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BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1907-03-02
Concerto publiCO

Programa de las pleas que
tocara manana domingo en- la
retreta, la Banda de la Policia
Insular.
Marcia "El Arribo a Qua
MICA, K. Balseiro.
Sinfonia de la opera Wis
peras Siciliana', Verdi.
3 Duo de los Patos, de la
zarzuela LA Marcia de Cadlz' ,
Valverde.
4 GER. acto de la opera Her
mani, Verdi.
5 (Estreno), Himno al Sol,
de la opera Iris, Mascagnl.
6 Polka Las Mujeres' Gil
meneZ.
7 Two step "Africau Dream
land HaWater-
8 (Estreno) DANA LA Mu-
neca', r. Marquez.
Star Spangled Banner.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1907-03-02

Anoche apesar del NAL tempo
reinante hubO bastante concurrencia
en- Ia Eetreta, siendo muy apla audida
Ia banda de la policla lnsular sobre
todo en- el cuarto n1merO del p1o9ra-
ma que era Ell Ier acto de Ia opera
"Hernani, ejecutado con mucho gus
to y en- medic de una torrenclal llu-
via 10 que como declmos anterior
mente les valio una Ovacion.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1907-03-02

Aver han salido en- libertad de la
|carcel de San Juan galeras anexas q
Ell Preside departmental las indi-
viduss Josefa Martinez y Juana Ri
vera Laureana quienes han cumplido
las penas que lie fueron impuestas.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1907-03-02

Justo Sanchez y Saturnino Rodrf-
guez han ingresa1o en- la carccl de
p n e cumplir las sentencias que le
h n sldo lmpueStas por Ia Corte
Municipal de Yauco, por alterar Ia
paz puOlica.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1907-03-02

Las novenas de Jesds Nazareno
que hablan de dar comienzo Ell lines
4, sc transferiran para empezarlas el
domingo 10 causa de las misiones
que celebrara en- la presente semana
la Iglesia Catedral.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1907-03-02

Ha regresado DE- Ponce despues
de una corta temporada en- aquella
ciudad nuestro amigo don Emilio
Caubet CamlneTo.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1907-03-02
Mas nOticiaS

Aver 4 las dos de la tarde, los indi-
vidnos Jose Reyes y Martin Dlaz,
que jugaban al dado en- la plaza de
Colon, fueron arrestados por el poll
c1a Miguel Mufioz.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1907-03-02

El Juez municipal condeno esta
maflana Federico Mendez sufrir
dos meses de arresto. por hurto de
una tohalla y IN revolver, propiedad
del Country Club.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1907-03-02

La Junta Superior de Sanidad, ha
aprobado los pianos presentados pa
"a Ia construction del matadero del
Dorado.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1907-03-02

Boquillas de ambar, dltimos Y ca
prichosos modelos de Berlin Viena
DE venta en- el BOLETIN.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1907-03-02

Sc encuentra en- esta ciudad nues
tro amigo Ell doctor don Simon Mo
ret, dc Ponce.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1907-03-02

Ell pianista seflor CortGs, esta or
ganizando TN concierto en- la ciudaC
&c Mayatiez.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-02-24

The French military airship, La Patrie. made a remarkable trial flight of 33 miles from Nelson to MeudOn. near St. Cloud, recently It accomplished the journey at a speed of 2j miles an hour, travelling practically against wind blowing at % miles an hour The alrshlp had four men aboard. and Captain Voycr steered by fairly direct route. but made many as cents and descents and rapid turns to test the nayigabillty of the arship. The great machine responded admirably. and the result of the trial has given great satisfaction to the military authorities in France. It also brings up the great question of, Has civilization made war less cruel? It Is doubtful. except, per hnps, so far as the care of the wounded and the absence of killing for Killings sake are concerned.
 In other respects war, If not more cruel, has certainly become, and yearly becomes more and more terrible. For It Is no longer d case of man against man. us in the days of old, but machine against machine. A man hoist by his own pe- ta rd" is now only pawn in the frightiul game between the engines of war de- yised by man to slay his fellow men. what could be more horrfying. even in imagination, than the torpedo cutting through the waves to seize It's prey and stain the sea crimsonf Or the silent stealthy submarine thrown up as it were from the ocean bed lnstantaneously to end a thousand lives or noref
 On land the sinister monstrous gun heayes itself up over the parapet to Ire Its smokeless shot and then sinks back Into it's lurking place. The invisible storm of shot and shell fills the air with impa lpable, intangible but none the less swift and sudden death.
 But these are dangers the modern war rtor knows Of and Is prepared to face.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-02-24
WARS LATEST INVENTIONS

