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The Bow of Orange Ribbon
A ROMANCE OF NEW YORJK
By AMELIA E BARR
Aifhor of Friend Olivia 1 TKoxj and the Other On Eta
Copyright 1880 by DoOd Head and Company
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CHAPTER XI Continued
And It was during this hour of trial
to Miriam that Joris was talking to
Lysbet of her It did him good to put
his fears into words for Lysbets
assurances were comfortable and as
it had been a day full of feeling he
was weary and went earlier to his
room than usual On the contrary
Lysbet was very wakeful She car
ried her sewing to the candle and sat
down to think
In the midst of her reflections
Bram returned She had not expect
ed him so early but the sound of his
feet was pleasant He came in slowly
and after some pottering irritating
delays he pushed his fathers chair
back from the light and with a heavy
sigh sat down in it
Why sigh you so heavy Bram
Every sigh still lower sinks the
heart
A light heart I shall never have
again mother For me there is no
hope So quiet and shy was my
love
Oh indeed Of all the coquettes
the quiet shy ones are the worst
No coquette is Miriam Cohen My
i love life is at an end mother
When began it Bram
It was at the time of the duel I
loved her from the first moment O
mother mother
Does she not love you
I think so many sweet hours we
have had together My heart was full
of hope
Well then my son be not easy to
lose thy heart Try once more
Useless it would be Miriam is
not one of those who say no and
then yes
Nearly two years you have known
her That was long to keep you in
hope and doubt I think she is a
coquette
You know her not mother Very
few words of love have I dared to say
fWe have been friends I feared to
lose all by asking too much
Then why did you ask her to
night It would have been better had
your father spoken first to Mr Co
hen
I did not ask Miriam to night She
spared me all she could This is what
she said to me Bram dear Bram I
fear that you begin to love me be
cause I think of you very often And
my grandfather has just told me that
I am promised to Judah Belasco of
London In the summer he will come
here and I shall marry him
What said you then
Oh I scarce know But I told her
how dearly I loved her and I asked
her to be my wife
And she said what to thee
My father I must obey Though he
told me to slay myself I must obey
him By the God of Israel I have
promised it often
She is a good girl I wish that you
had won her Bram And Lysbet jjut
down her work and went to her sons
side and with a great sob Bram laid
his head against her breast
As one whom his mother comfort
eth Oh tender and wonderful con
solation It is the mother that turns
the bitter waters of life into wine
Bram talked his sorrow over to his
mothers love and pity and sympathy
and when she parted with him long
after the midnight she said cheer
fully Thou hast a brave soul mijn
zoon mijn Bram and this trouble is
not all for thy loss and grief A sweet
memory will this beautiful Miriam be
as long as thou livest and to have
loved well a good woman will make
-thee always a better man for it
CHAPTER XII
London Life
The trusting generous letter which
Joris had written to his son-in-law
arrived a few days before Hydes de
parture for London
Hyde knew well the importance of
Katherines fortune It enabled him
to face his relatives and friends on
a very much better footing than he
had anticipated So he was no longer
averse to meeting his former compan
ions even to them a rich wife would
excuse matrinmony
His first social visit was paid to his
maternal grandmother the dowager
Lady Capel He found her in the
most careless dishabille wigless and
unpainted and rolled up comfortably
in an old wadded morning gown that
had seen years of snuffy service But
she had outlived her vanity Hyde had
chosen the very hour in which she had
nothing whatever to amuse her and
he was a very welcome interruption
And upon the whole she liked her
So she heard the rattle of Hydes
sword and the clatter of his feet on
the polished stairs with a good deal
of satisfaction I have him here and
I shall do my best to keep him here
she thought Why should a proper
young fellow like Dick bury himself
alive in the fens for a Dutch woman
In short she has had enough and too
much of him His grandmother has
a prior claim I hope and then Ara
bella Suffolk will help me I foresee
mischief and amusement Well Dick
you rascal so you have had to leave
America S expected it Oh sir I
have heard all about you from Ade
laide You are not to be trusted
either among men or women And
pray where is the wife you made such
a fracas about Is she In London
with you
