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BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1907-08-15
Un nOmbramientO

Esta mshana ell gobernador Mr..
Post ha remitido la ofcina del Con-
seIo Executive, el nom bramiento de
don Agustfn Lopez para CONCEAL de
Lola. Ell senior Angel Ma. Luir6
que desempehaba aquel cargo presen.
to la renuncia de su puesto. Dicho
nombramiento sera aprobado esta
tarde.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1907-08-15
Nota del dia

La reverenda congregation
que rige los destinos de la Isla
esta en- possession ahora de TN
poderosisimo argumento que ha
de servirle para deducir de el
que la prosperidad de la colo
MIA, bajo la Influenza salvado-
ra de los nuevos metodos, es
verdaderamente extraor din "a
ria.
Nuestros tutores que sc afa.
nan en- proclamarse los hom-
bres mas PRACTICES de la terra,
dicen que ningun valor tienen
los argumentos mas s0lidos, 81
no van acompanados de unas
cuantas cifras Y de unas varias
operaciones aritmeticas.
iOh, la elocuencia de los MI
meros, proclamada universal
mente!
PerO nueStrOS tutOres que no
son nada escrupulosos en- ESQ
de lamar practicas Y metodos
americanos a cuanto goza del
prestigio de la actualidad, han
dado en- decir que son los des-
cubridores providenciales de la
elocuencia de los numeros.
Pues bien; los numeros les
dan en- Ell mOmentO actual TN
argumento inapreciable para las
ponderaciones a que suelen en-
tregarse.
Y la cifra milagrosa Sc la han
proporcionado los tasadOres,
esos modestos acolitos del re
dentoriSmO, eSOs OscurOs fun
cionarios que, sin darse cuenta
acaso, estan llevando a cabo
una mission que llamaran pro-
videncial, los Cronistas del re
dentOrismO.
Que de c0sas sc les Ocurriran
a nuestrOs sabiOs tutOres. a pro-
p0sitO de esos nueve millOnes
Ell que ha sidO aumentada la
propiedad este afo.
Asi, cuando sea precise ha-
blar de Ia prosperidad de la
Isla, del fenomenal dcsarrollo
de la riqueza. del estupendo au-
mento del valor de las fncas,
pretendiendo contrarrestar con
ESQ las deficiencies observadas,
denunciadas y protestadas en-
ell orden politico, los encarga-
dos de la reprise de la prosperi-
dad, aquel sainete macabrO que
hizo las delicias de la congre-
gacion en- todo tempo, tendran
ahora algo aparentemente 10
gico en- que apOyar los ragona-
mientos. en- defensa de ia pre-
tendida opulencia fantastica
con que nos ha dotado el reden
torismo, pretendiendo con clio,
indemnizarnos de las muchas
cosas esenclales que sc nos re-
gatean Y sc nos discuten Y sc
nos niegan.
La afrmaci6n de que estamos
pr6speros. q pesar de- la ruina
del cafe a pesar de Ia crisis an
gustiadora que domina en- las
p0blaciones de la altura, ira
acompanada de la declaration
Official, solemne y terminate
hecha por nuestros tutores, quie'
nes pondran el supreme argu-
mento de lque la valoraci6n de
la propiedad ha subido en- nue.
We millones ell presente alo.
Y esa tasacion esta hecha POI
gente competentisima --dira I
nuestros tutores -hecha POI
esos jovenes apostoles que vie
nen del Colorado Y Alaska
instrui1hos. a educarnos, en- e
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1907-08-15
Ell doctor MunOZ

Ha salido para Cayey ell doc
tor Gustavo Munoz de donde ha
s1do llamado por la familia
Mendoza, por encontrarse gra-
venente enfermo de una febre
el alcalde de Ca
yey.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1907-08-15
Varias noticias

El presidente de la junta escolar de
San Juan, ha llamado los vocales de
la misma para celebrar una reunion ell
de la semana pr6xima.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1907-08-15
Don Francisco R Fuertes

Sc encuentra en- San Juan y hemosle
Saludado en- esta ohcina, Ell rico ha-
cendado y propietario de Naguabo,
nuestro amigo don Faustino r Fuer.
tes, lie deseamos grata es tancia en-
esta ciudad.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1907-08-15

Ha sido acusado de desacato por ell
Juez de la Corte de Distrito de Maya.
guez el cabo de Ia pollcia Candido L6-
PEE por no haber comparecido a. acto
de un juicio que Aabia de celebr arse
ante aquella Cortes
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1907-08-15

