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BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1914-09-23
Los sueldos
de la Policia
UNA CARTA DEL SR. DE DIEGO.

Respondiendo a una carta de Don
Anastasio Benftez que solicitaba algu-
nos pormenores respecto a sueldos de
la policla nuestro colega La Voz de la
Patria, de Mayagiiez, inserta la siguien-
te carta del Sr. de Diego:
Sr. Don Anastasio Benitez,
Mayagiiez
Estimado amigo:
Hab1a demoraIdo La contestaci6n de
su carta de de Septiembre, hasta OBJ
tener un informe exacto del asunto
pues no quer1a incurrir en- alglln olvido
8 error.
Como Vd. sabe, en- virtud de una Re-
souclon lniciada Ell la Camara, SO de-
sign6 una Comisi6n Conjunta de am
bos cuerpos legislativos, para estudiar
las reformas del sistema administrative
e lntroducir Ell el Presupuesto las gran
des conomias demandadas unanime
mente por ell pals en- la actual crisis
economical.
Para esta Comision fueron designa-
dos por la Camara los senores Barcelo,
Giorgetti y Diaz Navarro, por ell Con-
SEQ los senores Carrell, Travieso v
Barbosa, siendo Barcel6 Presidente de
la misma Comision, que ha desempeila-
do una labor brillantisma.
En- 10 cOncerniente a los sueldos de
la Policia. 10 ocurrido fu6 10 siguiente.
\ pesar de que la Camara Sc propo-
MIA reducir, como redujo en- million Y
medic de dollars ell Presupuesto. con
sider6 que no debia rebajarse sueldo
alguno de la policla, sino por ell contra
RIO, aumentarse ell sueldo de los guar
dias por tratarse de un servicio tan inn
portante, duro y POGO retribuido. En-
ell seno de la Comisi6n Econ0mica, los
lmiembros de la Camara propusieron y
votarOn todOs que Sc aumentase ell suel-
do de los guardias no Sc disminuyese
ell de los Ofciales, pero los tres miem-
bros del Consejo votaron en- opuesto
sentido resulto empate
Qued6 la question sin resolver, en- ell
seno de la Comisi0n la Camara, al
aprobar ell Presupuesto aument0 ell
sueldo de los guardias y pudimos, al
fin, conseguir que ell Consejo aceptase
ell aumento, aunque con ciertas limita-
clones Ell cuanto los reenganches.
Esta es la verdad usted puede ha-
Ger de esta carta ell uso que tenga por
conveniente, en- la inteligencia de que
no trato en- ella de dirigir censura algu
ma & los miembros del Consejo Ejecuti-
vo en- la Comisi0n Econ0mica, pues,
como he dicho, ell trabajo de la Comi-
sion ha sido en- terminos generates dig
no del mayor elogio.
Suyo affmo,
Jose de DIEGO.
A las manifestations de elocuente
Speaker hemos de poner un breve
comentario.
Tenemos entendido que, EN- cuanto 4
los reenganches de la policla, no hubo
Clertas limitaciones, sine que fueron SUI
primidos EN- absolute; Y asl resulta que
los guardias que llevan una serie de
amos prestando excelentes services ga
nan el mismo sueldo que los policlas
que acaban de ingresar en- ell cuerpo.
Asi no es possible tener personal eff,
ciente en- ell cuerpo de policia.
Para el guardia nuevo en- Ell institu
to, esta bien que Sc lie pague ESQ, pere
ldabe laber an estlmulo para el que ha
ce del oficio de policia una profession
va que cada allo que transcurla ha dt
, conocerla mejor es de suponer qut
mejor la cumpla.
El cuerpo de policfa ha de retener
con alguna cOmDensaci0n. 4 los elemen
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1914-09-23
FL DR.. Segarra

Hemos tenido el gusto de saludar
hoy a nuestro querido amigo Ell doctor
don Elias Segarra.
Pasara en- San Juan varios dias que
le deseamos agradabilisimos.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1914-09-23

Los unionistas celebraron anoche un
mitin en- el barrio La Perla,' y los
republicanos ctro. en- el Machuchal. !,
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1914-09-23

Respondiendo a una carta de Don
Anastasio Benftez que solicitaba algu-
nos pormenores respecto sueldos de
la policia nuestro colega La Voz de la
Patria, de Mayagiiez, inserta la siguien-
te carta del Sr. de Diego:
Sr Don Anastasio Benitez,
Mayagiiez.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1914-09-23

