> j THE MAID of MAIDEN LANE]
Sequel to “ The Bow of Orange Ribbon.”
A LOVE STORY BY AMELIA E. BARR
(Copyright, 1900, by Amelia E, Barr)
CHAPTER IV.—(Continued.)
"My dear, dear grandfather, you
carry wisdom with you! Oh, wise,
wise grandfather! You have made
me happy to a degree!”
"Very well, but say not that I
gave you such counsel. When your
father speaks to me, as ho is certain
to do, then I will say such and such
words to him; but my words in your
'"'v mouth will be a great offence, and
W very justly so, for it is hard to carry
' words, and carry nothing else. Your
dear mother—how is she?”
"Well and happy. But my father is
not so happy. I can see that he is
wearied of everything.”
“Not here, is his heart. It is in
England. If of Liberty I now speak
to him, he has a smile so hopeless
that both sad and angry it makes me.
No faith has he left in any man, ex
cept Washington; and I think, also, he
is disappointed that Washington was
not crowned King George the First.”
At this point in the conversation
Van Heemskirk was called to the door
about some business matter and
George was left alone with his grand
mother. She put the cups quickly
I down, and going to George’s side,
said:
“Cornelia Moran spends this even
ing with her friend Arenta Van Ariens.
Well then, would thou like an excuse
to call on Arenta?”
“Oh, grandmother! Do you indeed
know Arenta? Can you send me
there?”
“Since she was one month old I have
known Arenta. This morning, she
came here to borrow for her Aunt
Jacobus my ivory winders. For thy
pleasure I will get them, and thou canst
take them this evening to Arenta.”
“O you dear, dear grandmother!”
and he stood up, and lifted her rosy
face between his hands and kissed
her.
“Get me the winders, grandmother;
for now you have given me a reason
to hurry.”
V Then she went into the best parlor,
V and opening one of the shutters let in
' sufficient light to find in the drawer
of a little Chinese cabinet some ivory
wonders of very curious design and
workmanship. She folded them in soft
tissue paper and handed them to her
grandson with a pleasant nod; and the
young man slipped them into his
pocket, and then went hurriedly away.
Doubting and hoping, he reached
the Van Ariens’ house soon after seven
o’clock. It was not quite dark, and
Jacob Van Ariens stood on the stoop,
smoking his pipe.
“Good evening, sir,” said George
with smiling politeness. “Is Miss Van
Ariens within?”
t “\Vithin? Yes. But company she
Tjfc% to-night,” said the watchful
father, as he stood suspicious and im
movable in the entrance.
"I have come with a message to
Miss Van Ariens.”
“A very fine messenger!" answered
Van Ariens, slightly smiling.
“A fine lady deserves a fine messen
ger. But, sir, if you will do my er
rand for me, I am content, I have
brought from Madame Van Heemskirk
ome ivory winders for Madame Ja
cobus.”
“Come in, come in, and tell my
Arenta the message thyself. Welcome
art thou!” and Van Ariens himself
opened the parlor door, saying;
■ Arenta, here is George Hyde. A
message he brings for thy Aunt An
gelica.”
And while these words were be
ing uttered, George delighted his eyes
with the vision of Cornelia, who sat
at a small table with some needlework
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“I have come with a message.”
in her hand. Arenta’s tatting was over
her foot, and she had to remove it in
order to rise and meet Hyde. Rem
sat idly fingering a pack of playing
cards and talking to Cornelia.
!%&/ew moments, Arenta's pretty
enthusiasms and welcomes dissipated
all constraints, and Hyde placed his
chair among the happy group and fell
easily into his most charming mood.
They sang, they played, they had a
game at whist, and everything that
happened was in some subtle, secret
way, a vehicle for Hyde’s love to ex
press itself.
About half-past nine, a negro came
with Cornelia's cloak and hood. George
folded the warm circular round Cor
nelia’s slight figure; and then watched
#er tie her pretty pink hood, managing
amid the pleasant stir of leave-taking
to whisper some words that sang all
night like sweetest music in her heart.
At the leave taking he heard a few
words which gave him a delightful!
assurance of coming satisfaction. For
as the two girls stood in the hall,
Arenta said:
"You will come over in the morn
ing, Cornelia?"
"I cannot.” answered Cornelia.
“After breakfast I have to go to Rich
mond Hill with a message from my
mother to Mrs. Adams.”
And George, hearing these words,
could hardly control his delight. For
he was one of Mrs. Adams' favorites,
and so much at home in her house
that he could visit her at any hour of
the day without a ceremonious invita
tion.
