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BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1908-08-17
FOR CARLOS DICK EMS

el borde de la chimenea, miss Fltte, que Sc ha
TeClrado CerCa de la puerta d1ri]e una miTada
de terror al aposento. Ell habil procurador
permaneCe el miSmo sitio en- la misma
aCtitud
La maeta contiene tan solo algunas prem
das de ropa de ning1n vaor, un paquete de
Tecibos de un prestamista sobre alhalas, triste
salyacondu ucto del camino de la miseria, una
hoja de papel que huele opio en- que hay
alganas apuntaciones como: "Tantos granos
tai dia tai otro d1a una dosis mas fuerte,"
otras pOr Ell estllo memorandum prinCipiadO
con la 1ntenCi0n de COntinuarlo con exactitud
pero bandonado muy pronto; hnalmente,
algunos fragmentos de peri6dicos mugrientos
relatives tOdos suicides.
SuaQsby buSca por todas partes registra
todOs los rlncones, pero no encuentra carta nj
documento alguno.
Ell medico registra los bolsillos de la le
vita del es>rbente. SAGA de ellos IN corta-
plumas algunas monedas de cobre.
Sc adopta entonces la proposition del al
macenista d. papel Sc Tesuelve lamar al
bedel de la parroqaia; miss Flltte va buscar-
lie salem todos del aposento.
-Llevaos el cato, el medico M.
Krook;-no debe quedarse aqui.
FL ropavejero llama a lady Juana que baja
furtivamen,e la escaera hacienda hodear la
Goa lamiendose el hocco.
-Buenas noches,-dijo M. Tulkinghorn
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1908-08-17
EJOTICGAS

Lante del oLanrd lypeWTiI&E
Bargains de New FORK, CAM
bian reconstruyen Y venden
maquinas de escribir de todos
los modelos de las Underwood
Smith y Oliver. siempre tieneR
existencla. Mas detalles escribir
con sello para la repuesta.
Box 462 8 Cruz 4 San Juan,
Puerto Rico.
Sc encuentra en- San uaR
el senor William Santos, Juez
Municipal de Cabo Rojo, quien
ha ven1do en- asuntos de su de-
partamentO.
-Auoche sc VIC concurridisi-
ma la function del cinematogra-
TO, slendo muy aplaudidas todas
las peliculas del programa.
Hoy 8 maTana regresara de
Mayaguez don Jose de Guzman
Benitez, nuevo Presidente del
Par lido Republican,.
- Pida usted en- Cafes, COlma.
dos y Pulperias, tanto de San.
Juan como de la lsla, los afama-
dos Refrescos Tropicales de Ro-
cafort.
Su confeccion es por medic
de aparatos modernos para la
extraction del jugo de las frutas.
sin proceGlmientOs quimicos.
No mas irritac1ones estoma-
Gales por los calores del verane,
nj por malas digestiones.
Tambien como postres para
las comidas, son empleados per
Hoteles, Restaurants y casas de-
familia, pues Ell alto grado del
almibar y gusto de las verdade-
ras frutas al natural, ofrece la.
ventaja que por POGO dinerO
puede obtenerse una gran va
riedad de postres.
Para el pronto despacho de
los pedidos de los comerciantes
y casas de familia dirigirse a
Juan Rocafort, San Juan P. X.
-Ha sido aprobado por el de-
partamentO de instruction Ell
nombramiento de la senorita
Benilde Morales, propuesta para
eJercer una escuela en- Toa- alta.
-Ha sido nombrado Superin-
tendente de la Companfa de
vapores The New York 5. s.
Company" el senor Jorge Lati-
mer por renuncia de su senor
padre don Ramon, quien pasa
a desempenar otro importante
pueSto.
SOLARES EN- SANTURCE-Es
Ia parada 20, Sc venden cuatro Sola-
res pequeflos en- la calle Los dos
hermanos' y siete, tres pequef1os v
cuatro grandes en- la calle de Canals
Drl2u Sc para detalles informes
& la senora Latimer viuda de Carrera
Aver era 81 dia destinades
para celebrar en- Manati un mi
tin unionista Y en- Ell cual esta-
ban invitados los principales
oradoreS del mencionado partidR.
Aver tarde regreso de Palo-
Seco el gobernador y su secre-
tario particular, quienes fueroR
Ia las regataS que sc cele braron
len dichO sitio.
PARA CURAR UN RESI- RlADG
EN- UN OLA tome LAXATIVE BRG-
MO QUININA Ell boticario deyslverE
a dinero 81 no le cura. La hrma de E.
W. Grove Sc halla eu cada cspta.
-Continua la investigation
de un desfalco en- la administra-
+cion Municipal de uana Diaz,
en- que aparecen compllcados
dos altos empleados del Ayun-
tamientO.
Sc VENDE un juego cora
pleto de muebles de Viena, para
sala, y otros para casa - lnfor-
maran en- esta RedaCcion.
Muy en- breve el fiscal Sc
nor Torres Grau leera las acM-
.saciones contra uan Valdes
acusado de falsa representation
y otros delitos graves.
81 Senor Ramon Latimer
one ha vaYa1da dHca t,oraI aw drN
Bisbee daily review., 1908-11-25