Esta tarde celebrara session el Con-
sejo Executive, bajo la presidencia de
don Rafael del Vale.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1907-08-15

Han sido nombrados sirvientes del
Asilo de Ciegos de Ponce, Aurelia
Gonzalez, Victoria Meletiche y Emil
lio Cruz.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1907-08-15

Eel vapor Julia Luckenbach" saldra
para Naw York, Il sibado u del CO.
rriente, aamiaerdo carga para los
Estados Unidos
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1907-08-15

ia hcgado Ponce. ma smpresa
cinematografiea debutara en- Il tea
trc La Pefla', el pr6ximo sabado
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1907-08-15

Don Carlos Oitiz, vet % de
Ponce, ha informado al Jefe de Sani-
dad que habiendo sido llamado por
don Fernando Bus6, de Guayama pa
ra reconocer el ganado cabe uar que
tiene en- su estancia sit. barrio
~Aguirre," encontr6 IL coallos que
padecian de muermo t..u cr6nico. "a
con catarro scspechoso habiendo or
denado n. <e de los IA primeros Y
que fueran puestos en- observation los
catorce.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1907-08-15

Mahana 4 las diez de la misma Sc
reunira en- esta ciudad la Junta Su-
perior de Sandal
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1907-08-15

FL gobernador Mr. Post hrm6 aver ell
indulto del preso Juan Davila que
sufr1a seis meses de carcel por de-
fecto del pago de una multa de
mil pesos
Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-24

on level with the board, and thus present
no roughness to impede the speed of the to
boggan.
Next bind the cross-pieces with the strings
to the side strips. You will understand that
the idea of tying the pieces is to obviate the
Toboggans are rather frail, and in case
they encounter an obstacle, and smash-ul
occurs, nails or screws would be apt to In
fict an ugly wound.
When the cross-pieces are all firmly tied
your toboggan is completed up to that por'
tion of which you intend to form the curl.
This can be easily made by steaming the
wood or by immersion in hot water. When
you have obtained graceful curve, tie the
corners by thongs to one of the cross-pieces.
IF you wish, you may now sandpaper, var
nish and shellac the entire toboggan; and j
you desire to reduce the friction and increase
the speed, glue a narrow strip of polished
hard wood, say one inch in width, along. the
edges of the bottom from the tail end to whert
the curve begins.
A toboggan is much more comfortable ant
safer than bob-sled, but it has one disad
vantage. A bobsled will travel over bumps
and inequalities without damage; whereas, q
toboggan requires a smooth surface.
A 'chute" or "slide," as it is variously
called is sometimes mile in length, and
half-mile chutes are very common. especially
Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-24

shortsone, but is not so easy to manage The
best plan is to select board one foot longer
than your own. height. Plane and sandpaper
this board until it is very smooth, and if you
please, you may varnish and shellac it.
Seven or eight strips of hard wood one inch
thick and rounded, are the next requisite
They should equal in length the width of
your main plank. Then you want two strips
of hard wood, round, one inch in diameter
and four feet in length. Next get twelve or
fourteen strong leather thongs, each two feet
long-leather shoe-strings will do-and we are
ready to commence operations.
Lay the short strip across the board, one
foot apart, the first one three inches from the
end, or tail of the toboggan. AT right angles,
50 that they will form kind Of rail along
the edge of the toboggan, lay the four-foot
strips on top of the cross pieces
Then bore eight small holes in your board,
two in each of the corners of the tail end
and two near the front ends Of the four-foot
pieces.
With the leather shoes strings tie the end
strip running across the board and the four
foot piece firmly to the board, with the knots
on top.
Repeat this operation with the cross-piece
coming near the tail end of your four-foot
strips. Where the strings appear on the
bottom of the board, you must sink a slight
groove to make the face of the string come
Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-24

