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BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1911-08-22
COMETA KlESS

Este coneta, descubierto el ola 6 de iu-
llo y que abserve ell 9, conforme y oportu-
namente tnye ell gusto de dar euenta en-
estas co1nmnas, eontinna acereaaadose 4
La TERRA y alejandose del Sol. Su apro.
xlmacion a la TERRA es rapida, Dor cuyo
motlvo ell brillo general del cometa au
menta A 1ltimos de julio (29), ell co.
meta era Gle Ia magnitud, y por consf-
sulente no observable a simple vista.
Con nnos gemelos, Sc distingue sin diff
cultad este astro, y Sc le vislumbra un
rednnento de cola; en- Las fotograffias que
ne sacado de 6l, esta aparece 1nuy bien,
Este cumeta no sera segura1nente min
guna hermosa aparici6n, por mas que,
a medlados dc agosto, alcanzara, te0rica-
men4e, algo mas de la IA. rnagnitud
por 10 tanto sera entonces visible & sim
pie VISTA Por desgracia, para nuestras
ialtuoes, Ell cometa, en- aquella feeha, es
TARA poca altura sobre Ell hurizonte.
Actuatmente puede verse este astro
cerca de las Pleyadas; la hora meior pa
ra STU observation es entire ma dos da
La manana
A'o mas notable de este cometa es que
Sc aceroara bastante q la TERRA en- efee-
to, hacia ell II de agosto, su distancia a
nosotros sera solo de 80 millones de k;-
l0netros, no mucho mas, relatiyamente
que la n1nirna distancia a que pas6 el
cometa de HALEY. Pero ell eo1neta Kiess
en- d1cha epoca, 40 nos dirigira la cola:
y aunque nos Ia dirigiera, no nos alcan-
zar1a, pues, con toda seguridad, no me-
dira entonces mas de 500 mil kil6metros
de longitud. Por eonsiguiente, no ha-
bra "ehoqn>s nj cian6geno.
Tene1nos tambien la vista otro come.
ia, por ahora de muy debil magnitud:
me refero al cometa descubierto por
Brooks, Ell 20 de Julio. Els telesc6pico,
pero va anmentando de brillo pues Sc
acera al Sol y la TERRA. Su magni-
tud teorlea, a fines de agosto, sera de
a., 5; y el paso por el penhelio ocurri-
"a Ell IL de noyiembre, segdn los elemen-
tos provisionales calcnlados por el 'seiior
Ebell. Por esta ramn, el con,eta de
Brooks pndiera ser, dentro lie nnos me-
aes, 11n astro muy interesa,rtc.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1911-08-22

Ell g club BaIdoriioty :"

Ell Csia III del eerriente Sc eelebrara en-
esta capital Ia Inauguration del "Club
Bado,-ioty de Castro, nuevo clrculo de
instruction y Recrec.
La lnangnraci0n sc celebra CON una
velada~ balle y al acto nos inyitan anna
bhemente, en- representation de la Di-
rectiva, los seflores Jacinto Larregui
presidente y Jose Ell. Beltran, secretario.
I'll programa de La velada es extenso.
y en- el tomaran parte varias senoritas
y j6venes artesanOs.
lnmediatamente despu6s de termina-
do Ell acto hter~rio dara comienzo el bai-
lie, que tiene un delicioso programa.
Damos las gracias por la amable inyi-
tacion que, para dieho acto nos ha di-
rigido.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1911-08-22

90 es tsemapo Ia fcci6a de Inigo. Conste.
en- todo case, que yo no me sopongo a la
cris6aliaaci6n de disparates: me basta
con .ponerios en- evidencia.
8. BRAif.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1911-02-01

have taken much pains to find
out about the school children in
the county, and out of the 5000
in the county l have heard of on
ly six deaths during the last year,
and four of these were in one
neighborhood, three in one fam
lily, and all of typhoid fever.
Three had died before the health
officer had been notified of the
existence of the disease: If the
Fiscal Court will do justice by
me l cando more for the county
the present year, than | have
done in the past. am terribly
in earnest in this matter.
Respectfully yours,
u. L. Taylor, Health Officer.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1911-02-01
Bear this in Mind.

