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BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1909-09-14

Esaba vestida un trae de perca viejo pero bien
arreglado de heehura eegante, con un penuelo de
cresp0n negro ena sobre la mantilla de seda
doblada
A la saU5n estaba coecando panuelo de seda
grande algunos objetos bastante extranos.
Va habia 81 pedacito de sachichon, un panecl-
lilo tierno pasas amendras ahora estaba coocande
cajetia de tabaeo, lbrito de papel de fumar
una GAIA de f6sforos todo liado embellishments
5papel para que tocase las provsiones de boca.
Mentras este haeia eaian de sus ojos agunas lagrl
Despues de coocar los objetos enunciados lie alts
sin dHa ell valor dej6 de rodllas ante
dro que represenaba nuestra Selora de los Dolores
jiSe1ora y madre mia a!-exclam6,-i dadme fuerzas!
Esta cruz demasiado pesada para mis- debiles hon.
bros, seora, abruma peso Vovedle al buen
camino, NIare santa del que todo 10 puede por que
20 va Sc que hacer!
Det1vose la joven escuch6 atencion pues lie pa
reca haber dido pasos la escaera En- efeco algunas
personals subian, 81 bien lenta penosamente
Caslda sc levanto sec6 ojos, fue la mesa ocu
t6 los obietos que esaba coocando pa
huelo.
Apenas haba conclude esta operaci6n llamaron la
puerta.
La joven fue abrr su antigua present6 sus
ojos.
Pero cuaquiera hubiera dicho que aquea Rosario
la sonra de Ia ora que hemos conocido BELLA fresca
encantadosa
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1909-09-14
A|egdQS ' h6|GZQS de ID Vdo

La Vida iQue gran misterio In
|misterio tan profundo que la ciencia
|aun 40 ha podido descubrir.
Aloun0s son Uichos0s. viven sienprt.
con ia esperanza de que el mailana les
|traer;i mas Helicidades que el prcScn-
lie. Y no piensan. no refeXionan cue
|cada dla que transcurre es I'm paso mas
|cercano hacia la tumba. En- Gamble
otras personals son miserables, siempre
|estan tristes, pensativas. NADIA les agra
Ida, todo 10 aborrecen. y la vida les es
|mon0tona. e insoportable
Aqui una madre llora desesperada-
|mente sobre ell cadaver de su hijo, una
|novia bella y joven y pura derrama CO.
|piosas lagrimas, porque su amante le
|ha sdo infel.
ALI un joven Sc rie a carcajadas y
no sabe por que. Esta loco!
Ahora es de dia. Los pajaros cantan,
Ia brisa agita las hojas de los arboles
" las flores nos brindan sus perfumes.
Despues viene la noche. Una noche
|obscura, triste. Llueve, llueve canta-
|ros. las lagrimas brotan de .nuestros
|ojos.
LA Vida! Asi es Hoy somos fell
Ices. mailana desgraciados.
Ell pobre y ell rico, ell joven y Ell vie
lilo, todos vivimos, todos disturbances
de las alegrias y tristezas del mundo.
| Y no sabemos ell msterio de la Vida
Solo sabemos que llega I'm dia, un dia
que Dios ha fjado para poner fin a
|nuestra existencia.
Entonces no hay distinciones. Ell po-
|bre duerme ell sueiio eterno al lado del
rico. ell joven al lado del anciano.
~ la Vidal. ..... iQue profundo
|misterio
Jorge GODOY.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1909-09-14
q. s. 1.5O

as do mueha utilidad, ns solo pnEn
.os ADogados, Cortes Judisialss, Ayan
Corperaeionss y snpfendEp
10 todos los ramon, sine tanbiSn pnra
los comercisntes, industfiales y psTss
aas de regocics, el coneeimientv Do tas
.,eyes de Puerto Hieo sprsbsdas per
~ Cfm.rss y 81 conse9e H5ssufvs d
= Dp.edn sfio de 1867.
q. ~.nder 4 n 10 ~ II Tihrerfn 6es
Dole1u NoFoalvl
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1909-09-14
CASA EN- NlRAMAR

Sc vende una casa excepcionalmente
c6moda con 2,4OO metros de terreno, b6-
veda de mamposterfa, cuadra y cochera.
Facilidades para ell pago. Dirijanse
8 Behm Brothers.
Bsquina Tetuan y San Justo.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1909-09-14