What of the new terrors "civllization" has in store for him? Some are already nearly perfect. if perfection can be men toned In conjunction with such engines of destruction. There Is, for example, the armored motor fort, which, like some great prehistoric beast. will run, cum brously, but none the less swiftly. over the ground. an affrghting spectacle, belching fire and death, huge, horrible and inyulnerable. Then there are im- proved war balloons and war kites, ca pabe, in favorable circumstances, of well-nigh annihilatlng an army.
 It Is q large question endeavoring to forecast what invention may do for us within the next few years. Possible air ships may come into play. In war risks are run which people may not be in- clined to hear of in peace. There is It. tie doubt that the airship will be deyel oped soon so as to be effective. but the risk will always be great.
 In war it will be used and accomplish much in the way of intelligence.
 The risk Is great in submarines. and the one disadvantage lies in their practi- cul blindness. We are yet 10 have big ger ships and faster destroyers for fight. Ing purposes. We shall have more very large armored cruisers and numerous fast seagoing cruisers of medium size 10 pa trO the ocean. Que most pressing need is q mechanical contriyance for supply ing the hring line with ammunition. It must. of course, be bullet proof, capable of going over any ground and small enough 10 be a bad target for artillery. In the near future m aeroplane shooter will be wanted. It Is difficult at present to hit even q captive balloon, and & swiftly moving aeroplane could at pret- ent observe the positions of fleets and troops with absolute impunlty. This might easily decide the Issue of great battles.
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not altogether crushed, although he wrote home that My poetic career is finished" Irony of youthful pessimism-it had not yet begun,
 At % he returned and became profes- sor of modern languages at Bowdon, his alma mater.
 The romance he had so often missed In his foreign pilgrimage he stumbled upon shortly after his return home. One is reminded of Dantes first glimpse of Beatrice in church, and how he never told his love-" by the tradition that Longfellow saw Mary Storer Potter at church and followed her home without daring to speak, although she was an old schoolmate. The modest young poet professor got his sister 10 introduce him again to the fair one and year or so later the wedding bells rang.
 Severed by Tragedy.
 All went well with the LonsfeIows The marriage was crowned with Ideal happiness. No Shelleyan storms, no By ronic escapades marred it's calm and joy. Prosperity, at $900 year salary, and fame, in the form of an appointment at Harvard, to succeed the learned Ticknor, rounded the clrcle or uonesuc leliclty. The appointment at Harvard carried with It permission of years residence abroad before entering upon his new duties. and Longfellow ayailed himself of this permission. taking his young wife with him. After they had Jocrneyed hlther and thlther for six months, meet Ing the Carlyles and other celebrities, Mrs -Longfellow died at Rotterdam.
 Longfellow felt his grief deeply. but bore 1t brayey. Going to Heidelberg he plunged into the study of German liter ature. Aad so ne came to be tic one who opened for Americans the rich treas ure-house of German song and thought
 When he returned to take up his work at Harvard he found residence in the Cralgis House. at Cambridge, which has
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ever since been one of America's literary shrlnes The mansion had been Wash ington's headquarters during the siege of Boston, the room that became Long fellows study used to be Washington's office, and Washington's bedroom was the apartment first occupied by the poet. George William Curtis has told most amuslngly how Mrs craigie conducted the young professor through the old mansion, showing him room after room, with the Barmecide words You cant have that" until at last she came 10 the Washington room, overlooking the river, when she omitted the negative and made the homeseeker happy.
 New England Weimar.
 This house was the poets home all the rest of hls life, and became the center of Cambridge's literary society. Cam bridge was then the literary capital of America-except Welmar, in the days of Goethe, and Athens, In the age of Pericles probably no city ever harbored so many illustrious literary men at one time. As Bret Harte said to Howells. who moved there In 1866: Why, you couldn't fire n revolver from your front porch anywhere without bringing down a two-volumer." Among those who lived in Cambridge were Lowell. AgassiZ, Fske, Cblld, Dana, Norton. the Jameses dsther and sonl. along with many others not forgotten. Holmes often ran over from Boston, Emerson sometimes came from Concord, and Whittier from Ames- bury.
 In Washington's old eouneilroom met the Dante Club. under whose inspiration and with whose aid Longfeiow produced his version of "Diyine Comedy,'' a yer sion not SO highly acclaimed by critics, but rising In the unbiased readers esti- nation as he compares 1t with Charles Eliot Norton's prose version Norton, along with Lowell, was the most proni- nent figure in the Danta Club. and Is
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lations from the Spanish coplas of Man rique. Among his collected poems we have translations from German, Swedish, Danish, Portuguese, Anglo-Saxon and Latin besides the languages already men, toned.
