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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-08-23
CHAPTER VII.

An old gambler whose life had been Dpent listening to the rattle of the drop-in-bound-out little roulette ball, was told by fellow victim. as his last dollar went to the relentless tigers nav, that the keepers foot was upon an electric button which enabled him to make the ball drop where his stake was not. He simply said: "Thank God. I thought that prince of cheats. Fate. who all through life has had his foot on the button of my game. was the one who did the trick" Long suffering had driven the old gambler to the losers bible, Philoso- phy! Cheated by mans device, he. knew he had some chance of get. ting even; but Fate he could not combat.
 Bob Brownley had thought himself in hard luck when his eyes opened to the fact that he had been robbed by means of dice loaded by man, but when Fate pressed the button he saw that his man.made hell was but a Feeble imitation, and--was satisfied, as whoever knows the game of life Is satisfied, because-he must be. Bob's strong head bowed, his iron will bent. and meekly his soul murmured
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got five to ten millions backing for such a raid, much less fifty to hun dred. Yet I was forced to confess that he must have had some tremen- dous backing; else how could he have done what had seen him do? Bob left his wife at his mothers house while he went to Sand Land ing to the funeral. After the old judge and his victims had been laid away and the relatives had gathered in the library of the great white Sands mansion, he explained their kinswoman's condition and told them that she was his wife. He insisted upon paying all Judge Sands debts, over $500,000 of which was owed to members of the Sands family for whom he had been trustee. Before he went back to his mothers, Bob had turned a great calamity into an occasion for something near rejoicing. Judgc Sands and his family were very dear to the people of the sec tion, but his misfortune had threat ened such widespread ruin that the unlooked-for recovery of a million and half was a godsend that made for happiness.
 Two days after the funeral Bobs dearest hope fled. He had ordered all
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dedicate 1t as the Judge Lee Sands Home and carve over the entrance bas-relief of her father, mother. and sister with Hope, Faith. and Charity coming from the mouths of their hanging severed heads?"
 Bob Brownley laughed a horrible ringing laugh as he uttered these aw- full words. Then he beat his hand down on my shoulders as he said in hoarse voice, Jim. but for you should have had crimps in that jackal philanthropist's soul by now and in the souls of his kind. But never mind. He will keep: he will surely keep until l get to him. Every day he lives he will be filter for the crimp- ing. Within the short two years since he finished grilling Judge Sands soul, he has put himself in better form to appreciate his reward see by the press that at last his aristocratic wife has gold-eured Newport of its habit of dating back the name Reinhart to her scullionhood, and 1t has taken her into the highinstep circle. I read the other day of his daughters marriage to some English mob. and of the dis covery of the ancient Reinhart family tree and crest with the mailed hand and two-edged dirk and the vulture rampant. and the motto. Who strikes in the back strikes often"
 He left me with his laugh still ring ing in my ears. I shuddered as I passed under the old black-and-gold sign my uncle and my father had nail ed over the office entrance in an age now dead. an age when Wall street men talked of honor and gold, not gold and more gold.
 In telling my wife of the days hap penings I could not refrain from giv- ing vent to the feelings that consum- ed me. Kate. Bob will zurelS do
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Bob, l cannot understand you" said at last as we turned out of Broad street into Wall Tt seems as if you work with magic. Everything you touch turns to gold"
 He wheeled on me. "Yes, Jim you are right. Gold, heartless. soulless gold. But what is the dross good for? What is 1t good for to me? To-day suppose I have made the biggest one-man killing in the history of the Street. must be an easy twenty five millions richer in gold than was this morning. and had enough then to dam the East river and good section of the North. But tell me, Jim, tell me, what can 1t buy in this world that I have not got? had health and happiness, perfect health, pure happiness, when I did not have thousand all told. Now I have fifty millions, and I know how to get fifty or five hundred and fifty more any time care to take them. and have only physical and mental hell. No beggar in all the world is so poor fin happiness as I. Tell me. tell me, Jim, in the name of God, if there is one for already the game of gold is rob ping me of my faith in God-where can I buy a little, just little happi. ness with all this cursed yellow dirt? What will 1t get me in the next world, Jim Randolph. what will 1t get me? If had died when I was poor. think you will agree with mo that, If there is a heaven. should have stood an even chance of getting there. Now on a day like to-day, when you see the results of my work. the results of my handling of unlimited gold. you must agree that if were taken on l should stand more than an even show of landing in hell where the sul- phur Is thickest and the flames are hottest"