FOdII . UdII, IT,
Muy senor m1o y distinguido amigo:
Reciba mi mas enthusiastic felicitacion
por su valiente articulo "LA COM
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1914-11-10
Three Reasons Why Majority of
Married Men Will Hirt

love their wives are still ever ready to
follow any fluttering petticoat however
great the risk, Is, as William Dean
Howells once aptly said. Because. after
5000 years of civilization, men are still
imperfectly homogeneous"
No woman is unfaithful to her hus-
band as long as she has one particle OF
affection for him in her heart When
she breaks her marriage vow there Is
treachery in her soul against her hus-
band; but man may be faithless In the
flesh to his wife and yet hold her In his
heart as In a shrine, and be strain n 6
every nerve and muscle to surround her
safe and sheltered from the hardships Of
life.
In n way, wcmon do sense this dimly.
That is why they forgive so often when
their husbands stray off Of the straight
and narrow path. and why they shut
their eyes to so many things that they
do not want to sec. As long as a man is
kind and tender TO his wife and agree
able at home. his wife recognizes that
he is true to hor in spirit. howeN err his
feet may wander. and she seldom feels
called upon to take her troubles to the
divorce court.
The third reason why men are less
faithful to their wives than their wives
are to them may be found in the simple
fact that wives condone their husbands
immortality while husbands do not con-
done their wives. Men have done their
moral duty by women far better than
women have done their moral duty by
men. a girl knows that before a man
marries her he is going to look into her
record. and that it must be spotless, or
he will not have her for his wife. A
wife knows that she must walk as
straight as a string. else her husband
will divorce her and take her children
from her. Therefore women as sex are
vrtuous.
On the other hand, no girl dares look
into her prospective husbands record.
Few wives but find II the part OF wisdom
to be blind. and convention permits a
man to indulge his impulses unrebuked
and do the things that he would divorce
and disgrace his wife for doing.
What is the remedy for this? Almighty
wisdom alone knows. The growing num-
Der Of self-supportlng women is going to
help sorle, because the woman who does
not need to marry for a home can afford
to be much more particular about the
morals of a man she marries than could
the girl to whom any sort of a husband
who has a meal ticket was a godsend.
Nor will the wife who has a good trade
to which she can turn stand for the phil
andering on her husbands part that the
helpless and dependent wife has had to
stand for the sake of food and shelter
The real reform. however. must come
aiming mon themselves in their growing
sense OF the sacredness of the marriage
relationship and of an equal loyalty be-
tween The sexes. and IN the struggle OF
the man himself TO hold in leash the
brute that is within him,
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1914-11-10
Does Time Really Pass Away?

mometer, pyrometer. ultra-ultra, mIcho-
scopes ultra-micro-p photography. photo
graphing the invisible. Roentgen ray
anAlisis. researches I'm radiant. energy
and higher researches within the mind
maze, laws have been discovered; but as
yet no hint, suggestion, OF trace Of any
cause has been detected
Ny own pet theory that l am now ad-
vocatlng throughout the world is that
mind is the only cause in existence.
cannot prove It to others. hence | am
careful not to say that II is a law that
mind Is the sole cause. Personally, the
theory 10 me is so firmly ingra.ned into
my being that 1t comes near to being a
law.
But / was reading a treatise on the
differential calculus % the calculus OF
variations. and the author was explain
ing the set OF laws OF variations and
rates OF change. and values OF infin-
itesimal differences OF consecutive states
Of moving entities He was within a
wilderness OF changing things In nature.
Suddenly this mighty sentence appeared
Time Is the only constant"
A thunderbolt from blue sky could not
have startled me more.
But the author did not say a word as
10 what time Is He was certain that he
did not know. The meaning OF the word
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1914-11-10
Advice to LOvelorn
The Girl Who Loves n Married Man.
. ~ BEATRTCH FAIRFAX

