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BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1907-11-18
Las eleCCi0neS en- New York

FL dfa cinco sc verihcaron en- doce
Estados las elecciones juridicas y mu.
nicipales en- unos y para gobernado-
res en- otros. En- Ell condado de Nue.
va York, sc concentro la lucha prin-
cipalmente en- la election de dos iue.
ces del tribunal de Apelacion; de Sc
stones generates 6 primera instancia
y alguacil, apoyados respectivamente
por la sociedad democrata Tammany.
quien consiguio una victoria completa
y con mayorla para los candidates
Eward T. Bartlett y Willard Bartlett,
|que alcanza tai vez tres cuartos de
million de votos, contra sus opositores
McDonough y Lyon, del partido in
dependiente. cuya principal fgura era
el socialista Hearst. Ell candidate pa.
ra alguacil Foley, triunfo con mayo
ria de unos $4,000 votos. Los recuen-
tos que van llegando indican que al
partido republican, no lie aprovechan
las extraf1as fusiones hechas con
otros elementos con objeto de afr
marse y obtener el triunfo. Todos
los otros candidates de Tammany
quedaron victoriosos burlando los es-
fuerzos de la comision republican,
del Estado y su aliada la Liga Inde,
pendiente, muchos de cuyos miem-
bros al parecer no votaron. La lucha
politica sc convirtio como de costum-
bre por la noche en- fiesta para 10 ciu.
dad, cuyos habitantes Sc agolpaban
bulliciosos en- las GALES y especial
mente frente los numerosos traus-
parentes que en- varios edihcios,
principalmente redacciones de perio-
dicos, daban los resultados recibidos,
sin que estos afectasen en- 10 mas mi
nimo possible Ell buen humor de los
aunque fueran contra
rios a sus deseos y esperanzas.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1907-11-18
aD0b1e crinen

La pequefia poblacion de Sha-
mokin, Pennsylvania, ha sido te-
afro de I'm aContecimiento que
ha causado profunda consterna-
ci6n. La seiorita Lucy Dough
ton, de IS amos de edad y MEM
bro Q de la mejores familias de la
localidad, estaba comprometida
a casarse con William Klinger,
clnco amos mayor que ella. Infor-
mada que su prOmetido mostra-
ba inclinaciones hacia otra mu-
chacha, lie escribio citandole, pa.
IA una confere pcia. Apenas ha.
bian cruzado pocas palabras Lu.
cy saco del bolsillo del traie un
revolver que llevaba, 10 disparo
sobre Ell mozo causendole la
muerte instantanea y con otro
disparo apuntado a su propia ca
beza Sc vol6 el craneo. Cuando
los vecinos, atraidos por las de-
tonaclones, llegaron al lugar del
suceso, hallaron los dos cadave-
res pocos pasos de distancia
el uno del otro.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1907-11-18
UIdnaS obraS recibidaS en- Sta Libreria

Guia ilustrada de Nueva York y sus
alrededores.
ARoMAs DE LEYENDA, poesfss, por
don Ramon del Vale Inclan
OBRAs DE TEODORO Roosevelt T, Pre-
sidente de los Estados Unidos
Las dos Americas.
La Conquista del Oeste.
La Vida en- el Rancho.
Ell Ideal Americana
Poesias de Miguel de Unamuno.
inglaterra juzgada por un amer
canO.
POR ANDRES CARNEGIE
El A. b. G. del dinero.
Ell triunfo de la Democracia.
Ell demonio de los negocios 6 mo-
do de hacer millones'
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1907-11-18
Ell uran confIicto esta1lante
Inglaterra y Jap6n

Nueva York, lunes-Corren rumores de
que las relaciones entire 1nglaterra Japon
son peligrosamente tirantes sc teme una rup-
tura inmediatamente.
Entire los gobernos de Londres Toxic, Sc
han Cruzado notas may agresivas.
La ruptura sc considera inminente.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1907-11-18
Un irnpostor

En- Ponce ha sido arrestado Ell in
dividuo, Asciclo Torres, scusado de
varios delitos de falsa representation
& impostura. La policfa ha ocupado
varios de los efectos robados por el
impostor.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1907-11-18
POr rOb0 de traVieSaS

En- la playa de Humacao han sido
arrestados cinco individuos, por hurto
de traviesas para Ell ferrocarril, pro-
piedad de la Central Paste Viejo.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1907-11-18
"A saIudar- al Czar
Los festejos en- San Petersburgo

