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Sequel to The Bow of Orange Ribbon
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A LOVE STORY BY AAEUIA E BARR
CHAPTER XV
CopjrLht 1900 by Amelia E Barr
Huoh Lovo Is Here
On the morning that Hyde sailed for
America Cornelia received the let
ter ho Imd written her on the dis
covery of Rems dishonorable con
duct So much love so much joy
sent to her in the secret foldings of a
sheet of paper In a hurry of delight
and expectation she opened it and
her beaming eyes ran all over the joy
ful words it brought her sweet flut
tering pages that his breath had
moved and his face been aware of
How he would have rejoiced to see
her pressing them to her bosom at
some word of fonder memory or de
sire
In the afternoon when the shopping
for the day had been accomplished
Cornelia went to Capt Jacobus to
play with him the game of backgam
mon which had become an almost
daily duty and to which the captain
attached a great Importance I owe
your daughter as much as I owe you
sir ho would say to Doctor Moran
and I owe both of you a bigger debt
than I can clear myself of
This afternoon he looked at his vic
Itor with a wondering speculation
There was something in her face and
manner and voice he had never before
seen or heard and madame who
watched every expression of her hus
band was easily led to the same ob
servation She observed Cornelia
closely and her gay laugh especially
revealed some change It was like
the burst of bird song in early spring
and she followed the happy girl to the
front door and called her back when
she had gone down the steps and
said as she looked earnestly in her
face
You have heard from Joris Hyde
I know you have and Cornelia nod
ded her head and blushed and smiled
and ran away from further question
When she reached home she found
Madame Van Heemskirk sitting with
her mother and the sweet old lady
rose to meet her and said before Cor
nelia could utter a word
Come to me Cornelia This morn
ing a letter we have had trom my
Joris and sorry am I that I did thee
so much wrong
Madame I have long forgotten it
and there was a mistake all round
answered Cornelia cheerfully
That is so and thy mistake first
of all Hurry is misfortune even to
be happy it is not wise to hurry Lis
ten now Joris has written to his
grandfather and also to me and very
busy will he keep us both His grand
father is to look after the stables and
to buy more horses and to hire serv
ing men of all kinds And a long let
ter also I have from my daughter
Katherine and she tells me to make
her duty to thee my duty That is my
pleasure also and I have been talk
ing with thy mother about the house
Now I shall go there and a very pleas
ant home I shall make it
Then Cornelia kissed madame and
afterwards removed her bonnet and
madame looked at her smiling
For nearly a week Cornelia was too
busy to take Arenta into her con
sideration She did not care to tell
her about Rems cruel and dishonor-
She seized and read it
able conduct and she was afraid the
shrewd little Marquise would divine
some change and get the secret out
of her
After a week had elapsed Cornelia
went over one morning to see her
friend But by this time Arenta knew
everything Her brother Rem had
been with her and confessed all to his
sister She heard the story with in
dignation but contrived to feel that
somehow that Rem was not so much
to blame as Cornelia and other people
You art right served she said
to her brother for meddling with for
eigners and especially for mixing
your love affairs up with an English
girl Proud haughty creatures all
of them And you are a very fool to
tell any woman such a crime Yes
it is a crime I wont say less That
girl over the way nearly died and you
would have let her die It was a
shame I dont love Cornelia but it
was a shame
The letter was addressed to me
Arenta
Fiddlesticks You knew it was not
yours You knew it was Hydes
Where is it now
She asked the question in her usual
dominant way and Rem did not feel
able to resist It He opened his pocket
book and from a receptacle in It took
the fateful letter She seized and read
it and then without a word or a mo
ments hesitation throw it into the
fire
Rem blustered and fumed and she
stood smiling defiantly at him- You
are like all criminals sne said you
must keep something to accuse your
self with I love you too well to per
mit you to carry that bit of paper
about you It has worked you harm
enough What are you going to do
Is Miss Darners refusal quite final
Quite It was even scornful
Plenty of nice girls in Boston
I cannot go back to Boston
Why then
Because Marys cousin has told
the whole affair
Nonsense
She has I know it Men whom
I had been friendly with got out of
my way women excused themselves
at their homes and did not see me on
the streets I have no doubt all Bos
ton Is talking of the airair
Go away as soon as you can I
dont want to know where you go just
yet New York is impossible and Bos
ton is impossible Father says go to
the frontier I say go South And I
would let women alone they are be
yond you go in for politics
That day Rem lingered with his
sister seeing no one else and in the
evening shadows he slipped quietly
