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SATISFIED WITH OLD,
CONFIDENT IN NEW
THIS THE POSITION OF THE BUSI
NESS WORLD TOWARD THE
PRESENT YEAR AND NEXT
HOLIDAY TRADE WAS
A RECORD BREAKER
Trade Distribution of ISO 2 Reached An
Enormous Volume—Good Profits
Gained by the Banks As a Result of
the High But Steady Rates for
Money.
NEW YORK, Dec. 2G. —Eradstreet's
tomorrow will say: Satisfaction with
the old and confidence in the new year
are the dominant features of ISO 2 as
1902 draws to a close. The enormous
holiday trade, exceeding in most re
spects all records, proved to be a fit
ting crown to a year of almost unpre
cedented business and industrial ac
tivity. Except in some sections of the
South and Southwest, where crop and
weather conditions had led to a mod
ification of otherwise sanguine expec
tations, the volume of seasonable busi
ness is in most respects satisfactory.
In the East and West, the Northwest
and on the Pacific coast, there is but
one note, and that of satisfaction with
the results achieved during the past
few weeks.
Additional reports received of tho
trade distribution for the year confirm
those hitherto siven of an enormous
volume of business, modified, it is true,
in some respects by higher cost of ma
terials and wages limiting profits. With
the active demand in most lines, how
ever, the profit side has not been en
tirely lost sight of and it is safe to
say that equally satisfactory returns
In years to come would prove accept
able. Reports of results in banking
circles this year are that good profits
have been gained as a result of the
comparatively high and at the same
time steady rates for money.
Taking It Easy Now.
The holiday spirit has settled in
■wholesale lines this' week. Most of
the salesmen are in from the road and
except for reorders to repair depleted
stocks, jobbers are quiet and stock
taking- is the main interest. Industrial
operations have naturally slowed down
except where conditions, as in railway
traffic, are such as to demand the
straining of every nerve to keep up
with business offered and prevent a
mid-winter congestion, which, in the
present situation of abnormal small
supplies of fuel the country over,
might result in serious derangement.
Not only are spring goods being- or
dered with freedom and confidence,
but prompt delivery of the same is be
ing urged.
Weather conditions the past week
have favored the rubber and footwear
trades. The covering of snow over the
winter- wfieat crop has been increased,
and the demand for gas and oil stoves
Is still said to be far in excess of the
supply. The increased use of oil is
enabling- producing interests to reap a
harvest. Textile trades generally re
turn satisfactory reports, though sea
fonable quiet rules in distribution.
Textile manufacturers note an in
crease of from 8 to 15 per cent in cot
ton and woolen yarn output over a year
ago. Cottons are rather quiet, except
•where accumulations in bleached goods*
have been moved at slight reductions.
In men's wear woolens the situation is
certainly excellent. Machinery is well
employed. Raw wool is very strong,
end rather more interest is noted in
low grades at leading centers this week.
Australian advices are very fcaJ be
cause of the drought, and a great
shortage in production of wool is ex
pected in that country. The lumber
trade situation, that for white pine and
hard wood particularly, is satisfactory.
Exports of Grain.
Wheat, including flour exports, for
the week ending Dec. 24 aggregates
3,356,456 bu, against 3,256,047 last week;
4,291,543 this week last year, and 3,858,
--165 in 1900. Wheat exports since July
1 aggregate 127,324,192, against 124,
--947,956 last season and- 93,999,518 in
1900. Corn exports aggregate 1,502,551
bushels, against 1,526,141 last week;
424,330 last year, and 4,011,105 in 1900.
Por the fiscal year exports are 8,188,575,
against 20,550,670 last season and 94,
--357,935 in 1900.
Among the great industries iron and
steel are naturally quiet at 4his season
of the year, still notes fuel scarcity, af
fecting production of merchant fur
naces East and West. The larger in
terests, which control primary sources
of fuel, are, however, doing- well, and
the net reduction in output due to the
coke trouble will be smaller than ear
lier anticipated. The better tone noted
in the demand last week still continues.
Structural iron still leads in strength
and demand. Some heavy orders are
being placed. Plates, like rails, are
heavily sold ahead. Higher wages fo.r
coke workers are an item of increased
cost, but the disposition to advance
ore prices will probably be combatted
by the larger interests. Foreign pig
Iron has weakened, and the outlook
abroad generally is rather poor. Rail
way building has been active this year,
the heaviest in fact for fifteen years
past, and showing a 12 per tent in
crease in mileage over a year ago.
