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fewer still use the knife. Very nearly
as many drown themselves as cut them
selves to death, the number of those
jumping overheard being one of us in
hundred thousand. Less than a third
of this proportion commit suicide by
jumping from windows and other high
places, while the least number of all
only one in a million of us-fing them
selves in front of trains Or elect to have
themselves otherwise crushed TO death.
Our woman suicides prefer poison to
any other agency of self-destruction.
while men prefer shooting, according to
Prof. William r. Bailey OF Yale. who has
been going deep into this subject. The
suicide age of women is younger than
that of men. he finds, and the favorite
day of the week for males to take their
own lives is Monday following the usual
period of debauch lasting over Saturday
night and Sunday. Our woman suicides.
on The other hand prefer Sunday. when
the family is together for the day, giving
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~~R 1E shall now typewrite a few
mildly protestive lines with
w s sssss' to the Paging s"'-
There are not, happily,
many hotels in Washington where the
Paging Nuisance is practiced; but there
are some, comprising too many.
But in N'Yawk the Paging Nuisance
mas reached squeakful, ear-wrenching,
spirit-detranquilizing proportions; and in
a lot of other cities besides N'Yawk
wherefore We think we are perfectly JUS
titled in typewriting some about the Pag-
ing Nuisance as we know II: and, If
we're rot justified, why, we're going to
typewfite the piece anyhow.
The Paging Nuisance is growth-an
oxcrescenoe .or wen, We were about TO
say-of comparatively recent years.
In former years, when you went to call
Oh man at a hotel. the Elegant Person
behind the hotel counter would glance per-
functorily. not to say haughtily, first at
the cut OF your jib, and then into the let
ter or key box of the person you in
q,i' ed for
II the KEY OF that person was in the box,
why. Il was obvious that your man wasn't
IL NHe motel, anu you went away from
there about your business, supposing you
had any.
If the key was not in the box, why,
you'd write out your card or fish out one
II you had a printed or engraved one. and
send il up TO the man you wanted to see,
or else the Lovely Thing presiding at the
telephone desk back of the counter would
phone up 30 your mans room, giving ypur
name as visitor waiting at the desk
and asking him now bout it,
If the man you wanted to see wanted TO
see you. he'd say Send i'm up" or he'd
say, contrarivise, "I amt in or II lef;
for S.. IIooee at quarter past this morn
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arms, whose sale is being kept account
of more and more strictly in our pro-
greSsive cities.
Machinery, the eleventh cause of acct
dental death, slaughters two Americans
per hundred thousand per year, rate
.gratifyingly low, considering the rapidity
with which labor-saving mechanisms have
been adopted to replace hand labor. And
this rate will probably show still great
er diminution in the immediate future
as result of the recently inaugurated
educational crusade of the bureau of
labor for the adoption of safety devices
upon machinery. causing what are
popularity known as trade Diseases"
The sun as a cause of violent death is
much less significant factor than we
would suppose, especially at this season
of the year. when we read almost daily
of the victims killed by this orb Of day.
But, as matter of fact, you are more
likely to be killed by machinery and
more than doubly liable to die from
poison or gas than you are by sunstroke
or heatstroke. But. of course, Old Sol
gets in his deadly work only for scant
three months of the year, and if he were
allowed an uninterrupted twelvemonth in
which to operate upon each section of
our land his victims would reach such
total as would rank him fourth in the
list of causes of violent death. But TAX
ing the year as whole it shows a death
list from heat and sunstroke of only one
and four hfths persons per hundred thou
sand. The chances of your being Suffo-
Gated or killed by a fracture of the skull
or other bones are a trifie less than those
of your dying suddenly from summer
heat.
The automobiles showing is the great
est surprise of the whole list. for in the
course of a year you are twice as likely
to be killed by sunstroke or heat stroke,
two and a half times as liable to be
shot to death and over four times as
liable to be poisoned to death as to be
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greater opportunity for quarrels, es-
pecially as the husband is then more
liable to be intoxicated Quite a tribute,
indeed, to the American Sabbath. but one
which is doubtless deserved!
Almost a third many of us are
killed by murderers and other homicides
as by inficting death upon ourselves, and
our chances of being thus slain by others
are nearly twice as great as those OF
being killed by trolley cars, gas or poison.
