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    THE MAID sf MAIDEIN LAME
Sequel to(“The Bow of Orange Ribbon.”
A LOVE 5TORY BY AMELIA E. BARR
(Copyright, 1900, by Amelia E. Barr)
CHAPTER XI.
We Have Done With Tears and
T reasons.
“Here is a letter from Arenta!” re
peated the Doctor to his wife, who
was just entering the room. “Come,
Ava, and listen to what she has to
say.” Then Cornelia read aloud the
following -words:
“My Dear Friend Cornelia: If to
day I could walk down Malden I.ane,
if to-day I could see you and talk to
you, I should imagine myself in hea
ven. For as to this city, l think that
in hell the name of ‘Paris’ must have
spread itself far and wide. Do you
remember our learning in those happy
days at Bethlehem of the slaughter
of Christians by Nero? Very well;
right here in the Paris of Marat and
Robespierre, you may hear constantly
the same brutal cry that filled the
Rome of the Caesars—“Death to the
Christians!” Famine, anarchy, mur
der, are everywhere, and I live from
moment to moment, trembling if a
step comes near me.
“As to religion, there is no longer
any religion. Everywhere the Al
mighty is spoken of as the “soi-disant
God.” The monarchy is abolished, and
yet so ignorant are the leaders of the
people, that when Brissot mentioned
the word Republic in Petiou’3 house,
Robespierre said with a grin, “Repub
lic! Republic! What’s a republic?”
Spying, and fear, and death penetrate
into the most private houses; above
all, fear, constant fear of every one
■with whom you come in contact.
“I have told you the truth about our
condition, because I have just had a
letter from my father, and he talks of
leaving his business in Claos Bergen’s
care, and coming here to look after
me. You must convince him that he
could do me no good whatever, and
that he might do me much harm. Tell
him not to fear; Arenta says, not to
fear. While Minister Morris is here
I have a friend that can do all that
can be done.
“Ask our good Domine to pray that
I may soon return to a country where
God reigns. Never again do I wish
to spend one minute in a place where
there is no God; for whatever they
may call that place, its real name is
hell.
“Arenta, Marquise de Tounnerre.”
“Poor Arenta!” said the Doctor
when Cornelia had finished the
wretched epistle. Suppose that yen
go and see Van Ariens, and give him
all the comfort you can.”
Cornelia crossed the street and was
going to knock at the door, when Van
Ariens hastily opened it. When Cor
nelia told him her errand, he was in a
hurry of loving anxiety to hear what
his child had written.
“I understand,” he said, when he
had heard the letter. "She i3 fright
ened, the poor little one! But she
will smile and say ‘it is nothing.’ How
ever, I yet think I must go to her.”
“Do not,” urged Cornelia. You may
see by Arenta’s letter, that she does
not fear the guillotine. Come over
to-night and talk to my father and
mother.”
“Well then, I will come.”
Then he took both Cornelia’s hands
In his and looking earnestly at her
said:
“Poor Rem! Impossible Is it?”
“Quite impossible, sir,” she an
swered.
“I am very sorry,” he said, sim
ply, and let her hands drop. In an
again Jjy his glance, anil never for
one moment thought of resisting the
appeal it made to her. With a con
scious tenderness she waved him an
adieu whose spirit he could not but
feel. In the same moment he lifted
his hat and stood bareheaded looking
at her with a pathetic inquiry, which
made her inwardly cry out, “Oh, what
does he mean?” Then the Doctor
touched her:
“Why do you do that?” he asked
angrily.
"Because I must do it, father; I
cannot help it. I desire to do it."
“I am in a hurry; let us go home.”
She turned away with a sigh. The
Doctor drove rapidly to Maiden Lane
and did not on the way speak a word,
and Cornelia was glad of it. Hence
forward she was resolved to love
without a doubt. She would believe in
Joris, no matter what she had seen,
or what she had heard. There wTere
places in life to which alas! truth
could not come, and this might be one
of them. Though all the world blam
ed her lover, she would excuse him.
