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The Bow of Orange Ribbon
A ROMANCE OF NEW YORK
j By AMELIA E BARR
Author of Friend OIIvIol I Trtoi and th Other OneEto
3r Copyright 1886 by Dodd Mead and Company
At the Swords Point
Neils first emotion was not so much
one of anger as of exultation I shall
have him at my swords point he
kept saying to himself as he turned
from Hyde to Van Heemskirks house
Katherine sat upon the steps of the
-stoop Touching her to arouse her
attention Neil said Come with me
down the garden my love
- She looked at him wonderingly but
rose at his request and gave him her
hand
Then the tender thoughts which had
lain so deep in his heart flew to his
lips and he wood her with a fervor
and nobility as astonising to himself
as to Katherine He reminded her of
all the sweet intercourse of their hap
py lives and of the fidelity with which
he had loved her Oh my Katherine
my sweet Katherine Who Is there
that can take you from me
No one will I marry With my
father and my mother I will stay
Yes till you learn to love me as I
love you with the whole soul You
are to be my wife Katherine
That I have not said
Katherine is it true that Capt
Hyde is wearing a bow of your orange
ribbon
Yes A bow of my St Nicholas rib
bon I gave him
Why
Me he loves and him I love
You have more St Nicholas rib
bons Go and get me one Get a bow
Katherine and give it to me I will
wait here for it
No that I will not do How false
how wicked I would be if two lovers
my colors wore
Well then I will cut my bow from
Hydes breast I will though I cut
his heart out with it
He turned from her as he said the
words and without speaking to Joris
passed through the garden gate to his
own home
In the calm of his own chamber
through the silent solemn hours
when the world was shut out of his
life Neil reviewed his position but
he could find no honorable way out of
the predicament He was quite sen
sible that his first words to Capt
Hyde that night had been intended to
provoko a quarrel and he knew that
he would be expected to redeem them
by a formal defiance However as
the idea became familiar it became
imperative and at length it was with
a fierce satisfaction he opened his
desk and without hesitation wrote the
decisive words
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CHAPTER V Continued
Neil was intensely angry and his
dark eyes glowed beneath their
dropped lids with a passionate hate
But he left his father with an as
sumed coldness and calmness
The sarcastic advice annoyed him
and he wanted time to fully consider
his ways He was no physical cow
ard he was a fine swordsman and he
felt that it would be a real joy to stand
with a drawn rapier between himself
and his rival But what if revenge
cost him too much What if he slew
Hyde and had to leave his love and
his home and his fine business pros
pects To win Katherine and to
marry hor in the face of the man
whom he felt that he detested would
not that be the best of all satisfac
tions
He walked about the streets dis
cussing these points with himself till
the shops all closed and on the stoops
-of the houses in Maiden Lane and Lib
erty street there were merry parties
-of gossiping belles and beaux Then
he returned to Broadway
Still debating with himself he came
to a narrow road which ran to the
river along the southern side of Van
Heemskirks house Coming swiftly
up it as if to detain him was Capt
Hyde The two men looked at each
-other defiantly and Neil said with a
cold meaning emphasis
At your service sir
Mr Semple at your service and
touching his sword to the very hilt
sir
Sir yours to the same extremity
Ap for tire cause Mr Semple here
it Is and he pushed aside his em
broidered coat in order to exhibit to
Neil the bow of orange ribbon be
neath It
I will dye It crimson in your blood
said Neil passionately
In the meantime I have the felicity
of wearing it and with an offensively
deep salute he terminated the inter
view
CHAPTER VI
Capt Hyde still sleeping when he
waited upon liim Hyde laughed light
ly at Mr Semples impatience of of-
fense and directed Mr Beekman to
Capt Earle as his second leaving the
choice of swords and of the ground
entirely to his direction
Lightly as Hyde had taken the chal
lenge he was really more disinclined
to fight than Neil was In his heart
he knew that Semple had a just cause
or anger but then he argiTed I
would not resign the girl for my life
for I am sensible that life if she is
anothers will be a very tedious thing
to me
All day Neil was busy in making his
will and in disposing of his affairs
Hyde felt equally the necessity for
some definite arrangement of his busi
