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BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1908-03-26
De artG Y artstaS

Hoy nos han visitado en- nues-
ira redaccion los seflores Frei-
xas, Sotorra, Blay, Vidal, Gui-
raud y Juaneda, artistas de la
compailfa contratada por la Mat-
Sico Zeatr0I, haciendonos pre-
sente que Sc habfan constitufdo
en- union de sus compaferos en-
empresa artistica v que pensa-
ban reanudar las funciones Ell
proximo sabado con la zarzuela
"El rey que rabio."
La competencia de tan apre-
ciables artistas y los buenos de-
secs de que todos estan anima-
dos, hace presagiaT que CANA
ran laureles y dinero.
Nosotros, por nuestra parte,
deseamos que sus propositos sc
vean colmados y en- NADIA les
|regatearemos nuestro apoyo,
para empresa tan justa como
laudable IA trabajar y a triun-
far!
Tambien nos han dicho los
citados selores, que el simpa- :
tico y apreciable actor senior
|Casas reingresa en- la compaflia.
Despues hemos sabido que
no. Ell mismo sefor Casas nos
10 ha dicho, rogandonos para
manana la publication de una
Carta.
La disting uida tiple seflorita
Arregui Sc encuentra algo deli
cada, hacemos fervientes votos
por su pronto y complete resta-
blecimientO.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1908-03-26
Information del Gobiierno


Esta manana d las doce POGO
antes de entrar los reporter"
en- la ofcina del Gobernador
fuG llamado dicho funcionario
por TELEGRAPH desde Santurce.
Mr.. Post manifesto que habien-
do escasos asuntos de intereS
para la information dc la prem
sa, le excusaran los periodistas.
pues salia q visitar d TN estima-
do amigo, Mr.. Green, el cual
acababa de sufrir una indispo-
sicion repentina de gravedad.
Los reporters" SC retiraron Y
POGO despues sali6 el Goberna-
dor para Santurce acompanado
del comandante Lutz.
Debido d este inesperado acci-
dente MIR. Post no ha podido.
como de costumbre. informar
hoy.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1908-03-26
Los nOnbraniIpntoS de hoy

En- la session de esta tarde del
Consejo Executive, seran pro-
puestos los senores siguientes
Don Agapito Conception pa
"a CONCEAL de Camuy, por re
nuncia del senor Fabriciano Ro-
man; don Vicente Urrutia con-
cejal de Anasco, por renuncia
del senor Jose A. Caballero; don
Jose Nieves conceal de Arroyo,
por renuncia de don Francisco
Alvarez Miranda.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1908-03-26
Don NiicaSiO APSuaga

Aver Sc ha despedido de nos
otros, de viaje para Espafia.
este amigo distinguidfsimo, que
va a fljar su residencia en- Ia
vleja metropoli.
Don Nicasio Arsuaga, es sociO
de la opulenta casa bancaria de
esta Ciudad Sobrinos de Ez-
quiaga y Ca, y es popularfsimo
entire todas nueStras classes So
clales por sus iniciativas, pOr
sus talentos emprendedores. Dor
su ejemplar sencille9 y afabili-
dad que lie han conquistado la
admiration y simpatfas gene
|rales, en- TN grado supreme.
Ell seflor Arsuaga lIevaba mu-
chos afios de residencia aqui.
Al marcharse, no nos habl6
de su regreso; tai vez su mar
cha es deflnitiva. De todos mo
dos, Y en- I'm grado mas sensible.
ST la ausencia del amigo estima-
disimo Sc prolonga. la sociedad
de San uan, la vida de las al
tas 6 importantes especulacio-
mes hnancieras y la Colonia Es-
|paflola. pierden TN valioso ele-
mento irreemplazable.
Prueba de la altisima estima-
ci6n en- que le tienen aqui las
mas principales personalidades
de San Juan, es Ell ndmero de
los amigos que fueron a despe-
dirle a bordo, a cuyos votoS
unimOs los nuestroS en- ell deSe0
de que lleve I'm viaje feliz.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1908-03-26
NOb|eZa ObIga

