THE MAID af MAIDEN LANE Sequel to “The Bow of Orange Ribbon.” A LOVE STORY BY AMELIA E. 3AR2 * (Copyright XTOO, by Amelia E. Barr) - ■" — ' ---- CHAPTER XI.—(Continued.) “Does he remember how he was hurt?" “He declares his men mutinied, be cause Instead of returning to New J York, he had taken on a cargo for the East India company, anti that the blow was given him by his first or sec ond mate. He vows he will get well and find his ship and the rascals that stole her; and 1 should not wonder if he does. He has will enough for any thing. Madame desires to see you, Cornelia. Can you go there with me in the morning?” “I shall be glad to go. Madame is like no one else." “She is not like herself at present. • She has but one thought, one care, one end and aim in life—her hus . band.” Cornelia was taken to the dim un canny drawing-room by Ameer, and left among its ill-omened gods, and odd treasuretrove for nearly half an hour. When raadame at length came to her, she looked ten years older. Her wonderful dark eyes glowing with a soft tender fire alone remained un touched by the withering hand of anic ious love. They were as vital as ever they had been, and when Cornelia said so, she answered, “That is because my soul dwells in them, and my soul is always young. I have had a year, Cornelia, to crumble the body to du3t, but my soul made light of it for love s sake. Did your father tell you bow much Capt. Jacobus had suffered?" "Yes, madame.” “Poor Jacobus! Till 1 be key-cold k dead, 1 shall never forget my first sight of him in that dreadful place—" and then she described her overwhelm ing emotions when she perceived he was alike apathetic to his pauper con dition, and to her love and presence. There never came a moment during the whole visit when it was possible to speak of Hyde. Madame seemed to have quite forgotten her liking for the handsome youth, it had been swal lowed up in her adoring affection for her restored husband. One morning, however, the long looked-for topic was introduced. “I had a visit from Madame Van Heems kirk yesterday afternoon.” she said, “and the dear old Senator came with her to see Capt. Jacobus. While they talked madame told me that you had refused that handsome young fellow, her grandson. What could you mean by such stupKity, Miss Moran?” Her voice had just that tone of in difference. mingled with sarcastic dis approval. that hurt and offended Cor nelia. She felt that it was not worth * wrhile to explain herself, for madame had evidently accepted the offended grandmother's opinion and the mem ory of the young Lord was lively enough to make her sympathize with his supposed wrong. “I never considered von to be a flirt,” sfie continued, “and I am aston ished. I told Madame Van Heemskirk that I had not the least doubt Doctor Moran dictated the refusal.” “Oh, indeed,” answered Cornelia, with a good deal of spirit, and some anger, “you shall not blame my father. \__—;-,i —^ “I have been thoughtless, selfish-” He knew nothing whatever of Lord Hyde’s offer until I had been subjected to such insult and wrong as drove me to the grave’s mouth. Only the mercy of God and my father's skill, brought me back to life.” ‘‘Yes, I think your father to be won derfully skilful. Doctor Moran is a fine physician; Jacobus says so." Cornelia remained silent. If ma dame did not feel interest sufficient in her affairs to ask for the particulars of one so nearly fatal to her. she de termined not to force the subject on her. Then Jacobus rang his bell and madame flew to his room to see whether his want had received proper attention. Cornelia sat still a few ^moments, her heart swelling, her eyes filling with the sense of that injustice, harder to bear than any other form of wrong. She was goirg away, when madame returned to her and some thing in her eyes went to the heart of the older woman. ‘‘I have been thoughtless. Cornelia, selfish, I dare say, but I do not wish to be so. Tell me, my dear, what has happened. Did you quarrel with George Hyde? And pray what was it about?” ‘‘We never had one word of any Wind, but words of affection. He wrote and asked me if he could come and see my father about our marriage, on a certain night. I answered hts letter with all the love that was in my heart for him. and told him to come and see my father that very night. He never came. He never sent me the least explanation. He never wrote to me, or spoke to me again." "If what you have told me be so— and I believe it is—then I say Lord George Hyde is an intolerable scoun drel." “I would rather not hear him spo ken of in that way." "Very well! 1 would rather have a man ‘intolerably rude’ like my nephew Rem, than one like Lord Hyde who speaks well of everybody. Upon my word, I think that is the worst kind of slander!” “I think not." "It is, for it takes away the reputa tion of good men by making all men alike. But this, that, or the other, I saw Lord Hyde in devoted attendance on Lady Annie. Give