IN the Northern States, where the winters are
long and cold.
AS rule, they are the products of capis
tai, as the expenses for lights, guards and
helpers are considerable. To these chutes
an admission, or, rather, sliding" fee is
charged.
There are some free slides, but not very
many. But there is nothing to prevent the
boys OF any hilly country from making their
own chute. 1t requires some ingenuity and
hard work, but it need cost but small sum
IN district where lumber is cheap; and
it happens that lumber is cheap in the North
ern States.
A chute is merely wooden gutter or
trough, which may be made as long as you
piesse, and about two feet wider than AM
ordinary toboggan.
Sides about eighteen inches high must run
the entire length. The sliding surface is
formed by packing two inches Of snow in the
ehute, which Is then flooded and allowed td
freeze.
But If you have neither time, money nor
inclination to construct a toboggan chute,
you-must select long, sloping hill for your
slide. Level off and pound or roll the snow
as smoothly and compactly as possible, and
then select some cold evening to food it, and
in the morning it will be ali that can be de-
sired
In steering a toboggan, the foot should be
used. The steerer reciines at the rear, one
foot under him and the other extended back,
SO as to have clear sweep.
The steering is done by pressing the toe
or heel on the ice--the former is preferable
and the toboggan obeys more readily than does
an ordinary sled.
Although not really necessary, it adds to
the pleasure of tobogganing to have a suit
able costume. Something warm is imperative
ly needed, yet it should not be cumbersome;
therefore, wraps, shawls or overcoats are en-
tirely out of place.
The costumes are generally made of soft
woolen blankets, the colored stripes at the
ends forming the ornamentation.
Girls need close-ftting jacket or blouse.
descending below the hips, and skirt reach.
ing the shoetops. Woelen stockings and moe
easins should be worn; also wooden gaunt-
let's
Boys should wear loose kneebreeches a coat
reaching almost to the knee, heavy woolen
stockings and moccaSns.
Both boys and girls wear fancy caps, some.
times in the form of cowls, attached to the
coats, coming well over the ears and back Of
the neck. Thus equipped on a good slide.
there is no sport to beat tobogganing.
toboggan made in the way described
ought not to cost more than a dollar, and
should not take more than a day to make,
So, if you are invited to toboggan party,
don't decline because you can't get to.
boggan.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-24
ON A

Copyright by James Eiverson.
r~1 1OBOGGANING,> indeed!" says the
WHY, it is nothing but sliding
CSeGXJ That is all, to be sure! but what
fine sport it is! Sliding down the
hill is not to be sneezed at, as every country
boy and girl knows To coast a slim cutter
all alone, or to be one of half-dozen or more
on long bobsled has been for years feature
OF winter sports in every district where snow
falls and the country Is hilly.
The unfortunate young people who live
on prairie land are debarred from these pleas
ures, unless they construct an artificial hill,
OF which we shall speak by and by.
No one knows where coasting originated,
but the prevailing ignorance on the subject
has not idetracted particle from the pleasure.
Young folks-and some pretty old folks-have
slid and bumped down hill, more or less rap
idly, and got thrown off with smiling faces,
and every year there are more people joining
in the sport. It has been made fashionable by
the introduction Of the toboggan.
In Canada, the pastime is very popular,
for one reason-because there are plenty Of
hills in Canada, and snow to cover. them; and
also for the reason that tobogganing was or
iginated by the Canadian Indians
The original Indian word was "Oda-boggan,"
and the original tobogganS were large, flat
seds on which the Indians used to pull the
fallen deer or bear or household goods over
the soft snow.
A sled with runners would sof course sink
into the deep drifts unless there was hard
crust, and as the Indian himself had snow
shoes, he made his sled in the form of large
snow-shoe, as it were, for transportation pur-
poses.
During the early campaigns between the
French, English and Indians and also during
the Revolutionary War, toboggans were used
to transport camp supplies, and they were
dragged by men walking ON the crust with
snow-shoes.
Tobogganing was first made sport by
the British officers stationed at Montreal who
used to coast down Mount Royal. That was
seventy years ago, and is it only during the
past thirty or thirty Five years that it has cross
ed the border. Then it took fast hold of our
affections, and seemed destined to grow in
popularity every year.
The Indians "odaboggan" was made of
birch-bark or hewn from tree, and was
turned up at both ends; the toboggan of to-
day turns up at one end only, and is made of
one OF more strips of wood. Any reasonably
ingenious boy can make one at a very small
expense
For the main piece, either white oak or
hickory will do. You will need board one
quarter inch thick, from sixteen to twenty
inches wide and Of length to suit your
fancy, A long toboggan runs easier than a
Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-24
What's iD a Nanoe

