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La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1909-11-06

Lecciones de piano. La seho-
rita Lola Mas, ofrece dar clases en-
SUI casa 8 q domicilio. San Juan.
CristO 7.
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1909-11-06
De SAN JUAN,

DR.. Lopez--Antongiorgi.-Me-
dico cirujano. Consultas de l a 3 p.
M. Consultas y operaciones en- la
isla. San Juan. Telefono 234.
Gale del Cristo 5.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-02-04

purveyors of written misinformation,
and with the fantastic fairy tale pic
lures of the yellow cartoonists. The
car-seat student of American affairs,
who assimilates pseudo-political econ
omy from headlines and cartoons, has
been led to believe that a few mag
nates' own the railroads, the industries
and the banks of the country, and that
they are leagued together to enslave
"the common people," But the cold
figures, as revealed in the stock books
Of the corporations, tell very different
story. The widespread ownership of
the corporations is striking evidence of
the faith the great body of Industrious,
thrifty Americans have in corporate en-
terprise, despite all recent disclosures
of the misuse of corporate power by the
INSCRIPTIONS. This faith was shown,
as it never had been before in our his
tory, in the recent disastrous financial
panic, when hundreds of thousands of
small investors came into the market
place with their savings to take rail
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-02-04
A Protest That Will Prove Futile.

The United States Marine Corps,
which ives recently relegated to shore
duty by order of the President, is evil
IDENTITY putting up a fight against the
revolutionary change in its status as a
naval factor. The subcommittee on the
Naval Academy and Marine Corps has
requested Secretary Newberry, Admiral
Dewey and other officials of the Navy
Department. to appear before 1t Tor IN
terrOgatiOn as to the permanent trans
fer Of the marines to guard duty ashore.
The ultimate object of the committee S
val appropriation bill of a provision re
quiring the Marine Corps to be restored
to its traditional service.
The opposition to the transfer OF the
marines to shore service is not unexpect-
ed. Progress is never achieved without a
struggle of some kind. The marine has
had a comparatively soft berth on board
ship, and the sea voyages which such
service insured for him have been an
attraction which recruiting officers have
made conspicuously useful. But the ma
rines must themselves realize that the
days of combined soldering and sailor
ing are about over, because the modern
sailor has become more soldier than sea-
man. and every battleship is now prac-
tically manned by marines. Real sailor
work. constitutes only an infnitesimal
part of the labor aboard modern fight
ing ships, which have no sails, and carry
only small amount of gear that is ia
miliar to real sailors.
1t is not clear, therefore how friends
of Directing officers of the Marine Corps
can expect to make a winning fight in
Congress for the perpetuation of a
branch of war service that has been
made obsolete for duty afioat through the
absorption of such duties by men who
were formerly fully occupied in the
handling of the ships.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-02-04
Obeying Orders.

Some years ago the Yankee schooner
Sally Ann, under the command of Cap
tain Spooner, was beating up the Con-
necticut River. Mr.. Comstock, the
mate, was at his station forward. Ac-
cording to his notion of things, the
schooner was getting too near certain
mud-fats which lay along the port
shore. A writer in Everybody's Maya
zine tells the story
The mate went aft to the captain,
and with his hat cooked on one side,
said:
"Cap'n Spooner, you're getting a lee
tie too close to them flats. Hadn't We
better go abeout?"
The captain glared at him.
"Mr. Comstock, jest you go for'ard
and tend to your part of the skinner.
I'll tend to mine"
Mr.. Comstock went forward in high
dudgeon.
"Boys," he beloved out, "see that
that mudhook's all clear for letting
gow
AYE, aye, sir
"Let CO. them" he reared.
Down went the anchor, out ratified
the chains, and like flash the Sally
Ann came luffing into the wind, and
then brought up all standing. Mr..
Comstock walked aft and touched his
hat "Well, cap'n, my part Of the
skinner is to anchor"
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-02-04
Diamonds in Colorado?

