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THE MAID °f MAIDEN LANE Sequel to “ The Bow of Orange Ribbon.” A LOVE STORY BY AMELIA E. BARR (Copyright, 1900, by Amelia E. Barr) t" —- - CHAPTER VII.—(Continued.) "She Is gone, Doctor.” "At what hour?” “The clock was striking three—she went smiling.” Then he bowed his head and turned away. There was nothing more that he could do; but he remembered that Arenta had stepped on board the l.a Belle France as the clock struck t three, and that she also had gone •smiling to her unknown destiny. Arriving home he very gently ac quainted Mrs. Moran with the death •of his young patient, and then asked, "Where is Cornelia?” “I know not. She is asleep. The ball to-night is to be fairy-land and love-land, an Arabian night's dream and a midsummer night’s dream all in one. I told her to rest, for she was weary and nervous with expectation. To-morrow the Van Ariens’ excite ment will be over, and we shall have rest.” “I think not. The town is now ready to move to Philadelphia. I hear that Mrs. Adams is preparing to leave Richmond Hill. Washington has already gone, and Congress is to meet in December.” “But this will not concern us.” “It may. If George Hyde does not go very soon to England, we shall go to Philadelphia. I wish to rid myself and Cornelia of his airs and graces and wearisome good temper, his sing ing and reciting and trlngham-trang ham poetry. This story has been long ■enough; we will turn over and end it.” “It will be a great trial to Cornelia.” “It may, or it may not—there is Rem—Rem is your own suggestion, However, we have all to sing the hymn of Renunciation at some time; it 13 well to sing it in youth.” CHAPTER VIII. Two Proposals. The ruling idea of any mind as sumes the foreground of thought, and after Arenta's marriage the dominant desire of George Hyde was to have his betrothal to Cornelia recognized and assured. He was in haste to light his own nuptial torch, and afraid every day of that summons to England which would delay the event. “I may have to go away with mothei At any time—I may be detained by «vents I cannot help—and I have not bound Cornelia to me by any persona recognized tie—and Rem Van Ariens will be ever near her. Oh, Indeed, this state of affairs will never do! I wil write to Cornelia this very moment and tell her I must see her father this evening. I cannot possibly delay il irCfc . longer. I have been a fool—a care ri? less, happy fool—too long.” He opened his secretary and sitting resolutely down, began a letter to Dr Moran. He poured out his heart ant desires, and then he read what he hat written. It would not do at all. H was a love letter and not a business letter. He wrote another, and thei another. When he had finished read ing them over, he was in a passioi with himself. “A fool in your teeth twice over r---m L_ ... _ ... ■ - “Write, then, to Cornelia.” Joris Hyde!” he cried. "Since yen cannot write a decent business letter write, then, to the adorable Cornelia the words will be at your finger end; for that letter, and will slip from you pen as if they were dancing: “My Sweet Cornelia: "I have not seen you for two days and ’tis a miracle that I have endurei it. I can tell you. beloved, that I an much concerned about our affair. Yoi know that I may have to go to Ens land soon, and go I will not until have asked your father what favor h will show us. Tell me at what hour may call and see him in his house Oh, my peerless Cornelia, pearl am flower of womanhood, 1 speak you fcUjpeecfi, I think your thought; you ar ^he noblest thing in my life, and t remember you is to remember th hours when I was the very best am the very happiest. Bid me come t you soon, very soon, for your love i my life. Send your answer to m • city lodging. Oh. Cornelia, am I no ever and entirely yours? “George Hyde.” It was not more than eight o’clock in the morning when he wrote thi letter, and as soon as possible he di; patched a swift messenger with it t Cornelia. Probably Madame Hyde divine something of the importance and teno of a missive sect in such a hurry of anxious love, so early in the day, but she showed neither annoyance nor curiosity regarding it. ‘ Joris. my dear one,” she said, as they rose from the breakfast table, "Joris, I think there is a letter from your father. To the city you must go as soon as you can, for I have had a restless night, full of feeling it has been.” Joris smiled and kissing her, said, “I am going at once. If there is a letter 1 will send a quick rider with it.” ‘‘But come thyself.” ‘‘That I cannot.” “But why, then?” “To-morrow 1 will tell you.” “That is well. Into thy mother’s heart drop all