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CHAPTER I
The Home of Cornelia Moran
Never in all Its history was the
proud and opulent city of New York
more glad and gay than in the bright
spring days of Seventeen-Hundred-and-Ninety-One
It had put out of
sight every trace of British rule and
occupancy all its homes had been re
stored and re furnished and its sacred
places re consecrated and adorned
The skies of Italy were not bluer than
tho skies above it the sunshine of
Arcadia not brighter or more genial
Theso gracious days of Seventeen-Hundred-and-Ninety-One
were also
the early days of the French revolu
tion and fugitives from the French
court princes and nobles statesmen
and generals sufficient for a new Iliad
loitered about the pleasant places of
Broadway and Wall street Broad
street and Maiden Lane They were
received with courtesy and even with
hospitality although America at that
date almost universally sympathized
with the French Republicans whom
they believed to be the pioneers of po
litical freedom on the aged side of tho
Atlantic Love for France hatred for
England was the spirit of the age
it effected the trend of commerce it
dominated politics it was the keynote
of conversation wherever men and
women congregated
Yet the most pronounced public
feeling always carries with It a note
of dissent and it was just at this day
that dissenting opinion began to make
difes
THE MAID sf MAIDEN liANE
Sequel to The Bow of Orange Ribbon
A LOVE STORY BY AMELIA E BARR
Copyrlcht 1900 by Amelia E Barr
as for Rem he was ncz made in a
day God Is good who gives us boys
and girls to sit so near our hearts
And such a fair free city for a
home said Van Heemkirk as he
looked up and down the sunshiny
street New York is not perfect but
wo love her Right or wrong we love
her just as we love our moder and
our little children
That also Is what the Domine
says answered Van Ariens and yet
he likes not that New York favors the
French so much
He Is a good man With you last
night was a little maid a great beau
ty I thought her but I knew her not
Is she then a stranger
A stranger Come come The lit
tle one is a very child of New York
Sho is the daughter of Dr Moran
Dr John as we all call him
Well look now I thought in her
face there was something that went
to my heart and memory
And yet in ono way she is a
stranger Such a little one she was
when the coming of the English sent
the family apart and away To the
army went the Doctor and there he
stayed till the war was over Mrs
Moran took her child and went to her
fathers home In Philadelphia It was
only last month she came back to
New York But look now It is the
little maid herself taat is coming
down tho street
And it Is my grandson who is at
her side The rascal He ought now
to be reading his law books in Mr
With Respectful Eagerness He Talked to Her
itself heard The horrors of Avignon
and of Paris the brutality with which
the royal family had been treated and
the abolition of all religious ties and
duties had many and bitter oppo
nents
In these days of wonderful hopes
and fears there was in Maiden Lane
a very handsome residence an old
house even in the days of Washing
ton for Peter Van Clyffe had built it
early in the century as a bridal pres
ent to his daughter when she married
Philip Moran a lawyer who grew to
eminence among colonial judges
One afternoon in April 1791 two
men were standing talking opposite
to the entrance gates of the pleasant
place They were Capt Joris Van
Heemskirk a member of the Congress
then sitting in Federal Hall Broad
street and Jacobus Van Ariens a
wealthy citizen and a deacon in the
Dutch church Van Heemskirk be
lieved in France the tragedies she
had been enacting in the holy name of
liberty though they had saddened
had hitherto not discouraged him
But the news received that morning
had almost killed his hopes for the
spread of republican ideas in Europe
Van Ariens he said warmly this
treatment of King Louis and his fam
ily is hardly to be believed It is too
much and too far After this no one
can foresee what may happen in
France
That is the truth my friend an
swered Van Ariens The French have
gone mad We won our freedom with
out massacres
We had Washington and Franklin
and other good and wise leaders who
feared God and loved men
So I said to the Count de Moustier
but one hour ago Yet if we were
prudent and merciful it was because