 We were at the entrance of Ran dolph 6 Randolph's office as he pour ed out this terrible torrent of bitter ness. He glared at me as a dungeon prisoner might glare at his keeper for his answer to Where can find liber- ty?" I had no words to answer him. As I noted the awful changes in every line of his face. the rigid hardness. the haunted. nervous look of despera- ton. which seemed a fcrerunner of madness. could not see. either, where his millions brought any hap piness. His hair, which once was smooth and orderly. hung over his forehead in an unparted mass of tan gled curls. and here and there show cd of white. Bob BrownIey was still handsome. even more fascinating than before the mercury entered his soul. but 1t was that wild. awful beauty of the esged lion. flashing himself into madness with memories of his lost freedom.
 Jim he vent On. when he saw 1 could not answer. T guess you don't know where can swap the yellow mud for balm of Gilead. won't both CT you vith my troubles any longer. I vill go uptown and see the little girl whose happiness Tom Reinhart needed la his business. vill co up and show her the pictures In this weeks Golfers of the fine hospital for incurabiss that Reinhsrt has % generously and nobly built at a cost of tvo and a half millions, The it. ue girl may think better of Reinhart when she kuovs that her fathers money vas pat to such good use. Who kncrs Dat the great france ksnr nay
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something awful one of these days. I can see no hope for him. He grows more and more the madman as he broods over his horrible situation. The whole thing seems incredible to me Never was a human being in such perpetual living purgatory-un- limited. absolute power on the one hand, unfathomable, never-cool-down hell on the other"
 Jim, how does he do what he does? I cannot make out anything I have read or you have told me, how he creates those panics and makes all that money"
 No one has ever been able to fig. ure 1t out" I answered. q under stand the stock business. but can not for the life of me see how he does it. He has none of the money pow CTS in league with him, that's sure. for in the mood he has been in dur ing the past two years it would be im- possible for him to work with them, even if his salvation depended on 1t. The mention of any of the big 'Sys- tenn men drives him to fury. He has today made more money than any one man ever made in a day since the world began. and he had only com menced his work when he quit to please me. As stand in the Exchange and watch him do it, it seems com monplace and simple. Afterward 1t is beyond my comprehension. At the gait he is going. the Rockefeller, Van derbilt, and Gould fortunes combined will look tiny in comparison with the one he will have in a few years. It is beyond my power of figuring out, and it gives me headache every time I try to see through 1t"
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Thy will be done"
 Int night he married Beulah Sands. The minister who united the gy lwn-up man and the woman who s as a newborn babe saw nothing : ;traordinary in the match. He iurmured to me. who acted as best man to the groom. maid of honor to the bride. and father and mother to both: We see strange sights, we ministers of the great city, Mir. Ran dolph. The sweet little lady appears to be trihe scared" My explana- Etion that she and Mir. Brownley were the awful survivors of the awful tragedies of the day was sufficient He was satisfied when he got no other response to his question: Do you take this man to be your welded hus- band?" than a sweet childish smile ks she snuggied closer to Bob.
 Bob and his bride went south to bis mother and sisters the next day.
 fe left to me the settlement of his
 rades. He instructed me to set lside s3.0oo. 900 profits for Beulah sands- -Brownley. and Insisted that I bay from the balance the notes he had Eiveh me few weeks before. There
 emained something over s5.0O0.00O
 or himself.
 The leading Wall street paper. In
 ts preaching on the panic. wound up
 Fith:
 wall street has lived through many
 lack Fridayn. Some Of them have been
 hirfsenth-of-the-u1on Fridaya but no
 ridzy yet marked from the calendar. no
 efurday. Monday. Tuesday. Wednesday
 ThursdAy yet garnered Go the store
 ouEe of the past was ever more 1ubilant-
 welcomed by his Satanic Majesty than estsrtay. We pray Heaven no com lng dnv may be ordained to co awainst yesterdays record for tiKerish cruelty and awfnl destruction It is runscred that Mr. Brpwnlsy cf Randolph q Randolph, either for himseif or his clients cleared e nN an of profit We believe that this sstirn.fs is low. The losses coming throuxh Robert Br0wnley's terrible on sizaxht nust have run over Eeo. .oA Wau street and the country viii do yell fo eata fhs moral of yesterd1y's market ta Ger heart n h thfs. The concsn- trzf.cn q wealth In the hands of a fsE Gnz<ricans ls c mena1e to our anancial srrl<tufe. ft ls the snanlnous cptnion q ffs Street that Robsrt Brc-nlsy could rsver have succeeded Id battering down ths r<<c< cf Eurar ln fhs vsrT teeth cf tss c4uensTsr ard stanfsrf O1 szppcrt rs hs d yesterday, v1thc1t q c1sh ba<k- irr cf frcn fz1 co to f1noM1A If rasf zxxrer1tion of ncrsy oEnsrs cslib- rrxfzfT r1srs thzuEsires behind a1 cn- ssaaret surh ns uns e r1ccessf1Ily mad rsstsF1nF. rhT ca1 that daughter nct es rsc<afef sf arT uEe. cn any sock nrt srzlrzs tke surrc-t cf any b1rkfnrr Whfn red tkis s1f Ests1sd to hIx s1rnz the zzns n1ex rzs puz- rss1 \ crzi& not for he ffs cf ns --~ vh<re nsb BrownlaT ccu;& h1ss