Now a woman’s intuition is like a
leopard’s spring, it seizes the truth—
if it seizes it at all—at the first bound,
and it was by this unaccountable
mental agility Cornelia had arrived at
the conviction of her lover’s fidelity.
She reflected that now he was so far
away, it would be possible for her to
call upon Madame Van Heemsklrk.
She resolved therefore to call upon
Madame Van Heemslflrk the following
week. She expected ■ the old lady
might treat her a little formally, per
haps even with some coldness, but she
thought it worth while to test her
kindness.
One morning Mrs. Moran said, “Cor
nelia, I wish you to go to William
Irvin’s for some hosiery and Kendal's
cottons.”
“Very well, mother. I will also look
in at Fisher’s,” and it was at Fisher’s
that she saw Madame Van Heemskirk.
“Good morning, madame,” said Cor
nelia, with a cheerful smile.
“Good morning, miss. Step aside
once with me. A few words I have
to say to you,” and as she spoke she
drew Cornelia a littie apart from the
crowd at the counter, and looking at
her sternly, said:
“One question only—why then did
you treat my grandson so badly? A
shameful thing it is to be a flirt.”
“I am not a flirt, madame. And I
did not treat your grandson badly.
No, indeed!”
“Pray then what else? You let a
young man love you—you let him tell
you so—you tell him ‘yes, I love you'
and then when he says marry me,
you say, ‘no.’ Such ways I call bad,
very bad. Not worthy of my Joris are
you, and so then, I am glad you said
‘no.’ ”
“Madame, you are very rude.”
“And very false are you.”
“Madame. I wish you good morn
ing,” and with these words Cornelia
left the store. Her cheeks were burn
ing, the old lady’s angry voice was in
her ears, she felt the eyes of every
one in the store upon her, and she
was indignant and mortified at a meet
ing so inopportune. Why had Joris
lied about her? Was there no other
way out of his entanglement with
her?
She could arrive at only ono con
clusion—Annie’s most unexpected ap
pearance had happened immediately
after his proposal to herself. He
was pressed for time, his grandpar
ents would be especially likely to em
barrass him concerning her claims,
and of course the quickest and surest
way to prevent questioning on the
matter, was to tell them that she had
refused him. And then after this
explanation had been accepted and
sorrowed over, there came back to her
those deeper assurances, those soul
assertions, w'hich she could not either
examine or define, but which she felt
compelled to receive—He loves me!
I feel it! It is not his fault! I must
not think wrong of him.
One day at the close of October she
put down her needlework with a lit
tle impatience. “I am tired of sewing,
mother,’ she said, “and I will walk
down to the Battery and get a breath
of the sea. I shall not stay long.”
On her way to the Battery she was
thinking of Hyde, and of their fre
quent walks together there, and ere
she quite reached the house of Ma
dame Jacobus she was aware of a
glow of fire light and candle light
from the windows. She quickened her
steps, and saw a servant well known
to her standing in the open door. She
immediately accosted him.
"Has madame returned at last,
Ameer?” she asked joyfully.
“Madame has returned home,” he
answered. “She is weary—she is not
alone—she will not receive to-night.”
The man’s manner—usually so
friendly—was shy and peculiar anti
Cornelia felt saddened and disappoint
ed. She walked rapidly home to the
thoughts which this unexpected ar
rival induced. They were hopeful
thoughts, leaning—however she direct
ed them—toward her absent lover.
She went into her mother’s presence
full of renewed expectations and met
her smile with, one of unusual bright
ness.
"Madame Jacobus is at home,” said
Mrs. Moran, before Cornelia could
speak. “She sent for your father
just after you left the house, and I
suppose that he is still there.”
“Is she sick?”
Van Ariens opened the door.
hour or two to your house I will come.
There is plenty to talk about.”
The next day Cornelia walked down
Broadway to Madame Jacobus’ house.
It was closed and desolate looking and
she sighed as sne compared its old
bright spotless comfort, with its pres
ent empty forlornness. The change
I typified the change in her heart and
love.