we are Teligious When men are ir
religious the Lord forsakes them
and If bloodshed and bankruptcy fol
low it is not to be wondered at I am
but a tanner and currier as you know
but I have had experiences and I do
not believe in the future of a people
who are without a God and without a
religion
Well so It is Van Ariens I will
now be silent and wait for the echo
but I fear that God has not yet said
Let there be peace I saw you last
night at Mr Hamiltons with your son
and daughter You made a noble en
trance
Well then the truth is the truth
iMy Arenta is worth looking at and
Hamiltons office
We also have been
youn
Van
Heemskirk
I forget not my friend My Joris
sees not me and I will not see him
Then the two old men were silent
but their eyes were fixed on the youth
and maiden who were slowly advanc
ing toward them
She might have stepped out of the
folded leaves of a rosebud so lovely
was her face framed in its dark curls
Her dress was of some soft green ma
terial and she carried in her hand a
bunch of daffodils She was small
but exquisitely formed and she
walked with fearlessness and distinc
tion
Of all this charming womanhood the
young man at her side was profoundly
conscious A tall sunbrowned military-looking
young man as handsome
as a Greek god He was also very
finely dressed in the best and highest
mode and he wore his sword as if it
were a part of himself Indeed all
his movements were full of confidence
and ease and yet it was the vivacity
the Hall of Representatives saying to
himself with silent exultation as ho
went
The Seat of Government Let who
will have It New York Is the Crown
ing City Her merchants shall be
princes her traffickers the honorable
of the earth tho harvest of her rivers
shall bo her royal revenue and the
marts of all nations shall be in her
streets
CHAPTER II
This Is the Way of Love
Cornelia lingered in tho garden be
cause she had suddenly and as yet un
consciously entered into that tender
mystery so common and so sovereign
which we call Love In Hydes pres
ence she had been suffused with a
bewildering profound emotion which
had fallen on her as the gentle showers
fall to make the flowers of spring
This handsome youth whom she had
only seen twice and in the most for
mal manner affected her as no other
mortal ever done She was a little
afraid
I have met him but twice she
thought and It is as if I had a new
strange exquisite life Ought I tell
my mother Buthow can I I have
no words to explain I do not under
stand Alas if I should be growing
wicked
The thought made her start she
hastened her steps towards the largo
entrance door and as she approached
It a negro in a fine livery of blue and
white threw the door wide- open for
her She turned quickly out of the
hall into a parlor full of sunshine
A lady sat there hemstitching a dam
ask napkin a lady of dainty plain
ness with a face full of graven exper
ience and mellow character As Cor
nelia entered she looked up with a
smile and said as she slightly raised
her work it is the last of the dozen
Cornelia
You make me ashamed of my idle
ness mother I went to Embrees for
the linen thread and he had just
opened some English gauzes and lute
strings Mrs Willets was choosing a
piece for a new gown for she is to
dine with the President next week
and she was so polite as to ask my
opinion about the goods Afterwards
I walked to Wall street with her and
coming back I met on Broadway
Lieut Hyde and then he walked home
with me Was it wrong I mean
was it polite I mean the proper
thing to permit I knew not how to
prevent it
How often have you met Lieut
Hyde
I met him for the first time last
night He was at the Sylvesters
And pray what did Lieut Hyde
say to you this afternoon
He gave me the flowers and he
told me about a beautiful opera of
which I had never before heard It
is called Figaro He asked permis
sion to bring me some of the airs
to night and I said some civilities
I think they meant Yes Did I do
wrong mother
I will say no my dear as you
have given the invitation But to
prevent an appearance of too exclu
sive intimacy write to Arenta and
ask her and Rem to take tea with
us
Mother Arenta has bought a blue
lutestring Shall I not also have a
new gown me gauzes are very
sweet and genteel and I think Mrs
Jay will not forget to ask me to her
dance next week Mr Jefferson is
sure to be there and i wish to walk