No madam she preferred to re
main at Hyde and I have no happi
ness beyond her desire
Heres flame Heres constancy
And you have been married a whole
year I am struck with admiration
A whole year a year of divine
happiness I assue you
Lord sir You will be the laugh
ing stock of the town If you talk in
such fashion They will have you in
the playhouses Pray let us forget
our domestic joys a little You can
make a good figure in the world
and as your cousin Arabella Suffolk
is staying with me you will be the
properest gallant for her when Sir
Thomas is at the House Here comes
Arabella and I am anxious you should
make a figure in her eyes
Arabella came in very quietly but
she seemed to take possession of the
room as she entered it She had a
bright piquant face a tall graceful
form and that air of high fashion
which is perhaps quite as captivating
Arabella made Hyde a pretty mock
ing courtesy and he could not help
looking with some interest at the wo
man who might have been his wife
Katherine was ignored in the con
versation that followed and Hyde did
not feel any desire to bring even her
name into such a mocking jeering
perfectly heartless conversation He
was content to laugh and let the hour
go past in flim flams of criticism and
persiflage
A couple of hours passed and then
it became evident from the pawing
and snorting outside that his horses
patience was quite exhausted Hyde
went away in an excitement of hope
and gay anticipations A momentary
glance upward showed him Lady
Capel and Lady Suffolk at the window
watching him the withered old wo
man in her soiled wrappings the
youthful beauty in all the bravery of
her white and gold poudesoy He
made them a salute and then in a
clamor of clattering hoofs he dashed
through the square
During the next six months society
made an idol of Capt Hyde and if
he was not at Lady Arabellas feet
he was certainly very constantly at
her side
Hyde loved his wife loved her ten
derly and constantly he felt himself
to be a better man whenever he
thought of her and his little son and
he thought of them very frequently
and yet his eyes his actions the tones
of his voice daily led his cousin Lady
Suffolk to imagine herself the em
press of his heart and life Unfortun
ately his military duties were only
on very rare occasions any restraint
to him His days were mainly spent
in dangling after Lady Suffolk and
other fair dames And it must be
remembered that the English women
of that day were such as England
may well hope never to see again In
the higher classes they married for
money or position and gave them
selves up to intrigue They drank
deeply they played high they very
seldom went to church for Sunday
was the fashionable day for all kinds
of frivolity and amusement And as
the men of any generation are just
what the women make them Eng
land never had sons so profligate so
profane and drunken The clubs
especially Brookes were the nightly
scenes of indescribable orgies Gam
bling was tneir serious occupation
duels were of constant occurrence
Such a life could not be lived ex
cept at frightful and generally ruinous
expense Hyde was soon embarrass
ed Towards Christmas bills began
to pour in creditors became impor
tunate and for the first time in his
life creditors really troubled himThe
income from Hyde Manor had never
been more than was required for the
expenses of the place and the inter
est on Katherines money had gone
though he could not tell how He
was destitute of ready cash and he
foresaw that he would have to borrow
some from Lady Capel or some other
accommodating friend
He returned to barracks one Sun
day afternoon and was moodily think
ing over these things when his order
ly brought him a letter which had ar
rived during his absence It was from
Katherine His face flushed with
delight as he read it so sweet and
tender and pure was the neat epistle
She wants to see me Oh the dear
one Not more than I want to see
her Fool villain that I am I will
go to her Katherine Kate My
dear little Kate So he ejaculated
as he paced his narrow quarters and
tried to arrange his plans for a Christ
mas visit ot his wife and child
He had determined to ask Lady
Capel for a hundred pounds and he
thought it would be the best plan to
make his request when she was sur
rounded by company and under the
pleasureable excitement of a winning
rubber And if the circumstances
proved adverse then he could try his
fortune in the hours of her morning
retirement
The mansion in Berkeley Square
was brilliantly lighted when he ap
proached it Sunday night was Lady
Capels great card night and the
rooms were full of tables surounded
by powdered and painted beauties
intent upon the game and the gold
