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BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1907-12-24
LA NeCHE BUENA EN- LAS ESCUElAS

Los profesores de la escuela gra-
duada de Ia Playa de Mayaguez, se-
fioras Enriqueta Rodriguez de Ro-
driguez, Rosa Quifionez de Arroyo.
senorita Dolores Cueto Y Victor iano
Soler, nos invitan la celebration de
la fiesta de Navidad que con I'm
programa excelente Sc ceIebrarA en-
el local de dicha escuela.
Damos las gracias por Ia invite zion.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1907-12-24
San Juan PuertoRico de Dicemb de 1907
4 los Suscriptores J Asentes

Para Ii bnena marcha de esta Admins
TRACTION, no admitimos Atlas de suscripto-
res 6 este diario sino desde ell 10 de cada
mes LasBAJAS SO avisaran los dfas 80 6
81; sdviertiendose que las que Sc dieren con
posterioridad no Sc tomaran en- cuenta n
gurtiran efecto en- la contahilidad hasta ell
dfa 6ltimo del mes siguiente al en- que es
s0liciten.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1907-12-24

En- honor de Besada.
Por aclamacion ha declarado la
Diputacion provincial hijo adoptivo
de Asturias al ministro de Fomento,
sef1or Gonzalez Besada. en- testimo-
MO de reconocimiento de la region
por su decreto acerca de los ferro-
carriles estrategicos.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1907-12-24
Noticiias de Espafa
OVIEDO

En- honor de Besada.
Por aclamacion ha declarado la
IDiputacion provincial hIio adoptivo
de Asturias al ministro de Fomento
seflor Gonzalez Besada, en- testimo-
Mo de reconocimiento de la region
por su decreto acerca de los ferro.
carriles estrategicos.
Voto a TN magistrate.
En- Oviedo es objeto de concentrates q
Ell presidente de dicha Audiencia ha.
va prohibido al magistrate Sr. Pozas
dar los obreros una conferencia
de extension universitaria sobre la
institution del Jurado.
En- Ell Ayuntamiento, convocada
por Ell pres idente de la Canara de
Comercio, Sc ha celebrado una magma
reunion, 4 la que han asistido repre-
sentaciones de la industrial, comercio
y todaS las fuerzas vivas de la ciu.
dad, con objeto de tratar que sean
incluldos Gijon y Aviles en- el pro-
yecto de ferrocarriles estrategicos.
Pronunciation discursos los ex-al-
caldes sefiores Ruiz Gomez y Quesa-
da, resumiendo ell presidente.
Sc acordo nombrar una Tunta de
defensa y celebrar una manifestation
a la que asistan epresentaciones de
todos los pueblos perjudicados.
Sc gestionara tambieu Ell cierre de
todas las tiendas y fabricas.
Sc leyeron telegramas de los dipu
tados Rendueles y Pedregal, trasla-
dando la contestacion que les habia
dado Ell ministro de Fomento. La
respuesta del Sr. Besada es ambigua
y no ha satifecho nadie.
La opinion exige que sc declare
erlninantemente la inclusion antes
citada, y considera postergado a
Gijon.
Las autoridades han adoptado pre-
cauciones.
Mafana celebrara Ell alcalde una
conferencia telegradca con Ell dipu
tapo por e1 distrito,
LAS PALMAS
De paso para las Bermudas y Nueva
York y procedente de Gibraltar, ha
fondeado en- estas aguas Ell crucero
norte americana de segurda "Adms"
Els I'm buque de I.4oo toneladas,
monta II cafiones, lleva mas de Glen
tripulantes y 10 manda Ell comandan =
te Servis CLARK, ell cual, acompafiado
del consul de su pals, ha hecho la
vista las autoridades.
Ell Adams permanecera squf va
rios dias.
LA CORUNA
Ell cierre de tabernas.
Las autoridades han comunicado
con la mayor energia los taberneros
para que cierren sus establecim ientos
En- una Assam blea que los conmi
nados celebraron anoche hubo enor-
me revuelo, pero por fin Sc acordo
por mayorla de votos acatar la ley.
Tres retratos dos GALES.
La Diputs cion provincial ha acor
dado colocar en- I'm salon de sesiones
los retratos de los Sres Garcia Prize
to, Gasset y marques de Figueroa,
que serans pintados por Ell artista CO.
runes Sr. Llorens, pensionado en-
Roma.
Ell Ayuntamiento ha dado las dos
principales avenidas de La Coruffa
los nombres de Garcia Prieto y Fer
nandez Latorre.
Banquete y mitin.
Maf1ana celebraran TN banquete 200
repubicanos de todos los matices, in.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1907-12-24
HUE and CRY
/. SERIE ssDE PATENTh' S0BBE ASUNT0S
TARI0S

Con una dedicato-p -prefacio
al Quito, ilustrado Y huma-
nofilo.-Lcdo. Torresgrau.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1907-12-24
Tres retratos V dos GALES.



