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I l t i Ll The Bow of Orange Ribbon I A ROMANCE OF NEW YORK By AMELIA E BARR Author of Friend OIIvlo I Thou and the Other OneEto Copyright 1880 by Dodd Mead and Company 2 CHAPTER VII Continued Disgrace The word goes not with our name BatavhiB and what mean yon then In one word speak Well then Neil Semple and Capt Hyde have fought a duel That is what comes of giving way to passion I never fought a duel No one should make me It is a fixed principle with me Poor Neil His fault I am sure it was not Joanna Neil is nearly dead If he had been in the right he would not be nearly dead The Lord does not lorsfrke a person who is in the right way In the hall behind them Katherine stood The pallor of her face the hopeless droop of her white shoulders and arms were visible in its gloomy -shadows Softly as a spirit she walked as she drew nearer to them And the Englishman Is he hurt Killed He has at least twenty wounds Till morning he will not live It was the councillor himself who sep arated the men My good Joris it was like him For a moment Katherines con sciousness reeled The roar of the ocean which girds our life round was in her ears the feeling of chill and collapse at her heart But with a supreme will she took possession of herself Weak I will not be All I will know All I will suffer And -with these thoughts she went back to the room and took her place at the table In a few minutes the rest fol lowed Batavius had anticipated madams amazement and shock He had felt a just satisfaction in the suf fering he was bringing to Katherine But nothing had happened as he ex pected The meal instead of being pleasantly lengthened over such dread ful intelligence was hurried and si lent It was some comfort that after it Joanna and he could walk in the gar den and talk the affair thoroughly over Katherine watched them away and then she fled to her room And oh how she wept She took from their hiding place the few letters her loyer had written her and she mourned over them as women mourn in such extremities In the full tide of her anguish Lysbet stood at the dpor She heard the inarticulate words of woe and her heart ached for her child She had followed her to give her comfort to weep with her but she felt that hour that Katherine was no more a child to be soothed with her mothers kiss She had be come a woman and a womans sorrow had found her It was near ten oclock when Joris came home His face was troubled his clothing disarranged and blood stained and Lysbet never remember ed to have seen him so completely ex hausted Bram is with Neil he said he will not be home And thou I helped them carry the other To the Kings Arms we took him Live will he His left lung is pierced through A bad -wound in the throat he has But then youth he has and a great spirit and hope I wish not for his death my God knows Neil what of him Unconscious he was when I left him at his home Does Katherine know She knows How then O Joris if in her room thou could have heard her crying My heart for her aches the sorrowful one See then that this lesson she miss rot It is a hard one but learn it she must If thy love would pass it by think this for her good it is The next morning was the sabbath and many painful questions suggested themselves to Joris and Lysbet Van Heemskirk Joris felt that he must not take his seat among the deacons until he had been rally exonerated of all blame of blood guiltiness by the dominie and his elders and deacons in full kirk session Madam could hard ly endure the thought of the glances that would be thrown at her daughter and the probable slights she would receive so Katherines piteous en treaty was listened to and she was allowed to remain at home The kirk that morning would have been the pillory to her She was un speakably grateful for the solitude of the house for space and silence in which she could have the relief of unrestrained weeping About the middle of the morning she heard Brams footsteps Bram had not thought of Katherines staying from kirk and -when she confronted him so tear stained and woe begone his heart was full of pity for her With in the last twenty four hours he had begun to understand the temptation in which Katherine had been begun to understand that love never asks What is thy name Of what country art thou Who is thy father He felt that so long as he lived he must remember Miriam Cohen as she stood talking to him in the shadowy store And this memory of Miriam made him very pitiful to Katherine Every one is angry at me Bram even my father and Batavius will not sit on the chair at my side and Joanna says a great disgrace I have made for her And thou Wilt thou also scold me I think I shall die of grief Scold thee thou little one That I will not And those that are angry with thee may be angry with mo also Bram my Bram my brother There Is one comfort for me if I knew that he still lived If one hope thou could give me What hope there is I will go and see and if there Is good news I will bo glad for thee Not half an hour was Bram away and yet to the miserable girl how grief and fear lengthened out the mo ments When Bram came back it was with a word of hope on his lips I have seen he said who dost thou think the Jew Cohen He of all men he has sat by Capt Hydes side all night and he has dressed the wound the English surgeon declared beyond mortal skill And he said to me Three times in the Persian des ert I have cured wounds still worse and the Holy One hath given me the power of healing and if He wills the young man shall recover That is what he said Katherine Forever I will love the Jew Though ho fall I will love him So kind he is even to those who have not spoken well nor done well to him At this moment the family returned from the morning service and Bram rather defiantly drew