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The daily sentinel., 1909-01-12

Van Horns for stationery. 551
Main.
The daily sentinel., 1909-01-12

Van Horns for imported Olive Oil
551 Main.
The daily sentinel., 1909-01-12

Prompt and reasonable repair ser
vice.. E. Mckenzie. the Plumber.
The daily sentinel., 1909-01-12

The little prices still continue at
the Suitorium.-Phone Black OG-
125 South Fifth street.
The Seely mattress has no equal,
Cosgrove & Slough are sole agents
The daily sentinel., 1909-01-12
SEE

Rugs and lambrequins, the best as
sortment in the city at Cosgrove &
Stough's.
The daily sentinel., 1909-01-12

We have some goo6 bargains In
city lots. See Gray, S37 Main street
The daily sentinel., 1909-01-12

We still have some of that good
plumbing left. e. Mckenzie, the
Plumber, 545 Colorado avenue.
The daily sentinel., 1909-01-12

You cannot miss 1t by going to
Cosgrove & Slough for house furnish
ings.
The daily sentinel., 1909-01-12

There is no change in the price OF
Book Cliff coal. We expect to sup
ply coal for the balance of the sea-
son at $3.50 per ton.
The daily sentinel., 1909-01-12

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BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1909-08-06

tremo por las dilapidaciones de su ma
lido, pasaba Ell dia calculando, Hogan.
do este a una verdadera mania. DeS-
de nino, sin saber leer nj escribir, re-
tenfa grandes cifras. Hoy, lee una vez
un guarismo de AZ cifras y 10 'repite
cuantas veces quiera. Diamond, que
asistio a la escuela desde los siete
amos, fue ell primer alumno en- mate
maticas, calculator excelente, pierde
algunos segundOs porque traduce las
cifras que Sc lie dan EN- cualquier lido
ma, al griego, que es ell suyo natal.
Aprende 10 cifras en- 10 segundos, 20
en- dos minutes, 100 en- veinticinco
minutes y 200 en- dos horas.
Romamoff, que pretende ser mas
lque maud, es delgado, de po-
co flRico, e~xcesivamente lei
vioso, no presenta sino dos particula-
ridades: ojos salientes y tres nervios
profundamente marcados en- ell IRON
tai que convergen hacia la base de
la nariz. Su memoria es "visiva". Sin
que 81 yea, Sc LENA una pizarra con
diez 8 doce Sumandos de diez 6 doce
:ifras cada una. Sc lie entrega la ii
"a y en- dos segundos hace la adici6n,
comenzando q escribir la suma POI
as cifras de la izquierda. Varios dIas
despues puede repetir, uno q unO, to-
dos los guarismos con que ha manipu-
lado una noche c%ualquiera. Roma
neff no hace la operation. La ne he
cha va. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., raices ua-
dradas y c1bicas, diviciones, cuadra-
los y cubos, son para 81 operaciones
de segundos.
i Su historic?
No la tengo. A los siete anos,
n las escuelas de Kieff, los profeso-
.es me hicieron notar mi prodigiosa
facultad. En- Francia, fu1 alumno dc
ia Sorbona hasta haze seis meses, epo-
en- que lance un reto a maud. que
no 10 acepto. He sido Observable dete-
aidamente por notabilidades medicas
Tue no han encOntrado en- mi NADIA
lie anormal, sino una gran elevation
lie temperature cuando realiZo las ope-
! naciOnes mentaleS.
Y en- esos momentos que siente 2
Una gran e~xcitacion nerviosa, Sc
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1909-08-06

guida luego de I'M deicamientO gene
raj. Mi especialidad es ell YER los MI
meros, es decir, tengo una memoirs
visual. ST. embargo, soy tambien an-
ditivo. Me basta que me lean varias
YEA elOs u 'sous!lBnS ap seus0Op
para repetirlos todos, uno q uno, en- ell
orden en- que me han leidO.. Para el
resto de los casos, no tengo sino una
memoria mediana. Mi fuerte son los
n1imeros y puedo, en- f~racciones de Sc
gundos, decir que d1a de la semana
fu6. cualquier dfa del mes y aho que
sc me indique.
Tai s,brevemente e~sbOzado, 81 tenn
|peramento especial de este estudiante
de % amos, que desde hace seis meses
Sc dedica a la escena, deseoso de
eclipsar con SUI nombre ell de maud:
ell primer calculator del mundO.'
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1909-08-06