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he was giving up his commission busi- ness to devote all his time to personal .trading. With the opening of his new office he again became the most active man on the floor. His trading was intermittent. For weeks he would not be seen at the Exchange or on the Street" Then he would return and, after executing series of brilliant trades, which were invariably success ful, he would again disappear. He soon became known as the luckiest operator in Wall street, and the begin ming of his every new deal was the signal for his fastgrowing following to tag on.
 From time to time learned that Beulah Sands was making no real improvement, though in some details she had learned as child learns. But there was no indication that she would ever regain her lost mind.
 Strange stories of Bob's doings be- gan to seep into my office. For long periods he would disappear. Neither the nurses in charge of his wife. nor his brother, mother, and sisters, for whom he had purchased a mansion a few blocks above his own, would hear a word from him. Then he would return as suddenly as he had disap- peared, and .his wild eyes and hag- gard face would tell of prolonged and desperate soul struggle. He drank often now, e habit he had never before indulged in.
 For ten days before the second an- niversary of his marriage he had been missing. On the morning of the ami versary he appeared at the Exchange. wiId-eyed and daredevil reckless. The market had been advancing for weeks and was at a high level Tom Rein hart and his branch of the System" were working out a new fieecing of the public in Union and Northern Pa cic. At the strike of the gong Bob took possession of the Union Pacific pole and in 30 minutes had precipitat- ed a panic by his merciless selling. Our house was heavily interested In the Pacifics. although not in connec- ton with Reinhart and his crowd. As soon as I got word that Bob was the cause of the slaughter. I rushed over to the Exchange and working my way into the crowd. I begged a word with him. He had broken both stocks over 50 points q share and the panic was raging through the room. He glared at me. but finally followed me out into the lobby. At first he would not heed my appeal. but finally he said, -Jim, 1t Is too bad to let up. I had determined to rub this devillsh institution of the map. but if 1t really is q case of injufy to the house. it's my opportunity 10 do something for you who have done SO much for me. so here goes He threw himself into the Union Pacific crowd first giving an order to a group of his brokers. who jumped for a number of other poles. Almost instantly the panic vas stayed and stocks were bounding upward two to five points at a leap Bob continued buying Union Pacific and his brokers ether stocks in un- limited quantities Nothing ike such a quick turn of the market had been seen before His power 10 absorb stocks seemed to be boundless. Ii vas estimated that personally and through his brokers he bought over . nflIios shares before hs joined me and isft the Exchsnrs.
 I l0oket at him ia wontermert
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things at fhe Sands plantation put in their everyday condition. Beulah Sands. uncles. aunts and cousins had arranged to welcome her and to try by every means In their power to coax back her lost mind. They assured Bob that barring the absence of Beulahs father. mother. and sister. there would not be memory-recaller missing. Bob and his wife landed from the river packet at the foot of the driveway, which led straight from the landing to the vine-coyered, white pillared portico. Bob's agony must have been awful when his wife clap ped her hands in childish joy as she exclaimed. "oh. Bob. what a pretty place." She gave no sign that she had ever seen the great entrance, through which she had come and gone from her babyhood Bob took her to the library, to her mothers room. to her own. to the nursery where were the dolls and toys of her childhood. but there came no sign of recognition. nothing but childish pleasure. She looked at her aunts and uncles and the cousins with whom she had spent her life, bewildered at finding SO many strangers in the otherwise quiet place. As a last hope they led In her old black foster-mother. who had nursed her in babyhood. who was the companion of her childhood and the pet of her womanhood. There vas not dry ere in the library when she met the old mammy's outburst of Joy with the puz- zied eaEe of the child who does not understand The grief of the old ne gress was pitiful as she realized that she was q stranger to her honey bird" The child seemed perplexed at her grief II vas plain to all that the Sands home meant nothing to the last of the judges family.
 Bob brought her back to New York and besought the aid of the medical experts of America and of the old World to regain that which had been recalled by fts Maker. The doctors were fascinated vith this new phase of mind Blight. for Ia some particulars Bealah's case vss unlike any known instances. but none gave hope All agreed that some wire connecting heart and brain he'd burned out when the cruel -sTsten- thfer on . voiiass beyond the virs's capacity to trzns- nft All agreed tkxt the vonsn-chfld vife would nevsr Eov older unless through sons hsat.i eruption beTund human pcwer to producs Some Of ths medical mea pointed to ors poszi- hflitv, but tkat uzs vas too terrible f5r Ecb 10 <atw<xlnL
 Tzs frr xsaivsrssry of Ger mar
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(To Be contiuuedj.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1907-03-23

