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CHAPTER XIV.—(Continued.)
"My dear father! How wise and
kind you are!”
"It is my desire to he so. George.
You cannot, after this unfortunate de
lay, go to Doctor Moran without the
proofs of your ability to take care of
his daughter's future."
"How soon can this business be
accomplished."
“In about three weeks. I should
think. But wait your full time, and
do not go without the credentials of
your position. This three or four
weeks is necessary to bring to per
fection the waiting of two years.
“I will take your advice, sir. 1
thank you for your generosity.”
, "All that I have is yours. George.
And you can write to this dear girl
every day in the interim. Go now and
tell her what I say. I had other
dreams for you, as you know—they
are over now—I have awakened.”
“Dear Annie!” ejaculated George.
"Dear Annie!” replied the Earl with
a sigh. "She is one of the daughters
of God, I am not worthy to call her
mine, but I have sat at her feet, and
learned how to love, and how to for
give, and how to bear disappoint
ment. I will tell you, that when Col.
Saye insulted me last year and I felt
for my sword and would have sent
him a letter on its point—Annie
stepped before him. ‘Forget, and go
on, dear uncle,’ she said, and I did so
with a proud, sore heart at first, but
quite cheerfully in a week or two;
and at the last Hunt dinner he came
to me with open hand and we ate and
drank together, and are nowT firm
friends. Yet, hut for Annie, one of us
might be dead, and the other flying
like Cain exiled and miserable. Think
of these things, George. The good of
being a son is to be able to profit from
your father’s mistakes.”
They parted with a handclasp that
went to both hearts and as Hyde
passed his mother’s room, he went
in, and told her all that happened to
him. She listened with a smile and
a heartache. She knew now that the
tim9 had come to say “farewell” to
the boy who had made her life for
twenty-seven years. “He muut mar
ry like the rest of the world, and go
away from her,” and only mothers
know what supreme self-sacrifice a
pleasant acquiescence in this event
implies. But she bravely put down
all the clamoring selfishness of her
long, sweet care and affection, and
said cheerfully;
“Very much to my liking is Cor
nelia Moran. A loving wife and noble
mother she will make, and if I must
lose thee, my Joris, there is no girl
in America that I like better to have
thee.”
"Never will you lose me. mother.”
‘‘Ah then! that is what all sons
say. The common lot; I look for
nothing better. But see now, I give
thee up cheerfully. If God please, I
shall see thy sons and daughters; and
thy father has been anxious about
the Hydes. He would not have a
. stranger here—nor would I. Our hope
is in thee and thy sweet wife, and
very glad am I that thy wife is to be
Cornelia Moran.”
And even after Joris had left her
she smiled, though the tears dropped
down upon her work. She thought
of the presents she would send her
•
ir.g truth with all her heart, and des
pising whatever was underhand and
disloyal, had nut one course to take—
she must break off her engagement
with a man so far below her standard
of simple morality.
So she looked anxiously at Annie
as she entered, and Annie would not
keep her in suspense. "There was a
letter from Miss Moran last night,”
she said. "She loves George yet. She
re-wrote the unfortunate letter, and
this time it found its owner. I think
he has it next his heart at this very
moment.”
“I am glad of that, Annie. But who
has the first letter?"
"I think you know, Mary.”
“You mean Mr. Van Ariens?”
“Yes.”
“Then there is no more to be said.
I shall write to him as soon as pos
sible.”
“I am sorry-”
“No, no! Be content. Annie. The
right must always come right. Neith
er you nor I could desire any other
end, even to our own love story."
“But you must suffer.”
"Not much. None of us weep if we
lose what is of no value. And 1 have
noticed that the happiness of any one
is always conditioned by the unhappi
ness of some one else. Your cousin
and Cornelia will be happy, but there
are others that must suffer, that they
may be so. I will go now, Annie, be
cause until l have written to Mr.
Van Ariens I shall not feel free. And
also, I do not wish him to come here,
and in his last letter he spoke of
such an Intention.”
