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Sequel to Tte Bow of Orange Ribbon
A liOVE STORY BY AAEliA E BARR
Copyright 1900 by Amolia E Barr
CHAPTER XV Continued
Your own way you will take until
into some great trouble you stumble
And then my own way I shall take
until out of it I Btumble
I have told Rom what he must do
Like a man ho must say I did wrong
and I am sorry for it and so well I
think of those he has wronged as to
be sure they will answer It is for
given
And forgotten
That Isdifferent To forgive freely
is what we owe to our enemy to for
get not is what wo owe to ourselves
I think it i3 cruel father to ask
Kern to speak truth to his own injury
Even the law is kinder than you It
asks no man to accuse himself
Ilight wrongs no man Till others
move in this matter you be quiet If
you talk evil words will you say and
mind this Arenta the evil that comes
out of your lips Into your own bosom
will fall All my life I have seen this
But Arenta could not be quiet She
would sow thorns though she had to
walk unshod and her fathers advice
moved her no more than a breath
moves a mountain In the same after
noon she saw Madame Jacobus going
to Doctor Morans and the hour she
remained there was full of misery to
her impetuous self adoring heart She
was sure they were talking of Rem
and herself and as she had all their
conversation to imagine she came to
conclusions in accord with her sus
picions
But she met her aunt at the door
and brought her eagerly into the par
lor She had no visitors that day and
-was bored and restless and locging for
conversation I saw you go to the
Doctors an hour ago aunt she said
I hope the Captain is well
Jacobus is qulio well thank God
and Doctor Moran and Cornelia I
have been looking at some of her wed
ding gowns A girl so happy
who deserves to bo so happy I never
saw What a darling she is
It is now the fashion to rave about
her I suppose they found time
enough to abuse poor Rem And you
could listen to them I would not
have done so No not if listening had
meant salvation for the whole Moran
family
You are a remarkably foolish
young woman They never named
Rem People so happy do not remem
ber the bringer of sorrow He has
been shut out in the darkness and
cold I am ashamed of Rem I can
never forfgive him He is a disgrace
to the family And that is why I
cajie hore to day I wish you to make
Rem understand that he must not
come near his Uncle Jacobus When
Jacobus is angry he will call heaven
and earth and hell to help him speak
his mind and I have nearly cured him
of a habit which is so distressing to
me and such a great wrong to his
own soul The very sight of Rem
would break every barrier down and
let a flood of words loose that would
make him suffer afterward I will not
have Jacobus led into such temptation
I have not heard an oath from him in
six months
I suppose you would never forgive
Jacobus if you did hear one
That is another matter I hope I
have a heart to forgive whatever Ja
cobus does or says he is my hus
hand
It is then less wicked to blaspheme
Almighty God than to keep one of Lord
Hydes love letters One fault may be
forgiven the other is unpardonable
Dear me how religiously ignorant I
am
You look extremely handsome
when you are scornful Arenta but
- Ill WJS
tea
Right wrongs no man
It is not worth while wasting your
charms on me I am doing what I
can to help Jacobus to keep his tongue
slean and I will not have Rem lead
him into temptation As for Rem he
is guilty of a great wrong and he
must now do what his father told him
to do work day and night as men
work when a bridge is broken down
The ruin must be got out of the way
and the bridge rebuilt then it will be
possible to open some pleasant and
profitable traffic with human beings
again not to speak of heaven
You are right not to speak of
heaven I think heaven would be
more charitable Rem will not trouble
Captain Jacobus For my part I think
a msn that cannot bear temptation is
very poorly reformed If my uncle
could seo Rem and yet keep his big
and little oaths under bonds I should
believe in his clean tongue
Arenta you are tormenting your
self with anger and ill will and above
all with Jealousy In this way you aro
going to miss a great deal of pleasure
I advise you not to quarreL with Cor
nelia She will be a great resource
This afternoon something Is vexing
you I shall take no offense You will
regret your bad temper to morrow
To morrow Arenta did regret but
people do not always say they are
sorry when they feel so She sat In
the shadow of her window curtains
and watched almost constant streams
of visitors and messengers and
tradespeople at jDoctor Morans house
fM i I
fSiff
The door flew open
and i and she longed to have her hands
among the lovely things and to give
her opinion about the delightful events
sure to make the next few weeks full
of interest and pleasure And after
she had received a letter from Rem
sno resolved to humble herself that
she might be exalted