Nueva York, lunes.-El Secretario Taft Sc
dirge San Petersburgo con objeto de saludar
al Gar Nicolas.
En- la capital rusa Sc lie preparan festejoS
suntuOSos.
La policia ha tornado las medidas mas ex
trictas para prevenir cualquier atentado contra
la vida del mnistro nOrteamericanO
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1907-11-18

Nueva York, lunes.-El Secretario TAFT,
ha descmbarcado en- Vlad1vostock, siendo rec1-
bido muy cordialmente por las autoridades
TuSaS
Por la escuadra moscovita y los fuertes de
La plaza, Sc lie han tributado los honores que
correspondent su categorla.
Ell pueblo sc muestra retraidO.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1907-11-18
ScPvlcfo Especial del Bo|et1n McFcanln
OABLEGRAMAS.
81 confIicto es irremediable
Russia q la defensiva

Nueva York, lunes.-La actitud de los tur-
cos sc considera como una declaration de que
IRA.
Ell condicto es inemediable. Por Ell gober'
no de San Petersburgo sc han dictado rapidas
6rdenes para que sc reconcentren numerosas
fuerzas en- la frontera
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1907-11-18
= contravenci6n
de un tratado
La causa del rompimiento

Nueva York lunes.-La causa del rompi-
miento entire Inglaterra y Jap6n ha sido la poll
tica seguida por Ell Mikado en- la Manchuria,
peSar de 10 terminantemente estipulado en- Ell
ultimo tratado International.
Hay una expectation universal creciente.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-13
QUAKER REFLECTIONS.

i. eEFrom the Philadelphia Record.l
An invalid sometimes rests easy; a
tramp always does.
Company can seldom Judge how a
husband and wife really get along to-
gether.
Some people are never satisfied I'M
less they put two and two together and
make five.
Liquor improves with age. but that
doesn't seem to regulate the time be-
tween drinks.
The trouble with money is that there
are SO few ways to make it and so many
ways to spend It.
Time and tide wait for no man, but
you can't make woman believe 1t
when she, is putting on her hat
Nell-"I believe Miss Ann Teek ac-
tuaIly prays for man, Belle-tWell,
most men need praying for"
. wigg-"No one knows how ClosefiAt
makes his money Wagg-"And sup
pose Closefist won't give 1t away
Harduppe-' understand you and
Bjones are fast friends =" Borrowwell-
Hes the fastest friend have; when !
want to make touch you can't see his
heels for dust"
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GLOBE SIGHTS.
.IFrom the Atchison Glob

[From the Atchison Globe.]
The man with a question he thinks
you can't answer, is pretty sure to
ask It.
to do, the louder he complains about
Some people demand more graft
tude for a present than the present is
worth.
A remarkable deaf person is the
one who doesn't talk to you as II ne
Thought you We're. ..-...
| A woman is usually the first one to
suspect her husband and the last to
distrust her preacher.
Almost any man would grumble If
compelled to eat picnic grub from the
dining room table.
| The old folks are seldom as patrtot-
! ic as the children on July 4tn,. or as
| religious on Christmas.
A mans enthusiasm for exercise de-
ponds largely on. whether he is. hanQ-
| ling a ball bat or a lawn mower.
+ A beer drinkers regard for. Two Per
tba makeS look sI IiRe admfration
! = A WON ans. idea of business acumen
lis to buy "a dollars worth of stuff she
doesn't want in order to get blue
| dish free. --
What has become of the old FASH
Efoned boy who believed that handling
| his hands !?
You may be old and grouchy, but
| you will probably have as much fun
tomorrow as the country dog that
comes to town.
r. When a child goes visiting without
its parents, it is a sign it is old enough
| to know 1t can be pretty mean without
being reported.
Unlike the woman who has had
| typhoid fevor. the bald-headed man
gets little satisfaction in telling how
curly his hair used to be.
| that he always knows where to find
| the corkscrew. is also so economical
| that he never opens anything.
The man who steals from you is
worse off than you are. In the end, an
honest dollar comes a, hundred times
easier than stolen dollar.
While it doesn't take much of a
circus to please boy, it is one of his
fondest dreams to some day see one
that carries everything it advertises.
The reason the women are not al
lowed to vote is because the suf-
fragettes are not the, ones who know
how to. cry effectively for what they
want. 4
| A Tight .Wad can get along, but he
could make more money by loosening
up little. People hate Tight Wad,
and keep everything possible from his
grasp.
An Atchison widower who married
a second time says he can never de-
eide which he found harder: Break
ing the news Of his second wife to his
children, or to his first wifes mother.
The Globe is in trouble. again. A
few days ago it referred to a certain
man in the country who had an un-
THE CHICKENS BELONG TO HIS
WIFE,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-13
JAYHAWKER JOTS

