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BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1906-12-15
POr que no TOGO ell bOInbO

Acabo de recibir una carta, Y
IN POGO azorado releo tres Ii
Yeas escondidas al final que
son las principales, aunque ha-
va pretendido hipocritamente
quitarles importancia el que las
escribi6 Que, lha hecho US
ted penitencla hojeando mi Ii
brejo? Supongo que no lhabra
sido usted tan valeroso. Como
no he visto el art1culo. -" Yo,
10 juro por las cenizas de mi
abuela!. he le1do el libro y has
ia he pensado cuarenta veces
en- hilvanar las cuartillas que
promet1; pero-
!. Se1oras, senores; amigas Y
amigos m1os bondadosos: old
una sencilla declaration: 20 soy
IN excelente periodista. ST hu.
biera nacldo hace setenta Il
ochenta amos, como otros honra-
dos varones que ahora disfruta-
ran de los presupuestos celes-
tales, habria deslucido con mis-
posaderas el terciopelo de al
gun s1llon ministerial. Mas Co
mo vine al mundo -iah, maja-
dero!-hace treinta, he de con-
formarme con ser I'm valeroso
periodista que no deslucira ter
ciopelOs nj tendra nunca Ell ho-
nor de regir a sus contempora-
neos. Una ref1exion me con
suela: aquellos eminentes varo-
mes que cambiaron la pluma de
frmar art1culos por la de frmar
reales ordenes, eran, con rar1si-
mas excepclones, unas sucu1en-
tas langostas. iEl senor mise
ricordioso les haya perdonado
sus sermones pl1mbeos, sus
hueras soflsmas y la estupenda
cantidad de barbarismos, lido
tismos y solecismos que ameni-
zan sus @Rbustas obras doctri-
males!
Pues bien, amigas y amigos:
los inf1adores de periodicos So
mos unas locas criaturas, tan
fastuosas y ambiciosas que con
NADIA tenemos' bastante. Tres
cientas, cuatrocientas pesetas al
mes de sueldo? Un grano de
anfs, hijos mfos. Queremos mas
pesetas, porque nuestras muie-
res -ihabrase visto las picaras!
nos regalan pequenines, que
nosotros, buenos en- Ell fondo,
no devoramos, y porque todav1a
-ioh, ilusos i solemOs darle i'm
portancia a las livianas super
fiuidades de la ropa decente, la
comida sana Y la vivienda hi.
gienica, sin desdenar ell ratio
de paseo y las horas de medita.
Cion Y estudio.
Claro es que para vestir, ali )
mentarse, enriquecer al caseroE
pasear, med1tar y estudiar, los
chicos de la prensa necesitan
someterse a IN trabaio constan-
te. leuando, pues, hablaremos
de los libros que nos remiten
los literatos; de esos l1bros com
puestos en- horas de inspiration,
retocados, limados, pulidos, que
Sc pensaron en- la playa tran
quila, en- el jard1n umbrio, en- el
oasis de una ofcina 8 junto al
fllon de TN bufete famoso?.
iDe ncche? De noche el diario
nos embargo. Hay que reco-
ger la actualidad, hay que ira
ducir telegramas, y redactar
notlcias, y corcusir informacio-
nes, y enjaretar "cliches" de
apTobacion 6 de censura, Y llo-
rar sobre los cadaveres de las
notabilidades, y luego, al ter nj
mar la faena, mientras piafan
impacientes las maquinas Y
sgrufle el reloi, hay que reir de
todo unos momentos. tPor la
tarde? tLaborar en- casa tam
blcn para el periodico?. ... No
creo que el egoismo de IN so.
berbio llegue a extremes de tan
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1906-12-15

blanoaa le alsadsD tarcid9 Encajes de hllo estios
nuevos. mantas frisas
DE lNGLGTERRA Alrombras telas negras
driles dc o, camas de hero, aambrado iniinidaa
de artlculos.
De TO0OS PASSES RauismaS teas con
nuevos dlhujos tases ainirablet.
Ieias sHperlies para sAstrerfas casinlfeS, neri-
nos frlnea8 panos, elaatiooin paIletas, veunas,
apaeas drll dc hilo, Dlaneo de eOlores sateDes,
fot1os = hO3one%.
