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r r i d t o i H i i JlU - - I J 4444M441444SJ4 The Bow of Orange Ribbon A ROMANCE OF NEW YORK j By AMELIA E BARR Author of Friend OIIvIol I Trtoi and th Other OneEto 3r Copyright 1886 by Dodd Mead and Company At the Swords Point Neils first emotion was not so much one of anger as of exultation I shall have him at my swords point he kept saying to himself as he turned from Hyde to Van Heemskirks house Katherine sat upon the steps of the -stoop Touching her to arouse her attention Neil said Come with me down the garden my love - She looked at him wonderingly but rose at his request and gave him her hand Then the tender thoughts which had lain so deep in his heart flew to his lips and he wood her with a fervor and nobility as astonising to himself as to Katherine He reminded her of all the sweet intercourse of their hap py lives and of the fidelity with which he had loved her Oh my Katherine my sweet Katherine Who Is there that can take you from me No one will I marry With my father and my mother I will stay Yes till you learn to love me as I love you with the whole soul You are to be my wife Katherine That I have not said Katherine is it true that Capt Hyde is wearing a bow of your orange ribbon Yes A bow of my St Nicholas rib bon I gave him Why Me he loves and him I love You have more St Nicholas rib bons Go and get me one Get a bow Katherine and give it to me I will wait here for it No that I will not do How false how wicked I would be if two lovers my colors wore Well then I will cut my bow from Hydes breast I will though I cut his heart out with it He turned from her as he said the words and without speaking to Joris passed through the garden gate to his own home In the calm of his own chamber through the silent solemn hours when the world was shut out of his life Neil reviewed his position but he could find no honorable way out of the predicament He was quite sen sible that his first words to Capt Hyde that night had been intended to provoko a quarrel and he knew that he would be expected to redeem them by a formal defiance However as the idea became familiar it became imperative and at length it was with a fierce satisfaction he opened his desk and without hesitation wrote the decisive words 4Hf 444 4444Mf44444MiM CHAPTER V Continued Neil was intensely angry and his dark eyes glowed beneath their dropped lids with a passionate hate But he left his father with an as sumed coldness and calmness The sarcastic advice annoyed him and he wanted time to fully consider his ways He was no physical cow ard he was a fine swordsman and he felt that it would be a real joy to stand with a drawn rapier between himself and his rival But what if revenge cost him too much What if he slew Hyde and had to leave his love and his home and his fine business pros pects To win Katherine and to marry hor in the face of the man whom he felt that he detested would not that be the best of all satisfac tions He walked about the streets dis cussing these points with himself till the shops all closed and on the stoops -of the houses in Maiden Lane and Lib erty street there were merry parties -of gossiping belles and beaux Then he returned to Broadway Still debating with himself he came to a narrow road which ran to the river along the southern side of Van Heemskirks house Coming swiftly up it as if to detain him was Capt Hyde The two men looked at each -other defiantly and Neil said with a cold meaning emphasis At your service sir Mr Semple at your service and touching his sword to the very hilt sir Sir yours to the same extremity Ap for tire cause Mr Semple here it Is and he pushed aside his em broidered coat in order to exhibit to Neil the bow of orange ribbon be neath It I will dye It crimson in your blood said Neil passionately In the meantime I have the felicity of wearing it and with an offensively deep salute he terminated the inter view CHAPTER VI Capt Hyde still sleeping when he waited upon liim Hyde laughed light ly at Mr Semples impatience of of- fense and directed Mr Beekman to Capt Earle as his second leaving the choice of swords and of the ground entirely to his direction Lightly as Hyde had taken the chal lenge he was really more disinclined to fight than Neil was In his heart he knew that Semple had a just cause or anger but then he argiTed I would not resign the girl for my life for I am sensible that life if she is anothers will be a very tedious thing to me All day Neil was busy in making his will and in disposing of his affairs Hyde felt equally the necessity for some definite arrangement of his busi ness He owed many debts of honor and Cohens bill was yet unsettled He drank a cup of coffee wrote sev eral important letters and then went To Capt Richard Hyde of His j ed at once to give him such tys Service Sir A person of the character 1 bear cannot allow the treachery and dishonorable conduct of which you have been guilty to pass without pun ishment Convince me that you are -more of a gentleman than I have rea son to believe by meeting me to night as the sun drops in the wood on the Kalchhook Hill Our seconds can lo cate the spot and that you may have bo pretense to delay I send by bearer two swords of which I give you the privilege to make choice In the interim at your service Neil Semple He had already selected Adrian Beekman as his second a young man of wealth and good family Beekman accepted the duty with alacrity and indeed so promptly carried out his principals instructions that he found