ness He owed many debts of honor
and Cohens bill was yet unsettled
He drank a cup of coffee wrote sev
eral important letters and then went
To Capt Richard Hyde of His j ed at once to give him such
tys Service
Sir A person of the character 1
bear cannot allow the treachery and
dishonorable conduct of which you
have been guilty to pass without pun
ishment Convince me that you are
-more of a gentleman than I have rea
son to believe by meeting me to night
as the sun drops in the wood on the
Kalchhook Hill Our seconds can lo
cate the spot and that you may have
bo pretense to delay I send by bearer
two swords of which I give you the
privilege to make choice
In the interim at your service
Neil Semple
He had already selected Adrian
Beekman as his second a young man
of wealth and good family Beekman
accepted the duty with alacrity and
indeed so promptly carried out his
principals instructions that he found I lad
to Fraunces and had a steak and a
bottle of wine During his meal his
thoughts wandered between Kath
erine and the Jew Cohen After it he
went straight to Cohens store
It happened to be Saturday and the
shutters were closed though the door
was slightly open and Cohen was sit
ting with his granddaughter in the cool
shadows of the crowded place Miriam
retreated within the deeper shadows
of some curtains of stamped Moorish
leather for she anticipated the Im
mediate departure of the intruder
She was therefore astonished when
her grandfather after listening to a
few sentences sat down and entered
into a lengthy conversation When at
last they rose Hyde extended his
hand Cohen he said few men
would have been as generous and at
this hour as considerate as you I
have judged from tradition and mis
judged you Whether we meet again
or not we part as friends
You have settled all things as a
gentleman captain May my white
hairs say a word to your heart this
hour Hyde bowed and he con
tinued in a voice of serious benignity
The words of the Holy One are to be
regarded and not the words of men
Men call that honor which He will
call murder What excuse Is there In
your lips if you go this night into his
presence
There was no excuse in Hydes lips
even for his mortal interrogator He
merely bowed again and slipped
through the partially opened door into
the busy street Miriam returned to
her place and asked plainly What
murder is there to be grandfather
It is a duel between Capt Hyde
and another It shall be called mur
der at the last
The other who is he
The young man Semple Oh Mir
iam what sin and sorrow thy sex
ever bring to those who love it There
are two young lives to be put in death
peril for the smile of a woman a very
girl she is
Do I know her grandfather
She passes here otten The daugh
ter of Van Heemskirk the little fair
one the child
Oh but now I am twice sorry
She has smiled at me often We have
even spoken
Cohen with his hands on his staff
and his head in them sat meditating
perhaps praying and the hot silent
moments went slowly away In them
Miriam was coming to a decision
which at first alarmed her but which
as it grew familiar grew also lawful
and kind A word to Van Heemskirk
or to the Elder Semple would be suf
ficient Should she not say it
Perhaps Cohen divined her purpose
and was not unfavorable to it for he
suddenly rose and putting on his
cap said I am going to see my kins
man John Cohen At sunset set wide
the door an hour after sunset I will
return
As soon as he had gone Miriam
wrote to Van Heemskirk these words
Good Sir This is a matter of life
and death so then come at once and
I will tell you Miriam Cohen
It was not many minutes before Van
Heemskirks driver passed leading his
loaded wagon and to him she gave
the note
That day Joris had gone home
earlier than usual and Bram only
was in the store He supposed the
strip of paper to refer to a barrel of
flour or some other household neces
sity
Its actual message was so unusual
and unlooked for that It took him a
moment or two to realize the words
then he answered the summons for
his father promptly Miriam proceed-
tion as she possessed Bram stood
gazing at the beautiful earnest girl
and felt all the fear and force of her
words but for some moments he
could not speak nor decide on his first
step
Why do you wait pleaded Miriam
At sunset I tell you It is now near
it Oh no thanks Do not stop for
them but hasten away at once
He obeyed like one in a dream
Semple was just leaving business He
put his hand on him and said Elder
no time have you to lose At sunset
Neil and that d English soldier a
duel are to fight
Eh Where Who told you
On the Klchhook Hill Stay not
for talk
Run for your father Bram Run
