I THE MAID sf MAIDEN UAINeI
Sequel to “The Bow of Orange Ribbon.’’
A LOVE STORY BY AMELIA E. BARR
(Copyright MO, by Amelia E. Harr)
CHAPTER XIII.—(Continued.)
"That is so, but I think her life
was worth a few words. And Thomas
Jefferson says she was ten thousand
times welcome to the protection his
name gave her. I thank my God l
have never had such temptation. Over
righteous we must not be, Lysbet.'
"I am astonished, also. I thought
Arenta would cry out and that only.
‘•What a man or a woman will do
and suffer, and how they will do and
suffer, no one knows till comes some
great occasion. All the human heart
wants is the chance.”
“As men and women have in Paris
to live, I wonder me, that they can
wish to live at all! Welcome to them
must be death.”
"So wrong are you', Lysbet. Trouble
and hardship make us love life. A
zest they give to it. It was not from
the Jews in exile and captivity, but
from the Jews of Solomon’s glory
came the only dissatisfied, hopeless
words in the Bible.”
"To-morrow, Joris, I will go and
see Arenta. She is fair, and she
knows it; witty, and she knows it;
of good courage, and she knows it;
the fashion, and she knows it. To
Aurelia Van Zandt she said, my heart
will ache forever for my beloved
Athanase, and Aurelia says that her
old lover Willie Nicholls is at her feet
sitting all the day long—yet for all
these things she is a brave woman
and I will go and see her.”
“Willie Nicholls is a good young
man, and he is rich also; but of him I
saw nothing at all. Cornelia Moran
was there and no flower of Paradise is
so sweet, so fair!”
“A very proud girl! I am glad she
said ‘no’ to my Joris.”
“Come, my Lysbet, we will now
pray and sleep. There Is so much not
to say.”
CHAPTER XIV.
The New Days Come.
One afternoon in the late autumn
Annie was sitting watching Hyde
playing with his dog, a big mastiff of
noble birth and character. The crea
ture sat erect with his head leaning
against Hyde, and Hyde’s arm was
thrown around his neck as he talked
to him of their adventures on the
Broad that day.
Outside there was in the air that
November feeling which chills like
the passing breath of death. But in
the house Annie and Hyde and the dog
sat within the circle of warmth and
light made by the blazing ash logs,
and in that circle there was at least
an atmosphere of sweet content. Sud
denly. George looked up and his eyes
' caught those of Annie watching him.
“What have you been reading, An
nie?” he asked, as he stooped forward
and took a thin volume from her lap.
“Why!” he cried, “’tis Paul and Vir
ginia. Do you read love stories?"
“Yes. The mystery of a love af
fair pleases every one, and I think we
shall not tire of love stories till we
tire of the mystery of spring, or of
primroses and daffodils.”
“Love has been cruel to me. It
has made a cloud on my life that will
help to cover me in my grave.”
“You still love Cornelia?”
“I cannot cure myself of a passion
so hopeless. However, as I see no end
to my unhappiness, I try to submit to
what I cannot avoid.”
“My uncle grows anxious for you to
marry. He would be glad to see the
succession of Hyde assured.”
“Oh, indeed, I have no mind to take
.a wife. I hear every day that some
of my acquaintance have married; I
hear of none that have done worse.”
“You believe nothing of what you
.-say. My uncle was much pleased
I -I sfe W\W~
I Ip !
“It is from Cornelia.”
with Sarah Capel. What did you think
^ of the beauty?”
■fT “Corne-ia has made all other wom
en so indifferent to me. that if I can
not marry her, my father may dispose
of me as he chooses.”
“Cannot you forget corneiia?”
“It is impossible. Her very name
moves me beyond words.”
Then they were silent, and Hyde
drew his dog closer and watched the
blaze among some lighter branches,
which a servant had just brought in.