Speculative feeling in copper is better
and talk of an improvement in the
metal itself is heard.
Business failures for the week end
ing Thursday number 161, as against
225 last week. 219 in this week last
year, 213 in 1900, 213 in ISS9 and 220
in 1898. '
YEAR IN STEEL AND IRON.
Largest Amount Produced in the His
tory cf the Country.
Special to The Globe.
WASHINGTON, D. C, Dec. 2C—
Btriklng evidence -cf business activity
in the United States at the present
time is found in a comparison, of I pig:
iron statistics of. the year just ending
with those of -earlier years, as com
piled by tho treasury bureau. of statis
tics. Recently published. estimates of
the production of j-irr iron in the
United States during'the Calendar year
1902 put the totP.l production, a t 17
500,000 tons. This is an increase of
near1y..2,000,000 ton 3 - over last year,
and is more 1 than,double .the produc
tion of 1855, three times that of ISB6,
four times that of 1881; six times that
of laT», eis'ht times,that of lf-75, . ten
times that cf 1872, : and twenty •; time*
that-ot ISCS. The steel Tproductionv of
the year is estimated at 15,000,000 tons,
•ivhich is practically 50 per cent: more
than that of 1300, nearly three times
as much. as that of 1836, ten times as
much as that of 18S4, and twenty times
the production-of 1878. In addition to
this enormous j-roauction an i increase
over any earlier year,' the importations
of pig irr;n in the "year, just enilinjrare
ten limes ns gre.at as in the preceding
year and greater than in any year cf
the Secadfe, and the tctal- value of. iron
and steel imported..will also cxoecU'
tiiat of any year.during the ilccado.
The following; table shows the pro
duction in the United States ht : pig
iron and sttel, and the importation cf
pig- iron at quinquennial r»erir.;ls from
Wlj to 1501, and the estimated prvdue
tlr.ri,and UnporJatlcm cf 1302:
'. J rroduclisri-'bf In:port?uivi of
Tig- Iran -Steel Pig-Iron
Y.^nr. .... Tons. . . .-Tons, Tons.
IS7I ...... 1,795.7*3 . 73,214, 178,140
»■>/(; .. I.PCVJei ■ 533,151 78.-155
XM\ ...... 4,144,254 ],b5?.314 417.94 J
lft« D,C53,3-.'3 2,5S3 t 603 1.674
}«'l- ...... «.27i,57(: 2.iK.4,240 ■ 31,936
ISC-t: ::-.;... fi.r.2Wn 5.231.1?.?... h.ISS
liOl ...... 3f.,J7»,.^31\.i. iJ,*7S,BSS' . f.?,525
19W •17,500,000 •15,000,000 !575,000
• Estimated. ! December imports es
timated.
A statement recently published by
the Bulletin of the American Iron and
Steel Association indicates that of the
15,878,354 tons of pig iron produced in
the United States in 1901, 6,803,938 tons
were produced by the United States
Steel corporation, and 9,074,376 tons
by independent companies.
This phenomenal growth in the pro
duction of iron and steel in the United
States placed the United States several
years ago at the head of the world's
list of iron producing nations, but has
now made its production greater than
the combined production of the United
Kingdom and Germany, those coun
tries being- by far the largest iron pro
ducers of the world, aside from the
United States. The total pig iron pro
duction of Germany in 1901 was 7,856,
--149 metric tons, and that of the United
Kingdom 7,928t647 long tons, making
the combined production of these two
countries in 1901 15,600,000 long tons,
which is slightly less than the 1901
production of the United States. The.
figures showing the production of these
two countries covering- the first half
of 1902, which have just been received
by the bureau of statistics, fully jus
tify the statement that the production
in the United States in 1302 will also
exceed the combined production of
England and Germany.
The following table shows' the pro
duction- of pig iron in the United
States, United Kingdom and Germany,
beginning with 1886:
United United Germany
States Kingdom Metric
Tear. Long Tons. Long Tons. Tons.
1896 8,623,127 8,65;),651 6.372.6G0
TS97 9,G52,680 8.796,465 6,881,500
1898 ....11,773.534 8.605.719 7.312.800
1899 13,620.703 9,421,435 8,143.100
1900 13,789,242 8,953,GD1 8.520,500
1901 15.875.354 7,928,647 7,85G,149
1902 17,500,000
Bank Clearings.