ira casa, para que leyera ell nombre easrato ea aItsy He ze
vueto a DIR hablar del vient0 solaao= 81 lie he heehe OBJ
servar, y me ha cotnestado que en- efrcin, Il lexante maxim
cesado de soplar hacia mucho tie1npo-
Eva esta mas bella que nunca; la afGneI6M yqus y,ar u1n-
cho tempo estuvo pintada en- su r,xtrn, drsapzraada wa
hoy, ha dado a sus facciones pursinaas un eara-ter mas
elevado, y por decirlo ash, mas dfplua dAraMaa nk1s eDoE
la ven y la miro tan hermosa con sn trsIe de Irta ane ne
abandona nunca, dando una lection q zni Re2n1a exneri-
mentO indefnible placer pensando qNe sEIzag na 41uida
en- sus oraciones a SUI querida Ester
Llamo a su hijo mi Ricardo, por4ue FL nixzaC dice tq1s
tiene dos madres, y 20 soy una de elIazL
Els certo que no nos paga ell Baneo ereci70G 7HfercaeEs
pero vivimos holgadamente y nneSfrrsE eeEeos No VAN mas
ALA. No salgo d1a con mi marido que nn Ic aiga bendeGirS
a do quiera que vaya, sea La Casa rie2 q pshxe, *eReuehe
alabanzas suyas 6 leo la gratItud qne le ~profesan- No nae
acuesto noche alguna sin saber que ha Earfaraa8a N1ia
affection 9 socorrido a un desg1aciab1, y NIL aFae IL a1sk
postreros n,omentos aquelos 4 qHHaasx ss as yxrSESN %R-
rar lie han @aeo gracias paf sH sSa&1a Annh4J Y 1s1as !ys-
nerosos cuidados.
SQue mas riqueza que eStaf
Tambien 4 mi me quieren muchc en- mi caIidad dir as-
posa del doctor, y es tanto ell respeto que todo ell mundC
me p~rofesa, que llegan a confnndirrne. A "a 10 defn 2sac,
consideration y dicha. Por el me aanan, Y yp por zs Earte
10 hago TODD por ell amor suyo-
Dos 6 tres dfas hace que, concludes los preuarafivux
para recibir q mi tutor, a Eva y 4 xu hlja, Ne dEzEn Ia
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1909-08-06
N%(~)%%-
In case eXIraOrdinario
De memoria visual
MAUD Y

Tn j6ven russo, de % amos, Romanoff
=acaba de preSentaTse en- BuenOs Al
res, no como emuto s;no como superb
dor de maud, ell famoso calculator
que todos conocemos. Els uno de los
tantos prodigios que de vez en- .'uando
-aparecen como para perturbar los prin-
~cipios cientfficos y abrir un interrogan-
tie 4 La cdencia psicologica.
De largo tempo atras, estos ccrebros
extraordinarios han p~reocupado a los
hombres de estudios que han lido, n
a uno, catalogando los casos hasta for
mar una clinica mnemoteenica. Mo-
,zart copi5 ell Miserere de la Capllla
sSixtina con solo oirlO dos vectS, Y Ire
alsseau cita ell case de I'm amigo que ola
una vez una opera Y tomaba un violin
v %reproducia tOdos los trozos, aun los
mas insignificantes. Algunas veces. es
tas memorials extraordinarias Sc alO--
ian en- cerebros III Tai ell ra--
so de que habla Bald, de unlhnbecll In
tornado en- Ell asilo de Blols, que de-
cia de memoria todas las biograhas
de los obispos y arzobispos de Fra
cia.B astaba FTsnuL..Ahi aL.te ed el rom
bre de I'M prelado cualquiera para
que Embellishments indicara su edad
sitio donde naci, ;, divei sas etai a. &c
Isl. carrera ecclesiastical, fl has de as,er
SOS, etc. Pero no comprendia NADIA de
ssus palabras v cfando So le p%regunta-
ba por sn profession, %respondia: "soy
I'm idiota de piimera clase, del aslio
de Blois."
Inaudi es I'm calculator fenomeno. ina le-
yenda recogida por la Academia Fra
cesa cuando nombro a Charcot para
estudiarlo, preten6e que sn madre du-
rante Ell em~barazo, proc upada en- ex
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1909-08-06
The New York & Porto Rico 'Ste&ndip Co
ys PINE

Los vapores SAN JUAN" &
PONCE" que hacian la trave-
STA directa entire, Ponce, Maya
guez y New York, hasta nuevo
aviso saldran del puerto de San
Juan directamente para New
York los microbes q las ocho
de la mailana, alternando con
los vapores ~"CAROLINA" y
|"COAMO" de esta misma Com
|pania.
Admiten carga y pasajeros
Para mas detalles, dirijanse q
! The New York / Psrte Rice.
San Juan, p. r.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1909-08-06
Instruction Pib|ica

