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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1922-02-10, Page 7- FEBRUARY 10, ,1922. arra.-► --- THE; IIURON EXPOSIMI whistb berah•g ,the levees %W' in New oombene2ls,otti'when Vanat Apbwerp' bed chartered `4 to Larry 'tools surd nsae fnery to the arsines and to serve els a private iasxnssh for himself. It was a Choice 'either of this Stemmer rand landing in s small boat, di ing along the line of the unfinished railroad on horseback. 'Either route potlaotned six valuable hours, • aaad s11ss7; who wars anxious to asp bhr tt w fladd of action, beat upott mite r*U of tiLe ro neteil 'ndkrfrild in the sea. the first three blry't sfbat •rat; the mines in Use month;, ulna,41 them on foot and skirting thitir base on horserb.ek, rwd sleeping Where night overtook hitt. Van Antwerp did not accompany 'him on 'hit tour of inspection through the mines, but delegated that duty to an engineer 'named MacWilliams, and to Weimar, the United States Consul, sit Valencia, who had served the *em- ptily in' many ways and wino was in its closestfidce. Fos' three. daysconenthe men toiled over fallen trunks and trees, s'lipper'y with the moss of centuries, or slid backward on the ro 1' i ng atones in. the waterwayie, or clung to their ponies' backe to dodge the hanging creepers. At times for hours together they walked in single file, bent nearly double, and seeing nothing before them but' the shining backs and ehouldera of 'the negroes who hacked out the way for them to go. And again they would come suddenly up- on a precipice, and drink in the soft cool breath of the e,cean, and look down thousands of feet upon the im- penetrable , green under Which they had been crawling, out to where it met the sparkling surface of the Car- ibbean Sea. It was three days of unceasing activity while the sun shone and of anxious questionings a- round the camp+frrc when the dark- ness fell, and when there were no sounds on the mountainside but,that of falling water in a distant ravine or the calls of the r,hhtebirds. On the morning of the fourth day Clay and his attend , n t s returned to camp and rode to where the men had just begun to blast away the sloping surface of the mountain. As Clay passed be :ween the zinc sheds and palm hut; ,f the soldier - workmen, they came running out to meet him, and one, who seemed to be a leader. touched his bridle, and with his straw somhe re in his hand begged for a word well el Senor the Director. The news of Cie..' = return had board the rolling gaddle�wheel steam - reached the opening, and the throb of much less formality, for he saw er, which he would have repainted of the dummy -engine and the roar that the iron mine had its social as and ;iced e herocoming. epa Rie- ted. of the blasting cat: 1 ties a s 3t- well as its political side. And withK' ant -engineers came n the v lle� this fact in mind, he opened the rail- tured himself acting as 'her guide to greet the new man • Theyfound • road with great ceremony, and much over the great mines, ,answering'her him seated on his. he - , gazing ahead music and feasting, and the first piece simple questions about the strange of him, and listen;;:. to the story of ore taken out of the mine was m,ac.hinery, and the crew of workmen and the localgovernment which by ' r ;,- of the solace who lingers, ashethe wife of the Minis presented t o ghe ruled two thousand men. It was spoke, trembled in 'r.�• air, with all .er of the Interior in a cluster of on account of any personal pride the grace and passe',, of his South- diamonds, which ni,ade the wives of not the mines that ae wanted her to ern nature, while b; cl of him his the other members of the Cabinet re see them, it was not because he had companions stood hu t,ly, in a silent Bret that their ,husbands had.not ehos- sedie them, and tanned and o ed chorus, wibh eager, eleplicatingeyes.' en that portfolio. Si* months fol- P tem Clay answered the man's speech lowed of hard, unremitting work,dur- them that he wished to show them curtly, with a few ,bort words, in ing which time the great pier grew to her, but as a curious spectacle th.e Spanish patois in which he had out into the bay from MacWilliams' that he hoped would .give her a mom - been addressed and then turned and railroad, and the face of the first ent's interest. smiled grimly upon - the expectant mountain was scarred and torn of But this keenest pleasure was wlhen group of engineers" Ae kept