The odor of musk was everywhere
and the sound of the tapping of gold
fans and the sharp technical calls
JSni5
of the gamesters and the
holloa
laughter of hollow hearts
Not very hopefully he approached
Lady Capel She had been unfortun
ate all the evening and was not ami
able
Dick I am angry at you I have a
mind to banish you for a month
I am going to Norfolk for two
weeks madam
That will do It is a worse punish
ment than I should have given you
Norfolk There is only one word
between it and the plantations Give
me your arm Dick I shall play no
more until my luck turns Losing
cards are dull company
I am very sorry that you have been
losing I came to ask for the loan of
a hundred pounds grandmother
No sir I will not lend you a hun
dred pounds nor am I in the humor
to do anything else you desire
I make my apology for the request
I ought to have asked Katherine
No sir you ought not to have ask
ed Katherine You ought to take what
you want Jack Capel took every
shilling of my fortune and neither
said by your leave nor thank you
Did the Dutchman tie the bag too
close
Councillor Van Heemskirk left it
open in my honor When I am
scoundrel enough to touch It I shall
not come and see you at all grand
mother
Upon my word a very pretty com
pliment Well sir Ill pay you a hun
dred pounds for It When do you
start
To morrow morning
Make it afternoon and take care of
me as far as your aunt Julias
daresay you want money to night
Here are the keys of my desk In the
right hand drawer are some rouleaus
of fifty pounds each Take two
The weather as Lady Capel said J
was so very Decemberish that the
roads were passably good being fro
zen dry and hard and on the evening
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FAITH IS NOT LOST
PROTECTIONIST SENTIMENT IS
STRONG WITH THE PEOPLE
Talk of Tariff Tinkering Originates
Not With the Rank and File But
With Certain Leaders Who Have
Ends to Gain and Ambitions to
Serve
Any tinkering with the tariff at the
preaent time can but jeopardize that
stability which our economic condi
tions now enjoy and consequently
prove fatal to the continuance of that
prosperity which for the past five
years or since the enactment of the
Dingley tariff in 1897 has made
every other nation on the globe look
upon us with eyes of envy Can we
afford to let go an established cer
tainty for a doubtful experiment Is
it just Is it wise Is it statesman
like to do so Manifestly any such
course is little short of folly certain
political leaders to the contrary not
withstanding
We all recall to our sorrow the no
torious Cleveland era preceding the
election of McKInley in 1896 Business
was at a standstill labor was un
employed and the nation was prac
tically in the hands of Coxeys army
and bankruptcy About this time
something happened I was the elec
tion of McKinley the cessation of a
senseless currency agitation and the
enactment of what is known as the
Dingley protective tariff bill We
Ani 1 know the result abundant prosper
ity
The history of this nation furnishes
several examples of like prosperity
following the enactment of protective
tariff laws The citation of one will
suffice The seven years preceding
the year 1824 were years of hard
times and business stagnation But in
of the third day Hyde came in sight
of his home His heart warmed to
that year Congress passed a
terIff business immediately
tive
the lonely place and the few lights in Jaw
i revived and until the year 1832 the
pleasantly than the brilliant country enWe1 unprecedented pros
In the latter a revision
year
nations of Vauxhall or Almacks or
of tariff began Henry
agitation
tne
even the cold splendors of royal re-
the leader of th Protection-
Clar was
ceptions He had given Katherine no
warning of his visit He wanted to
see with his own eyes and hear with
his own ears the glad tokens of her
happy wonder
The kitchen fire threw great lustres
across the brick paved yard and the
blinds in Katherines parlor were un
drawn and Its fire and candle light
shone on the freshly laid tea table
and the dark walls gleaming with
bunches of holly and mistletoe But
she was not there He only glanced
inside the room and then with a
smile on his face went swiftly up
stairs He had noticed the light in
the upper windows and he knew
where he would find his wife Before
ho reached the nursery he heard
Katherines voice ine aoor was a
ists and fought with all the powers of
his masterly intelect any measures
calculated to change the existing tar
iff It was at this time that he deliver
ed his famous speech in the United
States senate known as The Ameri
can System A portion of that speech
is in many respects applicable to the
present time and descriptive of pres