Leavenworth brags because 1t ate
1900 gallons of ice cream on the
Fourth, and it didn't get sick, either.
An italian with a monkey was ar
rested down at Lawrence for giving a
show without a license. Is Lawrence
trying to ape New York in its Caruso
performance? ..
Hiawatha World: There's a girl in
this office-good, smart girl, too-who
has never ridden on the cars or seen a
street car. Her mother has not been
on the cars since her marriage 2 5
years ago. Travelling is bad habit,
anyway.
H. p Fripp, who lives at the little sta
ton of Quinter, in Cove county, rides a
motorcycle over the region between the
Union Pacific and the Rock Island in
northwestern Kansas, buying eggs. He
ships them from Oakley to Denver He
has shipped a carload a week regularly
during the past year, and during April
he shipped twelve carloads He has
paid out over 500, 900 for eggs in the past
year, handling something like $4,000
dozen. Just what profit he makes is
not known, but If 1t was one cent a
dozen it would amount to $500 year.
The Kansas hen seems to be a good
thing for Mr.. Fripp.
Deacon Walker: Seems to me that
it gets a little bit hotter every summer
and a little bit colder every winter. The
chiggers bite harder and the steak
gets tougher as the seasons go by. But
whenever any OOly tGAAS 4lAC L. oAAA 6Cl-
ting old 1 want to scrap. 1t isn't SO.
-. 1t always seemed strange to me
that when a fellow has a poor memory
and starts to forget anything, it always
happens to be the dollar he owes you
and not the one you owe him..
A mans credit at the grocery store
and the bank cuts a whole lot more
figure than the emblem at the head Of
the ticket he votes on election day.
.Old Bill Shiftless says he has
had the worst luck of anybody in the
county this spring. He has the weed
lest corn in the neighborhood, but old
Bill claims every time he got ready to
work it a little it clouded up and rain
ed and stopped him. Every time it
rained Bill would lay off for week.
When a business man is stalking
to a young man about giving him a
responsible position he never asks him
the difference between a draw shot
and a cushion carom. or how much it
is safe to bid on an ace and a tray
SPOT.
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NEwSPAPER aCOI,OR :,

| Francis ]. Heney, the San Francisco
prosecutor who is putting grafters be-
hind the bars in California, has way
of speaking his sentiments without
mincing words. There is a small ele-
ment of the California press-a very
small element. the decent element is
glad to say-that is engaged in throw
| ing mud at Heney and his co-Iaborers
since he has started for the men high
er up" Instead of stopping with the
| conviction of the public officials who
accepted brides, Heney has declared his
intention of sending to the penitentiary
the rich corruptionists who gave the
brides, Had that is why the organs of
these corruptionists are now abusing
him.
In an address at Los Angeles a few
days ago, Mr.. Heney paid his respects
TO that class of journals in no uncertain
terms, and his language is no less forci-
BILE than this method of prosecution,
Among other things he said:
When a newspaper champions the
rights of the people. refusing to bow to
the yoke of capital, they call it yellow.
1 don't know what color would best suit
to brand the black-hearted scoundrels
who not only sell their names and their
personal honor, but the editorial COL
unlnS OF their newspapers 10 those TlC0
criminals who are robbing the people,"
There is a wide difference of opinion
as to what constitutes yellow news
paper. Originally the term was ap-
piled to the Hearst papers at the time
they were making a speciality of the
Yellow Kid" and sensational news. Now
IL term is vario'Isly applied. Some edi-
tors regard it as a term of oopobrium,
while others glory in it. In the minds
of some it means big headlines and SEN
sations. Others apply it to papers which
fake news; still others to those or
gans which publish manufactured or
tainted news. Consequently the term
has such wide application OF meanings
that 1t is not a distinguishable adjec-
tive.
But whether a newspaper is called
yellow or otherwise, it's character is
what counts. A newspaper might use
big headlines and still be perfectly fair
and trustworthy. 1t may publish sensa-
tions-the bulk of all news is sensation
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Lost the Bet.

