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La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1907-02-12

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consagra d Ia conmemoracion de Ia
efemerides gloriosa del II de Fe-
brero de 1873 reproducimos el 81
guiente trabajo que autoriza la fir
ma de nuestro distinguido compa
paiiero ell letras don Manuel Fer
nand,z Juncos.
pFecha gl0riora es tsta ell la
historic dc Ia libertad politica y dc
la dignidad humana Ell Espa1a.
Fracasado el ensayo de una
monarquia democratica personifca-
da ell TN principe de la casa de Sa-
boya, el mas apto acaso de los mo
narcas de su tempo para intentar
una honrada conjunction de las ira
diciones de la realeza con la demo-
cracia y el progreso de las moder-
mas sociedades, el Senado y ell Con-
greso de Espaiia Sc reunieron ell
Convention Nacional el dia II de
Febrero de 1873, y acordaron por
mayorfa de votos dar a su pueblo
Ia forma de gobierno mas compati-
bic con la dignidad y espiritu demo
cratico de les tiempos modernos.
Proclamation la RepIblica Espaflola,
y Ell aquel mismo dia qued6 consti-
tuido su primer gobierno.
Fue aquel un acto premature:
toda la maquina de lanacion desde
los institutes arlnados y los juridi-
cosy clericales, hasta los de ense-
fiauza, administration y gobierno
pertenecian al regimen caduco y
medieval de la monarquia, y no
erl facil harmonizar aquel engrana-
je gastado y mohoso con el motor
| fAmante y vigoroso de la libertad,
Pero por aventurado que fuese
aquel rasgo de admirable valor ci-
} vico, valia mas que el de repetir Ia
, vergonzosa peregrinaci6n de los pa
laciegos espaholes mendigando iii
} rey por las cortes extranjeras, pere
grinacion que halKa satirizado VI
: mn famoso diplomatico Y poeta nor
5 teamericano, con vcrsos dignos d.
Juvenal, (1)
Los pollticos espaholes de ma
alta inteligencia y fama universal
Pi, CASTELAR,, Figueras, Echegaray
Salmeron, fguraron en- el primer
: gobierno de la Republica, y ma
tarde Benot, Pedregal, Estevane
y otros. Nunca Ell la Hisioria d
Espaiia, fecunda ell hombreS de al
! ia inteligcncia Y de virtudes precla
: ras, Sc habian reunidos tantos nj ia
$ competentes para dar vida y prest
gio a un gobierno'ni a una situaei6
politica, como los que aport6 la RI
publica ell SUI noble afan de elevar
nuestra patiia al nivel de los pu,
bios mas libres, mas cultos y IN;
dichosos; pero desde los primert
y instantes de su vida Sc VIC aqu
gobierno ilnplacablemente combat
do por el fanatismo, la ignoranci
la codicia, la impaciencia y la ira
ci6n.
Por todas parties Sc desencad
" naron guerras fraticidas, en- nomb
de la religion, Ell nombrc de la r
ligion, en- nombre de la monarqui
en- nombre del cantonismo anarqt
co; sin contar con las que va exi
tan desde antes, la carlista,
nombre del mejor derecho a la c
10 roma, y la de algunas posesiones
- janas, ell nombre de Ia iudepende
=, cia, causadas de sufrir el yugo {
= antigno regimen.
Asi y todo, amagada de mu
el te por todas parties Y cada minu
la Republica Espahola Sc mos
= digna, y consecuente con sus pr
an cipios de libertad y de justicia.
Di6 a la naci6n entera, inc
S. sas las posesiones ultramarinas {
(Il John Hay, castilias %
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1907-02-12
Il DE. .F[BR[RO, 1873
Fecha gIoriosa. Notable ar.
tfcul0 de don Manuel
Fernandez luncos.
REPUBLICS ILUSTRES /.
p, CASTELAR,, Sa1mer6n, Fl.
gueras, Fstevanez, Benot,
Pedregal y otros.