So the two letters—that of Hyde
to Cornelia, and that of Mary Darner
to Van Ariens, left England for
America in the same packet.
The tone of the Manor House w'as
now set to a key of the highest joy
and expectation. Hyde unconsciously
struck the note, for he was happily
busy from morning to night about
affairs relating either to his marriage
or to his future as the head of a
great household. All his old exigent,
extravagant liking for rich clothing
returned to him. He had constant
visits from his London tailor, who
brought with him a profusion of rieh
cloth, silk and satin, and who firmly
believed that the tailor made the
man. There were also endless inter
views with the family lawyer, endless
readings of law papers, and endless
consultations about rights and suc
cessions, which Hyde was glad and
grateful to leave very much to his
father's wisdom and generosity.
Some of the last days were occu
pied in selecting jewels for Cornelia,
with webs of gold and silver tissues,
and Spitalfields silks so rich and
heavy, that no mortal woman might
hope to outwear them. To these An
nie added from her own store of lace,
many very valuable pieces, and the
happy bridegroom was proud to see
that love was going to send him away
with both arms full for the beloved.
The best gift, however, came last,
and it was from the Earl. It was not
gold or land, though he gave gener
ously of both these, but one which
Hyde felt made his way straight be
fore him, and which he knew must
have cost his father much self-abne
gation. It was the following letter
to Dr. John Moran:
“My Dear Sir:
“It seems then, that our dear
children love each other so well, that
it is beyond our right, even as par
ents, to forbid their marriage, I ask
from you, for my son, who is an hum
ble and ardent suitor for Miss Mo
ran's hand, all the favor his sincere
devotion to her deserves. We have
both been young, we have both loved,
accept then his affection as some
atonement for any grievance or injus
tice you remember against myself.
Had we known each other better, we
should doubtless have loved each
other better; but now that marriage
will make us kin, I offer you my hand,
with all it implies of regret for the
past, and of respect for the future.
Your servant to command,
“RICHARD HYDE.”
“It is the greatest proof of my love
I can give you, George,” said the Earl,
when the letter had been read; "and
it is Annie you must thank for it.”
“Have you noticed, father, how
small and fragile-looking she is? Can
she really be slowly dying?"
“No, she is not dying; she is only
going a little further away—a little
further away, every hour. Some hour
she will be called, and she will an
swer, and we shall see her no more—
here. But I do not call that dying,
and if it be dying, Annie will go as
calmly and simply, as if she were ful
filling some religious rite or duty.
She loves God, and she will go to
Him.”
The next morning Hyde left his
father's home forever. It was impos
sible that such a parting should be
happy. No hopes, no dreams of fu
ture joy, could make him forget the
wealth of love he was leaving. Nor
did he wish to forget. And woe to the
man or w-oman who would buy com
posure and contentment by forgetting
—by really forfeiting a portion of their
existence—by being a suicide of their
own morpl nature.
The day was a black winter day,
with a monotonous rain and a dark
sky troubled by a ghostly wind. In
side the house the silence fell on the
heart like a weight. The Earl and
Countess watched their son’s carriaie
Visits from his London tailor.
daughter, and she told herself that
Cornelia was an American, and that
she had made for her, with her own
hands and brain, a lovely home
■wherein her memory must always
dwell. Indeed she let her thoughts
go far forward to see, and to. listen
to the happy boys and girls who
might run and shout gleefully
through the fair large rooms, and the
sweet shady gardens her skill and
taste had ordered and planted. Thus
her generosity made her a partaker
of her children's happiness, and who
A* ever partakes of a pleasure has his
share of it, and comes into contact—
not only with the happiness—but
with the other partakers of that hap
piness—a divine kind of interest for
generous deeds, which we may all
appropriate.