ed because he sold Mir. Stillman stock in his journal. nor is MT. Stillmau necessarily guilty of Standard OH crimes because he is the president of bank in which Mir. Rockefeller is a stockholder. Rockefeller owns rall roads, too, but that doesn't make their managers, rascals. He gave large sums to Chicago university, but that didn't buy the conscience of Dr. liar. per, the great educator.
 We earnestly desire to see the Standard oil monopoly punished and curbed, but we don want to see all its employees and their friends sent to jail.
 It might be a good idea for the re formers and crusaders to pause a lit, tie and cast out the silly muckrakers from amongst them.
Bisbee daily review., 1908-11-25
THE KNIGHT RIDERS" VICTORY.

For weary months the public has been reading accounts of the raids of night riders in Kentucky and Ten nessee. The stories have run the scale from arson to assassination, and particular atrocities have been devei- oped by particular circumstances.
 The states in which the outrages occurred have been condemned for their inability to keep the peace and protect life and property. Wise es- says have been written on the nor mally hwless instincts of the south, of which the crimes mentioned were the product, and night riding the theme.
 But with the surrender Of the to- baco trust to the demands of the to- baoco growers immediate assurance is given that night riding will cease and there will be au end of rapine The whole disturbance has been a manifestation not If love of disorder and assassination bat of systematized rebellion against trust domination. Deprived of the protection of laws which take account of competition and a fair division. of the profits of toll between producer and distributor, the tobacco growers did what men will always do in the last extremeity they defended themselves.
 This defense was vicious. It devel- oped brutal instfn, Is and hatred not of particular law but of all law and all the rules of society! It drew no distinguishing lines. It accepted sus- picions as proofs. Ic rendered a yer dict of guilt against the babe in the cradle as quickly as against the farm CT who professed belief in his right to conduct his own affairs. And it left a trail of blackened farms and new-made graves behind it. It was just the kind of crude defense that men made intolerant by intolerance and unjust by injustice always offer.
 Condemnation of the trust that knowingly and for purposes of gain produced the condition is not condone- ment of the form of the defense, but in the struggle is grewsome predic- ton as well as awful lesson. And still only what is known as the white burley district has won peace through the surrender of the tobacco trust. The war is still on in the black dis tricts.
Bisbee daily review., 1908-11-25

price than in this country, and that American consumers can buy and have bought it there, reimported 1t and, with ocean freight added, saved money by so doing.
 The proponent of the duty plan, that is, the trust representative, en- tered into no explanation of this charge, but admitted the lower for eign> price. This brought Chairman Payne, amiable standpatter, to the rescue. Mir. Payne asked If the low CT foreign price was not caused by a slack market in this country and the consequent necessity of getting rid of surplus product.
 This is dumping in commercial phrase and is the stock excuse of the manufacturer so confronted and charged with using the tariff as a means of keeping up domestic prices. The plea is always that the sales abroad involve loss. There was no difference in this case.
 Tt is interesting because it is the first time in the course of the ais cussion that any manufacturer has admitted selling at 9 loss abroad But there will be others. Every time the question is raised the plea will be the same. The typwriter men, the steel men, the sewing machine men and the watchmakers-whe have invaded even Switzerland-Will all declare that they sell ther products abroad at a loss. American manufacturers are really philanthropists of universal benevolence-abroad, not at home"
Bisbee daily review., 1908-11-25
TARIFF REVISION.