The Girl Who Loves Married Man.
Dear Miss Fairfax: My dear little sis
ter Is getting so talked OF | fear she VIII
never live II down, because OF parried
man who works where she does. They go
pens TO be late, and even lunch together,
but she always pays for her own. He
tells her how unhappy he Is with his
wife, and so forth-the same old story
1 have looked him up, and everyone has
words OF praise for the wife. how she
works early and late to dress herself and
the children. / have heard that he tells
his wife lots Of their talk. and laughs at
H. but she raves about platonic friend
ship and cheering fellow worker.
Thanking you. l am, MARY A. ID.
Your poor. silly little sister is laying up
for herself unhappiness and Disgrace un-
less she gives up this absurd infatua-
ton for a married man. No good ever
comes from such an affair. and In this
case the chances are particularly poor
for her to come out with an unscathed
reputation. The fact that the man ridi-
cules her and talks IL over with his wife
proves that he thinks very lightly OF the
girl who is as lightly tossing her reputa-
ton away for nothing. The world is full
OF scandals that come when girls become
the sweethearts OF married men. Such
a step always means disgrace II fire.
quently means death, The men your lit
tie sister wants TO know will taunt and
despise her II she continues in her foolish
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1914-11-10
BY EDGAR LJCIEN LARKIN.

"a insists that Infinite time itself
never passes away che term passing
the time" is commonly used, but really
time always remains stationary. u main
tans that the time passes away. Please
settle this dispute according TO Silence
II. l.. G..
A.-The first line OF this article con-
tains the words. Man may discover a
cause; not one is known at this time.
All that science is now able to do Is to
watch by night and by day without
ceasing. and high-grade humans are now
doing this very thing each hour OF each
year in the laboratories around the
world-watching the exact operation Of
the laws of nature
Every law discovered Is instantly given
to the world and recorded In books. Sew
eral hundrid rigid laws have been dis
covered. These are conrared with all OF
the others in every conceivable way. II
each win not agree with all the others 1t
is not called a law. but a theory
A discovery must run a fierce gantlet.
and be attacked on all sides. and by
mathematics. before II can be printed in
the list OF laws. With ell OF the research
made by telescope. tele-camera. tsle-
peotroscOps. biolomster, thermoplle. Their
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1914-11-10
BY ANN Isle.

Here is q little letter from "a Lonly
Girl" / think she voices the sorrow Of
many many lonely girls from sea TO sea
and from continent to continent. Il am
steadily employed in "a department store.
business acquaintances seem to like me-
but after business hours my ability to
make friends seems to be lacking. This
makes me feel blue. In fact, it makes mo
become so depressed that 1t causes many
tears l have tried reading to divert my
thoughts and to gain knowledge. But
what need is the knowledge TO gain
happiness and friendship
The ability TO make friends comes In
two ways: as a natural gift In the power
of a fine, rare, magnetic personality that
makes itself felt wherever It may be, or
as the result OF honest effort to under
stand people and to be necessary to
them.
Now very often the magnetic person
who attracts easily has not enough
power TO hold while, on the other hand.
the fine, rare personality that would
be worthy of true friendship is too shy
and modest to project itself upon the
attention of those with whom it chances
TO come I'm contact
What the little lonely girls need is the
warmth OF manner that will thaw the ice
OF getting acquainted" and the loyal
finesse and understanding that hold the
affection It has attracted.
ITO have a friend" said sage, you
must first be one.
And that is the simple first rule as to
how to make friends. II applies alike to
holding and keeping.
The girl who is liked by her business
acquaintance probably meets them on
the ground Of common interests she is
not thinking of hersslf and of The inn
preston she Is making SO much as of
the fact that there are certain E;atters
TO lie discussed. arranged and adjusted
as we'll as possible. She meets people with
a cordial spirit lest GOODNESS OF the fear
Of seeming to canter 20 them keeps her
from making a favorable impression and
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1914-11-10

ST am not surprised to observe tde
number OF men who come into the store
10 purchase Mothers Friend.'" remarked
leading druggist.
The expectant mother II she hasn't
heard OF this splendid embrocation is
probably not reading the papers to much
extent And II she does 1t is q happy
thought TO send hubby to the drug store.
Mothers Friend" is applied externally
over the abdominal muscles.
II Is a gentle, soothing lubricant, pene-
trates to the fine network OF nerves
beneath the skin and has a marked
tendency TO relieve the muscular strain
to which these broad, fiat abdominal
muscles are subjected. The cords. ten
dons and hgaments are thus permitted to
stretch without the corresponding surface
strain 50 often involved during the period
Of expectation And particularly TO young
mothers Is this remedial application Of
inestimable value since In thus keeping
the muscles nrm but plant Il enables
them to go through the ordeal without
iaceration of the epidermis often the case
when this gentle attention Is neglected
Mothers Friend" Is highly recon-
mended by a host OF women. Write
Braddeld Regulator Co., 4OS Lamar Bldg,
Atlanta, Ga, and We will send you a val-
t'abls little BOOK 10 expectAnt motherA 4
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1914-11-10
LOVE, HAIR AND MARRIAGE

