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BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1913-02-27
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Lo apOya su autor introduciendo dos
enmiendas que son aprobadas, si6ndolo
,amo1cn ei pr0yecto eli ga. lectura POI
uLarimidad, tai como fu6 enmendado
szzn
La Camara imparte su aprobaci0n en-
3a. lectura al P. die la G. No. 40 asig-
nando la suma de diez mil d0lares pa
ra la construction de una carretera en-
tre los pueblos de Cayey y Cidra pa
sando por ell barrio del "Rinc6n." Su
autor es ell Senior Fernandez Garcia.
Tam3i6n es aprobada en 3a lectura
sin discussion la f. C. No. de los sefo-
res Jordan Davila, Barnes, Alvarado
v Rojas Cortes, para perfeccionad ell
t1tulo de cierta propiodad &c la Plays
de Ponce.
Sc aprueba defnitivamente el P dc
la G.. No. As, en- 3a lectura
As1 mismo el No. 122 de los senores
Ledesma y Palmer asignando la sum;
de 12,800 d6lares para la terminaci6l
del trozo de la carretera No. 2 com
prendido entire Arecibo y Hatillo.
Tar7bier Sc aDrueha el P. &c Ia G.
no. 133 de los 1nismos autol'es 0el an
terror asignando la suma de 12,200 do
lares pa~l q ter1 inaci n &c n carre-
terra No. 2 de San Juan a Arecibo.
Finalmente sc pore ( discussion ell P.
de la G.. No. 145 de los senores Pujals,
Carlo, Arrillaga C6lberg, Garcia Duc6s,
Lluberas, M6ndez Liciaga, del Rosa
rio y Vargas, asignerdo la suma de
10000 d6lares para construir una ca
rretera de Lajas a Guanica Central
Ell seflor Fernandez Garcia, consume
un turno en- contra; dice que la Qua
MICA Central es la factor1a mas RIGA de
la Isla, que cuenta con muchos millones
de capital, y que 81 necesita una carre-
terra para la conducci6n de sus produc-
tos, debe de gastarse ell dinero para la
construction de aquella via no venir
a pedir a la Camara dinero del pueblo
de Puerto Rico para benefciarse par.
| ticularmente.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1913-02-27

Los senores Colberg Lluberas de-
ienden ell proyecto combatiendo los
argumentos del impugnador
Este rectifica y propone una en-
mienda en- ell sentido de que sea redac-
tada la ley diciendo que Sc asigan la
cantidad dicha para la construction de
una carretera cue de Lajas Sc diriia 4
Yauco, pasando por la Guanica Cen
trad, va que s'eg1n le han probado cum
plldamente Los oradores que lie han pre-
cedido, los benfciados con esta via Sc
ran los vecinos de aquellas poblacionea
y no La factor1a en- question.
Son votadas y aprobadas, la enmien-
da y la 3a. lectura del proyecto, que
como todos los demas aprobados en- la
;eslon, pasan all Comit6 de leyes apro-
1adas para ser enviados al Conseio
Executive.
A las 6 de la tarde Ell senior Martinez
Davlla propone cue Sc levante Ia Sc
sion hasta hoy las 2 de la tarde, CO.
mo asi Sc verifca una vez aprobada su
proposition unanimamente.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1913-02-27

despues ell dictamen de la Comisi6n y
3a. lectura. del proyecto.
Sin debate es aprobado Ell 3a. lectura
ell I. de la G.. No. 173.
Sc abre debate para ser aprobado
nl P. de la G. No. 1872 del senior Diaz
Navarro, para declarar nulas ciertas
fanZas.
Ell seLor Fernandez Garcia consume
un turno en- contra del proyecto ell cue
califca de anticonstitucional
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Camara de Delegates
continuation de la IA. 2 igina.]