 "Outre- Mer-a Pilgrimage Beyond the Sea was published In 1885, and strove to do for the Continent what Irving's Sketch Book" had done for England. "Hyperlon," q romance, appeared in 1899 ane was Longfelow's last prose book ex- cept "Kavanagh," 10 years later. The same year Hyperion" was published also saw Voices of the Night" which con tained some of the poems that have made his fame worldwide, "A Psalm of Life" and Midnight Mass for the Dying Year" Another of these poems, The Beleaguered City" provoked from Poe an ill-natured charge of plagiarism, which has been viewed as lightly as Margaret Fuller's savage criticism of the poetry as whole.
 His Travels in Europe.
 To prepare himself for his poetic voca- ton Longfellow went abroad for q year after leaving Bowdoin. An episode of his first European pilgrimage shows how narrow and uncertain the border-line be- tween poetic fancy and the prosaic facts of life-how easily the wanderer may be pushed over the frontier into the rival realm. Among the vineyards of France be met a group of village girls. As they approached the cottages he thought of Goldsmith, and told one of the girls he had a flute in his knapsack-would she like to dance? The rustic dainsel re- piled that she should like to dance well enough, but had no idea what flute was. After that" wrote Longfellow, 'I thought nothing but starvation would drive me to strike up at the entrance of village, as Goldsmith did" Never theless, the AmericaD minister to Spain saw him .''dance In the streets on holi- days" So his romantic buoyancy WAS
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-02-24
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But was not hls whole life, so clean and tender and sunny. the sweetest of all his poems? One is reminded of Biornsons phrase, the white Mir. Long fellow by his simple imitation of the masters words. Suffer little children to come unto me" No other witness is needed to reveal the beauty of his spirit. When the spreading chestnut tree was felled which shadowed the village smithy In Brattle street great arm- chair for the poet was fashioned from its wood by the subscriptions of school children. Longfellow gave orders that any child should be allowed to see the chair at any time. and MT. Hlgglnson records that ''the tramp of dirty little feet through the hall was for. many months the despair of housemaids." "
 Another evidence of his unfaillng kind ness was his attitude toward the auto graph fend. Ouce he records in hs diary that ''yesterday 1 wrote. sealed and directed 70 autographs" Just before his seventy fourth birthday a lady sent him il hundred blank cards, asking him to write his name on each. as she was going to give a party and wished each guest to have souvenir.
 His hospitable home was always open to every newcomer. and at most we find him wishing, when engaged upon some particularly absorbing work, 70 for good snowstorm to block the doorH' And once when there was trouble at Harvard between students and faculty one of the young ringleaders said; Let us go to Professor Longfellow. He always treats us like gentle men"
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probably the only survivor except How els. He will read n paper on Longfel- low at the Cambridge celebration this l week.
 For IS years Longfellow was q pro lessor at Harvard, IS years of duty faith | fully performed and literary laurels hon | estly earned. During these years he had written Hyperion" The Spanish Stu l dent" "Evangellne," "kavanagh," "The Golden Legend" and "Hiawatha." He had risen to be the first of American poets, both in popular esteem and In foreign appreciation.
 A Second Domestic Tragedy. But the year 1861 brought another great sorrow to the poet. He had married second time-Fanny Elizabeth Appleton, whom a friend of Kossuth's described as "a lady of Junonian beauty and the | klndest heart" praise confirmed by the memory of all who saw and knew her. Their marriage in 1S43 was followed by nearly 20 years of serene happiness, mir rored in such poems as "The Chlldren's Hour"
 I hear in the chamber above mo The batter of little feet. The sound of door that Is opened And voices soft and sweet.
 From my study see in the lamplight. Descending tho broad hall stair.
 Grave Alice and laughing Allegra
 And Edith with golden hair.
 From this poem, with it's picturesque adjectives everybody knows the Longfel- low children. We can see their mother, too, by the light of the poets phrase about her "deep, unutterable eyes," and by the lines in his pathetic sonnet, "The Cross of Snow"
 Soul moro whito
 Never through martyrdom of fire led To it's repose.
 Mrs. Longfellow was burned to death by q shocking accident For second time the poets life was desoated. and again he went on his way in faith and fortitude, like the mountain wearing his cross of snow upon his breast" The sonnet upon her death was never shown to the world, and reposed in his own portfolio until after his own death. It was one of those poems of which he told William Winter, poems that were for himself alone, that he should not care ever to publish, because they were too delicate for publication"
 A Noble and Gracious Soul.
 So he went on to the close of his life, in 1SS2, undminished in poetic sweet ness, n noble and gracious soul, full worthy of Emersons pathetic tribute. Some of his ripest and richest work be- longs to those declining years. "fales of a Wayside Inn" appeared In 1863; "Chrstus," perhaps his high-water mark, in 1872; ''rhe Hanging of the Crane" in 1874. 'The Bells of San Bias" in 1882. was the last important poem he wrote.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-02-24
A Truly National Poet.