a minuet with him
I told Mrs Willets and with such
a queer little laugh she asked me if
his red breeches did not make me
think of the guillotine I do not
think Mrs Willets likes Mr Jefferson
very much but all the same I wish
to dance once with him I think it
will be something to talk about when
I am an old woman
My dear one that is so far off Go
now and write to Arenta
To be continued
GOOD CUSTOMER OF FRANCE
England Makes Heavy Purchases
from Her Old Time Foe
Jean Finot editor of the Revue des
Revues recently put the relations be
tween France and England in a most
striking fashion He said
Great Britain deserves the name
I of the ricnest and most important of
vitality and ready response of his
face that was most attractive
His wonderful eyes were bent upon
the maid at his side he saw no other
earthly thing With a respectful eag
erness full of admiration he talked
to her and she answered his words
whatever they were with a smile
that might have moved mountains
They passed the two old men without
any consciousness of their presence
and Van Heemskirk smiled and then
sighed and then said softly
So much youth and beauty and
happiness It is a benediction to have
seen it I shall not reprove Joris at
this time But now I must go back
to Federal Hall
When their eyes turned to the
Moran house the vision of youth and
beauty had dissolved Van Heems
kirks grandson Lieut Hyde Tras
hastening towards Broadway and the
lovely Cornelia Moran was sauntering
up the garden of her home stooping
occasionally to examine the pearl
powdered auriculas or to twine around
its support some vine straggling out
of its proper place
Then Van Ariens hurried down to
his tanning pits in the swamp and
Van Heemskirk went thoughtfully to
Broad street When he reached Fed
eral Hall he stood a minute in the
doorway and with inspired eyes
looked at the splendid moving pic
ture then he walked proudly toward
French colonies France is so bound
up with her fate that the disappear
ance of Englands economic power
would cause her incalculable mischief
Our total exports in 1901 were only
4155000000 francs of which Eng
land took 1204000000 francs or
more than 30 per cent of all the mer
chandise which we cast on the
worlds market But even of more im
portance is the fact that the amount
of English purchases in France is
constantly growing From 1032000
000 francs in 189G it rose to 1132000
000 francs in 1897 to 1238000000
francs in 1S99 and to 1264000000
francs in 1901 thus showing an in
crease of 232000000 francs or over
22 per cent in five years Now the
purchases from the mother country of
all the French colonies including
Algeria 259000000 francs and Tunis
about 34000000 francs together with
those scattered all over the world
about 1S3000000 francs did not
amount in 1900 to more than 470000
000 francs Besides this colossal
amount of purchases the English
yearly spend considerable sums in
France The money left in our coun
try by Englishmen visiting Paris or
their favorite resorts is commonly
estimated at 500000000 francs thus
making 1800000000 francs as the
formidable total yearly paid by Eng
land to France j
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NEBRASKA IN BRIEF
There is much sickness In and about
Exeter with some fatal terminations
Judgo Geo G Bowman a well
known lawyer dropped dead on tho
street In Omaha from heart trouble
The W S A club of Table Rock
celebrated tho 83d anniversary of tho
birth of Miss Susan B Anthony
Thero is an epidemic of measles and
scarlet fever in tho vicinity of Taylor
but as yet no fatalities have been re
ported
James R Alexander and wifo havo
sold to Edward Andrews 320 acres of
land In township nine in Otoe county
for 19200
Tho York camp of tho Modern
Woodmen has passed a resolution op
posing any change in the present sys
tem of assessment
The fight for the rural telephone
system in the vicinnty of Murray be
tween the Bell and independent com
panies is on hot with the Independ
ents in the lead
Farmers in the vicinity of Vestra
are practically starving in the midst
of plenty by not being able to get cars
to ship out wheat and corn to market
This condition has existed since last
September
What appears to be a very rich de
posit of lead was discovered in a
quarry a few miles west of Barneston
Gage county and considerable ex
citement prevails in that neighbor
hood as a result