The next morning Mary Damer
called. She knew that a letter from
Cornelia was possible, and she knew
also that it would really be as fate
ful to herself as to Hyde. If, as she
suspected, it was Rem Van Ariens
who had detained the misdirected
letter, there was only one conceivable
result as regarded herself. She, an
upright, honorable English girl, lov J
turn from the door, and then looked
silently into each other’s face. The
Earl's lips were firmly set. and hia
eyes full of tears; the Countess was
weeping bitterly. He went with her
to her room, and with all his old charm
and tenderness comforted her.
At that moment Annie was forgot
ten, yet no one was suffering more
than she was. Hyde had knelt by
her sofa, and taken her in his arms,
and covered her face with tears and
kisses, and she had not been able to
oppose a parting so heart-breaking
and so final. The last tears she was
ever to shed dropped from her closed
eyes, as she listened to his departing
steps; and the roll of the carriage
carrying him away forever, seemed to
roll over her shrinking heart. She
cried out feebly—a pitiful little shrill
cry. that she hushed with a sob still
more full of anguish. Then she be
gan to cast over her suffering soul
the balm of prayer, and prostrate with
closed eyes, and hands feebly hang
ing down. Doctor Roslyn found her.
He did not need to ask a question, he
had long known the brave self-sacrifice
that was consecrating the child-heart
suffering so sharply that day; and he
said only—
"We are made perfect through suf
fering. Annie.”
"This is the last sorrow that can
come to me, father."
"And my dear Annie, you would
have been a loser without It. Every
grief has its meaning, and the. web
of life could not. be better woven, if
only love touched it.”
"I have been praying, father.”
“Nay, but God Himself prayed in
you. while your soul waited in deep
resignation. God gave you both the
resignation and the answer.”
"My heart failed me at the last—
then I prayed as well as I could.”
“And then, visited by the not your
self in you, your head was lifted up.
Hyde had knelt by her sofa.
Do not be frightened at what you
want. Strive for it little by little. All
that is bitter in outward things, or in
interior things, all that befalls you in
the course of a day, is your daily bread
if you will take it from His hand.”
Then she was silent and quite still,
and he sat and watched the gradual
lifting of the spirit’s cloud—watched,
until the pallor of her face grew lu
minous with the inner light, and her
wide open eyes saw, as in a vision,
things invisible to mortal sight; but
open to the spirit on that dazzling line
where mortal and immortal verge.
And as he went home, stepping slow
ly through the misty world, he him
self hardly knew whether he was in
the body or out of it. He felt not the
dripping rain, he was not conscious
of the encompassing earthly vapors,
he had passed within the veil. And his
feet stumbled not, nor was he aware
of anything around, until the Earl
met him at the park gates and touch
ing him said reverently—
"Father, you are close to the high
way. Have you seen Annie?”
"I have just left her.”
“She is further from us than ever.”
“Richard Hyde,” he answered, "she
is on her way to God, and she can
rest nothing short of that.”
(To be continued.)
TALES OF PRECIOUS STONES.'
Diamonds Were Not Known to Us
Until the Discovery of India.
Not until India was discovered were
diamonds known to the Western
world. The Indians called rock crys
tal an “unripe diamond," and up to
the eighteenth century India was sup
posed to be the only country where
that precious stone could be found.
Yet as far back as 500 B. C. a “didactic
history” of precious stones was writ
ten, and in Pliny's time the supply
must have been plentiful, as he wrote:
“We drink out of a mass of gems and
our drinking vessels are formed of
emeralds.”
It is difficult to determine whence
all the gems came, as discoverers took
care to leave no record. The nations
which traded in them were afraid of
their whereabouts being known, and
even the most ancient merchants
would not disclose any definite locale.
“Diamon;' was the name given to a
youth who was turned into the hard
est and most brilliant of substance to
preserve him from “the ills that flesh
is heir to.” Amethyst was a beautiful
nymph beloved by Bacchus, but saved
from him by Diana, who changed
Amethyst into a gem, whereupon
Bacchus turned the gem into wine col
or and endowed the wearer with the
gift of preservation from intoxication.
The pearl was thought to be a dew
drop the shell had opened to receive.
Amber was said to be honey melted
by the sun, dropped into the sea and
congealed.