Very few persons are aware Of
the fact that the state of Ken
lucky has established in the city
of Louisville an immigration
Bureau engaged in the work of
bringing desirable immigrants
here and securing employment
for them upon their arrival in
the state. This Bureau has
working arrangements with the
government officials in N w
York City, and is preparing to
furnish men for service upon ap-
plication or if requested to do so.
In view of the scarcity of labor
and the difficulty experienced by
the farming community in secur-
ing help necessary in the raising
of crops, it would be we'll to bear
in mind this Bureau and COM
municate with it when in need of
hands to work on farms. Any
citizen of kentucky can seek in
formation and secure h e l.
through this immigration Bureau
free of all cost.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1911-02-01

A little girl who had been to
Sunday school a number o f
times and the theater on numer-
Gus occasion was taken to church
for the first time by her nurse.
Upon her return home h r
mother asked her how she enjoy
the services.
well" she answered l diden't
care for the services at all.
A man got up and talked for an
hour and never said a thing fun =
ny. No one laughed during the
entire time he was saying things.
The audience got so tired sitting
that it stood up and findlly it got
so tired standing it sit down.
The people just kept doing this
all the time. There was singing
and the singers stood still and
never danced once. That spoiled
that. Instead of having tickets
they passed around a plate and
the people dropped in money.
They diden't seem to care any
more than did because no one
put in much. In the future the
little girl is to be treated to more
church and less theater until her
mother gets over being Mortified
at her criticism of what transpir-
ed in the sacred precincts.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1911-02-01
MILITARY ACCURACY.
Exactness In Keeping Tab on .hs
Movements of Soldiers.

Exactness IN Keeping Tab on sss
Movements of Soldiers.
We hear much of the perfection OF
military organization abroad. but 1t Is
doubtful whether any foreign war Of
than that displayed by our own war
department the movements of its Of
ficers. The following Is an interesting
case in point:
A young army officer who has seen
service In this country and in the east
was once with a scouting party In Arr
iona. After two weeks in the desert
his squad came to the railway near
small station. Within ten minutes
telegram from Washington was
brought to him by the station agent.
1t asked If the officer wished to be
transferred to one of the new artillery
regiments then forming.
He answered by telegraph that he
would be glad to enter either of them.
Then with his squad he set off again
across the desert.
1t was six days later when they
again struck the railway. this time
eighty miles from the point at which
they had previously crossed it. but the
officers reply from the war depart
ment was awaiting him. 1t had been
telegraphed to every station within
200 miles.
A more striking instance of accuracy
occurred after the same officers trans
fer to the east. He was travelling
home on leave. and. as the regulations
require, he had notified the department
of the day. hour and probable route
of his journey. After he had been on
the train for eight hours at a small
station the porter entered with a tele-
gram, asking if any one of his name
was present. On opening the tele-
gram the officer found that ii ordered
him to detached duty.
Exactness of detail could not be car
ried much further. The war depart
ment knew the whereabouts of an in
significant second lieutenant even
when he was travelling on leave of alb
sence.-New York Herald.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1911-02-01
Immense Land Transaction.

Jackson. = A gigantic la n d
deal involving the expenditure of
more than $5O,0OO,OOO and the
purchase o f 10000 acres o f
wood coal and lands in Kentucky
was closed at New York city.
The purchasers are immense
banking and capitalistic interests
of Amsterdam and Holland. The
price paid the Kentuckians for
their lands averaged about $50
though the ultimate cost is figure
ed at closer to $50 an acre.
These lands lie in Brethitt
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1911-02-01
A SNAKE STORY.
The Reptiles Were Frozen Stiff, but
That Didn't Harm Them.