Maf1ana celebraran TN banquete 200
repubicanos de todos los matices, in.
cluso los solidarios, para solennizar
la function acordada y 81 olvido de las
discordias que los separaban. El
acto sc celebrara en- el salon de hes-
tas del Casino repubicano
Tambien Sc anuncia I'm mltin mag
no para elegir jefe del republicans
mo local.
La Camara de Concrete, Ell Ayun-
tamiento, la Liga Martina, los fabri-
cantes y los armadores, sc unen para
pedir al GobieIno que desestime las
peticiones de los vizca mos contra los
vapores del bou, plantease brusca-
mente una huelga grave dc los tri-
pulantes de Ia flota pesquera de este
|puefto.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1907-12-24
Voto a TN magiStrado.

Voto a TN magistrate.
En- Oviedo es objeto dc concentrates q
el presidente de dicha Audiencia ha.
va prohibido al magistrate Sr. Pozas
dar 4 los obreros una conferencia
de extension universitaria sobre la
institution del Jurado.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-06-10
NEWSPAPER REPORT
ING IN SAN FRANCISCO.

New York Tribune.
Newspaper men in San Francisco
are treading no fowery path in get
ting the news OF the traction strike
out there, according to the Frisco pa
pers. One reporter, In getting up a
special on the strike. also collected
a miscellaneous assortment of bruises
and decorations from stones and clubs
in the hands Of the strikers. A pho.
tographer was in the middle of an
other battle, and had man shot down
beside him, who, in falling, knocked
over his camera. Another photog-
rapher was mobbed. and some of his
best plates were broken. Still another
reporter was shot at by strikebreak-
er. At meeting of the strikers the
reporters were thrown out and told
II they came around again their heads
would be beaten In. They attended
the next meeting. just the same. hid
ing in the files of the theater where
the gathering was held, while the
strikers went looking around behind
the scenes with large sections OF gas
pipe. The papers the next day carried
full and accurate. If not compli-
mentary story OF the meeting.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-06-10
LABOR NOTES BY WIRE.

The New Haven, Conn.,, carpenters
union called out $50 members Tuesday
to enforce demand for an eight-hour
day at $3.25 per day.
The executive board of the United
Mine Workers of Indiana Tuesday is
sued strike order calling out about
5000 miners today, the operators hav-
ing refused their demands for reform
of grievances.
About 400 employees of the John
Week Clifford and E. j. Pfiffner lum-
ber and planning mills at Stevens Point,
Wis, struck the first of the week for
an increase of 25 cents in daily wages.
The owners offered 10 cents.
Pork butchers numbering 1876, EN-
ployed at Swift & Companys plant
in South st. Joseph, Mo-, went on {,
strike Tuesday. They claim the man.
agement has been discharging men,
bers because of prominence in the
union.
Less than 500 workers, 1t is said. re-
sponded to the call for general strike
In the Birmingham, Ala, district in
sympathy with the locked out union
employees of the Birmingham street car
company.
All the linemen in the employ Of
the Pacific States Telephone and Tele-
graph company at San Francisco have
quit work in sympathy with the strik-
ing girl operators. who are seeking a
recognition of their union.
Two thousand Cleveland machinists
employed in shops which refused to
grant the union demands for a nine
hour day have struck. Union officials
claim that twenty-six concerns have
granted the demand and 10 per cent
advance in wages.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-06-10
BREvETIES.