Rem is already fortunate and I
cant help him by fighting his battle
Forgetfulness is the word For this
wrong can have no victory and to bo
forgotten is the only hope for it Be
side Cornelia had her fall share in my
happiness and I will not let myself be
defrauded of my share in her happi
ness not for a few words no cer
tainly not
This reflection a few times reiter
ated resulted in the following note
My Dear Cornelia I want to say
so much that I cannot say anytaing
but forgive me I am shaken to
pieces by my dreadful sufferings and
sometimes I do not know what I say
even to those I love Blame my sad
fortune for my bad words and tell me
ycu long to forgive me as I long to be
forgiven
Your
ARENTA
That will be sufficient she re
flected and after all Cornelia is a
sweet girl I am her first and dearest
friend and I am determined to keep
my place Well then if I have to eat
humble pie I have had my say and
that takes the bitter taste out of my
mouth and a sensible woman must
look to her future I dare warrant
Cornelia is now answering my letter
I dare warrant she will forgive me
very sweetly
She spent half an hour in such re
flections and then Cornelia entered
with a smiling face She would not
permit Arenta to say another word of
regret she stifled all her self
reproaches in an embrace and she
took her back with her to her own
home And no further repentance em
barrassed Arenta She put her ready
wit and her clever hands to a score of
belated things and snubbed and con
tradicted the Van Dien and Sherman
girls into a respectful obedience to her
earlier friendship and wider experi
ence Everything that she directed or
look charge of went with an unmis
takable vigor to completion and even
Madame Van Heemskirk was delight
ed with her ability and grateful for
her assistance
The poor Arenta she said to Mrs
Moran very helpful she is to us and
for her brothers fault she is not to
blame Wrong it would be to visit
it on her
And Arenta not only felt this gra
cious Justice for herself she looked
much further forward for she said to
her father It is really for Rems
sake I am so obliging By and by
people will say there is ro truth in
that letter story The Marquise is the
friend of Lady Hyde they are like
clasped hands and that could not be
so if Rem Van Ariens had done such
a dreadful thing It is all nonsense
And if I hear a word about it I shall
know how to smile and lift my should
ers and kill suspicion with contempt
Yes for Rems sake I have done the
best thing
So happily the time went on thu it
appeared wonderful when ChHtmas
was close at hand Every preparation
was then complete It was a very joy
to go into the Moran house The
mother with a happy light upon her
face went to and fro with that habit
ual serenity which kept the tempera
ture of expectant pleasure at a degree
not too ex ting for continuance
and Corneal knowing her lover was
every day coming nearer and nearer
1 was lurt as baDnv as a cirl loving nnA
well beloved ought to bo
Her beauty had increased wonder
fully hopo had more than ronewed
her youth and confident lovo had
given to her face and form a splendor
of color and expression that captivat
ed everybody though why or how
they never asked she charmed be
cause she charmed
One day the Httlo bevy of feminine
councillors looked at their work and
pronounced all beautiful and all fin
ished and then there was a lull in tho
busy household and then every one
was conscious of being a little weary
and every ono also felt that it would
bo well to let heart and brain and
fingers and feet rest In a few days
there would likely be another English
letter and they could then form some
idea as to when Lord Hyde would ar
rive The last letter received from
him had been written in London and
the ship in which he was to sail was
taking on her cargo while he im
patiently waited at his hotel for notice
of her being ready to lift her anchor
The doctor thought it highly probable
Hyde would follow this letter in a
week or perhaps less
During this restful interval Doctor
and Mrs Moran drove out one after
noon to Hyde Manor House A
cage from Madame Van Heemskirk
asked this favor from them she wish
ed naturally that they should see how
exquisitely beautiful and comfortable
was the home which her Joris had
trusted her to prepare for his bride
But she did not wish Cornelia to see
it until thebridegroom himself took
her across its threshold An old
womans fancy it is she said to Mrs
Moran but no harm is there in it
and not much do I like women who
bustle about their houses and have no
fancies at all
Nor I answered Mrs Moran with
a merry little laugh Do you know
that I told John to buy my wedding
ring too wide because I often heard
my mother say that a tight wedding
ring was unlucky Then both women
smiled and began delightedly to look
over together the stores of fine linen
and damask which the mother of
Joris had laid up for her sons use
It was a charming visit and the
sweet pause in the vivid life of tho