away He felt that his business ef
forts for two years were forfeited and
that he had the world to begin over
again Without a friendto wish him
a Godspeed the wretched man went
on board the Southern packet and in
her dim lonely cabin sat silent and
despondent while she fought her way
through swaying curtains of rain to
the open sea
This sudden destruction of all her
hopes for her orother distressed
Arenta Her own marriage had been
a most unfortunate one but its misfor
tunes had the importance of national
tragedy Rems matrimonial failure
had not one redeeming quality it
was altogether a shameful and well
deserved retribution
But the heart of her anger was Cor
nelia but for that girl Rem would
have married Mary Damer and his
home in Boston might have been full
of opportunities for her as well as a
desirable change when she wearied of
New York
When Cornelia entered the Van
Ariens parlor Arenta -was already
there She looked offended and hard
ly spoke to ner old friend but Cor
nelia was prepared for some exhibi
tion of anger She had not been to
see Arenta for a whole week and she
did not doubt she had been well aware
of something unusual in progress
ut that Rem had accused himself did
Jt occur to her therefore she was
hardly prepared for the passionate
accussations with which Arenta as
sailed her
I think she said you have be
haved disgracefully to poor Rem
You would not have him yotfrself and
yet you prevent another girl whom
he loves far better than he ever loved
you from marrying him He has
gone away out of the world he says
and indeed I should not wonder if he
kills himself It is most certain you
have done all you can to drive him
to it
Arenta I have no idea what you
mean I have not seen Rem nor writ
ten to Rem for more than two years
Very likely but you have written
about him You wrote to Miss Damer
and told her Rem purposely kept a
letter which ycu had sent to Lord
Hyde
I did not write to Miss Damer I
do not know the lady But Rem did
keep a letter that belonged to Lord
Hyde
Then anger gave falsehood the bit
and she answered Rem did not keep
any letter that belonged to Lord Hyde
Prove that he did so before you ac
cuse him You cannot
I unfortunately directed Lord
Hydes letter to Rem and Rems letter
to Lord Hyde Rem knew that he had
Lord Hydes letter and he should
have taken it at once to him
Lord Hyde had Rems letter he
Ought to have taken it at once to
Rem
There was not a word in Rems let
ter to identify it as belonging to him
Then you ought to be ashamed to
write love letters that would do for
any man that received them A poor
hand you must be to blunder over two
love letters I have had eight and ten
at once to answer and I never failed
to distinguish each and while rivers
run into the sea I never shall mis
direct my love letters Very clever is
Lord Hyde to excuse himself by throw
ing the blame on poor Rem Very
mean indeed to accuse him to the girl
he was going to marry
Arenta I have the most firm con
viction of Rems guilt and the great
est concern for his disappointment I
assure you I have
Kindly reserve your concern Miss
Moran till Rem Van Ariens asks for
it As for his guilt there is no guilt
in question Even supposng that Rem
did keep Lord Hydes letter what
then All things are lair in love and
war Willie Nicholls told me last
night that he would keep a hundred
letters if he thought he could win
me by doing so Any man of sense
would
All I blame Rem for is
All I blame Rem for is that he
asked you to marry him So much for
that I hopo If he meddles with wom
en again ho will seek an all round
common sense Dutch girl who will
know how to direct her letters or
else be content with one lover
Arenta I shall go now I have
given you an opportunity to bo rude
and unkind You cannot expect mo
to do that again
Arenta watched Cornelia across the
street and then turned to the mirror
and wound her ringlets over her fin
gers I dont care she muttered
It was her fault to begin with She
tempted Rem and he fell Men
always fall when women tempt them
it is their nature to I am going to
stand by Rem right or wrong
To such thoughts she was raging
when Peter Van Ariens came home to
dinner and she could not restrain
them He listened for a minute or
two and then struck the table no
gentle blow
In my house Arenta he said I
will have no such words What you
think you think but such thoughts
must be shut close in your mind In
keeping that letter I say Rem be
haved like a scoundrel he was cruel
and he was a coward Because he
is my son I will not excuse him No
indeed For that very season the
more angry am I at such a deed Now
You have behaved disgracefully
then he shall acknowledge to George
Hyde and Cornelia Moran the wrong
he did them ere in my home and my
heart he rights nimself
Is Cornelia going to be married
That is what I hear
To Lord Hyde
That also is what I hear
Well as I am in mourning I can
not go to the wedding so then I am
delighted to have told her a little of
my mind
It is a great marriage for the Doc
tors daughter a countess she will
be
And a marquise I am And will
you please say if either countess or
marquise is better than mistress or
madam Thank all the powers that