I lad to Fraunces and had a steak and a bottle of wine During his meal his thoughts wandered between Kath erine and the Jew Cohen After it he went straight to Cohens store It happened to be Saturday and the shutters were closed though the door was slightly open and Cohen was sit ting with his granddaughter in the cool shadows of the crowded place Miriam retreated within the deeper shadows of some curtains of stamped Moorish leather for she anticipated the Im mediate departure of the intruder She was therefore astonished when her grandfather after listening to a few sentences sat down and entered into a lengthy conversation When at last they rose Hyde extended his hand Cohen he said few men would have been as generous and at this hour as considerate as you I have judged from tradition and mis judged you Whether we meet again or not we part as friends You have settled all things as a gentleman captain May my white hairs say a word to your heart this hour Hyde bowed and he con tinued in a voice of serious benignity The words of the Holy One are to be regarded and not the words of men Men call that honor which He will call murder What excuse Is there In your lips if you go this night into his presence There was no excuse in Hydes lips even for his mortal interrogator He merely bowed again and slipped through the partially opened door into the busy street Miriam returned to her place and asked plainly What murder is there to be grandfather It is a duel between Capt Hyde and another It shall be called mur der at the last The other who is he The young man Semple Oh Mir iam what sin and sorrow thy sex ever bring to those who love it There are two young lives to be put in death peril for the smile of a woman a very girl she is Do I know her grandfather She passes here otten The daugh ter of Van Heemskirk the little fair one the child Oh but now I am twice sorry She has smiled at me often We have even spoken Cohen with his hands on his staff and his head in them sat meditating perhaps praying and the hot silent moments went slowly away In them Miriam was coming to a decision which at first alarmed her but which as it grew familiar grew also lawful and kind A word to Van Heemskirk or to the Elder Semple would be suf ficient Should she not say it Perhaps Cohen divined her purpose and was not unfavorable to it for he suddenly rose and putting on his cap said I am going to see my kins man John Cohen At sunset set wide the door an hour after sunset I will return As soon as he had gone Miriam wrote to Van Heemskirk these words Good Sir This is a matter of life and death so then come at once and I will tell you Miriam Cohen It was not many minutes before Van Heemskirks driver passed leading his loaded wagon and to him she gave the note That day Joris had gone home earlier than usual and Bram only was in the store He supposed the strip of paper to refer to a barrel of flour or some other household neces sity Its actual message was so unusual and unlooked for that It took him a moment or two to realize the words then he answered the summons for his father promptly Miriam proceed- tion as she possessed Bram stood gazing at the beautiful earnest girl and felt all the fear and force of her words but for some moments he could not speak nor decide on his first step Why do you wait pleaded Miriam At sunset I tell you It is now near it Oh no thanks Do not stop for them but hasten away at once He obeyed like one in a dream Semple was just leaving business He put his hand on him and said Elder no time have you to lose At sunset Neil and that d English soldier a duel are to fight Eh Where Who told you On the Klchhook Hill Stay not for talk Run for your father Bram Run my lad God help me God spare the At that moment Nell and Hyde wero on the fatal spot Neil flung off his coat and waistcoat and stood with bared breast on the spot his second indicated Hyde re moved his fine scarlet coat and hand ed it to Capt Earle and would then have taken his sword but Beekman advanced to remove also his waist coat The suspicion implied by this act roused the soldiers indignation and with his own hands he tore off the richly embroidered satin garment and by so doing exposed what perhaps some delicate feeling had made him wish to conceal a bow of orange rib bon which he wore above his heart The sight of it to Neil was like oil flung upon flame He could scarcely restrain himself until the word go gave him license to charge Hyde Hyde was an excellent swordsman and had fought several duels but he was quite disconcerted by the deadly reality of Neils attack In the sec ond thrust his foot got entangled in a tuft of grass and in evading a lunge aimed at his heart he fell on his right side Supporting himself however on his sword hand he sprang backwards with great dexter ity and thus escaped the probable death blow But as he was bleeding from a wound in the throat his sec ond Interfered and proposed a recon ciliation Neil angrily refused to lis ten He doclared he had not come to enact a farce and then happen ing to glance at the ribbon on Hydes breast he swore furiously He would make his way through the body of any man who stood between him and his just anger Up to this point there had been in Hydes mind a latent disinclination to slay Neil After it he flung away every kind of memory and the fight was renewed with an almost brutal Impetuosity until there ensued one of those close locks which it was evi dent nothing but the key of the body could open In the frightful wrench which followed