past few weeks was equally charming
to Cornelia She rested in her room
till the short daylight ended then she
went to tne parlor and drank a cup
of tea and closed the curtains and
sat down by the hearth to wait for her
father and mother
So still was the house so still was
tho little street that she easily went
to the land of reverie and lost herself
there She thought over again all her
life with her lover recalled his sweet
spirit his loyal affection his hand
some face and enchanting manner
Heaven has made me so fortunate
she thought and now my fortune has
arrived at my wishes Even his delay
is sweet I desire to think of him
until all other thoughts are forgotten
Oh what lover could be loved as I
love him
Then with a soft but quick move
ment the door flew open she lifted
her eyes to fill them with loves very
image and vesture and with a cry of
joy flew to meet the bliss so long afar
but now so near O lovely and be
loved O my love Hyde cried and
then there was a twofold silence the
very ecstasj that no mortal words ean
utter The sacred hour for which all
their lives had longed was at last
dropped down to them from heaven
Between their kisses they spoke of
things remembered and of things to
be leaning to each other in visible
sweetness while
Love breathed In sighs and silences
Through two blent souls one rapturous
undersong
The End
HE FOOLED ALL FRANCE
Impostor Made Paris Believe He Was
Ambassador From Persia
Toward the end of the year 1714 a
certain Mehemet Rizabecq who called
himself ambassador of the king of
Persia and the bearer of his com
mands disembarked at Marseilles
He was received at two leagues from
Paris by the c o de Breteuil usher
of ambassadors and the Marshal de
Matignon On the 24th of January
1715 he made his solemn entry into
the capital with great pomp
He declined the royal carriage gen
erally used on suoh occasions and
entered on horseback preceded by the
finest horses of the kings stables
superbly caparisoned and accompan
ied by trumpets and bands of music
The ambassador richly arrayed in
the Persian costume was attended
by a numerous train of domestics and
preceded by a herald bearing the Per
sian standard The presents which
he offered to the king were very in
considerable
After passing a short time in
France during which he concluded in
the name of his pretended master a
treaty of alliance with Louis XIV he
sailed from Sweden and Denmark and
was never heard of later
Rizabecq according to the Memoirs
of the Reign of Louis XIV was a
Portuguese who had never seen the
prince he represented nor even visited
a single province of Persia The gov
ernment paid the expenses of his ex
cellency which amounted to 1000
livres a day Mirror
Chinaman Good House Servant
A friend of mine has at last solved
the servant girl problem said a
Philadelphia man He doesnt em
ploy a girl at all No he doesnt have
his wife do her own housework he
has a Chinaman Charlie thats his
name has been there jiow for a cou
ple of montns and my friend swears
that never again will he employ a ser-
vant girl Charlie cooks washes
irons waits on the table does all the
dusting and cleaning and even tends
to the baby when occasion demands
FEEE EAW MATERIAL
AN
INDEFINITE TERM NOT GEN
ERALLY UNDERSTOOD
In the Seven Billions Vorth of So
called Raw Materials Annually Pro
duced Domestic Labor and Wages
are Represented to the Extent of
Six Billions
Says the Clinton Iowa Daily Age
The president thinks that cutting
off the tariff on trust articles would
not curb the trusts and might ruin
lesser manufactures To prevent
ruination of that kind all that Con
gress would have to do would bo in
connection with cutting off tho tariff
on trust articles to also cut off the
tariff on foreign raw material With
the great majority of manufacturing
Industries in this country free raw
material would enable them to pro
duce their wares at a reduction of at
least 25 per cent and leave a good
profit for the mill and bettor wages
for the laborer
The editor of the Daily Age should
first know what raw material is and
what it means before he echoes the
worn out fallacy that has been explod
ed times without number First we
will tell him in the words of Henry C
Carey what raw material as he uses
the term is
All the products of the earth are in
rn finished commodity and raw mate
rial Coal and ore are the finished
commodity of the miner but the raw
matrial of pig iion The latter is the
finished commodity of the smelter yet
only the raw material of the puddler
and of him who rolls the bar The bar
is again the raw material of sheet iron
and that in turn becomes the raw
material of the nail and spike
It has been said only the trees in
the wild forests the ore and the coal
of the unmined earth and the
ered product of the sea are raw
material All else is more or less fin
ished product on which labor to a
greater or less degree has been ex
pended But let us call all unfinished
products which enter into the produc
tion of a finished product raw mater
