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BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1908-03-17

[Gautler.-La novela de la n1omia.
Barley d Aurevilly.--La virgen viu-
! da.
:Salgari-El captain Tormenta.
CSalgari.-El leon de Damasco
iCollins.-La muerta viva.
!Champol.-La hermana AleiandrinaA.
iChampol.-Las que vuelven.
Assollant,-Dos amigos en- 1892.
CCherbuliez.-Miss Rovel.
Salgari.-La hija dc los Faraones,
lSalgarl.-El sacerdote Phtah.
;Dickens-E hiio de orc.
!Dickens.-El eco de Ia tormenta.
lDavidson.-El misterio de2 la calle:
Harley.
!1aoorlau.-El legajo MINING.
iGaboriau.-El hijo falso
:Monteill.-Juan de las Cadeuas.
IBalzac.-El cura de aldea.
:Pradels.-Agencia matrimonial
(About.-.Treinta y cuarenta.
;Salgari.-Los solitarios del Oceano.
estrecho de Torres.
( Feval Ell castillo maldito.
!Feval. Los vampires" parte de
fdem
iOPale.-La prlnceSa Helga.
! l. Pebrum. ito pedir de boca.
IL. Pebrun.-El simpatico cascarra-
bias.
lF6va' Los .mercaderes de plata
;3a parte de Ef Casttizo Makatto'
!Ffval.-La casa de Geldberg.-4ade
idem.
!F6val.-Los tres ghombres rojos.-sa
de ldem.
F6val :--El misterio de Ia Trinidad.
Ca de idem
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One Of tie
Essentials

of the happy homes of to-day IS a vast
fund of information as to the best methods
of promoting health and happiness and
right living and knowledge Of the worlds
best products.
Products of actual excellence and
reasonable claims truthfully presented
and which have attained to worldwide
acceptance through the approval of the
ell-Informed of the World; not of indi-
viduals only. but of the many who have
the happy faculty of selecting and obtain
ing the best the world affords.
One of the products of that class, of
known component parts, an Ethical
remedy, approved by physicians and COM
mended by the Well-Informed of the
World as valuable and wholesome family
laxative is the well-known Syrup of Figs
and Elixir of SIENNA. To get it's beneficial
effects always buy the genuine, manu-
featured by the California Fig Syrup Co.,
only, and for sale by all leading druggists.
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contempt of government and the law.
is no rude mountain woman of I'M
| couth bearing and rougher speech. She
is the embodiment of the twentieth
| century business woman a-bloom in
Kentucky hills.
So the quaint old Fouts homestead
was put in state of siege. The Win
chesters were cleaned, loaded and
made ready. The revenue men were
sure to come after that bold defiance.
And come they did, headed by Uni
ted States Marshal f. M. Blair, one of
the most determined and successful
men in the revenue service. With him
was a picked posse-and before him,
well barricaded by natural breast
work of impenetrable rock, was Mary
Fouts, the moonshine maid, with Win
chesters and ammunition enough to
stand off an army.
According to the officers story they
pressed forward, and then Mary Fouts
fired. She deliberately, say the reve-
nue. men, opened the fight and made it
possible for the revenue men to do
their duty. They returned the fire,
to man, but Mary Fouts was safe
behind the powders. Onward they
pressed, and for half an hour the mi
mic, one-sided battle ragged, then Depu-
ty Marshal Hiram Day fell sorely
wounded, and was carried away on a
stretcher by his bafaed companions.
What will happen to Mary Fouts
depends upon the outcome of Days
wound. If it prove fatal, as the doc
tors predict, Mary Fouts will have to
face a charge of murder without the
mitigating plea of self-defense, and
Uncle Sans sense of chivalry will
not be violated. But at the time OF
writing, Mary Fouts, the moonshine
maid, reigns undisturbed in the Ken
lucky hills, calmly shilling the corn
colored brew that is the pride and
Joy of Kentucky connoisseurs.
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play, and although no particle of gold
dust large enough to be readily de-
tected by the eye is allowed to escape,
the greatest care cannot always avoid
the falling of some small filings to the
carpet.
In purchasing these carpets great
judgment is exercised. Those are
sought in which the weave is as close
as possible, so that the material will
hold the scattered bits of gold 1t is
not unusual for the authorities to get
$4,000 worth of gold from an old car
pet. Other thrifty devices are used
in order to capture escaped particles
of gold. The floor sweepings are
treasured with the greatest care and
they furnish enough money to pay the
salaries of several employees about the
building. Much gold goes up the chin
neys and they are often scraped and
the resultant SCOT and dirt scanned
for gold. Employees who handle bars
of gold are not permitted to dispose of
the aprons, overalls or gloves with
which they are provided, for when
these articles are burned after they
have outlived their usefulness they
yield d rich harvest.
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THE CLEAN BARNARD.
II Is Absolutely Essential to the Pro-
duction of Pure Milk.

