davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1911-01-30
Una est6pida broma
RI, WHEELING NO SUFRIO DANOS

Nueva York, lunes.-
El buque de guerra americana
tsWheeling" que hab1a sido reportado
como habiendo sufrido una explosion de
sus calderas EN- alta mar matando q va
mo sano y salyo. Els evidente q. algunas
persona NAL intencionada envi6 un ae
rograma falso.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1911-01-30
Ataiando l. emigration
LA POLITICA HIDRAUhACiA
Nueva York lunes

Nueya York, lunes.-
Las proporciones que txs&a togaaafafsc Ds
ssla,igraci6n en- ESpana ha alarnado al
Rey Alfonso, qaien reconHaenda que los
;grandes trabajos empiecen dentro del
aass breve plazo. Estos traba3os, para
I'D riego de extensisimas conlareas, daran
saanz,leO & centenares de ObreroS. Las
astadBtlcas demuestran que 2OU, ,OoO ess-
paiotes dejan SUI pals todos los amos
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1911-01-30
La ammonia entire
los reyes
TODO ES UNA FAISEDAD

Nneva York, lunes.-
InfOr1nes del mas autorlzado ovagen,
alesnienten la noticla sensational de ba
separation del Rey Alfonso y su esposa
LA Reina Victoria.
La premsa de I4ondres v Maarld re-
xAaaza indignada el escandahoso eanard-
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1911-01-30
0hecsn@ al Pibico d GnIadu Vacuum nara "SlyTv,

Con las siguenes ,garantias de fabrica:
"MarChara COnStanemente Caentarse
"Tiene por minute destituC16n caculada 7 40 ns
efbic0a do aire libre PrOducra Vacuum de mil
gadas ssgdn Mercrio Standard dc hos Undos Du
FarA da Id no afos a1n us&ndose diaramente
M sANTO rabajsra de calquier cubo do ineandescn
t. un eosts de centavos Ia hors SANTO podrk nunca
perado para hoga pero tamben gran capacdsd 10 h
apeecbe para Hendas Amacenes OHcna Igesas Hospi
tales otros Haga vista ofc-
para dernosaci6n por eae6n mandarsmos 81 ana
rao cualquer stio San juan denossrlo priv 10
PORTO RICO POWER AND LIGHT 90
NzIM - l Hnsr.y DfSees, Aarins, San vusu.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1911-01-30

Nueva York, lunes-
Puede ser que el
presidente tenga nuevamente cue
namar al Congreso en- session extraordi-
maria, 10 har1a su fuese necesamo. Los
democratas estan conformes siempre q'la
sea precise
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-03
ouAKER MEprTArIoNs.
[From- the Philadelphia Record.

from the Philadelphia Record.1
A woman doesn't have to be & good
cook to roast her husband.
The widow dresses in black, but it
doesn't have to be fast black.
Blobbs-'I slept like a. log last night"
Slobbs-"You sounded like whole
sawmill."
1t is Just as well. when you bottle
up your wrath, to throw away the
corkscrew.
Don't Judge by appearances. The
fellow who INDUCES in hot air gener-
ally lacks steam.
Many a fellows head swims the next
morning from trying to drown his sor-
rows the night before.
Opportunity has knocked at many a
mans door when he was in a saloon
saying, Here's good luck"
From a woman's point of view a
man with a broken heart is always
more interesting than one with a
broken nose.
do you think it will be always sum-
mer in the Garden of Eden?' asked
Eve NO. replied Adam, pointing to
the ripening apples, 81 think we shall
have an early fall"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-03
DOES woRK FOR rHE srArE.

The amount of practical scientific
work that the University of Kansas
does directly or Indirectly for the state
is assuming large proportions, says the
News-Bulletin issued by that institu-
ton. The university has been carrying
the expense of this state work in it's
maintenance budget, which adds I'M
duly to that budget and makes it ap-
pear that the Institutional cost at the
university is higher than it really is.
1t is hoped that some of this burden
will be lifted by special appropriation.
The state work in question can be
done much cheaper at the university
than elsewhere for the reason that, as
a teaching institution, the university is
obliged to have the departments and
laboratories necessary for such scien-
tific work. The state work can be done
there without extra expense for equip
ment or buildings. One of the greatest
iversity plant for the scientific work
for the state lies in this: that while in
any given branch of work but one or
two men may be employed, in any seri-
Gus problem that arises the state re-
ceives the benefit of advice and assist
ance Of the whole OF a large and pow
erful department. 1t is this fact that
has led great manufacturers to estab-
fish fellowships at the university in
stead of having laboratories at their
own plants
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-03