More than three times as many of us are
victims of homicide as of accidental
shooting. Nearly seven in each hundred
thousand of us die from marder or homi-
eide in a year.
Summing up all of your dangers. from
DIR. Wilbur's figures, YOU are more than
thirteen times as liable to be killed by
disease as by violent death, and Yet
neaBly four times more likely to die a vio-
lent death than to waste away from old
age.
JOHN ELFRETH WATKINS. .
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Black knowledge.

9 ENATOR ROOT, at a dinner in New
~ York. complained of certain false
charges that had been made against a
company he formerly represented.
THE spirit in which some of these
charges were brought" he said, makes
me think of the blackmaier who de-
clared:
g knowledge is power
Then. with wink, he added
Yes. knowledge is power-if you know
it about the right persOn''
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CURPRISING Results of
- Special Census Investiga-
tion-Horses and Carriages
Cause More Deaths Than
Trolleys and Twice as Many
as Firearms-You Are in
Greater Danger of Freezing
to Death Than of Being
Killed While a Railway Pas
senger - Automobiles, Too,
a Surprise-Only Half as
Threatening as Sunstroke-
Lightning and Starvation
Our Least Perils-Suicide
Chief Cause of Violent Death
Nearly Three Times as
Many of Us Die by Own
Hands as by Those of Homi-
cides.
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Even the Children.

cx-GOy. PENNYPACKER, condemning
z in his witty way the American divorce
evil. told at a Philadelphia luncheon an
appropriate story.
Gwen our children" he said, ARE be-
coming infected A kensingtOn school
teacher, examining little girl in gram
mar, said:
What is the future of L love-?
~ DIVORCE the child answered
promptly"
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Concerning
Well-knOWn peODIe
A Restricted Sphere.

JUDGE BANCROFT cox, in recent
} speech in Cleveland against universal
suffrage, concluded with this smiling
peroration
Hail, then, to Woman-woman, the
morning star of our youth. the day star
of our maturity, the evening star of our
Old age. Bless our stars, and may they
ever continue shining-in their proper
Spheret''
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least OF the enumerated causes of vio-
lent death, and this showing is truly
tribute to a prosperous nation, eS-
pecially when we reflect that only one
of us in million annually dies from
this cause. The fact that five times
as many are sacrificed to cold and
freezing as to starvation and privation
is probably due to the fact that the
former class OF unfortunateS are large
ly persons who have become lost in
winter storms or subjected to intense
cold by other causes than inability
to purchase fuel.
This interesting information has been
collected for us by DR.. Cressy l.. Will
bur, chief Of the office of vital sta
tistics in the census bureau. Besides
being a medical man he is a skilled
statistician, and was chief of the Michi-
gan state bureau of vital statistics be-
fore coming to Washington to succeed
the late Henry King. an interchangeable
genius who for many years collected
data of deaths and disease for the CEN
sus office.
Suicide is discovered by DIR. Wilbur to
now be our chief source of violent death
filling many more graves than even the
locomotive and about many as fire
and water acting together.
In each hundred thousand of us
eighteen and a half persons are annually
taking their own lives where only th1r-
teen and half are killed on the rail-
roads. We are having nearly twice as
many suicides as accidental drownings
and considerably over twice as many are
taking their own lives as are sacrificed
to fire
Poison is the favorite means Of sui
eide in our country, while shooting is an
extremely close second, either of these
means claiming more than twice as many
victims as hanging, while the next great
est number take gas, and considerably
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" X dangers from
accident-how do
they rank?
