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La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1906-09-23
VESPERAL.

Amo las tardes estivales transparentes
y tranquiJaS, en- que el cielo es azul y ell
crep6sculo ostenta en- el Oeaso Ia opulenta
foraei6n de sus encsjes.
En- esas horaS de quimeras y de ensue-
nos, placeme absorberme en- la embrisguez
de Ia tristeza y contemplar las azuleS leJa-
MAS como aladaB de celajes igniscentes.
Mi espfritu nostalgico presiente no sc
cuantas dulzuras ignoradas, y en- el tul
de mis- raras fantasfas Sc prende una ilu-
sion como palida estrella muy lejana.
A. GdGiOLu D.
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1906-09-23
COSaS de la vida.

Una doncslla Sc despide de la casa de
sus amos por incompatibilidad de caracte-
res con Ia sefiora de Ia casa, pide su pa
pei de Conocimiente y buena conducta.
-JY que quiere usted que diga?-pre-
gunta el anna entire burlona y curiosa.
-Lo que usted quiera responde tran
quilamente la doncella; bastar6 CON que Sc
haga constar en- la papeleta que he tenidO
paciencia para sufrir usted por mas de
tres megea.
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1906-09-23
EPllO G 0

Sobre divanes de orc
cual Orlados por m6gicos querubes,
el sol con "a pupila de diamante
reclina au cabeza entire las nubeB.
Acuarela amarilla;
paisaje vesperal que en- llamas arde,
jirones que volaron del naufrsgio;
lSgrima del coloao fu6 Ia tarde.
. ~. Judo Flores.
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1906-09-23
De Gartrudis Gomez
de AVeIIaneda.

Canto como canta el ave,
Como las Eamas Sc agitan,
Como as fuentes murmuran,
Como las auras auspiran.
Canto porque al cielo plugo
parme Ell estro que me anims;
Como di6 brillo & loa astcop,
Como di6 al.orbe armonfas!
Canto porque ll,y en- mi peeho
Secretas cuerdas que vibran
A cada efecto dsl alma,
"a cada azar de Ia vida.
Canto porque hay luz y sombras,
Porque hay pesar y algeria,
Porque hay tenor y esperanto,
PsTque hay amor y hay perfdia.
Canto porque exiAto y siento,
Porqus ID grande me admira,
Porque 10 bello me encanta,
Porque 10 malo me irrita.
CssAgO S0A4 SA0t v 2 AAAA M0ANC
OoncoTdanciaB infnitas,
Y placeres miateriosos,
Y verdades escondidas.
Canto porque hay en- los seres
Sus condolences precisas:
Core al aqua, vuelye 81 ave,
Silva ell viento, y 81 sol brillR,
Canto sin sabsr 20 propia
10 que 81 canto signifca,
Y 81 al mundo, que 10 escucha,
AsombrO 8 ldstima inspira.
Ell rnisefioT no ambiciona
Que 10 aplaudan cuando trina......
LRtidos son de Eus Beno -
Sus nocturnaB melodfas.
.s...sss..sss..sssss ss.ss.sssssss..
Que 20 al cantar solo cumplo
La condioi6n de mi vida.
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1906-09-23

En- Mejico un improvisador detenido
ante una fabrics, sss vic interpelado por IN
'ecleBidstico que por allf pasaba, 81 ctal
ofreci6le IN duro, 81 componfa una quin-
tilla con Ell siguiente pie Tornado:
= Los cabsIIos pendeis de =
Ell pOeta on 81 acto SO expres6 asf:
Padre, 20 elp peso game
81 la yerdad no Sc esconde;
huya, puep, no sea que -....
aesa Viga caigas y donde ~#es
los cabellos penden, de-.
Hizo Ia pausa en- Ia coma y convirti6
en- tempo del verbo daT, Ia proposition de,
con 10 que obtuvo el resultado.
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1906-09-23
Gotta De AJENJO.

Baio los altos expresses
El sepnlturero un dfa,
Cantaba de esta manera
Con honda melancolfa:
+ s.Entierro un grano de trigo,
Y el grano produce granos;
Entierro un hombre... y 81 hombre
Solo produce gusanos."
/ Julio Flores.
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1906-09-23
ABSuELTO.

Ha sido absuelto puesto Immediate.
mente On libeTtad por orden del Juez Mu-
nicipal de Mayagtiez 81 tabaquero Miguel
Rom6n Rom6n, vecino de AguadilIa en-
IL causa que se le serufa.
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1906-09-23
llficIl FaCiIidad.