them its green, and left in inane -led naked- young Langham suggested that th should build ae house for his on the edge of the hill that Charles Scribnees Sena, New .York. (Continued from last week.) "What do you know of me?" said Miss Langham, ateadily. "Only what you have read- of me in impertinent paragraphs. How do you know Iam fitted for anything else but just this? You never spoke with me before to- night." "That has nothing too do with „it" said Clay, quickly. "Time is 'made for ordinary 'people. When people who amount to anything. meet they don't 'hive to waste months in find- ing each other out. It is only the doubtful ones who have to be, tested business troubles had turned the again and again. When I was a kid Pres'ident's mind, but after they had in the diamond mines ,in Kimberley, sat for half an hour perched on the I have seen the experts pick out a 'high chair's around the table, while perfect diamond from the heap at Hope excited explained the game to the• first glance, and without a mom-,• them, they decided, that he was wiser ent's hesitation. It was the cheap ' than they knew, and each left the stones they spert most of the after- house regretting he .ad no son noon over. - Suppose I have only seen worthy enough to bring "that young you to -night for the first time; sup- ; girl" into the Far West. , pose I shall not see you .again, which "You are home early," said Mr. is quite likely, for I sail to -morrow for South America—what of that? I am just as sure of what you are as though I had'known you for years." Miss Langham looked at him for a moment in silence. Her beauty .the coast with listless in until Ate noted. when tare v •band roans thirty' miles north, of hs 'harbor of Valencia. than the II forma- tion hat disappeared, 'and that the wares now 'beat against the base of the nboantaind themselves. There were five of these -mountains which jutted 'portant question with Mr. Langham, out into the ocean, and they suggebt- Chat . they had been ushered down- ed roughly the five knuoldes of a stairs one night into hie basement, ,1 gelid clenched and lying flat where, they ?tad found the Peetident upon the surface of the water. They of the Board and his daughter Hope extended for aev'en miles, and then working out a game of botball on the caverns in the palisades began the billirurd-table. They .had chalk- again .and continued on dpwn the .ed it off into whftt corresponded to coast to the great cliffs that 'guard five -yards lines, andthey were hurl- the harbor of Olancho's capital. lug twenty-two chess -men acrom it "The waves tunnelled their way in "ayi'alg wedges" and practising the easily enough until they ran up 'several `ricks which young Langham against those five mountains," mused Thad intivated to his sister under an the engineer, "and then they had to oath of secrecy. The sight filled the fall back." He walked to the cap - directors with the horrible fear that 1 twin's cabin -and *Red to look at a map of the coast line. "I believe I won't go to Rio,' he said later in the day; "I think I will drop off here at Valencia." So he left the tramp 'steamer at that place and disappeared into ,the interior with ;an ox -cart and a couple o.f pack -mules. and returned to write a lengthy letter from the Consul's offieo to a ;Mr. Langham in the United States knowing he was largely inter- ested in mines and in mining. "There ere five mountains filled with ore," Clay wrote-, "which should be ex- tracted by oven -faced workings. I saw great masses of red hematite lying exposed on the side of the mountain, only waiting a pick and shovel, and at one place there were five thousand tons in Plain sight. •I should call the stuff first-class Beg - earner ore, running about sixty-three ser cent. metallic iron.- The people know it is there, but have no knowl- edge of its value, and are too lazy to ever work -it themselves. As to transportation, it would only be nec- essary to run a freight railroad twenty miles along the sea -coast to the harbor of Valencia and dump/our ore from your own pier into your own vessels. It would not, I think, be possible to ship direct from the mines themselves, even though, as I say the ore runs right down into thewater ate because there is no place et which it would be safe for a large vessel to touch. I will look into the political side of it and see what sort of a concession I can get for you. I should think ten per cent. of the out - nut would satisfy them, .and