Despu6s de ser leido a petici6n del
senior Fernandez Garcia ell articulo 416
del C6digo Penal VICENTE es aprobado
en- 3a. lectura sin discussion ell P de la
G. No. 1876, del senior de Diego, para
enmendar aquel precepto del C0digo.
Por unanimidad sin debate Sc aprue-
tambien Ell 2a lectura ell P. de la G.
No. 159 de los senores Diaz Navarro y
Velez para que sea extendida la l1nea
telegr3fca y telef6nica Insular Quay
nabo.
Sc pone discussion ell P. de Ia G. No.
141 del senor Dfaz Navarro para en-
mendar la secci6n la de la "ley esta-
bleciendo el procedimiento para ell des-
ahucio"
Il Sc or Fern@ndez Garcia pide que
Sc lea dioha secci6n al objeto de discu-
tir cen conocimiento de causa, 10 cual
-verifca ol sehor Suliveres presidente
del Comite de Legislaci6n.
Aquel Delegado impugna ell proyec-
to rogando al senor Diaz Navarro ex-
pliuue las razones que ha tenido que
no duda ser7n muy fundadas podero-
sas. para tratar de enmendar aquqlla
ley, que el considera mas amplia que la
enmienda que Sc trata de introducir en-
ella.
Ell senor Suliveres defende ell dicta-
men del Comite; don Herminio salts
face elocuentemente los deseos del Sc
Tor Garcia, Intervene en- ell debate ell
senior MARTINEZ Davila, y son aprobados
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Boys Cooperating With City Officials.

Ithaca, y. y, Aug. 13.-William Il.
George, founder of the Junior repub-
lies and the national director of the
National Association of Junior Erpub-
lies. is starting in this city a new plan
for the practical training of American
citizens. This plan is known us the
junior municipality,' The boys and
perhaps the girls also between the
ages of sixteen and tWcnty-onn are to
become junior citizens and elect from
among themselves officers. from the
mayor down. The boy mayor will
place himself at the disposal of the
clty's mayor and cooperate With him
in the enforcement of laws and ordi-
nances, more especially those relating
to boys and girls and matters directly
affecting them. The boy police COM
missioner will in like manner COOP
crate with the adult police commits
sioner, so on down the liue. The
boys common council will sit from
time to time, as guests and auditors,
with the regular common council, and
each man councilOr will have a boy
from his district upon whom he may
call for assistance.
Already the n~oighboring city Of Cort-
land has invited MI. George to start
a similar organization for them. and he
will lay the plan before their common
council within a few days. If the plan
proves successful in these two small
cities there is no reason why it should
not gradually he extended to all the
small cities of the country. Mr.. George
also hopes to work out some modificn-
ton of the plan for use in large cities.
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Indians Swearing to Old Glory.

Philadelphia, Aug. 12.-In order that
every Indian in the United States may
have an opportunity to declare his al
l%egiance to the stars and stripes. the
flag of the white man who has driven
him and his people into a few restrict.
ed reservations scattered over the coun.
try. the I,odman Wanamaker eNpedi.
ton of citizenship to the North Amer.
lean Indian has leen visiting these
reservations. carrying words of good
Will and MCGUIRE cement to the descend.
ants of the warriors who made the
white settlers fight tooth and nail for
Il foOthuld in North America.
This expedition. which by the au
thority of the president left this city
for the west, was the result OF the in
SEPARATION of Rodman Wanamaker OF
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Co-education Plan at Harvard,

Cambridge. Mass. Aug. 12.-Hnrvard
university will become a c~o-educational
institution unless all signs fail. The
c~o-education will not be in the academ-
ic. the scientific or graduate courses,
however, but in a university school
which the department of education
hopes to establish next autumn. This
school will begin with the kindergar-
ten, and boys and girls will be received
and taught studies of the elementary
grades UP to about nine or ten years Of
age.
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ity," continued Judge Meme
fee, "a lovers quarrel as
they stood at the gate
on that memorable day. Tormented
by jealousy, young Redruth vanished
from his native haunts. But had he
lust cause to do so? There is no evil
dence for or against. But there is
something higher than evidence. There
is the grand, eternal belief in woman's
goodness, in her steadfastness against
temptation, in her loyalty even in the
face Of proffered riches.
II picture to myself the rash lover
wandering, self tortured, about the
world. I picture his gradual descent
and, finally, his complete despair when
he realizes that he has lost the most
precious gift life had to offer him.
Then his withdrawal from the world
Of sorrow and the subsequent derange-
ment of his faculties become intelli-
gible.
But what do l see on the other
hand? A lonely woman fading away
as the years roll by-still faithful, still
waiting, still watching for a form and
listening for a step that will come no
more She Is old now. Her hair is
white and smoothly banded. Each
day she sits at the door and gazes
longingly down the dusty road. In
spirit she is waiting there at the gate,
just as he left her-his forever, but
not here below. Yes, my belief in wo-
man paints that picture in my mind.
Parted forever on earth, but waiting!
She in anticipation of a meeting in
Elysium; he in the Slough of Despond.'
Judge Menefee got stif1y to his feet.
"And now, Miss Garland" he an
nounced, I'VE have concluded. 1t is
for you to award the prize to the one
of u whose argument-especially, l
may say, in regard to his estimate of
true ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS nearest
to your own conception"
No answer came from the lady pas
senger. Judge Menefee bent over So
l%icitously. The passenger who was
nobody in particular laughed low and
harshly. The lady was sleeping sweet
ly. The judge essayed to take her
hand to awaken her. In doing so he
touched a small, cold, round, irregular
something in her lap.
"She has eaten the apple" ANNOUNCE
ed Judge Menefee in awed tones as he
held up the core for them to see.
THE END.
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The Vanished Prize.