his sister to his side Joris was not with them He had stopped at the Kings Arms to ask if Capt Hyde was still alive for in spite of everything the young mans heroic cheerfulness in the agony of tlie preceding night had deeply touch ed Joris No one spoke to Katherine even her mother was annoyed and hu miliated at the social ordeal through which they had just passed and she thought it only reasonable that the er ring girl should be made to share the trial As the time went on poor Katherine Van Heemskirk shivered and sickened in the presence of averted eyes and up lifted shoulders and in that chill at mosphere of disapproval which sep arated her from the sympathy and confidence of her old friends and ac quaintances It is thy punishment said her mother bear it bravely and patiently In a little while it will be forgot But weeks went on and the wounded men slowly fought death away from their pillows and Katherine did not recover the place in social estimation which she had lost through the ungovernable tempers of her lovers But nothing ill lasts forever and in three months Neil Semple was in his office again wan and worn with fever and suffering and wearing his sword arm in a sling but still decidedly world like and life like It was evi dent that public opinion was in a large measure with him and though in the Middle Kirk the affair was sure to be the subject of a reproof and of a sus pension of its highest privileges yet it was not difficult to feel the sym pathy often given to deeds publicly censured but privately admired Joris remarked this spirit with a little as tonishment and dissent He could not find in his heart any excuse for either Neil or Hyde and when the elder en larged with seme acerbity upon the requirements of honor among men Jcris offended him by replying Well then elder little I think of that honor which runs not with the laws of God and country Let me tell you Joris the voice of the people is the voice of God in a measure and you may see with your ain een that it mair that acquits Neil o wrong doing Man Joris would you punish a fair sword fight wi the hangman A better way there is In the pillory I would stand these men of honor who of their own feelings think more than of the law of God A very quick end that punishment would put to a custom wicked and absurd Weel Joris well hae no quarrel anent the question Here comes Neil and well let the question fa to the ground There are wiser men than either you or I on baith sides Joris nodded gravely and turned to welcome the young man More than ever he liked him for apart fiom moral and prudential reasons it was easy for the father to forgive an unreasonable love for his Katherine Also he was now more anxious for a marriage between Neil and his daugh ter It was indeed the best thing to fully restore her to the social esteem of her own people for by making her his wife Neil would most emphatically exonerate her from all blame in the quarrel Just this far and no farther had Neils three months suffering aided his suit ne had now the full approval of Joris backed by the weight of this social justification But in spite of these advantages he was really much farther away from Katherine She had heard from Bram the story of the challenge and the fight heard how patiently Hyde had parried Neils attack rather than re turn it until Neil had so passionately refused any satisfaction less than his life heard also how even at the point of death fainting and falling Hyde had tried to protect her ribbon at his breast She never wearied of talking with Bram on the subject she thought of it all day dreamed of it all night And she knew much more about it than her parents or Joanna supposed Bram had easily fallen into the habit of calling at Cohens to ask after his patient At first he saw Miriam often and when he did life became a heav enly thin to Bram Van Heemskirk Katherln very soon suspected how matters fetood with her brother and gratitude led her to talk with him about the lovely Jewess But ftrt vftOfllS weeks after the dnel she could the house It waa only after both BUgy weT S known to be recovering that she ven tured to kirk and her experience there was not one which tempted her to try the streets and the stores How ever no Interest is a living interest in a community but politics and far more Important events had now the public attention During the previous March the Stamp Act and the Quar tering Act had passed both houses ol Parliament and Virginia and Massa chusetts conscious of their dangerous character had roused the fears of the other Provinces and a convention ol their delegates was appointed to meet during October in New York It was this important session which drew Neil Semple with scarcely healed wounds from his chamber The streets were noisy with hawkers crying the detested Acts and crowded with groups of stern looking men discussing them It was during this time of excite ment that Katherine said one morning at breakfast Bram wait one minute for me I am going to Kips store for my mother At the store Bram left her and aft or selecting the goods her mother needed Katherine was going up Pearl street when she heard herself called ii a familiar and urgent voice At the same moment a door was flung open and Mrs Gordon running down the few steps put her hand upon the girls shoulder Oh my dear this is a piece of good fortune past belief Come into my lodgings Oh indeed you shall I will have no excuse Surely you owe Dick and me some reward after the pangs we have suffered for you She was leading Katherine into the house as she spoke and Katherine had not the will and therefore not the power to oppose her She placed the girl by her side on the sofa she took her hands and with a genuine grief and love told her all that poor Dick had suffered and was still suffering for