REPUBLlCOS ILUSTRES !:

Del n1nero especial que nues.
tro colega La Rcb@blica Esba1ola
consagra a la coninemoracion de Ia
efemerides gloriosa del II de Fe-
brero de 1873 reproducimos el 81
guiente trabajo que autoriza la fir
ma de nuestro distinguido compa
paiiero ell letras don Manuel Fer
nand,z Juncos.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-26

With the vivid interest in life which his recent action had shown him to feel, Spencer had collected water and some food from a well-packed canteen, and was now building a little fire whereby to cook it. Colonel Hayward gazed at the young man as he moved about. with the revulsion of feeling to which the boys late conduct had given rise. Though he had made 1t a matter of conscience to do so, he had never felt much pleasure in favoring Spencer. He had seemed so painfully unlike the colonel's memory of his mother. She, tall and slender, her bright hair turning from a noble brow. Her intellect graeiously tempering her womanliness. Even her rejection of him, firm and gentle, now but called up admir- ation in his constant heart. He turned from the fair picture before his indweling eye and looked upon her son. He was of the average height: his hair dark and coarse and the expression of his face so alien to that other'sl He must have inherited largely from his father, of whom Hayward knew next to noth- ing Her son-there lay the sting to him.
 Loving her still faithfully, could he then bruit her sons dshonor to the world, thrust him so roughly from the care that she had sought for him? Must he drum him from the regiment he had so dis graced, turn him adrift to the fate he so well merited?
 Only he of all the world knew that bad secret; might he not keep it forever, and give the boy another chance? He loathed the thought of himself as the repository of such secret. Could he, as the colonel of the regiment, harbor such a man within it's ranks? What of his responsibility to his other men, unwilling companions of such q one? Must his honor then go down before his love?
 Something in his throat choked him. and he coughed. Spencer looked over from the fire where he was kneeling.
 "So you are better?' he called out, an astounding note of familiarity in his voice. "I found this; 1t is meat of some kind; 7 will give you some when 1t is cooked" He stopped and was about to stir the fire when he suddenly stiffened,
 Do you hear any sound?' he asked quickly. I'm sure hear something; 1t sounds like a horses hoof" He stood up. "There it Is again; they seem to be stop ping and riding at intervals; do you hear it. sr?" he said eagerly, coming a step nearer the colonel.
 "Yas,' the other replied weakly. "If it is the enemy we can only die like men, and you will have another chance. If not-heaven send a friend,' he added wearily.
 The sound began again, coming nearer. It stopped, went on, came a little nearer, and stopped again. The aimlessness of the sound puzzled them, and they both strained in it's direction,
 "I will go to the top of that hill and see if l can see anything" Spencer said. He stood up on his toes and peered
 moment longer and glad cry aroused the colonel.
 Tt is horse," the young man said happily, "saddled and bfddled and rider less. Hurrah, Now to try and catch him."
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carryin' ye'er ilivinth Cor it is twelfth?)-
 Twelfth" said MT. Hennessy.
 "Carryin' ye'er twelfth on platter. Ye can see it here in black an white. King Alfonso enthered carryin' tn heir to tn throne on silver plate. He walked aroun' tn room presintin' tn infant to wan afther another, sayin', look, tn Price iv tn Astooryas.' An as each person was presinted they cried: Long live tn Prince iv tn As tooryas.' An, Hinnissy, sthrange as it may seem, he did live.
 "Outside, tn sthreets were thronged with excited taxpayers. Ivrybody want ed 1t to be a boy, it seemed. They've had enough ladies, such as they are, in tn Spanish rile family. It was fixed so that gun wud be fired to let tn people know whin to cheer or to hiss. Ninety-three explosions fir a girl an ninety-four fir a boy. Iv sudden, gun boomed out, not in. They counted. Boom! Ninety-wan. Boom! Ninety two. Boom! Ninety-three. Thin a pause. It's girl No, wait Whats tn use? Let's go home. HuTrah fir Susy.' Tn sportin' ilimint that'd been bettin' on tn Ally were preparin' to cash whin-Booml Ninety-four. Ninety four booms. A boy. Hoorayi Tn popylace wint wild with joy or home, as it happened. An tn next mornin' tn news was flashed into twinty mil lyon American families an boordin' houses that wan iv tn gr-reatest evints iV tn wurruld had happened, an that tn future King of Spain was a boy.
 Since thin, tn excitemint has died down to some extint, but we're still gettin' news firm tn nursery Tn Queen is rayported to have walked down stairs. Tn King is full iv anec- dotes iv his heir, who resimbles his grandfather tn King iv England in his caustic wit. Tn rile parent goin' into tn rifle nursery tn other day an ob- sarvin' tn rile young with his foot in his mouth, exclaimed 'Wot is tn little
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A long time seemed to pass before he returned, and the colonel, in his new found distrust, began to believe that Spen- cer had deserted him; but he came up after a moment leading a horse, which lne fastened to a bush. After all, he was a mere boy
 The boy came slowly up and stood over the colonel. He thrust his hands into his belt and squared his jaws.
 Colonel Hayward" he said. If we get away from here, end you get back alive, what are you going to tell people-about me?'