 Such was the man, lovable md large souled, whom America this week, on the completion of century since hls birth honors as one of her representative na- tional poets, and the first to win for American poetry abroad that recognition which Irving had forced for American prose By his choice of national sub. 1ects by his unerrng taste and scholar ship, by his simplicity and polse, he com peled the world to look way. And as Barrett Wendell has pointed out, he "comes very near a world-Old definition of literary greatness, which has some times been held the virtue of those who think the thoughts of the wise and who speak the language of the simple"
 Besides teaching the world to look our way, he opened for us gates of song throughout the world. He made Amer- cans familiar with Tegner and Uhland and Manrlque and Jasmin and Michael Angelo ns poet. He was, perhaps, the most skillful translator of verse that English literature has seen, and he has been repaid in kind by being the most translated of all American poets. Some interesting facts are connected with these
 
 friend and Germany's revolutionary poet, translated "Hiawatha" beautifully into German; Dom Pedro. emperor of Brazil, translated "The SicIllan's Tale" Into Por. tuguese; Elihu Burrltt. the "learned blacksmith" rendered the "Psalm of Life" Into Sanscrlt.
 Longfellow's popularity, far from waning, seems on the increase. During the first 16 years that he wrote, over 325 GOO copies of his books were sold-293 000 poetical and 82, 900 prose- It Is impossible to make any computation since. There are few American homes without copy of Longfellow there should be none. have even found one in the waiting room of dentist, and seen a shopgirl read ing "The Courtship of Miles Standish' in street car quite as absorbed as If lt were n novel by the great Corelli. The learned pay him their tribute as un- grndgingly as the unlearned. MT. Hig- ginson found in the British Museum more books about Longfellow than about any other modern poet except Tennyson Browning and Emerson came next; Low ell, Whittier, Poe and Swnburne aver. aged about one-thlrd as many.
 The words he addressed to Alfred Ten nyson In the fine sonnet "Wapentake' may be applied to himself on this hun dredth birthday festival:
 Not of the bowling dervishes of song.
 Who craze the brain with their deirious dance. Art thou. sweet historian of the heart; Therefore to thee the laurel-leaves belong. To thee our love and allegiance.
 For thy allegiance to the poets art.
 GEORGE SEIBEL.
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The Poets Childhood.