him up totally." "I have done so.” answered Cornelia And then she felt a sudden anger at herself, so much so, that as she walk ed home, she kept assuring her heart with an almost passionate insistence, "I have not given him up! I will not give him up! I believe in him yet!" CHAPTER XII. A Heart That Waits. Late summer on the Norfolk Broads! And where on earth can the lover of boats find a more charming resort? Close to the Manor of Hyde, the country home of Karl Hyde in Nor folk, there was one of these delightful Broads—fiat as a billiard table, and hidden by the tall reeds which border ed it. But. Annie Hyde lying at the open window of her room in the Manor House could see its silvery waters, and the biack-sailed wherry floating on them, and the young man sitting at the prow fishing, and idling, among the lilies and languors of these hot summer days. An aged man sat silently by her, a man of noble beauty, whose soul was in every part of his body, expressive and impressive—a fiery particle not always at its window, but when there, Infecting and going through observers, whether they would or not. There had been silence for some time between them, and he did not ap pear disposed to break it, but Annie longed for him to do so, because she had a mystical appetite for sacred tilings and was never so happy and so much at rest as when he was talking to her of them. “Dear father,” she said finally, “I have been thinking of the past years, in which you have taught me so much.” It is better to look forward, An nie,” he answered. "The traveler to Eternity must not continually turn back to count his steps, for if God he leading him. no matter how danger ous or lonely the road. ‘He w'ill pluck thy feet out of the net.’ ” As he spoke these words Mary Damer entered, and she laid her hand on his shoulder and said. “My dear Doctor Roslyn. after deatli what then? we are not all good—what then?” He looked at her wistfully and an swered, “I will give you one thought, Mary, to ponder—the blessedness of heaven, is it not an eternity older than the misery of hell? Let your soul fearlessly follow where this fact leads it; for there is no limit to God’s mercy.” Then he rose and went away, and Mary sat down in his place, and Annie gradually came back to the material plane of everyday life and duty. In deed Mary brought this element in a very decided form with her; for she had a letter in her hand from an old lover, and she was much excited by its advent, and eager to discuss the particulars with Annie. "It is from Capt. Seabright, who is now in Pondicherry,” she explained. "He loves me, Annie. He loved me long ago, and went to India to make money; now he says he has enough and to spare; and he asks me if I haVe forgotten.’ • There is Mr. \ an Ariens to con sider. You have promised to marry him, Mary. It is not hard to find the right way on this road. I think.” “Of course. I would scorn to do a dishonorable or unhandsome thing. But is it not very strange Willie Sea bright should write to mo at this time? How contradictory life is! I had also a letter from Mr. Van Ariens by the same mail, and I shall answer them both this evening.” Then she laughed a little, and added, ‘‘I must take care and not make the mistake an American girl made, under much the same circumstances.” "What was it?” inquired Annie languidly. "She misdirected her letters and thus sent •No' to the man whom of all others, she wished to marry.” As Mary spoke a soft brightness seemed to pervade Annie's brain cells, and she could hardly restrain the ex clamation of sudden enlightenment that rose to her lips. "Mary.” she said, “what a strange incident! Did you know the girl?”' “I saw her once in Philadelphia. Mr. Van Ariens told me about her. She is the friend of his sister the Marquise de Tounnerre.” “I am sorry for that unfortunate American girl." ou am t. out? is a rui ut'ttaij. Her name Is Cornelia Moran, and her father is a famous physician in New York." "And this beauty had two lovers?” "Yes; an Englishman of noble birth; and an American. They both loved her, ad she loved the Englishman. They must have boih asked her hand on the same day, and she must have an swered both letters in the same hour; and the letter she intended for the man she loved, went to the man she did not love. Presumably, the man she loved got the refusal she Intended for the other, for he never sought her society again; and Mr. Van Ariens told me she nearly died in *r)nse quence.” “And what became of the two lov ers. Mary?" "The Englishman went back to England; and the American found an other girl more kind to him." “I wonder what made Mr. Van Ariens tell you this story?" "He talked much of his sister, and this young lady was her chief friend and confidante.” "When did It happen?" “A few days after his sister's mar riage.” “Then the Marquise could not know of it; and so she could not have told “Your servant, ladies." her brother. However In the world