be I have learned the value of a
title and I shall change marquise for
mistress as soon as I can do so
If always you had thought thus a
great deal of sorrow we had both been
spared
Well then a girl cannot get her
share of wisdom till she comes to it
After all I am now sorry I have quar
reled with Cornelia In New York and
Philadelphia she will be a great
woman
To take offense is a great folly
and to give offense is a great folly I
know not which is the greater
Arenta
Oh indeed father she answered
if I am hurt and angry I shall take
the liberty to say so Anger that is
hidden cannot be gratified and if peo
ple use me badly it is my way to
tell them I am aware of it One may
be obliged to eat brown bread but I
for one will say it is brown bread
and not white
To be continued
BARRYMORE NOT ON SHOW
Famous Actors Cutting Rebuke to
Group of Club Men
The real bohemian does not wish
to be put on show for the delectation
of persons who do not understand
him There is a story told of Mau
rice Barrymore which illustrates this
point Entering the famous bohemian
club in New York one night he found
a lot of commercial men in full pos
session They greeted Barry ef
fusively He had hardly got himself
fairly sat when one of them slap
ped him on the back and said Bar
ry speak us a piece Then a chorus
said Yes get funny old man cut
up Weve all heard that you were a
great entertainer Barry glared
around for a moment and then said
quietly Ill do a handspring for
you gentlemen but I cant speak a
piece Then he reached through the
silence and picked his hat off the
hook That was the last time hi
entered the club
Southern Strawberry Picking
Norfolk Va men shipped north in
one day recently 12200 crates of
strawberries or about 732000 quarts
The season was at its hight last week
and some of the growers in the vicin
ity had between 300 and 400 negro
pickers at work They begin at day
break and earn from 1 to 125 a day
in wages The average yield this sea
son is about 2500 quarts to the acre
The crop in that section is about 20
per cent short but the berries are
better than usual The negroes do
not pick the berrlss one at a time but
grab handfuls A plantation owner
said that his workers from a distance
looked like a gigantic ficxk of black
birds
Same Reply in All Ages
What asked the youth is the
first step toward knowledge
The discovery that you are a blank
fool answered the sage
GfiOYER CLEVELAND
HE LOOMS UP AGAIN AS A POS
SIBLE NOMINEE
Will the Democrats Bring Forward as
Their Candidate the Man Whose
Election In 1892 Cost More in Money
and Suffering Than the Civil War
The American Economist does not
often concern itself with a discussion
of the merits of an improbable much
less an impossible presidential candi
date However both the improbable
and impossible sometimes happen and
as no one man in our history has had
a more disastrous influence upon our
industrial life than the subject of this
sketch we propose simply to remind
our readers of Grover Clevelands con
tribution to his countrys history and
what he would do again if placed in
a position to accomplish his purpose
which we may add was not fully ac
complished in the first Instance
It was decided in 1884 that a mans
domestic faults need not affect his
public life and executive ability Mr
Cleveland was elected In that year in
spite of his shortcomings as a man
and because of his good fortune as a
politician He was elected not be
cause of his own strength but be
cause of the weakness of his oppo
nents campaign and the lack of com
plete harmony in his opponents party
His first administration has left
nothing worth remembering except
his message to the Fiftieth Congress
in December 1887 Mr Cleveland had
studied his Cobden club literature well
and stated precisely if not honestly
some of their most important tenets
The message was devoted almost
wholly to the tariff and taxation and
ics several thousand words can be put
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merchants knew what was Doforc
them That grim specter sure to ma
terialize In to the evil monster freo
trade which had more than once dev
astated our land and impoverished
our people was bound to come It
mattered not just how soon or In just
what form we must prepare for It as
best we couid and take tho conse
quences and we did
It was not as bad as Mr Cleveland
would have had it Mad clean through
he would not sign his partys law But
that Gorman Wilson tariff did Its work
most effectively and completed the
panic and ruinous work begun in its
anticipation Is there need to recall
those awful years Is there need to
repeat the billions of dollars lost the
suffering the sickness tho sadness
that entered almoEt every homo in the
land
We are loyal and patriotic enough to
add our plaudits to those of the multi
tude when cheering an ex president of
the United States We are willing to
blur our memory to wipe off the slate
and say Well In the light of later
events perhaps it was all for the best
We need adversity once in a while
we must learn by experience And
so we find no fault In the hearty greet
ing and acclaim given to our rapidly
ageing ex president but when tho
mugwump and free trader and politi