EstameTl.1e, ncrinos para TRACES v nantos;
todos los aE'1culOs propios para 0rdenes reli-
gosas
Mcrcanc{as americanas, especialmente los teiidos
llanoa ! eSt4npadoS les crudos, de las elases
mas aceptab@s que adQuieten aQuelles mer.
cados.
que. N l. Caliial existc stro estableeinliento
e para es eompradores que busoan la valiedad
surtido dc mereanclas expresamente para ias
4 disposition de sus relaconados de Ia Isla>
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nuisance in four of his messages, Cleveland
in three of his and Roosevelt in one of his.
III Haiti and Santo Domingo there are large
colonies of Syrians with American natur-
alzation papers, having the magic effect
or protecting them from local taxation as
We'll as from the foment of future revolu-
tons. Thousands of naturalized Americans
have lately become citizens of Cuba and the
new provinces of Canada. Despite all of
these abuses, 1t is the Judgment Of the
writer that the clause requiring an oath of
intention to remain here permanently will
not be worth the paper 1t Is written on un-
til clairvoyants of infallible skill can be
supplied to the naturalization service by the
civil service commission.
The fixing of uniform naturalization fees
to be charged by the clerk of every court
exercising jurisdiction in such cases is an
other reform provided by the bill. Eleven
dollars is to cover the entire cost of becom-
ing a citizen, whether in a state or federal
court 1t is claimed that this is about the
average of the amounts now charged
throughout the United States, and less than
charged by any important foreign nation.
To cover the extra clerical expenses made
necessary by the bill. half of the fees are to
be allowed the clerk of the naturaliZing
court, provided they do not amount to more
than SO 600 per year. However much this
clause may be desired by the clerks, more
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bona fide naturalizations would result If the
entire fee were turned into the treasury.
In this baneful matter of fees there Is no
uniformity under the present law-not even
among the federal courts. In the California
state courts certificates of naturalization
are free while in Nevada they cost $40. In
the federal courts of New York they cost
$3.50 in the southern district and $2.35 in the
eastern, where the proud new citizen is
taxed a half dollar extra If he wishes to
possess a certificate with gold seals and
which folds up inside of board covers. A
clerk of Brooklyn court told the naturali-
Zation commission that he sometimes con-
fers citizenship on 300 aliens per day. This
is at the rate of about forty an hour.
When the departments special naturaliza-
tfon examiner recently asked the county
clerk of a southern state what disposition
was made of the naturalization fees, he an
swered that he used them to buy bread for
himself and family when he could get them.
There many of this class, according to
the examiner. The competition for natural
ization fees among clerks of courts In the
same vicinity has given rise to many of the
frauds which the government is exposing.
Professional naturalization agents" who
round up aliens are In many quarters in
league with these clerks, who. in order to
encourage the patronage of the agents,
make 1t known that they will not inquire
too strictly into the claims OF the appli-
cants. The clerk who can naturalize at the
rate of forty men per hour does not need to
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back to their native countries to reside
there permanently under the protection OF
Old Glory.
In Jerusalem alone there are at least 1000
naturalized American citizens permanently
transacting business. About each one of
these Uncle Sam draws the magic extra
territorial circle which no Turkish police
man or soldier can cross without serious
consequences unto himself and his govern
ment. These made while you wait Ameri-
cans" our fellow-citiZens In name only.
bask in the beneficent protection given them
by a section of the Revised Statutes spe-
officially declaring that naturalized Ameri-
can citizens while In foreign countries shall
receive from this country all of the protec-
ton accorded native-born Americans. The
most notable illustration of devotion
to this principle was In the case of Martin
Koszta a Hungarian exile. who had been
naturalized in the United States but had
started in business In Smyrna, where he
was seized by order of the Austrian consul
general and placed on board vessel bound
for Trieste, as a refugee. Our ship st.
Louis, then lying at Smyrna cleared for
acuon and threatened to fire upon the Aus
TRAN vessel If KosZta was not delivered IN
a given time. The Austrians yielded. and
Congress voted sword to Capt. Ingraham
of the St Louis. A good percentage OF the
difficulties which we have recently had with
non-Christian countries, particularly Tur-
key has been caused by naturaliZed Ameri-
cans many OF them permanently residing
abroad. President Grant complained of this
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make this known. Many OF these promoters
openly solicit naturalization business for
such clerks by sending out to immigrants
circular letters and postal cards in which
their (the agentg) headquarters are given
as the court building. Indeed. in some
clerks offices these naturalization agents
have almost come to blows over the posses
sion Of immigrants applying for papers
Schools for coaching immigrants have OBJ
tanned in some places, and one of these
was openly held in the same building as the
court by agents" who read the stereo-
typed questions to be later put to the ap
plicant in the clerks office. The answers
were dinned into the memory OF the alien
until, parrot like, he could give the correct
answers. provided the questions were put
in the stereotyped order.