The Reptiles Were Frozen Stiff, but
That Didn't Harm Them.
A naturalist once told how in a
thicket on a mountain side he saw a
man kill a. rattlesnake. He beat the
life out of it with a club and contin-
ued the pounding till it was mangled
beyond recognition. When the nat
uralist demonstrated the man said,
BOSS. you can't kill a rattlesnake too
dead"
On one occasion a boat bound for
the United States from Rio de Janeiro
touched at PernambucO. where the
mate drove a bargain with a snake
dealer for a half dozen reptiles Of vari-
Jus sizes.
The mate had them in a cage on
1eck and charged a sailor with the
duty of washing 1t out with sea wa
ter every evening. All went well as
long as the weather was mild, but on
the night before the gulf stream was
crossed the sailor left a quantity of
water in the cage, and about thirty
hours from port biting gale struck
the ship.
All hands were busy with the storm,
and the snakes were forgotten. When
the mate thought of them and went to
look after their condition he found
them frozen stiff and apparently as
dead as the proverbial doornail.
The dealer for whom the mate had
brought them came on board the fol-
lowing day. He professed great dis
appointment over the loss Of his in
tended purchase. but offered to take
the snakes away as kindness to the
mate. He gathered them in his arms
like so much firewOod and carried
them home. But a rival dealer after
ward told the officer that plenty or
warm water had resuscitated the
snakes and that they had been sold
to various museums not bit the worse
for their death" by freezing.-Har-
per's Weekly.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1911-02-01
Saves Two Lives.

Neither my sister nor myself might be
living to-day, if it had not been for Dr.
Kings New Discovery writes A. ID. Me-
Donald of Fayetteville, N. c. R. F. d.
No. 8, ''for we both had frightful coughs
that no other remedy could help. We
were told my sister had consumption.
She was very weak and had night sweats
but your wonderful medicine completely
cured US both. It's the best l ever used
or heard of. For sore lungs, coughs,
colds hemorrhage, lagrippe, asthma,
hay fever, Group, whooping cough,-all
bronchisl. troubles, Its supreme. Trial
bottle free. SOC and $l.0O. Guaranteed
by PAUL Drug Co.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1911-02-01
The Ambulant Barber.

Paris. like Picking, has its ambulant
barber. Armed with little box, con-
tanning the necessary apparatus. razor.
badger brush. soap, scissors and servi-
cite. he exercises his calling on the
banks of the Seine. All the bargees,
navvies and quay labOrers are his eli
ents. Figaro seats his patient on
the pavement. covers his knees with a
newspaper and for sou shaves. cuts
his hair and gives a human appear
ance to the tramps and others who
intrust themselves to his care.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1911-02-01
A Human Cork.

Bathing in Great Salt Lake is
a unique experience. Flights of
steps lead down into the water
from the interminable platform
along which the lighthouses are
situated. The water is quite
shallow at first. and you fine rare
enjoyment for time in wrig-
Cling your toes about in the salt
that forms the bottom in place of
accustomed sand. You are OBJ
liged to wade out some distance
before you experience the pecu-
liar buoyancy of the lake. First,
you feel your feet trying to swim
from under you. You find it
more and more difficult to walk.
You begin to float in spite of
yourself. Then you realize that
you are nonsinkable. You can't
sink if you want to. Throw your
self on your back or sit down or
try to swim, and you bob about
like a rockingham in a freshet.
You feel as though you had
been turned to cork. You can't
help looking at the phenomenon
subjectively. You don't see that
there is anything peculiar about
the water. 1t looks and feels
like other bathing water-until
you get some of it in your eyes
or in your mouth. Then you
wish you hadn't come. Ocean Wa
ter is sweet in comparison. In
fact, the chemist tell us it is
eight times less salty.
You can't drown in the lake by
sinking, but you can be suffocat-
ed to death, which is just about
as uncomfortable and undesira-
BILE. We found signs every
where, warning us against being
too talkative or too frolicsome in
the water. When we came OUT
we brought with us large de-
posits of salt on our skin. AS
the water evaporated we found
ourselves covered with white
crystals. Only strong shower
bath of fresh water or good
clothes bush can put you into fit
condition to dress. The Travel
Magazine.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1911-02-01

Knott, Letcher, and two adjoin-
ing counties skiring the state of
West Virginia. 1t is intimated
that the timber in the purhase is
worth more than $1O0 an acre.
The coal running in average
veins of z feet is considered the
best and finest for coking purpos-
es in the known coal world.
Railroads are to be construct
ed and soon that section will be
busy beehive of industry tenn
ing with prosperity and blessed
peace.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1911-02-01

In an address before the annu-
al meeting of the National Civic
Federation at New York city,
Samuel Untermyer attacked the
governments attitude toward
the trusts as a "monstrous
sham" According to him the
large and vicious" corporations
go unmolested while the little
fellows are being pursued with a
brass band and the greatest
press bureau ever put in action. :"
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1911-02-01
Odds and Ends.