Propusieronle antiguamsnte q IN vate
cabano que le hallase consonante Ia pa.
labra isadSo y 6l venci6 asf la difcultad:
Sun poeta dijo rindiO
por no decir Be rindi6. -r,...
y al volYer la cara vic Il.
bailando en- la euerda sun indio."
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1906-09-23
BASEBALL.

uaaas. 60 a las tres de Ia tarde de
hoy Sc lIevara & cabo nm de-
Bafo entire los clubs .'Esco-
jidos y "Las Palmas'' en- los
~ terrenoa de la "Liga Anne
ricana.'
Lajugada ser6 muy renida J auimada
Ia fiesta.
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1906-09-23
Ponce.
ANA De LLAvEs.

Sc desea una para conocida institution
de esta ciudad. Para informes, en- esta re-
dacci6n por cOrreo Treasurer, P. o.
Box 928. San juan" 6vs
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1906-09-23

En- esta imprenta se vende papal de pc.
ri6dico visio 5000 quintal.
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1906-09-23
VENTA.

En- el pobladO de Hato Rey Sc vende una
magnffica casa y un solar bfen situados.
En- Ia plateria de Meseguer informaran.
l5 ". q.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1906-12-15

SILVER paint, some short pieces of verv
narro" RIBBON and small sweets. The
smell OF the walnut is carefully nried
apart with the thin blade of q nocket-
Kn11e. The kernel is removed and
Inc walls of the nut are scraned &C
smooth as possible. With any sharn
instrument holes are bored in the
ends OF the two pieces of she'll The
OUTSIDE OF the nut is then coated
with gold or silver paint and allowed
10 ory before the bits of ribbon which
are TO form the hinges are threaded
through the perforations at the ends
OF the sections. The inside Of tho
nut is tllled with small sweets before
Inc last bow is tied. In it's COMPLETED
form the souvenir looks like a gold
nut. Surprise nuts are made in mich
Inc same way as the bonbonnieres.
instead of being filled with sweets
the interior Of this souvenir is filled
with cotton wool Of the same color
as the accompanying ribbons. Inside
tne cotton some pretty little gift NAV
oe tucked away. Tiny dolls and
miniature toys of any kind are suit-
able Tor the surprise nuts. Prettv
tr1ngets made of silver may be mr.
chased it the hostess wishes to make
particularly acceptable souvenirs.
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is due mainly to the lobbies of the
railroad, telegraph and express COM
panies, who by their influence Sc
cure exorbitant rentals for mail
cars prevent the extension of the
parcels post, and secure a rate
upon third class matter double that
on fourth class matter and eight
times that on second class matter
in order to prevent competition in
parcels carrying with the express
companies. They also prevent the
postal use of the telegraph, which
is today the quickest and one Of the
most important means of transmit
ting intelligence.
It may further be admitted, in
fact it should be commended, that
no government function can be as
economically or efficiently admins
tered as it should be, until the rail-
roads and other powerful corpora
tons are eliminated from politics.
But no method of doing this is
known except public ownership of
railways and other natural monopo-
lies.
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FOR PRIVATE CONTROL
Of PUBLIC FUNCTIONS
Opponents of Public Ownership
Hold Private Control Brings
Better Management.
Criticism of w. J. Bryan's Posi-
ton on Government Owner
ship of the Railroads.

Among the criticisms which viii.
liam J. Bryans declarations for gov
eminent ownership of railroads have
brought out, none are more urgent
ly pressed than the objection that
public management of public work
is never as we'll performed as pri-
vate management. The most extra
, ordinary instance of this criticism
| was made recently in a speech at
Memphis by Secretary Shaw of the
Treasury department. Mr.. Shaw's
criticism was extraordinary because
he cited in support of his conten-
ton the fact of the inferiority of
his own department under his own
| management.
Mr.. Shaw did indeed argue, not
that he and his department are
culpably inefficient, but that the
inherent nature of public SERVICE
prevents the efficient and economic
accomplishment of public work. Yet
he cited in proof of this the erec-
ton Of the postoffice building in
Chicago, which was done under the
management of his own depart
ment and which, as he said, occu-
pied nearly ten years more for it's
completion than private enterprise
would have required. This citation
)spoils his criticism, for it calls for
an inquiry into the management Of
the critics own department. To
infer that the cause of the mex
cusable delay in the cfr>e of the
Chicago postoffice bullying lies in
"the inherent nature of public SER
vice" is to make a long jump that
no one would make it unless he
were more anxious to come to a
favorite conclusion than to come to
a right one
For Secretary Shaw's department
IS not the only one in the federal
government which manages public
work. 1t is important, therefore, to
make comparison; and one such
comparison was made by Senator
NeWlands in 1905 in a speech on
the law for the reclamation of arid
lands. Contrasting the interior de-
partment, which manages that work
with Secretary Shaw's department,
which manages the construction of
public buildings, Senator Newlands
said, as may be seen by reference to
the Congressional Record of Deem
Der IS, 1905:
The irrigation committees of the
senate and house visited the various
projects during the last summer, and
we had opportunity of observing the
quickness and extent of the work,
and we were amazed at the pro-
gress that had been made in the
short space of three years.
At the same session of congress
bill was passed for the construc-
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work in various other kinds of pub