ial In other words let us call all
fuel all food and the basis of tex
tiles and finished iron and steel raw
material coai and wood lumber and
logs iron and copper ore wool and
cotton and raw silk chemicals and
so on through the list All these our
Iowa contemporary would have us put
on the free list
Well to begin with every one of
them which we do not produce at
home is on the free list now In 1902
we imported articles in a crude con
dition which enter into the various
processes of domestic industry to the
value of 328506597 Of this 259
G69G66 worth or nearly SO per cent
came in free of duty These articles
admitted free of duty by the Dingley
law number fully 500 and even more
if we consider different kinds of
material It would take several news
paper columns to name and describe
them The per cent of all free im
ports in 1902 was fifty three or more
than half of our entire importations
Our importations of so called raw
material in 1902 SO per cent or
which came in free amounted to 328-
000000 while the average under the
Wilson Gorman law was less than
200000000
Moreover it may be stated that
the importations cf manufacturers
material during the present fiscal
year of 1903 will exceed 500000000
in value
Now let us consider the protected
raw material The census gives the
value of our manufacturers in 1900 as
13041287498 and the cost of materi
als used as 734S144755 Suppose
we had imported the whole of that
7350000000 worth of material What
would such an annual importation
mean Simply a loss of wages and
income amounting to fully 6000000
000 a year And when the farmer has
no market for his wool or the miner
for his ore and coal or the lumberman
for his lumber or the millions of work
men for their product how are they
going to be able to buy the products
cf others That condition of things
was just what brought the disasters of
1894 95 96 and 97 till the Dingley
law came to the rescue and brought
the opportunity to do our own work
That is all there is to this question
of protection to the finished article or
the so called raw material It enables
us to do our own work and with the
resulting wages and incomes both in
the factory and on the farm we en
large the consumption and the in-
creascd demand fcr all commodities
bring increased production and more
business for the railroads the mer
chants and personal service If so
caPed free raw material did onablq
some of cur manufacturers to produce
their wares at a reduction of 25 per
cent in cost it would make 30000000
poor farmers and their families and
throw out of work millions of laborers
now earning from 2 to 5 a day
Fully three persons are engaged in
producing our so called raw material
to one engaged in producing tho last
finished product Now shall we throw
three men out of employment to bene
fit one even were that one to be bene
fited But the one would not be bene
fited for his market would be gone
We advise our Iowa friends to look
into this matter of free raw material
thoroughly instead of the superficial
glance they throw at it with a con
clusion based on an argument as falla
cious as an empty wind bag When it
comes to competing in the foreign
market it should be remembered that
all materials that enter into products
to be exported are 99 per cent free
a feature of our tariff law that free
traders rarely consider when talking
about- free raw materials and tho
mancets of the world American
Economist
What Canada Wants
To suppose that Canada Is yearning
for reciprocal relations with the
United States in order that she may
receive an increased quantity of manu
factured exports from this country is
to cherish a delusion Canada wants
nothing of the sort What she wants
is to become industrially independent
and self reliant to encourage and build
up her own industries The Hamilton
Spectator negatives the assumption
by the Buffalo Express that the Cana
dian government desires to negotiate
a reciprocity agreement with tho
United States and says
Canada is now importing many
GULLIVER AND THE LILIPUTIANS
more millions of dollars worth of
American made goods than the people
of this country want to see And it
is a reduction of that importation not
an increase that the people of Canada
want
The preferential of 33 1 3 per cent
in favor of imports of British origin
may be removed before long but it
will not be removed because Canada
wants to trade more extensively with
the United States It will be because
Canada wants to do more of her own
work and to decrease her imports in
competing products
Free Hides Free Wool Free Every
thing
Free hides would be followed by
free wool Free wool would be fol
lowed by free manufactured goods
made of wool Thus the whole sys
tem of protection would fall
The people of the United States
have reached that point where they
must either stand by protection or
free trade There can be no middle
ground
Reciprocity on competitive goods is
only another method of tariff ripping
and tariff reduction and it is advo