 His tone and manner left nothing unex- pladned to the other
 Spencer feared ohe revelation of his cow ardice, and offered him, in his helpless ness, a rescue as the price of his si- lence.
 To his dlstempered fancy the parted red
 lips seemed to betraY the fanged snarl of an animal, and the beastly instinct of self-preservation 10 fill the whole figure before him.
 "'Well?" said the boy insolently. | In a fury he whipped the revolver from his belt.
 Help me out of this, you houndi" he cried, we'll settle that score afterward." |" The pistol was not loaded; a though | might have reminded the boy, but the I colonePs personality lowered above him, and no favorable circumstances could pre- vent him from knowing his master Into | the others blazing face he looked and
 covered as he had never done before. He | put up his hands whimpering: Don't Colonel Hayward, don't for l Gods sake! l intend to see you safe to quarters You do me injustice" | He led the horse up and helped the wounded man to mount. The colonel got
 painfully on, still holding the pistol in his hand.
 The horse seemed a fairly frash one and | travelled rapidly under the double load | rhe ground skinned under them. Colonel | Hayward closed his eyes. He thought 1 surely they must be near to camp, when a horrled cry sprang from Spencer's throat l and the horse plunged madly forward | The colonel twisted his head around weak
 ly and saw the explanation. small | body of mounted men were hotly pursuing
 them Spo1cer's face was like wax. He | looked at the colonel and then at the l Tistol in his weak grasp.
 For Gods sakel tighten the load, sir,' | he shouted as the painting horse began
 to flag, that pistol weighs" 1 The colonel loosened his hold and the
 thing went clattering to the ground. It did l not help matters. The horse was too | heavily burdehed. 1t was breathing in
 gasps and could not last much longer The
 others were gaining upon them rapidly. The colonel saw the whole situation in
 flash; he was an aging man who was
 supposed to have had his day; he was wounded too, perhaps fatally; on the
 other hand, here was Edith's boy-proven l coward, it was true-but then life was
 no less dear to him on that account, and 1 he was her son. The one life for the 1 other-which?
 But his mind halted there, already an- | swered.
 l He felt bullet scorch his leg and loos-
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THE REGENT EVENT IN sPAIN
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kid befure his eyes are open. An they've got to be dhressed. It don't do to hurry into a sweater an a pair iv sneakers, or slip into a wrapper. They've got to appear in full rig'min- tals. If a part iv their best suit is a soord, they've got to wear a soord; if it's rubber boots, they've got to wear rubber boots. So there was nawthin' fir these naughty Castiles to do but sleep with their clothes on, an nanny a brave Gin'ral who has led tn victory ous throops iy Spain through countless retreats bears horrible scars that shows his devotion to his rile master firm sleepin' with his spurs on.
 Well, they waited an waited, till flnlly tn wurrud come to haste to tn palace Tn American Ambassadure thoughtfully borrid a pole firm an in jine house and slid down into his gai- ters Elsewhere there was much con fusion. Gin'ral Santiago del Popylo had been throubled be bad dhreams, an was so entangled in his epylits that he had to be exthricated be a wreckin' gang. Tn Jook iv Oporto was obsarved be tn popylaee pulin' on his boots in his gilded chariot. Tn Countess iv Aleantara Sandago was applyin' a powdher puff an a cup iv tea. Gin'ral tn look iv Allycazam was shayin' with a safety razor.
 Up at tn palace all wassexcitement. Ninetyeight doctors bugges were drawn Up in front iv tn dure. Two thousand nurses iv tn noblest Andy lusian stock dashed about carryin' boxes iy Casfile soaD which ie on V used on rile infants an dimon-studded buckets iv parygoric Tn King. dhressed fir tn occasion iv bein' q father in a comBynation iy tn uny- forms iv tn four hundhred rigmints he is Colonel iv, paced narvously up an down tn room. now an thin tal1in a pull ont iv a goold an ivory flask.
 9Th magnificently Attired assim- blaze stood silent fixin' its necktie, oombin' it's hair or brushin' tn feathers
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pa-apers, an about St. Pathrieks day me old heart was gladdened be tn news that Alfonso was to become a father like you an Hogan.