From the beginning OF romantic his
tory down 10 the present day, every
story OF love has spoken Of the maiden's
hair as one Of her chief charms Fair
locks amply pay for the care and time
used in keeping them beautiful and care
Is all that is necessary for developing
and retaining hair beauty. In washing
the hair it is not advisable TO use A
makeshlft but always use a preparation
made for shampooing only. You can en-
joy the best that is known for about
three cents a shampoo by getting pack
age OF canthroX from your druggist; dis
solve a teespoonful In a cup Of hot water
and your shampoo Is ready After its
use the hair dries rapidly with uniform
color. Dandruff. excess ~ and dirt are
dissolved and entirely disappear. Your
hair will be so fluffy that IL will look
much heavier than It is. Its luster and
softness will also delight you, while the
stimulated scalp gains the health which
insures hair OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1914-11-10
How to Make Friends

so interfere with her efficiency as
business woman
But does she bring any Of this same
warmth OF manner, alert interest and
evident desire TO please into her daily
Human social contracts?
Many girls are afraid of being thought
pushing" Of forcing themselves where
they are not wanted and OF making un-
welcome advances to people who do not
care for them. Women have u way Of
dreading to give more OF friendship than
they receive. They measure il off in
scant yards and give an impression OF
being calculating when they are only
shy.
Bring warmth of manner to your social
life. little lonely girls. Never be afraid
of saying kind things Of offering a cor
dial handclasp OF expressing a desire to
meet again the people who attract you.
Be simple and natural In your manner.
Don't giggle and pose ana try TO create an
impression of being something other than
you are.
Everyone likes intelligent response.
Everyone Graves understanding. And
every personality lives on a little island
Of loneliness and longs to be discov-
cred
| study the people you meet-not coldly
and analytically, but with warm human
liking, with feeling that they are
distinctly worth while Give them to un-
derstand that you like them, Tell them
you want to know them. Wouldn't treat
ment as cordial as this win your inter-
est?
! The golden rule for making friends is
as simple as this: Treat people with the
same warmth of human kindness and
! interest and understanding that you
would like them to show you.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1914-11-10

time is sensat. on due TO the dotation or
the earth on its axis and TO it's revolu-
ton around the yum. Should both motions
stop, we would We without anything to
detect time.
Many curious essays have been written
on this obscure subject. Thus men could
make clocks with marks around the
dial ADD start the pendulum But the
motions Of the hands would not cores
pond with anything In nature.
cannot answer Mr.. r.. L. q, I do not
know what time or any other entity is
He will have 10 send this question to a
high-salaried metaphysicIan. not a sc.en-
ufc man. For II that great writer on
calculus did not know, who IL able TO
rise and explain? But the calculus may
yet discover cause for II is now known
10 be infinite.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1914-11-10
Don't Talk About OthAra.

Dear Miss Fairfax: Do you think II
advisable 70 bTag about the different men
that come up to your house and take you
out. to a fellow you care very much fort
don't like him TO think that he Is the
only one | go out with, as l know that
he goes out with other girls. TEASE.
A girl who is really charming and at
tractive need not tell OF her conQuests
in order 10 have one man realize that
others like her. Do not talk to one man
about others. In the first place. Il does
not interest him; in the second. II IL not
in good taste. and in the third 1t is per
fectly obvious 10 him why you do Il.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1914-11-10