One exquisite day as they went up
Maiden Cane the Doctor said: “My
friend, Gen. Hewitt sails for England
to-day, and we will go and wish him
a good voyage.” So to the pier they
went, and the Doctor left his carriage,
and taking Cornelia on his arm walk
ed down to where the English packet
was lying.
Soon Cornelia became conscious of
the powerful magnetism of some hu
man eye, and obeying its irresistible
attraction she saw George Hyde stead
ily regarding her. She was enthralled
“I don't know, t fear so. for the
visit is a long one.”
It was near ten o'clock when Doctor
Moran returned and his face was
somhre and thoughtful—the face of a
man who had been listening for hours
to grave matters and who had not
been able to throw off their physical
reflection.
Cornelia at once asked:
"Is madame very ill?"
"She is wonderfully well. It is her
husband.”
“Captain Jacobus?"
“Who else? She has brought him
home, and I doubt if she has done
wisely.”
“What has happened, John? Surely
you will tell us!”
“There is nothing to conceal. I
have heard the whole story—a very
pitiful story—but yet like enough to
end well. Madam told me that the
day after her sister-in-law's burial.
James Lauder, a Scotchman who had
often sailed with Captain Jacobus,
came down to Charleston to see her.
He declared that having had occasion
to go to Guy s hospital in London to
visit a sick comrade, he saw there
Captain Jacobus. He would not admit
any doubt of his identity, but said the
Captain had forgotten his name, and
She waved him an adieu.
everything in connection with his past
life.”
“Oli, how well l can imagine
madame’s hurry and distress,” said
Cornelia.
"She hardly knew how to reach Ixm
don quickly enough. But Lauder's
tale proved to be true. Her first action
was to take possession of the dement
ed man, and surround him with every
comfort. He appeared quite indiffer
ent to her care, and she obtained no
shadow of recognition from him. She
then brought to his case all the medi
cal skill money could procure, and in
the consultation which followed the
physicians decided to perform the
operation of trepanning.”
“But why? Had he been injured,
John?”
“Very badly. The hospital books
showed that he had been brought
there by two sailors, who said he had
been struck in a gale by a falling
mast. The wound healed, but left
him mentally a wreck. The physi
cians decided that the brain was suf
fering from pressure, and that trepan
ning would relieve, if it did not cure.
“Imagine now what a trial was be
fore madame! It was a difficult matter
to perform the operation, for the pa
tient could not be made to understand
its necessity; and he was very hard to
manage. Then picture to yourselves,
the terrible strain of nursing which
followed; though madame says it
was soon brightened and lightened by
her husband’s recognition of her.
After that event all weariness was
rest, and suffering ease, and as soon
as he was able to travel both were
determined to return at once to their
own home. He is yet, however, a
sick man, and may never quite recover
a slight paralysis of the lower limbs."
(To be continued.)
The Right Place to Begin.
When the political history of Mary
land is written there will be a para
graph or two for the McComas-Mudd
feud. It is now in progress, bitter
and unrelenting. McComas was a
United States senator until March 4
last, and Mudd is a Representative
in Congress. Both are Republicans.
In the old days, though, they were
bosom friends. McComas was the
leader and Mudd a follower. One
day they were dining together.
Sydney,” asked McComas, “how old
is your boy?"
“Sixteen,” replied Mudd, proudly.
“My, my," said McComas, “I didn’t
think he was so old, but, I tell you,
Sydney, when the time comes I'll do
something handsome for that boy.”
Mudd leaned over the table. “Mac,”
he said, “when you want to do any
thing for the Mudd family you forget
the boy and begin with the old man.”
—Philadelphia Saturday Evening Post
Women and the Looking Glass.
How much time does a woman spend
before her looking-glass? A German
estimates that a girl of six to ten
spends an average of seven minutes a
day before a mirror, from ten to fif
teen a quarter of an hour is con
sumed daily, and from fifteen to twen
ty, twenty-two minutes. Ladies from
twenty to twenty-five occupy twenty
five minutes; from that age to thirty
they are at least half an hour at
their toilete. Thence there is a de
cline in coquetry. From thirty to thir
ty-five the time occupied comes down
to twenty-four minutes, from thirty
five to forty it is only eighteen min
utes; from forty to fifty, twelve min
utes, and from fifty to sixty, only six
minutes. A woman of seventy has
thus spent 5.8G2 hours before the glass.