 In a little while tn palaieem iv our liberties had got me as well acquainted with tn rifle family as though we come firm tn same town in Ioway. l have at taste forty pictures iY th' good woman. Her name is Victorya. She didn't want to marry him at first, but tn folks made her, an he's turned out very well, an she's beginnin to like him. She's a fne-looltin', buxom woman, with tn characteristic British features that ye will on'y see at Ger man picnic. As fir Alfonso, he has a thurly rifle face, not p'r'raps so fine face as tn Czar or tn King iv Servya, but still face that five saw it wanst ye'd instantly say, What face He has tn reg'lar Hapsburg chin, pointed at th' point; the Hapsburg swingin undher jaw an fixed upper jaw, en- closin' thirty-two teeth, stationary nose an ears, movable eyes, an forehead separatin eyebrows an hair If he come into this store at this minyit I'd know him as well as though he was a reg'lar customer.
 Well sir. I got so inthrested in tn young couple that I was thinkin' iv goin' over to Spain an givin thim ad- vice. An if I was disturbed what dye think was happenin' to his rile sub ticks? Afther all's said an done, he's nawthin' to me. He's a nice young fellow. but that's all. l don't have to pay him his wages. But think iv tn long hours iy waitin' fir tn Spanish people. Tn popylace didn't suffer as tn nobility. Tn popylace cud lave wurrud to be called if anything hap pened, an go to sleep. But with tn nobility twas diff'rent.
 "Whin a rile child is born, all tn nobility, tn Gin'rals iv tn army, tn Adm'rals iv tn navy, an tn Ambassa- dures iv foreign powers have to chase tip to tn palace an be presinted to tn
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doodle, doodledeums doin'; to which tn spirited infant replied: 'Gah. On Thursday tn capital was thrown into consternation be tn announcemint that a rash had appeared on tn back iY tn Princes neck. Tn rile surgeon. Don y Dock Grogan, hurrid to tn pal ace, an decided, afther consultin' with his colleagues, that if tn hope iv Spain was to be saved radical measures must be adopted. With great skill he ad- ministered talcum powdher, an tn Prince is on fair way to recivery.
 Nanny presints have been ray ceived, among thim bein' a pacifier firm tn King iv Biljum's own rubber farm on tn Congo, an an enameled bomb firm tn Czar, with tn inscrip- tion Like father used to take. Tn Prince was christened tn other day Be tn courtesy iv tn Sultan specyal wather was brough firm tn River Jor- dan, which is owned be tn Turks. I don't know whether tn Prince howled an kicked his godfather in tn eye They usually do. I've been black an blue a hundhred times firm standin' up with tn childher in this neighbor- hood. Annyhow, tn Prince was thurly christened. Tn King his father in vested him with tn Ordher iv tn Goolden Pleas, an he was named afther tn crowned heads iv tn wur- ruld, who are his relations. Hence forth, he will go through life with tn followin' epithet: Alfonso Edward Will lum Nicholas Leopold Garaboolago Wu Ching Fang Rosenfelt Mockahi Rain in-th Face. Whin his mother calls him into tn house f'r supper she'll have to begin befure breakfast.
 "All these here deetails I r-read in me fav'rite journal, which is devoted to tn cause iv labor. If ye want to know what's goin' on in tn highest circles at home an abroad ye've got to buy journal that Is especially printed f'r wurrukin men an wurrukin' women. Rilety niver will be abolished as long as there's a pa-aDer that makes a point
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NoLONEL HAYWARD of tho
 Twenty-sixth United States cav N airy looked weakly around him. He had raised himself a little on his sound arm, feeling at last able to look for the help which. seemed so long in coming. His left was doubled under him in a warm. red pool He thought the bleeding in his shoulder had stopped a little; lack of supply, he opined, with grim humor He would like to know the time. but his watch-bracelet was a part of the general wreck of his left arm.
 Apart from hope or help, two things were llppermost in his mind-thought and fnage first of course, as it had always been, but afterward his regiment crowded out all else. During the pandemonium of that first horrid surprise, carnage had reiyned, he knew. Men had dropped around him like puppets in mimic bat
 tie. only these might not be used againl But afterward, surely they had been gain ing ground, when that hot message on his arm had given him his temporary dis charge.
 How much that bunch of bluecoats was to him! The honor of each man, dear almost as his own. He yearned for news of the fight. Would to God that it was victory /, if not 1t would only mean hard luck, for none knew better than it's colo mel the bravery of the Twenty-sixth cav nh'y.
 A faint sound smote his ear. Surely that was a step! He tried to turn, but the effort cost him a pang and he sank back The colonel set his teeth. Early in his life he had learned to bear worse wounds than physical; to undervalue such hurt as this when Edith had told him that she loved Spencer better, and he hud watched her become Another mans Wife.