Ell Departments de instruction re-
miti0 aver a todas las Juntas EscoIa-
res de La Isla una circular indicandO-
les el n1mero y classes de escuelas que
a cada una les corresponds. En- dicha
carta no Sc ha hechO menci0n de las eS-
cuelas nocturnas, esclelas e~speciales y
Acting Principals, porque ell Departa-
mento Sc propone fjar Ell n1mero de
estas al dar comienzo ell an0 escolar.
La Fraternidad Escolar de Puerto
Rico ha recibido Las insignias que hace
POGO encarg6 4 los Estados Unidos.
La senora Nellis w. Stephenson, ha
sido nombrada Supervising Principal
del distrito escolar de Toa Alta, T0a
Baja y Dorado.
Evening star., 1909-03-07

obliging minister or squire But times
have changed. The opening for the mar
riage tout was shown. and the ad-
vantage has been taken with vengeance.
Now, IL you happen to stroll about the
Covington city hall-thats where they
issue the licenses-you will see at least
twenty-five husky individuals on your
trail. They watch your movements and
step like divorce detective" and If
the lady with you is of your color you
are tackled"
Want to get license?'
Yes: where is the clerks Officer
Come right along. I'll get you the
license and we'll have the whole busi-
ness over in q fifty"
The gentleman is so oblig1ng you can't
resist. He sticks right to your side.
goes with you to the clerk, introduces
poipers," and you are on your way to
the preacher" in no time. OF course
you don't know that the tout gets
half of the fee paid by you to the min
lister or you would not have given him
the substantial tip for hts services: but
he was such an obliging gentleman Of
course you ought to pay him something.
1t wouldn't be right II you didn't pay him.
for he was so very kind in showing you
to the minister"
The marriage tout" accepts the tip
with a gracious nod OF thanks-if you
ever want to get married in Covington
again he will watch for you.
An incident occurred in December. 1905.
in which the quick work on the part of
the "touts'' Is shown. A young couple.
barely out of their teens" stepped off
a car in front Of the Covington city hall
and were beseged by the small army of
"touts." Two of the pests landed" the
couple. The license was procured. and In
some manner the marriage pilots threw
Evening star., 1909-03-07

a curve just as the thief OF ride has
swung unto the treacherous footing Of
the little iron step. There is a fall and
the wheels do their fatal business.
President McCrea is of the opinion
that the only way to protect the life of
the tramp is to make him subject to
strict laws that will make him afraid
to trespass on railroad properties.
To this end town and country au-
thorities and public or private charitable
organizations are called upon to CO.
operate.
In his letter to Mr. Lewis he ex-
plains that one of the difficulties the
railway police force meets with is that
the authorities of rural districts are not
willing to arrest vagrants in their terri
tory. for the reason that they do not
wish to be saddled with the expense of
maintaining them.
County authorities and their constitu-
ents look with deepest aversion on the
idea of bearing the expenses attendant
Evening star., 1909-03-07

If he strove to find his way over the
country roads he would not only run the
risk of going astray but he would also be
in ever constant peril of the dogs and the
guns belonging to the farmers whose
sworn enemy he ever is
He goes along bitterly. miserably in cold
weather or warm, wrecked, buffeted be-
ing without friend or connection. Perhaps
the light of the moon reflected the
steel rails, or the lights In the signal
towers along the way seem to him little
like company, as he plods his wretehed,
aimleSS journey.
On the straight road he can see and
hear the coming of the train. But there
has no warning and 1t Is in places like
this when his peril is greatest. He has,
perhaps. been walking for hours: he is
totterinS. tired and exhausted. Perhaps
in his walk he dozes for a second. Then
it Is that the mighty engine is on him,
and before the man at the throttle can
throw the brakes a tragedy has been
enacted and another life has been snuffed
out.
It is not unreasonable to suppose that
fair percentage of those who thus come
to their. death are suicides. Life has little
to hold them. Poverty, disease suffering.
hunger are ever present horrors. There
must often come times when the impulse
of suffering mind and body calls for
death.
Then raises the question as to the
means. The tramp has no revolver. no
money to buy poison. perhaps there is
no river near into which a worthless body
can be cast. Why not then let the end
come swiftly under the wheels of a flying
freight?
Stories can be heard among railroad
men Of bodies found in positions that
indicate that the victim has deliberately
picked a place where the track curves
so suddenly and sharply that no chance
is offered the engineer to stop his train
In time. Then the unfortunate has calm
ly arranged himself for sleep, and wait
ed for oblivion.
Other instances. especially in cases
where death has been inflicted by freight
trains not travelling at a high rate of
speed, prove that the suicide to make the
job sure has waited till the engine passed
and then thrown himself under the wheels
of the long box cars, where there is
great enough distance between the trucks
Evening star., 1909-03-07