NEW YORK, Dec. 25.—The following
table, compiled by Bradstreet. shows the
bank clearings at the principal cities for
the week ended Dec. 25, with the percent
tage of increase and decrease, as com
pared with the corresponding week iast
year: _____
I Inc. | Dec.
New York ...... $1,150,136,3131 2~2
Chicago 138.254,025 2.7
Boston 101.113,032 2.8
Philadelphia.. . 106,412,929 16.5
St Louis 38.302,955 16.6
PittsbUTg 37.095,602 1.7
Baltimore 18,231.551 1.4
San Francisco.. 29,014.000 55.4
Cincinnati 17,206.900 5.4
Kansas City ...| 17,73.9,367 15.9
Cleveland 12,422,636 7.0
Minneapolis 13,701,018 5.0
New Orleans ... 11,787.298 7.3
Detroit 8,058.582 21.4
Louisville 7,510,534 7.5
Indianapolis ... 10.024.953 24.7
Providtnce 5.855,500
Omaha 5,933,076 6.2
Milwaukee 6.226.681 3.6
Buffalo 5.295,290 2.8
St. Paul 5.365.15S 12.1
St. Joseph 4,281,074 4.2
Denver 3,477,184 6.3
Salt Lake City.. 3.639.554 7.8
Los Angeles ... 4,137,139 .2.0
Fort Worth 3.135.927 28.5
Seattle 3,013,886 5.7
Washington ... 3,300,807 31.8
Pecria 2,574.343 5.0
Toledo 2.388,381 7.4
Portland. Or. .. 3,324,028 53.7
Dcs Moines 1,426 215 4.9
Sioux City 1.354,825 4.9
Taccma 1,919,425 75.8
Spokane 2,076,040 81.3
Toj-eka 1,496,380 32.7
Davenport . f... 688,795
Little Rock 1.043.962 22.7
Helena 597,150 16.1
Fargo 493.943 22.0
Sioux Falls 17-2.591 26.8
♦Houston 12,355,3181 9.2
♦Galveston I 7,556,000] 11.6
Totals, U. 5... $1,851,694,303 .3
Outside N. Y. 701,557,996 5.0
Canada.
Montreal I $20,556.1851 49.3
Toronto 12,528.578 26.7
Winnipeg 5,102,593
Halifax 1,364.792 :. 16.6
Vancouver, B. C 1,165,421 62.0
Hamilton 786,929 7.5
St. John, N. 8.. 711,412 4.0
Victoria, B. C 925.568 87.6
•♦Quebec I 1,205,777 2.9
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the Horse Show—This is the Oitfy Group Photograph of the Famous Pair Ever Taken.
Ottawa I 1.6G5.273] 7.2|
London 1 732.748J 1...;..
Totals, Canada! $45,350,4631 31.91
~*Not included in totals because of no
comparison for last year. **Not included
in totals because containing other items
than clearings.
A Dog That Rules a King.
Dignity, pomp and etiquette arc par
ticularly strong points with Edward VII.,
says a London correspondent cf the Boa
ton Herald, and woe betide any light
minded subject who overlooks the smallest
detail of dress or deportment in the royal
presence—that is, woe beti(?e all such sub
ects but one. The exception is Jack, a
stray Irish setter, who strolled into Marl
borough house not long ago, adopted the
king without leave or ceremony, took
charge of his majesty forthwith, and has
helped to run the empire ever since. It
can be said without exaggeration that no
one item of the business of the King of
England gets so much attention daily as
the care of Jack. His food and exercise
are personally supervised by his royal
comrade, and the, general question of his
health and conduct are a matter of por
aoiv.il concern to the king.
THE ST. PAUL GLOBE, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1902.
CHAMBERLAIN WITH
AN OLIVE BRANCH
BRITISH COLONIAL SECRETARY
SPEAKS CONCILIATORY WORDS
TO THE BURGHERS
HE RECEIVES A WARM
WELCOME AT DURBAN
Nothing Should Be Done to Revive the
Animosities of the Past—"We Must
Give Our Fellow Subjects Equality
With Ourselves"—Victor and Van
quished - Fought Bravely.
DURBAN, Natal, Dec. 26.—Colonial
Secretary Chamberlain and Mrs.
Chamberlain, who left Porthmouth,
England, Nov. 25, landed here this
| morning. They received, a warm wel
come from large crowds of people.
The long speeches made by Mr.
Chamberlain in the reception func
tions were notable fcr their strong
I tone of conciliation and his expression
of confidence in Lord Milner, British
high commissioner in South Africa.