A Kansas man eloped few days
ago with his sons WIFE
Governor Deneen of Illinois has sign
ed bills prohibiting the sale or gift
of cigarettes or tobacco to minors.
Rumor in London has it that Sir
Henry Campbell-Bannerman will jilt
Erin, his first love, wed nurse, and
retire from the house of lords.
Russia will continue to oppose the
discussion of the proposition to limit
armaments at The Hague conference,
believing that no good can result.
Grace Dillon, an 1Syear-old Cham
paign, ILL.,, high school student, was
electrocuted by standing on a register
and touching an lncandescent lamp.
She was killed instantly.
The British government has drop
ped the Irish bill, which was rejected
by the Dublin convention, and an.
nounces in the house of commons that
II will Introduce a measure to restore
land to evicted tenants.
Governor Cummings of Iowa, Con
gresham Bede OF Minnesota, DIR. Guild
of San Diego and Congressman Champ
Clark of Missouri are on the program
for lectures at the Royal Gorge Chau-
tauqua, to be held in Canon City
July 10 to 2S.
Ten pastors of Christian churches In
Kansas City and one evangelist began
the work of building frame church
the first of the week. The structure
Is to be built entirely Jy ministerial
labor, and there will be enough of it
up by Sunday for the first services
maybe. The Roanake Boulevard Chris
tian church, as 1t is to be called is
to serve the purpose of congregation
in the district until funds enough are
raised to build more pretentious
structure.
Next to the house fly, the habit of
kissing the baby is declared 10 be
the most dangerous means of spread
ing consumption. War on the disease
and the newest methods TO prevent
and 1t occupied the attention of 5000
physicians, gathered from all points of
the compass at Atlantic City. The
Americal Medical association, which
has an enrolment OF $4,000 physicians
and whose gain during the year was
reported to be 5000, being In conven.
ton. Franklin Dye, secretary OF the
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-06-10
NEW HOTEL ron CITY;
TO LEAD IN ELEGANCE.

Ch1oAgs Record Herald.
O4ioase II to have new hotel that
win b one Of the largest and, most
eleoAat In the world.
Counting its available space below
ground, II will be the tailest building
IN the city.
1t win be completed within eIgh.
tea months and will cost Sc, ,OOO, 900.
II will be located at the northwest
corner Of La Sale and Madison streets
and will be called The IaSaIle.
Features Of the great structure will
be:
It win have total height OF twenty.
ave stories.
Twenty-Five stories will be above
ground and three below.
There will be fourteen acres OF
floor space.
It will be nreproof, the material to
b. stone. steel, brick, terra Gotta and
cement.
There will be 1.150 rooms.
There will be two banquet halls
and roof garden.
q Nine hundred servants will be
needed to keep the LaSaile running.
George H. Galley, recently OF the
81. Regis hotel In New York and pre.
viously with the Waldorf-Astoria. is to
be In charge OF the new inn. The
stock company has been formed, the
papers have been signed and the
money is at hand. All that remains
to be done is to incorporate under the
laws of Illinois.
The LaSalle Will easily carry of the
palm as the greatest hotel building
under one roof In the world. There
are other hotels larger, but they have
been created through the merging OF
disjointed buildings. the use of under
ground tunnels or court Enclosures.
Chicago's now hostelry will be one
giant building. intact In itself and
perfectly constructed. The building
will cover $4,000 square feet and will
have frontage of more than IT'S
feet on LaSalle street and slightly in
excess OF 1862 feet on Madison. Some
idea Of its great height can be obtained
when one hears that 1t viii tower nine
stories above the Stock Exchange
building. which will adjoin across the
alley north.
The present planned outlay for the
building Is $6,0O0.00O. but the cost
may be even greater. This will make
slight difference as 1t is declared plen.
ty OF capital can be obtained. Some.
thing more than $2,5O0.O00 will be re-
Ouirad for the buildipu axcluoiyaiv
The furnishing will cost at least $500.
600 more and control of the ground
has meant an item OF $2,5O0,0OO.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-06-10

New Jersey commission on bovine tub
erculosis. opened his address with the
significant declaration: "Put up a sign
in every home. Don't kiss the baby"
All the state can do, he said, to pro-
tect the infant from tubercular infec-
tion through a safeguarded milk sup-
ply, is Offset largely by the avalanche
of auties, cousins. who 'just must kiss
the little darling"
One of the most remarkable scenes
in the history of the coroner's office
was enacted at Philadelphia when five
determined women from the north
eastern section of the city, bearing a
pes,,ion signed by 500 mothers, call
ed on Coroner Jermon and asked that
President George +. Baer Of the Read
ing railway-the same who pleaded
divine right in the coal strike oil
l902---be held for criminal negligence
for the killing of William Johnson and
his S-yearold son, who were run down
by a train on Saturday night at the
Venango street grade crossing of the
Port Richmond branch of the road
Coroner Jermon promised them he
would do all he could in the matter
as an official and added that nothing
would please him better than to see
the abolition OF the grade crossings.
He said that a member of the district
attorneys stan was working in con-
junction with his office in the case.
and that the guilty ones would not
20 without punishment.
Mr.. John Boyd Thacher of Albany,
y. Y, who has written great deal
of early American history, seems to
have been the only man among the
one hundred and fifty million people
in this great hemisphere who remem-
bered that the 5th day of May, 1907,
was the four hundredth anniversary
of the christening of America. Mr..
Thacher was in Paris at the time and
called the attention OF the newspapers
OF that city TO the fact. The new
world" he said in an interesting inter
view published over them, was first
named America in little book written
| by Martin Waldeseemuller and printed
on the 7tb of the Kalends of May in
the year 1907. The 7th OF the Kalends
OF May, when corrested by the Gregor-
ian calendar, becomes May 5. There
was an element of universally about
| the incident of naming, for it was a
| German who proposed the name, 1t
was as an Italian to whom the honor
was paid. Spain was the country in
| whose service he sailed, the book was
printed in France, and the language
employed was Latin, the universal
medium of mental exchanges
The ''Hoch der Kaiser" incident was
merely a harmless Joke which never
threatened serious consequences, says
Rear AGmlral Coughlan in New York.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-06-10
TRAINING BABIES