 That had been an awful time, after his wears of hopeful wooing but 1t was all over TOW, buried twenty-five years deep nj the past, and her son. her very own boy. was now a'leutenant in the colonels regiment. At first he thought 1t re- markable coincidence, but afterward felt sure she had chosen his regiment and mutely placed the boy under his guard tanship
 He felt grateful to her for this sign of eonfidence: 1t helped him to forget the long years he had lived alone for her sake. Well, he had done all he could to help the boy.
 S The warm, dry wind had died down now Everything was as still as the grave. He felt that he was growing weaker. Surely some one would come to his aid soon. Hush! Certainly that was step a sturdy, quick one, running hurriedly over the ground. lie tried to raise himself
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off it's coat, as tn case might be. Tn American Ambassadure, tn Honr'ble James H. Bliek, formerly Assistant Commissioner iv Public Wurruks at What Cheer, Kansas, was conspicuous in tn brilliant an even garrish throng be tn simplicity iY his attire, he bein' clad in tn ordinary garb iv an Ameri- can citizen whin he goes to New York, black pants, vest an coat, an white shirt. He showed his eontimpt fr tn foolish pomp iv these rlle doings be wringin' his hands an askin' tn man mkt to him, Ought I to get down on me hands an knees or on'y on me knees whin his rile highness is brought in?'
 Suddenly tn massive oaken dures were flung open be a sthrong hand, an tn exquisite Countess Maria Su- zette Annabella Corrssa Ann y To- boggo, flushed with her glad tidings, fairly flung herself into tn room an eried My lards an ladies, it is al frgot 10 ask There was moment iv suspinse, an thin a sthrange sound reverybrated through tn long an cost ly halls. Harltl' cried tn British Am bassadure. Whats that?' It's tn palace cat exclaimed tn look iv To- basco. It's ayether a cat or a King, said tn bluff an hearty Gin'ral Escra- minto del Bambilio. Alfonso dashed firm th' room exclaimin', Here's where I go to tn batl'
 Tn minnyit he reappeared carryin' above his head plate. An what dye think was on tn plate? Yell niver guess. I'll give ye eight guesses, an yell not guess. It was tn child. Yes, sir, I tell ye I have 1t straight. No, l didn't read it wrong. Yell know what to do next time. In tn front parlor we'll be gathered-me in stovepipe hat, with tn medal I got fir tn hun dhred yards dash in sivinty-three; Corp-ral Hannigan iv tn Hibrnyan Rifles in his full unyform, tn polisman on tn beat, tn letter carrier, an tn dhriver iv injine five An in ye come
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you done any sood by sull1ing and hiding in safety, when your more fortunate com panions faced their duties and found them in death? My God man, l would take ten bloody pasts rathers than face your future, that l grant you would be be- yond tine courage of a, soldier"
 He flung out his one arm, needlessly re- polling the boy, who had started back at the heated words of his chief. In Spencer chagrin struggled with his fear. Why had he answered the call of the colonel? Why had he ever come from behind the hill? What a fool he had been! Had he had an inklng of who 1t was he never would have done so. But after all, whole and strong as he was, he still had the colonel in his power. He did not have to and would not stand this unbear- able tirade. But before he would retort to the measures which these thoughts suggested to him he would see what less violent ones would effect
 Colonel Hayward, don't talk to me that way, sir. l am not a very old man, and this is my first experience of fight. l expect to grow more accustomed to It before long, and take my chance with the rest I-"
 "Oh, don't talk to me like that, for Gods sake! Don't say any more. Your chance-why, it's lost, man, gone forever. man only had one chance like that in his lifetime and yours-what will your father say when he heard this? Your your fnother, when she learns the ghastly truth?"
 He sank slowly on the sand with a double groan; one for the physical and one for that other pain which smote him deeper still. To think that this was Edith's soni Bone of her bone and flesh of her fesh she, the one fiawless mem ory he possessed How low this blow would bow her proud head. Her son-her son-a cowardi
 The young man came up to him and stopped.
 Colonel Hayward" he said, ''I wish you would not talk to me in that way. It is hard for a man to have to serve an- other who abuses him so heartily. Your wounds need attention. and there Is no one for miles around but me. You cannot aid yourself. in fact. are perfectly help less. I hope you will be a little more oonsderate, sir"
 Colonel Hayward looked at him. Slowly at first, then with a rush, he preceved his meaning, but he said nothing. His contempt for Spencer had become so great that even as a means for saving his own life he despised him. He closed his eyes on the interminable expanse of swelling hills and depressions. Life seemed less and less worth living A deadly faintness came over him, and then uneonsciousness.
 When he came to himself again he was propped up against a bush, all the ease the place afforded, and his arm, though limp and useless, was bandaged in some shape.