At his entrance he had also given An
nie a letter, which she was eagerly
reading. Hyde had no speculation
about it; and even when he found
Annie regarding him with her whole
soul in her face, he failed to under
stand. as he always had done, the
coble love which had been so long
and so faithfully his—a love holding
itself above endearments; self-repress
ed, self-sacrificing, kept down In the
inmost heart-chamber a dignified pris
oner behind very real bars. Yet he
was conscious that the letter was of
more than usual interest, and when
the servant had closed the door be
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His eyes ran over the sweet words.
hind him, he aBked, “Whom is your
letter from, Annie? It seems to please
you very much.”
She leaned forward to him, with the
paper in her little trembling hand,
and said:
“It is from Cornelia.”
“My God!” he ejaculated, and the
words were fraught with such feeling,
as could have found no other vehicle
of expression.
“She has sent you, dear George, a
copy of the letter you ought to have
received more than two years ago.
Read it.”
His eyes ran rapidly over the sweet
words, his face flamed, his hands
trembled, he cried out impetuously:
“But what does it mean? Am I
quite In my senses? How has this let
ter been delayed? Why do I get only
a copy?”
“Because Mr. Van Ariens has the
original.”
“It is all incredible. What do you
mean, Annie? Do not keep me in
such torturing suspense."
“It means that Mr. Van Ariens ask
ed Cornelia to marry him on the same
day that you wrote to her about your
marriage. She answered both letters
in the same hour, and misdirected
them.”
“God's death! How can I punish so
mean a scoundrel? I will have my
letter from him, if I follow' him round
the World for it.”
“You have your letter now. I ask
ed Cornelia to write it again for you:
and you see she has done it gladly.”
“Angel of goodness! But I will
have my first letter.”
“It has been in that man’s keeping
for more than two years. I would not
touch it. ’Twould infect a gentleman
and fnake of him a rascal just as
base.”
“He shall write me then an apology
in his own blood. I will make him
do it, at the point of my sword. Re
member, Annie, what this darling
girl suffered. For his treachery she
nearly died. I speak not of my own
wrong—it is as nothing to hers.’’
“However, she might have been
more careful.’’
“Annie, she was in the happy hour
of love. Your calm soul knows not
what a confusing thing that is—she
made a mistake, and that sneaking
villain turned her mistake into a
crime. By a God’s mercy, it is found
out—but how? Annie! Annie, ho^
much I owe you! What can I s^?
What can I do?”
“Be reasonable. Mary Darner really
found it out. His guilty conscience
tV.ced him to tell her the story,
though to be sure, he put the wrong
on people he did not name. But I
knew so much of the mystery of your
love sorrow, as to put the stories to
gether, and find them fit. Then 1
wrote to Cornelia.”
“How long ago?”
“About two months.”
“Why then did you not give me
hope ere this?”
“I would not give you hope, till hope
was certain. Two years Is a long
time in a girl’s life. It was a possible
thing for Cornelia to have forgotten—
to have changed.”
“Impossible! She could not forget.
She could not change. Why did you
not tell me? I should have known her
heart by mine own.”
“I wished to be sure,” repeated
Annie, a little more sadly.
“Forgive me, dear Annie. But this
news throws me into an unspeakable
condition. You see that I must leave
for America at once.”
“No. I do not see that, George.”
“But if you consider—”
“I have been considering for two
months. Let me decide for you now,
for you are not able to do so wisely.
Write at once to Cornelia; that is
your duty as well as your pleasure.
But before you go to*her there are
tilings indispensable to be done. Will
you ask Doctor Moran for his child,
and not be able to show him that you
can care for her as she deserves to be
I cared Tor? Lawyers will not be hur
ried. there will be consultations, and
engrosslngs, and signings, and love—
iu your ease—will have to wait upon
law."
" Tis hard for love, and harder per
haps for anger to wait. For I am in a
passion of wrath at Van Ariens. I
long to be near him. Oh. what suf
fering his envy and hatred have
caused others!"
“And himself also.”
“The man is hateful to me.”
“He has done a thing that makes
him hateful. I hear your father com
ing. 1 am sure you will have his
sympathy in all things."