my lad God help me God spare the
At that moment Nell and Hyde wero
on the fatal spot
Neil flung off his coat and waistcoat
and stood with bared breast on the
spot his second indicated Hyde re
moved his fine scarlet coat and hand
ed it to Capt Earle and would then
have taken his sword but Beekman
advanced to remove also his waist
coat The suspicion implied by this
act roused the soldiers indignation
and with his own hands he tore off
the richly embroidered satin garment
and by so doing exposed what perhaps
some delicate feeling had made him
wish to conceal a bow of orange rib
bon which he wore above his heart
The sight of it to Neil was like oil
flung upon flame He could scarcely
restrain himself until the word go
gave him license to charge Hyde
Hyde was an excellent swordsman
and had fought several duels but he
was quite disconcerted by the deadly
reality of Neils attack In the sec
ond thrust his foot got entangled in
a tuft of grass and in evading a
lunge aimed at his heart he fell on
his right side Supporting himself
however on his sword hand he
sprang backwards with great dexter
ity and thus escaped the probable
death blow But as he was bleeding
from a wound in the throat his sec
ond Interfered and proposed a recon
ciliation Neil angrily refused to lis
ten He doclared he had not come
to enact a farce and then happen
ing to glance at the ribbon on Hydes
breast he swore furiously He would
make his way through the body of
any man who stood between him and
his just anger
Up to this point there had been in
Hydes mind a latent disinclination to
slay Neil After it he flung away
every kind of memory and the fight
was renewed with an almost brutal
Impetuosity until there ensued one of
those close locks which it was evi
dent nothing but the key of the body
could open In the frightful wrench
which followed the swords of both
men sprang from their hands flying
some four or five yards upward with
the force Both recovered their weap
ons at the same time and both bleed
ing and exhausted would have again
renewed the fight but at that mo
ment Van Heemskirk and Semple with
their attendants reached the spot v
Without hesitation they threw
themselves between the young men
But there was no need for words Neil
fell senseless upon his sword making
In his fall a last desperate effort to
reach the ribbon on Hydes breast for
Hyde had also dropped fainting to the
ground bleeding from at least half a
dozen wounds Then one of Semples
young men who had probably divined
the cause of quarrel and who felt a
sympathy for nis young master made
as if he would pick up the fatal bit of
orange satin now dyed crimson in
Hydes blood
But Joris pushed the rifling hand
fiercely away To touch it would be
the vilest theft he said His own
it is With his life he has bought it
CHAPTER VII
At The Kings Arms
The news of the duel spread with
the proverbial rapidity of evil news
Batavius heard the story from many a
lip as he went home He was bitterly
indignant at Katherine and hot with
haste and anger when he reached Van
Heemskirks house
Madam stood with Joanna on the
front stoop looking anxiously down
the road
Just as Dinorah said The tea is
served madam the large figure of
Batavius loomed through the gather
ing grayness and the women waited
for him He came up the steps with
out his usual greeting and his face
was so injured and portentous that
Joanna with a little cry put her arms
round his neck He gently removed
them
No time is this Joanna for em
bracing A great disgrace has come to
the family and I who have always
stood up for morality must bear it
too
To be continued
BAIT FOR WILD TURKEYS
Hundreds of the Birds Have Fallen
Before Gun of Expert
Wild turkeys are still quite plentiful
in some portions of North Carolina
as they also are in Arkansas Texas
Indian Territory Oklahoma and South
ern Missouri says the American Field
but just how long they will be plenti
ful in any of these states is a question
if the states possess a Gil McDuffie
as does North Carolina who it is
said only a short time since killed
seven turkeys at one shot It is
claimed that McDuffie has killed 1500
wild turkeys and 700 deer In his time
besides countless numbers of smaller
game The way he makes his war on
turkeys is by baiting He finds
where a flock of turkeys use and he
lays a train of corn to a locality where
he can arrange a good blind The
blind is made and corn is put out in
gGod quantity for the turkeys not far
away he being careful to place the
corn in such shape that when the tur
keys feed upon It they will be well
bunched He then secretes himself in
his blind and lies in wait for the
turkeys When they come and get