You have often
wondered but have
had no tangible in
formation on the
subject. Nor have
you guessed that
aside from count
ing your fellow
citizens, the census
bureau has lately
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as he suddenly finds himself in the mems
writing room, where whole passel or
male guests are trying to write letters
to their wives telling EN- how it hap
pened that they didn't write the regular
letter yesterday, because, ySee, dear, 1t
was so burned hot or cold or something
that, honeSt-Injun, Teller couldn't hold
a pen in his hand with comfort. And If
you'll overlook it this time, ducky, why,
I'll never do 1t any more-"Mister Ezekiel
G. Groggins!
Whereupon all Of the males thus try
ing to indite plausiblities to their dis
tant spouses let a lot of blotS fall from
their pens all over the nice clean pa
per they're writing on, upon seeing
which blots, day or so later, thelr
wives wonder and wonder and WONDER
what in the wide, wide world could ha
made their bubbles so nervous-and the
male writer's who don't toss blots all
over their letters almost jump out or
their chairs with the impact or that
high-Z voice of the infant against their
ear-drums, and they look around at the
cute little page with the slick hair and
wish he had got job in nail factory
to learn the business several days aso.
But the infant page doesn't curl up
cents worth under their glares, but goes
right along making a noise like cat
flung into hades by continuing to sing
out: 80,
Mister Groggins continuing to hold him
self in the background, the infant page
begins to really warm up to his tonal
work. He slides in, as he tippytoes
along. lot of variations to his wild,
frenzied cry
Mister Ezekiel G. Groggins!" shrieks he
..Wister Ez-ee-kiel' G. Grog-gins." he
walls like soul in torment.
Milky Groggins.
mister Groggins." bowls the infant
page, now in tone that somehow con-
yeys the idea of threat.
Rut the elusive Groggins continues to
CONCEAL himself, to the keen and obvious
delight of the infant page, and to the sad
and harried misery of everybody in the
hotel or within range Of 800 feet
thereof
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Street cars are your next greatest dan
ger, killing a little less than four of us
per hundred thousand each year. But
the locomotive kills three and a half
times as many of us as the street car
Indeed, your chances of death from the
trolley are barely a shade greater than
that of being killed by gas, whose victims
equal the same annually as those of
poison. And in this estimate-as in all
herein given-suicides are not used to
pad the averages of cases given as due to
accident
Firearms will astonsh you by the rela-
lively small showing which they make
upon this graduated list of national
perils. Compared with your danger from
being accidentally shot, your peril of be-
ing killed by poison, gas or street cars
is three-quarter times again as great: of
being killed by carriage, nearly twice
as great; Of being fatally scalded or
burned, nearly four times, and of being
drowned, nearly five times as great
There is, indeed, hopeful flavor to these
morsels of intelligence, for it seems to
reflect the good work which is being done
by those crusaders who lately commenced
to work for individual disarmament, a
contamination more devoutly to be wished
for, indeed, than international dis
armament" Each year it becomes more
difficult for the citizen to procure fire.
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ing" and that's all there was to it.
Al! different now
The difference is the thing that con-
stitutes the Paging Nuisance.
=.
When. you call to see your man at
hotel now. and the Elegant Person hnds
that his key isn't in the box, the Lovely
Thing phones to his room, and, IL lie
isn't there why, the Elegant Person sum-
mons an Infant in Buttons-an Infant
with a high, piercing, tympanum-tearing'
soueaky little voice, a voice like unto
that of certain hoarse and water-logged
water fowl-and tells the Infant in But
ons TO forthwith page your man.
The Infant in Buttons loves this stun;
He'd rather page somebody than spend
his life inhaiing jujube paste. IN tne
first place, paging folks gives MN "iia.
his voice He can't shrek and holier
and howl and yell in the ordinary course
of a workaday existence as an lnIaht III
Buttons or Page, but the raging Nuisance
gives him just the opportunity ne Graves
10 fare forth through all the highways
and byways and COOL dim corrldors ara
Hobbies and reception and ball ana bar
rooms and writing rooms ana pariors ana
coy corners of the vast huge caravan
sary, and to squeak and shrek and beller
at the very top OF his voice. using the
name of the PACED man as his perfectly
legitimate excuse for doing that same
and arousing perfectly mild and sedate
persons sitting around to a state of feroc-
ity and frenzy that it is frightfui to con-
template.
In the second place. the Infant in But
tons or Page with the horrenoous voice
loves the paging stuff because 1t enables
him to carry his cute little change saiver
in his mitt and 10 extend the same for
tip when and II he finally does come up
on the man he is paging.
The Infant in Buttons, then. upon being
so directed ny the Elegant Person at the
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ajority of our houses and many of our
factories and warehouses are built of
lumber The fact that nearly fourth
of our fires are reported by the authori-
ties as of unknown origin, he adds.