could he have found out the mistake? Do you think the girl herself found it out?" “That is inconceivable." answered Mary. “She would have written to her lover and explained the affair." ‘ Certainly. It is a very singular in cident. I want to think it over—how —did—Mr. Van Ariens—find—dt—out, 1 wonder!” “Perhaps the rejected lover con fided in him." "What did Mr. Van Ariens say about the matter? What did ne think? Why did he tell you?” “We were talking of the Marquise. The story came up quite naturally. I think Mr. Van Ariens felt sorry for Miss Moran. Of course he did. Will you listen to Capt. Seabright’s letter? I had no idea it could affect me so much.” “But you loved him once?” “Very dearly.” “Well then, Mary. I think no one has a double in love or friendship. If the loved one dies, or goes away, his place remains empty forever. We have lost feelings that he, and he only, could call up.” At this point in the conversation Hyde entered, brown and wind-blown, the scent of the sedgy water and the flowery woods about him. "Your servant, ladies,” he said gay iy, “I have bream enough for a dozen families, Mary; and I have sent a string to the rectory.” (To be continued.) The Northwest Territory. The Canadian government has is sued a census bulletin, which gives statistics as to agriculture in Alberta. Assiniboia and Saskatchewan, which united comprise the Northwest terri tory. The total area of these terri tories is 190.903.117 acres. Of this area, 75.99 per cent is unimproved. Field crops, exclusive of hay, occupy 53 per cent of the improved land, but only a fair beginning has been made with fruit trees and vegetables. The area of land in wheat, oats, barley, rye, corn, peas, potatoes and other field roots in 1891 was 194,773 acres, an increase in a decade of 333 pel cent. New Method in Photography. Katatypy, the new method in pho tography, is described as follows: "Over the finished negative Is pouretl a solution of hydro-superoxide. This leaves, after the evaporation, a uni form layer of peroxide of hydrogen. Soon the silver of the plate works upon this peroxide and produces a cat alytic dissolution wherever there is silver, while In the places free from silver the peroxide remains. By this means an invisible picture of hydro superoxide is produced upon the plate. This picture can be printed from the plate directly upon common paper, to which the image is transferred.” Danger of Gas Poisoning. The modern method of mixing eoa. gas with "water gas" greatly in creases the amount of carbon monoxid in the gas supplied for Il lumination. Hence an alarming in crease in the number of cases of car bon monoxid poisoning has recently been noticed. - Good of Municipal Pawnshop. A beneficence to the unfortunate in German cities is the municipal pawn shop. rKOTEUTION S VALUE. WHY WE CAN EXPORT MANUFAC TURED PRODUCTS. Because the Domestic Producer. Being Assured of the Home Market, Can Profitably Increase His Output and , Sell His Surplus Abroad. Wo are asked to make answer to j the following: ‘ Minneapolis. Minn., April 4, 1903.— In preparing for a debate on protec tive tariff and tariff for revenue only, I have come to a question which seems to me to be beyond reason. The ques tion is. Why do we need protection for our industries when our commodi ties are exported to nearly all parts of the globe? J. A. Hlnsvark.” Your question. “Why do we need proteetion for our industries when our commodities are exported to near ly all parts of the globe?" will not ap pear, upon examination, so far “be yond reason" as you seem to think. First of all, out of our total annual production of fifteen billions in manu factured products, only 3 per cent, or four hundred and fifty millions, are ex ported to foreign countries. The r^ maining 97 per cent is consumed by our own people. The need and the function of a protective tariff is to in sure to our manufacturers this mar ket which consumes 97 per cent of their output. Protection says to these manufacturers: “This market, this op portunity is yours. Make the most of it.” How do they make the most of it? Under the guarantee of settled k ami stable conditions which insure to them a market for their output these manufacturers have so expanded, so Improved, so developed manufacturing methods and processes: by the intro duction of labor saving machinery could dump their surplus products upon the United States market. This they arc unable to do because of our protective tariff. To permit them to do this would be to displace an equal amount of domestic, production and with It a corresponding amount of employment and wages In this coun try. Either that, or we would be com pelled to put In force In this country a general and sweeping reduction of wages in order to lower the cost of production so as to be able to still control the market against foreign competition. There being practically no other way of reducing production cost, the reduction must mainly