The barnyard is a considerable fac
tor in the maintaining of good dairy
conditions. 1t is impossible with
dirty barnyard to maintain good dairy
conditions. This is because the barn
yard is used every day, and if it is
contaminated the COWS also will be
contaminated and the air also in the
vicinity of the barn will be contain
mated.
The necessity for keeping the barn
yard clean is now so we'll recognized
that no one thinks of trying to pro-
duce the best of milk without having
barnyard that is also clean. Even
undertaking has been resorted to,
to give the necessary conditions OF
cleanliness.
The clean barnyard does not have
dirty water standing in it. Il is so
we'll drained that the water is drawn
off as fast as it comes down in the
form of rain. The shorter the period
during which water is in the barn
yard the less plant food will it carry
off because the less time will it have
in which to dissolve the fertilizing
materials.
1t has been found that in barn
yards on quite heavy clay the drains
should be laid under the fences along
the side of the barnyard. Otherwise
the animals tramp the clay hard over
the tile and make it impossible for the
water to get down to it.
Some farmers are going to the ex-
tent of paving their barnyards with
different materials that will not be-
come muddy when the rain falls. Some
use cinders and some coarse gravel.
In some experimental barnyards
cement has been used as basis.
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Fouts. The government felt that pa
tience, even with a fair woman, had
ceased to be a virtue. The dignity
of the law must be maintained, with
out bloodshed if possible, with blood
shed if necessary. But first diplo-
macy.
A revenue officer sent to Miss Fouts
by trusted friend to the moonshiner
this message in writing:
meet us at the schoolhouse on Bea-
yer Creek Thursday and promise you
will never violate the law, never
moonshine any more, and we will see
to it that you are fully pardoned for
ALL"
81 will never meet you," was her
curt reply, and to her mother she
said:
There's no use talking will keep
this still going in spite of all the gov
eminent. 1t is duty to you l mean
to fulfill. Father stilled all his life
and stilled good whisky. There is no
reason why we shouldn't keep up the
family reputation. They will never
take me alive" she is said to have
added.
For, you see, Mary Fouts, for all her
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but also that it would be more than
doubtful whether he could re-enter the
states subsequently. Therefore, the
only feasible alternative is to get a
wife over from Japan without going to
fetch her.
All this appears to have been an
ticipated very cleverly by the we'll
known Mr.. Shimanuki, a prominent
Christian. Some time ago he estab-
lished in the Koisikawa suburb of
Tokyo an institution called the Ryok-
kokai, which may be freely translated
Self-Help society.
The inmates of this institution,
mostly graduates from girls high
schools, receive education in all sub
jects likely to be of practical utility,
such as Housekeeping, cooking, sew
ing, typewriting, etc. In fact they are
expressly equipped to be the wives of
Japanese settlers in the United
States.
1t is between this institution and
the Japanese settlers that photo
graphs have been exchanged, and by
this means the settlers are enabled
to obtain helpmates whose qualifica-
tions and record are known and
whose appearance is rendered familiar
by the photographs. The idea is that
if the settlers thus marry and bring
up families, their sons will become
naturalized American citizens, and by
degrees the anti-Japanese feeling in
the United States will die out. The
conception seems eminently practical
and useful, nor can we doubt for
moment that the Japanese authorities
in Tokyo will refrain from interfering
with the program.-Japanese Weekly
Mail
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SHE GOT HER BEAR.
Prodded Him Out with Scissors, Then
TomahaWked Him.

