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i V YEAR C&h IN ADYANGE.
"LET ALL THE ENDS THOU AIMS!' AT BE THY COUNTRY'S THY GOD'S MD -TRUTHS." ;
BEST ADYERTISISG MEDIDQ.
VOLUME XXVIII.
WILSON, N. C, SEPTEMBER 6, 1 898.
NUMBER .38.
nUEEIl OLD SAN JUAN
k X i
PRINCIPAL
CITY OF THE
PORTO RICO.
ISLAND OF
Walled
Town
I'uilt C30 Years Ago All
Floors Reeh With Filth.
the
Ground
There I No Sewerage Streets Are Kept
Very Clean. - , f
San Juan, the principal city of Porto
UicOj our new teat of war, is a perfect
specimen of a walled town, with port
cullis, : moat, gates and .-' battlements.
Built over 250 years ago, it is still in
pood condition and repair.; The walls
are picturesque and represent a stu
pendous work t'nd cost iu themselves.
Inside the walls the city is laid off . iu
regular squares, six parallel streets inn-'
rung in ti e direction of the length of
"tho island and seven -at- right angle's.'
The houses are closely and com put rly
built i brick, usually of two stories,
stuccoed on the outsido and painted in
a variety of colors. The ripper floors are
occupied by the inoro respectable je.o
ple, while the grouud floors, almost
'without exception, are given up to ne
groes, and the poorer classes, who crowd
one upon another iu the. most appalling
niamnr The population -within the
v;all"itimated at 20,000, and most
of it lives on tho ground floors. Iu oiie
small room with a flimsy, partition5 a
whole family will reside".
The. ground floors of the whole town
: reek with filth, and conditions are most
unsanitary. In a " tropical country,
where disease readily ;.prcvails, the con
sequences of such herding may 1-e easily
. inferred, There is no running water in
tho town. Tho entire population de
sponds on rainwater caught on tho fiat
roofs of the buildings aud conducted to
the cistern, which occupies the greater
, part of the courtyard that is an essen
tial part of Spanish houses the world
over, hut that here, ou account- c.f the
crowded conditions," is small. ,.""'.-
There is up sewerage,' except for sur
face water and' sinks, while vaults arc
in every house and occupy whatever re
maining space there niay be in the
patios not taken up by the cisterns The
risk of contaminating the water is great, .
and in dry seasons the supply is entire
ly exhausted.- Epidemics are frequent,
. and the town is ajiye with vermin.
The streets are wider than iu the
older part of Havana and -Will admit
two carriages abreast. The sidewalks
. are narrow and in places will accommo
date only. T.o person. The pavements
aro of a composition manufactured in
England from slag, pleasant and even
and durable when, no heavy strain is
brought to bear upon them, but easily
broken and unfit for heavy traffic. The
streets aro swept once a day by hand
and, strange to say, are kept very cleau.
From its topographical" situation the
town should" be healthy, but it is not.
' The soil under tho city is clay mixed
with lime, so hard as to be almost like
rock. It is consequently impervious to
water and furnishes a good natural
drainage. The trade wind blows strong
and fih, r.ud through the harbor runs
a stream of sea water at a speed of not
less than three miles an hour. With
these conditions no contagious disease,
if properly take.n care ' of, could - exist
Without the in tho placo would' be a
veritable plague spot. V. .
Besides the town within the walls
there arc small portions just outsido
called "the Marina and Pnerta de Tierra,
containing 2,000 or 3,000 inhabitants
each. There are also two suburbs, one,
ftm Turce, approached by the only read
leading out of the city, and the other,
Carano, across the bay, reached by ferry.
The Marina and the two suburbs aro
situated oil sandy points, or spits, and
the latter are surrounded by mangrove
swamps.' The en tiro population of the
city and suburbs, according to the census
of 18S7. was 27.000. It is how fl 896V
estimated at 30, 000. One-half of the
population consists of negroes and mix
ed races. Boston Transcript.
THE PHILIPPINE CHARACTER
Brave, Inconstant and Chafing Under Re
straint, bat of a Pliant Nature.
After years of study of the native
character I have como to the conclusion
that the Philippine islander is very
nutter of fact He is not unwilling,
but unable, conscientiously to accept
an abstract theory. Christianity, with
its mysteries, has thereforo no effect oh
his character, but he becomes accus
tomed to do that which his forefathers
were coerced to do namely, to accept
the outward and visible signs without
being imbued by the inward and spirit
ual grace. The mere discipline the'!