bunched up over the quart or two of
corn he turns loose with a shotgun
and the slaughter is tremendous
Fence of Elks Horns
A fence nearly 200 feet long at Liv
ingston Mont is made entirely of
horns of the elk more properly called
wapiti These animals like the oth
ers of the deer family shed their
horns once a year and grow new ones
The old horns are found in large num
bers In the forests and are used for
various commercial purposes
IS TIME TO LINE UP
FOR THE POLITICAL FOOTBALL
GAME IN 1904
Tariff Is to Be the Issue and Wob
blers Must Decide Whether to Re
main Republican or Join the Ameri
can Free Trade League
The Free Trader organ of the
American Free Trade league for No
vember says
Now and during the next two years
Is the time for the Free Trade league
to gain the opening ear of the people
to educate their Intelligence and di
rect their growing indignation until
they rise in their might and make an
end of protection monopoly
President Lamb in an appeal to
he people invites the Republicans who
are nursing the Iowa and other ideas
to join the free traders in the battle
against protection He says
The true policy the plain duty of
these reformers is to ally themselves
with advocates of free trade Free
traders do not concern themselves
with the past belief of the present op
ponents of the Dingley tariff and they
do not ask for any retraction They
welcome these dissatisfied protection
ists and what they do ask of them is
no matter what led them to support
protection in the past that they
ihould now realize and declare that
the time has come for them to advo
cate a change of policy
How proud Gov Cummins Director
of the Mint Roberts and their allies
should be to be thus welcomed to the
free trade camp In one sentiment
we must agree with Mr Lamb a man
must bo one thing or the other there
is no middle ground no straddling
Any departure from the policy of the
American system of protection is a
step into free trade
Free traders know that they cannot
carry out their wishes to the full
They will only be too glad to break
the ranks of their opponents to con
quer by dividing This is the only
hope they have of gaining a victory
for their un American cause They
do not insist on their opponents be
coming pronounced free traders they
are satisfied to have them renounce
protection in whole or in part but
they want them to stay dissatisfied
As President Lamb says
The reason why free traders be
lieve it important that all reformers
of the tariff should renounce adhesion
to protection is the same which leads
them to believe that they on their
part are right in consenting to the
gradual steps proposed by dissatisfied
protectionists even while confident
that better measures could be taken
The reason is that measures of re
form to be permanent should secure
a support from public opinion which
shall be united and loyal If tariff re
form does not avow its intention of
consistent progress toward free trade
it may succeed at the polls as in 1892
but it is sure to fall in Congress as
it did in 1894 and to be undone as in
1897 and the work must all be done
over again The tariff reform move
ment failed because it was abandoned
by the dissatisfied protectionists who
had supported it in 1890 and 1892
This is the new free trade idea and
it is most acceptable Let us be as we
must be cne thing or the other free
traders or protectionists If the tariff
is to be the issue for 1904 and the bat
tle is to begin now let us line up
where we belong and as we believe
Those who want a commission or re
vision or reciprocity or any of the
cure alls are in line with the Ameri
can Free Trade league whether they
want to acknowledge it or not The
proof of this is the fact that the league
no longer calls upon the old guard of
college professors for arguments but
contents Itself by quoting from Cum
mings Co
So let us line up for the great game
of 1904 and let us ll be honest enough
to get on the side where we belong
and face the opponents goal
BABCOCK AND REVISION
Triumph of Protection Over the Free
Trada Idea
Representative Babcocks interpre
tation of the meaning of the result of
the recent election is ingenious but
not conclusive if he says the
Democrats had won the house it
would have signified that the people
want no tariff revision for the next
two years as it would have been
impossible to accomplish anything in
that direction with a Democratic house
and a Republican Senate The impos
sibility of securing a revision of the
tariff with a Democratic House and
Republican Senate is easily conceded
but nothing more Had a Democratic
House been elected Democrats would