ent conditions After dwelling some
what at length on the hard times pre
ceding 1824 and calling atteniton to
the enactment during that year of
the tariff law that brought on the
era of business revival he said I
have now to perform the more pleas
ing task of exhibiting an imperfect
sketch of the existing state of the un
paralleled prosperity of the country
0n a general survey we behold
little open and he could see every
part of the charming domestic scene du ucuucu 1C ttl a
the face of the countr improved our
within the room A middle aged
I PePle ftlll and Profitably employed
woman was quietly putting to rights
the sweet disorder incident to the and tne Public countenance exhibiting
undressing of the baby Katherine tranquillity contentment and happi
had played with it until they were ness- TnIs Phasing state of affairs
ne attributes to the wise tariff laws
both a little flushed and weary and i
Bhn wno coftiv tn tbo rimu ev and he counsels their retention
child at her breast
Over and over softer and slower
went the melody It was evident that
A review of the conditions immedi
ately preceding and following the en
actment of the Dingley tariff bill
the boy was asleep and that Katherine would show a state of affairs identical
was going to lay him in his cradle with those described by Mr Clay as
Ha watched her do it watched her existing before and after the passing
gently tuck in the cover and stand of the tariff law in 1824 The princi
for a moment to look down at the pie of protection is the same now as
child Then with a face full of love it has always been and the fact that
she turned away smiling and quite great corporations have sprung up
unconsciously came toward him on does not change the fundamental
tiptoes With his face beaming with principles of this or any other gov
his arms opened he entered but ernment Corporations are not the
with such a sympathetic understand- creatures of the tariff system but have
ing of the sweet need of silence and sprung up independent of it and the
restraint that there was no alarm i fact that they reap a benefit from it
no outcry no fuss or amazement J is an attendant circumstance incident
Only a whispered Katherine and j to the general application of that sys
the swift raptwe of meeting heartj tem If the system of protection in
and lips
To be continued
BROUGHT THEM TO TIME
Why Criticism of New Yorks Finest
Hotels Suddenly Stopped
Some years ago I was dining with
some few instances makes not inten
tionally but incidentally a few rich
men richer is not that evil if evil it
be more than compensated by the
bringing of prosperity to the country
at large The rich men are numeri
cally a very insignificant part of the
population and why should a law that
a party of wealthy Westerners in New j they can reap a certain benefit from
York City said Mr Benjamin T be for that reason condemned when
Leslie of Montana to a Washington it also brings to the common people
Post reporter Among them were j of whom there are so man an op
Marcus Daly Charlie Broadwater ex 1 portunity to exchange their limited
Gov Hauser Hon Tom Carter products and labor for the necessities
tor W A Clark John W Mackay
Lucky Baldwin and E E Bonner
It seems that no two of them were
stopping at the same hotel and each
had a grievance against the hostelry
where he put up One said he meant
to quit the Fifth Avenue another in
veighed against the Waldorf a third
thought that Delmonicos was terribly
overrated and so on Not one had a
good word to say of any of the taverns
or eating houses of Gotham and
there was special criticism of
food
and comforts of life The logic of
seme anti tariff agitators is about like
this -Corporations are bad tariff
laws help corporations therefore tar
iff laws are bad As well say that
because the sun shines on corpora
tions and corporation promoters it is
bad
This talk of revising the tariff is
uncalled for and if persisted in by
men of prominence in the party will
by a tendency to unsettle present in-
the dustrial stability bring on business
depression Let the tariff remain as
Finally after there was a little lull it is for as Senator Hale of Maine
in the choruses of adverse criticism said last month The Dingley act
old man Bonner burst into a loud i has given the people of the United
laugh When asked the cause of his States more revenue more business
merriment Bonner said Ive been more trade and more prosperity than
listening to you fellows talk and I any bill ever enacted He also says
tell you frankly you give me a pain in speaking of revision Unless the
To hear such as you run down these Republican party has lost heart and