find Mr.. Carpenter carpenter, or Mr.. Butch
er a butcher.
Judge Doolittle, of Illinois, was most ener-
getic man and an excellent jurist.
One day young man was tried and con-
victed in his court of riotous conduct on the
street.
Before passing sentence, the judge looked
kindly at the culprit and remarked that he
did not seem to be an habitual offender, and
if promise of reform was given, the sentence
would be merely nominal.
II suppose it doesn't make much difference"
said the young man, with what he evidently
intended to be an easy smile. "You can't
give it to me very hard, since you can only
do little"
There was laugh in the courtroom, which
the Judge repressed with glance.
"There is not much in a name, young
man." he said, calmly. Il will give you
two years at hard labor, and have you to
discover whether that is much or little"
That was rather severe punishment for
pun, but it may serve as warning to those
who Jest at names.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-24

as everybody can testify from personal expert
ence.
Parents are to be blamed for careless selec-
ton of Christian names. Solomon" may
be an excessively stupid boy; Alfred Ten
nyson" the most prosaic lad in town; Ulysses
Grant" an arrant coward and Benjamin
Franklin" without one idea as to thrift or
economy.
Girls are equally unfortunate, A brunette
is christened "Iily;" the most awkward girl
in town is known as "Grace," and "Dottie"
is nearly six feet high.
OF course great many of these incon-
gruities are avoidable with a little forethought
but surnames we cannot escape, except by act
of Legislature, and that takes time and mon
ey.
fits the owner-that is TO say. you win rarely
Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-24

TIL all due respect to Shakespeare,
we may differ with him when he
answers his own question whats
in a name" by assuring US that "a
rose by any other name would smell
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-05-23
Record Time.

Billy Powell. greatest hurdler the west
mas p:ndLCed vas referring to his col =
lego days or the Berkeley track
"THerc were five in the lace. I lrew
the extreme outside lare. which gave mo
Il bad finish stretch. Eat I Got = peach OF
start. swept the curve like n yacht on
her beam ends and came down the
straight taking the Jumps in beautiful
s.y!', J frh Lad 4 varsity record IN
me at that clip, and threw all my powc,.
int" the final strides. Sprirgirg for the
ninth hurdle fairly flow through the air
ana. dashin" to the finish. broke the tapc
he worlds record for the low hurdles,
for the 22t dash. and for Tic runnins;
broad Jump, the time being q ut, ami
nv last Leap over two hurdles at once.
clearing ~ feet and some inches
WhtW" exclaimed Ollie Snedigar
WHY weren't the records ever allowed ~
We'll" continued Powell when they
went 10 measure the leap Col Edwards
started to shove his cane in. 20 indirat e
NV foremost spike mark. and the stick
jumped up out of his hand. They scrap,.l
the short grass away and found a solid
rl'h'".r home plate inhedded where tho
VARSITY battery used to practice San
Francisco Chronicle
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-05-23
Saco Made a Mistake.
tBiddeford Journal.)

(Biddeford Journal)
There is solid foundation for the
belief that the voters of Saco made
mistake Monday when they turned
down the proposition for better
streets. No one who uses SacO's
streets frequently will deny that
they need to be improved, and any
betterment of the highways in this
age of the world is in the line of
progress in the right direction. The
plan to expend $4,000 on it's streets
during 1907, this sum to be raised by
an issue of bonds payable at the rate
of $1,000 a year, if put into effect,
would have placed Saco in the front
rank Of Maine cities in the good
roads movement, and this preemi-
nence should have been worth at
least one thousand dollars n year as
a business advertisement. 1t is to be
hoped that the plan for modern
streets has been merely delayed, not
abandoned. and that it will be car
ried by large majority if the peo-
pie ever have another opportunity to
return a verdict.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-05-23
How the Standard Oil Has Done it.

An interesting document which has
Just come to us from the government
printing office bears the innocent title
Corporations on the Petroleum Indus
try This title does not seem particu-
larlv aluring perhaps to the average
reader. bat q little investigation brings
out the fact that this is the report in
which Jonn u. Rockefeller and his
Standard Oil associates are fayed
alive for their methods in building up
the worlds greatest and most profit
able monopoly. The report consists of
IS printed pages ard has been prepared
BY Herbert Knox Smith who succeeded
Jalres II. Garfield as commissioner Of
corporations in the Department Of
Commerce ana Labor.
There IS nothing yellow or lurid in
the disclosures of this report and yet
Mr.. Smith makes it about as severe an
allows. The report is specially timely.
for just now the suit of the govern
ment against the Standard Oil Com
pany fnr violations Of the antitrust
law is being tried at st. Louis. The
report makes il plain that the abnor-
NAL fortunes of the Standard Oil peo-
pie and their oppressive monopoly gre
not the fruits Of superior ability or
energy. but of unfair and unlawful
practices. such as flagrant discrimina-
ton obtained from railroads and the
refusal to operate their pipe lire sys-
TEN SO that Independent interests could
get the benefit of it.
At the outset Mr. Smith corrects the
prevalent. error that the secret of the
gigantic power Of the Standard lies in
its control of the natural sources of
supply. Not more than one-sixth of
the total production of crude oil in this
country in 1905 came from wells owned
by the affiliated Standard interests.
Mr.. Rockefeller and his friends are not
prodieious buyers Of oil-bearing terri
tory. They know 4 game worth two of
thai. Their monopoly of the great
is accomplished in an artificial but
highly effective way-throueh a COM
pick system of secret or open discrim-
ination il railway rates. and the vast
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-05-23
Ruef's Confession.
WASHINGTON StarO