fact that nolens volens 'they must at a
Rivon hour on a given day appear
drefcsad in their best and attend the
church and (in the case of headmen) go
to the monk's residence to'kiss hands"
has certainly had the effect of taming
the masses into' orderly beings. ,
. Yet restraint of any kind is repugnant
to him. He likes to be as free as a bird,
hut ho is of a pliant nature,, and easily
managed with just treatment. He is ex
tremely sensitive to injustice. ; If he
knows1 in his- own mind, that he has
dono Jr rnnn V will en hmit to a thrash-
; " 0,"v " . " 7 J
11Jg witnout any thougnt or raising re
vu;e. If he were punished out of mere
caprice, or with palpable injustice, ho
would always have a; lurking desire to
Rive qnicl pro quo. He has an innate
'iiteinpt for cowards, hence his disdain
for Chinese, but will follow a brave
h arlcr anywhere and will .'never be the
fiivt to yield t6,buhger fatigue or pos
sible chances of death. Ho takes every
trouble with profound, resignation ; .he
promises every th ug and performs lit
tle; his vorcl is not worth a straw, and
Ho does not feel that lying is a sin. He'
' -.-is ' inconstant in tho extreme and loyal
..jo long as'it suijts him', but us a subject
he eau bcr easily molded into any fashion
vvhich a jiist, hoiiest and merciful gov
'innicnt .would -wish, -Contemporary
Review. ' - - - .
Bear. th8 Th8 Kind Yob Have Always Bought
HERols" f the wounded.
Bleh Prabe For th bmi. . ....
High Praise For the Negro Soldiers In the '
. r - Field and Hospital.
A a .
a. private letter received in New
, York from the front gives tho following
description cf scenes among the wound J
ed after the hard fighting near Santia-
"The misery here isTdmply indescrib
able and the suffering of the hundreds
oi wounded soldiers is terrible to be
hold. Yet. in it all the men are brave
ana patient, and not a voice of com
plaint is heard, even from those who
are mortally hurt The Red Cross
nurses are working here heroically, but
lack Y.Jrvl,- . ..
ujguii tuu wuuien nurses were so
extiausted that" they asked for volun
teers to relieve them, and' every one baa I
luruea m to help the wounded.
l here is nothing but the wannest
praise heard for the fighting of the
negro soldiers in the "face of fusillades
of Mauser bullets. Kenneth Robinson
of the rough riders, who had - a bullet
go through his bodyand lodge in his I
arm, said to mo last night; IThere isn't
a man in the rough riders but takes off
his hat to iho negroes. They hot only
fought like devils, but they were the
readiest to come to our help when we
were wounded.' The negro soldiers also
Ehow remarkable bravery in the hos
pital tents, where many of them have
been under the surgeon's knife.. Their
pluck is tho talk of the surgeons, and
they show more nerve than many of
their fellow soldiers of lighter hue,"-
JNew York, Sun.
SPEED IN CATTLE.
The MntrniOceot Run of the Oregon and
.-.Its Lesson.
With eveiy gun,; except one 13 inch
in the after turret. Hazing forth, the
Oregon is represented iu a letter receiv
ed in WaJLH:toh as, rushinc forward
cut of the lu rch cf ships and in ten
minutes after tho start taking the next
place to the - .Brooklyn in the big race.
From that t ime on sho was under forced
draft all the time.nnd making higher
speed thau sho had evtr recorded while
in the service, : At come periods of the
race the big vessel is believed to have
teen going, according to her epgineers.
over 16 knots., which tallies with Cap
tain Enlate's statement that no battle
ship making only 15 knots could possi
bly have kept up with the fast Colon,
with her high, pVv.ercd engines.
Ray mond Reciters, . the executive of
the Indiana, writes that when the Ore
gon came racing across his bow it was
the grandest sight he ever witnessed.
Sho charged down, he pays, on the
Spanish fleet, letting go first at one ves
sel and then tho other, and all (foe $ime
carrying a great white bono in her teeth
that told of bc;r engine power and great
burst of speed.- AR the time she was
TTinninp nien were working on one of
the after 13 inch guns, while the other
was being 'f'fired rigLt alongside in tho
tui ret. Kcstcu .1 ournal. - ;
1 A hacking cough keeps the bronchial
tubes in a state of constant irritation,
which, if jiot speedily removed, may
lead to chronic .bronchitis. "No promp
ter remedy can be found than Ayer's
Cherry Pectoral. Its effect is immedi
ate and the result permanent. '
THE COLON'S HEAVY GUNS.
Story Purporting to Explain Why $"hey
Were Not on Board When She Sank.
A prominent "Genoese merchant
vouches -for the statement that when
Italy sold t be cruiser Cristobal Colon,
then the Garibaldi, to Spain, her big
guns arrived too late to bo tested before
being mounted on board. They were
accordingly put on board without being
tested, but tho Armstrongs, by whom
tho guns were" made, insisted upon their
being tested nevertheless. ..
Tho Spanish commander of the ship
protested, declaring that there, was no
time for a full test and besides such a
test of the guns ou board would shatter
tho furniture, uiirrorsetc., in the cab
ins. The Armstrongs wero still insistent,'
and finally a compromise was made
whereby the guns wero put ashore and
tested at Spezia. The test was in every
way satisfactory,' but the Spanish com
mander sailed away without again ship
ping ti e j t us. 'ibis accounts for the
fact that when the Cristobal Colon 'was
run ashore and sunk by the American
fleet on the Cuban - coast it was found
that sh- v as? without heavy armament.