her sake Katherine covered her face and sobbed with a hopelessness and aban don that equally fretted Mrs Gordon If I could only see Richard only see him for one moment That is exactly what I am going to propose He will get better when he has seen you I will call a coach and we will go at once Alas p I dare not My father and my mother And Dick what of Dick poor Dick who is djing for you She went to the door and gve the order for a coach Your lover Katberine Child have you no heart Put on your bon net again Here also are my veil and cloak No one will perceive that it is you It is the part of humanity 1 assure you Do so much for a poonsoul who is at the graves mouth While thus alternately urging ana persuading Katherine the coach came the disguise was assumed and the twa drove rapidly to the Kings Arms Hyde was lying upon a couch which had been drawn close to the window He was yet too weak to stand too weak to endure long the strain of com pany or books or papers He heard his aunts voice and foot fall and felt as he always did a vague pleasure in her advent Whatever ol life came into his chamber of suffering came through her She brought him daily such intelligences as she thought conducive to his recovery and it must be acknowledged that it was not al ways her humor to be truthful For Hyde had so craved news of Kather ine that she believed he would die wanting it and she had therefore fallen without one conscientious scruple into the reporters tempta tion inventing the things which ought to have taken place and did not To be continued THE EFFECTS OF LIGHTNING Completely Strips Bark From Tree No Trace of Fire That much valuable knowledge as to the effects of lightning may be gained by a study of trees that have been struck by it is maintained by many English scientists A tree which stood for many years on the side of a road a few miles from Wal lingford in England was struck by lightning during a violent storm a short time ago and utterly destroyed Mr Percy E Spielmann examined it a few hours afterward and found that the bark had been completely strip ped off and flung to one side and that a large branch had also been torn away and splintered He looked for some token of fire but was unable to find any He noticed however that the inner surface of the bark was marked longitudinally with thin wavy lines very close set of which the crests were about a quarter of an inch apart He took several photo graphs of the ruined tree and he re gards them as most useful since they show clearly the rending effect ol lightning on a fibrous tissue Sword of Famous Leader Stolen The sword of the famous peasant leader Stephen Fadinger who in the year 1626 led the peasant revolt in Upper Austria has been mysteriously stolen from the Historical Art Court Museum Vienna The thief must have been most daring for very care ful watch Is always kept and he sword itself is a most cumbersome veapon It is supposed that it was carried away under a great coat The sword has no intrinsic value but has most interesting associations r FOLLY NO CONDftON CALLS FOR TAR- u weed H4r or - JSFF EEYISION TINKERING acnpyure Savs Thev That Be Well Not a Physician But They That Are Sick The Country Is Too Healthy for Quack Remedies The extraordinary prosperity of tho country makes ridiculous any and all assertions that the tariff is so bad that it must be revised Immediately to relieve the people of Its burdens In this single sentence the New York Commercial Advertiser expresses the situation with truth and force It Is not true that the country is suffering because of tariff burdens or tariff inequalities It is not true because as everybody knows tho country is phenomenally prosperous under the tariff as it tis so prosperous indeed thatto open up a period of tariff agi tation and uncertainty at this time would seem to be an act of inconceiv able folly Senator Burrows of Michi gan was right in saying that the time to make modifications in tariff sched ules is not when the country is every where prosperous but when business depressnon exists which can be cured or alleviated by tariff changes They that be whole need not a physician but they that are sick This coun try is not sick It does not require the services of a tariff tinkering doc tor The prospect of a tariff revision at such a time would make business sick Even the appointment of a commission to revise the tariff as the Commercial Advertiser truly says would create uncertainty and unset tlo conditions No business man would know what changes were con templated or whether Congress would or would not concur in any recom mendation of changes No calcula tions beyond the immediate future could be formed and no contracts for a considerable period ahead could be made Business would have what business does not want and cannot endure uncertainty As Andrew Carnegie has expressed it A tariff commission would have to be doing something Doing what Doing something with the tariff of course Just what it would do business men would not know Result doubt in decision uncertainty These are bad for business bad for industry bad for employment and bad for wage paying Senator Scott of West Virginia has lately said But there is one subject upon which I can speak for West Virginia as represented in both branches of Congress We are all agreed that we want no revision of the tariff The Dingley law suits us right down to the ground One Republican who got scared about the tariff was Mr Foss of Massachusetts The result was that his district elected a Democrat I think that all Republicans should stand firmly against all assaults upo our protective tariff Is not this the manifestly correc stand for all Republicans Is it nrftt vthe best stand to take for the countcry and for the party Congressraan Babcock thinks not He wants an extra session of