On the subject Of tariff revision the New York Evening Post says:
 Tariff revision has only a path of roses before it, if we may believe Chairman Payne and some of the oth- CT republicans who are telling Mir. Taft how easily the thing may be done. All that is necessary is merely to follow that infallible rule of faith and practicable republican plat form. It makes the way plain to the wayfaring man when it lays down the two principles that protective duties should be based, first, upon the diff ference in cost of production at home and abroad, and, second, upon the need of assuring to the American manufacturer a reasonable profit How simple! Squaring the circle would be child's play compared with determining what is the reasonable prtfit which the government ought to guarantee, and to decide what is the exact difference in cost of production would require studies and expert in- vestigation and exhaustive compari. sons which would Freak the back and flag the brain of the most stalwart member of the ways and means con- mittee. Meanwhile the untutored farmer of the west would recall such admissions as tha: Mir. Schwab be- fore the industrial commission, that American steelmakers can defy the world and do not reed Q penny of protection" ---
 Of the present hearings in Wash, ingtof the St Louls Republic says:
 with the starch trust asking for higher duty or at least the retention of the present duty on starch, 1t was developed at the hearing before the ways and means committee that starch is sold in England at a lower
Bisbee daily review., 1908-11-25
CHRISTMAS,
 DECEM BIER 25.

Christmas comes but once year, just as t formerly did, and here are a few remarks. iron the Baltimort Sun in regard to its coming. which every business man will assure you are eminently sound and worthy oi your attention.
 On the best of authority it can be stated that Christmas will be heIc this year December g. A good many people imagine that it is coming some time in the distant future; they can't tell just when. and that in some un known way they can somehow escape giving up any money to buy presents
 Now, you may as well face the music. Christmas is coming a little over a month from now, and the days will spin around before you know it You know you want to give them all presents they will appreciate and en joy-the wife, the children. daughter and son, father. nother--and youl sweetheart, If you are in the true lovers class.
 Buy your presents now. You have more time to make your selections you can shon with comfort; you get first choice of the fine stocks oi Christmas goods; they will not cost you cent more. By doing your shop ping early you give the storekeeper and the clerks chance; you distrib- ute business over longer period; you acommodase them. and they ac- commodate you. It is of mutual ben eft to buyer and seller
Bisbee daily review., 1908-11-25
RAILRLoAp RAIDERS.

An attempt by the railroads to ad- vance freight rates in the east caused such furious opposition, accompanied by such vehement outpourings of speech and such cogent argument that under pressure of public opinion the railroads were compelled to aban- dan their announced purpose of in creasing rates. Having won their own battle the eastern newspapers are de- voting attention to the fight in Cali fornia and the west, and they are ex- pressing the opinion that If the ad- vance announced and contemplated should be allowed to go into effect it will have a most serious and disas- trous effect on Pacihc coast business; in fact. acording tc eastern newspa- pers. will absolutely kill certain branches of transccntfnental busi- ness-
 Any corporation which will sacri, fee sn American industry in order to fll its pockets is an enemy to the Is public, says the Los Angeles Herald. The proposed advance in rates is treachery to the business interests of west and east and is treason to this republic, which is a big, business or ganization, the affairs of which, ac- cording to It's oft quoted prospectus, should be conducted with an eye to the advancement of the interests Of the many rather than the aggrandize- ment of the few, and with a view of bringing about conditions which will assure to the greatest number of citi- gems the greatest good.
 Since the New York papers have warned us of the probable effect of the proposed increase in freight rates, is it not time to cease sitting with folded hands and tn faces wearing an expression of resignation?
 It is time to be up and doing, isn't 1t? The papers of the east are will ing to aid California in this matter. Th-v are already volunteering their heIr If the proposed increase is al- lowed to go into effect California pro ducers and consumers will contribute
Bisbee daily review., 1908-11-25

An attempt by the railroads to ad- vance freight rates in the east caused such furious opposition, accompanied by such vehement outpourings of
Bisbee daily review., 1908-11-25
MIR. HILLS WEIRD IDEA.

Now comes James J. Hill to say that he believes the most rational, the most natural, the most highly profitable commercial status between Canada and the United States is ab- solute freedom of trade"
 We wonder in what school Mir. Hill learned this weird lesson. His ideas of political economy are too painfully simple. While he was developing an empire in the northwest, Dingiey, Payne, Cannon, Dalzell and Grosven- or have revised the old ways, and ra- tionalism, naturalism and all plans of general profit have been read out ot the scheme of Adem Smith, John Stuart Mill and Such dreamers of ab- surdities.
 Before such a suggestion as that of MT. Hill could be considered 1t would be necessary for him to prove that free trade Is unnatural, irrational and profitable only to the few. Could he do that he might have 1t fncorporat- ed in the revision of the Dingley law, on which the ways and means com mittee is now working with a view to changing without altering 1t.
Bisbee daily review., 1908-11-25
27.S62N,O