- HERE was in all probable
ity,' continued Judge Meme
fee, "a lovers quarrel as
thou stood at the gate
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AGlance at Current

Washington. Aug. 12.-It is
ed that the department of agriculture
through it's Office of markets will short
~ begin a thorough study of what hap
pens to produce from the time it leaves
the producer to the time it reaches
the consumer. \ specialist on market
prices received by producers, cost Of
transportation and storage. change of
ownership. accumulated charges. prof
its and other elements. This specialist
will then study conditions in various
sections to determine the feasibility of
a market news service dealing with
perishable products and also the best
methods of making statistics Of supply
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1913-08-15

Wathena Fruit Growers association,
with its $50 members, is perhaps the
most noted fruit shipping concern in
the middle west.
1t all sprang from the disgust Of one
man, w. Il. Martin. who on a June day
in Wathena tried to sell n crate OF
t%wenty-four boxes Of berries anil could
get from the soulless middleman who
looked at them only so cents.
Martin started out at once to remedy
this state of affairs. He became gen
eral manager of the new association
and has held the place ever since. TIE
organization is incorporated for $50
600. Of Which $4,000 is invested in q
building. It's general success has been
remarkable. Last year it sold it's Der
ries at al average price of 1872. or
164 per cent more than Martin receiv.
ed for his fateful crate in 1904.
Wathena lies in the fertile Missouri
river district. about fifty miles north
of Kansas City. The section is so i'm
portant from a fruit growing stand
point that the Kansas experiment sta.
ton has put al agent in the field there
to cooperate with the growers in fight
ing insects and advising on other prob.
lens. Last year Doniphan county. in
which Wathena lies. grew more than
100000 worth of fruit.
When a man is taken into the Fruit
Growers association he pays into the
treasury $40. In addition he must buy
at least s. worth of stock and NAV
buy more if it is available. Some
members own as much as 81, 900 worth
Of stock.
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~ HE great city of Bagdad-on-the-
Subway is caliph ridden. It's
palaces, baZaars, khans and
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Philadelphia, the donor CT the memo
ed at Fort W&dsworth, y. Y. The ex-
petition carries With It the same flag
and ropes that We're used in the flag
raising ut the dedication of the me-
mortal at For WadsWorth on the last
anniversary Of WaShinyton's birthday.
ana every Indian trib will have an
opportunity to hoist he flag on its own
territory and sign tie declaration of
allegiance under which thirty-three In
dian chiefs made their marks at the
dedication ceremonies.
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1913-08-15
Homes For Mexican Laborers.

Mexico city. Aug. H. Ministers
Francisco dc la Harra and Torihio rs
4uivel Ooregon presented IA PROPOSE.
ton at the cabinet meeting for build
Ing houses for labnring men at the cX-
penSc of the government. These will
later be sold t. Iaburer> at cost.
The SUI Of :SHUn.OuN has been asked
FOR TINS purpose, to be' taken from the
loan WllCh VAS recently tlnated, The
houses will be built at Balbuenu and
ut two other points where there are
lands belonging to the government.
HE plan is IA continuation of the
general scheme as instituted by De
la Barra while he was president ad IN.
terim of the republic. 1t that time he
organized the department of labor.
which has done much to assist the Ia
boring class in the solution of its diff.
culties with the manufacturers.
This plan is intended to enter into
competition with the private enter
prl>es supplying houses for laborin.
men, i'll order to force private owners
to furnish hyyienir homes at reasolla-
BILE rates. In many cases there are no
such houses, due to the fact that the
proprietors merely onvert buildings
which cannot he used for any other
purpose into ~"viviendas.' which are
rented at unreasonable rates. rather
than build houses expressly for the
purpose OF renting or selling them to
laborinS g l33 81
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O. HENRY