II. G. Wells. the novelist, believes
that unrestricted immigration is bad
thing for America
II have watched the. tide of immi-
grafton flowing into New York" he said
at a dinner during his American visit,
as reported by the New York Times.
"and it seemed to me that this great,
turbid wave would have been the bet
ter for altering.
Some of your immigrants are un-
consciously unclean in their habits.
Looking at them, I have often been re-
minded of the Lithuanian Sherlock
Holmes.
"A Lithuanian Sherlock Holmes said
to a neighbor:
'..I'll bet you hat that can tell
what you had for breakfast this MORN
ing
I'm take that bet said the other
promptly. What did have?'
The Sherlock Holmes -chuekled as
he gazed at the yellow streaks in his
friends long, black beard.
You had eggs he said.
"'You owe me a hat was the reply.
I have not touched an egg for ten
days."
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h 4 - q
hibition.v she promised. with laugh.
| Meantime you might get some fresh
water"
Prescott was sorry to see them drive
Off. but the girl left behind the frag-
rant memory of her presence, and the
place seemed :homeiike. at last.
Trescott saw much of the Marsdens
in the days that followed. and long
before the end of his month he had
come to love the light-hearted girl
who had faced the world SO bravely
when necessity demanded.
Inc vacation drew to a close all too
soon and Prescott insisted upon hold
ing Eva to her promise to attend his
graduation exhibition, Afterward they
sat out under the trees while Mrs.
Marsden drowsed contentedly upon
the porch
home making proposition ~. he asked,
Eva looked up with a smile
think lack the courage to make
try,s she confessed cit has been
very. easy here. 1t is best to leave well
enough alone"
take on single contract?" he sug-
gested. You have spoiled me for a
bachelor apartment
might help you get started in
nat, she agreed. 81 usually take
vacation after the summer season is
over over I could help you buy your
things, and settle them.''
But 1 should want you to stay and
help use them he explained. ITO be
a perpetual horne-maker to one lone
oachelor. What do you say, dear 2"
Il think" she whispered, that
should like that plan better than the
Then seal the contract with a kiss,
pleaded Trescott,-( Copyrighted 1907
by c. H. Sutcliffe.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-13
MR. HAMS Neutrality-suspicious..

The refusal of w. B. Ham to accept
the attorneyship to the railroad board
doubtless brings considerable relief to
some quarters, just as 1t is a disappoint-
ment to others. Governor Hoch's prof
fer of the appointment to Mr.. Ham
brought forth criticism from a certain
element that is always very tender of
the rights of the railroads but with
which the rights of the public are a
secondary matter. Mr.. Ham, says
one of these critics, lis a man of I'M
impeaclfable character. He is honest,
sincere and intensely in earnest in his
public work, and is also reputed to be a
lawyer of more than ordinary ability.
But there is nothing in Mr.. Hams rec
ord as a legislator that would commend
him for the position which he has been
rendered. On the railroad question,
which is the all disturbing and most i'm
portant one before the people of Kansas
today. Mr.. Ham is an extremist,
The whole duty of the attorney for the
railroad board Is to enforce the railroad
laws of the state. His duties make him
the prosecutor of the railroads in en-
forcing these laws and in securing just
rates for the public. 1t is conceded that
Mr.. Ham is "a man of I'M
impeachabla character. honest,
sincere and intensely in earnest
in his public work." and "a law
yer of more than ordinary ability" but
because he was an s.extrernist" on the
railroad question hiss appointment is
censured. 81
Who can do this work better than an
extremist" = IL Mr.. Ham is that?
Would a man who does not believe. in
rate regulation, or who believes that
present rates are none too high, or who
thinks that equipment and roadbed are
the best the roads can afford-would
such a man make a better prosecutor
than an extremist"
If a man is sincere in standing up
for the public, and if he has ability,
what greater qualifications could be de-
sired? Perhaps fnsineerity and lack of
ability are what these critics of Mr..
Ham desire in that office.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-13
JOURNAL ENTRIES

A poet may own the beauty of the
landscape and the moonlit sky, but he
can not mortgage it for the price of a
meal ticket.
This offer to appoint Mr.. Ham at
torney to the railroad board: Ought
it to be interpreted as concession to
the hog raisers?
y
There is a terrible warning for
mothers in a St. Paul incident. Little
Henry johnson concealed some
matches and f1recra ckers in his hip
pocket. Later he. disobeyed his moth
er and was taken across the maternal
knee, while the maternal slipper was
applied as usual. There was a small
explosion, followed Immediately by
several larger ones, accompanied by
screams from both parties involved
When the fire department had COM
pleted its work.. the boys trousers
were ruined, to, sayrnothing of portions
of his anatomy.r The moral for moth
ers is that they should not spank their
sons without first carefully removing
all explosives fromatheir hip pockets
that is, the boys hip pockets. s.r as
X x y ,se..
Lightning struck a railroad brake
man in Indiana and melted the money
in his pocket. This brings up the
question, how did it happen that there
was any money in a brakeman's pock-
ct? asa o. --r
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REFLECTIONS OF = BACHELOR
[From the New York Press.1