In other words, eight months, count
ing night and day.
1904 TARIFF ISSUE
HOW TO TEST THE QUESTION OF
REVISION.
Should the Republicans Stand for
Business Stability and the Demo.
crats Urge the Abandonment of
Protection, Which Would Win?
Referring to the "Let-well-enough
alone" doctrine advocated by Secre
tary Root In hi3 Boston speech, the
Minneapolis Journal says:
“But If times continue good the doc
trine of leaving things to themselves
wi'l be just as good in 1905 as now,
and that sort of postponement cannot
be kept tip very long if the tariff is to
be revised by its friends.
"There is probably not one man in
a thousand in the United States that
does not expect to see a business and
industrial reaction in this country
sometime within the next ten years,
and many expect it within the next
five. When that reaction Comes it
will be too late to talk about having
the tariff altered by its friends. The
people are more likely to bo in a
mood to have it altered with a broad
ax by its enemies.”
This question can be tested—and it
will very likely be so tested—in a
simple and direct manner. Thus:
Let the National Republican conven
tion next year resolve that
"Tariff stability is a vital need of
all business, industry, trade and com
merce. Therefore, as the country is
now in a highly prosperous condition,
any revision of the tarff at tills time
is uncalled for, unwlso and unwar
ranted.”
Then let the National Democratic
convention next year assert its plat
form that
“The existing protective tariff is a
robbery and a tax; it obstructs busi
ness; it shelters monopoly; it permits
combinations of producers to plunder
the consumers; it makes the rich rich
er and the poor poorer. Therefore the
tariff should be immediately repealed
and in its place a tariff for revenue
only should be enacted.”
Going before the country upon the
tariff issue thus sharply and clearly
defined, which party would carry the
Presidential election in 1904? From
present indications that Issue is likely
ALPHONSE AND GASTON.
i I ( . _.ty _
to be presented. In such an event
watch the Republican mugwumps fall
over each other In their hurry to
get back Into the Republican ranks!
A few of them might rush ip the op
posite direction, but for every such
deserter a score of business Demo
crats who are making money and want
the tariff let alone would be found
quietly voting the Republican ticket.
The country is in no hurry to be torn
up again by tariff experiments.
FOR THE WHOLE COUNTRY.
The President Not in Favor of In
ternal Tariff Favoritism.
“Let well enough alone,” was a
sentiment that appealed to the pros
perous people of this prosperous na
tion in the campaign of 1900. “Go on
letting well enough alone,” will be
the talk in 1904. President Roosevelt
recognized this when he said in Min
neapolis :
"In making any readjustment there
are certain important considerations
which cannot be disregarded. If a
tariff law has on the whole workejj
well, and if business has prospered
under and is prospering, it may be
betfer to endure some inconveniences
and inequalities for a time than by
making changes to risk causing dis
turbance and perhaps paralysis in
the industries and business of the
country.”
The tariff speech of the President is
a direct sequel to bis able review of
the subject of the trusts. He points
out that the question of revising the
tariff is in no wise related to the trust
issue. In his Milwaukee speech, he
told about certain physicians who
could cure diseases, but were not so
sure about saving the life of the pa
tient. It is easy to put the corpora
tions, trusts and otherwise, out of
business, by making lines hard
enough. But that is not the remedy
obviously.
The President would, above all,
preserve the protective principle,
which has done so much to strengthen
the position of the American working
man at home. Ho would approach
with caution such changes as are sug
gested from time to time, with due
reference to their importance to “the
nation as a whole.” Evidently Roose
velt is not in sympathy with the “New
England idea,” which is to let in
everything free that New England
wants to buy and slap a high duty on
everything that New England wants
to sell. As a President for the whole
country, Roosevelt must appeal to
those who live outside the provinces,
which are, fortunately, only a small
portion of tho United States.—Helena
(Mont.) Record.