the Fifty eighth Con gress called to tear up the tariff Senator Depew thinks the time has arrived when Je tariff should be read justed ry nngea conditions We diSBPf We readjusted the tariftnot only to meet changed conditions but as a means of chang ing the then existing conditions We succeeded in changing the conditions from rvin and distress to a degree of unparalleled prosperity Shall we change conditions once more If so in what direction shall we change them Certainly not for the better Tariff revision downward has never been known to change conditions for the better It has always changed them for the worse It will do it again if the revision movement is per sisted in Tariff revision upward is the only sort of revision that has ever benefited this country Nobody is pressing for tariff revision upward though in some directions an increase in the duties would be distinctly advantageous But nobody proposes that If revised at all the tariff is to be revised downward always down ward The country does not want that and if it is done the country will suffer for it This is no time to revise the tariff Let prosperity alone for at least two years to come and perhaps by that time we shall have become so accustomed to prosperity that we shall have grown to like it At present it really seems as if some people could not endure it Prosperity Was the Issue The result of the late election shows that as claimed by the Repub licans the real issue was prosperity The Democrats attacked national prosperity through the tariff and the Republicans met them on that issue and won The old issue between the parties was once more brought to the front and the voters were asked to pass judgment upon the question of protection to American industries The Republcan party heartily wel comed the issue There is nothing in its great record of which it is more proud or in defense of which it can invoke more splendid and conclusive facts The party is always fully pre pared to meet its opponents in a dis cussion of the tariff policy before the people confident that the history of the last four years to go no further back would amply vindicate and jus tify Republican policy which is as necessary to day to American labor and industry as at any time in the past Laboring men studied the question and decided to let well enough alone y The business man manufacturer and men in other avocations decided that they did not want a change Even conservative Democrats feared their party would gain control of Congress and repeat the Wilson Gorman mis take It Is then little wonder that the Democrats remain In the minority Prosperity was the real issue and tho man who voted with the Democratic party last election was too partisan to protect his own Interests or use his ballot for the general good of the country Two years hence the same issue will be fought and the same re sult will be recorded Davenport la Republican Trusts and Free Trade The common cry of the political demagogue in this country Is that the tariff is mother of tho trusts It would naturally be inferred that in freo trade Great Britain a great scarcity of trusts would be found but the contrary is true The English Trades Union congress recently adopted the following resolu tion In view of the colossal growth of trusts and combines of speculative capitalists and consequent concentra tion of capital and monopoly of indus try this congress foresees the grave danger to the nation and the toilers of dislocation of trade stoppage of work and distress of wage earners Great Britain is not only a free trade country but is the home of tho strongest kind of labor trusts which are opposing the other trusts of capi tal yet the formation of the indus trial trusts especially of the monopo listic kind continues with great suc cess In this country trusts are a natural accompaniment of the great industrial development Stop industry and trusts will cease Let hard times return arid trusts will fail Those who believe in the protective policy think that It is better to have prosperity with the trusts than hard times without the trusts The trusts are great machines for facilitating production They should be the servants of the people not the masters The remedy lies in the hands of the people The exist ence of trusts does not depend upon either free trade or protection but of the two free trade offers perhaps the best opportunity for the develop ment of the monopolistic variety of trusts Minneapolis Progress Would Destroy Them All Wjm FATOY I5p IWA 4 mmwx jvrz mxxa wr iT hjimmtm - i What We Might Do Writing in favor of a proposed tariff commission the New York Even ing Post which is in sore and chronic tiouble over the present rate of American production comparing 1882 and its tariff commission says It is true that the tariff is worse now and stands in greater need of reform than it did then 4 Everybody will agree that from the point of view occupied by American free traders the Dingley tariff is worse than we had in 1880 The Pennsylvania railroad was not in creasing the wages of its employes by 10 per cent as we remember it at that time As a matter of fact there was no increase in wages for some six years Let us have a tariff com mission by all means If we cant get Reform we may paralyze some industries and decrease wages We surely can prevent the introduction of new industries How to Churn Up Things The creation of a permanent tariff commission is favored by the New York Evening Post not because such a body would have any power to re form the tariff for it would be abso lutely powerless to do that but be cause the existence of a commission would widen the schism in the Re publican party and furnish to Gov Cummins Congressman Babcock Director of the Mint Roberts and others of that ilk the chance to churn up things Yes it would