Nuestro amigo el Consul Genera
Dominicano, don Juan E. Medina, nos
suplica la publication de la siguiente
carta; tanto, segdn expresa, para su
propia satisfaction, cuanto para hacer
merecido honor 4 su autor el dist;n-
guido y correcto caballero Sr. Euge-
Mo Deschamps, su adversario poll
tico.
La Tore, Ponce, 22 de Mario de
1908.
Sefor den J. E. Medina,
Consul de la Rep1blica Domini-
cana.
San Juan.
Distinguido seflor mio:
La politica tiene sus exigencias y
las relaciones sociales tienen las su-
yas. Suelen aquellas supeditar de
luego luego las segundas, pero es-
tas resultan, en- oportunidades, suh
cientemente podorosas para recobrar
su imperio Digolc este porque ten
go la necesidad de escribir usted
las presentes lfneas para decirle cuan.
to agradezco las expontaneas atencio-
mes que Sc dign6 usted prodigar mi
esposa en- su 1ltimo viaje 4 mi pals.
Acepte usted mis- gracias mas cum
plidas, y crea que en- cualquier opor-
tunidad tendr6 especial placer en- po-
der serle it'll grato.
Soy de usted, con toda considera-
cion, alto. amigo y SECURE servidor
(Firmado) EUGENIo DEsCHAMPs
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1908-03-26

Para el puesto de Superin-
tendente de elecclones suena el
nombre del senor +. w. Keith.
que ha desempenado brillante-
mente en- las pasadas eleccio-
nes el puesto de Sub Superv1-
sor, mereciendo por sus trabaios
en- dicho ramo, mercedes aplau-
SOS del gobierno Y de la prensa.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1908-03-26
La function del CiincnatigraI6i

La function de anoche del
Cinematografo de los seflores
Portell & Ca. resulto tan concu-
rrida como de costumbre. Las
peliculas llamaron poderosa-
mente la atencion. principal
mente IPobre madre! Elixir de
la fuerza, Y los Mineros, que al
canzaron IN gran exito. Para
esta noche Sc preparan nuevos
estrenos de gran tuerza comlca.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1908-03-26
Los ddiCilS del Iede1|0alO
LOS SeLL0S lNUTILIZAD0S
y los agentes de rentas internas

Los faDrlCanteS y los venue :
dores de tabacos, estan sufrien-
do desde hace tempo, uno de
los grandes perjuicios que el
engreimiento de los funciona-
rios y la falta de metodos y de
procedimientos ordenados con-
sienten en- perjuicio de los in
duStriales, de los cOmerclantes
Y del publico.
Tratase de Ia inutiliZaci0n de
los sellos de rentas 1nternas,
que es indispensable poner al
tabaco elaboradO.
Para la penosa y por- 10 v1sto
dihcilisima operaci6n de mutt
liar las estampillas del flsco,
la Tesoreria no Sc ha d1gnado
dar las instruccioneS cOnve-
n1enteS.
Esta al arbitrio, al capricho
de los Investigators de rentas
internas, ell conceder Q negar
que los sellos han sido deJados
inservibles por la honradez del
industrial 8 del comerciante, que
no pretende suplantaciones de-
fraudadoras para los fondos del
teSOrO.
Tienen el tenor los agentes
del fsco, de que TN sello pueda
ser utilizado mas de una vez,
ST no tiene bien percepribleS y
notorias las senales, las marcas
de haber sido inutiliZadO. Y
para esto no sc han dictado re-
glas fijas, no Sc ha dicho de un
modo francamente ohclal, como
es que sc inutilizan los sellOs
de rentas internaS.
Los agentes han dadO sus ms
trucciones personales. han ex-
plicado la operaClon a su capri
cho y . sus gustos PERSONAL
simos.
Y as1 resulta que, 10 ordenado
por el uno, resulta a disgusto
del otro, que 10 que este dispuso,
10 encontr0 malo aquel, que por
t0das parties ven fraudes y fal
slficaclones, los celOsoS funciO-
narios, y como son ellOs los
arbitros, los irresponsables con
seieros Y los irresponsables acu-
sadores, comerciantes { indus
triales sc ven forzados q sufrir
las deprlmenteS sOSpeChas. las
1nluriosaS aCusaciOneS. los in
Justos castigos, sin saber de
una vez Y para siempre, que
medtOS p o n para ev1tar-
los, puesto que la alarmante fe-
cundidad de nuestros tutores,
no ha encontrado. por 10 visto
Ell los estrechos l1mites de una
circular aclaratoria, OCCASION de
fascinarnos con una de esaS pas
mosas elucubraciones en- que sc
explaya Ell 1ngenio redentorista.
En- espera de esa circular,
conteniendo | a indicaciones
precisas, estan los ind ustriales
tenidos en- sospecha por los in
vestigadores. cuyas incompren-
sfbles v mudables indicaciones
sobre el case, han sido la causa
evidente de la perturbation que
denunclamos.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1908-03-26