thy joys and sorrows. Thine are mine." It happened—but doubtless hap pened because so ordered—that the very hour in which Joris left Hyde Manor, Peter Van Ariens received a letter that made him very serious. He left his office and went to see his son. “Rem,” he said, “here has come a let ter from Boston, and some one must go there, and that, too, in a great hurry. The house of Blume and Otis is likely to fail, and in it we have some great interests. A lawyer we must have to look after them; go thyself, and it shall be well for both of us.” “I cannot go with a happy mind to day. I think now my case with Cor. nelia will bear putting to the questtte'1 As you know, it has been step with step between Joris Hyde and myself in that affair, and if I go away now without securing the ground I have gained, what can hinder Hyde from taking advantage over me?" “That is fair. A man is not a man till he has won a wife. Cornelia Moran is much to my mind. Go and see her now.” “I will write to her. I will tell her what is in my heart and ask her for her love and her hand. If she is kind to my offer then I can go to Boston with a free heart and look after your money and your business.” But the letter to Cornelia which Hyde found to slip off his pen like dancing was a much more difficult matter to Rem. He wrote and de stroyed, and wrote again and de stroyed, and this so often that he final ly resolved to go to Maiden Lane for his inspiration. He met George Hyde sauntering up the street looking unhappy and rest less, and he suspected at once that he had been walking past Dr. Moran’s house in the hope of seeing Cornelia and had been disappointed. The thought delighted him. He was will ing to bear disappointment himself, if by doing so some of Hyde's smiling confidence was changed to that unhap py uneasiness which he detected in his rival’s face and manner. The young men bowed to each other, but did not speak. “What a mere sullen creature that Rem Van Ariens is! ” thought Hyde, “and with ail the good temper in the world I affirm it.” Then, with a move ment of impatience he added: “Why should I let him into my mind?—for he is the least welcome of all intruders. Good gracious, how long the minutes are! How shall I endure - another hour?—perhaps many hours. Where can she have gone? Not un likely to Madame Jacobus.' I will go to her at once.” He hastened his steps and soon ar rived at the well-known residence of his friend. He was amazed as soon as the door was opened to find prep arations of the most evident kind for some change. “What is the matter?’1 he asked in a voice of fear. “I am going away for a time, Joris, my good friend,” answered madame, coming out of a shrouded and dark ened parlor as she spoke. “But where are you going?” “To Charleston. My sister Sabrina is sick—dying, and there is no one sc near to her as I am. But what brings you here so early?” “My mother felt sure there was a letter from father, and I came at once to get it for her, but there was none.’ “It will come in good time. Now, 1 i must go. Good-bye, dear Joris!” “For how long, my friend?” “I know not. Sabrina is incurably ; ill. I shall stay with her till she de ■ parts.” She said these words as they went down the steps together, and with eyes full of tears he placed liei carefully in the coach and then turned 1 sorrowfully to his own rooms. , In the meantime Rem was writing ( his proposal. Finally, after many - trials, he desisted with the following [ though it was the least effective oi > any form he had written: [ “To Miss Moran: “Honored and Beloved Friend— 1 “Twenty times this day I have tried r to write a letter worthy to come intc > your hands and worthy to tell yoi > how beyond all words f love you. Bui ; what can I say more than that I love 1 you? To-morrow I must leave Nevt > York, and I may be away for sons 3 time. Pray, then, give me some hope r to-night to take with me. I am sicl t with longing for the promise of youi love. Oh, dearest Cornelia, I am. a1 you know well, your humble servant, c “Rembrandt Van Ariens.” 