He took a merry leave of Arenta,
and went directly to his rooms. "’Tis
my destiny! ’Tis my happy destiny
to love her!” he said softly to himself.
“I shall tell Mrs. Adams how far gone
in love I am,” he continued. "I shall
say to her, ‘Help me, madame, to an
opportunity’; and I think she will not
refuse. As for my father, I heard
him this morning with as much pa
tience as any Christian could do; but
1 am resolved to marry Cornelia. 1
will not give her up; not for an earl
dom! Not for a dukedom! Not for
the crown of England!”
Joris Hyde allowed the sweet emo
tions Cornelia had inspired to have,
and to hold, and to occupy his whole
being. Sleep was a thousand leagues
away, and he flung open the casement
and sat in a beatitude of blissful
hopes and imaginations.
And after midnight, when dreams
fall, the moon came up over Nassau
and Cedar streets and threw poetic
glamors over the antique churches, and
grassy graveyards, and the pretty
houses, covered with vines and
budding rosebushes; and this soft
shadow of light calmed and charmed
him.
“It is a sign to me! It is a sign!
So will I put away every baffling hin
drance between Cornelia and myself.
Barriers will only be as those vapor
ous clouds. I shall part them with
my strong resolves—I shall—I shall—
I—” and he fell asleep with this sense
of victory thrilling his whole being.
CHAPTER V.
Turning Over a New Leaf.
When Hyde awakened, he was in
that borderland between dreams and
day which we call dawn. The noises'
finally woke him thoroughly. “I am
more alive than ever I was in my life,”
he said; and he laughed gayly, and
went to the window. “It is a lovely
day; and that is so much in my
favor,” he added, “for if it were rain
ing, Cornelia would not leave the
house.”
Then he fell into reverie about his
proposed visit to Mrs. Adams. Last
night it appeared to him an easy and
natural thing to do. He was not
so sure of his position this morning.
But there are times when laissez
aller carries before it, and Hyde was
in just such a mood. “I'll run the
chance,” he said. “I’ll risk it. I’ll
let things take their course.” And
after all, when a man is in love, to be
reasonable is often to be cowardly.
When he was dressed he went to
his hotel and breakfasted there.
Early as it was, there were many
members and senators present—eat
ing, drinking coffee and disputing.
Hyde took no notice of any of these
disputes until a man—evidently an
Englishman—called Franklin “a beg
gar-on-liorseback-Yankee.'” Then he
looked steadily at the speaker, say
ing with the utmost coolness and
firmness:
“You are mistaken, sir. The beg
gar-on-horseback is generally suppos
ed to ride to the devil. Franklin
rode to the highest posts of political
honor and the esteem and affection of
worthy men in all the civilized
world.”
With these words he rose, pushed
aside his chair with a little temper,
and, turning, met Jefferson face to
face. The great man smiled, and put
bis hand affectionately on Hyde’s
shoulder.
“You spoke well, my young friend.
Now, I will give you a piece of advice
—when any one abuses a great man
in your presence, ask them what
kind of people they admire. You will
certainly be consoled.”
Hyde, casting his eyes a moment
on this tall, loose-limbed man, whose
cold blue eyes and red hair empha
sized the stern anger of his whole
appearance, was well disposed to
leave the scurrilous Englishman to
his power of reproof.
Riding hard, it was quite half-past
nine when he drew rein at the door
of Richmond Hill. Thus far, he had
suffered himself to be carried for
ward by the impulse of his heart,
and he still put firmly down any won
der as to what he should say or do.
He was shown into a bright little
parlor with open windows. A table,
elegantly and plentifully spread, oc
cupied the center of the room; and
sitting as it were the vice president
and Mrs. Adams and also their only
daughter, the beautiful, but not very
intellectual, Mrs. Smith. Mrs. Adams
met him with genuine, though for
mal kindness; Mrs. Smith with court
esy, and the vice president rose,
bowed handsomely, hoped he was
well, and then after a minute's re
flection said:
“W# were talking about the offi
cial title proper for Gen. Washington.
What do you think. Lieutenant? Or
have you heard Gen. Hyde express
any opinion on the subject?”
“Sir. I do not presume to under- .
stand the ceremonials of government, i
My father is of the opinion that ‘The
President of the United States' has a
Roman and republican simplicity, and
that any addition to it would be de
rogatory and childish.”
“My dear young man, the eyes of
the world are upon us. To give a
title to our leaders and rulers belongs
:to history. In the Roman republic
great conquerors assumed even dis
tinctive titles, as well as national
ones.”