Special Cable to New York Sum
YellovF-'Jnck. ' v
You're a very cs atty foe,
Yellow Jack, -
But yoii'vn really got lo go.
Yellow Jack; " '
We've ii eami-aign now'in vieW
Thr.t v.ill sun ly nettle yon a
Anil v. e':e jiohiri to do it. too.
Yellow .Jack. ; :
'-e'r in taVn.twt when wisay
- ,.- '.),- Jack.
Tliat we " jou in tho way,;
YtlloVv J.iok :
Mid tbo v tuny to Itn redrcssod.
We no-.v omit yoa r.s n iost,
And' we'll sna.sii aou with a zest.
Yellow Jaek.
Cleve'iond Plain Dealer.
The Irene's Mission. .
The German warship Irone, which is
so much blamed for the episode with
the Philippine insurgents, really should
be praised for the success and celerity
with which she performed a delicate
hiission. ' It was necessary to find out
just tho amount of foreign interference
tho United States would stand, and the
Irene found it nut exactly. -Baltimore
American. , ' "- 7" .
'. Why allow. yo'ure?f n, lr vlvwly tor
tun tl at the. stake of. djsi'-asj-.? Chilly
ami 1 t;r wilt underm tie. and eventu
all y i rtM k thnvn J he si rongest consti
, ; .ii FfTn I' CU U A ' (Sweet Chill
I oiiie of Iron) is more efiertive than
Quinine and bcinji .combined with Iron
is an cxeelleiit Tonic and Nervine Med
icine; Ir is ' .'"pleasant to take, is sold
under pos hive guarantee to cure or
money refunded. Accept no substi
tutes. The "just as good" kind don't
effect cures: Sold by B. W. Hargrave,
THEIMHUIIEREGIHEIITS
"
All
Their Members Not Prooi
Against Yellow Fever.
HUSH 13 HEW ORLEANS TO ENLIST.
nlottcl Rlcho and Coloml Ilood ; Will
. Command tho Immauo Itegitnnts to
Oarrl6on Santiago Dillicultics In Carry-'
tng Ont the Law For Their Organize
. tlon Vol anteern Furnished to Other
: states Great Scarcity of Young Men.
VI he City of Berlin, the big transport
of tho International Navigation com
pany, will carry the First and Second
United States immune regiments, com
manded respectively by Colonel Riche
and Colonel Hood, to Santiago to acf as
the garrison of that town.
These .regiments .are wholly white
and aro sent to Santiago first because
they have - been - the . longest organized
and are in the most efficient condition;
but, while efficient,: they are not im
mune,; according to tho popular accept:
anco of the term. As a matter of foot,
it is doubtful if 5 per cent of the mem
bers of the First immuno regiment are
proof against yellow fever, and probably
not more than 80 per cent of the Second
have seen or been near that discaso. The
act creating these regiments did not say
immune against yellow fever, but sim
ply against tropical disease, a somewhat
vaguo expression. : The moment the bill
was passed there was a rush of volun
teers, and the services of three white
and two negro regiments," composed ex:
clusively, or nearly so, of immunes,
were tendered from New Orleans alone.
but the offers had to be declined. The
First immune regiment was assigned to
Texas, and when it was organized the
immune provision was altogether ig
nored. This was done on the ground
that the law said nothing about yellow
fever, and, secondly, becauso of the difli
culty of determining whether or not an
enlisted man was immune. "The doctor
docs not usually give a patient a certifi
cate that he has had yellow fever, and
the only proof of immunity and that
is by no means an absolute one is the
fact that one has been in a city where
an epidemic of yellow fever has prevail
ed. As the last Texas epidemio occurred
in 1867 and the fever then appeared in
onlya few coast towns it will be seen
that the chances of a recruit from Texas
being an immune are very 6mall. The
First immune regiment is tnerefore so
only in name. The fact that it comes
from a southern state may make it
slightly more proof against tropical dis
eases, hut the differences in this respect
between it and any pidinary regular
regiment of the United States array is
small.
The Second immuno regiment was
assigned to Louisiana and is a little
more nearly immune than . the First..
Colonel Hood lost both his father (Gen
eral J.' B. Hood cf Confederate fame
and his mother of yellow fever in the
epidemic' of 1879 and is himself an im
mune. The New Orleans part of his
regiment is also immune. The fact that
the regiment was recruited at Coving
ton, near New Orleans, attracted to it a
number of recruits frcm that city and
renders it relatively more nearly im
niune than the First.
There is no lack of yellow fever im-
runnes in the United States army. The
only trouble is that, iustcad of being
concentrated in regiments, they have
been scattered among a score or more.