fall upon wages. The protetlve tariff says this shall not be done, and It will not be donw so long as the right to control the great domestic market is reserved to the general body of domestic pro ducers. Our foreign trade In manufactured products is a mere bagatelle, a drop In the bucket. It must always remain so, at least so long as the wide differ ence between the American rate of wages and standard of living and the rate of wages and standard of living which prevail In foreign countries is maintained. For many years it was the favorite contention of free-traders that our protective country could not maintain a protective tariff and at the same time carry on trade with the balance of the world. Events have proven the utter falsity of this contention. Under the operation of a purely protective tariff in the last six years the foreign trade of the United States has nearly doubled, our exports of manufactured products for foreign countries have doubled as compared with 1895, and our sales of agricultural products and raw materials have correspondingly increased. At the same time, owing to the conditions of great prosperity which have prevailed here, our pur chases of commodities and materials THE IOWA BRAND IS NOT TO HIS LIKING. they have so cheapened the cost of products or have so lowered the per centage that the labor cost bears to the finished article that they have gradually and steadily, and, in the filial outcome, immensely cheapened the general average of prices in this market as compared with prices for similar articles in periods of time prior to the full development of the protective policy. This could not be done In the face of the uncertainties ami dangers of for eign competition. Before the manu facturer cau decide upon his total out put for the current season or year he tfiust know upon what market he can depend. Knowing this and being as sured that through the operations of the protective tariff this market can not be taken away from him, he can now proceed with certainty, method and exactness. We will suppose he has arranged to produce one thousand units and has made all his prepara tions for such a production. It turns out that owing to the superior styie, finish and quality of the goods pro duced or for some other reason he can find a sale for something more than his one thousand units in foreign countries. He can very easily in crease his output to fifteen hundred units, we will say, and in so doing will diminish the percentage of cost of production. To illustrate: He can produce fifteen hundred tons of hard ware or fifteen hundred yards of cloth at a much lower percentage of cost for the fifteen hundred than for the one thousand tons or yards originally arranged for. Hence it w ill follow that he can market his surplus production, If necessary, in foreign countries, at a slightly lower rate than that which prevails in the home market. Not much of this kind of discount on ex port sale, however,. is done. The amount is greatly exaggerated by those who oppose the policy of pro tection. It stands to reason that when the producing capacity of our manu factories is pressed to its limit to sup- | ply the home demand, as is actually the case In the existing conditions of phenomenal prosperity, our producers will not feel greatly tempted to sell goods abroad at a reduced price, and they are not doing this to any con siderable extent. What, they are do ing is to employ American labor and pay American wages to vast numbers of American workers, and the country Is growing richer and richer by leapt and bounds as the result of this emi nently wise and sensible policy. Take away protection and you open this vast market of eighty millions of liberal consumers to the competition of depressed and overloaded Indus tries in the old world, where the price of labor Is from one half to one quar ter the standard of American wages. For example: Germany Is now under going a period of hard times. A aim-* liar condition prevails in England. Both of those countries would be greatly relieved and enriched if thay of foreign countries have enormously increased, hav ing now reached upward of one billion dollars annually. We are, as a matter of fact, considering our ability to produce at home most of the things that we require, the most liberal purchasing nation on earth. The fact that our purchases from are less than our sales to foreign countries Is due wholly to the opera tion of the protective tariff. It ena bles us to take our pay in money ^r Its equivalent—such as the cancellation of foreign debts, the liquidation of two hundred millions annually paid to for eign owners of ships, the seventy-five millions annually expended In foreign countries by American tourists—in stead of receiving our pay in foreign made merchandise, w:e get our pay vir tually In cash. Our apparent trade balances for the last six years have averaged from four hundred and fifty millions to six hundred