work in various other kinds of pub
lie service.
In Chicago, for instance, the de-
partment of public works is equip
ped with a mechanical bureau for
doing city work, which has now
grown to considerable dimensions.
This bureau does it's work not only
more economically, more promptly
and better than city work let out
by contract is done, but better than
the same kind of work is done in
private establishments.
A similar experience has been had
by the Chicago school board, which
also has a mechanical department
where work is done directly by
city employees. AS the school board
also let's out much of it's work by
contract comparison with the
work done directly is possible, and
this comparison is altogether to the
disadvantage of contract work.
That the general, as we'll as local
governments, can accomplish results
with speed and efficiency, is proved
by the post office department., and
that it can do this without the in
PREVENTION of contractors is proved
by the interior department.
If the railways we're owned and
| operated under a department where
the controlling head felt himself
! responsible for efficient and econ
omical service, and believed that by
! proper administration this was to be
accomplished, it undoubtedly would
be; but if it were placed under a
department head who believes that
the inherent nature of public SER
vice" absolutely prevents efficiency,
the results would probably be COM
parable with the ChicAgo public
building.
Secretary Shaw says there are
over 10000 employees in the treas
ury department., but that if this
were a private enterprise "every
whit as much work could be &C.
complished with reduction of one
third in number and one fourth in
salary of those remaining." II that
is the case, no one but the head
of that department is responsible.
Other departments have shown that
such fnefficiency as this in public
business is unnecessary, and it may
be of interest in this connection
to observe that as violator of the
civil service rules in their letter
and spirit the treasury department
has the worst reputation of any
department in Washington.
1t may be admitted that the pos
tai service Is not as efficient or
economical as it should be, but this
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1906-12-15
THE CHRISTMAS TREE
How 1t May Be Effectively and Il


How 1t May Be Effectively and In
extensively Decorated.
Wise mothers save all the brilliant
fancy ornaments from one Christmas
to another, and, allowing for break
age, there are always enough to make
a start on. Then get roll each Of
pink, blue, white and rich red crepe
paper, can of gilt paint, some
cotton batting, few ounces of dia-
mond dust, pot Of mucilage and
some narrow ribbon to match the
colors of the paper.
Walnuts are gilded or silvered and
fastened to the tree by ribbons glued
to the nuts. They must hang in
festoons. Empty spools gilded and
hung in festoons or punches are
pretty. Oranges and apples add their
rich colors, and little gauze bags hold
bright colored candies. They are tied
by ribbons and made bright by dabs
Of gold or other metallic paint, Of
which Their are several christopher,
green and blue besides the silver and
gold. If the tree is large, it can be
decorated with stars, half moons,
hearts, arrows animals. and dolls
which may be cut from Cardboard
Paper dolls cut this way may be Dress
ed very quickly with the crepe paper
by the aid of mucilage. These add
greatly to the brightness Of the tree
and cost little beyond the labor. The
dainty little Japanese napkins, which
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cost so cents a. thousand and which
children's lunch baskets, are very
pretty tied with ribbon to hold can
dies or other things. The Grape paper
is used to make flowers, rosettes,
streamers and snowballs. The pretti-
est snowballs, however, are made by
fastening cotton batting in the form
Of ball and giving it a light coating
Of mucilage and sitting diamond dust
upon 1t. They look like real snow
balls.
Little round cakes for the tree are
frosted and then have features marked
upon them by chocolate icing and a
frill of the Grape paper tied around
them. They look very cute peeping
out. Animals, birds, boys and girls
are made Of gingerbread and either
frosted or gilded. Sets of dominos
are made by cutting warm fiat cake
into oblong squares, frosting them and
marking them with chocolate. They
are very much liked by the children.
The candles for lighting the tree
should be put on by a man. Women
have never yet understood distances,
the science Of heat and art of precau-
ton. But whoever does it the greatest
care should be exercised. No candle
or tiny lantern should be placed so
that its heat could set fire to anything
above 1t or that could tip over. The
candles should be put on the tree last
Of all so that the weight of a new
burden could not cause a branch to
sag near enough to take fire. The
list Of fires caused by badly lighted
trees should make people careful
Great care is the only safeguard.
The tips Of the most prominent low
er branches may be slightly coated
with mucilage and diamond dust or
even table salt, but no -four Flour is
nasty thing to get on a carpet or
garments.
After the things are all ready to
hang on the tree the most snowy are
to be put high up, with the highest.
like the fancy balls and the paper
things, while festoons Of popcorn.
fancy candies and copper, gold and
silver t1nsel are placed all about. Dolls
OF every kind make good ornaments.
Their outstretched arms are very an
pealing.
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How to Make a Housewife.