She left the room as the Earl en
tered it. He was in unusually high
spirits. Some political news had de
lighted him. and without noticing his
son’s excitement he said:
“The Commons have taken things
in thair own hands. George. I said
they would. They listen to the king
and the 1-ords very respectfully, and
then obey themselves. Most of the
men in the Lower House are unfit to
enter it.”
“Well, sir, the lords as a rule send
them there—you have sent three of
them yourself. But the government
is not Interesting. I have something
else, father, to think about. I have
very important news from America.
Will you listen to it?"
“Yes, if you will tell It to me
straight, and not blunder about your
meaning.”
UCIU T 4..r.t iknt a
“Sir, I have Just discovered that a
letter sent to me more than two years
ago has been knowingly and purpose
ly detained from me.”
“Did the letter contain means of
identifying It as belonging to you?"
“Ample means.”
•“Then the man is outside your rec
ognition. You might as well go to
the Bridewell and seek a second
among its riff-raff scoundrels. Tell
me shortly whom it concerns.”
"Miss Moran.”
“Oh, indeed! Are we to have that
subject opened again?”
His face darkened, and George, with
an impetuosity that permitted no
interruption, told the whole story. As
he proceeded the Earl became inter
ested, then sympathetic. He looked
with moist eyes at the youth so dear
to him, and saw that his heart was
filled with the energy and tenderness
of his love. He felt that his son had
rights ail his own. and that he must
cheerfully and generously allow them.
“George,” he answered, “you have
won my approval. What do you wish
to do?”
“I am going to America by the next
packet.”
“You desire to see Miss Moran with
out delay, that is very natural.”
“Yes, sir. I am impatient also to
get my letter.”
“I think that of no importance.”
“What would you have done in my
case, and at my age, father?"
"Something extremely foolish. I
should have killed the man, or been
killed by him. I hope that you have
more sense. What does Annie say?”
, “Annie is an angel. I walk far be
low her—and I hate the man who has
so wronged—Cornelia. I think, sir,
you must also hate him.”
“I hate nobody. God send, that I
may be treated the same. George,
you have flashed your sword only in
a noble quarrel, will you now stain
it with the blood.of a man below your
anger or consideration?”
“What do you wish me to do, sir?”
“I advise you to write to Miss Mo
ran at once. Tell her you are more
anxious now to redeem your promise,
than ever you were before. Say to
her that I already look upon her as a
dear daughter, and am taking immedi
ate steps to settle upon you thq
American Manor, and also such New
York property as will provide for the
maintenance of your family in the
state becoming your order and your
expectations. Tell her that my law
yers will go to this business to-mor
row, and that as soon as the deeds
are in your hand, yon will come and
ask for the interview with Doctor
Moran, so long and cruelly delayed.”
(To be continued.!
BORESOMENESS OF A BEGINNER.
Why Robinson Was Deserted by His
Acquaintances.
Ruggles—Poor old Robinson! It's
sad, the saddest thing in the world,
perhaps, to see a man deliberately
alienate his friends, estrange his fam
ily, and make himself an outcast and
a horror to everybody, an do it sim
ply to gratify a whim, too.
Struggles—Why, w'hat do you mean?
I saw him not so very many days ago,
and he seemed perfectly happy, and he
told me he never was more prosperous
in ail his life.
Ruggles—Yes, that’s just it. Poor
fellow! He’s one of those weak-kneed
men who can’t stand prosperity, ap
parently. As soon as they get a few
dollars—well, you know the rest.
Struggles—Do you mean he’s drink
ing too much?
Ruggles—No. No, indeed. It’s pos
sible to feel some sympathy for a man
who can’t resist that temptation. But
poor old Robinson! It’s different with
him.
Struggles—You can’t mean that he’s
in the toils of a siren? He’s too de
voted a husband and father for such
an escapade.
Ruggles—No. Oh. no. One could
wean him perhaps in time from such «
miserable infatuation. If it were pos
sible to think of him in such an a;i
tanglement. But there seems to be no
hope in his case.