the swords of both men sprang from their hands flying some four or five yards upward with the force Both recovered their weap ons at the same time and both bleed ing and exhausted would have again renewed the fight but at that mo ment Van Heemskirk and Semple with their attendants reached the spot v Without hesitation they threw themselves between the young men But there was no need for words Neil fell senseless upon his sword making In his fall a last desperate effort to reach the ribbon on Hydes breast for Hyde had also dropped fainting to the ground bleeding from at least half a dozen wounds Then one of Semples young men who had probably divined the cause of quarrel and who felt a sympathy for nis young master made as if he would pick up the fatal bit of orange satin now dyed crimson in Hydes blood But Joris pushed the rifling hand fiercely away To touch it would be the vilest theft he said His own it is With his life he has bought it CHAPTER VII At The Kings Arms The news of the duel spread with the proverbial rapidity of evil news Batavius heard the story from many a lip as he went home He was bitterly indignant at Katherine and hot with haste and anger when he reached Van Heemskirks house Madam stood with Joanna on the front stoop looking anxiously down the road Just as Dinorah said The tea is served madam the large figure of Batavius loomed through the gather ing grayness and the women waited for him He came up the steps with out his usual greeting and his face was so injured and portentous that Joanna with a little cry put her arms round his neck He gently removed them No time is this Joanna for em bracing A great disgrace has come to the family and I who have always stood up for morality must bear it too To be continued BAIT FOR WILD TURKEYS Hundreds of the Birds Have Fallen Before Gun of Expert Wild turkeys are still quite plentiful in some portions of North Carolina as they also are in Arkansas Texas Indian Territory Oklahoma and South ern Missouri says the American Field but just how long they will be plenti ful in any of these states is a question if the states possess a Gil McDuffie as does North Carolina who it is said only a short time since killed seven turkeys at one shot It is claimed that McDuffie has killed 1500 wild turkeys and 700 deer In his time besides countless numbers of smaller game The way he makes his war on turkeys is by baiting He finds where a flock of turkeys use and he lays a train of corn to a locality where he can arrange a good blind The blind is made and corn is put out in gGod quantity for the turkeys not far away he being careful to place the corn in such shape that when the tur keys feed upon It they will be well bunched He then secretes himself in his blind and lies in wait for the turkeys When they come and get bunched up over the quart or two of corn he turns loose with a shotgun and the slaughter is tremendous Fence of Elks Horns A fence nearly 200 feet long at Liv ingston Mont is made entirely of horns of the elk more properly called wapiti These animals like the oth ers of the deer family shed their horns once a year and grow new ones The old horns are found in large num bers In the forests and are used for various commercial purposes IS TIME TO LINE UP FOR THE POLITICAL FOOTBALL GAME IN 1904 Tariff Is to Be the Issue and Wob blers Must Decide Whether to Re main Republican or Join the Ameri can Free Trade League The Free Trader organ of the American Free Trade league for No vember says Now and during the next two years Is the time for the Free Trade league to gain the opening ear of the people to educate their Intelligence and di rect their growing indignation until they rise in their might and make an end of protection monopoly President Lamb in an appeal to he people invites the Republicans who are nursing the Iowa and other ideas to join the free traders in the battle against protection He says The true policy the plain duty of these reformers is to ally themselves with advocates of free trade Free traders do not concern themselves with the past belief of the present op ponents of the Dingley tariff and they do not ask for any retraction They welcome these dissatisfied protection ists and what they do ask of them is no matter what led them to support protection in the past that they ihould now realize and declare that the time has come for them to advo cate a change of policy How proud Gov Cummins Director of the Mint Roberts and their allies should be to be thus welcomed to the free trade camp In one sentiment we must agree with Mr Lamb a man must bo one thing or the other there is no middle ground no straddling Any departure from the policy of the American system of protection is a step into free trade Free traders know that they cannot carry out their wishes to the full They will only be too glad to break the ranks of their opponents to con quer by dividing This is the only hope they have of gaining a victory for their un American cause They do not insist on their opponents be coming pronounced free traders they are satisfied to have them renounce protection in whole or in part but they want them to stay dissatisfied As President Lamb says The reason why free traders be lieve it important that all reformers of the tariff should renounce adhesion to protection is the same which leads them to believe that they on their part are right in consenting to the gradual steps proposed by dissatisfied protectionists even while confident that better measures could be taken The reason is that