not have construed it as a rebuke to
Democrats Republicans could not
have rejoiced in it as an indorsement
but it would have been universally
regarded as a distinct encouragement
to a free trade agitation The people
do not sustain and foster any set of
national policies by voting the ene
mies of those policies a foothold in
this government They may some
day measure up to such subtlety but
just now their procedure is the plain
straightforward one of voting for
those whose policies they approve
and against those whose policies they
condemn The issue of the campaign
was not a deadlock between the two
houses to prevent tariff revision by
Republicans but matters in contro
versy between the parties No Re
publican anti revisionist appealed to
the people to elct a free trader for
the purpose of preventing revision
The Republican victory like all other
Republican victories 5s triumph of
the protection idea ovtr the free trade
jrs0m
idea Tariff revision was tho cam
paign issue only as the Democrats
appeared as its champions and Demo
cratic tariff revision was voted down
The people voted for Republicans not
because they wero revisionists or be
cause they wero anti revisionists but
because they wero Republicans Tar
iff revision by Republicans Is a mat
ter of schedules not of principles
The schedules were not an issue
at tho last election The people did
not vote on them they thought
of them They are a matter for ad
justment in party councils or party
caucuses and not in national elec
tions and while the people did not
vote for revision as Mr Babcock says
they did neither did they vote against
it Pittsburg Gazette
The Hunter Started Out
He Finished In
PROTECTIONS UTILITY
To Help Home Labor and Produce
Treasury Revenues
It appears very ridiculous to the
Burlington Gazette to base an argu
ment in favor of a protective tariff on
the presumption that it promotes
prosperity Has Burlington no taxes
for itinerant merchants Is there no
sentiment in Burlington based on the
presumption that the prosperity of
the city is promoted by buying at
home Are the artisans and laborers
of Burlington satisfied that it is all
the same to them whether they do
the work of Burlington or whether
tho orders are placed in Chicago or
St Louis
Prosperity even for the few cannot
long continue without employment
for the many in productive industry
it Is safe to say that Burlington peo
ple of the laboring class who are not
working have poor credit at the
stores If conditions are such as to
inforce idleness the loss of credit is
expanded and the loss of credit
brings want distress business fail
ure and panic If things stop conges
tion follows prices drop money is
locked up and the business of every
body is to make the worst of the
situation
The thing to do if possible is to
keep the machinery going and the
markets open If there is plenty of
work at a fair price prosperity is in
tho air With opportunity to work
abundant it Is ridiculous to make
argument against prosperity How is
labor to be well employed if left to
nurse its shins and suck its thumbs
There must be work to do and remu
nerative wages The presumption is
that Burlington does not need to im
port labor for its steady jobs and
no more does the United States
The protective policy is based on
the presumption that it is wise to do
as much of our own work as we can
Therefore in the business of raising
revenue from imports the protective
policy aims to give the advantage to
home producers to the end that our
home labor may be prosperous Pro
tection promotes prosperity Sioux
City Journal
What Would Happen
Any one of the great combinations
that has to do with protected articles
if the protection is removed will sim
ply set itself to driving independent
operators out of business until it has
made a place for itself large enough to
give it a profit under any and all con
ditions There will not be a sign of
trouble in the trust But there will be
a storm of bankruptcies on all sides of
it The outsiders will all go to the
wall or they will go into the trust
That is the outlook in case of a Dem
ocratic Congressional victory this fall
and there is no way of escaping it ex
cept by a solid majority in favor of the
prosperity of all instead of the pros
perity of the few who would profit by a
national panic Columbus Journal
Palladium a Costly Metal
Palladium Is a metal used for the
mounting of astronomical instruments
and costs 482 a pound
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PHYSICIANS HAVE LONG LIFE
Concltjlve Proof That Hard Work la
Not Injurious
It has often been said that It is not
work but worry that kills Perhaps
no hotter exemplifications of the truth