Bearing in mind, seemingly, the ru
mors that his visit would lead to the
displacement of Lord Milner, Mr.
Chamberlain declared his belief that
his visit would have the effect of
strengthening the hana of Lord Mil
ner, who, he hoped, would be as great
in conciliation as he had been in the
maintenance of the rights of the em
pire.
Referring to the war, the colonial
secretary said the Dutch and the Brit
ish had fought in courageous rivalry.
Between the two races, not kindred in
grigin or nature, such a struggle for
supremacy had been inevitable.
Two Proud and Kindred Races.
Prom that struggle two proud and
kindred races would grew in mutual
respect, appreciation and lasting
friendship.
"Victor and vanquished," said Mr.
Chamberlain, "bravely played their
parts. We scorn to glory in our tri
umph. The enemy need fear no hu
miliations in their defeat. Let us see,
as Britons worthy of the name, that
nothing be done to revive the animosi
ties of the past. We must give our
fellow subjects equality of pesition"
with ourselves. We ask, however,
something in return. It is with them
that the issue lies. We holl out cur
hand and ask them to take it without
thought of the past, but frankly and in
the spirit which it is offered."
Mr. Chamberlain elaborated his
theme with eloquence and was loudly
cheered. He announced incidentally
the acceptance of the Boer offer to
fight in Somaliland.
WILD HORSES OF
NORTH CAROLINA
When Captured They Soon Become Quite
Tractable and Give Lit
tle Trouble.
On one of the lonely banks that help
to form the coast of North Carolina live
the only wild horses east of the Mississippi
river. They are hardly horses at that,
for they are not any taller than a child.
They are called "banker" pones because
they come from the banks. Their hair
is long and shaggy and .so thick that it
protects them from the cold winds which
sweep down upon them from Cape Hat
teras and the Atlantic ocean.
Although many of the ponies have been
caught and transformed into tractabie
beasts, it is doubtful if a hundred people
outside of North Carolina ever heard of
them. The trade in them is not even
widespread enough to reach into the ex
treme western counties of their native
state, and if you ask the folks of the
mountainous country what a banker
pony is you'll find the animal about as
little known as an Asiatic tiger. East
of Greensboro, though, it is the ambition
of every child to own a banker, and each
town is likely to boast three or four of
the pretty creatures. Hitched to diminu
tive buggies and wagons, they trot around
the streets, taking steps about as long
as a dog's. They are then as gentle as
lambs, for once tamed their tameness is
absolute.
Probably the most interesting thing
about the bankers is a theory as to their
origin. Historians of the old North State
have snid that the ponies are descended
from a remnant of horses left on the
banks by Sir Walter Raleigh more than
three centuries ago. Of course every
body knows that it is a mooted question
just where Sir Walter landed first. Those
who trace the ponies back to the landing
hold the vif-w that the British knight
and his colony stopped a while on the
southerly banks, where the ponies are
found today, and then migrated over to
ward Roanoke island, having found the
first stopping place unsuitable for the fort
that was to be built. However that may
be, the ponies are there. They stick
closely to the banks known as Shackle
ford's, which is one ojf the chain of sand
bars that form a great breakwater for
that coast.
DETECTIVE'S DIAMOND
HOODOOS THE CROOKS
They Meet With Disaster in Trying to
Get the Stone.
CINCINNATI, Ohio, Dec. 25. — In
crook parlance, a man claiming to be
John Mullins, of Cleveland, Ohio, "fell"
yesterday, because- he made the un
pardonable error of trying to relieve
a headquarters detective of a diamond
stud. So John languishes at Central
police station or a charge of suspi
cion, while Chief of Detectives Ralph
Crawford is making a strenuous effort
to identify him as a thief with a na
tional reputation..
It all happened: on a traction car at
Fourth and Main streets, shortly after
5 o'clock last evening. Detective Jack
son was en the car, hurrying to head
quarters. As usual, he wore in his
necktie a two-carat diamond, which
upon a previous occasion got a crook
into trouble when he tried to steal it.
Jackson was in a crowd when Mul
lins edged up to him. In compliment
to the detective" he must have been
mistaken fcr a homeward bound mer
chant or a thrifty bookkeeper, but his
200 pounds wouldn't warrant the in
ference. At any rate Mullins, acting
as the "stall," got busy reading a news
| paper in such a manner that he shoved
it beneath Jackson's chin, so that the
latter couldn't see what was going on
about his boscm.