He Was Satisfied.
“Life,” said the parson, “is made u*
of trials.”
“Yes. and I’m glad of it,” replied the
lawyer.
FAIR PLAY IN TRADE
RIGHT SORT OF RECIPROCITY FOB
THIS COUNTRY.
Equal Privileges for Our Exports in
All the Markets of the World and no
Tariff Discrimination for or Against
What We Import.
There is no question that the United
States can gel all the reciprocity trea
ties li wants or can aspire to If it will
to that end cut down sufficiently Its
protective duties and make sacrificial
offerings of Its home Industries. It
may be claimed In many instances and
perhaps proven In some that the par
ticular sacrifices demanded are small
in comparison with the general attonu
lage to be gained; but such reasoning
will never lie satisfactory to the indus
tries to bo sacrificed or prejudiced, nor
is it at all likely nor desirable that
Congress will ever place unreservedly
the power to slaughter protective du
ties in the hands of the President, who
in the course of time and events might
be actuated by an over-anxiety to make
a reciprocity record or even by hostil
ity to protection as a principle. So the
industries threatened defend them
selves through their friends in Con
gress and have the moral support out
side of people who without being well
advised In the premises believe In
fair play to every legitimate Ameri
can industry and view with instinctive
susplcian any proposition to find a
foreign market for some products by
impairing the home market for other
produel s.
From all of which it appears not
merely that reciprocity, as it bus been
recently proposed, has failed to work,
but that from the conditions surround
ing it it was from the start destined
to failure, and may as well now be
relegated definitely to the limbo of
attractive but impracticable schemes.
Acceptance of this situation should
not. however, carry with It abandon
ment of efforts to promole the foreign
trade and commercial expansion of the
that the trusts are so dangerous and
damaging as to demand that the pro
tective policy should be Interfered with
upon the excuse that the abolition of
duties would destroy trusts. As to
reciprocity, among the treaties hung
up in the Senate is one with the Ar
gentine Republic, opening our markets
for Argentine wool and hides in return
for opening the markets of that coun
try to the manufactures of the United
Slates. This would mean ruin for the
wool and cattle growers of the West
in return for something to be gained
by the Eastern manufacturers. For
tunately the people of Montana and
the West can depend upon a Repub
lican Congress to protect their inter
ests and to consent to no changes In
the tariff that would tend to make
larger prosperity for one class at the
expense of other classes of Americans.
—Helena (Mont.) Record.
Our Annual Gift to Europe.
The annual exodus to Europe has
begun. A single steamship last week
took a thousand first-class passengers
and $500,000 in gold, which about cov
ers the expenditures of the tourists at
an average of $500 each—a very con
servative estimate. Here we can ac
count for at least $75,000,000 a year
of our favorable balance, and it must
he remembered that this $75,000,000 or
more is simply a gift to Europe for
which we get no material commodities
In return. It is spent In transporta
tion, hotels and sight seeing, most
commendable ways for thoso w’ho can
afford them. At the same time the
millions are dumped into English and
Continental pockets with no appreci
able return. All of which proves our
wonderful prosperity and wealth under
our excellent tariff.
As to Cummins.
The “iowa idea,” advocated by Gov.
Cummins and his followers, if put
Into practice, will knock things end
wise In that state, if Gov. Cummins
thinks for one moment that the Re
publican party is to be frightened into
adopting a free trade policy by his
ranting he Is greatly mistaken. Oth
ers have snarled and tried to flag the
Is it Possible That Cat Has Come Back Again?
I! 11 li Mk
country. Rather should the frank rele
gation of any unavailable instrument
make easier the search for an effective
weapon for a most proper purpose.
Reciprocity at best is a piecemeal
proposition, involving a haggle with
each separate nation over the mutual
concessions to be made, and by its nec
essary and interminable delays weary
ing its friends and disgusting every
one. The dignity of the United States
and the practical necessities of the
case alike demand the adoption of
some policy that shall be susceptible
of general application, that shall pro
tect the American producer and ship
per against petty exactions and dis
criminations in foreign markets, and
that shall, in short, compel in every
quarter the “open door” for American
trade, but that shall be content when
that door is Just as open to American
trade as it is to any other trade.