Catedral-Dfas laborsbles: q, 30 y
.s-30-Festivos: 5, T. Soy II.
San Francisco.-Dfas laborableu: n
$50, y 7-3O.
San Jose.-Dias laborables: Z y 7-30.
'-Festivos: $50, Z y 7-3O.
Santa Ana.-Dias laborables: z "
7-30.-Festivos: 6 y 10.
. Puerta de Tierra.-Martes. DO.
mingos: 9.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1909-09-14
Gran estab|eclmient fotogid6co de R, Colorado

6IdIl cS|dDcCI|1NcIl(O Ol0gIdlCU ue Ii CU|O|dOU
Ell mejor estabecimento fotograco de las Anlas Toda
case de trabaos otografcos los mejores maeriaes
matografcas
Venta alquiler de aparatos pelicuas, toda c!ase
|de maeriaes accessories Cnemat6graos Vstas has
Posvos anuncios de toda case de ndusras los
|retratos de los anuncantes.
Grandes existencas nos dorados colores
Por mo vapor han ecbdo verdaderas precosidades
len este
|de peiculas dara prono las
prmeras peiculas fabricadas en- Puerto Rico.
Escrba pidendo inormes e contestant dandole
|tos detalles puedan interesar]e.
DIRECTION: Apartado 1S4-Telefono "a.
TELEGRAPH cabe:-Golorado.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-07-22


Imagination has a good deal to do
with troubles; it can both create and
intensity them. A writer in the Kan
sas City Journal tells of an incident
that occurred on Kansas train some
time ago. The rails spread. and the
engine, tender and baggage car left
the track, but the jar was not heard
enough to disturb the sleepers in the
rear Pullmans.
In the last Pullman the porter was
shining shoes, and thinking that the
train was stopping at an unusual
place, he went ahead to see what was
the matter. He was told that the en-
CINE could be put back again within
\ q couple of hours and the track re-
paired. So he went back TO his shoes.
Suddenly head popped out of one
of the berths and a man shouted:
Say, porter, what we stopping here
for?"
oh" answered the porter. I'VE had
s wreck"
"A wreck? Wow! Oh-oh-oh-oh
-wow--wow! My neck, My neck!
My chest. My back, Oh-oh-oh,"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-07-22

In drafting amendments to the
Payne tariff bill, the United States
Senate has not taken into account ths
effect which Major Baden-Powell de-
clares the operation of air ships will
have on international tariffs. The ma
ior. discussing aerial navigation in
the National Review, declares that fly
ing will become common means Of
TRANSPORTATION within four years. and
that such problems as the rules of the
air. recognition of international from
tier. the ownership of the air above,
and the establishment OF flying
squadron of police must be solved
soon.
Smuggling, 1t is declared, is Likely
to become easy and lucrative and the
restriction against alien immigration
of no effect on account of the insur-
mountable dif1culty of hating air
ships at frontiers.
Because OF the danger which Major
Baden-Powell believes is imminent, it
IA facetiously suggested that Congress
abolish duties on all commodities ex-
cept grain, coal and lumber and few
other bulky articles of commerce. Else
some dark night an airship load of
smuggled diamonds from Africa. Ted
DIV bears from Germany. knives from
Sheffield and brushes from Japan
might be landed in Toledo and Col
Bonner would never be the wiser.-To
ledo Blade.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-07-22
Luck ON the Stage.

Stock exchange men and racing men
regard luck as a side issue. They
follow 1t secretly and make excuses
for it If 1t goes astray, as II it were
q personal friend; but the actor has
a deep reverence for it. and supersti-
tious customs that sprang into OBJ
servancs during the Restoration period
are still mainl ined in the age OF So
cialism and problem plays. 1t is al
most pathetic to see the joy that
beams in the faces OF a theatrical
company at rehearsals IL harmless.
necessary cat strolls on the stage; but
IL the cat sits down and appears TO
watch the proceedings with approval
the joy becomes ecstatic.-Black and
White.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-07-22
One Sad Picture of the War.