At this juncture it was up to the lit
tle man with Mullins to get the dia
mond, but the detective took a hand by
grabbing the latter. The little man
made a hurried .exit from *he car and
escaped because of the crowd. While
he was fleeing, Mullins was making a
heart-rending appeal to the passengers
to protect him from the "ruffian" who
held him in his grasp. It was without
avail, however, and he was taken to
headquarters. There he was reticent,
but finally in an unguarded moment
told Chief Crawford that he would
like certain Chicago people notified of
his arrest. I|hat;admission was fatal,
for the men Jo -tfhom he referred are
known as bang,the best "stone-get
ters" in the jountry.
TYPEWRiTEB THAT
WRITES SHORTHAND
Ingenious Device Ccmes From the Brain
cfia Frenchman.
Every row and : then we Hear of the
invention of a new typewriter, which, in
the estimatior of its maker, is destined
to excel all otj lers as regards speed, con
venience and ] iechanica.l construction. An
interesting l ej art Of this sort comes from
Europe to tin effect that a Frenchman
named M. Lai auriie has produced an in
genius nuvhii c which will write short
hand characters.
This new typewriter, says La Nature,
of Paris, is called "stenodactyl." It is
claimed to possess allthe essential qual
ities of a. first-class writing machine, in
cluding simplicity, lightness and silence.
It has ten keys, which represent thirty
one different combinations, and in its op
eration all the fingers of both hands are
utilized. The keys are arranged so that
the fingers fall naturally upon them. To
the left hand are allotted the consonant
outlines, while the right hand strikes the
vowels. The vowel and consonant com
binations are distributed in such a way
that it is possible to register phonetically
all of the ordinary sounds of the human
voice. When a key is depressed three
results are obtained, namely: The pa
per is unrolled, the type inked and an
imprint is made on the paper. It is said
that this machine' will write at the rate
of 150 words a minute.
The stenodactyl prints a syllable with
each stroke of its" keys, whereas the or
dinary typewriter prints only a letter.
Its operator cares not how a. word is
spelled by the dictionary or how a sen
tence should be punctuated. He simply
writes, or rather strikes, phonetic sounds
as he hears them. The advantage of the
characters written on the stenodactyl
over those produced by a stenographer us
ing a pen or a pencil is that the former
are invariably uniform and legible.
La Nature expresses the belief that
the invention of M. Lafaurie will be a
boon particularly to, newspaper reporters,
in whose work upiformity in outlines
while making notes, is an extremely im
portant matter. The machine is adaptable
to any language, and, inasmuch as it em
ploys an undeviating code, its operation
is easily mastered.
Several attempts have been made both
in America and Europe to produce a
typewriter possessing the qualities claim
ed for the ste%pdactyl, the most success
ful of which isfbelieved to have been that
of a Mr. Anderson in this country ten
or fifteen years aga. The Anderson ma
chine, however, is rarely seen at the
present time. —New York Sun.
Genuine Bargains.
Wife—l see by the paper that silver dol
lars are only worth 43 cents.
Husband —Well, the next ti*ne you ro
shopping- suppose you buy a few at that
price.—Chicago News.
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JheQlobes Daily Short Jfor/1
Ohe tJiages of &ecay
Jk Mexican Jale of Jealousy and Revenge.
By CHARLESFLEMING EMBREE. •
At the interoceanic station in Mexico
City, John Maxam, once of- Ogden,
Utah, bade Maude goodby; there was
no one else present who knew them, so
he kissed her. She watched the train
go away, and when she returned to the
Presbyterian school and her Mexican
girls she was cast down.
He rode over the long descent and
came to Jalapa; then again through
gorgeous fields of coffee and bananas
to Xico; and arrived at last on foot at
the distant falls of Texolo, which fur
nish the power for Jalapa's electric
lights, thirty miles away. When he
first saw that wild spot, and the elec
tric plant which he must run in the
bottom of the gorge his heart was
whole, the heart of a strong man.
Here is the tropical sun, but he tem
pers his beams: here tropical vegeta
tion rejoices like a happy woman;
great tree ferns.waved their plumes at
him_. He lived in a stone house at the
top of the descent; before his door the
waters of Texolo leaped off the rocky
ledge, and fell 200 feet. He climbed
dewn many wooden steps to reach the
dynamos below. Round about him thu
country was wild, and yonder rose the
mountain ranges.