Thomas jefferson once and forever
settled. as far as America is concerned,
the question OF what constitutes treason.
Treason does not consist In what you
think, or what you say. or what you
write. or what you print
Treason consists in taking up arms
against your country or In giving tangible
aid to the enemy.
Il IL right and proper that all Of tho
people should be allowed to think for
themselves.
II for diplomatic reasons an editor does
not care to express hts full opinion, he
certainly is not obliged to.
IL Is eminently right and proper that
the people OF America should have
thoughts concerning the war situation
In Europe. And thoughts OF sane men and
women are bound to form in opinions.
Also It Is emineutly right and proper
that the people should express them
selves In reference to the situation.
When a newspaper or magazine criti-
ciseS either one side or the other It Is
not guilty of a breach of neutrality. A
violation OF neutrality could only occur
when the editor proceeds to supply arms
20 his favorlto side or lead an armed
force against the other.
Through the expression OF our ideas
and through mutual discussion we viii
arrive at the truth. II ever.
Eternal vigilance u the price of lib
arty.
And II is the privilege as well ms the
duty OF free people to mentally take
sids In any great struggle.
Unless we have this privilege. liberty
is a by-word and freedom pleasantly.
One reason especially why we should
have full. free and open discussion of tho
war proposition In America is because
public opinion will finally fix tho ad-
justment when this war is ended.
II will then be necessary to establish
now boundary lines, and power must
flow TO those who will not misuse II.
The interests OF all the people involved
of the women, the children. the old as
well as the strong and vallant-must be
conserved. preserved and protected as
much as possible against a reoccurrence
OF this Irightful tragedy.
II the Zeitgeist OF the world decides
that milltarsm Is a menace, then inter-
national disarmament must come.
| No such thing as a. world federation or
United States OF Che World can ever
be brought about cave through the free
and full and frank discussion by the peo-
pie Of all political problems.
Therefore we do we'll to allow every
one in America to state the case as he
sees It, without let or hlndrance.
This was the spirit Of lT76. And 1T76
really had It's rise in England in the
days OF the Pitts, Edmund Burke and
| Charles Fox.
The spirit OF Benjamin Franklin, Sam
Adams. Thomas jefferson, Thomas Paine.
John Randolph and Patrick Henry still
abldes. and their souls go marching on.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1914-11-10
Wen Accommodate.

The wife OF "a wealthy manufacturer
had occasion to call in the help OF new
floor polisheT.
DO you understand your business thor
oughy?"
AN / ask, madam, e. that you shall
inquire for yourself at my last situa-
ton. On the floor OF the large drawing
room alone five persons broke their
limbs during the winter. and lady
slipped down the grand staircase. II
was 1 who polished tho floor and the
stairs. Chicago News.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1914-11-10

thoughts. a good man, on the contrary.
will size up every pretty and attractive
woman he sees with undisgused ad-
miration, and will often enter into an
Affair with her, taking a chance of being
found out, even though ne knows the dis
covery may break up his home and ruin
his life.
What is the why of this difference
between the sexes?"
think that there are three answers to
this question.
The first is sentimental
No man ever loves a woman with the
complete and absorbing passion with
which woman loves a man. No woman
ever takes possession of the heart and
soul and imagination of a man as a man
often does of a woman. No wife is
ever literally all the world to her hus-
band as many a man is the whole uni
verso to his wife.
p There are plenty OF women who never
think single thought that does not CEN
ter around their husbands; who begin
every sentence with John says" and
who have not an interest an aspiration
or an idea that does not focus on him.
There are no such men. Even the most
devoted husband must think about his
business and his ambitions.
He dare not bore other men talking
about his wife as she bores other women
talking about - her husband. He has
amusements and interests in which she
has no part. All the circumstances OF
life tend to concentrate woman's gaze
on her husband, while his eyes are left
free to roam.
TIE begin with. then, men are less faith
full to their wives than their wives are to
them because they are less capable of a
supreme devotion; and also, to be per-
'cctly truthful. because they are more
subjected to temptation.
The second reason why men who really
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1914-11-10
ThIs Nfunt DO to Oourt.

Dear Miss Fairfax: In 1906 ran away
and was married. ! was only is; my hus-
band was only 10. A year later a son was
and ! have not lived with him since
had him arrested, and he only paid me
couple of months and ran away. Now,
would like to know II could have my
marriage annulled, as you see | have not
seen him In five years. Can you tell me
il can secure my freedom under this
condition? HEART-BROKEN.
There is a Legal Aid society in New
York for just such cases as yours. Prob
ably II your parents OF guardians Will
appear In court and testify TO your age
at the time Of your marriage It can be
annulIed.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1914-11-10

ilitn VIII not hesitate
to flirt, or even enter
into a closer relation
WI I h any comely
woman who give s
{ h o m en- courage
ment, and this des-
pite the fact that
I h ey TOW their
wives.
Z II know that many
good men are di-
vorced on statutory
grounds while still
loving their wives.
But a good woman,
married to a man
she loves, will re-
main faithful to him
a n d yer even
think OF ANOTHER
man with unlawful
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1914-11-10
Household Hints

Kettles may be thoroughly cleansed
by boiling few potato Feelings in them.
To clean French kid gloves draw them
on your hands and wash them in some
spirits of turpentine until clean. then
hang them where there is current OF
air, and the smell will disappear.