measures of re form to be permanent should secure a support from public opinion which shall be united and loyal If tariff re form does not avow its intention of consistent progress toward free trade it may succeed at the polls as in 1892 but it is sure to fall in Congress as it did in 1894 and to be undone as in 1897 and the work must all be done over again The tariff reform move ment failed because it was abandoned by the dissatisfied protectionists who had supported it in 1890 and 1892 This is the new free trade idea and it is most acceptable Let us be as we must be cne thing or the other free traders or protectionists If the tariff is to be the issue for 1904 and the bat tle is to begin now let us line up where we belong and as we believe Those who want a commission or re vision or reciprocity or any of the cure alls are in line with the Ameri can Free Trade league whether they want to acknowledge it or not The proof of this is the fact that the league no longer calls upon the old guard of college professors for arguments but contents Itself by quoting from Cum mings Co So let us line up for the great game of 1904 and let us ll be honest enough to get on the side where we belong and face the opponents goal BABCOCK AND REVISION Triumph of Protection Over the Free Trada Idea Representative Babcocks interpre tation of the meaning of the result of the recent election is ingenious but not conclusive if he says the Democrats had won the house it would have signified that the people want no tariff revision for the next two years as it would have been impossible to accomplish anything in that direction with a Democratic house and a Republican Senate The impos sibility of securing a revision of the tariff with a Democratic House and Republican Senate is easily conceded but nothing more Had a Democratic House been elected Democrats would not have construed it as a rebuke to Democrats Republicans could not have rejoiced in it as an indorsement but it would have been universally regarded as a distinct encouragement to a free trade agitation The people do not sustain and foster any set of national policies by voting the ene mies of those policies a foothold in this government They may some day measure up to such subtlety but just now their procedure is the plain straightforward one of voting for those whose policies they approve and against those whose policies they condemn The issue of the campaign was not a deadlock between the two houses to prevent tariff revision by Republicans but matters in contro versy between the parties No Re publican anti revisionist appealed to the people to elct a free trader for the purpose of preventing revision The Republican victory like all other Republican victories 5s triumph of the protection idea ovtr the free trade jrs0m idea Tariff revision was tho cam paign issue only as the Democrats appeared as its champions and Demo cratic tariff revision was voted down The people voted for Republicans not because they wero revisionists or be cause they wero anti revisionists but because they wero Republicans Tar iff revision by Republicans Is a mat ter of schedules not of principles The schedules were not an issue at tho last election The people did not vote on them they thought of them They are a matter for ad justment in party councils or party caucuses and not in national elec tions and while the people did not vote for revision as Mr Babcock says they did neither did they vote against it Pittsburg Gazette The Hunter Started Out He Finished In PROTECTIONS UTILITY To Help Home Labor and Produce Treasury Revenues It appears very ridiculous to the Burlington Gazette to base an argu ment in favor of a protective tariff on the presumption that it promotes prosperity Has Burlington no taxes for itinerant merchants Is there no sentiment in Burlington based on the presumption that the prosperity of the city is promoted by buying at home Are the artisans and laborers of Burlington satisfied that it is all the same to them whether they do the work of Burlington or whether tho orders are placed in Chicago or St Louis Prosperity even for the few cannot long continue without employment for the many in productive industry it Is safe to say that Burlington peo ple of the laboring class who are not working have poor credit at the stores If conditions are such as to inforce idleness the loss of credit is expanded and the loss of credit brings want distress business fail ure and panic If things stop conges tion follows prices drop money is locked up and the business of every body is to make the worst of the situation The thing to do if possible is to keep the machinery going and the markets open If there is plenty of work at a fair price prosperity is in tho air With opportunity to work abundant it Is ridiculous to make argument against prosperity How is labor to be well employed if left to nurse its shins and suck its thumbs There must be work to do and remu nerative wages The presumption is that Burlington does not need to im port labor for its steady jobs and no more does the United States The protective policy is based on the presumption that it is wise to do as much of our own work as we can Therefore in the business of raising revenue from imports the protective policy aims to give the advantage to home producers to the end that our home labor may be prosperous Pro tection promotes prosperity Sioux City Journal What Would Happen Any one of the great combinations that has to do with protected articles if the protection is removed