The time was when the United States
was not of sufficient commercial conse
quence to enable it successfully to in
augurate such a policy, but the time is
when the United States with its Im
mense population, unprecedented
wealth and unapproached consuming
capacity for nearly all sorts of prod
ucts is in position, if it admits the
products of another nation upon the
same terms as it admits the products
of all other nations, to demand from
that nation like treatment for its own
products.
To ask more would be to ask what
other nations are very likely prohibit
ed by their existing agreements from
granting, but equality of treatment the
United States may justly and should
in self-respect insist upon, and the na
tion which denies this much s,hould be
made to pay upon all its exports to
this country a discriminating duty,
either uniform for all nations of its
class or graduated according to the
discriminations which American ex
ports suffer in its markets.
By such policy of dignified insist
ance and retaliation must the United
States in the end protecUts interests
in the markets of jealous nations, and
with such protection assured there is
every reason to anticipate that the era
of American commercial expansion
will soon appear to be only well be
gun.—Nevada (ia.) Representative.
Montana Would Suffer.
The people of Montana are interest
ed In the question. They have experi
enced the benefits of protection and
aave seen nothing to convince them
moon on this same line, but where are
those fellows to-day? A little cheap
notoriety for the sake of coming Into
the light will result to Cummins as
that of the moth that hoverB near the
gas burner. He will soon disappear
from the horizon as an enemy to his
state and to this nation. No man can
urge free trade for the United States
and be a good citizen at the same
time.—Pueblo (Col.) Opinion.
A Loss of $10,000,000,000 a Year.
There were, according to the census,
29,074,117 persons engaged in gainful
occupations in 1900. There must be
fully 32,500,000 new. The income of
these people will certainly average
over $2 a day, or $20,000,000,000 annu
ally altogether. The sum Is probably
nearer twice that amount. But sup
pose we were to lower our tariff or
abolish it as the free traders wish, our
Incomes would certainly but cut into
and reduced by at least $10,000,000,000
a year. In ten years that would be a
sum equal to our total wealth. Think
of what the loss of $10,000,000,000 a
year in Incomes means. No wonder
the great majority of the people want
to let well enough alone, and put ofT
revision either up or down till some
years hence.
Our Drink Bill.
Our drink bill last year amounted to
$1,360,098,276, about 50 per cent more
than in 1896. The quantities of the
four leading beverages consumed
were:
Gallons.
Coffee .1.498.910,304
Beer .1,381,875,437
Tea . 396,420,115
Spirits and wine. 157.206,554
We might get along on milk and
water, but we don’t, not when protec
tion gives such prosperity as we are
now enjoying.
A Good Thing to Keep Out Of.
Tariff discriminations and recrimi
nations have brought on a warm little
row between Canada and Germany.
Canada began it by giving Great Brit
ain a 33 1-3 preferential tariff rate on
manufactured goods. Germany retali
ates by clapping higher duties on Can
adian wheat. It is a natural and in
evitable outcome of the system of pref
erential trade arrangements commonly
called “reciprocity.” It is chiefly pro
ductive of reciprocal hatred and ill
will. A good thing for any country to
keep out of.
'LIVE
Grades of Cattle and Profit
At the University of Illinois are be
ing fed six carloads of cattle for the
purpose of ascertaining what grade of
cattle will yield the most profit for
the operation of feeding. These six
carloads consist of sixteen steers each.
They were purchased by Professor
Mumford, who was careful to select
steers for each lot that should be rep
resentative. The six grades were, the
fancy selected, choice, good, medium,
common, inferior. Every load is fed
In paved lots of equal size, provided
with the same kind and amount of
shelter and the same exposure. The
rations fed to each are of the same
kind and of the same amount -to a
thousand pounds live weight of cat
tle, except in such instances as the
appetites of the cattle belonging to a
certain grade clearly show that they
are being overfed or undorfed as com
pared with other grades of cattle used
In this test.