The Second Louisiana volunteers is far
more immune than either cf the two so
called immune regiments. It comes
wholly from New Orleans, where yel
low fever epidemics have made most of
the populatiou immune. Fully 99 per
cent of its officers and ' men have had
yellow fever cr nursed it, and it could
be stationed any whero in Cuba without
dancer. Nearly half the men of the
First Louisiana are immune. The Sec
ond Mississippi and the First Alabama
contain many immunes. ilo does the
Fifth United States volunteers, while
the Ninth United States volunteers (col
ored) contains more thau 90 per cent of
immunes, -1 1 of the 12 companies being'
from New Orleans. .
Tho war fever has raged perhaps more
violently in New Orleans than in any
other part of the country, and the city
has contributed more than ten times its
quota and has filled up the scanty regi
ments of Alabama and Mississippi. The
rural districts of the southwest hate
fallen far chmd their quotas, and their
deficiencies have been mada good main
ly by New Oi lcans. This is all the more
remarkable becauso in the civil war
these districts furnished far more than
their proportion to the Confederate
army. Alabama : has fallen short of its
auota and had ; to furnish as its third
regiment a negro cigronzatiou. v Missis
sippi has had to open 'recruiting offices
in New Orleans, - V : "
When the original call was made by
the president, Louisiana was asked" to
furnish two regiments of infantry..
Based on population. New Orleans
share would have been a . battalion'," or
400 men. Governor Foster found that
tho city would furnish more volunteers
than tho country, and assigned one of
the regiments to New Orleans that is,
tlireo times its c.ucta, and the other to
the couutry. The city regiment (the
Second) was filled up at once from New
Orleans. The couutry regiment (the
First i hung fire. It was found to be lm
twis:iilH to ret a full resiuieut from the
iiarisiu s. 'lue counry couiiKinies ui mi-
,n. . :. ... :
hti.i dwir.dled wonderfully wheu sub-
te-tu( tomuViical examination ; one com
pany finally got dowu to 80 men, and it
t.vdi tlnvt! eoiuwiuics to mate one. It
,vs.s necessary to give -one entire bat
Xilhrti to' Kcw Oi leans, while Company
A .-atne also from the city. The ranks,
There is nothing to prevent anyone
ronroethiir a mixture and callinsr it
'sarsaparilla." and there is nothing to
Drevent anyone spenamg goou money
testing the stuff; but prudent people
who wish to- be sure of their remedy
take? nnlv Aver s SarsaDanlla. and so
get curecL
1
moreover, or. tuo aepietea companies
tvexe filled out-by New Orleans mcn.nnf
tit now the First Louisiana, which ss
upposed to represent the rnral -tlistrkts
of Louisiana, contains more city thai
country men'. - Thus these two infantry
regiments contain 1,900 men from Nev
Orleans and 600 men from the rest of
Louisiana. Whes in the second call the
president asked for three companies of
artillery, -; Governor- Foster, taught by
experience, called for two from New
Orleans and one from the rest of , the
state. Finally, the Louisiana naval mi
litia, 500 strong, omes altogether from
New Orleans. This makes a total of
2, GOO furnished fey the city to the state
ser v ice, as againjst 700 by the rest of
tho fct'aUv: As the ' popn lat ion. tands as
one to five the pit yr it will be seen,
furnished v ki proportion 1 5 t iincs as
many men us the country. ; -
This includes, however, only tho state
volunteers. The United States orean-
ized in this district three voluutecr reg
iments of inimuhes tho Second Fifth
it! a. . - m i . ii
ana rmcu. Ano-eecoaa was mieuiiea
f or Liiuisiana, . but more than half the
regiment caxuejfrWh " New Orleans; the
Ninth (colored) ;conta:ns 1 1 city com
panks out of 12; the Filth (white) has
its head juartera at Colnnibus, Miss. It
was intended to include volunteers from
Alabama and Mississippi, bat as it was
found imiiOfcsible to get enough recruits
from these states recruiting offices wero
opened in "TNew Orleans. Entire compa
nies have gone from here, as, for instance-W
hi taker's and Underwood's,
to fill out tho Alabama nojl Mississippi
quota. Theso three regiments contain
2, 400 men from New Orleans.
Finding what an excellent field New
Orleans was for recruiting,v the Eight
eenth and Twenty-third United States
regular infantry and the Fifth cavalry
while here opened recruiting offices and
picked up 450 meu without difficulty,
and now Mississippi; finding it impos
sible to raise its third regiment, has
opened recruiting t offices in New Or
leans and will fill its quota here. These
last recuits will , bring the total )f New
Orleans volunteers up to 5, 700 or 5,900,
including the. navy enlistments. This
poay not seem large for Greater New
York but it is actually 12 times the
quota that tho city was called onto fur
nish and is equivalent to an enlistment
pf from 75,000 to 77,000 men in New
York, city. If omany men were taken
out of Manhattan just now, the city
could not but miss them, and New Or
leans is missing its volunteers in many
ways. ' ' . .