NOT TO CRY
when baby is lying down, never
take 1t up when 1t begins to cry"
said young st. Louis mother. Babies
are not able to put their reasoning
Into words, but they reason from cause
OF effect just as accurately as their
elders. A baby wakes up from sleep,
Ia little uneasy. perhaps from lying
too long In one position, feels cross
Or lonely and expresses its dissatis.
faction by kicking and crying. Go
to u, change it's position, speak sooth-
ingly; Its loneliness Is relieved: SO Is
Its discomfort, and in most cases IL
drops OF again to sleep without giving
any further trouble.
III you take 1t up. go to promenad-
Ing the room with 1t, singing to It
and making ostentatious efforts to en-
tertain It; that youngster very quickly
learns how to secure attention. and
every time It wakes 1t will set up a
yell that can be heard for block. 1t
soon forms a habit. too, of monopoliz-
Ing the attention of everybody about
the place, for, after two or three ex-
periences, 1t learns that 1t has only to
yell In order to be attended, and i'm
mediately proceeds to make life bur
den to Its mother and every one else
having anything to do with it. Some
one says baby is the king of the
house. A spoiled baby is; but when
baby Il spoiled the fault in nine cases
out OF ten may be laid at the door
Of Its mother"
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-06-10

pany. formerly dummy, but now a
recognized branch OF the Standard Oil
company, $1,623.000 for violating the
antitrust laws Of the state. Texas
jury has entered the class OF the rec
ord makers in the infliction OF punish
ments. The fine was 80 big because
distinct offenses for each OF 2,521 days
were charged. and the verdict was
guilty of each days offending.
There can be no doubt that such
treatment Of the Waters-Pierce com
pany will meet with the almost unani-
nous approval OF the population Of
Texas. The methods used by the com
pany to ruin independent oil dealers
were such as the Standard OIL com
pany has used in other cases-in
others words, peculiarly mean and
hurtful--and there were political Of
lenses as well to charge against the
company In the general court OF pub
lie opinion.
The very fact that the sentiment OF
Texas is so well known makes all the
more striking the contrast between
the Texas legislature and the Texas
people. The Waters-Pierce company is
the one for which Senator Bailey per-
formed valuable services by stealth,
and yet the legislature gave Bailey a
vindication and sent him back for six
years to the senate. Certain railroad
legislation which the governor thinks
much needed has been rejected by
the Legislature both at regular and
at special session.
1t is evident that politics and poll
cles do not fit together with any more
exactness In Texas than elsewhere
despite all the fame the state gained
in earlier years as the great original
home Of trust busting. The Texas
people apparently have as much need
OF turning their attention to the regu-
lation of their legislature as to the
regulation OF anything eise.-Record-
Herald.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-06-10
LINCOLN AND SUMNER.
Washington Post.

washington Post
Abraham Lincoln was about the
only man with whom Senator Charles
Sumner could not quarrel" said T. r.
Tinker OF North Adams. Mass. Mr..
Tinker was delegate to the first
Lincoln convention, In 1860, and was
collector of customs for many years
In the old Bay state. He knew Lin.
coin, Grant and the leaders of the
war time well. In that day he was
known as the boss of the Hoosac
tunnel" which, in his state, meant that
he was the Mark Hanna.
Sumner was quite irascible and
even domineering," said Mr.. Tinker.
He was great scholar and really a
statesman. to be sure, but he had a
temper, which he showed on occasions.
He liked to have his own way about
things. He wanted to have his own
way with Lincoln In regard to the
conduct of the war. and often grew
wrathy at his failure to have that
way.
But Lincoln was mildmannered al
ways. No man could ever get him
into wrangle with anybody. When
Sumner tried to get him into one Mr..
Lincoln merely laughed good-natured-
ly. ! think that was one of the se-
crets of the war presidents great in
fiuence, and therefore controlled other
men. Though he did not yield to
Sumner, the latter had more to do
with the emancipation proclamation
than any other man save the presi-
dent"
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-06-10