tory and the MOOnSn1ne DIS
trict,' is the town OF Covington, Ky. and
In this village profession never before
heard of in the history of the world has
sprung up with mushroom growth.
Marriage touting'' is now a profession,
D business and a trust. A man must have
several qualifications to become first
rlass marriage tout" In the first place
re must have the cast-iron bullet-proof
rerve Of the newspaper reporter; he must
have the gentleness OF Baptist preacher
and must be as mum as an employe of
the Standard Oil Company. He must be
built like an Olympian hammer thrower.
vet must conduct himself like a murderer
on trial for his life.
More marriages are performed in Coying-
ION than in any other city of its size in the
world. 1t is easier to get the nuptial knot
tied and launch yourself on the matrt-
nonial seas in Covington than in any other
:ity known 1t doesn't make any differ
.nce II your hair is done up In plaits
DOWN your back and the bottom of your
skirts dangle about your knees. or
whether you carry a primer under your
arm and have a jumping jack I'm your
trousers pocket, you can get married In
Covington. All you need is the money
for the license and the fee to pay the
marriage tout"-he who pilots you to
he minister"
Years ago II was not SO easy to get
married in Covington. The greater part
sf the couples are from other cities. who
Ske advantage of the lax laws in Ken
rky, and IL was not easy to find an
Evening star., 1909-03-07

flood service that year was only slI.oon.
Each dollar OF that saved thousand.
1t was thus that the Mississippi valley
people learned their lesson. They learned
ii so well that when. in 1903, twenty-eight
days in advance of its coming the fore
caster predicted the time OF arrival o,
the crest of a 2l-foot flood wave at New
Orleans they sat up and took notice. d.
Men worked desperately TO carry off NOV
able property and to increase the height
and strength OF the leveeS; and when
on the appointed day the Hood rose to
height of 20 feet inches il was kept
from flooding a large portion of New
Orleans and other PAGES as well
Cairo was given four days warning OF
a 50-foot rise. Memphis one weeks warn
ing of 4O-foot rise. All along the great
stream the warning was acted upon. and
although the rise all along was much
greater than in 1891 1t overflowed only
one-half as much territory. This was the
biggest Mississippi flood since 1S44. The
greatest of our history. however. was IN
11S5 Our greatest loss OF life from true
flood in one locality was at Heppner.
Ore, June IA. 1903. when 200 people were
killed The Johnstown flood was not a
true flood. but an accident, due to the
breaking of a dam.
Prof Frankenfield does not anticipate q
any great floods this spring. inasmuch as
last year-when boys played ball in TN"
bed of the Ohio-was abnormally dry.
causing loss of ten feet in the average
ground water OF the country. SINCE then
our soil has been like great dry sponge
and 1t will take spring rains much out
OF the ordinary to cause flood. AT pres
ent writing the Father of Waters is seven
feet lower than he was year ago.
When / asked the chief of tire food
service how much damage these nunda-
tions are still causing US in spite of lev
eeS and warnings he took his pencil OF
his ear and figured the loss for the last
two years at from sixty TO seventy mil
lion dollars. But THIS. he explained. is an
underestimate. since the service does not
hear of all cases.
JOHN ELFRETH WATKINS.
Evening star., 1909-03-07

flood service for kilograms. wages and
everything. And it's food prophets are
ashamed to look the world in the faco il
they don't predict the height of a rivers
rise within a foot, even in the rapid
running rivers of the mountain regions.
where the least accuracy can be hoped
for.
In the case of the great slow streams.
such as the Mississippi, Missouri and
Ohio, they generally hit it within from
one to three inches. Down at New
Orleans sits a local prophet on DR.. Frank
enf1eld's staff. who regularly tells. within
about two inches, what the height Of the
Mississippi will be three weeks hence. II
he rightly predicts rise to twenty fee:
above low water there will be million
and a half cubic feet of water rushing
past him per second. He can deal with
such an enormous force and get it within
two inches. And others do the same thing
right along.
But how is it done?
In the first place Prof Willis Moore
chief of the weather bureau, has divided
the country into forty-four river dis
tricts.' containing substations-:O0 in all
with river gauges whose readings are
telegra phed to the district headquarters
Evening star., 1909-03-07