Alonzo Wymore a widower aged
about45 years living with John Lar
son on the George Joyce farm near
Alma was found dead in bed by Mr
Larson Heart disease is supposed to
have caused death
William Webber while working with
a gang of men on the Burlington
bridge which spans the Missouri river
at Plattsmouth fell to the ice below
a distance of about seventy feet and
was injured so badly that he died
H A Cheney president of the Se
curity bank of Creighton has been
named as receiver of the Bank of Ver
digris after a fruitless effort on the
part of the owner to furnish a suitable
bond to guarantee its liquidation by
himself
W J OBrien superintendent of the
state fish hatcheries near South BencL
received large consignments of trout
eggs from Bayfield Wis Manchester
la and Leadville Colo This makes
over 500000 trout eggs now in process
of incubation at the hatcheries
C W Kiser met with a singular ac
cident at Howe He and W B Cooney
were digging the grave of Mrs W A
Wright The ground was frozen hard
Cooney was using an ax to cut the
soil and struck Kiser on the hand
splitting the hand open almost the
length of it
Cyrus Kelley aged fourteen was
out hunting near the home of his half
brother Jerry Kelley on the Loup
Garfield county line The gun he car
ried was discharged accidentally the
charge striking him on the right side
of the chin and ranging through the
head
Death was instantaneous
Mr Hellfly a traveling man in
York met a little girl near the post
office who was not dressed very com
fortably and on questioning the girl
she told him her feet were cold Mr
Hellfly at once took the little girl into
a shoe store and bougnt her a new
pair of warm shoes
Rev E E Wilson who has been
pastor of the Methodist Episcopal
church in Nebraska City for the past
five months and who before coming
was a missionary in South America
has been selected by the Methodist
Episcopal missionary board of New
York city as missionary to Porto Rico
After being out five hours the jury
in the case of the State of Nebraska
against Charles Cain charged with
robbing a Rock Island freight car at
Beatrice last fall returned with a
verdict finding the defendant guilty of
petit larceny Judge Letton sentenced
him to the county jail for thirty days
at hard labor and ordered hinl to pay
cost of prosecution
At Long Pine after driving his
wife and stepson from the room with
a revolver Fred R Ingalls turned the
weapon on himself and inflicted a
probably fatal wound in the head The
family was at dinner when the tragedy
happened Ingalls is the official watch
maker for the Elkhorn and has long
been in business at Long Pine An
uncontrollable appetite for drink
which has ruined his health was the
cause of the deed
John Shoemaker living one mile
east of Bertrand while working with
a corn sheller at William Karstens
was caught in a shaft breaking both
bones of his right arm causing a
compound fracture and other bruises
Governor Mickey has paroled Chas
Li Sharp of Papillion Sharp has been
serving a sentence at the penitentiary
for car robbing committed on the
Rock Island The parole was granted
at the request of several prominent
Papillion people who have taken an
interest in the man
Marroons Glaces
Marrons glaces are among tfte de
lights of the hour No dinner table is
complete without its silver or china
backet of chestnuts And thero Is
nothing easier to prepare
Choose largo chestnuts and remove
tho hard skin placo them In a copper
saucepan and cover them with cold
water with a soupspoonful of flour to
a quart of water let them cook with
out boiling until they are soft Then
peel tho nuts and put them into an
other pan the same as used for Jam
making and pour over them a thick
syrup fln Yored with vanilla Cover
with paper and let the chestnuts warm
on a slow fire without allowing them
to boil Keep adding syrup as requir
ed during evaporation until tue syrup
has attained thirty four degrees They
aro eaten cold
Booth and the Statesmen
General Booth the Salvation Army
leader cracked a fow jokes with
statesmen while he was in Washing
ton Senator Fryo said to him
When I was in London I was much
interested in your organization In
fact I thought of joining Better
not said the general yould would
not submit to our discipline Sena
tor Alger said he understood Hanna in
tended to join Ah I should mako
him my chancellor of the exchequer
was the rovivalistss reply Senator