The explanation cf the large number
of enlistments here, nside from any pa
triotic ardor, is the very strong love of
adventure, for whch the city has al
ways been noted, and the fact that sum
mer is a dull season here, when a large
proportion of the population has little
Jf any work. The disposition to regard
the war as likely"to " be a "shfrt:cue has
tempted hundreds ot young men to en
list in the belief that it will be over and
they will be back .at work in the fall,
when business is brisk. Moreover, the
climate of Cuba and yellow fever have
less terror for the average New Orleans
man than for the resident of any other
city in the United States. -
The withdrawal of the largernumber
of young men is having a very marked
effect in many ways in New Orleans.
There is a great scarcity of young men.
Nor is the fact to be overlooked that it
has had its efEect on the police news.
"The police force feels the effect of the
war very perceptibly, saia tne super
intendent of the New Orleans police the
pthcr day, and he pointed to the list of
arrests as proof of it. The chief did not
meuq t-Q reflect in any way on the Loui
siana scldiers, who probably include as
larrre a proportion of men of high social
rank as any war has seen called forth,
but tnly to point to the fact that the
withdrawal of eome 6,000 of the -most
active young men of New Orleans had
made the city a great deal quieter and
arrests lar lew er. "Tlie arrests are lar
fewer, V con tin ued the chief. "The Lou
isiana regin,ents took with them many
men who gave us a great deal of .trou
ble, and they will make good soldiers,
I have no doubt The officers often refer
to So-and-so and wonder how ho is get
ting on in camp and whether he likes
his new quarters better than the police
station. The army discipline will act as
a genuine reformatory for many of the
wild young fellows who have gone out
with the Louisiana troops. The train
ing, the military life, the strict obedi
ence to orders, will make men out. of
them. " I, for one,' will watch the career
and record of many a member of these
Louisiana regiments who is known to
us quite intimately, and I expect to see
them come back more orderly and law
abiding. " - w
The police record proves the truth of
Chief Gaster's statement There has
been no police news in New Orleans of
any moment sum. e tho war began. There
are some who think this is duo to the
fact that interest in the war has swal
lowed up interest iu everythirrg - else,
but the police say that if 6,000 athletic
young meu are takeu out of a city of
250,000 pert le it will - bo far more or
derly tiud tuiet than heretofore. New
Orleans has never lecn better - behaved
in its two centciies of existence than
since this Spanish war began. New
York i)uu. '
Blight Have Saved Money.
It would be several hundred millions
in Spain's pocket if it had agreeil sev
eral years ago to sell Cuba to the United
States. .The chase after honor that it
preferred has yielded nothing hut loss
nd humiliation. St. Louis .Globe
Democrat. '-,-' ; : " .. . ' . "
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TRUDE OF PORTO RICO.
Growth
merce
of the Island's Com
and Its Distribution.
C0L0HIAL i orPIOIAL STATISTICS.
Coffee, Sugar and Tobacco the Chief Ar
ticles of Export Imports of Agricul
tural Products From the United States.
The Foreign Trade Is Conducted Chiefly
.-With Spain, America, Germany, the
United Kingdom and France Export of
Coffee lias More Than . Doubled In Ten
. " Years. .
The foreign trade in 1890 ot "Porto
Rico, which will bo. the seat of our
army 's next" campaign, was the largest
in the,history of the island, amounting
to $36,624, 120, and for the first time in
more than a decade the value of the ex
ports exceeded that of the imports. The
statistics of the year's trade have been
collected by Frank H. Hitchcock, chief
of the section of foreign markets of the
department of agriculture, and published
in a bulletin, "The Trade of Porto
Rico." The statistics are based upon
the official trade returns compiled by
authority of , the colonial ' government
and were procured in advance of publi
cation from the colonial . customs offi
cials at San Juan by the New York and
Porto Rico Steamship company.
The foreign trade of Porto Rico is
conducted chiefly with Spain, the Unit
ed States, Germany, the . United King
dom and France. ,. Of all the merchan
dise imported and exported by the is
land during the four years 1893-6
fully 85 ,per cent, measured in value,
was exchanged with the five countries
mentioned. Spain received the largest
share of the trade, an average of $ 9,
888, 074 a year. The United States rank
ed second, with a yearly average of $6,
845, 252. Cuba's trade with Porto Rico
averaged $4,606,220, Germany's was
$3,050,334, 'that of the United King-'
dom was $2,863,930, and that of France
$2,201,687. Dpring 1896 nine other
countries had a trade with the island
exceeding $100,000 British posses
sions, other than the East! Indies, $2,
039,749; Italy, $1,047,843 i British East
Indies,', $886,839; Austria-Hungary,
$553, 793 ; Belgium. $297, 701 ; Argen
tina, $251,844; Uruguay, $223, 793 ;
the Netherlands, $170,586. and Den
mark, $187,218., Other countries . in
cluded in the trade .returns were
French possessions," Danish: possessions,
Santo Domingo, Venezuela Sweden and
Norway, Switzerland, Peru, Mexico,
Haiti and Portugal. j " """'
Agricultural products - make up a
large part of the island's ; imports and
nearly all her exports. The value of the
agricultural imports in 1895 was $'7,
174,352 and of the nonagricnltural im
ports $9,664,101. The agricultural ex
ports were valued, at $14,573,866 and
! the nonaericultural at only $617,490.