AS for that grit of women-meaning
Indian women--which has been cele-
brated in a well-known book, there is
a story which is good evidence of their
physical courage.
A dealer in skins tells of squaw
who was walking along on her snow
shoes one day when her small boy saw
a bear buried up under the snow in his
winter sleep. She could not kill him
where she was, so she dashed pair
of scissors to sapling, prodded him
out, and smashed his head in with her
tomahawk.
81 gave her ten dollars for the skin. -
writes the dealer, $50 it wasn't bad
mornings work. Another ingenious
piece of hunting that / remember was
accomplished by an Indian who found
two moose in a yard-that is, the snow
clearing which the animals make
when the frosts are breaking up and
the snow is too sharp and brittle for
their comfort.
He crept up and got the female
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ling by the Chinese, q vice which is
INDUCED In on such scale and which
involves such evil results that the
presence of Orientals in general be.
comes Objectionable in the eyes OF
American citizens. Japanese agitation
for the suppression of this vice prom
ises to have the result of clearly diff
ferentiating them from its practice.
The second movement has for it's
immediate outcome this idea of nup-
tlals by photograph. There are about
100000 Japanese in the United States,
and fully 80 per cent. of them lead
single lives. Such a condition was
tolerable so long as settlers object
consisted merely in earning as fast as
possible enough to return home. But
in view of the anti-Oriental spirit now
prevailing in the United States, the
Japanese residents see that the only
practical remedy lies in becoming per-
manent settlers, and in carrying out
that program a wife is prime essen
tial.
To return to Japan, however, for
the purpose of providing himself with
wife means not only that a man
would have to incur great expense,
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BAN ON BOX HANGERS.
Dairy Barns Now Being Built With
out Them.

There are many farmers who do not
approve Of the use Of box managers.
The best dairy barns are now built
without them. 1t has been realized
that they are not only an unnecessary
encumbrance but often they are ex-
tremely dangerous. The box manger
can not be kept clean-it hinders
ventilation and it prevents the COW
from feeding in her natural position.
With small corners and tall sides
the box can not be satisfactorily
swept nor cleaned of the odd scraps
of feed which collect. This accumJl
lating dirt and dust becomes mcldy
and rotten, and attracts flies and rats.
It is further harmful, in that it be-
comes gradually eaten by the COW and
is harmful to her. The box manger
affords roosting place for chickens.
whose droppings become mixed with
the cows feed, with injurious effects.
Sweeping or shoveling the waste ma
terial from the manger does not thor
oughly clean the box, but removes
only the very largest pieces of dirt,
the small particles and dust remain
ing being able to do as much harm as
the larger ones.
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GoLD-BEARING CARPET.
Floor Coverings That Grow Valuable
with Age.

A requisition has come to the treas
ury department at Washington from
the San Francisco mint asking that a
new carpet be placed in the adjusting
room, as the one there now has been
worn out after ten years service. In
ordinary instances such a requisition
would excite no unusual interest on
the part of the treasury officials. but
in this case great care has to be taken
in removing the old carpet, for it has
become more valuable with each days
service, because it is literally lined
with gold dust.
The old carpet will be burned, and
il is expected that between $4,000 and
$4,000 will be realized from the ashes.
In the adjusting room at San Fran
cisco files are used to trim the surplus
gold from rough pieces. The gold is
first run off into blanks and then
stamped, so it frequently happens that
& piece is a trifle over weight or un-
even. The files are then brought into
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THE SAFE WAY TO BUY PAINT.