Hoar was introduced jocularly as the
worst man in the senate Thats
good said the general heartily I
want to meet all kinds The bad I
want to help and the good I want to
help me
Alaska and the Salad
At a recent function in Washington
John W Foster the diplomat and ex
secretary of state was sent by Mrs
Foster to get her some salad He
procured a plate of the dainty and
was returning with it when some one
asked him a question about the Alas
ka boundary Mr Foster has a fad
on that subject He began to talk
earnestly Then he gesticulated The
result was that the salad slid grace
fully off the plate and landed full on
the front breadth of Mrs Fosters
magnificent dress The conversation
about the Alaskan boundary ended
right there Mr Foster had more se
rious things to think about
Taking Down Beerbohm Tree
Beerbohm Tree the London actor
has rather a pompous manner which
is calculated to ruffle the temper of
other people at times An actor from
the provinces called upon him recent
ly hoping to get an opportunity to
show his worth on the metropolitan
stage Oh I could not possibly give
you a part said the great manager
but I dare say I could arrange to let
you walk on with the crowd in the
last act The young aspirant flushed
with indignation but holding himself
well in hand replied pleasantly My
clear Mr Tree I really dont think I
have heard anything quite so funny
irom you since your Hamlet
Hadnt Time for Squirming
Not long ago Sir Richard Powell a
famous London physician was called
to treat Kiner Edward The kings
regular physician Sir Francis Lak 1
tnor Tfoo nrocnnf A ff or DYnminiTi
his august patient Sir Richard said in
his characteristically brusque way
You have e ten and drank too much
I will send you a prescription that will
put you right Then he hurried out
to see other patients when Sir Fran
cis followed and protested against his
abrupt way of treating the king My
dear Laking said Powell if there
is any squirming to do you return and
attend to it I really havent the
time
An Emperors Clocks
The Emperor Menelik of Abyssinia
among his other hobbies takes great
interest in clocks and several schro
nometers have recently been imported
from Switzerland by his Swiss adviser
which vary no more tlTan six seconds
in two months Ras Makonnen has
also ordered several curious mechani
cal clocks from the Swiss firms for pre
sentation to the negus and the em
press The most remarkable of these
is a great chiming clock to imitate
that of St Margarets Westminster
Abbey
Yales Bribdingnags
There are twelve Yale students
who because they are more than
six feet one inch tall are eligible to
membership in the new club of Brob
dingnags of the university The pres
ident is Frederick W Wilhelmi of New
York and secretary George A Gross
of Waterbury and the vice president
and treasurer Stuart B Sutphin of
Cincinnati The tallest man in the
club is Thorn Baker of Cincinnati of
Cincinnati who stand six feet five
inches in his stockings
A Cousin of Lincoln
Living in Lacy Springs Va is a
cousin and namesake of Abraham
Lincoln This man Abraham Lincoln
by name is now 80 years old and has
among his family papers several let
ters written by the president to his
father David Lincoln in 1848 The
present Abraham Lincoln who is the
head of the Virginia branch of the
family is a typical old Virginian and
has enjoyed considerable prosperity
He has made a study of the Lincoln
genealogy
An Irish student defines nothing as
a bunghole without a barrel around
it
After a man makes money the latter
often evens the score by unmaking the
man
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Royalties Who Write
Tho list of royal authors is enlarg
ed by tho addition of the Mikado of
Japan who Is reputed to bo writing
poetry at a rato nevor equaled by King
Oscar of Sweden Unliko tho lattor
however tho mikado considerately
suppresses nearl yall that ho writes
not oven it is said permitting tho
empress to lay oyes on it King Car
los of Portugal is another royal au
thor whoso book on oceanography
has been well received by tho experts
Tho Princo of Monaco also whoso
reputation is chiefly associated with
scientific gambling diverts his lols
ure with deep sea soundings and has
written an interesting book upon tho
strange forms of life under tho sea
Still another royal writer is Princo
Alphonso of Bourbon brothor of Don
