The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-04-13
MARRIED A MILLIONAIRE.
Salvation Army Lass Wins theHear'
 of a Rich Manufacturer.

~~~~~ ~~~~~~~- Chicago Chronicle.
 Seven years ago Edna Ellis, an attra.- two New York miss, left her school and her books and cast her lot with the Sal vafion Army She labo.ed zealously, most of the time working in the slums early and late. Today she is the wife of Henry A. Gould, the millionaire presi- dent of the Gould Rubber Company. and has abandoned her work. although she has not abated her interest in those whose condition she so long sought to improve.
 Miss Ellis was both petite and pretty and she devoted herself on joining the Salvation Army to what she considered her life work with all the zeal of an ardent nature. No human creature had dropped too low to be out of the reach of her helping hand; no stratum of society was too far removed from the decent for her pure presence to enter in the in Nuence; no human soul was so depraved that her courage failed her or her faith in its chance for redemption wavered. Edna Ellis was of the stuff that makes martyrs.
 But martyrdom was not to be her fate. She was pretty. accomplished and loved fun and her religion was of that charac- ter that led her to seek to make the lives of others pleasant. The good she may have done for others is incalculable. The good she has acquired from the rebound of her efforts is written in her face, in her character and in the poise which re- suits from a consciousness of having done one's best She was seen at her work by MT. Gould, who fell desperately in love with her. Despite the disparity in their years and social position he pressed his suit with ardor and finally secured her consent to marriage, which was solemnized some two months ago and now she is the mistress of one of the most charming homes on the Hudson. In speaking of her former life Mrs. Gould said the other day:
 For several years I've been connect ed with the Thirty-ninth Street branch of the New York Rescue band. I like it better than the army work. I think can accomplish more as an individual than as soldier.
 T like to go wherever I am prompted and do good in my own way. I believe in individual effort and individual charity wish could make every woman in the world believe in it. I wish I could make each one of them realize that part ir the worlds rescue work belongs to her
 ''I know they cannot all take up actua work in the slums One must be called tc do that in order to do it successfully. But If every good woman in the world were ] right spirit of charity to give the erring 5 e0es Assrotler chance nine-tenths of the social wrecks who go unmourned to pot ter's field might be saved. It is to wo- men such as these that the Army stretches forth its hands and it is with these that I have worked and wept for seven years.
 Sometimes they scoffed at me, some- times they patronized me; once in a great Wf1ila fhPV 6IShad and tI1rnad hpir heads. It was often the scoffers who sought me out afterward and little by little told the stories of their lives, all very much the same, yet differing in the details of their misery.
 ''There are brighter spots than these, however, in the life of an Army girl pr rescue worker. It was real, recreation for me to look out for the fresh air chil- 6ren."
 An arch glance from her vis-a-vis made the brides cheeks look like roses. It was these same fresh air children who helped to develop her romance. /They were un. der the care of the Salvation Army girls at Valley Cottage. on the Hudson.
 The owner of the estate was Henry A. Gould, the wealthy philanthropist. The Army girl spent the summer in the green the babbllng brooks. She enjoyed them because they were far removed from the guile and turmoil of a great city.
 Mir. Gould enjoyed them because she did. At the close of the summer she re- turned to city work with her renewed health-aAd something else. The some- thing else was inevitable. When the sweetness and sincerity beneath a blue bonnet can win hearts hardened by sin and shame, consider their effect upon a heart that is mellowed by age. softened by ethics and melted by an environment of green fields and habbling brooksl
 The marriage of Edna Ellis and her wealthy lover was not brilliant social affair, but 1t was evidently love matcf on both sides. And both the parties tC the contract seem greatly pleased tha fate decreed that they should share tho joys together to mitigate the sorrows oi the unfortunate poor and depraved.