has around the capitol square These
critics would then have nc trouble in
seeing the justice of such claims
They are just and fair, or Topeka
would not be pressing them. Topeka
is proud to be the capital city Of KAN
sas and paid a big price to get the
honor. The four blocks of land which
were turned over to the state for the
purposes of its state house and park
are among the most desirable and val
liable property in the entire city. They
comprise really the heart Of the city
No taxes for ordinary local purposes
are paid on this property. And it is UNI
reasonable to ask that the state should
help pay its share for such special inn
provements as paving streets ? 1t sure
ly ought not to strike any fair-minded
person so. Churches and educational
institutions. whose property is freed
from ordinary taxation, always pay
their share for paving ST. Gets.
This matter has dragged along for
many years. Legislature after legis-
lature has turned deaf ear to it. But
that's nothing to their credit. Rather
is it to their disgrace. for state
should meet its just obligations
promptly. and this is one of them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-03
ToPEKA.s PAvING CLAIM.

Topeka is being charged in divers
quarters with an effort ito hold up
the state, because this city is again
pressing its claim before the legisla-
ture for reimbursement for the paving
that has been done, most of it many
years ago, on the streets surrounding
the state house square. But the news
papers in several sections OF the state
ana some of the legislators who are
INDUCING in this criticism would likely
be among the first to urge such claims
if state property happened to be in
their home towns and they laid around
it the expensive paving that Topeka
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-03
THE THREE .CHERRY TREEs.

= III A41fk14k6 sCt1ExkEfS4 XEkEltzfSs
There were three cherry trees once
Grew IN garden all shady,
And there for delight
OF so gladstone a sight
Walked a most beautiful lady
Dreamed a most beautiful lady.
Birds in its branches did sing,
Blackbirds and thro5tles and nnnets;
But she walking there
Was by far the most fair,
Lovelier than all else within it,
Biackbirds and throstles and 1nnet.
But blossoms to berries do come,
All hanging on stalks light and slender;
And one long summers day
Charmed that lady away,
With vows sweet and merry and tender,
A lover with voice low and tender.
Moss and nchen those green branches
deck,
Weeds nod in its path green and shady;
Yet footstep seems
Still to haunt there in dreams
The ghost OF that beautiful lady,
That happy and beautiful lady.
Walter de la Mare. in SaturdayReview,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-03
HYHAWKER JOTS

An observation from the jamestown
Optimist: Life is full of disappoint-
ment and competitors.
1t is the belief of the Abilene
Chronicle that the man who drank
horse linament by mistake and nearly
died, did not display horse sense. May
be the Chronicle thinks he ought to
have died.
A Solomon girl, reports the Tribune
of that place, received card with a
request written on it that she 'look
under the stamp The girl looked and
found the following: "Was it hard to
get Off" Is s.-. ~s
One Of the headlines in a Kansas
paper of recent date over story
about the legislature was: bad
Blood in the House." So possibly no
great harm would be done, thinks
spilled.
Newspaper rivalry is so bitter in
Doniphan county, notes Charlie
Blakesley, that when a goat died in
Troy a few days ago. the Troy Chief
declared the post mortem showed the
animal had devoured a copy of the
Wathena Times.
An old fellow who was brought up
on a farm and worked on the same
fifty years ago, reports the Holton
Recorder, was looking over a modern
farm run by modern methods and mod
0In IdTIQ implements anu 0lO AOb sec
anything familiar to remind him of his
boyhood days until he ran across a
husking peg. It had not been i'm
proved or changed. It is fact that
corn husking is about the only work on
the farm that is done just as it was a
half century ago. No husking machine
yet invented has proved a success
1t is the belief of "Gasaway," the
Gas Gulch correspondent of the Wilson
County Citizen, that nobody has bet
ter right to kick than the farmers. He
e,-Ici 1ates his contention as follows:
The remark is often heard that the
farmer is a great kicker. If a fraud
starts out to get something for moth
ing he tries the farmer first. The
farmers only partner is nature and
nature too often forgets him and af-
fIicts him with drought, floods, storms
and torments of every kind, so that
often he has to fight nature itself that
he may live to support himself and the
rest of the world. Why shouldn't he
kick? Who has a better right to kick ?
There are 1893 rabbits less in the
vicinity of Morland as the result of a
hunt which was INDUCED in there re-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-03