man and the Bottle: of the Barmecides'
Boarding house.: Of Aladdin's rise to
wealth by means of his Wonderful Gas
Meter.
But now. there being ten sultans to
one Sheherazade. she is held too valua-
BILE to De in fear of the bowstring. In
consequence the art of narrative Ian
cuisines. And as the lesser caliphs are
hunting the happy poor and the resign
ed unfortunate from to cover in
order to heap upon them strange mer-
cies and mysterious benefits. too often
comes the report from Arabian head
quarters that the captive refused Ito
falk."
This reticence, then, in the actors
who perform the sad comedies of their
philanthropy scourged world must. in a
degree. accountfor the shortcomings
of this painfully cleaned tale, which
shall be called The Story of the
Caliph Who Alleviated His Con-
science"
Old Jacob Spraggins mixed for him
self some Scotch and lithia water at
his $1,000 oak sideboard. Inspiration
must have resulted from his inhibition,
for .immediately afterward he struck
the quartered oak soundly with his fist
and shouted to the empty dining room:
ut must be that $4,000! If l can
get that squared it'll do the trick"
When old Jacob was young Jacob he
was q hroaEn,. hnv II, u Dc,,,cy,1-o,; a.
coal mine. He hitched up his galluses,
put a dollar or two in a side PROPOSE
ton now and then. and at forty-five
was worth $780, 900.
There, now, it's over! Hardly had
time to yawn, did you? I've seer bi-
ographies that-but let us dissemble.
l want you to consider Jacob Sprag-
gins, Esq, after he had arrived at the
seventh stage of his career. The stages
meant are: First. humble origin: second,
deserved promotion: third, stakeholder;
fourth, capitalist; fifth, trust magnate;
sixth, rich malefactor; seventh, caliph;
eighth. X. The eighth stage shall be
left to the higher mathematics.
At tifty-five Jacob retired from &C.
tive business. The income of a czar
was still rolling in on him from coal,
iron, real estate, oil, railroads, manu-
factories and corporations, but none Of
it touched Jacobs hands in a raw
state. 1t was a sterilized increment,
carefully cleaned and busted and fumi-
gated until it arrived at it's ultimate
stage of untainted, spotless checks in
the white fingers of his private secre-
tary. Jacob built a $3,OOO,OOO palace
on a corner lot fronting on Nabob ave
nue.. city of New Bagdad, and began
to feel the mantle of the late H. A.
Raschid descending upon him. Even
tually Jacob slipped the mantle under
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his collar, tied it in a neat four-in-hand
and became a licensed barrier of our
Mesopotalnian proletariat.
When IA mans income becomes so
large that the butcher actually sends
him the kind of steak he orders he be-
gins to think about his souls salvation.
Now, the various stages or classes of
rich men must not be forgotten. The
capitalist can tell you to a dollar the
amount of his wealth. The trust mag
nate "estimates' it. The rich malefac-
tor hands you a cigar II denies that
he has bought the 2. d. and q. The
caliph merely smiles and talks about
Hammerstein and the musical lasses.
There is a record of tremendous alter
cation at breakfast in a "Where to dine
WelI' tavern between a magnate and
his wife, the rift within the loot being
that the wife calculated their fortune
at a figure $4,000, 900 higher than did
her future divorce.
When Jacob first began to
the eyes Of needles with the camcls in
the zoo he decided upon organized
charity. He had his secretary send a
check for 81. 900 to the Universal
Benevolent Association of the Globe.
You may have looked down through a
grating in front of a decaycd ware
house for a nickel that you had drop
ped through. But that is neither here
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No. 3
The Sphinx Apple
PROLOGUE.
Copyright by the Mcclure company.