One day into the bare dining room
at the head of the falls he came, and
pounded on the table for his breakfast.
Then first appeared Anita in his life.
She was a little Indian—like a beauti
ful cat, supple, slender and quick. Her
face was delicate; her eyes were big
and soft —everything they saw they
seemed to beg sadly for; on whomso
ever they rested, with him did they
plead. She wore a dark red blanket,
folded in plaits and hanging like a skirt
from her waist. Her smali brown feei.
were bare. She put his breakfast on
the table, and he said: "Who are you?"
"Anita."
"And who is that?"
"Daughter to Alberto, who runs 3'our
night shift for you, and lives there in
the hut. Mother has gone away; I
came to cook. We shall be good to
one another, you and I." Her eyes be
came keen; never had he seen a thing
so queerly beautiful; her gaze was as
the gaze of the tropic sun that gives
out heat.
He worked all day in the gorge, and
at night climbed the 500 steps, and,
weary, ate supper with Anita standing
beside him. The night came, the moon
rose; on the edge of the cliff a bowlder,
twenty feet high, was poised, and be
side this he sat, dreaming of Maude.
Thirty rods to his right the moonlh
silver of the falls flowed over the rock
into darkness. Now a hand was on
"his shoulder. He turned; two eyes
shone softly. She had come as a cat
might have come.
."The vapor rises at dark; it might
kill you."
He laughed. "I'm not afraid."
She sat down against him. "Then I
must keep you warm," she said, with
a wistful tone. "New—like this. You
would kill yourself; and I would jump
over, maybe; so—here we are;" she
gurgled a sad laugh—rather it was
purring; "now we shall be good to one
another."
The song of the moonlit falls seem
ed to bring lethargy to him. The trop
ics are strang-e; the soul there feels
with primitive simplicity, with primi
tive strength." He kissed her —the first
taint, on the manly heart. The heart
is but flesh under the tropic sun, which
makes it to decay, and scatters it to
earth, to take it up and use it over
again.
Sunday morning, shaggy-headed,
web-footed old Alberto brought letters
from Xico; and one was from Maude.
John pounded on the table, opened the
envelope, and read:
"It is work that will keep us happy
apart, John. Work is God's blessing.
I pray every night that I may.be able
to do more for these poor girls. I am
so glad I came away from Texas to
do this; and the gladder because it
brought me to you. I feel weak,
though, to deal with these ignorant
hearts; I don't know how. And you—
how strong, how good you are!"
He did not see Anita; his eyes were
a little dim; the odor of the fried
bananas which she set beside him at
length recalled him to his time and
plate. She was looking at the letter,
and something like agony was in her
face; he smiled at her; the agony
melted to deep sorrow.
''I understand now," she said, sadder
than the crushed and the cast out:
"some white one. But—but I could tell
you about Santa Anna's? rubies, and
help you to dig. I could cook all the
time. When you found the rubies, and
maybe miliiens of dollars, I could sit
against you to keep you ■ warm for
ever."
"What about rubies?" he asked, full
of adventure.
"Will you promise to hate her and
to worship me?"
"I can't hate her," he said.
She seized two plates and threw
them, crying out: "You will love me
alone, or I will kill everybody!"
Her passion was beautiful, but he
got away from it; and that night he
sat by the bowlder, dreaming about
the rubies; for he*nad heard Indian
tales concerning treasure in this gorge.
She came and sat by him.
"Tell me about the rubies," he said.
"If you love me alone, and much,
much, and hate the white one."
He did not answer for a long time.
"What is the place like?"
"A little cave hid down yonder, and
nobody knows it but me."
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"Show me!"
She waited, her eyes on him, and
the falls sang their opiate lullaby.
"Show me, Anita; I will pay you
if I find anything."
"Pay!" she said, heart-brokenly.
He knew that she waited for a kiss;
he had some hot dream of jewels, and
long, warm days of deadening happi
ness. She seemed like a beautiful cat;
and he took^her up in his arms and said
that he loved her.
"Ccme," she answered; "now I will
show you.''
They went down a winding path and
fifty feet below the bowlder came to the
spot. Of the stages of decay which
the white man's heart goes through in
the tropics his heart was in the sec
ond.
Next day, hid by underbrush, he ex
amined the hole in the side of the
gorge. He could creep in; it was a
little cave, whose floor, roof and sides
seemed to be of cement, that mysteri
ous, crumbling, unkown sort that cer
tain prehistoric Mexican ruins contain.