Indicates forcibly the iiStless attitude
not only of the general public toward
this waste, but also of the men directly
charged with protecting property
Such seedlings do good, and let there
be more such from men who would re-
duce your dangers.
Injuries at BIRTH" which the census
bureau ranks under external violence,
is the next greatest cause of death in this
country. and it is not a fiattering tribute
to American surgery that more of us are
annually killed in this manner than by
trolley cars or explosive weapons me
annual death rate of our little ones fatal
ly hurt while entering the world is nearly
seven $50 per hundred thousand, or very
nearly as great as that of persons burned
and scalded to death so. Here indeed,
is a condition which surprises and appais
US and which has a greater bearing than
we ever imagined upon the problems re-
lated to the conservation of our popula-
ton. Over 5000 little lives appear to be
thus snuffed out from among us annually!
Accidents in mines and uuarries rank as
our fifth cause of accidental death but,
ha ppily it is one which will now be
fought by the new bureau of mines, with
it's excellent stations for teaching miners
how to avoid the dangers of subterranean
fires and explosions. also how best to res
cue those who have been trapped by such
cataStrophes.
You will be greatly surprised to learn
that You are in greater danger from
horses and vehicles-not including auto
mobiles-than from trolley cars. Indeed.
victims of the former source of danger
share fifth place on the government black
list with mine and quarry accidents. there
being Ala in each hundred thousand of us
killed annually by runaways and other &C
cidents to or caused by horses and We
hicles
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from heat or SunStroke nearly four
times, from firearms over four times,
from poison or gas over seven times as
great.
1t is the railway employe and the in
dividual who walks on the railroad or
otherwise trespaSses on railway prop
erty who run the death average from
railroad accidents away up in G. Out
of every three and a half million rail-
road fares bought last year, only one
proved to be ticket TO the realm from
which no traveller returns. And one
black ticket out of three and half mil
lion white ones is not so bad chance In
this lottery which we call life! And &C
cordng to these latest figures of our
great railway tribunal one-sixth less vic
Tins were killed by the iron horse last
year than in the twelvemonth before. In
fact. fewer tombstones were left in the
wake of this monster last year than in
any similar period since 1902
The water kills more of us than any
other accidental agency, except the iron
steed. Out of every 100000 of us Ameri-
cans, thirteen and a half are killed on
the rail and nearly ten and a half by
drowning, not including suicides.
These census figures include only
drowned persons whose bodies come under
the jurisdiction of our coronerS-people
who go boating and bathing in our in
land waters or along our coast lines, also
those whose corpSeS the sea gives up and
lays upon our foaming beaches
Fire is ranked next in this census
count of death perils, and as far as the
general public is concerned this and its
sister element, water, can reasonably be
classed as our chief causes of violent
death. In counting the deaths due to
fire are included not only those sacri-
feed to the flames direct, but those due
to scalding. Your danger of death from
fire or both of these forms is about
four-fifths of your peril of dying from
water, and, of course. 1 am addressing
YOU as the average American, as I must
throughout this discourse. More than
eight out of every hundred thousand OF
US are burned or scalded to death per
annum, but in the last four years flames
have licked up an average of $26S 900
worth of our property per annum, &C
cording to the national board of under
writer's. This fearful tribute in life and
wealth is being looked into by H. NJ Will
son, chief engineer of the new bureau of
mines, who blames it upon our FREEDOM
nance of frame houses. as compared with
those of foreign countries, and also upon
the faulty construction of American
builders.
The list of causes of fires says he,
"is headed by defective chimneys, f1ues,
freplaces and heating and lighting ap
paratus, all of them faults Of construc-
ton and equipment"
Most foreign cities, he adds. positively
forbid frame buildings within their limits,
and they are few within even the rural
districts Of Europe, whereas the great
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desk, starts out, salver in mitt, to drive
innocent listeners to drink, suicide and
other violent and unbecoming things.