they would, of course, admit machinery and plant free of duty." Six months after this communica- tion had arrived in New fork City, the Valencia Mining Company was (formally incorporated, and a man Langham, an Alice stood above bin pulling at her gloves. f"I thought you said you were gei.ng on to some dance." "I was tired," his daughter ans- wered. was so great that she could take her j "Well, when I'm out," commented time to speak. She was not afraid I Hope, "I won't come home at eleven of losing any one's attention. o'clock. Alice always was a quitter." "And have ycru -some out of the West, knowing me so well, just to tell me that I am wasting myself?" she said. "Is that all?" "That is •a'll " answered Clay. "You know the things I -'ovld like to tell you," he added, loolcing at her close- "I don't remember," Miss Langham answered, smiling at her father, "ex - "I think I like to'be told the other 1 cept that he was very muoh sunburn - things best," she said, "they are the' eand had most perplexing eyes." easier to believe." "Oh, of course, assented Hope, I "You have to believe whatever I suppose you mean by that that you tell you," said Clay, smiling. The talked with scene man all through girl pressed her hands together in dinner. "Well, I think there is a her lap. and looked at him curiously. ; time for everything." • h interrupted Miss Lan - at er ' I'g them were moving The pec ole abouty ism, "do you know many engineers and mal `ee their farewells and they brought ea. back to the present with —I 'mean do you come in contact with a start. tham through the railroads and mines "I'm sorry you're going sway," she you have an interest in? I am ra- said: "It has been so odd. You :her curious about them," she said, come suddenly lip out of the wilder- lightly. `"They seem to be a most ness, and set me to thinking and try rice uresque Qct of young men." to trouble me with questions about Fingineers . Of course,"said Mr. thyself, and then steal away again Langham, vaguely, with the ten of without stooping to help me to settle spades held doubtfully in air. them. Is it fair?" she rose hand Sometimes we have to depend upon put out her hand, and he took it and them altogether. We decide from held it for a moment, while they ; 'What the engineering experts tell us stood looking at one another. : whether we will invest in a thing or "I am corning back." he said, "and no ;." I will find that you have settled the 1 don't thiak I� mean the big ,mien for yourself." •I of the profession, said his.daughter, "Good-lby," she said, in so lows doubtfully. I seam those who do tone that the people standing near the rough work. The men who dig them could not hear. "You haven't the ;m}nes and lay out the railroads. asked me for it, you know, but—I Do you know any of them?" think I shall let you keep that pie-' Some of them, said Mr. Lang- „ ham, leaning back and shuffling the Lane- titre." you," said Clay, smiling, "I cards for a new game. "Why?" 4 meant to.' "Did you ever hear of a Mr. Robert "You can keep it," she continued, i C -Mr. Langham smiled as he placed turning back, "because it is not my she cards one above•the other in even picture. It is a picture of a girl "V ft h 'd "He "A what?" asked the oldest sis- ter, "Tell ue what yon had for dinner," said Hope. "I know it is'n't nice to ask," •she added, hastily, "but I al- ways like to know." Who ceased to exist four years ago, rows. cryo en, a ear . and whom you have never met. Good sails to -morrow to open up the larg had come to work. He had no : ation, and I find- ',hat? I find that as though so they complained, they sight," est iron deposits in South America. patience;with their habits of pro- in six months you have done almost were the laziest and the most rebel- He goes for the Valencia Mining crastination, and he was continually' nothing, and that the little you have lious members of his entire staff. • Company. Valencia is the capital of offending their lazy good nature and condescended to do has been done so a and event of im rta of his that the road's not warkiag. I New York. But he bad never eon - understand that he couldn't -get the eidered the -chance of dies L 'a right of way from the people who coming, and when that was vow not owned the land, but 1 have seats what only ,Possible but a c,lty, its he has done, and his plane, and I apologize to him—to 'MacMillan*. As for the rent of you, I'll give u ,month's trial. It will be a month be- fore the next