cian step In and turn patriotism Into
politics we say No never again must
Grover Cleveland be in power and
gain the opportunity to conspire and
ruin our country Once Is enough
and though we may condone we must
not forget Far more than the civil
war did Grover Cleveland cost our
country In financial loss More lives
were sacrificed through sickness and
sorrow through despair and poverty
through hunger and cold than by the
bullets of the rebellion
If free traders if mugwumps If
Democrats do not forget then the
KIS SERVICES NOT REQUIRED
into two of its sentences as indicating
the tenor of the whole These two
sentences follow
But our present tariff laws the
vicious inequitable and illogical
source of unnecessary taxation ought
to be at once revised and amended
These laws as their primary and plain
eftect raSe the price to consumers of
all articles imported and subject to
duty by precisely the sum paid for
such duties So it happens
that while comparatively a few use
the imported articles millions of our
people who never use and never saw
any of the foreign products purchase
and use things of the same kind made
in this country and pay therefore
nearly or quite the enhanced price
which the duty adds to the imported
articles
These are false statements and Mr
Cleveland knew them to be false for
he could have gone into the open mar
ket and bought hundreds of articles
at a less price than the duty on simi
lar imported articles of no better qual
ity His message defeated him for re
election and a Republican Congress
and President thought best to revise
the tariff and the McKinley law was
the result The effects of that law
were marvelous In May 1892 Ed
ward Atkinson the noted statistician
and free trader who was in full pos
session of his mental faculties at that
time said in the Forum
There never has been a period in
the history of this or any other coun
try when the general rate of wages
was as high as it is now or the prices
of goods relatively to the wages as
low as they are to day nor a period
when the workman in the strict sense
of the word has so fully secured to his
own use and enjoyment such a stead
ily and progressively increasing pro
portion of a constantly increasing prod
uct
Such testimony was repeated by the
cjmmercial agencies by the President
in his message to Congress and by the
whole honest press of the country
And yet Grover Cleveland was again
nominated and adopting the double
dealing tactics of Polk and Dallas in
1S44 was elected by a very positive
popular and electoral vote We have
not to do now with the methods of
that campaign but with the result
For the first time since the election
of Abraham Lincoln in 1860 the three
branches of the government were to
be in the hands of the Democratic free
trade party The very moment that
the people and particularly the com
mercial world realized this there was
consternation in every industrial and
pie must remember for them Grover
Cleveland must never be President
again He should never even be a
candidate and he ought not to be so
much as thought of in that respect
American Economist
Queer Kind of Wall
Those who regard the Dingley tariff
as a Chinese wall will probably revise
their opinion when they learn that the
imports into the United States during
the twelve months ending Jan 31
1903 aggregated 975283637 The
Dingley tariff like all well drawn pro
tective measures tends to increase im
ports rather than diminish them a3
by making the nation prosperous it
enables the people to buy more from
foreigners But while under the stimu
lus of a tariff like the Dingley act our
imports are increased their nature is
greatly changed Instead of importing
manufactured articles ready for con
sumption in increasing quantities we
increase our imports of raw materials
from abroad for the use of our indus
tries Thuo1 in the calendar year 1902
the manufacturers materials imported
amounted to 453000000 against 248
000000 in the calendar year 1896 We
also enlarge our takings of manufac
tured articles ready for consumption
but our increasing imports in thisclas
sification are made up of things vhich
we do not ourselves as yet produce as
well as the foreigner but which we
are rapidly learning to turn out as
well as he does San Francisco
Chronicle
The Tariff -and Batking
The phenomenal increase in bank
deposits and loans sincethe free trade
period can be seen from the follow
ing
March 9 1897 April 9 1903
Loans 1898009291 3403217618
Deposits 16682X9961 3168275260
Cash 420281615 536214834
These deposits are in addition to
almost an equal amount in the sav
ings banks and represent the daily
balances of nerchants and business
concerns They confirm the state
ment that vve are doing double the
business under protection that we
were under free traae It seems
hardly time to revise such a tariff as
we arenow prospering under either
up or dewn It will indeed be well to
let welKenorgh alone
Its Beneficiaries
VThe tariff is always revised in the
interest of its beneficiaries says Ed
itor Bryan The principal
ies of the American protective tariff
financial circle Wise capitalists j policy are the people of the United