Carlos the Spanish pretender His
favorite theme is tho abolition of duel
ing Of tho English royal family
Princess Victoria tho kings only un
married daughter is the only one who
has shown much of a literary ten
dency Sho is credited with having
written poetry which however has
not been published and sho is an ar
dent and omniverous reader
Napoleon Portraits
Ono of tho most remarkable collec
tions of portraits of Napoleon ever
seen in New York has just closed at
the aNtional Arts club The collection
was composed almost wholly of prints
and belonged to Mr John Leonard
Dudley jr Mr Dudley has been most
fortunate in gathering his Napoleon
portraits inasmuch as ho has the
great Corsican represented in every
stage of his career from tho time of his
infancy down until his death He is
seen from every point of view as ar
tists of many countries chose to rep
resent him Everybody has had an
interest in Napoleon and for ages to
como will retain an interest and most
likely artists will continue to try to
do justice to their ideals of tne silent
man but tho collection which mem
bers and friends of tho National Arts
club havo had the epportunity of view
ing and studying Is unexcelled by any
in this countiy
Ever Burning Lamp
The famous lamp of Towneley chap
el at Towneley hall in England has
recently been extinguished This was
probably the last of the so called ever
burning lamps of England It is
claimed that tho Towneley lamp had
been burning constantly since the days
of King Alfred more than 1000 years
At the beginning of tho last century
half a dozen were still alight while
at the dissolution of Henry VIII many
hundreds alight in the monasteries
had been burning ever since the Nor
man Conquest Doubtless theso per
petual lamps were a remnant of that
form of pagan worship known as ev
erlasting fire which was kept alight by
guardians who were punishable witli
death if they allowed the fire to go
out
Musicians Exchange of Courtesies
Little love is lost between Pader
ewski the famous pianist and Moritz
Rosenthal his professional rival who
continues to amaze German audiences
by his wonderful command of the in
strument Rosenthal is called the
demon pianist because or the aston
ishing speed with which he plays
Paderewski onco heard or a particu
larly brilliant performance given by
Rosenthal He smiled serenely and
said Oh yes but any conservative
pupil with a good technique can do
that Of course this remark was re
peated to Rosenthal who some time
later heard that a talented amateur
was playing in London Oh that
must be Paderewski ho said calmly
The Worship of Teeth
Teeth of all kinds have been wor
shiped and are in fact venerated as
relics in some religious shrines
Buddhas tooth is preserved In an In
dian temple the Cingalese worship
the tooth of a monkey while the ele
phonts and sharks tooth serve a sim
ilar purpose among the Malabar and
Tonga islanders respectively The Si
amese were formerly the possessors of
the tooth of a sacred monkey which
they valued very highly hut in a war
with the Portuguese they lost the holy
grinder and had to pay 3500000 to
get it back again It is now kept in a
small gold box inclosed in six other
boxes in one of the many temples of
the Siamese capital
Have Mexican Sympathies
A writer in the Outlook describ
ing the people of New Mexico says
that a large portion of the Spanish
speaking element is Mexican in its
sympathies These people dislike
American customs and are unwilling
to learn English Occasionally thero
is patriotism to be found as is shown
by this incident One night I stop
ped at a hut in the mountains The
two boys of the family had been to
the Presbyterian mission school in Al
buquerque and spoke fairly well
Finding in the house a little United
States flag which they had brought
home I pointed to it and said to tho
old man Americano and with great
feeling he replied Oh mucho Ameri
cano
Altogether Too Little
The Lessler briber charger re
minded the older members of the time
Representative Birdie Adams of
Pennsylvania went up to Speaker
Reed to ask about a bill he wanted
passed Adams took some change
from Ins pocket and rattled it in his
hand while he talked As it happen
ed he had five quarters Hold on
Birdie said Reed even in these
hard times you cant pass a bill in
this house for a dollar and a quarter
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