Struggles—You certainly can’t mean
that ho has
Ruggles—Y'es; that's exactly what
he has. Bought it last week. Good
heavens, here he comes now! Hurry
up and get out of this, or he'll be
talking automobile to us for the next
five hours.—New York Times.
PLATFORMS OF 1904
THE ISSUE OF 1892 TO BE FOUGHT
OVER AGAIN.
Unless the Republicans Stand Firmly
for Protection Without Apology, the
Democrats Will Gain on the Tariff
Reform Proposition.
The Democrats are preparing to
make exactly the same kind of a fight
they made in 1892, on exactly the same
issues. They say there can be no
compromise on the tariff question.
The question then arises. Can the
Republicans go Into the campaign with
any prospect of success If they con
cede that a large part of the Demo
cratic contention is correct? Are cam
paigns fought and won on half-breed
creeds?
To show the position in which the
two parties would find themselves in
case Gov. Cummins’ idea is adopted,
we quote from Mr. Charles S. Hamlin,
of Boston, who was assistant secretary
of the treasury under President Cleve
land. Mr. Hamlin spoke at the Samuel
J. Tilden banquet recently held in New
York. He gave an outline of what he
called "the great questions of the
coming presidential contest." He said
the first attack should be upon the
foreign policies of the administration:
the second upon the treatment of
trusts and monopolies: third, tariff re
form; fourth, economy In government
administration. Then Mr. Hamlin
took up the third plank in his political
creed and gave his entire attention to
"tariff reform" for the purpose of iu
vittng foreign competition to take the
place of that of domestic competition,"
which, he said, is being destroyed.
We quote Mr. Hamlin's words upon
the subject of the tariff, as follows:
“1 believe the first step should be
radically to review our system of tar
iff taxation to the end that foreign
competition may come in to take the
place of that domestic competition
which is being destroyed. Then by
examining the effect of foieign com
petition we shall soon find what addi
tional legislation Is needed to control
monopolies. Meanwhile the federal
government should enforce existing
ers of the Republican party will be
lu favor of putting Into the platform a
tariff plank with some uncertainties
connected with it. But the party has
not been dealing in uncertainties dur
ing the past eight years, and It will be
strange If the national leaders shall
once more be willing to Insert plati
tudes capable of different construc
tions in different localities. Our own
opinion Is tlmt. the national platform
next year will stand radically In favor
of the protective tariff without apolo
gy.
Meantime, the discussion going on Is
Interesting.—Des Moines Capital.
REFLECTIONS OF A MECHANIC.
Why He Has Stopped Voting the
Democratic Ticket.
A mechanic of our city, a good one,
too, who fought gallantly for four
years In the Confederate army and
has votod the Democratic ticket regu
larly until recently, remarked to a few
friends at a recent social event while
they werd enjoying cigars after lunch
eon, as follows: “The war was near
ly over, and one cold, disagreeable
night I was on outpost duty as a pick
et, when all at once the question flash
ed upon me. ‘What was 1 fighting and
enduring the hardships of camp life
for, anyway?' The answer came back
as usual, ‘Fighting for my niggers.' I
soliloquized. 'I have not got and never
had a nigger.' I was In the same fix
as the balancve of my company—no
worse or no better off. We were all
fighting for something which we did
not have. The war from that day lost
interest to me, but. I served my time
out and was honorably discharged.''
Continuing In the same reminiscent
mood he said: “I was for Cleveland
and reform up to 1893, when the ob
ject lesson was as plain to me as had
been the reason why I had been in the
Confederate army. In that year l was
walking on my uppers, and it was with
the utmost difficulty that l procured
enough to supply my family with the
necessaries of life. I was, or thought i
was, for free trade, but by the actual
workings of the WUson-Gorraau bill
I saw the Industries of the country
paralyzed, and skilled, as well as all
other kinds of labor, Idle and most of
the mechanics as hard up as I was.
There was a cause for this general de
MOT DISPOSED TO TAKE A 8HOT AT HIM.
law and provide new’ legislation to
secure information as to what the
combinations are doing.”
If the above is to be the Democratic
creed, in what respect does it differ
from “Iowa progressive republican
ism?”