“Then our Washington is superior
to them.”
“Chief Justice McKean thinks ‘His
Serene Highness the President of the
United States’ is very suitable. Roger
Sherman is of the opinion that
neither ‘His Highness’ nor ‘His Ex
cellency’ are novel and dignified
enough; and Gen. Muhlenberg says
Washington himself is in favor of
'High Mightiness,' the title used by
the Stadtholder of Holland.”
“And how will you vote, John?”
asked Mrs. Adams.
“In favor of a title. Certainly, I
shall. Your Majesty is a very good
prefix. It would draw the attention
of England and show her that we
were not afraid to assume ‘the majes
ty’ of our conquest.”
‘‘And if you were to please France,”
continued Mrs. Adams, “which
seems the thing in fashion, you
might have the prefix ‘Citizen.’ ‘Citi
zen Washington’ is not bad.”
“It is execrable, Mrs. Adams, and
I am ashamed that you should make
it, even as a pleasantry.”
“Indeed, my friend, there is no fore
telling what may be. And, after all,
I do believe that the President re
gards his citizenship far above his
office. What say you, Lieutenant?”
“I think, madame, that fifty, one
hundred, one thousand years after
this day, it will be of little import
ance what prefix is put before the
name of the President. He will be,
simply George Washington in every
heart and on every page.”
“That is true,” said Mrs. Adams.
“Fame uses no prefixes. It is Pom
pey, Julius Caesar, Pericles, Alfred,
Hampden. Oliver Cromwell.”
"Washington will do for love and
for fame,” continued Hyde. The next
generation may say Mr. Madison, or
Mr. Monroe or Mr. Jay; but they will
want neither prefix nor suffix to
Washington, Jefferson, Franklin—
and, if you permit me, sir—Adams.”
The Vice President was much
pleased. He said “Pooh! Pooh!” and
stood up and stepped loftily across
the hearth rug, but the subtle compli
ment went warm to his heart.
“Well, well.” he answered, “heart
ily, and from our souls, we must do
our best, and then trust to Truth and
Time, our name and our memory.
But I must now go to town—our af
fairs give us no holidays.”
(To be continued.)
BRAVERY, AND TRUE COURAGE.
Japanese Sure He Would Be Killed,
But Didn’t Mind.
The little lieutenant who lived just
across the street from O. K. Davis, the
New York Sun's war correspondent in
Tientsin, said to him one day:
"I should be very happy to have you
visit me in my home in Japan after
tnis war is over, but I expect to be
killed.”
He was perfectly sincere and unaf
fected. His belief did not alter his at
tention to duty in the slightest. He
went wherever he was ordered as gay
ly as if it were to a feast, no matter
if the field was swept with bullets.
When I saw him in Peking a day or
so after the legations had been re
lieved he said simply: “Perhaps I
shall not be killed this time after all.”
Would you call it courage when
such a man as that leads a little col
umn against a stone wall, and when
he can’t get over at first, sits down
and waits until he can? He hasn’t
any conception of courage. He is
brave, but with the bravery of a bull
dog.
There is more real courage in the
old hen fluttering over her little chick
ens to protect them from the threat
ening hawk, if it were not for them
she would flee fast enough from the
danger.
There you have the essential differ
ence between courage and bravery,
and between the American soldier and
the Japanese or Russian. The Orien- .
tais, counting the Russian as an Ori
ental, are dangerous men to meet be
cause they have no care for the result.
How much more dangerous is the •
man who sees through to the end and
discounts it all, yet goes ahead to the
desperate finish.—Everybody's Maga
zine.
INTERESTS CONFLICT
WHAT THE EAST WANTS THE
WEST DOES NOT.
New England Asks Free Trade for
Coal and Protection for Codfish,
Whlie the Far West Objects to the
Arrangement as Unjust.
The Boston Herald, which has
always been more or less devoted to
the free trade idea, has published re
cently several lengthy articles favor
ing the removal of all duties upon
coal, either by direct legislation or
through tin1 negotiation of a reciproc
ity treaty with Canada. The point of
this is that Massachusetts does not
produce coal, and it Is believed that
if there wore free entry of Nova
Scotia coal in the mining of which
New England capital is largely inter
ested, Massachusetts would profit in
two ways, by cheaper coal in her
markets and by larger profits for the
capital invested in mining In a for
eign country. As a sample of the
statements by which the Herald
backs up its arguments, take the fol
lowing: ‘'The natural coal supply
of the Pacific coast has thus far been
the coal mines of British Columbia."