LFrom the New York Press.1
1t takes woman to want to love a
man because nobody else will
A sure way to get married is to have
a girl make up her mind to catch you.
There is no insult to girl who wants
to be called pretty to equal the one of
saying she has a real sweet nature
You couldn't make a woman believe
some other woman wouldn't like to have
her children even If she had ten Of her
own. s
What woman likes about having
been on yachting trip is that she can
talk about it in public 50 strangers can
admire her for It.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-13
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
rFrom the Chicago News.l

[From the Chicago News.1
And the straight and narrow path IL
also slippery.
3 If it isn't in you to be good there isn't
much use trying.
There are lots of wise men until You
get next to them
Charity that begins at home is often
out when anybody calls.
There were no dry towns after Noah
had issued his proclamation.
A dull book would have a more satis-
factory endingsif 1t came sooner.
His satanic majesty is seldom satisfied
with his dues; he expects more.
Woman who do not part their hair in
the middle may have more sense than
men who do. 80
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KANSAS .COMNENT
TERRIBLE rEDDY BEARS.


The preachers haze begun war on
me Teddy Bears: they charge thatthe
toy beasts in the hands of little girls
are DESTROYING All Instincts of mother
nood, and in the future they will be
realized as one4 Of the most powerful
factors in the race suicide danger. Then
how do they account for the race sui
eide proclivities of women of today?
There Were no Teddy Bears to play
with them when they were little. and
every one of them had dolls of all
sizes and compilations. To go back
still farther, how do the preachers ac-
count for the large families our grand
motners bore? 1t was rare in their
childhood days when parent was
found so woefullys extravagant as to
purchase doll for her child, yet these
children, who never knew what it was
to dress a doll baby, Groom it to sleep
and mother 1t through imaginary aches
and Ills, unconsciously fostering the
mother instinct. grew up to be the
mother of eight to dozen children.
The writer knowst of. a woman who
was the good and kind mother of Is
children, who never saw a doll when
she was child, Preachers will have
to blame the childlessness of future
generations on #omething besides the
Teddy Bear. The, toy, or the absence
of toys, seems TO have nothing tos do
with 1t.-Atchis0n. GIobes - # j.
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Elmer StTicklett, the spit BALI pitch
er, had been listening a long while in a
New York club to the boasting of a
rival
We'll" he said, exhausted at last,
''you are pretty good. Mike; but out in
Mountain View there is a young fellow
who can beat you. You'll hear from him
next season. His speciality is the slow
ball. This young fellow has such a slow
ball that. when he pitches it and sees
that 1t is going to be hit. he can run
after it and fetch it back again."
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HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

Subscribers of the State Journal
away during the summer may have
the paper mailed regularly cucll day
% any address at The rate Of ten cents
week or thirty cents u month ss'Y
mail only1. Address changed rs often
ms desired. SVsaitc out OF f0Hn The
State journal will be Co yoa like {"
daily letter from home
Advance payment Is requested on
these short tIr:1e subscriptions to save
bookkeeping expose.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-13
PREsIDENTTAI, TTMBER r.

Roots the smartest man we have.
BARRING Ted),
woods the bravest OF the brave. fs.e
BARRING Ted); $50 p. q
Loeb's the best man on horse.
Iatt the chap of greatest force.
IN both instances, of course,
Barring Ted. s.f.
Bryan stands the fourest-souare.
(Barring Ted,
Shaw displaces most warm air.
CBarring Fed,
Garfield bears the strongest lance,
Fairbanks wears the longest pants,
Hughes, however. stands best chance
Barring Ted.
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=
al to somebody If It's news-yet it
may stand for the best things. If a pa
per prints graft news it is bound to be
sensational-and then the staid defend
ers Of the grafters call it yellow" But
a newspapers color does not matter
so much as its Character
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-13

Russian and Germany are each daring
the United States and Japan to sass
one another, but thus far these two ma
tions insist on having a good time to-
gether in spite of Europe's- attempts to
start something. -f+, esq
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Charles Blakesley thinks the letter
written by Secretary Sinner. of the state
railroad board, to the Tracl1men's union.
reads as II it had been prepared by
Colonel Joe Richards, of the Missouri
Pacific" Mr Blakes1ey owes Secretary
Sinner an. apology. That letter was writ
ten in good Englishs ,..-