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weakness, and the glow of health readily
comes tosthe pallid cheek when this won
derful remedy is taken. For sickly children
;r overworked men it has no equal. No home
should be without this famous remedy.
Bro .v;id' Iron Bitters is sold by all dealers. '
Rice, wheat, flour and bog products are
the principal imports, comprising near
ly two-thirds - cf the total agricultural
imports. The imports of rice in 1895
were valued at $2, 271,819. Wheat flour
was imported to the extent of 170,460
barrels, worth $1,023,694. The hog
products imported were valued at $1,
274,618. Other agricultural imports
with values exceeding $100,000 in 1895
were: Wines, $431,536; vegetables,
$400,660; olive oil, $341,607; cheese,
$837,790; canned goods, $178,536;
jerked beef, "$189,245; bread, . biscuit,
etc., $110,375; malt liquors, $107,243.
Vegetable products played the most im
portant part in the agricultural imports.
Breadstuff imports had a total value of
$1, 144, 01 7, and meat products imported
Were valued at $1,531,986,
Cotton fabrics lead, the nonagricul
tural imports, their value in 1895 being
$2, 070, 667. The imports of fish amount
ed to $1,918, 107 jof wood and its man
ufactures, $840,511 ; of leather and its
manufactures, $711,417. The imports
of tobacco in its manufactured forms
amounted to $692,833. Iron and steel
and their . manufactures, not including
machinery and apparatus, were import
ed to the extent of $658, 418, and the
imports of machinery and apparatus
were valued at $344,879. The value of
the imports of manufactures of hemp,
flax, jute, manilla, etc., was $408,974.
Other important nonagricultural im
ports were: Soap, $248,571; paper and
pasteboard and their - manufactures,
$196,197; mineral oils, crude and re
fined, $169,629; cotton yarn and thread,
$154,964; woolens, $154,947; paraffin,
stearin; wax, spermaceti and their
manufactures, $151,995; glass , and
glassware, $125,688; .coal and coke,
$124,536.
Coffee and sugar, the leading prod
ucts of the , island, comprise in varcs
fully 85 per cent of all the merchandise
sent to'foreign ports. The quantity of
coffee shipped in 1895 was 40,243,693
pounds,:and its value was $9,159,985;'
the exports of sugar amounted to 182,
147,277 pounds, valued at $3,905, 74L
In addition to the sugar, $539,571 worth
of molasses was shipped, making the to
tal value of sugar and molasses export
ed $4,445,312. Leaf tobacco is the next
most important export, the amount in
1895 being 3,665,051 pounds, valued at
$673, 787r Other important exports were:
Cattle, $141,816; maize, $09, 4 1 0 ; hides.
.- "In a minute" one dose of Hart's
Esshnce of Ginger- will relieve any
ordinary case of Co-lie, Cramps or Nau
sea. An unexcelled remedy for Diar
rhoea, Cholera Morbus,'; Summer com
plaints and all internal pains.7 Sold by
B.VV. Hargrave.-. r - - - '
-d3,"7ya; mute arm nuts, $10,880; dis
tilled spirits, $9,466. Guano is the only
important non agricultural export In
1893 the exports amounted to 15,491,
476 pounds, valued at $610,921. The
value of all the other nonagricultural
exports was only f 10,000.
Porto Rico's export of coffee has more
than doubled in ten years. The ship
ment in "1896 was 58,780,000 pounds,
valued at $13,879,000. The export in
1888 was worth only $6,275,000, while
in the year before the amount of the ex
port was only 27,670,000 pounds, and
the value $3,891,000. During the first
five years of the decade ending with the
year 1896 the annual average amount
tt the export of coffee was 40,849,000
pounds, and the value $4,945,000;
while in the second half - of the decade
the amount averaged 49,229, 000 pounds,
and the value was $10, 872, 000.
Sugar, molasses and tobacco, on the
other hand, are among the products
Whose export has decreased. The tobac
co export in 1896 amounted to 2,220,
00O pounds, valued at $408,000; the ex
port in 1887 was 7,663,000 pounds, with
a value of $1,089,000, and two years
later the: export of tobacco was still
larger. Averaging the exports of the
first five years of the decade, and com
paring the result with the average for
the last five, it is seen that the tobacco
shipment has decreased from 5,597,000
to 8,534,000 pounds, and from $799,000
to $642,000 in valua In the same way,
it is seen that' the sugar export has de
creased from 137,866,000 pounds, val
ued at $3, 928, 000, for the first . five
years, to 121,035,000 pounds, valued at
$3,484,000, for the last five, and the
molasses ' export, from 44, 095, 000
pounds, valued at $700,000, to 29,609,
000 pounds, valued at $481,000.