En- la Corte de Distri,o, seccion
segunda, eStaban SeIlalados los Jul
clos de Hilario Morales, por acome-
timiento y aggression y Antonio Care
tero por delito contra Ia salud p1-
blica
Sc leyeron hoy las siguientes acu:
saciones.
Contra ell policia Manuel Llauger,
|acusado de aggression 4 Miguel Flo
res en- el tGrmino de Vega Baia.
Representative al acusado el abOgado
sefor Campillo, quien Solicit6 jnicio
por Jurado. FL juez del Toro Cue
v9s senaIo al acuSado 600 dollars pa
ra su libcrtad provisional; contra Flo
Irentlno Orare por perJuro. Su abo-
lgado el sefior Benltez Castafio solici-
| to juicio por Jurado. Tambi6n fue-
ron leidaS las acusacioneS contra Leo
cadio Hernandez Manuel Lugo
FL juez del Toro scfYala~a muy er
breve los dias para "a vista dc las
,expresadas causas.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1907-03-23
BanCO Industrial de Santiago
SANTIAGO DE CUBA
kGEkcA GENERAL De PUERTO RICO
San Francisco 28.--Apartado .i2r
Telefono 395
San Juan 7. r.
kGEkClA GENERAL De PUERTO RICO


Para acomOdar por complete el sis
tema de Sus operaciones en- eSta ISla
/ las leyes vigentes cn la niama, la
Direction del "BanCo Industrial de
Santiago, debidamcnte autorizada
en- session de la junta del Direclorio,
fecha 9 del cOrriente. acuerda modi-
fear Ell articulo 50 del Reglamento
Interior, respecto los Certificates
Redimibles, en- la forma que Sc ex-
plica en- los Reglamen Interiores
que seran distributes.
Legalizado por tanto el funciona-
m miento de la compafifa en- Puerto Ri
co, Sc avisa a los tenedores de certifi-
dos redimibles para que acudan & We
rificar sus pagos.
A la vez 10 noticiamos tamben &
cuantas personals deseen suscribir
|nuevos Certihcados Redimibles, que
tantas conveniencias reportan para to-
dos los que Sc preocupan por ell por-
venir de sus familias, los que de
seen ahorrar de una manera practica
provechosa.
K. q. Castro.
Agente general
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1907-03-23

En- Ell Supreme no estaba sef1alado
para hoy ning1n juicio EN- apelacion.
En- dicha honorable Gorte Sc han
hecho los sef1alamientos civiles que
siguen:
Mario, martes 2o.-Manue1 del Va
lie Atiles (vs,) Ell juez de la Corte
de Distr ito de Humacao.-Alandamus.
Microbes 27.-J. Matienzo y otro
con Suce sores de Olivas y Coin.
cumplimiento de contrato y otros ex.
tremOs.
Jueves 28. 49, Tony Lowande con
Manuel A. Garcia y Otero y Coin
junction.
Crimina1.--Abril, martes 2.--Luis
Sinigagria CON el pueblo de Puerto
Rico.-Impostura.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1907-03-23