swell establishments In New York is faith in its fundamental policies there
enough to make the angels weep Why will be no meddling with and no
it hasnt been so many years since emasculation of the present tariff
Ive seen every one of you squatted on whether under the guise of reciproc
the grass of the prairie eating beans ity or reform Eut the Republican
out of a frying pan with your fingers party has not lost faith in its
It was the everlasting truth and mental principles This tk of re
the knocking of the hotels ceased j vision has not originated with the
right there
It may as well be admitted that
there are some automobilists who dc
not try to run over people
people it is the dream of certain
leaders who unless they heed the
writing on the wall will soon receive
a rude awakening Minnesota
Minn Mascot
WOOL AND TARIFF
Higher Prices and Increased Produc
tion Under the Dingley Law
The wool manufacturing Industry
in the United States is in a highly
flourishing condition This is the
situation as described in the annual
wool review of the National Associa
tion of Wool Manufacturers published
In the current quarterly bulletin of
the association We are now living
under the Dingley tariff act which ac
corded special protective attention to
the wool growing and wool manufac
turing business and credit must evi
dently be given to that tariff for the
present state of the manufacturing in
dustry
The above concession from the
Springfield Republican Is welcome
indeed but still that paper is not
happy for it continues
What of the business of wool grow
ing under this tariff law First It
is to be conceded that the grower en
joys higher prices for his product
Ohio XX washed wool now rules at
twenty eight and a half cents a pound
against twenty six and a half cents in
1901 twenty eight and a half cents
in 1900 thirty one and a half cents in
1899 and twenty nine and a half cents
in 1898 but against nineteen cents
during the three years in which the
Wilson tariff act tree wool was
operative This rise in price should
have stimulated wool production
greatly but it has done so only mod
erately and the domestic output of
wool still falls short of what it was
ten years ago under the McKinley tar
iff act and bids fair not again for
the present to reach those former fig
ures The product of the current year
is placed at 346341000 pounds
against 259153251 in 1897 at the end
of the free wool period but against
348538138 pounds in 1893 the maxi
mum production recorded under the
McKinley act
An average of twenty nine cents a
pound during the Dingley tariff as
against nineteen cents a pound un
der the Gorman Wilson tariff and a
production of 34G000000 pounds
against 259000000 pounds would
seem to answer the Republicans
question What of the business of
wool growing under this tariff law
But still the editor is unsatisfied be
cause we have not yet recovered all
that we lost He forgets that it is
easier to tear down than to build
up and that it may still be several
years before we fully recover from
that disastrous wool period If in
certain sections wool growing has
been to an extent abandoned it is be
cause of more profitable products Then
as Secretary North of the Wool Manu
facturers Association says the high
price of meat has offered the farmers
an inducement to kill both lamb and
mutton so that the supply has really
decreased per capita instead of in
creased But we do not agree with
Secretary North that we are not going
to have a domestic supply equal to
domesitc requirements conditions are
not yet normal But we are glad to
note that since the close of the in
surrection in the Philippines the
Springfield Republican is studying
economic questions with no little in
telligence
Tried to Stop the Train
sbrr WW
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The Result
The mark of the cross shovs what hit
him
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PROTECTION
A Bad Arrangement
When it is proposed to cut a duty
on hosiery gloves knit goods and
the like for France and Germany to a
figure where the cheap labor in those
countries engaged in these industries
can cause their importation in such
quantities as to interfere with home
production while we get no real ad
vantage in return that Is not reci
procity it is giving away a good
thing for nothing We will get no
markets of the world by such an
arrangement with European countries
Indianapolis Journal
Who Is Suffering
Gov Cummins ought to tell us who
In Iowa is suffering so greatly that a
tariff agitation has to be kept up per
petually Cedar Rapids Republican
YALUE OF COURTESY
STORY PROVES OLD SAYING THAT
POLITENESS PAYS
Traveling Man Tells of Experience