The British East Indies sent Porto
Rico 28,865,623 pounds of rice in 1896,
Germany sent 26, 100, 840 pounds and
Spain sent 12,977,220. The import of
rice from all . other countries was only
2,819,566 pounds. The United States
shipped $944,418 worth of flour, ieav
Ing only $24,129 forth for Spain, the
United Kingdom and France. This
country also shipped $1,842,104 worth
of hog products to Porto Rico in 1896,
all but $18,337 of the total import
Porto Rioan coffee is shipped prin
cipally to Spain, Cuba, Germany, Italy
and Austria-Hungary, Spain receiving
16,405,900 pounds in 1896 and Cuba
15,577,710 pounds, together more than
half the total export France bought
1 1, 306, 689 pounds. To the United King
dom only 834, 119 pounds were shipped
and ; to this country only 822,591
pounds. The United States take more
than half the export of sugar and mo
lasses. Of the 122,946,835 pounds o
sugar shipped from Porto Rico in 1896
71, 875,614 pounds came here and 43,
600,064 pounds went to Spain. The
United States received $331,64.6 worth
of the molasses exported in 1896, and
the United Kingdom and the British
possessions received the rest which was
worth $161,976. No molasses is export
ed to Spain or Cuba, but these countries
get three-fourths the tobacco. Of the
2,219,907 pounds shipped in 1896 Cu
ba received' 2, 160,847 pounds and Spain
1,875,751 pounds. Shipments of Porto
Rican tobacco to the United States are
rare. -
Spain's trado with Porto Rico in
creased in value from $4,929,799 in
1887 to $12,644,955 in 1896. The chief
gain was in the increase of Spanish ex
ports to the island from $2,411,216 in
1887 to $7,268,948 in 1896. During the
same period, the value of the imports
from Porto Rico advanced from $2, 5 18, -563
to $5,3767457. - Coffee and sugar
constitute in value about nine-tenths of
the total imports, excluding coin and
bullion. After coffee and sugar the most
important agricultural imports from
Porto Rico are leaf tobacco, cacao, hides
and skins and fruits. Spain's nonagri
cultural imports from Porto Rico
amount to less than $100, 000 a year and
are principally bags and sacks, tobacco
manufactures and guana
Spain's exports to Porto Rico are
three-fourths ncragriniltural products.
Cotton fabrics constitute nearly a third
of all the merchandise" shipped during
1892-6, the annual average valuation
being $1,581,706. The shipments of
leather and its manufactures amounted
to $871,187 a year; of soap,. $257,227;
sandals, $160,907; hats and caps, $160,-
448; paper and paper manuiactures,
$125,966; candles, $123,748; flax and
hemD fabrics. $77,524: wood and its
manufactures, $71,267; woolens, $68,
668; silk fabrics, $59,147; perfumery,
$52,769. Chief among the agricultural
exports for the period were rice, olive
oil, wines, pulse and canned goods. The
average annual' export of rice was
$248,037; olive oil, $238,373; wines.
$133,828; chick peas and other pulse.
$127,860; canned goods, $124,999;
wheat flour, $64, 624 ; fruits and nuts,
$59,685; garlic, $55,445; bread and
biscuit $49,637; potatoes, $36,832;
chocolate, $85,026; paste for soups,
$33,609; butter, $25,805; distilled liq
uors, $23,974; charcuterie, $22,872;
onions, $20, 756 ; oil of the almond, pea
nut and other seeds, $12,221; meats
and lard, $12,167; beer and cider, $10,-
117; spices, $5,293. New York Sun.
Major Went on Wisdom In War.
Major Wiiit 'of the Tenth infantry
was busy dodging Lullets during tho
advauce on bun Juan. He saw a news
paper man con. iu along the road. "Lie
dmvu; you ti 1 l icol! roarea went
"Why don't you Tie down yourself?"
retorted the uevtpaper man. "D n
you, I cau't." reared the major, "but
that is no icjuxjU why you also should
e a d d tool I" Chicago Tribune.
KrltaflsSix Hoore,
, Distressing Kidney and Bladder dis
ease, relieved in six hours by "New
Great South American, Kidney
Cure." It is a great surprise on ac
count of its exceeding promptness in
relieving pain in bladder, kidney and
back, in male or female.- Relieves re
tention of water almost immediately
If you want, quick relief and cure, this
is the remedv. " t v ' .
Sold by E. F. "Nadal, Druggist, vvn-
. SOn; r. C . - :v '
The Begular. -
A aong for tho regular I a aoog and a people's
cheer, - - - . T
For the man in blue, who's grit clear through
from end to end of the rear. --
From end to end of the year he goes, with Ilk
' tie enough for pay.
Through summer heat, through wintry snows, :
ucr uuiy points tne way.