3 When he had finished this letter, he - folded and sealed it, and walked te ■> the window with it in his hand. Then he saw Cornelia returning he>me ft on I some shopping or social errand, ane r hastily calling a servant, ordered hin to deliver the letter at once to Miss Moran. She bowed and smiled as she, accepted it, but Rem, watching with his heart in his eyes, could see that it awakenod no special interest. She kept it unopened as she wandered among the flowers, until Mrs. Moran came to the door to hurry her move ments; then she followed her mother hastily into the house. “Do you know how late it is, Corne lia? There is a letter on your dress ing table that came by Lieut. Hyde's servant two or three hours ago.” An she entered her room an impos ing looking letter met her eyes—a letter written upon the flnost paper, squarely folded, and closed with a large seal of scarlet wax carrying the Hyde arms. Poor Rem's message lost instantly whatever interest it pos sessed; she let it fall from her hand, and lifting Hyde's, opened it with that marvelous womanly impetuosity which love teaches. In a moment she felt all that he felt; all the ecstasy and tu mult of a great, affection not sure. For this letter was the “little more” in Hyde's love, and, oh, how much it was! She pondered it until she was called to dinner. There was then no time to read Rem's letter, but she broke the r—:-1-n-1 "I am going away for a time.” seal and glanced at its tenor, and an expression of pity and annoyance came Into her eyes. Hastily she locked both letters away in a drawer in her desk. Dr. Moran was not at home, nor was he expected until sundown, sc mother and daughter enjoyed together the confidence which Hyde’s letter in duced. Mrs. Moran thought the young man was right, and promised, to a cer tain extent, to favor his proposal. “However, Cornelia,” she added, “un less your father Is perfectly agreeable and satisfied, I would not advise you to make any engagement.” The answering of these letters was naturally Cornelia’s first afternoon thought. To write to Joris was a de lightful thing, an unusual pleasure, and she sat down, smiling, to pen the lines which she thought would bring her much happiness, but which were doomed to bring her a great sorrow: "My Joris! My Dear Friend: “ ’Tis scarce an hour since I received your letter, but I have read it over four times. And whatever you desire, that also is my desire; and I am de ceived as much as you, if you think 1 do not love you as much as I am loved by you. Come, then, this very night as soon as you think convenient. If my father Is In a suitable temper it will be well to speak plainly to him, and I am sure that my mother will say In our favor all that is wise. "What more is to say I will keep for your ear, for you are enough in my heart to know all my thoughts, and to know better than I can tell you how dearly, how constantly, how entirely 1 love you. Yours forever, “Cornelia.” (To be continued.) A Bret Harte Letter. Clever authors are generally chary of their humor, saving the choicest witticisms for copy. Bret Hrate, how ever, was an exception to this rule and was a rare conversationist and correspondent. Here is a character istically droll letter from him to Ed gar Pemberton, which appears for the first time in the authorized biography published this week, and has been re lated with much relish by “Tay Pay’ O’Connor: “Dear Mr. Pemberton: Don’t be alarmed if you should hear of my hav ing nearly blown the top of my head off. Last Monday 1 had my face badly cut by the recoil of an overloaded gun I do not know yet beneath these ban dages whether I shall be permanently marked. At present l am invisible and have tried to keep the accident a secret. “When the surgeon was stitching me together the son of the house, a boy of 12, came timidly to the door of the room. ‘Tell Mr. Bret Harte it’s all right,’ he said; ‘he killed the hare! Yours always. “Bret Harte.” To Our First Religious Martyr. The Quivira Historical society which erected a monument at Lo gan’s Grove, near Junction City, some time ago, in commemoration of the discovery of Kansas by Coronado ir 1541, and the rediscovery of Quivlrs by the Hon. J. V. Brower, the well known archaeologist, in 1897, is pre paring to erect another monument The monument now proposed will commemor'jte the fact that Friai Juan de Padilla, a member of the great Coronado expedition, was the first religious martyr in the United States, and the first white man mur dered by Indians on Kansas soil.— Kansas City World. OUR FOREIGN TRADE LARGE INCREASE BOTH IN IM PORTS AND EXPORTS. Under Conditions So Satisfactory It Would Seem That Experiments With Our Economic System Arc Neither Necessary Nor Desirable. The export trade of the United States Is rapidly resuming its normal conditions. It exhibits no pressing need of artificial stimulants In the form of special trade treaties. Febru ary figures of the Bureau of Statistics show the largest exports of any Feb ruary in the history of our commerce, and also show that the exports of the three months ending with February were larger than those of the corres ponding period of any earlier year. On the import side, the figures also show a continuation of tho growth which has characterized the las* two