What. another American diamond field!
American diamond fields have been nu-
merous enough in the past, but richer
in promise than in yield when located
north of Brazil. The latest discovery
is reported to be within one hundred
miles of Pueblo Colorado, and so opulent
that it will rival South Africa and
astound the civilized world.
The man who vouches for its exist
ence ought to know, for he is Gen. Van
demach. who is a mining engineer and
diamond expert, besides being an ex.
leader of the BOer army and the hero OF
the battle of Three Kopjes. He has
been in this country for several years,
and has spent not little time in the vi
cinity of Pueblo.
Gen. Vandemach is by birth not a
Boer but a Hollander, and received his
first professional instruction in his faith
er's diamond establishment in Amster-
dam. IF what he affirms turns out to
be true he will become a wealthy man,
for he will be in the developmental work
ION the ground floor" The diamonds
are said to emit the steel blue blaze
which was so much esteemed by the
late Cecil Rhodes and which commands
the admiration of jewelers. and connois-
Seurs.
George Frederick Kunz, Tiffany's gem
eyrert, writing on the subject of Pre-
cious Stones of the United States for
recent report of the government Geo
logical Survey, said there are four re-
gions where diamonds have been met
with in this country: l, The Pacific
coast. chiefly along the western base of
the Sierra Nevada, in the central coun-
ties of California, associated with gold
in the cement gravels; 2, along the lines
of the moraine of the ancient ice sheet
in Wisconsin, Michigan, Indiana and
Ohio; 8, Kentucky and Tennessee. 4,
the Atlantic states from Virginia to Ala.
bama, chiefly along the eastern base of
the Appalachians in what is known as
the Piedmont region. The place of
origin of the diamonds is in all these
cases unknown; for the group of glacial
drift states including Wisconsin it was
presumably somewhere in Canada.
Lately wonderful reports of diamond
finds have come from the southwest, but
have not been confirmed.
For the present. it will be safer policy
for Americans to buy diamonds from the
reported American diamonds fields than
to buy stock in projected mines-but OF
course no one can set limits to what IN
time may come to pass.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-02-04

Of early civilization to be buried thus
under many feet Of water. The gov
eminent has foreseen this dissatis-
faction and has appropriated several
hundred thousand dollars FOR the in
vestigation and conservation Of the
ancient remains to be endangered or
destroyed, particularly the early
cemeteries which will be flooded.
The beautiful temple Of Isis on the
Island Of Philae, already sadly injured
by the invading waters, which at
present rise almost to the capitals of
the columns, will, after the raising of
the dam, be completely submerged,
with the possible exception of the
very SUBMITS Of the tall pylon towers.
Such submergence year by year must,
of course, result in the slow disin-
tegration of the stone, and the ulti-
mate complete destruction of what
has been the loveliest building in
Egypt. The loss to the modern Wis
itor is but the beginning; for the nu-
merous records and inscriptions on the
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-02-04
SEED OF THE VIOLET.
Flower Blooms Twice in a Season-Its
Explosive Pod.

EAp1USlNe EUu.
The common wild violet affords one of
the most remarkable illustrations of the
care and apparent forethought of nature
in preserving q species. AS everybody
knows the violet grows IN the shade, IN
pastures woods and fields, where the
grass is aboundant and long. 1t comes
up early in the spring and flowers at
Il time when the grass is most aboLndant
and succulent. OF course it is liable to
be cut down by the scythe, but much
more likely is it to be bitten off by graz
ing animals.
The violets that come in the spring Ell
Their do not seed at all or very sparingly,
so that if the plant relied on its spring
flowers for seed it would probably perish
off the earth in a few years.
But in the late fall the plant bears an
other crop of blossoms that are never
seen save by the professional botanist.
They are very SMALL utterly insignificant
in appearance. and grow either just at or
below the surface of the ground. These
are the flowers which produce the seeds
for the next season. The flowers on long
stems blooming in spring are only for
show: the hidden flowers are for use, and
the number of seeds they bear may be
Judged from the ease with which wild
violet bed spreads.
When the seeds are ripe the pod eX"
plodes, scattering them to considerable
distance, often to 10 or - feet from the
parent plant, so in spite of its boosted
mOdesty the violet not only takes care
of itself. but becomes a troublesome ag-
gressor.-St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-02-04

doggedy doing the work Of two and horse IN the
same old, futile Arcadian way.
But 1 have high hopes Of him and Of Laban. one OF
these days the Department of Agriculture will estapsn
a demonstration farm in the White Mountains Iarln
only half as large "Badgersv yet that Will grow
two tons Of hay to Asa Judds one and five Dusnes OF
potatoes to his two, and plenty Of grain into the
And presently will notice two teams In the ola
Badger barn. and two young hired men at the ulnlns
table, that sleigh will actually material1ze so Will
that graphophone, and 'Ma Badger will lose ner an&-
look and begin to feel though her heao were
"wuth" more than the longest doctors bill ever mace
out that dollar will rotating on It's axis ana
will be laid to rest in the bank to wear ana tear
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-02-04
Mink Farm in Oregon.