The parole agent Of the. boys re-
formatory at Hutchinson has discov-
cred that most Of the boys who are
sent to that institution were habituaI
cigarette smokers. And the smoking
Of cigarettes by boys has been pro-
hibited in Kansas for couple of
years. In other words, not much at
tention appears to be paid to the en-
fercement of the law on that subject.
The chances are also good, though,
that had this law been enforced alb
solutely during the past two years,
the population of the reform school
would be about as large as it is.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-03
Keepers Fight a Leopard.

A snow leopard from Mongolia, one
of the most dangerous animals brought
to this country in many years. gave
several of the Bronx Zoo keepers q
fright early yesterday morning. In
the excitement Keeper Schwartze, of
the lion house, narrowly escaped los
ing his right hand.
The Ieopar. arrived at tie zoo Sat
urday morning in a stout wooden box.
reinforced with bars of iron. Soon
after it's arrival the zoo keepers haul
ed the box close to one of the outdoor
cages of the lion house. ripped out the
door of the box, and tried to induce
the leopard to enter the exhibition
cage.
But the leopard refused to leave its
travelling compartment. A chunk of
meat waved in front of the box proved
no lure for the animal, which sulked
in corner snarling and striking at
every one who ventured near. Under
instructions from Curator Ditmars,
Keepers Toomey and Reebe began to
operate the ammonia gun. This ma
chine, which is usually effective in
driving wild animals from one cage
to another, proved of no avail. The
leopard merely covered its nose with
it's paws and whined. Fearing that
the ammonia would suffocate the ami
NAL, Curator Ditmars stopped the
treatment and tried other methods.
Efforts were made to smoke the Loop
AS a last resort the keepers wrap
ped large bundle of cotton waste
around a pole, saturated it with gaSo-
line and after applying a match. in
serted the flaming torch into the
leopard's box. But the animal merely
covered, in a. corner, even when the
torch scorched its fur.
BY this time night was coming on
and the keepers decided to leave the
animal alone for a time Curator Dit
mars went home, leaving Keepers
Toomey. Reebe, Schwartz and Engel-
holm on guard, with instructions to
wait until the leopard left the box. All
evening the keepers waited. But at
midnight the animal still gave no
signs of venturing out. It was decided
to divide the balance of the night into
watches each keeper standing guard an
hour, to be relieved then by one of the
others.
Schwartz drew the first watch after
midnight. Standing about 100 yards
away from the leopard box, he waited
until a few minutes to 1 o'clock. The
night was quite dark and he could not
see whether the animal had left the
box or not. Going close, he peered in
side, but could see nothing. Taking
for granted that the animal had crept
out in the watch, the keeper started
to pull the box away from the entrance
of the putd cage.
a suddenly there was a growl and the
leopard rushed at him. With yell
the keeper fell back. Toomey and the
other keepers FASTENED to shove the
box into place. Then the leopard
sprang into the outdoor cage and
plunged against the bars in an effort
to reach the four keepers. The heavy
iron door was slammed shut and bolt
ed And the snow leopard at last was
zoo specimen.-New York Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-03
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atchison Globe.