years. The figures of the eight months end ing with F'ebrttary suggest that the Im ports of the United States in the fiscal year 1903 may exceed $1,000,000,000, while the export figures seem likely to exceed $1,400,000,000. In tho short month of February alone the exports amounted lo $125, 502,105, which is $12,000,000 In excess of any preceding February, and more than double the figures of February, 1893, in which month the total exports were $59,931,984. Taking the three months ending with February, 1903, the total exports are $407,52<3;200, against $215,151,471 in the three months ending with February, 1893. Thus considering either the month of February or the three months ending with February, 1903, the total export? are not only larger than in that period of any preceding year, but practically double those of a decade ago. The following table shows the total exports from the United States in the three months of December, Jauiiary and February, from 1893 to 1903: Three months ending with— February. Ttw. exp. February. Ttl. exp. 1893 .$215,151,171 1899.$317,279,191 1894 . 244.667,285 I960 . 860,292,1*6 1896 . 222,089.544 1901. 395,172.486 1896 . 257.201.049 1902 . 367.656,414 1897 . 290,968,895 1903. 407,526,200 1895 . 328,398,088 The outside world keeps right on buying of us much more than it sells to us, and we keep right on increasing our purchases from abroad because we are prosperous and able to buy. It would seem on all accounts to be a very satisfactory state of things, al most an ideal state of things. Why, then, should we venture upon doubtful experiments that are approved neither In theory nor In practice? Why both er our heads about reciprocity? INSISTS ON THE IOWA IDEA. Gov. Cummins Evidently Bent on Keeping in the Public Eye. The redoubtable young governor of Iowa, Mr. Cummins, has an idea and cannot get rid of it. He eats it, sleeps it and works it on all occasions. He announces that he will insist from now until the national convention that the Iowa idea of tariff revision be made a feature of the platform. He is not a free trader, but he is against a tariff on iron and steel, for instance, and on other undefined things which go to make up “monopolies.” All of us are against monopolies, but until Mr. Cummings can place his finger directly on the tariff and show the country a section which works un doubted ill without any compensations there will be little tendency to take him seriously. Just why at this time there should arise in the gopher hills of Iowa a desire to emancipate the rest of the country from the duty on iron and steel manufactures is not apparent. The schedules in question do not af fect any Hawkeye industry. If Gov. Cummins has given that attention to the subject which he ought he will know that prices of iron and steel manufactures are not governed by the tariff, but by the enormous demand, so that not only are we selling every pound that can be manufactured here, but we are importing largely from va rious parts of the world. It would not be a dollar in the pockets of any man in Iowa if the whole iron and steel schedules were wiped out, but it would he ruin to many of the people there who are interested in other industries. The farmers of Iowa do not eat steel rails for breakfast nor feed pig iron to their hogs. They get rich feeding the people of this country, who are just now able to buy enormously, since they have big wages or incomes from one source or another. it is regrettable that Mr. Cummins should insist on a campaign which can be of no service to the country and can only give aid and comfort to the Democracy. We wonder if Mr. Cum mins remembers the situation in Iowa in 1893 to '97. Does he want to live those weary years over again? Of course not. The trouble is that he has some of the Democratic absurd no tions about political economy which are learned only in books. He sets aside experience for the allurements of sentimental philosophy. Mr. Cum mins is mistaken. He is keeping his name before the public, but not in a way that will do him or his party any good. We have no doubt that the Dingley bill could be improved, but we do not think it can be along the lines proposed by Mr. Cummins. If once the effort is made to tinker with that instrument we will have depres sion in business and losses all along the line, with mighty little compensa tion anywhere. We suggest that the Iowa idea be embalmed and buried._ Philadelphia Inquirer. Free Trade and Coal. The Great Falls Tribunt asserts that “Instead of hurting the coal mining Industry In this part of the stabs the repeal of the tariff on coal is likely to cause an increase In the consumption