I'm RUEGO..,
Luisa Porrata Doria,
En- su album.
En- la pagiua blanca de tn album
al final de una rima,
voy poner mi nombre de poeta,
encantadora nina.
ST no 10 miras como ell de un extrafio,
81 10 aprecias en- algo, ST 10 estimas,
81 ha evocado en- tn alma a,gunas veces
ensuef1os de poesfa -.
lie quieres pagar esos lnstautes
de veDturosa dicha
iabrasalo en- ell fuego de tus ojos
y bahalo en- la luz de tn sonrisa!
u. Pfre$ LOSNdA
San Juan, P. r.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-04-18
One Of the
Essentials

Of the happy homes of to-day
vast fund Of Information as 10 =
best methods Of promoting healtn ..
happiness and right living and kn0'
ledge Of the worlds best produces
Products Of actual excellence
reasonable claims truthfully presea, \
and which have attained to Wo'I
wide acceptance through the appi0' i
of the Well-Informed CT the Won
not Of individuals only. but CT
many who have the happy facai"
selecting a1d obtaining the best 1
world affords.
One Of the products Of that :.
Of known component parts, an E'u'
remedy, approved By Physicians
commended by the Well-1neornea
the World as q valuable and WE
some family laxative is the Weii-ka'
Syrup Of Figs and h;lixir of Senna
ret its beneficial effects always
fae genuine, manufactured py
california Fig Syrup Co., only,
u sale ~ AL leading Druggists
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-04-18

We Work, Eat and Drink Too Much.
Physicians have long been preaching
the doctrine that American business
men live too fast. With the telegraph,
the ocean cable, the telephone and
other modern facilities the man of at
fairs can do in one hour work that
formerly would have occupied six. 1t
might be thought his working day
would be correspondingly shortened.
Nothing Of the sort has occurred. The
speed with which trade can be effected
has simply accelerated his pace, and he
not only works faster but more hours
than ever, with corresponding increase
Of business and responsibilities. To
keep up this energy he eats too MUGS
sometimes drinks too much-for a
man who spends most Of his working
hours at his desk and takes no open-air
exercise. Physical deterioration Is in
evitable, and when period Of more
than usual stress and anxiety arrives
he Is liable to succumb.
What American business men must
learn Is to slow down, take wholesome
recreation, and above all quit worry
ing, even over real troubles when they
come, whereas most of them now worry
over troubles that never come.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-04-18
Counting Our Mercies.

There is one kind Of mental reckon
ing In which every Christian believer
should be proficient and it is, in reck-
oning up the mercies which kind
Providence continually sends. Count
your mercies, for as you do the mercy
will grow. AS sorrow brooded over
seems the worse SO grace meditated
over appears the more lovely, gracious
and helpful. Gratitude has sometimes
been defined as lively sense Of favors
to come, but it is certain that the very
effort to recall the favors God as
shown in the past both honors Him
and prepares the mind and heart the
more intelligently and profitably to use
such blessings as may yet be In store.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-04-18
NATURE AND ADVERTISING
What Publicity Did for Mammal
Caves q Half Century Ago.