Propaganda que Sc esta hacienda

Nueva York. sabado.-Desde la Habana,
comunican que la propaganda anexionista que
Sc viene hacienda por una parte considerable de
la prensa por agentes especiales, sostiene ell
amino de un gran mayOrla de pOblaCl0n en- un
estado de violencian peligrosa.
Ell trabao de los anexionistas es empena-
do continue, y utlizan en- su empeno podero-
SOS medios de propaganda.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1907-03-23
1rcpas suhIevadas
en- Rumania
La rey0luci6n Sc extiende

Nueva York, sabado-De Paris avisan los
ultimos despachos recibdos que la revoluci6n
de Rumania, Continua su obra, pesar de los
esfuerzos del gobierno, por aplastarlo desde el
primer mOmentO.
Ha auxiliado grandemente los revolucio-
narios el pronunciamiento de tres batalones
que han dado la revuelta III buen continqente
disciplinado temible.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1907-03-23
Los crimenes en- Russia


Nueva York sabado.-Llegan noticias de
Londres dando cuenta de que los crimenes con-
tinuan en- Russia contra los judios, a pesar de
las protestas de los representatives de los pOde-
res para que cesen esos barbaros crimenes.
La poblacion que mas Sc ha distinguido
por ferocidad contra los judios ha sido Odessa.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1907-03-23
SePyltlo Especial del boleim Mtfcanln
GABLEGRAMAS.
La victoria esta indeciSa

Nueva York, sabado.-En las inmedacio-
mes de Trujillo sc esta lbrando un sangriento
combate entire las tropas de Nicaragua y las de
Honduras.
A la hora que llegan los telegramas dan
do cuenta del combate, este no ha terminado
a1n. La victoria esta indecisa
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1907-03-23

Aver ocurri6 una desgracia en- la
hacienda "Felicidad' del termino de
Patillas. Un wagon de cafias cogi6 al
peon Agustin Sanchez, fracturanaole
un dedo.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1907-03-23
T. q Reina Victoria
La salud de los Reyes de Espana

Nueva York sabado.--Dice un despaCho de
Madrid que Ia Reina Victoria goza de una ca
bal salud
Tambien esta completamente restablecido
Rey don Alfonso, que sc hallaba algo 1ndispues-
to- Los reyes han recibido mensajes de todas
parties del mundo. interesandose por salud.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1907-03-23
Un jurasnento
de exterminio
Ell complot descubierto

Nueva York sabado.-Avisan de Tanger
que cuando sc creia domnado el estado de re-
vueta en- el imperio mogrebino Sc ha descu
bierto la existencia de un complot para asesi-
mar los extrangeros cuanto que empezara
la evacuation de las tropas europeas.
Ell descu brimiento ha consternado al Sui
tan.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1907-03-23

Ell precio de cada Inca de edictos
judiclales publicados tres veces en
el BOLETIN, vale solamente 5 centa-
vos. Otras publicaciones cobran rc
yIS,
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1907-03-23
Horrible plaga
en s4s India is,gl >Sa
Epidemia destructora

Nueva York, sabado.-En la India 1nglesa
ha hecho su oposCion una ep1dem1a de he-
bre que causa un n1mero espantoso de vic
timas.
La poblaci6n esta consternada. La peste
hace sus mas numerOSas v1Ct1maS entire los
europeoss. Es horrible el Cuadro de NOR
tandad
Sc han pedido la metropoli recursos y
personal sanitarlo.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1907-03-23

Sc ira baja activamepte en- la ca
rretera de Humacao q Caguas, encon
traudose muy adelantadas las obras
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1907-03-23

Nos informa Gregoria de la PefIa
que sirve en la residencia n1mero :
de la Gale de San Jose que sc ha en-
contrado un llavero con ocho llaves
en- Ia mencionada calle.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1907-03-23

En- la tarde de hoy han Gel, brado
una entfevista el fiscal de la Corte
de Distrito de Arecibo se11or Acosta
y el juez municipal sefior del Vale.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1907-03-23

Ha fallecido en- Lares don Antonio
f. Amanda, one gozaba de grandes
sim patlaS n aquei pueblo.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1907-03-23
Evitando un bombardeo
Complicaciones que surjen

Nueva York, sabado-Ha llegado Puerto
Cortes un crucero de la marina de guerra de los
Estados Unidos, impidiendo que la poblacion
fuese nuevamente bombardeada por la escua~
drilla de Nicaragua.
La situacion Sc complicando sacramento