Some one had hollowed this out. Here
might be Azetc gold; or this might in
deed hold Santa Anna's jewels. That
the-<rtd war president did hide in this
gorge when hunted is history. And
there are, even in the books, stories of
his leather purse of rubies.
Now every day John dug; and his
life became feverish. He found some
broken pottery and a bone. And yet
he dug; and slept but four hours a
day; and told his speculations and his
visions to Anita. Anita knew all: An
ita helped him; Anita told him all the
old traditions —ah, he loved her at last,
then.
But the letters! Once she tore one
up, and so great was his rage that she
cowered in a corner expecting to be
beaten. Now Maude wrote:
"The time is long, John! And your
letters are a little different. Your love
to me, though, makes me glad. Only
I get tired without you. Do the tropics
change you, John? I sometimes am
The next day after reading that he
came into the dining room (remember
ing it) and sat down and pounded.on
the table. When Anita came in her
eyes were fiery.
He looked; amid the slices of fried
banana there was something else, cut
in strips and fried, too. He put in his
fork and stirred; and all the blood
gushed to his head. It was another
letter from Maude, cut up and cooked.
O, barbarian —O, cannibal!
He sprang to his feet; and she cow
ered in a corner; he ran to her and
dragged her up by the arm. A mad
ness was on him; the low, rotting Spir
it of Brawl, as though he had been
drunk. He flung her to the floor and
bruised her; he cried out like an ani
mal. He was so sure that she and her
tropics were ruining his soul that it
made him rage. He dragged her out
on the stones, threatening to throw her
to the bottom of the gorge. The after
noon wind blew soft, a tree fern just
over the brink touched his cheek —and
he came to himself. He left her and
went down the 500 steps, the bright
ness of the afternoon turning black as
he went.
Why does the heart here decay?
Perchance because the heat is damp;
and, like the. vegetation, the heart
must rankly grow and rankly rot. Now
was the third stage.
Having tended his dynamos, and
dug in his cave, and found one moTe
bone, and one more piece of pottery,
he came at night in a profound revul
sion again to the bowlder, and sat
down to dream. She came and snug
gled up, in the moonshine of another
moon.
"If a slim beast can understand," he
said, listen. You know absolutely
nothing. You think of Maud^J Maude!
While you grovel in tropic filth she
lives high in the purities of civiliza
tion. You are an animal; she is a soul.
You live for yoursef, as a cat lives;
she left her home, and came to raise
up such animals as you. She gives
her heart for you. She carries here
that chastity and sweetness which
were the beauties of a Christian home
in' a land of which you never "dreamed.
You are vile; she is pure as that moon
light which plays on the water. You
make earth rank and bitter; she, like
this cataract, most lovely of things,
whose force creates the light that
lights Jalapa—she, too, gives li.erht, and
for you. Know once for all, filthy wom
an, that while you rot my flesh-heart,
and while my false self holds you,
there is in me a t;ou1 that loathes you;
a second self that now forevermore.
though I stay beside you, casts you
off."
That was the turning point for her.
The days thereafter were silent, chang
ed. She had been crushed by him; her
wounds could bleed poison.
The bowlder, which was poised fifty
feet over the cave where he dug, seem
ed to hang on the edge ready to fail
She stood long each day looking at it.
And at length she secretly brought a
spade-like tool, and began to dig away
some dirt from under its outer side.
A little (tigging would surely make it
topple. It scared her at first; it was
so vast a thing. Mighty would be the
ruin as it crashed down; and the roof
of the cave wherein he searched for
Santa Anna's rubies would be no more
protection against it than that little
shell of the electric light plant so far
down there. Having dug a little, she
know her plan, arrl waited.
He came into the dining room read-
RIDDLE.
This life's a riddle—spring and fall,
To solve it vain's the labor;
!We count the stars and name 'em all,
Put .know not who's our neighbor!
We've marked the pathway to the sky—
To reach it, our endeavor;
But in this world of song and sigh
We lose the way forever!
\i . —-Atlanta Constitution,
ing a letter from Maude, who said:
"Write to me tomorrow, dear—please.
I can't stand it; I sometimes think J
am sick. I love you—if ever you didn'l
love me!—but 1 know you do."
Anita's face looked worn. "Will you
take it back about my being an animal,
and will you love me?" she asked.
And he said no.
Therefore, on the following day, she'
dug a little more under the bowlder
and when he had come up in the even
ing, she cried again, cuddling up
against him: "Love me!"