Tom Staten has established a farm fo1
the raising of mink at Rattlesnake Point
on the upper klamath lake. About a
hundred of the animals are housed in
cages or cabinets, and seem to do well
and thrive in captivity, as they are all
fat and sleek looking. =
The animals are so tame that they will
take food from the hand, although Ole
has to be careful in handling them, as
sharp teeth. AS mink in this county in
crease about FIVE fold Mr.. Staten ex-
poets to have something over 500 in his
cage next year. The value of their fu1
alone will aggregate about $4,000, but
live female minks sell for a much higher
figure than their hide alone is WORTH
klamath Republican.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-02-04
Smiths Library.

Henry Farman, the aviator, during his
American visit. seemed as much inn
pressed with the diminutive proportions
Of some of New York's flats as with the
height of her skyscrapers or the immen-
sity of her hotel bills.
II visited a Brooklyn aeronautical ex-
perimenter the other night, said Mr.
Farman to a reporter, ''and his flat was
the smallest I've seen yet. 1t showed
me the point of joke that I once heard
an American make. L laughed then at
his joke, which 1 had heard two years
before.
1sSnith of Brooklyn I said to my
American friend, doesn't strike me as at
oil literary. vet he declares he only feels
really comfortable and content when
snugIy ensconced in. his library
"9Well, you see, my companion ex-
plained. Smiths bookcase is folding
he'd "-Denver Republican.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-02-04
Automobile Poker.

Automobile poker has succeeded freight
car poker. Freight car poker? It's an old
game among travellers, and it's success
sor is played the same way exactly,
though under another name Three on
four men in an auto or on a walking
trip want some diversion. They agree
on automobile poker, get out pencils and
paper and wait for machines to pass.
The first man sets down the registry
number of the first motor that comes in
sight, the second does. the same with
the next ''red devil" and so on, until
every one in the game has a ''hand.'
Then there is ''show down. OF course
there are no face cards, but all the rest
of the component parts of poker deal
are to be had, thus: One, ace; two
deuce, and so ON up to the zero, which
is called q ten
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-02-04

M r; WILLIAM A. PREssER, 1922
AVA Third Ave-, Moline, ILL.,, writes:
Il have been suffering from catarrh
In the mead for the past two months
and tried innumerable so-called RENE
dies without avail. No one knows how
nave suffered, not only from the dis
ease itself, but from modification when
in company of friends or strangers.
Il have used two bottles of your med
icine for short time only, and it
effected complete medical cure. and
what is better yet, the disease has not
returned.
Il can most emphatically recommend
Peruna to all sufferers from this dis
ease"
Read This Experience.
Mr.. A. Thompson, Box 65, R. r. 1,
Martsl, Ohio, writes when l began
your treatment my eyes were infamed,
nose was stopped up half of the time,
and was sore and scabby. l could not
rest at night ON account of continual
hawking and splitting.
Il had tried several remedies and was
about to give up, but thought 1 would
try Peruna.
after I had taken about one-third of
bottle l noticed difference. 1 am
now completely cured. after suffering
with catarrh for eighteen years.
Il think il those who are afflicted
with catarrh would try Peruna they
would never regret it."
Peruna is manufactured by the
Peruna Drug Mfg. Co., Columbus, Ohio.
Ask your Druggist for a Free
Peruna Almanac for 1909.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-02-04
TIME UNRETURNED.