of Belt and Sand Coulee coal.” The Record certainly hopes such will be the case, but nothing that the Tribune offers would lead to that con clusion. The Tribune argues that the action of the Canadian mine owners will lead to this increased consumption of home coal. This action consists In reducing the price of Canadian coal 25 cents a ton from what it has been selling at in the American markets. The Trib une argues (hat this reduction will make American consumers so wroth at the selfishness of tho Canadian companies that they will buy more coal than ever of the home companies. Let ns hope so. although we don’t be lieve a word of It. However, that is no argument in fa vor of free trade—or, as the Tribune would put It, "tariff reform"—which would put coal on the free list for all time, instead of for a year as a tem porary expedient to relieve the dis tress in the least caused by the short age. The reduction of the duty is 67 cents a ton. and the Canadian compa nies could make a reduction to that extent if they so desired In order to control the markets this side of the line. They can mine coal cheaper than we can. because they employ Chi nese and Japanese labor, with Asiatic wages, while American mines pay American wages.—Helena (Mont.) Record. Let It R. I. P. XlUl jjjriWASWEU., ^1 WOULD BE BETTE! ■f“lTOOKMEDICINEr ■ “amdhereiam., j THE IOWA IDEA | BORN IQOZ DIED I “Fighting Cummins?” No! It Is neither fair nor logical on the part of the Sioux City Journal to ac cuse the Des Moines Capital and the American Economist of "fighting Cummins.” To resist the program of partial or complete free trade as a means of dealing with the trust ques tion is not “fighting Cummins.” To oppose the "potential competition" of foreign products for the sake of reduc ing domestic prices is not “fighting Cummins.” To deprecate reciprocity in competitive products as an unjust domestic policy and an unwise foreign policy is not "fighting Cummins.” To urge that Republicans keep their hands off the Dingley tariff for at least two years to come and let the Demo crats do all the agitating for tariff "re form” Is not "fighting Cummins.” As we understand the Capital's position, that very sound and able newspaper is not “fighting Cummins” at all. Neith er is the American Economist "fight ing Cummins.” in both cases there is no desire to lay a straw in the way of the Governor’s ambition for re-elec tion. If Iowa Republicans want him as governor for another term, that is their business, not ours. What wo are fighting is not Cummins, but the "idea” which he stands for. We be lieve that that “idea” involves the ul timate breaking down of the American protective tariff system. Hence we are fighting the "idea.” M, Tariff on Coal. The coal duty is the very oldest of the protective measures on the statute books of this country. The original tariff act of 1789 imposed a duty upon coal of every kind and quality, and there has never been a time until now when bituminous coal entered the country free of duty. The need for protection in the East and Middle West has long gone by, so there was not a coal operator in any of the sec tions now suffering from the coal shortage who interposed the slightest objection to the repeal of a duty which was meaningless to him. The tariff did protect an industry in the state of Washington. Its removal is a heavy blow to this state; and the worst of it—the really irritating point —is that the action of Congress will be absolutely without any benefit to the coal consumers in whose interests it was ostensibly taken.—Seattle Post Intelligencer. Why Not. “Senator Nelson introduced an amendment providing for the change of flour from the general class, which receives a 20 per cent concession from the Cuban tariff, to that class which is to receive a 40 per cent concession.” Well, why not? If the Northwestern farmer is going to be prevented from raising sugar beets because of the preferential bounty voted to Cuban planters, he might at least be compen sated to a trifling extent by a wider opening through which flour may en ter the Cuban market. It wouldn't make up for the loss of profits on beet growing, to be sure, but it would be something. As the treaty stands the American farmer gets precious little out of it except a black eye. All the prize packages go to the Cuban farm er. I t i 1 *■*++ ; THE LIVE STOCK MARKET. | ; Latest Quotations From South T ■ Omaha and Kansas City. I WWI «»H l SOUTH OMAHA. CATTLE—There was a very large run of cattle, so that the supply for ! the week Is much heavier than for last week or for the same week of last year. Beef buyers did not take hold with much life, and