Uncle Jim, an old negro driver in
Richmond. Va. had some ladies TO
drive through the cemetery. He took
them round and showed them the nota-
BILE graves and monuments and then
drove to that part of the cemetery
where the derelicts were inferred.
"Who are buried hereT asked lady
In the party. II don't think I ever
was here before"
"Oh," replied Uncle Jim, 'odds and
ends. missus. odds and ends!-Pitts-
burg Press.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1911-02-01
Character in Finger Nails.

One of the latest society fads is
reading caracters by the finger
nails. Here are some rules:
Long Nails = When they are
long the person is good natured
but placing little confidence in
others.
Narrow Nails - The person
with such nails is desirous of at
tanning knowledge in the scienc
es but is never at peace lon G
with her neighbors.
Never employ a penknife o
clean the nails. A soft stick
rounded not pointed should b e
used. This should be also employ
ed to push down the flesh which
grows at the base of the nails.
Broad Nail-They who have
their nails broad are of a gentle
disposition bashful and afraid of
speaking before their superiors,
o r indeed, to anyone without
hesitation and dOwncast air.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1911-02-01
How She Knew.

evil you have some fresh mus0
rooms? ?" asked the hostess sweetly.>
"Yes," faltered the guest. 'ff you're
quite sure they're mushrooms and not
toadstools."
"Oh, I'm quite sure" replied the
hostess. 81 opened the can myself
Detroit Free Press.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1911-02-01
Punishment Will Prevent Crime.


When a man is killed there is
an cutlery, not against murder,
but against carrying concealed
deadly weapons.
The offepse, the danger, the
evil is not in carrying a pistol,
concealed or revealed, but is in
using the weapon.
The way to stop lawless men
from carrying concealed weap-
ons is to punish them when they
use. or try to use, the weapon.
Why do murderers flock to our
shores? Because in this home
of the free and the land of the
brave we do not punish murder.
America is not the home of
the free. We are ruled by men
who kill; we are inundated by
them, terrorized by them. A
merica is not the home of the
brave; if we were a race of tru-
ly brave men we would punish
crime, stifle mobs and protect
men, women and children from
violence and brutality. Hear
what Andrew D. White has to
say about America as the refuge
of the murderers from all quar-
tiers of the world:
A great host of accomplished
European anarchists and crimi-
mails is shortly coming to this
country to join the thugs, yegg-
men and blackhanders who al
ready enjoy American hospitaIi-
ty."
DR.. White urges the immedi-
ate passage of laws to bar from
the shores of the United States
flood of undksirables, who, he
declares, will hasten hither as
soon as England expels them.
He says:
I'm the United States, the
number of murders during the
year just closed was 1875, an in
crease of 900 over the year pre-
ceding. Only one in eighty-six
was capitally punished. The
number of murders in the Unit
ed States is to the number in En-
gland as 116 to six
: If we will will ponder this
last paragraph and act on it; if
we will hang men who kill their
fellow men, do it surely. do it
swiftly. mark the man as a brute
and give no time for heroics,
give no more consideration for
repentance than the murderer
gave to his uictim, we need not
erect bars against immigration.
If the murderers did not feel
safe they would not come to
America.
But the danger from the I'M
ported murderer is small COM
pared to the murderers who are
developed here at home. Shut
out all we know to bemurderers;
all who contemplate murder:
but do not protect the home mar
ket murderer. Louisville Post.
A young woman in Madison
vile K ", committed suicide
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1911-02-01
The Bin Bill

Little Bob Gust started In SCHOOL,
Uncle Harry. what is the bird with the
biggest bill? Uncle Harry (who Is still
thinking Of the night before)-A quail,
my boy: a quail-on toast.-Judge.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1911-02-01
Report Of DR.. U. L. Taylor. Health
Officer.