o the ships go out to the farthest shore,
And the ships come home again;
The dew that dries on the morning rose
Returns in drop of rain
But the joy of a day that | smiled away,
l cali to it in vainl
O the primrose hides, in a cup OF rust,
Her gold on the winter lea;
And comes, her pilgrim staff abloom
With the flowers that used to be-
But the golden smile of little while
Will never come back to me!
o the stars go out with the break of dawn
And the stars are full and bright
When the sun has turned his face away,
And the world has need of light
When the glad world beamed l dreamed
dreamed:
And now the night-the night.
o the birds forsake the coloring wood,
And the birds come home to sing;
The breath of the fallen rose returns
On the wind of the swallows wing
But the harps know of the long ago
Lie mute in the soul of spring!
o rose that blooms in a garden wild,
o bird in a lonely tree,
| know the gifts of my heart lie deep
In your far-off mystery,
And bloom and sing in eternal spring.
Though they never come back to me!
-Aloysius Coll in Appleton's.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-02-04
OppOrtune.

1t was just as the curtain was being
rung up that kind-hearted Mrs. Grey
suddenly remembered the inquiry that
she had intended to make about a sick
neighbor. She leaned back and accost-
ed Mrs. Bascom, who had just moved in
next door to the sick friend.
"Can you tell me-" she Queried, has
tily, chow old Mrs. Davis is?'
A puzzled and reflective look stole over
the face of Mrs. Bascom, as she turned
for a whispered consultation with a
third lady, directly behind her.
Presently she bobbed back towards
Mrs. Grey, her forehead puckered. II
really am not quite certain" she report
ed. apologetically, "but 1 believe she is
at least seventy-fve. "-Harper's Week
w
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-02-04

road, Industrial, and bank shares off
the hands Of thoroughly frightened
spectators and capitalists.
The popular fallacy regarding the
ownership of the corporations has been
In part due to very natural miscon-
ception. The rapid growth of indus
trial trusts" and railroad combina-
lions In the past ten years has central
ICED control, and the careless observer
has mistaken this for centralized own
ership. But the Capitalization of con-
troll has been accompanied by the
spreading out Of ownership.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-02-04
Light Evidence.

An Irish soldier on sentry duty had
orders to allow no one to smoke near
his post. An officer with a lighted cigar
approached, whereupon Pat boldly chal.
lenged him and ordered him to put il
out at once.
The officer. with a gesture of disgust
threw away his cigar, but no sooner
was his back turned than Pat picked Il
up and quietly retired to the sentry box
The officer, happening to look around
observed beautiful cloud of smoke is
suing from the box. He at once chal
lenged Pat for smoking on duty.
Smoking, is it. sorr! Bedad, and
I'm only keeping it lit to show to the
corporal when he comes, as evidence
agin you" -Tit-Bits.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-02-04

partment of the Sarthe and is the head
quarters of the Fourth army corps. The
flights made by Mr.. Wright take place
on plain which is used in the military
maneuvers to which the French army is
especially addicted.
ed by the airship flights the town has
half a dozen hotels, none of them par
ticularly good. In ordinary times the
prices at the best of them were moder-
ate-from 60 cents to 81 for room,
% cents for breakfast rolls and coffee
or chocolate). 60 cents for luncheon and
70 cents for dinner. Since Wright's
aeroplane has been soaring the hotel
prices have doubtless followed it's ex-
ample
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-02-04

in the next eighty years He finds the beginnings OF
him and his cabinet in the petty officials connected
with The Hague tribunal and the outgrowths OF The
Hague peace conferences
And they have existed for years Only they work so
silently and unobtrusively that knows about
them But the significance Of their position is not dis
counted by it's quiet and nonnotorety Rather 1t is
gorifed.
They-these humble world oficias--are the attaches
of the international postal service with headquarters
at Bern Switzerland They supervise and negotiate
many momentous little matters which affect you and
and which we know nothing about. And they are held
nv the zeaots the world state be the first fore
runners of the world government departments.
Oyerweening love Of country ceasing to be virtue
among the officially modern among the ethical elite
They prefer worldism, cosmopolitanism They have
evolved beyond the thought Of the "boody furriner"
Foreigner and native alike desirable citizens. Some
body has written patriotism primitive ideal
The civilized ard cultured prefer the world state.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-02-04
Not a Suffragette.