cated for that purpose by those who
advocate it
Reciprocity with Canada is advo
cated solely in the interest of the
agricultural implement trust which is
perfectly willing to trade off the in
terests of the farmer in their own
country to advance their own in
Canada
We are not surprised that Mr Rob
erts wwho bears the responsibility of
editing the morning paper should ad
vocate free hides and reciprocity in
competitive goods inasmuch as Mr
Roberts intimate friends know that he
has practically become a free trader
Des Moines Capital
Reaping the Benefits
Canadian advocates of free trade or
a low tariff tell the farmers of the
Northwest that protection is a policy
intended solely for the benefit of the
manufacturers in the Eastern pro
vinces The low tariff advocates of
the United States used to tell the same
story to the Western farmers They
said there were no manufacturing in
austries in the West and never could
be The protectionists on the other
hand told the Western farmers that
the ultimate effect of protection would
be to cause the establishment of fac
tories in the West as well as in the
East The farmers of the West gave
their support to the party advocating
high protection and they are now reap
ing the benefits of the policy Indus
trial Canada
KNEW WHEREOF HE SPOKE
wr
Disputants Had Referred Their Case
to Good Judge
Threo men woro traveling In tho
amoking compartment of a Pullman
car when one in roferrlug to Tho
Pit commended Its realistic phases
A neighbor criticised the book on tho
point where Jadwin is described as
figuring out commissions and said
that any big operator would havo car
ried tho data in his head The third
gentleman was appealed to and agree
ing with tho second thought that
The Pit was wrong on that point
But persisted tho first did you
ever carry wheat on margin
Oh yes replied number three
Largo quantities
Very largo
How many bushels
One hundred and
Then number one and number two
looked at number three and asked him
his name
Joseph Lelter he replied New
York Times
Had Had His Rest
Yoakum of Frisco as he is known
In the railroad world is ono of tho
workers They say he never tires
One day a friend called at the Broad
street office to see him It was about
4 p m He found the president lean
ing back in a big chair reading a
newspaper and smoking In sur
prise he asked what was up
You see Ive worked pretty hard
for the past ten years said Mr Yoa
kum and I think I need a long
rest
The next day the same friend drop
ped in again Mr Yoakum shook
hands in his hearty way but said
Glad to see you but Im up to my
eyes in work I havent much time
I thought you were going to take
a long rest exclaimed his friend
Thats all right I took it yester
day said the president New York
Times
One Oculists Advice
So you have been trying to doctor
your own eyes -remarked the oculist
as the patient removed the bandages
displaying an aggravated case of con
junctivitis In many cases you can
cure yourself but if you dont know
what treatments to avoid you are
liable to do yourself injury Old
housewife remedies are all right in
their place but I would advise you
not to use tea leaves They often give
relief but they bring on other compli
cations In fact the tea leaf eye is
well known to the profession The
lid is puffy flabby and lifeless If
you wish to reduce the inflamation in
your eyes use hot water with a cloth
That is enough Yes you may add
salt if you wish but it is not necessary
in most cases Salt is merely an an
tiseptic and has no other virtue for
eye lotions
Ended the Argument
Among those who were on the re
viewing stand at the unveiling of the
Sherman statue was the young son of
Lieut Col J Wray Cleveland with
several of his boy friends As Gen
Roe and his staff rode by the boys
began discussing the positions their
fathers held in the parade
My father is a Lieutenant said
one
Pooh My father is a Colonel
said another
Humph said young Cleveland My
father beats both for hes a Lieuten
ant Colonel
From the silence that followed it
was evident that he had scored New
York Times
Place for College Men
President Loudon of Toronto uni
versity was a visitor to Wall street
one day last week He was shown
the sights by one of his old friends
not a college man but rather a dis
ciple of Schwab
What good does it do a man to go
through college anyway he said
flippantly The biggest men down
here are not college men
No said the white haired sage
unconscious of both bull and irony
if they were they would probably be
working somewhere New YorL
Times
Howll They Know It
It is proposed in Boston to run a
special car late in the evening for the
convenience of intoxicated men But
even Boston drinkers may be puzzled
to read the label on the dipsomania
special when it comes along
Public Baths
New York with 3437202 inhab
itants has only one public bath but
has three others under way London
with a population of 4536063 has
thirty eight
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