Not only graft but gross carelessness and
ignorance obtain among clerks handling
naturalization matters. No less a person
age than the august kaiser himself was
lately admitted citizen of the United
States by the circuit court of~Ohio county
w. Va. Instead of placing the words En-
peror of Germany In the blank provided
for the sovereign to whom the alien re-
nounced allegiance, the clerk OF the court
inserted them in the space set apart for the
aliens name. The error was never sus
pected until the apparently naturalized cit
izen, returning last autumn from BRIEF
visit abroad, produced the papers to an
immigrant inspector The Department OF
Justice has found numerous cases where
aliens, being naturalized. have renounced
allegiance to dead monarchs, as well in
stances where clerks of courts, as well as
judges themselves know neither the correct
titles nor names of the worlds rulers
The illiteracy test is the most important
feature of the bill and one that appeals to
all progressive citizens. AS the commits
sioner general Of immigration puts 1t: Sta
tistics show that much of the immigration
which is undesirable on other grounds con-
sists of persons who are illiterate"
To determine what races supply US the
best or poorest citizen material there are
several tests which may be applied. The
immigration bureaus statistics Just COM
piled. show that last years inpour of aliens
of all classes was OPS, 500 exceeding the
total for 1904 by 213,600-more than enough
to fll Minneapolis. a Louisville or a Jer-
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revolution and had rather an exciting time
of II.
Perhaps the "iaunt" which he most likes
70 tell of however was that In which
Grlffeth followed the route of PiZarro and
his companions and explored the ruined
Inca cities and Notifications. The result
OF this journey was his historical mover.
THE Virgin of the SUM-" but apropos 1t
NAV be said that this authors own adj
ventures have furnished him with grist
for his romancing mill to a much sltghter
extent than might have been supposed His
best known books are, perhaps. The Angel
OF the Revolution and In an Unknown
Prison Land.
How more interesting fiction is than fact
was demonstrated the other day, when
the announcement was made that the an
cent crypt of the Church Of st. George
the Martyr. in the Southwark district OF
London was ito let for storage purposes.
crypt TO leti-the statement seems sur
prising enough, in itself. but IL may be ex-
planned that the regions in quite number
OF these old London churches where once
people were buried have been cleared out
in recent years and employed for intensely
utilitarian purposes; in one case Tor
bakers shop and IN another for a COM
bined soup kitchen and billiard roomi So
il is really not so very startling to hear
that the crypt of St George the Martyr
which once was crammed with collins to
the extent of i.40o-is now 10 be had for
storage purposes of another kind,
Now, this particular London church has
quite a number of historical associations
of an interesting nature. II was, for in
stance the marriage place, in 1852, of Gen.
Monk, who restored the throne of Eng
land to the Stuarts, and 1t was the burial
place of the famous Bishop Bonner, who
died in the nearby Marshalsea prison in
1857, as well as of Cocker, the arithmeti-
clan, to whom we owe the phrase accord
ing to Cocker" But was It because OF
these that all London was interested In the
announcement regarding the crypt OF the
famous old church, No, but because this
Church of ST George the Martyr was the
place where Dickens Little Dorrit' rested
after the night of the famous party when
she was too late to return to. the Marshall
sea prison, and where she was actually
married.
In other words. Il is famous for what
never happened, and not for what really did
happen-a tribute to the genius OF Dick
ems From the eastern end of the church
can be seen the whole OF the original south
front of the Marshalsea debtors prison.
and at the eastern end of the long roof
the very window of Little Dorrits gar
ret" In her time the crypt still held its
population of dead, but Dickens was prob
ably not aware OF the charnel house be-
meath the church floor, or II is more likely
that st. Georges would have been treated
by the novelist as was that burial ground
off Russell Court where poor Memo lay,
and at the iron gate of which Lady Dead
lock died This plague spot also has been
swept away. and its site is Ike the crypt
of Ct. Georges, spacious and dry.
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hundreds of different forms il present use.