And he swore no, sternly, for the
decay of his heart had re'achei the
fourth stage.
Every day he dug .a while in the
cave. It was a mysterious place, but
Mexico is full of them. You may dig
till your, hair grows gray and get but
little hints of what It means—a bone,
a piece of pottery, once in a long tima
a piece of gold.
Every day she, too, dug a little; ev
ery evening she tried to win him back,
with wiles that were threats. "Love
me! Love me!" And he said, coldly,
"No."
At length, all of his love for her hav
ing- died, he grew so cruel and full of
scorn to her that she was ready to
die. Now his life was at that stage *
when one feels to disintegrate, trem
ble and slip beneath his feet, and, look
ing down through the cracks, fancies
he sees the dread and hopeless bottom
of it. Finding all love for the Indian
gone, he gazed back, and around, and
above, to find his love for Maude; and
it was gone He put his head in his
hands, and murmured: "Lost!" For
the decay had progressed now to the
fifth stage.
A day of meaning came: yesterday
she had dug much. She knew today
could topple that rock; and in the
early morning she suddenly clung to
him, and kissed his cheek passionately,
and cried: "O love me again!" Ha
turned on her sneering, and went down
the long steps, tearing letters into bits.
He would be down there all day, and
at 10 o'clock he always entered the
cave to dig. t
At half-past 9 she, strong, keen, be
gan to work in the dirt under the outer
edge of the bowlder. Below her the
underbrush- down the steep decline hid
from her the path that led to the cave.
Till 10 she worked; and her eye glanc
ing up saw that to work any more be
neath the rock was dangerous.- She
went round and round it; she pushed
on it with her hand; it began to slide a
little, but paused.
Behind her on the road that leads to
Xico she heard the rickety hack that
meets the trains there. A girl jumped,
out Of it; the hack went back and here
came Maude flown to the bowlder.
"la Mr. Maxam here?"
"Down there."
"So many steps!" She clasped her
hands. "I couldn't do it; when will ha
come?"
"Tonight."
"I'll wait," she said; "may I wait?"
Her hat was bright 'and dainty; her
dress was dark blue. She was the
American in every detail. Her lipa
were sad, her eyes were deep and
longing, not unlike the eyes of Anita,
yet they meant much else than hers.
"And you—what are you?" she said,
with her finger on her chin.
"Anita."
"You cook for him. Oh, is he well?"
"He is well; but I do not cook for
him."
"What do you do?"
Anita's eyes gleamed with the pow
ers of revenge. She stood near the
outer side of the bowlder on the edgo
of the descent, her fingers resting
lightly against the poised rock. Maude
was above her on a bank of earth.
Thus, the while they stared at each
other, Anita told her all—every de
tail.
"And now," she said, "because he
does not love me any more I have dug
here. See—the rock is ready to fall."
Maude was staggering down.
"Don't ccme," said Anita, showing
her teeth; "I will push it off if you
do."
But the American girl rushed to
drag her away; and was seized by hen
The two were flung against the bowl
der; it slid, it toppled. In front of it
they struggled and Maude's scream
rang out. Beautiful was the fall of the
rock, but it hurled them with it.
There was a noise like rolling thun
der. Trees and underbrush were cut
through as by a mighty scythe. The
cave was crushed; the roof of the elec
tric light plant was as nothing. A
crash—and silence. There was no hu
man to be seen; the falls and the tree
ferns were the only things that movedj
Jalapa's electric light plant in the bot
tom of the gorge lay wrecked under
tons of stone. For eight hours of trop
ic sun the scene was desolate.
In the evening from the opposite
direction came John Maxam, from
Xico, where some breakage had made
it necessary that he go early in the
morning. He had made his exit at the
gorge's lower end. Tonight he wad
whistling; a little last happiness had
somehow come back to him. He en
tered his rear door, sat down at the
table and pounded. There was no
answer. He pounded again. There
was no answer. He went out; and the
bowlder was gone. With horror he
gazed into the gorge and saw. Here
at his feet lay a bright straw hat,
strange now civilized thing in this wild
spot. And there was a handkerchief,
and on it was written "Maude."
The night was blank. Yonder were
they buried. Because through other
stages of its ruin his heart passed, he
thought at length to leave this spot;
arose and fled. He came to Mexico
City like a ghost. Would he awake
and go north, to civilization, to life?
Or would he rot on, and turn south
again to the tropic sun, and the heat
that is opiate? This was the last
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