the couple before they arrived at the
home Of the minister.
An hour later a crying bride and a shy
groom appeared at the Covington police
headquarters and asked for transporta-
tion to their home in Trenton, Ohio. The
tOutS' had managed to get every cent
from the groom for their alleged aid and
they had no money to return home and
surprise their relatives. The police had
no jurisdiction in the case.
The business has enlarged to such a
scale that a miniature trust has been Or
ganized. The wages OF the "touts" are
kept at a certain standard. and turns are
city hall. If the tout gets a dead one''
Heads for Sale.
From the Manchester Guardian.
At Stevens auction room the other day
an ancient Tibetan skull was sold for
thirteen and a half guineas. 1t had a
gilt cover, elaborately chased with SYM
bolic devices. set with blue stones. and
was copperlined. Few more attractive
opening scenes for a novel in the manner
of Mr.. Rider Haggard could be imagined
than the auction of this strange and an
Client relic in the dusty saleroom this
winter afternoon. To heighten the effect,
perhaps, small dried head, recovered
from a grave at Pinchala, South Amer-
ca. beneath forty feet Of guano, was also
offered and withdrawn. The auctioneer
described it. not unjustly. as IAN ex-
ceedingly rare form Of head" and We
were told also that an anthropologist had
identified 1t as a relic of an extinct white
race in Peru. but eight guineas was not
considered q reasonable offer, and the
head was put back in its case.
Evening star., 1909-03-07

rounding rivers when the late winter thaW
sets in. Each carries q two-and-a-half-
inch tube forty inches long which Is Jab-
bed down here and there in the snow
crusts When such gauge is lifted its
lower end is closed and the height of the
column of snow remaining inside IS next
measured by a scale. 1t is then melted
and the water compared with the original
quantity OF snow. Snow so varies in
density that fourteen inches taken in one
place and only two inches in another will
both yield one inch of water. One to ten
us the average.
If we have two-inch rainfall on top of
four inches of snow with two-inct
water equivalent we have flood TO deal
with: whereas If this four-inch crust of
snow has a water equivalent of only two
tenths Of An inch. the matter is not so
serious The gaugers sound the snow
where they think it is of mean depth and
finally strike an average for all OF the
measurements. Thus the gallons of water
in each square mile of snow is measured
where a river will be affected. In the east
this work is done in the upper Alleghenies
and along the New England rivers.
Snow gauges of new design have just
been introduced in the Rocky mountains.
where they are being used all the way to
the SUBMITS. This work. just being COM
menced. is in charge of Prof. +. II. Bige-
low of the weather bureau and is pur-
posed to aid in foreCasting not only floods.
but the amount of water available each
spring for irrigation and water power in
the arid southwest. Prof. Bigelow will find
out how much snow IS stored in these
mountain tops each year and how much
water it gives off. He is designing some
ingenious and complicated apparatus for
the work.
There is flood season for almost every
region. Along the lower Mississippi it be-
gins in February or March and often as
early January. But along the upper
banks it does not come generally until
May, reaching its height usually in the
latter part or in June. Those OF the Mis-
souri, are not due until still later; those of
Evening star., 1909-03-07

Prof. H. C. Frankenfield.
there are no less than ten such districts,
each with central station gathering
daily reports from its subdistricts. Not
only river gauge readings are daily wired
to the district head: he gets also the
rainfall and general state of weather for
his whole district. He adds all of this in
formation to a map from which is made
a daily forecast of the flood probabilities
The range of the forecast depends
largely upon location Generally speak
ing. the nearer the rivers mouth. the
longer the warning can be given. Thus
dwellers along the upper Mississippi can
property or themselves. whereas those
near its mouth get ample warning. Thus
the alarm is given one to two days ahead
ahead betwee keokuk and ST. Louis. and
to New Orleans. But along the rapid
running rivers of the Atlantic and Pacific
slopes one or two days warning is all
that can be attempted. Pittsburg IS Pc
culiarly unfortunate. especially inasmuch
as ii is the greatest coal. iron and steel
center of the world Eighteen hours is
the longest range of flood warning that
il can hope for And yet not a bushel of
coal goes out of this port except on on"
of these daily forecasts of the stage Of
the Ohio river. Two million trainloads of
coal stood ready and waiting to take in
stantaneous advantage of the notice that