steamer could get here anyway, and I'll give you that long to redeem yourselves. At the end of that time we will have another talk, but you are here now only on your good behavior and on my sufferance. Good -morning." - As Clay ,had boasted, he was not self smiling with anticipation of her the man to throw up his•position be- cause he found the part he had to Pleasure in the orchids hanging from play was not that of leading man, the dead trees, thigh above the open - but rather one of general utility, and nig of the mine, and in.the parrots althopgh it had been several years hurling themselves like gayly color - since it had been part of his'duties ed •miseilee among the vines.; and Ihe. to oversee the setting up of machinery considered the harbor at night with and the policing of a mining camp, its colored 'lamps floating an the black he threw himself as earnestly into water as a scene set for 'her eyes. He the work before him as though' to planned the dinners that ,he would enthe balcony of show his subordinates that fit did not � give in her honor b Y anatter who did the work, so long as , the great restaurant in the Plaza on it was done. The men at first were I those nights when the band played, sulky, resentful, and suspicious, but and the senoritas circled in longlines they could not long resist the fact' between admiring rows of officers and that Clay was doing the work of five ' caballeros. And he imagined how, men and five different kinds of work; + the ore -boats had been filled and Ms not only without grumbling, but ap- work had slackened, he would be free parently with the keenest pleasure. to ride with her along the rough He conciliated the rich coffee ,plant- mountain Toads, between magnificent ers who owned the land which he pillars of royal palms, ar to venture wanted for the freight road by calls forth in excursions down the bay, to of the most formal state and dinners explore the caves and to lunch on dreamed of little else. ' He lived es earnestly and toiled as indesltly cis before, baht the place 'and, utterly transformed for ham. 'He saw it now as she would see it .when she - shame, even while at the same tens 'bis, own eyes retained their•point of view. It was as though he bad lengthened the focus of a glass, and looked beyond at what was beautiful and, pictur- esque, instead of what was sear at hand and practicable. He found isim- waiting for some short space, while ness while the ringing of hammers named Van Antwerp, with two hun- he looked them a er carefully, as and picks, and the racking.blasts of dred workmen and a half-dozen as- though he had never seen them ,be- dynamite, and the warning whistles sistants, was sent South to lay out fore. the freight railroad, to erect the "Well, gentlemen," he said, "I'm dumping -pier, and to strip the five glad to have you here all together. mountains of their forests and un- I am only sorry you didn't came in of the dummy -engines drove away the accumulated silence of centuries. It had been a long uphill fight, and Clay had enjoyed it mightily. Two erbrush. It was not a task for a.. time to hear wh rt. this fellow has unexpected events had contributed to �holid•ay, but a stern, difficult, and had to say. 1 don't as a rule listen help it. One was th.e arrival fin perplexing problem, and Van Ant- that long to complaints, but he told Valencia of young Teddy Langham, werp was not quite the man to solver me what I have seon for myself and who carne ostensibly ea learn {the it. He was stubborn. self-confident, 1 what •has been told me.by others. I I profession of which Clay was so con - and indifferent by turns. He did not have been here throe days now, and I spicuous as example, and in reality depend upon his lieutenants, but I assure you, gentlemen, that my 1 -to watch over his'father's interests. jealously guarded his own opinions easiest course wo,r`d be to pack up He was put at Clay's elbow, and Clay from the•least question or discussion, - my things and go home on the next .made him learn in spite of himself, and at every step he antagonized the steamer. I was -int down here to for he ruled .him and MacWilliams, easy-going people among whom he take charge of a u: ne in active aper- 1 of both of whom he was very fond, Mr. Langham and Hope, his young -The second Po nee was er daughter, had been to the theatre. ! Olancho, one of those little republics their pride. He treated the rich badly that it will 1. ore to be done over the 