shrewd manufacturers and cautious States Oswego Times
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TOO LONESOME IN PRAGUE
Old City Made the Consul Long for
Something Modern
Dli 70U ever realize what a rasp
ing sound a foreign language can
have ujxm tho human car in a
Btraugo city whero ono has no
friondn asked Judge A A Freeman
of Now Mexico in tho lobby of tho
Ebbitt A veteran figure Judge Free
man has hold many offices of honor
and emolument having served for
eight years as assistant attorney gen
oral In charge of tho legal work of
the postoffico department
President Grant appointed mo
consul to Prague the ancient capital
of Bohemia continued tho judge
who sat on tho bench In New Mexi
co It is a beautiful old city with
many things to delight the visitor
but I was exceedingly lonesorao
there Tho people were all strangers
to me and I did not understand the
language There were hundreds of
remarkable places and buildings
places rich with historical Interest
for Prague was founded in tho year
900 But even tho ancient historical
places enhanced ray gloom and I be
gan to realize how It is that soldiers
can actually die of homesickness
Ono day I visited an ancient syna
gague in one of the quaint sections of
the city The guide took mo to the
aged tombstones where the inscrip
tions had been worn off by tho ele
ments He was piloting me a man
weary of delving into the past among
the graves of the long ago and recit
ing what those graves were
My dear man I exclaimed In
despair cant you show mo a grave
that was made yesterday It would
be positively companionable
It wasnt long afterward con
cluded tho judge that I resigned my
consulship in the beautiful old city
of Prague It was too lonesome thero
for me Washington Post
CAPTURED THE WRONG LION
How Head Walter Came to Have
Honors Thrust Upon Him
The career of a social Hon hunter
is liable to be attended with an oc
casional disappointment even though
on the whole successful Burton
Holmes on some of his tours as a
lecturer has been considerably lion
ized and he tells this story of a com
pliment which he missed but which
was enjoyed by another He was lec
turing In an eastern city and a re
ception was given in his honor at tho
principal hotel of the place
Among those who attended this re
ception was a woman prominent so
cially who has established a sort of
salon and receives her friends Sun
day afternoons trying to provide a
lion or two for each occasion
Burton Holmes was so fortunate
as not to be presented to the fair Hon
hunter but she presented herself to
the man she had stalked for her
game and urged upon him her invj
tation for the Sunday afternoon lie
very modestly attempted to decline
it His excuses were not accepted
and the victim consented to appear
Extra arrangements were made for
this occasion and the fact tMat Mr
Holmes was to be there wap herald
ed abroad On the day all the youth
and beauty of the place gathered to
gether awaiting the advent of a some
what tardy lion who was received
with every mark of consideration and
appeared to be embarrassed thereby
The head waiter had been mistaken
for the eminent lecturer
Jairus Daughter
The little maids twelve stainless years
Were past and he was fallen on seepI
When to her side tho Master came
Uttering- Strang music in her ears
And with the touch of a new birth
That like a tine and fragrant flame
Through every vain swept full and deep
Called her again to happy earth
How far In heaven her little feet
Had followed there are none to say
What atmosphere of love the while
Wrapped her like sunshine warm and
swe4t
Whatsoft wings stooped about her there
The gracious light of what glad smile
What tenderness along the way
Me and caressed her everywhere
Whether she saw in rank oer rank
First venturing into heaven alone
A phalanx of archangels shine
Or Whether on some blossom bank
A cloud of cherubs sang and sang
One knows not nor If all divine
She saw about the Great White Throne
The rainbow like an emerald hang
Yet earth must needs be sweet to her
After that voice that touch of grace
The heavenly peace imparted then
For her blest hands to minister
And still a question comes to me
Of days ere heaven was hers again
And which of 11 her wandering race
Child of that little maid might be
Harriet Prescott Spoffold in Youths
Companion
Very Human
F L Colver president of Frank Les
lies Popular Monthly Publishing com
pany has a mechanical playing attach
ment for the piano at his suburban
home in Tenafly On a recent evening
while Mr Colver was entertaining
some friends it so happened that the
attachment did not operate properly
something being wrong with the mech
anism
What remarkable devices these new
mechanical attachments are anyway
remarked one of the guests I declare
they seem to be almost human
Yes responded Mr Colver as he
continued to tinker with the attach
ment you see this one even has to
be coaxed to play New York Times
Union Is Strong
The International Longshoremens
Union now ranks second in member
ship in this country It has 142000
members
Record Fire Loss in Britain
Sixty million dollars is the record
loss by fire for a year in the British
Isles
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