Ao" w 11d1Ac ii housewife.
A small housewife is an accountable
Christmas gift, for it is useful to
tuck in a travelling case, to use at
the church sewing circle or in the
privacy of ones boudoir. 1t may be
no larger than the space occupied by
the spools Of thread laced between
its covers. These are of pasteboard
covered with figured silk. The top
cover has an ivory bodkin run
through the loops Of ribbon where
the spools are laced to the top and
bottom of the case. An extra top
is covered with silk and has three
pieces of flannel sewed to one side
for needles. On the top is bow of
ribbon. Sometimes a tiny bag is
made In each of the ends of two
ribbon loops, one for the small pair
of scissors and one for the gold or
silver thimble, which may accompany
such housewife.
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How to Make Trimming for Trees.
Pretty confectionery holders for
Christmas trees maye be made from
walnuts. To prepare these take some
large nuts, small bottle of gold or
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Mr.. Union Man:-Notify your retail
liquor dealer that the Bell Phone is
Unfair.
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Mr.. Union Man:-Notify your res
taurant man that the Bell Phone is
Unfair.
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Mr.. Union Man:-Notffy your Cloth.
Ter that the Bell Phone Is Unfair.
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Mr. Union Man:-Notify your baker
that the Bell Phone is Unfair.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1906-12-15

Mr.. Union Man: Notify your baker
that the Bell Phone Is Unfair.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1906-05-01
Death Of DR.. Pope.


DR.. Sampson Pope died in New
berry last Sunday night from the
effects Of severe attack Of rheu-
matism. He was about 70 years old
and leaves wife, a son and a daugh-
ter.
The newspaper specials sent out
from Columbia announcing the death
of DR.. Pope show that some men are
so prejudiced, so callous, that they
refrain from seeing the virtues and
good traits of person even after
death. An effort is apparently made
to emphasize the fact that DR.. Pope
"was an intense Tillman partisan,"
but later "bccame a Republican," It
must be depraved heart, indeed, that
IS prompted to make little political
capital at the expense of the dead.
What was the necessity for Juggling
this into the announcement "Till-
man partisan" and "Republican"
were sufficient to hide and smother
his virtues. 1t was only a step from
"Tillman partisan' to Republican
while nothing is said about the in
fluence Of some of those who now
traduce his memory in inducing him
to become an Independent candidate! {!
In the heart and passion of politics
DR.. Pope, like all Of us, may have said
and done things which, in his calmer
moments he would not have said or
done. But he was not the man to
have needlessly uttered one unkind
word that would cast the least reflec-
ton on the dead. The correspondent
knew or ought to have known, that
DR.. Pope was ga Republican, only
in the sense that hundreds of others
in South Caroline are RRepublican
to-day, (from commercial stand
point) yet who are considered by this
same correspondent as exemplary de-
moorats.
We choose rather to throw the man.
tie Of charity over what some would
now seem to uncover and expose. It
can truly be said that DR.. Pope was
a good and useful citizen-his faults,
whatever he had, (and what mortal
is exempt y were Of the head and not
Of the heart. In his dealings with his
fellow-man he was upright and hon
est and he loved his stat. A high
toned, honorable man in every respect.
--Laurens Herald.
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An Easy Solution.
Unidentified.