In fact It did not seem to make much difference to them wether they got any cattle or not. There have been so many steers on the market this week that packers | are pretty will tilled up and conse- ] quently they did not have to hustle for supplies. The cow market was also rather slow and weak. The very best handy weight cows and heifers did not suffer to any great extent, but others were slow and r* (n 10c lower. Sellers did not like the Idea of taking j off again, so they held on for some time and the day was well advanced j before a clearance was made. Bulls were slow and a shade lower as a re sult of the weaker feeling on steers and cows. Veal calves, though, did not show much change. There were comparatively few stockers and feed ers In the yards and not many were wanted, ns the end of the weak !» to near at hand for much to be doing in the feeder of division. HOGS—There was a more moderate supply of hogs In sight and under the Influences of a good demand the mar ket lmrpoved a little. The bulk of the hogs sold a big nickel higher than yesterday or a good many were calling It $5# 10c higher. The bulk of the hogs sold from $7.10 to $7.15, with the prime heavies going from $1.75 to $7.30. There were comparatively few light hogs on sale, but those that did arrive sold from $7.10 down. Owing to tho scarcity of the light hogs the range of prices was narrower than It has been for some time past. SHEEP — Quotations for wooled stock : Choice western lambs, $7.00# 7.40; fair to good lambs, $6.50#6.90; choice Colorado lambs, $7.00 #7.40; choice light weight yearlings. $6.40# €.60; fair to good yearlings, $5.25# 5.65; choice wethers, $6.00#6.20; fair to good wethers. $5.75 #6.00; choice ewes, $5.25#5.60; fair to good ewes, $4.50#5.25; feeder lambs, $4.00#6.25; feeder yearfings, $4.00#4.75; feeder ewes. $2.25#3.50; clipped stock sells about 50#75e lower thun wooled stock. KAN HAS* CITY. CATTLE—Beef cattle, steady to slow; quarantine, quiet, steady; stock [ ers and feeders, slow; bulls, steady; calves, dull; choice export and dressed beef steers, 54.60#5.25; fair to good, $4.00#4.60; stockers and feeders, $2.75 j #6.00; western fed steers, $3.00#6.00; Texas cows, $2.00#4.00; na'tlvc cows, $2.00#4.25; native heifers, $8.00#4.80; caners, $1.50#2.75; bulls,. $2 50#4.25; calves, $2.75#7.00. HOGS—Market opened strong, closed weak; top, $7.27 Vi; bulk of sales, $7.10 #7.20; heavy, $7.165#7.27 V6 ; mixed packers, $7.05#7.22H; light, $6.90# 7.12 ^ ; pigs, $4.75 #6.80. SHEEP AND LAMBS —Market steady; native lambs, $4.60#8.00; west ern lambs, $4.25#7.80; fed ewes, $4.00 #5.60; native wether*, $4.50 #6.50; Texas clipped sheep, $4.50#6.40; stock ers and feeders, $3.20#4.55. OFFICER EXECUTES SOLDIER. Ensign Slays Man Who Fails to Sa . lute Him Properly. BERLIN—Emperor William has or dered a thorough investigation Into the ease of Naval Ensign Hussner, who killed an artilleryman named Hartman at Essen for not saluting him properly. Hussner now claims that Hartman struck him before the fatal attack, but all the eye-witnesses contradict his statement. Tho papers print an account of an other military incident at the Mono pol hotel, Essen, in which an officer sharply accosted a one-year volunteer because the latter saluted him imper <*# ► . * * fectiy. The officer used Insulting epi thets, whereupon several guests of the hotel interfered. Another volunteer, who was present, then went to the assistance of the officer, who drew his sabre and wounded several Civilians. The next day the local governor order ed the hotel to be closed, the officer was placed temporarily on the retired list and an investigation ordered. PAYS PENALTY OF HIS CRIME. Horse Thief is Hanged for Murdering the Sheriff. EUGENE, Ore.—Elliott Lyons, who on February 6 shot and killed Sheriff W. W. Witers. while resisting arrest, for horse stealing, was hanged Friday. Lyons walked to the seatfold and be fore the cap was adjusted said: “God forgive them; they know not what they do.” His neck was broken by the fall. The execution was witness ed by 150 people, including many sheriffs of the state. Lyons came from a highly respected pioneer fam ily, and it is said his aged mother is dying of grief over the crime. Mr. Bryan in Cincinnati. CINCINNA'1” Considerable stir was c-aiiseu in political circles Friday by Colonel W. J. Bryan being the guest at the Queen City club of Mel ville E. Ingalls, president of the Big Four railway. President Ingalls was one of the most prominent of the so called “gold democrats” in both of the Bryan presidential campaigns, and many of the Bryan democrats are re ported as not supporting Ingalls for mayor here last week.