[From the Atchison Globe
I'm full of ideas but haven't much
money. Grimm.
Not all the neighborhood nuisances
are kept in barns or kennels.
Why doesn't someone write a poem
On 1.-THE Good Old Winter Time pr
When a man has a cinch on his lob
he talks a good deal about losing ii.
No man ever becomes as important
as a woman thinks the bishop of her
church is.
While a man attains his height be-
fore he IS 81 his nose generally keeps
on growing.
Any lonesome fly that has stuck it
out this long is entitled to be retired
on a pension.
Ever notice that at least two-thirds
always look in?
If you have little money saved up
a lot of people are wondering why YOU
don't give it away.
A woman can sympathize with a
man in such a way as to accuse him
of being a coward.
Ever know woman who thought it
was her duty to bake two different
kinds of cake every Saturday?
A pipe may not be much of
smoke. but it is q great help to the
poets and match manufacturers.
1t is part of a woman's grief to be-
come indignant at the first marrying
story On her after her husbands death.
Occasionally one meets an army Of
ficer who tries not to show how SUPER
Tor he feels. But he doesn't have
much luck.
There are still Cor still are) a few
people who don't understand how
reporter can get an interview without
resorting to shorthand.
What has become of the old-fash-
toned man who thought he couldn't
keep house without a bootjack and a
box of vegetable liver pills?
In homes where Father is strong
for discipline, the children believe
Father would have made a Great
Tragedian had he taken to the stage.
A number of years ago it was a
common thing to see man with a
hover pinned on his coat by his wife.
Where is he now? The wives ana s1oyg-
ers are still here.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-03
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[Fron the CHICAGO News:l

LF,rom the Chicago News.1
Try hard work as a remedy for hard
luck.
The man of the period is behind the
dollar mark.
Small brains are responsible for many
swe1led heads.
Many man is incredulous because
he has lost faith in himself.
A woman who marries d man to re-
form him deserves a better fate.
The highest praise man ever gets
is ladled out at his funeral.
If the moon would stick to the milky
way perhaps 1t wouldn't get full.
A true friend is one who privately
calls your attention to your weak
points.
The prophet who pays his bills
promptly is not without honor even in
his own country.
When a married woman expresses
the wish that she had been born man
her husband is very apt to echo the
wish.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-03
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Some men never let their generosity
extend beyond giving others black
eyes.
And it's because some girls are so
hard that many hearts are broken over
them.
That matrimonial rule that individ-
uals should marry opposites doesn't
always work out very well.
y X y
It's always well to keep your wealth
err eye on the man who is continually
insisting that he's poor but honest.
= y
Many folk don't get along any better
because they have the idea that the
easiest way in all things is the best.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-03

r. Dumont Smith, editor. and pro-
prietor of the, Kansas magazine, took
occasion to suggest, during the course
Of the speech he made at the Santa
Fe luncheon to the newspaper men of
Kansas, that one of the reasons why
Kansas had not developed more rapid
" was because of its prohibition ten
denotes. He urged that resubmission
of the prohibitory question was an inn
portant issue. And he got an unmis-
taxable answer at the subsequent busi-
ness session of the editors when they
passed. by unanimous vote. resoIu-
ton protesting against any PROPOSE
ton to repeal the prohibition amend
ment in the state constitution All of
which again goes to show that the
newspapers and the magazines seldom,
e ever. agree.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-03

Henry Allen will probably fight shy
of that boom which would make him
a Republican gubernatorial candidate
on the next occasion. President Taft
is likely to be the Republican candi-
date for the presidency at the same
time, and Mr.. Allen has held to the
opinion that Mr.. Taft cannot carry an
election district in Kansas. And, of
course, if a Republican candidate for
president could not come near carry
ing Kansas, a Republican candidate
for governor would have pretty poor
shedding.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-03

Nor did the grounding have any
difficulty in seeing his shadow yes
terday if he took the trouble to look
for it. According to the weather
prophecy of the goosebone variety,
six additional weeks of winter wealth
er may be looked for. 1t is reason
able to assume, though, that some
cold weather is due during the winter
season of 1910-1911. And as there
hasn't been any to speak of so far, it
Is only natural that it should come
along now, even without the aid of a
shadow dance on the part of the
ground-hoR
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-03
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
IRON the New York Press.l

from the New York Press.
Try to please everybody and please
nobody.
Few of us can live up to our an
cestors however deep down they are
buried.
You hardly ever know whv Won IKE
people; you always know why you
don't.
Without a certain amount of pin-
ing girl can't make. herself believe
it's real love. -
The longest column on the credit
side never seems to be able In foot
up as much as a short one a| ~
debit side. ~
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-03

Certainly the cost of living is de-
clining in almost riotous fashion
these days. A reduction of ten cents
hundred pounds in al grades of
sugar is the latest announcement in
this line. It means that the thrifty
housewife will get maybe as much as
another pound of sugar for a dollar.
What a saving in the grocery bill that
viii mean?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-03
FpOA o7HER PENS
EDUCATING LAWMAKERS.