Every effort should be made to show
the dark side of the war rather than
its bright aspects. Boys hear old sol
diers tell of the charge, the hand to
hand encounter, the heroic defense.
They see the waving flags, hear the
music, and watch a regiment of mill
tia march past, perhaps see a sham
battle at some reunion, and then i'm
agine that they understand all about a
battle. They forget to study the day
after the battle, when scenes are pre-
scented not so pleasant TO look upon,
scenes which show the dark side OK
war, and call for courage for a differ
ent type from that displayed on the
battle field. l will draw one picture
which Is Photographed upon my brain,
a picture that no painter can repro
duce with a brush.
During the battle Of Spotsylvania,
man was brought to our field hospital
with one arm torn away at the Shout
der and chest terribly lacerated. He
was a private soldier, but his dress
and manners, even there ON the battle
field. wounded and dying, showed the
cultured gentleman. He was a man Of
magnificent physique, and with nat
ural vitality that enabled him to hang
on to life for a time where nine men
out of ten would have died instantly
from shock. With the care and medi-
cal skill of large hospital, with per-
feet quiet and every surgical appliance
at hand, there was a shadow OF a
chance of carrying such a case through
successfully; but in the field surround
ed with wounded, in crowded tents.
each surgeon with over two hundred to
attend to, the hot sun pouring down
upon the canvas roofs, and above all,
the necessary removal from the front
over rough roads to the distant base.
made the case a hopeless one, and IL
was my painful duty to inform him
Of our decision. The man was a
Christian soldier, and death had no
terrors for him. A few messages to
home and loved ones, and earthly
things seemed to be dismissed from his
mind. He fingered for four days pa
tiently awaiting death, not a murmur
escaping his lips, when gangrene set
In and we had to place him in little
shelter tent, all alone and some dis
lance from the other wounded.
visited him at frequent intervals dur
ing the day and always found him
praying or repeating portions Of Scrip
ture Once / offered him a drink Of
whisky, but he declined, saying: Il
want to be sober when 1 meet my
God" When the boys of to-day try
TO picture the field of battle, they must
remember that there were dark, heart
rending scenes as well as glorious, ex-
citing charges.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-07-22
West.POfutera.

West Pointers were not all philo-
sophical. The Colonel of the writer's
regiment-now Major General s. S.
Carroll-who had recently been as
signed from the regular army, was
one day passing through the camp
when he overheard a strapping Irish
private giving impudence to a little
corporal, also an Irishman How dare
you speak like that to your corporal,
SIR" asked the Colonel In a sharp
tone. Whats It to you, you red-head-
ed -" was the mans answer. But
1t was scarcely out of his mouth when
the Colonel picked up a musket that
stood near him, and, grasping It near
the muzzle, swung the weapon around
his head, and struck the aggressive
fellow full on the sconce with the fiat
Of the butt. The man fell to the
ground and lay as II dead, and the
Colonel, with the indignant taunt,
THAT VIII teach you how to talk to
an oficer," passed on and paid no
further attention. In minute the
man sat up, rubbed his head, and with
the remark. BE gobs. the Colonel has
quick ha-d," arose and went about
his duty. here was no resentment
there, and when on the march a few
days afterward the Colonel riding
along the column espied the man he
had knocked down, he called out pleas
antly: Dan. how's your head?" Dan
answered, tits all right now, Colonel
But 1t was a hard knock you gave it.
General Carroll was man Of imperi-
Gus will and courage, but at the same
time he had immense tact In COM
handing troops. His men would go
through thick and thin for him.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-07-22
: w ork Of Congress

The House, after four hours debate
Monday. adopted by vote of 81 to
IA the joint resolution submitting TO
the various legislatures for ratifica-
ton the proposed amendment to the
Constitution empowering Congress to
levy an income tax. the Democrats vot-
ing to a man for the amendment Adj
journment was taken until Thursday.
-
The Senate was in session twenty
minutes Tuesday. adjourning at 1920
until Friday. The major portion of
the time of the sitting was devoted TO
discussion of the unanimous consent
agreement not to transact any bust
ness while the tariff conference is in
progress Senator Carter tried to have
passed a bill pertaining to the affairs
of the District of Columbia on the
ground that the bill was "such little
one" that no harm could result from
its passage But Senators Lodge and
Culberson, standing guard over the in
terests of the two sides of the cham
Der, objected and thus prevented ac-
ton. The House was not in session.
-
The Senate was not in session
Thursday. After a lively debate the
Democrats in the House failed in their
efforts to have a provision brought in
by Mr. Tawney appropriating $4,000
for President Taft's travelling expenses
ruled out or stricken out of an urgent
deficiency bill. The latter measure
was under consideration throughout
the session. Members on the Demo
cratic side were unsparing in their
charges of bad faith, because the
House at the last session, as they al
legged. pledged itself not to make any
additional allowances to the President.
Mr.. Rainey of Illinois gave as the rea-
son for its presentation at this time
the desire of the President to boost
the League of Republican Cluos
throughout the country.
-
The Senate was in session only
eighteen minutes Friday, adjournlne
at 1918 d. m. until Tuesday. In al
dition to the swearing in of Senator
Clay, of Georgia. the business consist
ed of the presentation of petitions and
the introduction of bills of minor i'm
portance. Feverish excitement over
the baseball game scheduled between
teams representing the Democratic and
Republican sides of the chamber was
responsible for a short session OF the
House. Chairman Tawney's desire wa:
to conclude consideration of the ur
gent deficiency appropriation bill, bu
strenuous pressure was brought Il
bear upon him, and the Speaker caused
them to agree to let the bill go Owe
until Monday. The only action of i'm
portance in connection with the den
cheney bill was the striking out OF TIT
appropriation of 100000 for participa
ton by the United States in the Brus
sells exposition. At 2:4i p m. TIT
House adjourned until Monday.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-07-22
NuRRINs OF NEWS.