Some of our Iowa Republicans say
that domestic competiton has been
destroyed, and that foreign competi
tion must come in to take the place of
domestic competition, and that is ex
actly what Mr. Hamlin says.
How are the “progressive Republi
cans” of Iowa to make a campaign
against Mr. Hamlin's creed?
The fight in this country next year
will be for or against the tariff as a
means of protecting American factor
ies and their working men. There can
be no half-way ground.
If the Republican party, nationally,
adopts a platform pledging tariff re
form, so-called, the Republican party
will be defeated in the Presidential
campaign. It will be defeated because
the people who turn to the belief of
tariff reform will turn away from the
party that has always stood for a pro
tective tariff.
The Washington Post, an independ
ent newspaper, does not believe that,
tariff reform will be put Into the na
tional platform of the Republican
party next year. The Post, in an edi
torial commenting on the Polk County
Republican convention, gives utter
ance to the following doubting expres
sion. After noting the pledge on the
part of Gov. Cummins to attempt to
put the "Iowa Idea” Into the national
Republican platform, the Post says:
“That thought, the 'Iowa idea,’ was
put into the platform last year In such
extremely mild terms that the country
failed to realize its full import until
Speaker Henderson flew the track and
the other Iowa Republican leaders
Were metaphorically by the ears and
in each other’s hair. In his Des
Moines speech Gov. Cummins declared
that the time has come for enlarging
the free list and a general revision of
the tariff schedules. That means war
on the standpatters, and for that rea
son, much as we approve of it, wc do
not credit the intimation that it was
indorsed by the President during the
governor's recent visit to Washington.
The President has certainly given no
intimation, in his public acts or deliv
erances, of a desire to promote strife
in his party.”
ft may be true that the national lead
pression, of course, and I concluded it
was too much Democratic free trade. 1
am not versed on the intricacies of the
tariff, but a blind man can see the dif
ference between '93 and now, and can
not but know, if he will think, Hiat
under free trade working men always
have hard times, and under protection
prosperity. J now have more work
than I can do. at good prices, and in
the future expect to vote to benefit
myself and family by acting with the
party which has wrought the wonder
ful change in less than ten short years.
I am not a politician, further than in
the future to lay aside prejudice, war
issues and what I used to he, and
vote not as I shot, but with the party
or policy which puts money in my
pocket as a recompense for labor, and
at the same time makes labor In de
mand throughout the entire country.
America for Americans before for
eign countries is a pretty good motto.”
—Bates (Mo.) Record.
Consumer and Producer.
Secretary Shaw: "The employer of
labor is both a consumer and a pro
ducer, and therefore may be appealed
to from either standpoint. The wage
earner is also both a consumer and a
producer. He consumes food, cloth
ing, fuel and shelter and he sells days’
work. He may he so shortsighted as
to believe that it would be to his ad
vantage to have cheap food, cheap
clothing and cheap living expenses
generally. Or he might be so farsight
ed as to know that the market for his
labor and for the product of Ills labor
is as Important to him as to his em
ployer. Thus either the employer or
the employed may be shortsighted
enough to think their interests are
unlike, if not antagonistic, or so far
sighted as to know when one is pros
perous the other is never hungry or
naked, and that when the other is well
paid the one is always prosperous.”
Not With Them.
If Iowa Republicans want to plunge
into a tariff revision they might as
well know right now that Republicans
In other states are not with them.
Prosperity under the present tariff law
is good enough for most of us.—Schen
ectady (N. Y.) Union.
Stands Four Square.
Republican protection is one of the
things that stand four-square to all the
winds that blow.—Tionesta (Pg.) Re
publican.
A KNOWLEDGE OF PRINCIPLES.
A man to be successful in any
branch of plant culture must under
stand the principles of plant growth.
Most men do not understand these
principles and whatever they do is
done either because their experience
seems to pronounce it good or the
course has been recommended to
them by someone else. It not infre
quently happens that a man will de
scribe his methods to another and
that latter will adopt them to his loss.