'arnnounce.ment made one day by Continued next week. down there."pianters, who owned the land between again; that you lee- not only wasted young Langham that his father's The performance had been ore which I "Do you—are you interested in the mines and the harbor over which a half year of time —and I can't tellin a mild delighted Miss Hope, and which sat- I that company?" asked Mies Langham the freight railroad must run, with how mah money -hut that you have climate nand that ,hhad ordshe and this daugh- ey people jutted out over the harbor and the great ore pier. If this were done, Lang - ham urged it would be possible for him to see much more of his family than he would be able to do were they installed in the city, five miles away. "We can still live in the office at this end of the railroad," the boy said, "and - then we shall have them within call at night when we get bark from work; but if they are in Valencia it will take the greater part of the evening going there and all of the night getting back, for I can't pass that club under three hours. It Will keep us nut of temptation." "Yes, exactly," said Clay, with a guilty smile, "it will keep us out of temptation." •iwfied her father because he loved to •seating herself before the 'fire and as little consideration as he showed succeeded in aril eronizing all the ters were coming in a month to spend hear her laugh. Mr. Langham was (holding out her hands toward it. the regiment of soldiers which the the 'slave of his own good fortune. „ �., people on whose od-will we are ab- • the winter in Valencia, and to see i Does Mr. Clay know that you are. Government had farmed out to the • .solutely elepender , you have allow- how the son and heir had developed mars; ofhnct and leisure and�u culture ation ebwaut the "Yes—I am interested in it," Mr. company to serve as laborers in the 1 ed your machin to rust in the as a .man of business. men he had inherited was like an the f l ,ngham replied, studying the cards mines. Six months after Van Ant- rain, and.yarn. ry 'rlcmen to rot with , The idea of Mr. Langham's com- before •hiom, "but I don't think Clay were had taken charge at Valencia sickness You l not only done ing to visit Olancho to inspect his unruly child that needed his.constant wktc'hing, 'and in keeping it well in hand. he had become a man of busi- ness, with time for nothing else. Alice Langham, on her return from ;Mrs. Porter's dinner, found him in his study engaged with a game of ' solitaire, while Hope was kneeling on a -chair beside him with her elbows on .the table. Mr. Langham had been roubled with insomnia of late, and it often happened that when- Alice turned from a ball she would find hit_n sitting with a novel or his game of egolitaire, and Hope, who had crept dons pstairrs from her bed, dozing in front of the open fire and keeping him 'silent company. The father and the younger daughter were very close to one"anofher, and had grown espec- ially so - wince his wife had died and his son and heir had gone to college. This fourth - member of the family was a great `bond of sympathy and interest between them, and his tri- utai hs and escapades at Yale were the chief subjects of their conversa- tion. It was told by the directors of •a great Western railroad, who had come to New York to discuss an ire - t • Bronchitis Colds. and Coughs down to atoms . s trace completely removed by the 4�Icd"e inoeli powarful preparation e 'rs Bronchitis Mixture yPully guaranteed • teem you rah or money refunded. ♦Q bores for 760 ei kelt by Alldtitggbts or by matt from M - 1, 11! %lent at. Trines knows it—embody knows it yet, ex- cept the president and the other of- 'fic'ers." He lifted a card and put it down again in some indecision. "It's generally supposed to be operated by a company, but all the stock is own- ed'by one man. Asa matter of fact, my dear children," • .evelai�med Mr. Langham, as he placed a deuce of spades with a smile of content, "the Valencia Mining Company is your be- loved father." "Oh," said Miss Langham, as she 'looked steadily into the fire. Hope tapped her lips.. gently with the back of her hand to hide the fact that she was sleepy, and nudged her father's elbow. "You shouldn't have put the deuce there," she said, "you shouldn't have used it to build with on the ace." by EC, UMBACH. II . A year before Mrs. Porter's dinner a tramp steamer on her way to the capital of Brazil had steered so close to the shores of 0lancho that her Solitary