ones and mates makes the dog, horse,
elephant, rat, bear, deer, monkey. don
key, mule, cattle, camel and giraffe
shed tears.
Sobbing has been proved in the par
rot, though this may be mimicry The
stag at bay and the Gagged rat have
been seen to weep, while monkeys
have wept when pitied or from ter
ror.
The elephant has wept at the loss
of Its liberty, and In some cases also
from vexation. The dread of punish
ment has caused captive chimpanzees
and other apes to weep.
Joy, paid. fatigue, THIRST, III usage,
sympathy. old age. approaching death
and pettishness have all drawn tears
from animals or at least driven them
to fearful state.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-06-10
GOT MORE THAN THEY WANTED
London Chronicle.

London Chronicle.
The reverend relative of Lord Will
loughby de Broke who read an an.
nouncement of his own death the other
day thereby had an experience which
is become more common than it used
to be.
Not so long ago Mr.. Baring-Gould
had the peculiar felicity of reading
obituary notices of himself, while the
killing in print of Sir Claude Mac,
donald and DR.. Morrison of the Times
dates back only to the Boxer rising
in China. There is also the case OF
Robert Louis Stevenson.
Even the king, when he was prince
of Wales and dangerously i'll, learned
many interesting opinions of his life
and character from newspaper obitu-
aries.
Another sort of undertaker's Joy be-
fell Harriet Martineau, for she wrote
her own obituary.
But the greatest hoax in this line
was the letter the brilliant Lord
Brougham caused 10 be sprung upon
London in 1889. He had been thrown
out and killed while driving from
Brougham hall in an old hired carriage
to visit ruin. so like him." COM
mented Henry Reeve, "to choose to go
in wheelbarrow instead of coach
and four"
And the admirer recalled dinner
party few days before when Brough-
am had been one OF thirteen at table.
Journalists rushed to write obituaries
which did not all prove pleasing to the
genius who was slyly reading them
"A very pretty piece OF devils amuse
ment," was the verdict when the joke
became known; and month later at
a meeting OF the council, the duke
OF Cambridge was still excited enough
to run around the room after Brough.
am vociferating loudly: by God,
Brougham. you did 1t; by God, you
wrote the letter yourself"
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-06-10
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

Chic: 20 News.
There's one good thing about being
poor: you don't have much business
with lawyers.
As long AS the average woman's in
stin-t is In good working order, she
doesn't have any use for her brain
power.
Many n man who is on the road to
fortune doesn't know where to get off.
TAo streak Of yellow in the average
man $ larger than his streak of
genius
No matter how hungry a man may
be single taste of defeat satisfies
him
Some men try to convince you that
they are good by boasting OF how
bad they used to be.
No, Cordelia, it isn't necessary for
a man to know how to sew to enable
him to mend his ways.
The wise man looks before he leaps
then instead of jumping into the fire
he remains in the frying PAN
AS an heir, female may eventu-
ally comes to mans estate.
First the courtship, then the mar
riase, then the tug of war.
Unless woman loves wisely her
husband isn't loved any too well.
Two hearts that beat as one are
usually on the lookout for number one.
If love makes the world go round,
earthquakes must be the result of
matrimony.
Fools sit down and wait for fortune
TO knock at their doors, but wise men
patrouize the advertising columns.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-06-10
WISDOM OF MErHusELAH.

Smart Set.
My son, wouldst thou fiatter women !
counsel thee. avoid generalities. say
not unto her. Thou art fair, my love
thou rejoicest my heart with thy come
liness.
2. But let thy words be definite
go thou into details, and 1t will cause
her much JOY.
3. Say unto her. Lo. thy nostrils
are proud. they show thy caste; and
thine ear Is like unto a seashell, II
is far too little. How cunning are the
tips Of thy fingers. and the line OF
the eyebrows, naught can excel.
4. For she knoweth her points; /;
good and bad knoweth she them all.
from the greatest unto the smallest.
Thou canst not teach her.
6. Her mirror instructeth her, 10,
she knoweth her frame. Ask her and
she shall tell thee. that thou mayest
contradict