The cant in this confession is easily
detected. Such men brought to bay
usually have a spasm Of this kind. They
profess deep contrition and q desire to
undo in an hour the rascalities OF
years. Their first thought is of them
selves, not of the state. and they tell
no more than is necessary to serve
their own purposes in their hour of
need. Nobody knows better than Reuf
that his good name is beyond recovery.
He is what he has made himself, and
his only value to the public now is in
laying his past entirely bare But
that is the last thing he thinks of do
ing Saving his own hide now that
his reputation is gone is his one rul-
ing consideration. 1t will be neces-
sary to guard against both his conceal
ments and his inventions and to FRO
vide for corrobOratio with respect 10
all that he may tell.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-05-23
The Inverted Rake.

There is man in Pittsburg who will be
married in Il ShCIt while. and will occupy
the house few rooms OF which he has
USED during lis bachelor days. He takes
the greatest pleasure i'll showing his init
mate friends about the place, and is espe-
c'allY celi%hted at the establishment they
EXPIRE IS when his OWr den is react ed
re las always been n quiet. EtudiouS
fellov, hut as rrfitted the room gives tine
appearance of the lCunsinS-plqce of 81
re 2ular rounder There are lacll; of long
pipes, Photographs of actresses are stuck
about the chimney glass: a shelf of baer-
STEMS runs all the way around tie room,
and few feminine gloves, handker-
chiefs and fans are scattered about.
Great Scott. jack the last visitor
%2Sped. where did you get this outfit,
and why?''
Bought out college fellow" was tie
cOmnlacent reilly. Just think how
pleased that dear little girl will he when
she secs all this truck and thinks how
n:ucl Wickedness she has won me away
frOm.'-HaIper's Weekly.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-05-23
A LITTLE OF
EVERYTHING
The Girl I've Never Met.

friends. fl all The alasses 10 the brim,
And let tie wine flow gcneI ously-
And ~ the colleen brbDlcS swim
Come, pledge my hearts divinity!
As fair, perhaps, IS amy We
Fer toasted, is my loves last pet:
Ills all as each mans eyes may see
Heres to tie Girl never met.
TO her | kiss NY glass rim,
1h- not all-pldntor fiultlesS Size
Whose love the worlds dust shall not
dim
This side OF deaths ascendency.
The last bead on my rosary
Red@"n'S the wasted paStS regret,
l hold hopes ::uertun still in Zee
Here's To the Girl I've never met!
FiienGS that the coming maid may be
HIOir fair and true than any vet
My heart has KnOwn-come, drink with
Here's 10 tie Girl I've never met.
Metropolitan.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-05-23
London Bridue,

Proud ana lowly. hegSar and lord,
Over the bridge tley go;
Rags ard velvet. fPI,c. and sword.
Poverty, pOmp and woe.
Laughing. weeping. hurryirg ever.
Hour ny hour they crowd along
Willie. below, rle michty river
Sings them al! a mccking song.
Hurry along. sorrow and song,
All is vanity 'neati. the sun:
Velvet and rags, 50 the world wags,
CE,il the river no more shall run.
Dainty. painted, powdered and gay,
RClleth ny lady by:
Rags ard tatters, over the way,
Carries 4 hear! as high.
Flowers and dreams from country
meadows
Dust ana din through CITY skies
Old r0en creeping with their shadows
Ci'lidrer with thei" sunny eNeS-
Hurry along. s"'rov and song.
AZ: is vanity meath the srm;
Velvet md rags 50 the world wags.
Until the river no more shall ran.
#. =. Wealth nrly.