passenger could look into the.caverms the waves had tunnelled in the limestone cliffs along the coast. The solitary passenger was Robert Clay, and he made a guess that the t white palisades which fringed the Ibase of the mountains along the shore had been forced up above th,e level of the sea manyyears before by some volanic action. Olancho, as many people know, is situated on the north- eastern coast of South America, and its shores are washed by the main equatorial 'efirrent. From the -deck .of a passing veto] yoe own obtain tilt little idea of Olanche or .of the abund- ance and tropical beauty which lies hidden away behind the rampart of mountains'' on her shore. You can see only their desolate dark green front, and the white caves at their base, into which the waves ruah with an echoing roar, and in and out of which fly continually thousands ' of frightened bate. The mining engin- eer on the rail of the tlalidnp steamer observed this ,peculiar *emotion of Clay, who had finished the railroad ' nothing, but you ' aven"t a blue print new possessions was not a surprise in Mexico, of which King had spoken to show me who' you meant to do. 1 to Clay. It had occurred to 'him as was asked by telegraph to undertake . I have never in life conte across ': possible before, especially after the, the work of getting the ore out of,haziness and mien 4nagement and in- ' seen ,had come to join them there. The the mountains he had discovered,and competency upon -Lich a .magnificent place was interesting and beautiful shipping it North. He accepted the' and reckless sr.r:. You have not enough in itself to justify a visit, and offer and was, given the title of Gen- eral Manager and Resident Director, and an enormous salary, and was al- so given to understand that.the rough work of preparation had been accom- plished, and that the more important service of picking up the five moun- tains and putting them in fragments into tramp steamers would continue under his direction. He had a letter of recall for Van Antwerp, and, a letter, of introduction to the Minister of Mines and Agriculture. Further than that he knew nothing of the work before him, but he concluded, from the fact that he had been .paid the almost prohibitive su.m he had asked for .his services, that it must be important, or that 'he had reached them die, it's on your heads. You that place in his career when he have put them in fever -camp which could stop actual work and live easily you have not ev - taken the trouble to drain. Your , mmissariat is rot- ten, and you hue let them drink all the rum they weeed. There is not one of you---" The group of - rent amen broke, and rine of them slosped forward and shook his forefins:er at Clay. "No man can lolls to me like that," he said, warninole "end think I'll work under him. I resign here and now." - "You what—" cried Clay, "you re- sign?" He whirled his horse mural with a dig of his spur and faced them. "How dare you talk of resigning? I'll pack the whole lot of you back to New York on the first steamer, if I want to, and I'll give you such char- acters that you'll be glad to get a job carrying a transit. You're in no position to talk of resigning yet— not one of you. Yes," he added, in- terrupting himself, "one of yron is 'MacWilliams, the man who had Charge of the railroad. It's no foult built the pier, yo : have not opened it was only a ten days' voyage from the freight road. ; to have not taken out an ounce of ori•. You know more of Valencia that you know of these mines; you kno•,c 1t fro!n the Alam- eda to the Can,, You can tell me what night the I, and plays in the Plaza, but you rn't give me the elevation of one f these hills. You have spent your lays on the pave- ments in frontcafes, and your nights in dance I lis, and you have been drawing tis ries every month. I've more resp ' for these half- breeds that youallowed to starve in this fever -bed :rat I have for you. You have treats' :l them worse than they'd treat a ri „ and if any of as an expert, on the work of others. Clay rolled along the coast from Valencia to the mines in a paddle - wheeled steamer that had served its usefulness en. the Mississippi, and Everybody knows that in Canada there are more Templeton's Rheumatic Capsules Sold than - all other Rheumatic Remedites combiTed for Rheu- matism} Neuritis, Neuralgia, Sciatica, Lumbago, etc. Many doctors prescribe them, most druggists sell them. 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