do that un doubtedly It would churn up the tariff and give the revisionists their coveted opportunity to keep it churn ed up for a long time to come The Evening Posts reason for favoring the tariff commission plan is a good reason from the free traders stanS point Is it however a good reason from the Republican and Protectionist standpoint Why Meddle With It Speaking of the Democratic cry for tariff reform a leading merchant said Whats the use Every one is prosperous Why meddle with a good thing No good can come from tink ering with the tariff If some big trusts make money because there is a duty on the goods they make little manufacturers of the same goods are benefited No one company has an absolute monopoly of any article of general use Why destroy the small manufacturers The big ones can stand taking off the duty The little ones cant Seattle Post Intelli gencer SKIING AS A PLEASURE Americans Backward In Many of the Best Winter Sports It is a mistake to suppose that ski ing can be enjoyed only by our Cana dian friends says Country Lifo in Am erica Every ono who Uvea In a bill country where there Is any snow at all should try this exciting pastime A pair of skis and a pole cost about a dollar and a half Tho runners are usually about six or seven feet long about four inches wide nnd the pole may bo ten or twelve feet In length On account of this small expense and Informal nature of the sport skiing Is Just the thing for those parts of the United States where the winter is es sentially a changeable season Some srorts may demand a steady winter skiing does not In certain parts ol the United States skiing has already caught on For example a good many of the Cornell students carry their skils to the class room and sde home on them In the mining camps of the upper Michigan the Swedes and Norwegians come flying down their race courses shoot off a sort or spring board rise to a thrilling height and achieve an astonishing leap before they tumble into the waiting snow bank But the ski is a good thing for every day use and fun Ono can polo along on the level fairly well in al most any kind of depth of snow and on a crust skis are quicker than snow shoes Skis cost less than a pair of good skates or a good hob sled and they furnish a novel method of sliding down hill It is easy to learn Two or three tumbles to the business If you get one foot well ahead of the other you are certainly a goner Tho man who leans back is likely to have a laughable mix up It is best to stand erect or crouch forward so as to brace oneself The pole is trailed behind and used to steer by The people of the United States are provincial in the matter of winter sports We have been missing a lot of fun and it is high time that we took to skiing LEOPOLD A DEMOCRATIC KING One RedeemiriffiXrait Credited to gian Monarch WnrlrlR Work fnr TWnmhnr tell this stnrv nf Klner Lnrinnlcl mid ement A Griscom Not many years ago King Leopold f Belguim was one day holding court in Brussels Among those waiting to be presented were Clement Acton Griscom and Mrs Grisocm and the United States Minister to Belgium Mrs Griscom had never met the Queen The Minister recently ap pointed had just arrived in Brussels and stood directly in front of the Gris coms When he was presented the King greeted him in his hearty wily welcomed him to Belgium and then suddenly breaking off said By the way have you ever met Griscom Clement A Griscom No Well you should he is a rare good fellow and a great friend of mine and the King went on with as sincere and honest a eulogy as ever man ut tered He had not noticed Mr Gris com All at once he caught sight of him Why hello Griscom he cried his fare beaming with pleasure what are you doing here And he shook his hand an act quite beyond the pale of court etiquette Bowed to the Badge A young man just out of the High school and now engaged in business in Manhattan boarded a Halsey street car at the Manhattan end of 4UO Brooklyn bridge one evening cently after rush hours when e car was not crowded A pi- the insignia of membership in nls High school frater nity sparkled on his waistcoat He walked nalt the length ol his car to get a seat Two Chinese laundry men on seeing the fraternity pin left their seats bowed almost to the ground before the chesty young man to the astonishment of the passengers and then reverently turning their eyes the other way grasped convenient straps The ex High school boy was unused to such homage and didnt know what to make of it Finally he thought of his pin and said to the Mongolians Thats all right my friends Were not in China now But the Chinese refused to sit down while he was in the car Brooklyn Times License for Lawyers There seems to be a wide diver gence of opinion among attorneys themselves as to the legality of the proposed ordinance compelling- law yers to take Qit licenses in order to practice in the city oChicago Alder man Sloan recently su jr3ted such a plan in the city council anil it re ceived some attention at that timo Some lawyers are of the opinion that the tax could not be legally collected and that the city has no powsr what ever to exact this of attorneys Oth ers maintain that the city has the right to exact licenses of attorneys as it would of brokers real estate men butchers and merchants in general English Sense of Humor At a boarding house in New Eng land one day the waiter asked one of the guests an Englishman what he would have for dessert naming six kinds of pie namely pumpkin apple lemon mince custard and squash The Englishman answered that h would try some pumpkin lemon mnee cus tard and squash wherefore the waiter asked Whats the matter with the apple pie All at the table laughed in which the Englishman joined but after dinner he asked one of the guests What was the matter with the iappte pie