One of the most wholesale enterprises OF
this kind, operated by two Italians, Bunoro
and CappareH. who when arrested were
found to have in New York complete out
fit for Couuterfeitiug the certificates, IN
Guiding q forged seal OF the federal court.
connected with them were dealers VINO
purchased the counterfeit certificates ard
sold them for SO and upward. ready
sale for them was found in Italy, WheIe
they We're bought TO enable dlSquanned I'M
migrants to gain admittance to this coun-
try without running the gauntlet of the in
spectoTs. Another man was lately lndlcteo
for systematically obtaining from the
courts duplicates of his own ceruhcate
from which he erased his name with acids,
afterward substituting the names of other
aliens. from whom he received considerable
money In other cases certificates have
been loaned to aliens for $50 and like sums.
K
The most radical of the reforms provided
by the bill requires that before an alien
can be naturalized he must be able to
write either in his own language or in Eng
lish and must speak, read and understand
English Under existing laws aliens are adj
mitted not only to our ports but to citizen
ship without any educational qualification
whatsoever. The advocates OF this reform
hold that an alien, who in the five years
residence required before he can apply for
citizenship cannot acquire sufficient edu-
c-lon to comply with this mild educational
requirement is either too deficient men
tally or too careless of his opportunities to
make desirable citizen; that an immi-
grant who does not learn our language rev
mains IN effect a foreigner He cannot
understand the questions which the court
may put to him when he applies for nat
uralization, nor can he read the Constitu-
ton which he swears to support; and when
afterward he votes he cannot read his bal
lot
Intention to reside permanently In this
country is made another prerequisite to nat
uralization. The applicant must declare
such intention on oath. This requirement
Is added because OF the discovery that
thousands of aliens are annually obtaining
American citizenship and then hurrytng
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Copyright. 1905, by c. s. Yost)

w wy DEAR JOHN-Do you remem-
~ u Der Col. Hosea Perkins, who
NH used 70 live Just around the
corner from us on William
street? or course you do. No
body could forget that stately figure and
that ceremon!ous bow with which he
punctuated every greeting. Old Perkins Is
dead now. but III bet horse that he's
dofug his crown every two miuutes-that
IS. II he's gone to place where crowns
are supposed to be necessary article OF
wearing apparel He was the mcst pain
fully polite man I ever saw His genu-
nections and beg pardons" used TO get on
my nerves until / could hardly refrain from
a protest He wouldn't wear his hat in the
presence OF ladies'. and I've seen him stand
ing on a street corner bareheaded, in the
brolling sun, for an hour at time while
he talked with a female acquaintance.
! am reminded OF Perkins by some ac-
lions Of yours that l noticed while you and
Annie May were visiting us last week.
That old hypOcrite was the embodiment OF
exaggerated courtesy to every one he met.
with the single exception OF his wife. I'm
less he had company he would drop his
manners on his front porch. and on the
other side OF his threshold become the
most dsagreeable reprobate that ever wore
: long suffering woman 10 the grave.
don't mean to intimate. my boy, that
there Is any resemblance between you and
old Perkins, bat I saw, when you were
here. that you were already beginning to
follow the general tendency OF persons who
Wear trousers and forgetting at home some
of the amenities you would never overlook
outside Its so easy 10 do. We are all
naturally savages. prone TO drop the social
graces whenever We think nobody's looking
and our families are supposed to kindly
shut their eyes. Yet the little ceremonies
and verbal expressions which constitute
Our everyday code OF etiquette were de-
signed for the sole purpose OF smoothing
the rough edges of our intercourse with
the world. the flesh and the devil and keep
us from flying at one anOthers throat, as
We would Ike 50 much TO do
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Gossip About English
Authors and Books
Special Correspondence of The Star.


LONDON. April 5, 1906.
GORGE Griffith says he is going 10
1T settle down. Apparently he means
1t. too, for he has just bought a
charming little property near Port Erin,
In the Isle of Man-where he will have
Hall Game as a neighbor-and has already
arranged to build a house upon it. in which
he intends to do most of his future novel
writing
Griffith says he means to travel no more
1t will be rather surprising, however. If he
keeps his word, for besides being the author
of "A Honeymoon In Space" and about a
dozen other exciting novels of adventure.
1t Is probable that he has covered as many
miles as any other man living, and sooner
or later the travelling bacillus is sure to
get into his system again.