10 the Adalr Fiscal Court:
Gentlemen:-When a court or
any body else, employs a man to
do a piece of work in any partic-
ular time. they ought to have
some particular means of knew
ing whether the particular work
HIS been done. AS the court has
not asked me any thing about it,
have concluded to make a re-
port to them of the work that |
have done during the last year,
and let them see from this re-
port whether or not | have been
faithful to my trust, or the trust
reposed in me. l have been
working now for two years in
the interest of the public health,
and | have been remarkably
busy. The law says that every
house where a consumptive has
died, shall be fumigated before
it is occupied by any BODY again.
| started year before last to do
this thing, and l fumigated 80
houses. Last year | fumigated
%, and not a single house where
| fumigated the year before. In
the first year nine of the 80 were
colored people. | gave talks to
the colored people on sanitation
and ventilation, told them to
put windows to their houses and
live much in the open air, and
the last year | fumigated only
three colored houses, Whether
it was from my talk or some
thing else, l leave you to Judge.
l fumigated the first year about
10 houses where persons had died
from typhoid fever, the lost only
five. The first year l fumigated
about Is houses where children
had died from diptheria. This
year not near so many have died,
but | undertook to set in order
all the houses where diphtheria
had been, but the task was so
great, | could not keep up with
the work, ard my salary was so
small | could not afford to hire a
man to help me do the work.
The county has had a very wide
spread epidemic of diptheria dur
ing the year 1910, and it kept
all the doctors busy to keep the
children from dying. l could
not get the druggists to keep the
remedy with which to cure dip
liberia, and | took the RESPONSE
bility to buy it myself. By the
use of the antitoxin | haven't a
doubt that the lives of fifty chill
dren have been saved. l bought
during the year, 181 doses of an
titoxin at a cost of S261 dollars,
and this was given to about one
hundred and fifty patients, and
every one of them recovered that
had the medicine in time, and
what | mean by in time is, before
the child was almost dead. Ply
sicians used to be afraid to be
called to see case of diptheria,
because there was no known
remedy, and almost every case
died, but now they go see them
as readily as any other sort of
case. I had but one case of
smallpox during the year, and
that was in the extreme north
\ ern part of the county. 1t was
\ a mild case, aud was not permit
sed to spread. | was called to
Aparksville upon two occasions
tdabate nuisances in the shape
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1911-02-01

they were not. Wnere
about 5000 pupils ought to have
been found, I found only about
1000. One reason for the slim
attendance was, that about twen-
ty of the sceools had been sus-
pended on account of diptheria
and scarlet fever. When you
have to suspend a school on &C
count of any sickness it takes the
school a long time to get back to
it's former standing. The schools
visited before the suspension,
made a little better showing than
they had for year or two past.
But there is something radically
wrong in the matter. There is a
general carelessness pervading
the whole public school question.
The parents are careless, the
children are careless, the trus-
tees are careless, and while about
$40, 600 are being paid out each
year for the education of the
children of the county, very few
of them are getting the benefit
of the money. l gave talks to
the children as went around or
the subject of the pnblic health.
Talked to them on sanitation,
ventilation, and the direful re-
suits springing from the use of
tobacco and whiskey. l took
particular pains to see whether
any Of the pupils were suffering
from eye strain, or any thing
like consumption. l called the
teachers especial attention to
these things. When child is
seen to be holding its book too
near to the eyes, it is an evidence
that something wrong is going
on, and the teacher should make
haste to break up the habit, for
at the beginning it is nothing
but a habit. If l had met with
a teacher with unmistakable
systems of tuberculosis, l should
not hesitate to take stepe to have
that teacher relieved Of her or
his job.
1t is the hardest matter in the
world to get the public to inter-
est itself in the public
health or the public school ques-
ton. The Superintendent of
public schools, Miss Pearl Hind
man and myself, had bills struck.
and scattered over the county,
announcing our coming, insist
ing on the parents and the peo-
pie coming to our meetings. We
very rarely got anybody to come
10 l think was the largest con-
gregation we got together out
side of the schools. One trustee
was the only one we had at our
meetings. l am in favor of a
strict compulsory school law, one
that has penalty enough attached
to it to make the people stand up
and take notice. Parents have
no moral right, and they ought
to have no legal right to raise up
children in ignorance in the COM
munity after the state has made
such bountiful provision for
their education. Jesus said up
on one occasion, He that knew
not the law and did things wor-
thy of stripes, shall be beaten
with few stripes. But he that
KNEW the law and did things wor-
thy of stripes, shall be beaten
with many stripes, or in other
words bird that can sinp and
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1911-02-01

A young woman in Madison
vile X ", committed suicide
because rhumatism prevented
her playing the piano.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1911-02-01

In general. pride Il at the bottom Of
all great mistakes.-Ruskin.