Thus one man said that the use of pot
ash on his land would give very good
results and urged his friends to go
and do likewise. The men put on the
potash, but could get no increased
results from it, and they forthwith
declared the fertiliser worthless and
that the first man was mistaken. That
showed a lack of the understanding
of the principles. A man that looked
into the case found that the land of
the first man was deficient in potash
while on the land of the men that had
used it unsuccessfully there was an
abundance for every purpose. The
men should have known the condi
tions of their soils in the first place.
Unless a man makes a systematic
study of them he is little likely to
learn the principles of plant life and
nutrition. A principle is a law that
applies in all places, yet is modified
by circumstances. Thus one kind of
plant needs one kind of pruning and
another plant needs another kind, yet
both must come under the law that
says "winter pruning tends to in
crease wood production and summer
pruning tends to Increase the fruit
yield." Principles have been made
known by the experiences of the
many.
EFFECT OF PROTEIN FEED8.
At the Nebraska station hogs were
differently fed to determine the effects
of protein and carbonaceous feeds In
the Internal organs and bones of the
animals. One lot was fed on corn
alone, and another on corn and alfalfa.
The slaughter test showed larger liver
and lungs and better bone in the lot
fed alfalfa. Prof. Burnett says:
This slaughter test shows that by
supplying more protein, in this case by
feeding alfalfa, we get a greater devel
opment of Internal organs and more,
health anfj vlgoi^ Undoubted ljr if
more attention wire given Jo tfupplj*
Ing such foods as will bring about a
healthy organism, losses from cholera
and other diseases would be greatly re
duced. The strength of the thigh bones
was tested by providing supports at
both ends, applying pressure In the
middle. This test was made in a ma
chine for testing strength of materials.
The bones of the corn-fed pig meas
ured one-sixteenth of an Inch larger In
diameter. One bone from the corn-fed
pig broke under a pressure of 320
pounds and the other 330 pounds. One
of the bones of the corn-and-alfalfa
fed pigs broke at 500 pounds and tbe
other at 520 pounds. From this test It
Is evident that breakdowns, which
often occur in heavy corn-fed hogs, are
tbe fault of the feed rather than the
animal. It further shows that the
ability of the hog to stand up well on
legs is a matter of density of bone
rather than site.
A STORY OF GOLDSMITH MAID.
Chas. L. Flint, In a brief sketch of
Goldsmith Maid, says: The following
Incident, Bhowlng how attached an In
telligent horse becomes to a faithful
attendant, an ■. also the Influence of
kindness on dumb animals, will be of
Interest to many. As the story goes,
Charley Cochrane, who was for many
years the faithful custodian of Gold
smith Maid, went to pay her a visit.
It is well known that she was very
Jealous of her foal and would not per
mit anyone to come near it. It was
arranged that she should hear Char
ley’s voice before she saw him, and,
although they had been separated for
two years, a loud whinny presently as
sured the visitors that she had recog
nized the man’s voice. Cochrane next
showed himself, when a touching
scene occurred. The old Queen of the
Turf, who for months would not allow
anyone to approach her, making use of
both' hefels and teeth if it was attempt
ed, rushed with a bound to her old
friend, forgettin even her colt, and
rubbed her head upon his shoulders,
her nose in his face, played with his
whiskers and showed by her every
action that her heart was full of Joy
to see him. Directly the colt came up
to them, and she seemed delighted
when Charley placed his hand on the
little fellow. When Cochrane left the
place, she followed him to the gate,
whinnying for him even after he had
passed out of her sight.
Langshans are natives of Northern
China. They were Introduced Into Eng
land In 1872, and later into this coun
try. They have alroady taken high
rank as a breed. They are great win
ter layers.
It appears from the observations
recorded that, even In such plants as
melon and squash, the horizontal ex
tent of the roots usually equals or
exceeds that of the runners.
The Langshans, being natives of
Northern China, are easily acclimated
to our country, and are extreihely
hardy, withstanding readily the sever
est weather.
“Mossy” is the term used for con
tused or Indistinct marking in the
plumage.