Official orders have been issued at
Winnipeg, Man. prohibiting any Unit
ed States circus from parading the
streets unless it flies British instead
of an American flag.
Sherburne Nj. Becker. known as the
hoy mayor of Milwaukee" arrived in
San Francisco the other day on his
return from visit to the canal zone,
where he went on the invitation Of
President Taft.
Two daughters of a Montana ranch.
err named Mueller, living at Helena,
slipped into the Missouri river from
the bank and were drowned. They
were 20 and 16 years old. A brother
aged Is, was drowned trying to save
them.
The gold output of the Fairbanks
district in Alaska from the opening
of spring to June 80 is estimated at
s4,75O,OO0.
The will of the late George Mere
dith, author. was offered for probate in
l<OHuoi, 1llc WtTe
surprised to learn that he left an es.
tate valued at $161, 500.
The failure of eighteen New York
fortune tellers and palm readers to
foretell their own fate resulted in
their arrest by squad OF detectives
at the instigation of District Attorney
Jerome.
Martin ]. Reese, custodian of tho
New York city hall for twenty-eighi
years, died in New York hospital al
the age of Y. He was made a Grip
pie in the battle Of Bull Run, but con
sidered himself too much of q patriot
to ask a pension.
On application of the Union Trust
Company of Pittsburg, trustee, Oscar
Rohn, of Butte, was named as receiver
for the Pittsburg and Montana Copper
Company's property near Helena. Th'
complaint alleged the company had
defaulted in the payment of Interest
on S2,216,000 of outstanding bonds.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-07-22
OIeomargarine.

Secretary MacVeagh may ask Con-
gress to put a uniform tax of 2 cents
a pound on oleomargarine. The un-
colored pays a quarter of a cent and
the colored 10 cents. He reasons that
the government would get more rev.
enue. The 10 cent tax is so high
that INSCRIPTIONS men are continually
evadi1g it, They buy the uncolored
stuff. give it an attractive yellow hue
and sell 1t at a great profit for first
class butter The special agents of
the internal revenue bureau are al
ways on the lookout for them and
catch some, but there is so much
money in the business that others
take their place. With cent tax
the incentive to fraud would largely
disappear. The consumption of col
ored oleo, known to be such. would be
increased. The consumption Of oleo
which buyers are duped into believ-
ing is butter would be decreased
The government assuredly would be
the gamer IL the tax were lowered.
It is not likely that the butter inter
ests would be affected. The price of
butter Is so high now as to insure sub
stantial profits to the dairymen. even
II a larger quantity Of colored oleo-
margarine we're put on the market.
But IL is doubtful IL the dairymen
can be made to see this. After a pro-
tracted fight they succeeded in getting
the legislation which they believed
would put an end to oleomargarine
competition, and the probabilities are
that they are determined to hold on
to this protective legislation. In that
event it is not likely that Congress
can be persuaded to alter the tax
rates and put few millions In the
national treasury.-Chicago Tribune
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-07-22
Model Homes for Cities.


No utterance made at the recent
Conference on City Planning at Wash
ington has attracted wider attention
than that of Henry Morgenthau, who
said: I'VE now have in the ninety
one largest cities I'm the United States
%. OOO, 900 of population at least. Many
are dependent upon incomes of less
than $500 year. In twenty years
this number will be doubled What a
great service to this nation 1t would
be to solve their housing problem,
make healthy, patriotic citizens the
mainstay of the republic, instead Of
letting them drift into a disease-in-
fected, socialistically inclined mass.
and then spending millions of dollars
on hospitals to cure them, provisions
to punish them and police to repress
them"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-07-22
A Crime I'm France.