Property owners will save a deal
OF trouble and expense in keeping
their buildings properly painted, il
they know how to protect themselves
against misrepresentation and adul-
iteration in paint materials. There's
one sure and safe guide to pure and
thoroughly dependable White Lead
that's the Dutch Boy Painter" trade
mark which the National Lead Com
pany. the largest makers of genuine
White Lead, place on every package
of their product. This company sends
simple and sure little outfit for test
ing white lead, and valuable paint
book, free, to ali who write for it.
Their address is Woodbridge Bldg,
New York City.
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coffee boiler in her mothers kitchen.
At 16, her education finished, Mary
Fouts declared against muslin frocks
and cross-road dances. She wanted
| the free if hazardous life of the moon
| sinner.
A woman moonshiner! Even bold
Kentucky gasped.
Women there were who had protect
ed their men," and fought for their
men" and even died with their "men"
but a woman who wanted to be a
| leader of men in moonshining, well,
! that was going some!
A few years later, Mary Fouts came
into her own. Her father died, and
she became the head of his household
and the manipulation of his famous still.
And what was more, Mary FOuts
made a whisky of no mean reputa-
ton. She raised her own crop of
corn and coaxed it as only a farmer
who loves his growing things can
coax. And then she made it into the
right sort of whisky, pure and I'M
adulterated.
for any price, nor for the whole
world" said Miss Fouts in a recent
interview-and she meant it. No
head of a great food factory ever re-
garded the output of his establishment
with greater reverence and pride and
affection than does Mary Fouts the
product of her illicit still. And down
there in Kentucky when man wants
the real thing in whisky he demands
Mary Fouts' whisky, willingly pay
ing the higher price asked for her
brand.
Now, of course, the United States
government, with its mighty system of
officers and spies, was not ignorant
of Mary Fouts and her calm, unwaver-
ing violation of the laws. But how to
reach Mary Fouts without sacrificing
national pride by splitting the blood of
a woman who sinned only because she
thought it no sin, but her right, was
| a problem even. for a great govern
| ment If Mary Fouts would kindly
sneak out of her stronghold and MUIR
der a man in cold blood, then the law
might take it's course. But Mary Fouts
was distressingly peaceable and in
dustrious. She attended strictly to
her own business.
Mary Fouots did not come to town
nor haunt highways. But she certain
tainly did know how to guard her
property, particularly her still. This
had a natural barricade of rocks, and
behind this barricade Mary Fouts kept
a collection of Winchesters and am
munition which meant a fight to a
| finish-and it is sorry thing for a
posse of men to find themselves fight
ing against one intrepid woman who
had been guilty of no greater offense
than turning the product of her own
land into cash according to the meth
DDS followed by her ancestors for gen.
erations. And of these ancestors she
was as proud as the scions of English
nobility of the ancestors who fought
| under William the Conqueror.
But something had to be done.
| There were seven counts against Miss
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Down behind a natural fortress of
huge powders in eastern Kentucky a
woman who has not yet seen her thir-
tieth birthday is calmly, intrepidly
and successfully defying the mighty
government of the United States.
A few days ago, single-handed. she
beat back a posse Of the best revenue
officers Uncle Sam could muster. Her
aim is true and her belief in her SOW
ereign right to make her own brand
Of whisky from her own corn is SUI
preme and immoVable.
Mary FOuts, aged q, is America s
only moonshine maid, and she is a
moOnshiner by birth, inclination and
training. Her father was a moon
sinner before her, and the several ram
ifications of her family hold records
for battle with revenue officers that
any mountaineer might envy.
For 40 years the Beaver Greek dis
trict, on the t-Floyd-Letcher Dor
der, has been moonshine stronghold,
the scene of many a pitched battle
between moonshiners and government
officials. Blood of both sides has
stained it's narrow ravines and pic
turesque mountain paths If a record
of lives sold for the mountain brew
had been kept doubtless the greater
number of notohes would have been
cut by Uncle Sam. But when it came
to this woman, this tall, stalwart,
calm-eyed, sure aiming young woman
on her native heath, Uncle Sam was
baffied. Chivalry died hard, even when
backed by law and justice, and to send
his picked shots against woman was
more than even Uncle Sam wanted to
do. In time the clash had to come,
yet the woman won against the law
and its armed officers.
Mary Fouts was born in the rude
home where she now distills what is
said to be the best brand of whisky
obtainable in all Kentucky. Her baby
eyes studied the still, and her baby
ears learned to catch quick, ominous
whispers. Just as the child of the
proverbial artist accepts poverty as
the price of parental genius, as the
child of the king believes that royal
ty can do no wrong, so this child of
the mountains believed that making
whisky without government consent
was the inalienable right of hill peo-
pic.
Her parents were ambitious for the
little Mary, however, and sent her to
school, where she proved exception
ally bright, and acquired an amount of
book learning" which dazzled her
humble relatives. But she never for
got her love of the mountain life and
never lost her grip on mountain ira
ditions.
When other girls were writing notes
to each other or making paper dolls
Mary Fouts was drawing pictures of
stills, and finally she presented to her
astonished teacher a perfect repro
duction of a still. including the worm"
which she had evolved from some odd
bits of copper that came her way.
During her twelfth year, when home
on her vacation, she made run" of
very fair moonshine whisky in an old
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HOW TO PAY FOR GOOD ROADS.
n. n. Gross, Secretary of Good Roads
League, Makes Suggestions.