1t is no wonder. under the present
system of legislating, that the statute
books are loaded down with unconsti-
tutional freakish. useless and harmful
laws Nothing else gcould be expected
when the merchant is taken from be-
hind his counter aud the farmer from
his pillow to participate in the business
of statecraft for 80 days without any
special preparation whatever. One leg
islator will spend the entire session
lobbying for his bill to regulate the size
Of pickle jars. and he must promise to
SUPPORT a dozen other bills that he
knows nothing about in order to have
himself emblazoned in history as the
author of the famous Dill Pickle law
for the alienation of human suffering.
To return to Governor Hadley's edu-
cational idea, why not educate 1awmak-
ers in the science of statecraft? 1t is
pretty serious business, this asking a
lot of busy men who make no pretense
to technical knowledge to pass laws reg
ulating banking, railroads, insurance or
telephones. In the old days things were
much simpler and there were few prob
lens that could not be solved by the
average citizen. Today business mat
tiers are specialized. and in many cases
are intricate and puzzling. But the leg
islators go right on recklessly increas-
ing the number of laws and repeating
very few, with no time to devote to
the study of the subject affected.-Kan-
SaS City Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-03

she flung herself in. the arms held out
to her, and at last managed to say,
81 wanted to do this at the very, very
f1rst-but oh, never dreamed 1
should dare to be so brave!"
'Only brave % the judge asked ten
derby.
She nestled closer. saying as her
arm crept shyly about his neck. And
SO. so happyI'-(Copyrig 1911
by Associated Literary Press-)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-03
where Laces Are Hidden.

In an important street in Mayfair
may be found quiet looking shop with
little or nothing in the window to indt-
cate that a huge treasure lies within.
Yet this is one of the most famous
lace establishments in Europe, and its
proprietor, whose stock is valued at
$1,000, 900, is much sought after by
compilers of society paragraphs, be-
cause he is a sort of walking guide
to the British peerage.
''A1 my valuable laces are kept in
a strong ROOM" he says. ''just as the
Hatton Garden man stores his rubies
and his diamonds. I&want to draw
your attention to the fact that this
onto silk or plush, lest II should get
crumpled or torn continued the ex-
pert, "and that the latter accident is
a. very serious. matter Will be seen
from the fact that a single founce ten
yards long and sixteen and one-half
inches deep, worth $4,000, took four
workmen more than two years to
mend.''
''But how is it that all these pieces
of old lace get into your hands?"
Every scrap of antique lace that I
possess has been privately sold to me
by ladies who either desire to effect an
exchange or who are in immediate
need of money" was the surprising
reply. "Other ladies of high degree
insist upon having fichus made COM
lace-an order which dislike great
ly."
sswhat do you consider a big or
der?'
'Well. trousseaux run into the most
money! replied the merchant, medi-
tatively. "Only a month ago had
a trousseau order for S17.500. but I
am bound to say that 1t is very rarely
that people spend SO much money
nowadays. At present I should con-
slider an order for $500 a very good
thing. But get quite as much sat
isfaction from an advantageous pur-
chase of my own. Look at this, for ex-
AMPLE he continued. unrolling a
piece of yellow plush, upon which We're
stitched several small pieces of old
lace. Here are some lappets and a
fond de bonnet which belonged to
Queen Charlotte, wife of George III.
The queen gave this lace to one of the
ladies of the bedchamber, who was the
present vendors great-aunt. The ven
der, by the way, is a bishops wife,
and she asks $3.50 for the set. ! shall
pay her that sum with pleasure, for
I can easily resell the lace for $1,25O-
I-Tit-Bits.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-03

A fellow was fined in the local po-
lice court fer stealing hammer.
Now If system of fines can only be
inaugurated for the members of the
anvil chorus who are such adopts at
welding the hammer on all occasions
there will be greater rejoicing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-03

They insist on doing everything in
and about New York on a large scale.
A dynamite explosion being in order
a whole carload of the stuff was
touched off
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-03

If the legislature doesn't get busy
soon, it's members will have to put in
many days work without pay in order
to dispose of the ordinary affairs of
state that must receive attention.