 ferson, Emerson and Fulton.
 The Poets Childhood.
 Like Goethe and many another great poet Longfellow was first taught to ap- precate the beauties of verse by his mother. She read Cowper, Hannah More and Osslan to the children. She was sensible woman besides, not afraid of a thunderstorm, but .enjoying the ex- citement of its splendors'
 Henry's first poem was published in the Portland Gazette when he was little more than IS It runs as follows:
 THE BATTLE OF LovELL's POND. Cold. cold is the north wind and rude is the
 blast
 That sweeps like a hurricane loudly and fast As it through the tall. waving pines lone
 and drear
 Signs a requiem sad OCT the warriors bier. The war-whoop is still. and the savage's yell Has sunk into silence along the wild dell; The din of the battle. the tumult is OCT. And the warclarion 8 voice is now heard no more. Tho warriors that fought for their country and
 bed.
 Have sunk to their rest; the damp earth is their
 bed;
 No stone tells the place where their ashes repose Nor points out the spot from the graves of their
 foes.
 They died in their glory. surrounded by fame. And victory's loud trump their death did pro claim;
 They dead; but they live in each patriots
 breast
 And their names are engrayen on honor's bright
 crest
 The young poets ambition received a cruel blow the evening of the very day when he first saw himself in print He accompanied his father to friends house, where the talk of the men turned upon poetry. Did you see the piece in today's paper?" asked the host. Very stiff," he added remarkably; more over, 1t is all borrowed, every word of it. The 13-year-old poet cried himself to sleep that night.
 year or So later, in 1921, Longfel- low went to Bowdoin College. There Nathaniel Hawthorne was one of his classmates; another was Frank Pierce, destined to become president of the United States. Perhaps the most sig nificant episode of Longfellow's college life was that one exhibition day. in a debate. he assumed the character and de- tended the course of the American h. dian, which may have been the Initial impulse to writing "Hiawatha" many years after
 His Early Writings.
 While he was in college Longfellow be- gan sending contributions to the United States Literary Gazette" in whose col umns Bryant also figured quite frequently. Along with much immature verse there appeared here the fine Hymn of the Morayian Nuns" which still stirs our pulses, although we know Pulaski's ban Ter was only 20 inches square, and would not have made very good martial cloak and sbroud."
 The Letters of Sir William Jones' who knew 2S languages, but is remem- bered chiefly by that classic of the Third Reader, What Constitutes State ?''- impelled Longfelow to the study of for eign tongues after he was graduated from Bowdoin, fourth in his class. Few people are now aware that LongfelIow's first printed book was French gram mar, translated from L'Homond, and his first original work to be printed was written in French, and was Syllabus of Italian Grammar" And even his first volume of verse was made up of trans
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chosen The nine men who ranked ahead of Longfellow were Washington, Lincoln, Webster, Franklin, Grant, Marshall, lief ferson, Emerson and Fulton.
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-11-22

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