millions a year. In those six years we bav© paid enormous sums In liquidation of debts owed to foreigners, in repurchase of American securities owned abroad, and at the same time these trade bal ances have enabled us to take care of the two hundred millions yearly of freight charges and the seventy-five millions yearly of money spent by our tourists abroad. All this time we have kept our own labor employed and have increased In wealth at a rate hitherto unknown in the history of nations. We maintain the protective tariff because of its known fruits. We re ject the free trade policy because of its known disasters and horrors. Wo have a condition of absolute free-trade between forty-five states and territo ries, the largest free-trade nation in any part of the world, but to the out side world, we say, "We are sufficient unto ourselves so far as our mechani cal ingenuity, our enterprise, our in ventiveness and our skill, enable us to supply our own wants. We propose that this republic shall do its own work. That is protection. The wisest and best brains in the country have accepted this policy as final and permanent in its relation to the pros perity of the country. If we can main tain protection and prosperity at home, while at the same time selling to the outside world all surplus of production, so much the better for us. —American Economist. Sunshine of Prosperity. In spite of somber prophecies the foreign trade of the United States con tinues to grow, a regular boom having been experienced since the first of the year, which dissipates the doubts oc casioned by last year's falling off. The exports during February were far greater than those of any previous February in our national history and the Imports were also unusually large. As yet there is no cloud on the Indus-1 trial horizon. The sun of prosperity! still shines.—Terre Haute Tribune. lliiL SUMJA1 feLHUUL. LESSON X., JUNE 7—PAUL'S VOYAGE AND SHIPWRECK. Golden Text—"Then They Cry Unto the Lord in Their Trouble, and He Bring eth Them Out of Their Distresses"— Psalm 107:28. I The Voyage from Cesurea to Crete. Paul on the Peaceful 8ea.—Vs. 1-13 Paul's party consisted of himself, I.uke, the author, and Aristarchus (v. 2). These were old and tried friends lActs 20 4). II. The Long-Continued Hurricane Paul's Conduct In a Storm.—Vs. 14-2G. The ship hud sailed but u short time along the soutti of Crete, when "there struck down from the Cretan mountains, which towered above them to the height of over 7.000 feet, a sudden eddying squall from the east-north-east."—Ram say. This wind “caught'' the ship and made her unmanageable, whirling her out of her course. Paul’s Vision of Cheer. The storm had continued nearly two weeks without sight of sun or stars, which, in those days, before the invention of the compass, were the only guides to sailors who were out. of sight of land. They were almost in despair during the latter part of this long struggle for life, drifting, they knew not wtiere. weary and hungry. Then one morning Paul, standing among the sail ors and soldiers and passengers, told them of a message of cheer God's an gel had brought to him in the night, (•’or God had promised Paul that ho should go to Rome, a promise which it had been hard to believe in the storm, but It was now renewed. God had said to him. “Fear not.” IV. Tlie Shipwreck and Rescue. Paul i Conduct In the Wreck.—Vs. 27-44. Paul and the Sailors. At the end of fourteen days the ship drifted near to land. They anchored by four anchors from the stern, and longed for the dawn. Seeing their danger and knowing thut the small boat, was not large enough for all on board, the sailors tried to escape In It under pretense of laying out anchors from the foreship. Paul appealed to the centurion lo put a stop*to Ills selfish plan, for otherwise all hut the sailor's would be lost. The sailors understood managing the ship; the soldiers could have done nothing Therefore before the satlora could get Into the boat, the soldiers cut the ropes which held it to the ship, and let it drift away. Paul and the Passengers. 33. "While the day was coming on" idurtng the long, tedious time when nothing could be done but to watt for the dawn) "Paul besought them all to take meat." That la. food. "The fourteenth day , continued fasting." 36. "He took bread, and gave thank i to God." as every pious Jew and Chris tian was accustomed to do. This was a special opportunity for Paul to point these heathen to the true God. The act was a sermon on gratitude to Ood, on the loving care of God, and duty toward God. 36. “Then were they all of good cheer." The food strengthened those on the shlt> »o that they could receive th •inspiring hope of Paul. Our bodies are temples of the Holy Ghost, and we must keep those temples in repair. Our spir itual life Is like a tree which "grow more from heaven than earth," and yet must be well rooted In the ground if II would bear good fruit. This is not th