The one great thing needed in road
building is to prevent a waste OF
money and make every dollar count
for all it will. The general plan that
prevails in the middle west, except in
two or three states, is to each year
levy a tax sufficient to build say half
a mile of road and do this from year
to year. To get good roads upon the
main highways would require 20 to
40 years. 1t costs 20 per cent. at
least more to build short stretches of
roads than it does to build ten to
twenty miles at time. If this is
done the people have the use of the
roads at once and pay for them in in
stallments instead of building them
piecemeal.
Roads are permanent improvements
and should be built by bond issue,
and thus put the paying over a PEI
riod of ten to twenty years. That
means interest has to be paid, but it
also means the people have the roads
to use. If the use of the roads is not
worth more than the interest on the
bonds it would not pay to build the
roads at all.
To get good roads cheaply for the
farmers get a state aid law so every
body will have to pay road taxes;
then issue bonds and build the largest
mileage possible. Under state aid an
experienced engineer watches the con-
struction of the road and with a big
job to be doone competition is very
sharp and prices are usually low in
such cases. With this plan of build
ing and with state aid the tax on
farms is about half what it other
wise would be.
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The City
By REV. A. c. DIXON, D. D.,
Pastor of the Chicago Ave. tMoody's)
Church, Chicago.
christ

c. ri S t sent
forth his disciples
1.-TWO by two" into
every city. The
evangelization of
the world was be-
gun at Pentecost
in a great city.
The cities evan
gelized mean the
world evang gel
lied. DR.. Strong
says truly the
city is the nerve
center of our civil
cation"
T h e re w er e
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Horses with Mustaches.

1--WE got rarity, a horse with a
mustache," said a cabby.
The horse doctor looked the ungain.
ly animal over.
ut is rarity" he said, "a mustache
so highly developed. Lots of horses
have incipient, Chineselike mustaches,
but your nag has the mustache of a
grenadier-a regular soup strainer,
eh?
Mayhem and the other leading au-
thorities lay it down that a mustache
is the surest sign of a low-bred horse.
Certainly no one can dispute your an
imal's claim to low breeding. "-Phila-
delphia Bulletin.
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How's This?

We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any
case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Halls
Catarrh Cure
f.. CHENEY & CO., Toledo. o.
We. the undersigned. have known Il. ]. Cheney
for the last Is years. and believe him perfectly hon
orabe in all business transactions and financially
able to carry out any obligations made by his Arm.
WALDING, KINNAN & MARVIN,
Wholesale Druggists. Toledo o.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally. acting
directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces OF the
system. Testimonials sent Free Price rs cents per
bottle Sold by all Druggists
Take Hairs Family Pills for constipation.
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MARRIAGE BY PHOTOGRAPH.
Some Defensive Movements Undertak
en- by japanese in America.

The Asahi Shimbun has an article
which throws an interesting light on
the question alluded to in our last is
sue, namely, marriages by photo
graph between Japanese residing in
America and their countrywomen in
Japan. 1t appears that two move
ments of self-defensive nature have
recently been organized by Japanese
residents in the United States.
The first is crusade against gamb-
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You Know Both.

There is n sort of man who Is very
polite to your face, but who talks
about you after you are gone. There
is another kind of man who grumbles
about you to your face and let's you
alone when you are absent. The lat
ter sort of a man will last longer, with
all his faults, than the other man,
with all his politeness.-Newark
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sr,ror+ap+ IN Motbera.
shower of Sulnhur.

Charolies, a small town 30 miles from
Macon, in France, has recently been
visited by a shower of sulphur. The
roofs, gardens, fields, vineyards, rivers
and ponds were covered with a yellow
dust, and for some time the peasants
In the fields were troubled by a sui
phurous biting odor which made
breathing difficult.