A committee of three expert buyers
of live stock visits the station at in
tervals of one month and fixes the
| money value gain that each lot has
made per 100 pounds during the pre
ceding month. These three men are
John T. Alexander, Geo W. Shannon
and James Brown, all of Chicago. The
experiment began November 29, 1902.
The market value per 100 weight at
the beginning of the experiment and
the Increase of value by May 1C, was
as follows:
Lot Purchase Value. Increase.
Fancy .$4.75 $1.30
Choice . 4.56 1.25
Good . 4.20 1.20
Medium . 3.86 1.20
Common . 3.60 • 1.00
inferior .;. 3.35 1.15
Below are the average weights of
the steeri In each lot on November 29
and May 16:
Nov. 29. May 16.
Fancy . 934 1,360
Choice .1,116 1.544
Good .1,019 1,401
Medium ....1,022 1,370
Common . 966 1,328
Inferior . 966 1,302
A little examination of these figure^
shows that on the average a st£3r of
the fancy lot cost $38,365 and was
worth on May 16, $82.28, a gain in
value of $43,915. A steer of the in
ferior lot cost $32,361 and was worth
on May 16, $58.65, a gain in value of
$26,289. But this is figured on a uni
form market, which Is correct so far
as this experiment goes. But as a
matter of fact the market has de
clined, and the fancy grades have suf
fered more than the inferior grades.
It seems altogether likely that, owing
to this state of the market, the in
ferior grade will prove the most
profitable. But feeding experiments
cannot be adjusted to fluctuations of
the market, and much light is certain
to be shed ab'road by this experiment
with carload lots.
Cattle at Odebolt, Iowa.
The Iowa Agricultural College la
carrying on some elaborate experi
ments In cattle feeding at the Broolt
mont farm at Odebolt, Iowa. The
farm furnishes the animals feed and
labor and builds yards, sheds, and
water tanks according to the plans
furnished by the experiment station.
The station determines the different
lines of feeding to be followed, di
vides the cattle into suitable lota and
details a representative to take con
trol of the work. At the completion of
the experiment, the data obtained Is
taken by the experiment Btation for
publication and the animals are re
turned to the control of the farm
which markets them. Five hundred
steers and five hundred hogs are now
being fattened on the farm In these
co-operative experiments. Three tests
are being made in fattening steers, as
follows: Acclimatization test, light
and heavy ration test, supplementary
feeds teBt.
In the acclimatization test fifty
bead of southern steers are fed In one
lot and fifty head of western steers
In a second lot. Each lot is fed all
the corn and wheat straw they will
eat. The object or this experiment is
to determine from what section of the
country Iowa farmers will find it most
profitable to buy steers to be fat
tened.
Three lots of fifty steers each are
fed in the light and heavy ration test.
All lots are fed all the wheat straw
they will eat. The maximum daily
ration of the first lot will be 16 lbs. of
corn per steer, of the second lot 20
lbs. of corn per steer, and of tne third
lot 24 lbs. of corn per steer. The ob
ject Is to determine whether light,
medium or heavy feeding of grain to
fattening steers will give the greatest
gains for feed consumed and the most
profit.
In the supplementary feeds test five
lots of fifty steers each are fed. All
lots are fed all the wheat straw they
will eat. For a grain ration lot one is
fed corn alone, lot two corn and lin
seed meal, lot three corn and cotton
seed meal, lot four corn and Gluten
feed, and lot five corn and blood meal,
the latter containing 87 per cent pro
tein.
The object of this test is to deter
mine the effect iu fattening steers of
supplementing corn with a feed rich
in protein and also to test the in
fluences in gains and quality of flesh
of the different protein feeds. At the
close of the feeding the 500 head will
be shipped to Chicago and a slaughter
test made with each lot by some lead
ing packing house. In every lot one
hog is kept for each steer to test the
value of the droprings.