The Copper Queen output includes
 a certain proportion of copper from
 the Nacozari mines across the Mexi. can line, owned by Phelps, Dodge < Co.,, and treated at Douglas. All of the large properties in Arf. zona are now outputting at the h-gn. est point in their history. but not to the limit of their smelting or mine ca pacity. In fact, these companies could output, with their present capacity, 6,OOO,O 900 pounds of copper more per month than. they are now doing. A
 smelter is seldom operated to his full | capacity; for instance, the Copper | Queen has ten furnaces, but rarely
 has over eight in blast, while the Old ] Dominion has six and seldom operates but four continuously. The Shannon lhas three and operates but two. ILe Calumet & Arizona is planning to materially expand in order to take care of the prospective large increase 1 in production from the Superior & Pittsburg.
 1 The output of the Calumet & Ari- zona for October was about 1000, 600 pounds of copper n excess of its pre-
 vious normal output, but this Is due to the increased shipments from the Su- perior & Pittsburg. that company's | production amounting tU about 2,50U,- | 900 pounds.
 | It would not be surprising, in view of the abilities or the Arizona
 companies to expand if Arizona would 1 be able to maintain it's place at the
 head of the producing states Or terri tories.
 For the 1908 year, the territory will probably have a record production or about 295 5,000, 900 pounds. allowing a
 27 ,5O0. GOO pound production for the remaining two months of the year. | Production since the first of the year by months has been as follows:
Bisbee daily review., 1908-11-25

to the coffers of the railroads a sum estimated at from ss,000.o00 to $10,- 0O00, 900 annually in addition to the tribute already paid.
Bisbee daily review., 1908-11-25
OCTOBER OUTPUT IS3 BIGGEST ON RECORD
Arizona Copper Mines Now Produce More of the Metal
 Than Ever,

BOSTON, Nov ZE.-The territory of Arizona Is now turning out more copper than ever before in its his tory, or at the rate of nearly 28,000,- 900 pounds per month or 336,0000,000 pounds per annum.
 Indications point to an increase Tn this rate rather than a decrease. The mines that contributed this output during October were as follows: Lbs.
Bisbee daily review., 1908-11-25
EXPERT EVIDENCE.

Tommy faged 1o)--Dad. what Is the bone of contention?
 Mir. Henpeck-The jawbone.
Rock Island Argus., 1908-12-31
How Time Travels,

When st. Paurs strikes noon on
Jan. /, 1909, the new year will come
into being somewhere in the Pacific
ocean, on line following longitude
$50 east, which is exactly opposite
Greenwich meridian on the other side
of the globe. Geographers draw the
line to avoid passing through any of
the Pacific islands, for If it did the
times and days of the inhabitants
would be hopelessly muddled. Vanua,
one of the Fiji islands, for instance,
would be otherwise divided by the
line where the days and years begin
and end, so that while it would be
Jan. 1 on the western side it would
be Dec. 81 a few PAGES away on the
east of the line. One could thus walk
into yesterday and a moment later re-
turn tomorrow!
How the new year travels is curl
ously illustrated by its passage across
Great Britain. 1t reaches Greenwich,
as the time center, at midnight, exact
ly twelve hours after it started. Sew
Rock Island Argus., 1908-12-31
Ore !.
Nese, Year Of
1beHoboes.
In the Grotto of Modern Miracles,

n yOWHERE in New York city at
mi midnight on New Years eve is
there a buster throng of hurry
ing humanity than at the juno
ton of Park row and the Bowery. In
termingled with the throng are merry
panhandlers, as happy as the richest,
for New Years eve is their harvest
time.
Few of the panhandlers who fire.
quent the downtown districts are
plying their vocation as old Trinity
tolls out the midnight hour in the
chimes. The belated ones are hurry
in;; to a dive at Chatham square, there
to meet brother mendicants and joy
fully celebrate with the money beg
g2d from New Year shoppers.
Here one may witness nightly trans
formations more wonderful than in
the famous Court of Miracles in old
Paris which Victor Hugo describes in
"Notre Dame" The blind see, the
dumb talk, the hunchback loses all
traces of his deformity, the deaf hear,
missing limbs are grown in Il twin
king, and the lame discard their
crutches and dance in glee.
OF all the nights in the year the
gladdest in this dive in the Bowery is
New Years eve. Not until long after
the late dawn does the drunken rev
Rock Island Argus., 1908-12-31
DEAF AND DUMB.