Although Oliver Wendell Holmes al.
when stamps were inclosed, Alexander
Dumas did not He kept their stamps
and used them himself. Some citizens
Of Marseilles have followed his exam
pie and have thereby got into trouble.
Paris dispatch to the Denver News
Tribune says.
A local wine merchant pestered
three prominent men in his district,
including a retired judge, with letters
offering his vintages and inclosing
stamps for reply and all kept the
stamps. Whereupon the wine mer-
chant lodged a complaint against them
for a swindlirg abuse OF confidence
and Appropriation of sums intrusted to
them.
The judicial authorities received the
complaint, acted upon it and opened
criminal proceedings against all three
persons on the charge Of appropriate
ing a 2-cent stamp each X seems
that no other legal course was open TO
the authorities than to proceed in the
matter. The sequel is worse.
1t is reported that the police. armed
with search warrants, have effected
domiciliary visits in the residences OF
the three accused persons in order to
discover the corpus deficit" in each
case-that is to say, the wine mer-
chants letter containing the stamp
for a reply.
If the stamp be found unused the
three accused persons will be order
ed to disgorge the property wrong
fully detained by them. If it be not
found the presumption. apparently.
will be that they used the property
and, logically. conviction for swim
ding should follow.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-07-22
A New "Joker- Discovered.

A goodly number of jokers have
been discovered in the Aldrich bill
A Joker is something which is con-
cealed and has a different purpose
from the one that Is apparent A
number of these jokers have been dis
covered and corrected.
Now a new joker has been found. 1t
has been discovered that large mer-
chandising establishment In Chicago
which has used its influence in excit-
ing the women OF the country in re-
gard to the duty that was proposed
to be put on high class gloves for
women. owns its own glove factories
I'm France The same concern has been
selling its own imported gloves to the
women of the Northwest for twenty
five years and has been paying no
duty, or IL any, it has been trifiing
The firm we refer to has been passing
in the public mind as a patriotic in
stitution, spending its own money for
postage and for circulars for the pub
lie good. Now 1t is discovered that
these patriotic individuals have been
working for their own interest and
have worked the women of the North
west to a finish. The concern when
1t went to establish a glove factory
did not establish 1t in Chicago. Elgin,
Rockford. Lake Forest or any place
in Illinois, but established 1t In
France. where cheap labor could be
had Now. they do not desire to pay
a duty on their own gloves made by
their own cheap labor in France. Such
selfishness makes the heart sick. But
the truth is out. Possibly 1t is knowl-
edge of facts like these which makes
Senator Aldrich the mean man which
he seems to be. Possibly Aldrich has
discovered that there are other mean
men besides himself and Lodge.
But a fact like this will not cut
any figure nor will 1t become known
widely. The other fact has taken deep
root. Furthermore, the ladies want
cheap gloves and they will stay by the
original proposition of having those
nice gloves that reach to the shoulder
come I'm without paying the govern
ment anything-Des Moines Capital.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-07-22
POfiCQ| Comment.
Is Eace the Music.

The oration tax saves all the
provisi1 of the income tax that are
constitutional and can be enforced.
The income tax is Urwise. unjust and
unconstitutional. while the corporation
tax is wise. just and constitutional
The Hon. Elihu Root, in the Senate,
July l.
This is lawyers view, not states
mans
Let not Mr.. Root or any other con-
stitutional lawyer deceive himself. 1t
is not by labelling groups of citizens
and their wealth as industrial" or
mercantile" that special burdens may
be imposed on them from which other
citizens and their wealth shall be free.
The business men of this country
will accept the situation. They will
not welcome 1t. but they will be re-
signed to it, provided they are not
subjected &c government espionage,
regulation and control.
The corporation tax, having been
deprived of its inquisitorial features,
will be accepted by them on the prac-
teal ground that the government must
have revenue. They will make their
business arrangements accordingly.
But let it not be imagined that bust
ness incomes will be taxed and other
kinds OF income escape. The plain
eqSities of the case will make it sure
that there finally will be no exemption
that all incomes will be treated
alike.
That a $4,000 mercantile income
should be taxed and a $4,000 lawyers
income, a $4,000 physicians income
a $4,000 engineers income or a
$1,000 preachers or college presidents
income should go free, is an absurdity
and inequity so manifest that the mere
statement of it is sufficient to point
the way.
No matter what Mr.. Root or any
other lawyer may argue, the taxation
of corporation incomes will inevitably
be extended TO the taxation of all in
comes large enough to make the tax
worth collecting.
II this be unconstitutional. a way
will be found to make 1t constitu-
tional. The way to do so lies plain
and open. 1t Is by constitutional
amendment
The spirit of American institutions
will not permanently tolerate Unequal.
fly of citizens or of groups of citizens
and their wealth before The law. A
lawyer may be deceived by a label
A statesman would not be so deceived
and the American people will not be
so deceived.
We are embarking on new policies.
Let us not blind ourselves as to their
nature. Let us face the music.-Chi-
cago Inter Ocean