will sim ply set itself to driving independent operators out of business until it has made a place for itself large enough to give it a profit under any and all con ditions There will not be a sign of trouble in the trust But there will be a storm of bankruptcies on all sides of it The outsiders will all go to the wall or they will go into the trust That is the outlook in case of a Dem ocratic Congressional victory this fall and there is no way of escaping it ex cept by a solid majority in favor of the prosperity of all instead of the pros perity of the few who would profit by a national panic Columbus Journal Palladium a Costly Metal Palladium Is a metal used for the mounting of astronomical instruments and costs 482 a pound mmmmmm EEHEElJ 1 PHYSICIANS HAVE LONG LIFE Concltjlve Proof That Hard Work la Not Injurious It has often been said that It is not work but worry that kills Perhaps no hotter exemplifications of the truth of the saying can be found than the number of hard working physicians occupied unceasingly with great prob lems in medicine who havo neverthe less lived to what may well bo con sidered an advanced ago says the American Medical Journal Vlr chows long life of nearly eighty one years of strenuous dovotlon to work so recently closed Is only a type of the prolongation of existence and use fulness that has fortunately been the lot of some of tho greatest of the medical Investigators Longevity has been the rule however not only for the laboratory worker who in the placid preoccupation of original ob servation avoided the distraction of mind and tho diversion of activity incident on medical practice but aisc for the man who Is able to combine both successfully In fact while the average Hfo of the practicing physi cian is tho shortest of any of the pro fessions most of tho great Investigat ing practitioners have lived lives sc long as to encourage every medical man to take up original observation if with no other idea than that of as suring himself longevity MACKEYS RULE IN BUSINESS Plan of Great Financier an Excellent One to Follow The late John W Mackey not withstanding tho multiplicity and magnitude of his business affairs when ho had fallen In death and his body had been buried in its mauso leum those whose office it was to settle tho status of his great business found that he did not owe a dollar to any man beyond the usual monthly current accounts for Items of per sonal and household supply He had out no notes payable no unsettled balances in his commercial enter prises none of those troublesome un liquidated claims that so frequently delay and decimate estates John W Mackey had lived and dono business strictly on the pay as you go plan Because he had adhered to this policy from the commencement of his career he was able to leave be hind a clean score with an enormous balance on the right side The inci dent is a strongly suggestive lesson to young men beginning in business careers It is one easy to learn and sure to win Atlanta Constitution My Fleet My gallant bark sailed out at morn Out on tho tide Fair blew tho wind serene the skies I laughed in pride The welcome waves like faithful friends Itolled in Its track The ship was Youth I watched In vain It came not back Still brave of heart a second craft I sent to sea Wealth friends and honor from afar To bring to me A passing captain spoke it once Such is report Though signaled oft my ship of Hope Comes not to port Then feeling deep and anxious still To do my best A loyal fleet with captains bold Sailed to the west The big four masters Industry Economy Ambition Fame they too wera lost Alas for me But faith unmoved persuaded me To try again And so the Ship of Iove I sent Across the main Quick the return and loaded df p With charity Oh happy ship lltted to bear Lifes argosy Edwin A Schell in Outlook With Modern Improvements Naw said the owner of the opry house our folks wont stand for another blamed Uncle Tom show this year But theyll go broke to see mine just the same was the unabashed rejoinder of the U T manager Why Ive got my show right up to the times I tell yer Got six little Evas and a dozen Legrees eh Bettern that my boy a long way past that Just a sample Eliza chased by a lot of Filipinos on motor cycles crosses the ice on a 10 000 automobile Can you beat that And as the owner had to admit he couldnt that was why he took just one more U T show at the opr house Automobile Magazine Followed Natural Woodsman When President Roosevelt was on a turkey hunt in the neighborhood of Bull Run battlefield a couple of weeks ago he and a Mr Hayden with a guide left the turkey run and plunged into a stretch of woodland After they had walked some miles Mr Hayden said to the guide Youve lost your way Not a bit of it was thf reply Oh yes you have The sun is in the southwest at this time of day and we should be going due east Mr Roose velt said I always follow a man who steers in the woods by the sun or stars Ill follow your leadership Mr HayfiMs He did so and reached his destination in a bee line to tho guides deep discomfiture A Hundred Years Vithout a Doctoi Sir Nathaniel Wright of Leakf npar Boston Lincolnshire Eng has just completed his hundredth year having been born in October 1802 H has never been attended by a medical man and has never had a hottle of medicine in his life and suffers from no bodily infirmity except failing eyesight He is a non smoker and takes no stimu lants English Children in Berlin Schools Fifty eight English children attend the public schools in Berlin