spiders web is covered with very
glutinous matter, and when the web is
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DISCIPLE OF SOCIALISM.
Nike Was Willing to Share With His
Fellows Anything He
Didn't Have.

Once, az the story goes, two Irishmen
were engaged in discussion, when Pat
asked Mike what socialism was, relates the
Louisville Courier-Jourcal.
"sWell, socialism is sort of an equal d.
vision of property, declared Mike. What's
mine is yours and what's yours 10 mine
That's the idea.
!" If you had $4,000, Ooo.' asked Pat,
would you give me 81 ,000, 000w
81 would that said Mike. That's &C
cording to my principles
If you had two houses would you
give me one of them?' was Pats mex.
question. Mike insisted that he would.
And if you had two fine horses would
you give me one?'
Mike declared that be would follow hi,
principles.
And if you had two goats would you
give me one of them?' finally asked Pat.
~ would not. l have them, declared
the socialistic disciple"
And there is not in the books, be it re
membered in these days when SO many
men are pretending to be socialists, bet
ter definition of socialism than that.
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No Bundles.


There was a time, remembered cas-
lily by many, when the tender hus-
band did not shrink from carrying
home materials for his. dinner. Men
of learning in those simpler days,
says the Boston Herald, grasped the
ee. of commerce, as the eel of science,
by the tail. The statesman Win
Jovian brow and blue coat with brass
buttons was very human with a dried
Goldfish wrapped carelessly in brown
paper under his eloquent arm. To see
q highly-respectable citizen with a
demijohn was q cheering sight. Nor
was it beneath the dignity OF q pain
full preacher of the Word of God to
carry a pair of trousers to the tailor
when the rent was beyond the skill
of domestic ingenuity. The present
civilization may be real or chrome;
~. I least is certain: The age OF
.ayyug bundles is gone, so far as
ca, ,oen are concerned, although no
IT. =, celebrated in sonorous prose its
passing. The man protests against
the burden of a can Of peas. jar OF
marmalade, his wife's handbook. The
youth insists that the two or three
collars bought to bridge him over The
weekly coming of the laundryman
shall be sent home. The schoolboy.
however his mother may coax OF
threaten, sulks at the thought OF .
bundle, for he fears the ridicule OF
snobbishly trained companions. Tne
bundle is avoided, not respected, as II
was by the great Napoleon. Demo-
cratic simplicity is found only in ira
dition and in De Tocqueville's book. Ii
is not surprising that the bundle should
be spurned; that fashionable mother
may not be able to support the weight
of her own baby in the street.
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her employers agreeably by bit Of chat
from the world outside, even when she
dictates to them most firmly IS to the
length of their petticoats and the height
of their stocks. Do not grudge her the
money you pay into her faithful hsnd.
OF course, while she is with you, CALI
ers cannot be admitted. committee
meetings must be evaded, and parties OF
pleasure abandoned. BY an unwritten
but imperative law, the dressmakers
days are her own, and sne takes prece-
dence for the time, every other engage-
ment lessening in Importance before
hers. For this reason the woman lavish
prefers another course from that of the
woman economical. She sends her
goods to dressmaking establishment,
goes there to be fitted, and has her
dresses sent home. wrapped in many
folds of tissue paper, and finished to the
last fluting and frill, with q bill far in ex-
cess of the one presented by the timer
ant seamstress. One who has big bank
account, or deep purse, may save her
self trouble by going to the dressmaker,
instead of summoning the dressmaker to
her.
In India, this whole branch of handi-
work is given to men, who charge very
little, yet perform miracles of beautiful
needle-craft. European and American
ladies have great satisfaction in the eve
ming gowns made by gentle natives, with
deft hands and smiling faces. They
dress the Mem Sahibs as those gentle
women wish. making anew or making
over with swift dexterity. But when
they dress a Mohammedan or Hindu
bride, the gown is something like one
described by an author who writes OF
India, and whose words quote:
"She wore purple petticoat en-
bossed with a rich border of scattered
punches of flowers, each flower formed
of various gems, while the leaves and
stems were of embroidered gold and -ilk
threads. Her bodice was of the same
material as the petticoat; the entire
vest was marked with circular rows OF
pearls and rubies."
We have nothing to show quito SO
superb as this