UnQenClnCQ.
One morning as Judge c., of
Virginia, was starting for town, he
was approached by one Of his negroes,
who, with more or less confusion,
asked:
"Massa, when yo' goes to the cot
house will yo' get me a liccnse7 Use
gwine to be married."
Married, are you, Sam7 All
right" called the judge, as he hasti-
ly drove off. Arrived at the court
house he spent a very busy day, and
ii was not till he was preparing to
leave that he remembered Sans IL
cense, and realized that he had not
been told the name of the bride-e elect.
"The old idiot, he never told me
who he wanted to marry, but, Of
course, it's Lucinda; he's always
making eyes at her'
So saying, he returned to the court
house, and had the license made out
in the names of Sam and Lucinda.
Sam was the first to greet him upon
his return with the inquiry:
"Git my license, NASSAU"
eyes, Say, you old fool. You did
MT tell me who you waited to marry,
but l remember how you re always
courting Lucinda and got the license
in her name.'
CLAW, massa!' exclaimed Sam,
taint Lucinda; it's Kyaline.
WHAT'S I gwine to do9'
"Well," said the judge, "the only
thing will be for me to get another
license
"Massa," said Sam, edo yo' pay
anyt ing fur dat liccnsc9"
Yes, Sam, a dollar and seventy
five cents more," replied the judge.
After scratching his woolly pate
for few minutes, Sam replied:
"Well, massa, I done axcd Kyar-
line, an she said 'yasc,' but dere
ain no dollar and seventy-fve cents
difference in dem two niggcrs, so I'll
just take Lucinda"
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1906-05-01
The Great Clock at Rouen.

The ancient city of Rouen, France,
owns the very earliest specimen of
the larger varieties of the ancient
clock makers triumphs. It was made
by Jehan dc Felains and was finished
and set going in September, 1889. So
perfect in construction is this ancient
time recording machine that, although
it has been regularly striking the
hours, halves and quarters for ccntu-
rics, it is still used as regulator. The
ease of this early neurological oddity
is six feet eight inches in height by
five inches broad. For 325 years il
continued to run without pendulum,
being provided with what the old time
clock makers called a "foliot.'
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1906-05-01
BARNES TO BE CONFIRMED.
Senate Will Not Interfere With Ap-
pointment-By Strict Party Vote
Committee Refuses to Probe
Morris Affair.

Washington, April 26.-B. F.
Barnes, who became known from one
end of the country to the other be-
cause of his connection with the ejec-
ton of Mrs. Minor Morris from the
White House and who has been NOM
mated by the president to be postmas-
ter of this city, will be confirmed by
the senate without being subjected to
investigation of his conduct.
Senator Tillman, who asked for in
vestigation of the Morris affair of the
time it happened, and for an investi-
CATION of Barnes at the time his NOM
ination was sent to the senate, can do
nothing more to prevent the presi-
dent s secretary from being confirmed
as postmaster.
The vote today against investiga-
tion was eight republicans gainst four
democrats, and members of the COM
mlttee were present except Dolliver,
republican, and TallifeTo, democrat.
Republicans voting against investi-
S"ti'll "cIS. oilIOSc, CIlulIlllun
Proctor, Burrows, Scott, Crane, Full
ton, Hopkins and Carter. Democrats
voting for investigation we're: Clay,
Cnlberson, Simmons and Raynor. The
subcommittee consisting of Carter,
Burrows and Culberson recommended
that no investigation be had, and
showed that the only investigation
made was at the White House at the
time of the Morris affair. Barnes al
so filed statement asking for an in
vestigation. Culberson, democrat,
urged an investigation, but the whole
thing had already been cut and dried.
The defeat of Senator Tillman's IS de-
mand for an investigation Of the Nor
ris affair and of Barnes character
has created great indignation among
hundreds of people here who have
clamored loudly for Barnes scalp for
his treatment of Mrs. Morris. This
sentiment is not confined wholly to
one section, but people from all quar-
ters are indignant over the outcome
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1906-05-01
Why Blackie Wore the Plaid.

Professor Blackie frequently stayed
at DR.. Donald Maclcod's house in
Glasgow. One night, said the doctor,
we were sitting up together. Blackie
said in his blusquc way. "Whatever
other faults ! have, 7 am free from
vanity.' An incrcdulous smile on
my face reused him. "You don't be-
lievr that Give me an instance. "
Being thus challenged T said "Why
do you walk about flourishing a plaid
continually9" "I'll give you the his
tory ofthat, sir. When I was poor
man and when my wife and 7 had our
difficulties, she one day drew my at
tention to the thrcadbare character
Of my surtout and asked me to order
new one. I told her 7 could not af-
ford it just then, when she went, like
noble woman, and put her own plaid
shawl on my shoulders, and I have
worn a plaid ever since in memory
of her loving deed.'