What Publicity Did for Mammoa
Caves a Half Century Ago.
What happens when advertising stOu
is well shown in an article recepth
printed In the Philistine. The wrIte
takes up the Mammoth cave Of Ken
lucky as an example Of what publiclu
does for even a wonder of nature.
Up to about 1870 the cave was we'll
advertised. As the Philistine remarks
visit to it was considered sort Of
finishing touch to ones education and
a person who could not talk intelligent
~ about 1t had no standing In polite
society.
Records kept at the Mammoth Cave
hotel from the time it opened in 1881
show that while the place was being
advertised In various ways the number
of visitors was many times what 1t IS
now, when the publicity promoter
knows 1t not. In 1914, for instance
when the population was less than
twenty millions, instead Of the eighty
odd millions of to-day, those who cams
to see the natural curiosity NUMBERED
on an average ninety-three day. They
Travelled hundreds and thousands NJ
miles-for many crossed the Atlantis
to behold 1t. Sixty-One years later-n
!. 19O6-the average. was less than d@
en- a day.
The public simply has been permit
ted to forget that Kentucky's MANNED
cave exists. The man who owned y
died In 1869, and his thirteen helm
scattered all over the country, simp1
devoted themselves to Spending the ID
come that they derived from the ~
head admission fee. They thought TIE
financial stream would keep on rlnnIu:
without any expenditure on their part
for advertising. They have been dls
appointed, OF course.
As soon as the advertisement was
abandoned the people became lndlnef
ent about the cave, and finally 1t t1gure'
no longer as one OF the great snOH
places of the world.
In the language Of the PhlllsuD'
caves are not necessary to human nay
piness until some man by astute ad'e|
Using fills men and women with vi
sire to see them, and when the aa'sr
Using ceases the desire ceases also'
Liberal advertising Is essential VI
success. The story Of the Mammoth cav,
Of Kentucky is only one Of thousaOu
that prove the truth Of this.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-04-18

dependency, doubling Thomas found
the Christ as q risen and a resurrect-
ing Savior he owned that Christ az
his Lord and Master. MY Lord and
my Godr' was his cry. It was z
personal appropriation Of the Redeem
er. Every man who is working out
from the cloud of unbelief to faith must
come to the point where he finds IN
Jesus his Lord. While Christ would
teach men, He must also rule them
and no man has placed himself In the
right attitude to Christ until he can
sincerely cry in the words OF Thomas
adoring reclamation, my Lord and MY
God." The attitude Of obedience Is the
first requisite In the new believer 1or
a further revelation OF his Redeemera
will.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-04-18
The Free Man.

To 90 in and out of house at Will
is the mark Of perfect liberty. 1t Is
the mark, not Of servant nor even
Of a guest, but Of son; he who at
will goes out and In is conscious that
he is a member of the family. Our
Lord says that the saved man Is the
free mantle manwho goes In and out
at the door. He says that the saved
man has alone the right to be called
the man Of the world, alone the right
to come out into the secular pleasures
Of men. He says that such man
will not only get no harm from the
world; he will get positive good from
it, che will find pasture" He will get
from the things around him what he
has brought to those things-a pure
heart.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-04-18

The efforts to exterminate the plague
In New South Wales led to the killing
last year of over 9l,00O mice and rats.
Plague germs were found In 123 rats
and eighteen mice.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-04-18

AT the Set Of the sun.

At the Set of the SUM-
At the set of the sun,
When our work is done,
With all it's tangled web;
When the clouds drift low,
And the stream runs slow,
And life is at it's ebb;
As we near the goal,
When the golden bowl
Shall be broken at it's fount;
With what sweetest thought
Shall the hour be fraught?
What precious most shall we count?
Not the flame Of the sword,
Nor the wealth we have stored
In perishable things Of earth
Not the way we have trod
With the intellect broad,
Though that were of precious worth.
Nor the gain we achieved
Through the hearts we have grieved,
And left unhelped by the way,
Nor the laurel of fame,
When, for worldly acclaim,
We toiled in the heat and the fray.
All, no! tits not these,
Will give our hearts ease.
When life sinks low in the westS
But the passing sweet thought
Of the good we have wrought,
The saddened lives we have blest
And the love we have won,
And the love reckoning on
From His islands far and dim;
Love out of the light,
Shining into the night,
The night which leadeth to Him.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-04-18
ONE LONG STREET IN ITALY.