The natural coal supply of the Pa
cific coast is and has been the coal
mines of the State of Washington,
mines which at this time employ
5,000 men, and the product of which
reaches annually 2,690,789 tons, val
ued at $5,300,864.22. It is this indus
try of the State of Washington which
Massachusetts Is prepared cheerfully
to sacrifice in order to secure some
slight local advantages.
For the purpose of making an argu
ment which Massachusetts can under
stand, the coal mining industry can
be compared with the cod fishing in
dustry of Massachusetts. There are
more men employed in the coal mines
of Washington than in the cod fisher
ies of Massachusetts, and the value
of their product is greater. Canada
is more the natural source of supply
of cod fish on the Atlantic than of
coal on the Pacific. The admission of
coal free of duty would be far more
detrimental to the interests of the
State of Washington than the free
admission of cod fish would be to the
interests of the State of Massachu
setts. The admission of either
would be to the advantage of Canada.
Of the two, Canada would be willing
to make far greater concessions to
secure the free entry of her cod fish
eries products into the United States
than to secure the free entry of coal.
If the interests of consumers in the
United States are to govern, free cod
fish would be of infinitely greater
value and to a vastly greater number
of consumers, scattered over a much
wider scope of territory, than would
free coal.
Here is the situation then: There
is a protected New England industry
of not so much commercial value as
the coal industry of the State of
Washington, employing fewer people
and distributing less wages, the pro
tection of which tends to exclude
from the markets of the United
States a Canadian food product
which is a common article of diet in
the homes of the working people of
the United States from one end of
the continent to the other. There
is more valuable protected industry
in the relatively small and poor State
of Washington, the protection upon
which operates merely to secure to
the people of Washington a relatively
small local market and leaves un
affected the great mass of the people
of the country. Canada is prepared
to make far greater concessions to
secure the withdrawal of protection
from the New England Industry than
it would make to have protection
withdrawn from the Washington in
dustry, and far more American con
sumers would profit by free cod fish
than by free coal. Massachusetts
wants reciprocity with Canada to en
large her trade opportunities in the
Dominion. Washington cares nothing
for such reciprocity.
Under these circumstances the
honest, the decent and the fair thing
to do would be for Massachusetts
herself to pay the price of the reci
procity which she demands and
which would be largely for her bene
fit: not to attempt to throw the cost
upon a state which has less to offer
to Canada, which does not desire
reciprocity and which would secure
no trade advantages through it, but
rather nothing but Injury.
Massachusetts has raised the cry
of “free coal.” Washington counters
with the demand for “free cod fish."
If the Boston Herald and the Massa
chusetts sentiment which it repre
sents are honeest and sincere In their
convictions of the advisability of reci
procity arrangements with Canada,
they should be prepared to sacrifice
local interests to it, and not cross
the continent, for the purpose of
throwing the whole burden upon the
State of Washington, as they are
desirous of doing.—Seattle Post
Intelligencer.
Legislating by Treaty.
Reports from Washington indicate
that the Cuban reciprocity treaty
will be rejected if brought to a vote
in the Senate. Republican senators
with beet sugar constituencies have
served notice on the administration
leaders that they will be forced to
oppose ratification of the treaty. As
It requires a two-thirds vote of the
Senate to secure ratification of a
treaty, there is little likelihood of its
being approved.
It is singular that the administra
tion should have undertaken to
secure our “plain duty” to Cuba by
treaty. At the last session of Con
gress a bill to reduce the duty on
Cuban products passed the House ot
Representatives and was defeated in
the Senate. Obviously If a bill coaid
not be passed, It is little less than
folly to expect a treaty, proposing to
accomplish the same ends, to be rati
fied.
There is opposition by Democratic
Senators to the treaty on the ground
that it Involves an unconstitutional
method for reducing the tariff. Tho
constitution contemplates that all
revenue measures shall originate In
the House of Representatives and be
acted upon by both branches of Con
gress. The reciprocity method of
reducing duties eliminates the House
of Representatives, the only really
representative branch of the Federal
government, and places the power In
the hands of tho executive and the
Senate.
The objection is well taken. Tar
iff legislation by treaty Is repugnant
to our scheme of government, and an
obnoxious and unwarranted use of
the treaty-making power.—Milwaukee
News.
TRADE OF 1902.
Marked Gain in the Volume of Ex
ports and Imports.