of the saying can be found than the
number of hard working physicians
occupied unceasingly with great prob
lems in medicine who havo neverthe
less lived to what may well bo con
sidered an advanced ago says the
American Medical Journal Vlr
chows long life of nearly eighty one
years of strenuous dovotlon to work
so recently closed Is only a type of
the prolongation of existence and use
fulness that has fortunately been the
lot of some of tho greatest of the
medical Investigators Longevity has
been the rule however not only for
the laboratory worker who in the
placid preoccupation of original ob
servation avoided the distraction of
mind and tho diversion of activity
incident on medical practice but aisc
for the man who Is able to combine
both successfully In fact while the
average Hfo of the practicing physi
cian is tho shortest of any of the pro
fessions most of tho great Investigat
ing practitioners have lived lives sc
long as to encourage every medical
man to take up original observation
if with no other idea than that of as
suring himself longevity
MACKEYS RULE IN BUSINESS
Plan of Great Financier an Excellent
One to Follow
The late John W Mackey not
withstanding tho multiplicity and
magnitude of his business affairs
when ho had fallen In death and his
body had been buried in its mauso
leum those whose office it was to
settle tho status of his great business
found that he did not owe a dollar
to any man beyond the usual monthly
current accounts for Items of per
sonal and household supply He had
out no notes payable no unsettled
balances in his commercial enter
prises none of those troublesome un
liquidated claims that so frequently
delay and decimate estates
John W Mackey had lived and dono
business strictly on the pay as you
go plan Because he had adhered to
this policy from the commencement
of his career he was able to leave be
hind a clean score with an enormous
balance on the right side The inci
dent is a strongly suggestive lesson
to young men beginning in business
careers It is one easy to learn and
sure to win Atlanta Constitution
My Fleet
My gallant bark sailed out at morn
Out on tho tide
Fair blew tho wind serene the skies
I laughed in pride
The welcome waves like faithful friends
Itolled in Its track
The ship was Youth I watched In vain
It came not back
Still brave of heart a second craft
I sent to sea
Wealth friends and honor from afar
To bring to me
A passing captain spoke it once
Such is report
Though signaled oft my ship of Hope
Comes not to port
Then feeling deep and anxious still
To do my best
A loyal fleet with captains bold
Sailed to the west
The big four masters Industry
Economy
Ambition Fame they too wera
lost
Alas for me
But faith unmoved persuaded me
To try again
And so the Ship of Iove I sent
Across the main
Quick the return and loaded df p
With charity
Oh happy ship lltted to bear
Lifes argosy
Edwin A Schell in Outlook
With Modern Improvements
Naw said the owner of the
opry house our folks wont stand
for another blamed Uncle Tom show
this year
But theyll go broke to see mine
just the same was the unabashed
rejoinder of the U T manager
Why Ive got my show right up to
the times I tell yer
Got six little Evas and a dozen
Legrees eh
Bettern that my boy a long way
past that Just a sample Eliza
chased by a lot of Filipinos on motor
cycles crosses the ice on a 10 000
automobile Can you beat that
And as the owner had to admit he
couldnt that was why he took just
one more U T show at the opr
house Automobile Magazine
Followed Natural Woodsman
When President Roosevelt was on a
turkey hunt in the neighborhood of
Bull Run battlefield a couple of weeks
ago he and a Mr Hayden with a
guide left the turkey run and plunged
into a stretch of woodland After they
had walked some miles Mr Hayden
said to the guide Youve lost your
way Not a bit of it was thf reply
Oh yes you have The sun is in the
southwest at this time of day and we
should be going due east Mr Roose
velt said I always follow a man who
steers in the woods by the sun or
stars Ill follow your leadership Mr
HayfiMs He did so and reached his
destination in a bee line to tho
guides deep discomfiture
A Hundred Years Vithout a Doctoi
Sir Nathaniel Wright of Leakf npar
Boston Lincolnshire Eng has just
completed his hundredth year having
been born in October 1802 H has
never been attended by a medical man
and has never had a hottle of medicine
in his life and suffers from no bodily
infirmity except failing eyesight He
is a non smoker and takes no stimu
lants
English Children in Berlin Schools
Fifty eight English children attend
the public schools in Berlin