The sign he casts aside, and. with
yell, he dances and laughs and calls
upon all present to drink at his ex.
pense. Above his head be waves a
five dollar bill.
Great graf"' he cries. <"T touch
er bloke fer de long green dead easy!"
Pedestrian Patrick discards a pair
of well worn crutches and stands up
straight on what before appeared to be
helpless limbs. II told his nobs dat
we'd pray fer 'imv' he yells.
at this point Blind Phil throws down
his sign and peers intently at the five
dollar bill to make sure it is genuine.
II didn't make that much all day."
he says ruefully ,S
Asleep near by, with his head bowed
on the table. is Bill, the humpback.
No one ever had more pronounced
deformity of the spine.
bill" cries Blind Phil-"Bill, look
at de long green Pedestrian and ST.
lent copped! Bill''- And then as Bill
does not awake from the slumber of
five cent whisky the "blind beggar''
hits the hump, and, 10. it goes with the
motion of his hand, sliding down from
Rock Island Argus., 1908-12-31
GREAT GRAFw HE CRIES.

elry cease, and then only when the
merrymakers have spent all of their
i'll gotten gains and are unconscious
to their surroundings.
The grotto of modern miracles is in
the rear of a saloon, room 40 by %
feet Around are scattered tables and
chairs of the cheapest kind. Thick
fumes of smoke from bad pipe tobac-
CO, the cheapest cigars made and nau-
seating cigarettes permeate the at
mosphere.
The stranger can hardly breathe.
Through the sickening atmosphere can
be detected the odor of vile beer and
still worse whisky that here is sold
for cents goblet.
From behind the partition q bar
tender. with half a nose and but a
small portion of his right ear to tell
the tale of his battles, dispenses liq-
uor through an opening to a hurrying
waiter.
At the tables sit the motley group
of hoboes, panhandlers and jailbirds.
Fortunate beggarS who have had a
prosperous day are spending money
freely, small change for the most part
Whisky and beer flow as they have
never flowed before in the year.
Nearly all the mendicants have ar
rived The last two, known as "Pedes
| trian Patrick" and silent James," are
| greeted with an uproar.
Hanging from the neck of Silent
James is the sign that reads:
Rock Island Argus., 1908-12-31
New Year Superstitions.

1t is considered a sure sign of death
to see ones own shadow in the moon
light on New Years eve.
You court misfortune by leaving the
house on New Year before some one
has entered it. You must hope for the
luck, moreover, Of having the first to
enter n dark haired man.
Seeking to know what good or evil
the New Year would bring, superstitious
people in the long ago girt themselves
with swords and sat on the roof of
their houses on New Years eve. They
also knelt at the crossroads ION a cow
hide) for the same purpose. The first
thing brought, one might think, would
be pneumonia.
| 1t is bad luck to carry anything out
of the house on the New Year before
] something has been brought In.
But the best luck of all. which even
those most scornful of portents may
not despise, is to begin the New Year
owing no man Philadelphia
! Press,
Rock Island Argus., 1908-12-31
BARRY IS WORN
OUT IN 18th
Unable to Go On and Al Kaufman is
Awarded Fight Before Jef-
fries Club.
NEITHER FIT FOR CHAMPION
Almost Absolute Lack of Science
Shown-Loser Said to Have Badly
Injured His Hands.

Los Angeles, Cal, Dec. 31.-Al Kauf-
before the Jeffries Athletic club. Bar
rvs seconds threw towel into the
ring in the middle of the 39th round,
after Barry had been beaten and was
all but out. The seconds claimed Bar
rvs hands were badly injured, and it
suffer punishment. Barry, however,
wanted to continue, though he was
completely exhausted and almost ouc
in the previous round. Both Kaufman
and Barry were badly punished, but
the formers strength was undimin-
ished.
Neither Had Science.
The contest from the standpoint OF
a scientific boxing match was one of
the very poorest that has been staged
here in years. Neither man showed
championship material, although Barry
exhibited gameness and cleverness.
There was much clinching throughout
the fight. The audience grew very
tired before the contest had proceeded
10 rounds.
May Stop Fights.
Sydney. n. S. W., Dec. 31.-William
H. Wood. chief secretary of New
South Wales, in an interview yester-
day. said that the prize fight situation
at Sydney was being given serious con
sideration by the government authori-
ties. as the Burns-Johnson contest last
Saturday savored Of being more brutal
and repulsive than scientific. He de-
clared that unless infighting was elimi.
mated boxing here would have to be
regarded as an illegitimate sport.
MI Wood said that an attempt
would be made to amend the law so as tC
make New South Wales less of happy
hunting ground for securing big stakes
than in the last contest, as it was moi
| desired that Sydney should correspond
with the Pacific slope regarding pug
| ilistic undertakings.
However, as a result of the low
character of pugilism indicated by the
fight on Saturday, the police will pre-
vent any other contest here betweer
Burns and Johnson.