At first, as he vamps through the main
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Folks sitting around begin to hate
Groggins They wonder what excuse
Groggins has got for living. They are
sorry. deep down IN the caverns of their
cholera epidemic of 1884. They'd like to
know what the dickens right this fellow
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hundred thousand of us per year. But
even since these statistics We're compiled
in fact, since the main notes for this
article were taken-the interstate COM
merce commission has issued fuller data
showing that you are in no create danger
of death from railway accidents than from
freezing to death, so long as YOU are
riding on ticket. Indeed, the danger to
your life from automobiles is nearly
double, from suffocation over three times.
from heat or sunstroke nearly four
times, from firearms over four times,
great.
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1910. by JOHN EIfreth watkins.l
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as he fares through the giant establish
ment.
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ing" and that's all there was to it..
Al! different now.
The difference is the thing that con-
stitutes the Paging Nuisance.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1910-04-11
La Investigation Names

ESta manana ha empezado en- ell SALON.
del Consejo Executive. la Investigation
contra Mr.. Names, segundo jefe de la po-
leila. por cargos presentados contra di-
chO funcionario. cuando el descarrila-
miento ocurrido Ell "Mochuelos, " .juris-
dicci0n de Mayaguez
Forman el tribunal los sefores Gro
mer, Sawyer y Travieso.
Numeroso pnblico presenci6 los deba-
tes.
Representa- Il Mr. Names ell licenciado
Mr. Wilcox
HaSta ah0ra han declarado dos testi-
gos.
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gfecemos al Pibco Ell LimpadOr Vacuum marca "SANTO"

Con las siguientes garantas de tabrica:
Marchara Constantemente sir Caentarse interrumpse
"Iiene Dor minute destituci0n calcuada de 80
pies cubcos de are lbre Producira Vacuum maximo
de pulgadas segun e meCuo Standard de los "E. E.
u u: Durara de IS a 90 amos, aun usandose diaria-
"El SANTO trabajara de cuaquer cubo de luz incan-
descente, de centavos la hora Ell SANTO no
podra superado para e hogar pero tamben
gran capacdad 10 hace apeecibe para Tendas Al0cenes
Oficu1s, IeIeas HoSbit0Les editcios grandes.
Haga vista ofcnas para la demostra
po ctacon mandaremos e aparato cuaquier sito
en- San Juan para demostrarlo privado
POETIC RICO RWGG LIGHT Co GENERAL OFFS AAgN san JUAN
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1910-04-11
Los sDuDcIIOS De "CriiSttiiaDiiSuO' .

ESta manana aparecieron arrancados
todos los anunrios del libro Cristianisn,0.
de que eS autor nuestro cOmpanero don
Elpidio de Mer
No es cosa nueva que la gente desocu-
pada y nocheriega arranque anuncios
fijadoS en- las GALES Y puertas de los es-
tablecimientos, pero 10 chocante en- este
caso es Ia lrlanimidad con que han sido
arrancadoS los anuncios No qued6 nj
unO.
Ell Sr. de Nlier ha denunciado ell hecho
4 ia poIc1a
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IntereSa

Sc vende una hrrmosa quinta en- Ia.
parada Is en- Santurce, propia para re-
sidencia de familia para un Colegio.
Tiene toda clase de comodidas, urn
gran jardin, arboles frutales, pesebre,
cochera y garage para autom6vil.
Informara en- la casa de al lado dom
Jose Cerra. r"
ti Medico ie dira queIa Pam-aIa crlra el3
PaludismO. LO sacude fuera del sistema.
EEL BOLETIN MERCANTIL dePRE
Sc halla de venta en- ell
SALON NATIVO
Plaza de Baldorioty.
Poraue te m bIar sacudirse 4 causa dxs.
los frlOS ffebIes Paludcas Pam-ala efec.
tuara la cura.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1910-04-11

paipar favodores haber alberto
depaamen especial Opca establecmsno de Joye
ria ReloHia. "*S AN<t~ -
do aua de los del extran
jro los serveios de un Opico graduado
facdad aquos cstales epecas hasta
bgdos los Eados Undos hemos nsado
maqunar para confecc6n c conndo Ia
personal este
preco mim los de los Estados Un1dos Ell ira
bajo del todo garantizado.
cuqu los ocuas compcada esta
en- termno de "a horas
Tinaud Plaza Principal Juan