Which Points a Moral for Business
Man Superciliousness Lost Shaky
Firm a Profitable Order
They were discussing the various
types of people whom they encounter
ed in their travels and the consensus
of opinion expressed by six drummers
was that white treatment that is
politeness was never lost when ex
erted on a traveling man
The stout man who represented a
fur house had the floor
This talk he said reminds me of
a little incident that occurred lair
season Hopkins was taken suddenly
ill and the firm sent word to me to
cover a part of his route until he got
in shape again Naturally I was
strange to the country and to the peo
ple but I got along fairly well until
I reached Seattle There I found a
letter of introduction from the firm
There were a lot of furs there which
the firm had been Informed could be
had for a bargain It seems two rival
firms had gotten hold of tho skins and
I was to use my judgment as to which
firm I should trade with
It was a novel experience for me
I had been accustomed to selling furs
not buying them and naturally I felt
my importance It was a matter of
about 25000 too and I mentally pic
tured the attack of heart disease I
would give the members of one or the
other firm when I placed my order I
rehearsed my entrance Into the store
pictured the offhand way In which I
would examine the furs and criticise
them I even had the scene down to
such a fine point that I had the words
all chosen to utter between puffs of a
cigar nothing like a cigar you know
to show nonchalance
Well I started out early next
day I had the cards of the rival
firms in my pocket and as I looked
them over idly wondered which I
would go to first One was say
Brown Jones and the other was
Smith Waters
Brown Jones was tho nearer to
my hotel so I walked over there in
flating my chest as I entered tho
place It was a dark cavernous sort
of store and I almost groped my way
to the rear between plies of furs
There seated in an easy chair with his
feet cocked upon a desk sat a young
man He wore an Incipient mustache
and a look of insufferable arrogance
Well what do you want he
asked
He placed an exasperating accent
upon the you I felt my chest de
crease in circumference and at the
same time my innate anger arose
Here I came to do this house a great
business service and
However I smothered my anger
produced the firms card and asked
meekly as I could Is this Brown
Jones
Yes he snarled rather than re
plied Im Mr Jones What do you
want
For the second time the query was
insultingly put I longed to tell him
what I wanted but Controlled my feel
ings
I dont think I want anything from
you I said simply and walked out of
the store
At Smith Waters I received bet
ter treatment I placed the order with
them and went back to my hotel with
an invitation to dine with one of the
firm that night
Before my trip ended I learned that
Brown Jones had failed for a con
siderable sum Perhaps my order
would have tided them over thrugh
the crisis At any rate I am vindic
tive enough to be glad of their failure
That little word you was the greatest
insult I ever received New York
Mail and Express
Automobile Sea Scouts
As military motor bicycles have al
ready proved themselves to be of value
in scouting it Is probable that in near
ly every civilized country they will be
largely used in future land warfare
Why if the fast land scout prove so
useful should not the navy adopt the
same methods A boat sixty feet
long with two twenty five horse power
engines built very light to carry say
four persons and to be capable of con
siderable speed would be a most use
ful addition to a battleship or a fleet
The ordinary torpedo boat is too long
and draws too much water for scout
ing near shore or in shallow water
but a launch might be made to draw
less than three feet of water and yet
have a speed of upward of thirty
knots There would be no funnels or
smoke to attract the notice of the en
emy and with underwear exhaust the
boat might be made almost silent If
built low in the water or with the
power of semi submersion it would be
difficult for the enemy to observe and
still more difficult to hit Probably
such a craft would be more useful than
anything yet invented in the way of
a scout for sea purposes London
Star
Hard Work Always Wins
I have faith in volition I believe
that by means of a strong will a
person not physically or morally in
capacitated for a particular pursuit
will eventually succeed in the voca
tion to obtaining excellence in which
he or she has set himself or herself
with all his or her soul and strength
I do not believe in failures accidents
of course always excepted in the
case of those who work hard indefat
ieably and hopefully G A Sala