PROTECTION FOR COAL,
How Its Removal Has Injured the Far
West.
The fleet of vessels engaged to bring
coal from Australia to this country
numbers sixty-seven. There is not the
slightest possibility that the effect of
this will be to reduce the price of the
fuel to consumers. It will be to give
the dealers a blgget profit, and to give
to a foreign country the benefit of a
market that should have been left to
home enterprise. This fleet will un
load at San Francisco. In the North
west there Is coal enough to supply
the California demand, and would still
be enough wero the demand far great
er. Formerly Washington supplied
much of this coal. The demand has
been lessened by tho adoption of oil
burning methods, but still remains con
siderable. Now it will be tilled by
Australia. Ships can afford to carry
coal at a low rate to ports into which
they have infrequently sailed In bal
last. Thus the wild furore to take the
duty off something has deprlvod this
coaBt of an Important protection. The
public mind awoke to lively conception
of this necessity when the strike and
the hoggishness of the retailers had
sent prices of coal in the East to a
figure where the poor were In danger
of freezing. Statesmen smote their
swelling breasts and vowed that they
would remedy these conditions. Then
they took tho duty off coal, to the det
riment of Pacific coast Interests, for
which they have as little care as for
tho Interests of Patagonia, and their
consciences ceased to cause them
pangs. Tho removal of this duty
could have no possible bearing upon
the evils It. was sought to cure. All
that It could do it has done. It has
struck a blow at tho Pacific coast; It
has diverted money to Australia, and
It has not had a single beneficent ef
fect. t
This part of the country Is In favor
of protection, and It would include
coal. The East has no Australian com
petition to fear. The agitators who
favor fooling with the tariff want lum
ber on the free list, too. The explana
tion of this is easy. The East has no
lumber worth mentioning.—Tacoma
Ledger.
Always Looking for Cheapness.
The free-trader always approaches
men from the standpoint of the pro
ducer only. They are advised to vote
for cheapness, with the implied prom
ise on the free-trader’s part that all
other things shall remain as they are.
But they never do remain as they are.
If an era of cheapness comes upon a
country, everything becomes cheap, in
cluding labor and the product of the
manufactories. The result is that
while everything is cheap and theore
tically within the reach of the poor
est, Iho ability to buy is so curtailed
that the sum total of profits is reduced
and poverty ensues. We are to have
another campaign upon the tarifT, and
there will bo nothing new injected into
it but the specious claim that the tariff
is responsible for the trusts, and this
is not new. The result of this next
contest will depend altogether upon
whether men are short-siglited or far
sighted. Whether they are capable
of learning from experience so recent
that it seems Impossible that any
could forget.—Cedar Rapids Republi
can.
Of Course.
It is a curious fact, and one worth
keeping in mind, that the .same free
trade papers that so cordially ap
proved the sentiments expressed In
the speech of Gov. Cummins in Des
Moines at the Republican county con
vention, are greatly disgruntled at the
speech of President Roosevelt in Min
neapolis three weeks later. Gov. Cum
mins declared that the tariff ought to
be immediately torn up both by direct
legislation and by reciprocity in com
peting products while President Roose
velt declared that for at least two
years to come, or until after the elec
tion of 1904, the tariff should be left
entirely alone. Ergo, the free trade
papers were delighted with Gov. Cum
mins and displeased with President
Roosevelt. Of course they were.
Standing Together.
The Republicans of Michigan seem
to bo standing together all right, and
G. O. P. gains are reported in Ohio.
These straws would indicate a rather
chilly wind for democracy in the cam
paigns of the near future.—Sioux City
Journal.
Pedigree of Pigs In Dam.
W. M. McFadden, secretary of the
American Poland-China Record Asso
ciation, says: My experience has been
that there are more errors In pedi
grees for pigs bought In dam than in
all other essential particulars com
bined. I am sure that not 60 per cent
of the pedigrees of pigs bought ln#
dam are properly made so as to show
that fact. Particular attention has
been given to this on the circular is
suod by the American Record, and tho
Instructions In regard to It are as
plain, I think, as the English language
will permit, and yet, we have patrons
who will year after year make errors
on this kind of pedigrees. For nearly
twelve years we have been Issuing
duplicates for pedigrees received.