Paved State Road Which Skirts the
Mediterranean from Nice to Spesia.
The whole northern shore Of the
Mediterranean, from Nice clear around
to Spezia, four hours by express east
of Genoa, is one long street. That street
Is q splendid, paved state road, running
along a bank high above the sea. To
the right villas have their front doors
on the street, while their gardens and
their lemon and palm groves descend
steeply to the sea.
To the left the splendid maritime
Alps, fold on fold, covered with an
ocean Of verdure, keep step all the way,
and the villas are powered among them,
their gardens descending to the street.
Now and then rivers and brooks break
through the mountain wall, and one
gets enchanting glimpses up long
ravine, cutting deep into the hills, with
perhaps a gray old castle high on some
rocky precipice.
At intervals are little pink villages,
each with Its little central square, it's
little old church that was there before
the village came or the barbarians Of
the North found out that the Riviera
was a pleasant place to live. One Of
the queer things about these villages
to the American is that there are abso-
lutely no little one-family houses such
as make up American villages. All the
people live in great pink apartment
houses.
One loses almost the whole Of this
in travelling by rail, for he travels
through the bowels of the earth, with
all that glorious Riviera ), above him,
and only brief, maddening glimpses
through windows In the walls that
shut him In. The Italians have a to-
tally different system Of railroad con-
struction from ours. 1t is all tunnels
He who hopes to see Italy from car
window will be disappointed. He viii
see nothing but black hole through
which he shoots with dismal monotony.
New York Press.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-04-18
Sure About one Of Them,

"The man who painted that spurious
picture was an artist, at all events. !"
said the connoisseur.
II don't know about him." answered
Mr.. Cumrox, ruefuily, "but the dealer
who sold it to me was"
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-04-18
The Boni variety.

"You refuse meY' snapped the littlf
count twirling his waxed mustache.
: II do" replied the sensible heiresS
coldly.
Poor girl !"
Eyes, would be poor girl IL / had
you for a husband"
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-04-18

According to statistics, one woman
out Of million can open a TELEGRAM
with as little emotion as she display,
In opening can Of corn.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-04-18

Tigers are greatly on the increase in
Burmah, owing to recent legal restrlc.
lions on the carrying Of armA
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-04-18

Few, husbands ever stop to tn'n
that in the years to come thelr w. :.
win be talking about the pies 1'''
mother used to make.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-04-18
CHAPTER XvII.-(Continued.)

~ lI.-NSOhIAoS
1 felt as IL the floor had suddenly sunk
away from under my feet; but l was too
old to let 1t be seen, and said as calmly
as l could:
"Well, sir, go on. You have not come
here simply to make that statement,
presume"
That's one charge; but mark me!' he
said, pausing to put his finger 10 the
side of his fat nose, where he kept 1t as
he continued: Mark me ! it isn't the only
one-more than one witness to be pro-
duced There's another charge-charge
more serious than stretching rope cross
road-upsetting you.'
And pray what charge Is that, Mr..
BaxY l asked with pretended indifer-
ence.
"a criminal charge. We reserve ire
spect for Mr. Lynn Yeames' feelings.
Here's the fact-we can throw will into
chancery, and ruin DR.. Awdrey, if we
make facts public. Lynn Yeames does
not wish to proceed; Mrs. Yeanres does.
SO do l. To meet Lynn's wishes we will
abandon proceedings'-once more he laid
his stubby finger on his stubby nose, ION
condition"
TELL me straight out what you mean
by that" l said.
81 mean-our side abandons proceed
ings-written guarantee and all that sort
of thing; you OF your side pay over IN
terest on money left in trust for Miss
Flexmcre. Audrey processes he has no
right to money-give it up to Lynn, who
has Loses nothing avoid scandal
saves reputation. There you are"
"Have you anything more to add to
this proposition? 2" l asked.
Nothing except this-stay proceedings
for a week-time for you<o arrange with
Audrey, and give us decision. One week
from to-day-you understand?
Perfectly well; there is no necessity
to keep you waiting a week for a decis-
ion; you shall have it at once. On behalf
of my client and myself, l refuse to have
anything more to say to you. Let me say
in conclusion, you pettifoggng rascal, y
said 1, rising and giving free vent to my
anger, that if you could prove your Grim
inal charge against DR.. Audrey, am the
last person in the world who would COM
pound felony, but the first who would
take measures to punish the man who dlo.
Get out of my house"
He got up on his little legs, gasping
and stammering, dropped his gloves out
of his hat, got purple in the face in
picking them up, gasped and stammered
again; but quickly made his way through
the open door with his small blue eyes in
the corner, for all the world like pig
bolting past a driver. Mrs. YeameS' de-
scription of me or her sons, for l had
no faith in his standing out, had evil
IDENTIFY been not flattering, and he had
thought to find in me a shutting scoun-
drel of his own stamp.