Even Cutcliffe Hyne, who wrote Cap
tain Kettfe. and who is generally supposed
to have wandered farther in quest of ma
terial'' than any other novelist, Is a YER
liable stay-at-home compared with Grif-
feth. who has completely girdled the globe
no less than seven times. Upon one of
these, moreover, he was trying for rec
ord and secured it by making the 24.S6o
mile circuit in sxty-four days, eleven
hours and twenty minutes, an achievement
which has yet to be beaten. He has been
once across the Rockies and three times
across the Andes, and still eherishes a pipe
which he will tell you has been smoked
at 1890 feet above the sea level. He has
been three times round the Horn, once in
the antarctic ice, and few years ago
just by way of variety, he went up In a
balloon from the ground of the Crystal
Palace near London. and came down on
the historic field of Agincourt, in France
As a boy Griffeth shipped before the mast
and had his first adventures during three
years spell among the South Sea Islands.
He has been lost in the Australian bush,
too, but his most interesting wanderings
have been In South America, where he
claims to have found the true source of the
Amazon-a little hot lake under Monte
Rosa in the Peruvian Cordiileras. In an
other of his journeys Griffith managed to
get mixed up in lively South American
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THE MAKING OF A
SUCCESSFUL HUSBAND

bush, I want to say a few things to you
on this subject, and l want to put EN- to
you straight When you have read this
letter once, read 1t over again, and get It
stuck into your head, so 1t won't slip
loose.
l wasn't around when you were settin
up to Anna May. but I'll bet pile of good
hard dollars that you Were almighty par
ucular how you acted when you were in
her presence. There was nothing in the
shape of courtesy that any too fine for
her when you came a-wooin You had all
your graces, and some you had borrowed, 1
have no doubt. out for her inspection. You
had old Chesterfield beaten so bad you
could see daylight between you. Yes, you
did, / wasn't there, but / know. That lit
tie girl you were exceedingly careful about
then Is your wife now. but in the change
she has lost none of her rights. She is
just much entitled to the observance
of the forms of courtesy before-more
than then. for your wife she should
hold a higher and more honored place in
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does nod occasionally after his meals, and
when | saw these little signs of ingrowing
selfishness ii worried me. Reminds me Of
a colt my father used to own down on the
old farm 1t was risky critter as all
colts are but father was very proud of 1t
and delighted in showing 1t to visitors. AS
a rule when he wanted to exhibit the colt
II was In the pasture, and one of the most
vivid recollections of my boyhood days is
that dgnified old gentleman chasing that
dern fool colt over a ten-acre field. He
would trot along and appeal to the colt in
tones of strained honey. He would pretend
TO offer regular cornucopia of things that
horses are supposed to sigh for. The colt
would coyly wait until he was almost with
in reach then with a snfn of disdain 1t
would raise it's tail straight up In the air
and gallon to the other side of the pasture.
Finally the little beast would allow itself to
be caught just like woman. and once ne
had his hands on him the old gentleman
would let loose a flood of unprofane cusS
words that would shuck the corn In the
barn ''Contaminate your measly hide,
he would shout. 81 feel like breaking every
bone in your onregenerate carcass! But
he never did My parent was humane
man, and, besides, the colt was valuable.
X +
That's lust a way with a great many
men after they marry They Will pursue
a woman with sorghum eloquenee, write
sonnets on the classic outlines of her snub
nose crawl on their knees before her ike
the deyotees of a heathed goddess and af-
ter they get her treat her like convict or
lose interest in her and let her get along
the best way she can. And some of these
fellows really love their wives. too. They
simply think that the pretty words and
gentle courtesies of courtship are features
OF the chase and are superfuous and fool
ish after the capture. They seem TO forget
that getting a wife is one thing and keep
ing her is another, as the records OF the
divorce courts show but the same processes
are effective in both.
But you say, a man can't always be on
his best behavior; he can't always sit
around his own house In full dress; he cam
make daily use of the stilted ceremonies
of polite society in his home life. There
you are wrong and you are right. II there
is any place on earth that a man should be
on his best behavior 1t is at home, but /
do not mean by that that he should put In
practice all the purely artificial forms of
social etiquette. Heaven Forbid No one
detests meaningless ceremony more than
do But the courtesies that spring from
the heart. that are the outward manifes-
tations of a desire to please or to be of
service to Its object, entirely different.
To the true gentleman they are as natural
as the circulation of his blood. He can no
more dispense with them than he can with
his breath. 1t is pity that so few of US
are true gentlemen. Most OF US are selfish