The table of Imports and exports
of the United States for the twelve
months ending with January, 1903,
shows an unusual fluctuation in ex
ports because of crop shortage and
consequent increased prices of food
stuffs, and it also shows a steady In
crease in importations from the low
point of $08,350,459 in February, 1902,
to the high point of $94,350,987 in
December, 1902. The exports also
show a marked increase from the
midsummer minimum of $88,240,483
in July, to $148,012,403 in December,
in spite of smaller exports owing to
exceptional conditions, and in spite
of the largest imports for any year
in the history of our commerce, the
figures show a comfortable trade bal
ance in favor of the United States
amounting to close upon $400,000,000.
If the advocates of “potential compe
tition” through the larger admission
of competitive products from abroad
had had their way, It Is certain that
the trade balance for 1902 would
have been very much smaller.
The following table shows the
total imports and exports of the
United States in each of the twelve
months ending with January, 1903:
Month. Imports. Exports.
February ....$68,350,469 $101,569,695
March . 84,227,082 106,749,401
April . 75,822,268 109,169,873
May . 75,689,087 102,321,531
June . 73,115,054 89,240,483
July . 79,147,874 88,790,627
August . 78,923,281 94,942,310
September .. 87,736,346 121,232,384
October . 87,419,138 144,327,428
November .. 85,386,170 125,200,620.
December ... 94,356,987 148,012,403
January (1903) 85,109,891 134,040,932
Totals .. .$975,283,637 $1,365,600,704
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Threatened by a Wave of Disaster.
A Coincidence!
We note witli some concern that
Gov. Cummins—perhaps because of a
bad throat, toothache, or other form
of indisposition—has not found it
convenient to accept any invitations
to speak at agricultural gatherings in
the past few months. Not long ago
his name was mentioned among those
invited to address the national con
vention of live stock growers at
Kansas City. He did not appear at
that convention. He has not talked
to farmers for some time. One would
think that so strenuous a tariff re
former as the governor is would with
avidity improve opportunities to
spread the “Iowa idea” of potential
competition aB a price cutter among
agricultural communities. He has
found it possible on numerous occa
sions to talk reciprocity, tariff revis
ion and trust busting at gatherings of
manufacturers, but his throat or
something seems to go wrong when
ever it comes to presenting h(s views
before gatherings of people who make
their living out of the soil. Farmers
are such sound protectionists that It
seems strange to find Gov. Cummins
so reluctant to propagate the “Iowa
idea” among them.
The Only Hope.
The only hope for a campaign issue
for the Democrats lies in the question
of tariff revision. Being a “free
trade” party they will be obliged to
greatly revise their tariff policies, for
they will certainly not find free trade
or tariff for revenue only a winning
card with the businesss community
or even the producers. They havd
tried that policy once before and its
adoption brought universal ruin and
bankruptcy.—Dayton (Fla.) Journal.
Dying Away.
The Western demand for tariff re
vision is dying away as time goes on
and the present tariff continues to
prove its merits.—Waterloo (111.) Re
publican.
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A rigid lover jaw is often more
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To the housewife who has not yet
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and who is reasonably satisfied with
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A light heart sometimes means a
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*00.00 per M. Lewis' '‘Single Binder,”
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profit—and the smoker a better cigar.
There is reason for everything, but
it is often inscrutable.
Flattery Is seldom suspected by the
eager recipient.
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A man never forgives a woman for
being more clever than he things him
self.
Sarcasm has many admirers, but
no friends.
Platonic love is the dried beef of
sentiment
The Champion Milch Cow.
Utica, N. Y., has recently won dis
tinction through a Holsteln-Frlesian
cow, Sadie by name which,or perhaps
such a cow as Sadie ought to be re
ferred to as ''who”—is a resident of
that place. Sadie has broken the
world's thirty-day record for milk giv
ing and butter producing. In the thir
ty days during which Sadie was put to
the test she produced a fraction over
2,754 pounds of milk, from which was
extracted 123 pounds, 8Ws ounces of
butter. In other words, the milk that
Sadie gave during the thirty days’
contest would have been sufficient to
drown her had it been tanked and
she thrown in, while her month’s sup
ply of butter, if packed in the ordinary
bricks, would have served to make
around her a wall so high that she
could hardly have jumped over it.
A Cure for Rheumatism.
Alhambra, 111., March 23d.—Physi
cians are much puzzled over the case
of Mr. F. J. Oswald of this place. Mr.
Oswald suffered much with Rheuma
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Mr. Oswald began a treatment of
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him what the doctors had failed to do
and they cannot understand it.
This is the same remedy that cured
Hon. Fred A. Busse, our State Treas
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There seems to be no case of these
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