Oh, little he cares f o r the cyclone's breath or
the blizzard's nor'west sweep, - -Content
enough with his Quarters rough and -
never a growl at his keep.
Ready to dig or ready to die, ready to broil or
rreeio,
Bo long aa he knows he Is giving his blows" to
keep the flag on the breeze,
A grasp for the regular i a grasp for the brawny
hand ". . . .
That seeks not to shirk a soldier's work how
ever it's cast or nlannl. .
Oh. grnd&ing enough, in the hour of peace, la
tho proine for his manly deed.
Bnt the people knew wbero their faith most
ro in the day of the nation's need. "
When the doi;s f war aro out on the trail,
when the foe has loosed hia pack,
Whose trusty rille is ready then to bay him
doubly back t
Who meets him wherever he dares to claim a
rood of soil in fee
And makes him feel the might of his steel
from mountain crest to sear
Our hearts to the regular! our hearts to oar
dauntless son
Who clears the way for a freeman's swaj with
- his freeman's sword and gun. .
tj saw him rush through the tropic' brush to
succor our gallant Wood,
And well he knew, when the ballets flew,
where the forts of Caney stood. .
Oh, who will forget the bloody debt he wrote
from his streaming veins
When down from the heights of San Juan he
looked on the Cuban plainsf
Oh, who wUl forget the charge he made, and
the vanquished foo's despair.
When the banner of Spain ne'er rose again,
and they saw Old Glory there?
John Jerome Rooney in New York Bun.
ROUTING YELLOW FEVER.
The Blessing Which Will Be Conferred on
the World by Our War With Spain.
If the only outcome of tho present -war
were the disappearance of yellow
fever from Cuba and the cleansing of
the pestilential port 'of Havana, the
United States would not have fought in
vain. That. Havana. in its existing un- -sanitary
condition is a menace to every
neighboring people and state is an as
sertion that can be made without lear
of contradiction. - That both the town
and harbor by the application of a lit
tle engineering skill can be rendered as
healthy as any in the south is, in the -opinion
of experts, quite practicable,
but that any steps tending in this direc
tion will be taken under Spanish rule
is just as surely not to bo looked for.
Therefore the sooner this rule ceases in
Cuba the better it will be for the pub
lic health of America and of the world.
If proof were needed that yellow fe-
ver is essentially a disease which flour-,
ishes amid filthy surroundings, and
that wheu these favoring conditions are
removed abates and in some instances .
wholly disappears, we might" cite Ja
maica, Mexico and the Danish West In
dian islands as examples of the good
results following proper sanitary meas
ures. , Indeed north of . the equator Ha
vana stands as almost the sole and cer- -tainly
as the chief source of this par
ticular form of danger to the commer-'
cial nations of the world. From its
proximity to Cuba the United States
has been the principal sufferer from
Spanish neglect of the laws of health,
and undoubtedly whatever form of gov- :
eminent may be decided upon for Cuba
the authorities at Washington will in
sist that the unsanitary conditions now
prevailing at - Havana shall no longer
continue.
If Brazilian sanitarians can be awak
ened to their duty, many of those liv
ing will see the day-when yellow fever '
will have been stamped out and man
kind delivered from one of the most
deadly of the tropical scourges. Med-"
ical Record.
1. '
Keep Them All I V .
The only way to deal with Aguinaldo
is to announce our determination to
keep and govern all the Philippine
islands, and then to cany out that de
termination on the same unswerving -
lines as those inaugurated by Dewey
three months ago. Chicago Tribune.
Ihe licrliu pcwtiapfcrfi, jiossibly un-
der instruction; nu.Le light 01 tneirenu
incident; let it triiuot be too ptrongly
impressed r poi than cr upon the Ger-
man govor::iULi:t Hint the umtea Btauw
will hive no Kaio-Chou business 11 it
knows ft. Boston Journal.
Oh, the Pain of
Wa -I ' a .'
Kneumausmi
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ever. Rheumatism is a blood .disease, -
and Swift's Specific is the only cure, be
cause it is -the only remedy which can
reach such deep-seated diseases. j . '
A few years ago I was taken with inflamma
tory Rheumatism, which became so Intense
that I was for weeks unable to- walk. . 1 tried
cians and took their treat
ment faithfully, hut was
unable to get the slight-
. ii.. . .
esireuei. iu uct, 1x17 con
dition seemed to grow "
worse, the disease spread
over my entire body, and
: from Nor em bcr to Uareh
"CrSpU. I suffered asonT. I tried
many patent medicines,
bnt none relieved me.
Upon the adviee of a
friend I decided to try
S. S. 8. Before allowing me to take It, how
ever, my guardian, who was a chemist, ana
lysed the remedy, and pronounced It free of
potash or mercury. 1 feu so much better after
taking two bottles, that I continued the rem
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The cure was permanent, for I hare never sinee
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times exposed to damp and cold weather.
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