These duplicates, when sent out, If
correct, show how the original pedi
gree should have been made to show
tho animal sold In dam. The dupli
cates should serve as a copy for the
breeder in making future pedigrees.
This Is not only true of this matter
of pigs sold In dam, but the duplicates
are a copy from which pedigrees
should be made in all particulars, yet,
for some reason, that has always
been a mystery to me, a great many
brooders seem not to learn from the
duplicates how to make a similar pedi
gree. There Is one simple rule, that
a person making a pedigree, should
always have In mind. That Is the
rule, that the owner of the dam at the
time of service, Is the breeder of her
litter. If the dam is sold after being
bred and before she farrows, then
the man who owned her at the time
she was bred Is tho breeder of her
litter, and the litter was sold In dam
to tho man who owned when she far
rowed. “A” may breed a sow and
sell her to "B” and then “B” sell one
of her pigs to “C“. Nearly alwayB
“B” will make out the pedigree of
the pig as having been bred by "A”
and sold to "C”. The pedigree should
read: “Bred by ‘A’, sold In dam to
‘B’, and then sold to *C’.” The name
of the person who signs a pedigree
should, In all cases, appear on the top
of the pedigree, either as breeder or
as the person to whom the pig was
sold In dam.
Orchard Cover Crop*.
In selecting a cover crop, we should
consider the following points: We
must have a crop that grows quickly,
covering the ground completely; one
which Is reasonably sure to catch,
one year with another; one that tho
seed Is, not expensive, and If possible
one which will add something to the
soli which will aid tree growth, $ays
M. S. Kellogg. As these crops are
sown in a usually dry season of the
year, the clovers are not to be con
sidered very seriously, as they are un
certain of germination and slow of
growth. Above all, whether in or
chard or nursery, cultivate the crop
under early and then cultivate, culti
vate, cultivate; retain all the moisture
possible with a dust mulch, and aid
In avoiding drougth. In closing, would
say: Do not depend on any one crop;
have two strings to your bow, and
if one falls use the other till the first
one Is repaired. There Is no one crop
that will uniformly succeed, and
each one will need to do some experi
menting for himself to determine Just
what Is best for his needs. The ex
periment stations in the different
states are doing work along this line
and we must look to them to tell us
what crop Is going to add the needed
humus and tree growing matter to
our very diversified soil; the average
nurseryman and orchardlst has not
the facilities nor the time to experi
ment to determine what is lacking in
his soil.
Making Good Butter.
From The Farmers’ Review: I have
been In the dairy business for less
than two years. We milk In tin palls
and run the milk through the separa
tor immediately. We set the cream
to ripen in stone crocks. We always
take our separator apart immediately
after using, cleanse, scald and put to
gether again just before using next
time. We also cleanse every vessel
that has had milk in It. We use a
barrel churn. By this method we have
no unpleasant odor about the milk
room or In the butter, as our custom
ers wiii testify. We mold our butter
In brick shape, wrap in parchment
paper, and away It goes.—Thomas
Gaines, Iron county. Mo. * *'* .*■'*
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The Hunt.
The Hunt is a means of affording
great amusement for a child’s party,
3ays The Housekeeper. Hide a given
number of peanuts In one of the rooms
not entered by the guests until the
Hunt begins. Some nuts may be in
sight and others half concealed, while
the larger number are out of sight,
out hid on places accessible. A suffi
cient number of nuts should be dis
tributed about the rooms to permit
each hunter to find at least twenty or
more. At the sound of the hunter’s
call (the blowing of a tin toy horn)
the hunt begins and continues for
twenty minutes. The one who suc
ceeds in finding the largest number
carries off the prize, which may be a
toy gun, a toy hound, or some other
toy pertaining to the sportsman’s
jarap.iernalia.
Good Intentions are good intentions
—nothing more.