DIR. Charles F. Aked of the Fifth Ave
nue. Baptist church said recently:
''The American woman is, up to the
present. Gods best piece of work.
And the other day, celebrating this
truth, DR.. Aked compared the merited
reverence in which woman is held in
America to the scorn that is too often
melted out to her abroad.
"Consider,' he said, 'the position Of
woman in country where such joke
as this is possible.
"'Bill,' says a young wife, weeping,
'wot's the matter? Don't you love me no
more?
"'Of course, do, durn yer growls
Bill, returning to his penny weekly and
pot of ale.
'''Then, Bill the young wife sobs,
swhy don't you knock me about?' New
York Times.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-02-04
Coyote Against Rabbit.

| have been ranching on an island for
more than a quarter of a century. There
are no carnivorous wild animals on my
island but the coyote wolf, and 1 could
get rid of him in very short time and
at very little expense, but if | did the
rabbit would soon put me. out of bust
ness. 1 have experimental along these
lines and know what I'm talking about,
and l declare here and now that in my
opinion the carnivorous wild animals of
Texas save the farmers and stock rails
ers hundreds of millions of dollars by
keeping the rabbit in check.-Houston
Post
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-02-04
The Sultan's Cigarettes.

The Sultan of Turkey is very particu-
lar concerning the quality of his cigar
in a small factory in the royal palace it
self. Some half dozen workmen are
daily; engaged, and Turkish grown tobac-
co is raised specially for the Sultan S
use. The best crops in the country are
marked for his special benefit, and what
is not actually selected for making into
cigarettes must be destroyed. A hundred
weight of leaves may be turned over be-
Tit-Bits.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-02-04
"Horse Railway" in Desert.

Travelling recently on donkey back
across a trackless portion of the Con-
chilla desert in southeastern California,
we sighted ahead of us above the sage
brush nondescript object which on
nearer approach resolved itself into two
dilapidated trolley cars. Thew formed
the equipment Of horse railway
across the sands ten or twelve years ago
to connect a solitary station on the
Southern Pacific railway with an agri-
cultural colony several miles distant.
The farming enterprise failed utterly,
and the ''horse railway" with it. The
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-02-04
The Head of the Class.

''This.'' said a teacher to her class of
small arithmeticians, sis a unit" She
held up a pencil. ''This book is unit,
too" said she. Sand these are units"
and an apple.
Then she peeled the apple, and, hold
ing up the peel, said, "Now, children,
what is this?"
Silence
"Come, you know what it is" she
urged.
"Well. William" said the teacher.
"Pleathe. ma'am, the skin of a unit"
Philadelphia Record.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-02-04
WILL BE SUBMERGED.

Assuan Dam VIII Completely Cover
the Beautiful Temple of Isis.
It has been decided by the govern
ment Of Egypt to raise the great dam
at Assuan seven meters above its
present level. This means that the
country above the dam will be inuns
dated far beyond the limits Of the
present lake, already as large as that
of Geneva In Switzerland. While the
results may be very gratifying in the
economic development of the Nile
valley below Assuan, such results are
not likely to compensate the archaeol-
ogists and the cultivated public inter
ested in the monuments and remains
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-02-04
Getting a Sight of the Master.

G. S. Calverley, at the Oxford commem-
Grafton, was showing a lady round. Ar
rived at Balliol, she said she would give
said her cicerone ''you SHALL" And he
deity sent pebble through the masters
open window The master promptly APP
peared at the open window. ''There he
isl said Calverley, politely "capping'
the head; ''and you can say you've seen
him with all his frills on."-Pall Mall
Gazette
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-02-04
WHERE w. WRIGHT FLIES.
lie Mans a Fine Old French City with a
Long History.

lie Mans. where Wilbur Wright is
performing aerial marvels, is about 125
miles southwest of Paris and thirty
miles north of Tours. 1t is a fine old
French city of about 10000 inhabitants.
The history of lie Mans goes back to
even before the time when the Romans
took possession of it. The present the
alter was built on the site of an old
Roman amphitheater. Under Charlie
magne the city was one of the most i'm
portant in the whole kingdom.
There are two fine old churches in lie
Mans. the cathedral being one of the
most noted in France. 1t contains the
tomb of Queen Berengaria, the wife of
Richard Occur de Lion. Henry IL.
of England was born in LIE Mans in
1888, the first OF the Plantagenet kings.
The town is the chief place in the de-