Stormbound, Bildad Roses passen-
gers take refuge in a shanty deserted
by Old Man Redruth, who had an un-
lucky love affair, Rose informs them.
An apple is found, and the impressive
Judge Menefee, rendering it to theo only
lady present, suggests its award for
what she considers the best version of
the blighted romance from the point
where Roses narrative ends. The idea
is adopted. Various ingenious theories
are advanced, and Judge Menefee be
gins the final p%eroration.
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and demand useful to the farmer or
truck gardener.
The question of market houses will
be considered. and advice as to the
best and most sanitary form of market
will be made. Communities will be
advised to adopt the cooperative idea
in marketing. The little store on the
street where all produce is exposed to
the dust and germs is condemned.
The specialists will make intensive
studies of typical communities dealing
with special products and will assist
i'll the formation of new cooperative
enterprises.
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1913-08-15
No. 4
A Night In New
Arabia
ConYright by Doubleday. Page & Co.
Copyright by Doubleday. Page e. Co.
Jacob Spraggins.

Jacob Spraggins.
~ HE great city of Bagdad-on-the-
Subway is caliph ridden. It's
palaces, bazaars, khans and
byways are thronged with Al
Raschids in divers DISCUSSES, seeking
diversion and victims for their unbrid-
led generosity. You can scarcely find
a poor beggar whom they are willing
to let enjoy his spoils u%nsuccored, nor
a wrecked unfortunate upon whom
they will not reshower the near of
fresh misfortune. You will hardly find
anywhere a hungry one who has not
had the opportunity to tighten his belt
in gift libraries, a poor pundit who
has not blushed at the holiday basket
Of celery crowned turkey forced re-
s%oundingly through his door by the
el~eemosynary press.
So then fearfully through the Haroun
haunted streets creep the n eyed
calenders, the Little Hunchback and
the BARRIERS Sixth Brother, hoping to
escape the ministrations of the rowing
horde of caliphoid sultans.
Entertainment for many Arabian
nights might be had from the histories
Of those who have escaped the lar
j., gesse of the army Of Commanders of
the Faithful. Until dawn you might
sit on the enchanted rug and listen to
such stories as are told of the powerful
genie Roc-Ef-El-Er, who sent the Forty
Thieves to soak up the Oil plant of Ali
Baba; Of the good Caliph Kar-Neg-Ghe,
who gave away palaces; of the Seven
Voyages of Sailbad, the Sinner, who
frequented wooden excursion steam
ers among the islands; of the Fisher
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Wireless News Of Earthquakes.

st. Louis. Aug. 12.-The st. Louis
university through the aid of the new
wireless station will keep its sister in
situations asswell as a number of the
outlying government weather bureaus
posted on earthquakes and other like
phenomena in the future. according to
an announcement made at the univer-
sity.
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Avoiding the MiddIeman.

Wathena, Kan. Aug. Ito get rid
of the middleman and incidentally to
give the consumer more for his money
a dozen fruit growers living around
this city organized Il cooperative as
ISOLATION nine years ago. Today the
Evening times-Republican., 1913-12-30
TERMS:
NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS.

It is time to resolute. Better 1t Is to
have resolved and lost than never to
have resolved at all. The New Year
invoice. The inventory shows too much
Of one thing and too little Of another.
SO the conclusion comes very naturally
that this must be cut out and that
added to the personal stock.
Most New Year resolutions izzle and
peter out. So far as that Is concerned
most resolutions get frayed more or
less with use. 1t is pretty hard thing
to correct habits which have been long
forming and change and abolish Gus
toms and manner at the striking Of the
clock. The water wagon is a precarious
perch. The resolution Of abstinence
from tobacco and all resolutions that
involve stimulants and narcotics -.
quire stern determination. Most men
fail to keep such resolves. But enough
do win to keep the rest of us resolving
again with the advent Of the new year.
And there are other resolutions which
are in order every day In the year,
which are as readily made and as hard
to keep as the stock resolve that con.
Germs the sprinkling cart
To resolve to do better whether on
New Years or the Fourth OF July never
did any man harm. The resolve Of IT.
self is an evidence Of desire most
creditable to him who makes It. And
there Is always the open chance that
he will keep it. The New Years reso-
luton which succeeds attracts small
attention. The gang gathers and gig
giles about'the broken pieces.
The water wagon and other convey
ances Of one kind and another start
at the same time from the same place
that they didslast year. Are you a pas
senger?