New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1905-04-19
Ny Cynical Friend
Foriginal.]


NAL of spontaneous good. He granted
there are good people in the world, but
maintained that they are good because
1T is their interest to be good
did not meet Hinckley for several
years after our leaving college, and
then, curiously enough, it was at
meeting of the Salvation Army.
Why, Hinckley,'' I exclaimed, who
ever would have thought to run across
you in a place like this! Surely you
must have got rid of your cynicism
among these people you'll not find it
anywhere
Not at ALL Hinckley replied. These
people have living to make the same
as you and l. This is their way OF do
ing it,
But what brings you here?"
s'Wait awhile and I'll show you..
Pulling out his watch he glanced at It
and drew me to seats where we could
converse in low tone without being
overheard. Like all well organized
shows he went on, Ssthese Salvation
lists save the best till the last. There's
a lassie to appear in few minutes I
want you to see.'
Presently Captain Ida Sherwood
| came upon the platform and began to
speak. It seemed to me that il had
| not seen her-had only listened to her.
L r 4 IL, T.,
| her love for her work But that heav-
emily face contrasting with the poke
| bonnet which surrounded it, her ex.
preston and her accounts of her work
| In rescuing the lost-it seemed to me
that the Saviour in womans form had
come back to earth
II am glad | whispered to Hinck.
ley, that you have found one who is
capable of breaking down that mis-
anthropy of yours. .
ssShe hasn't broken down what YOU
call my misanthropy," he replied, "but
4 she is capable of breaking my heart
/ When the meeting broke up we went
off for a little supper together. and
Hinckley told me that Captain Ida
Sherwood would soon have an oppor-
tunity to show her preference for hef
work to him. for he intended to pro.
pose to take her to a comfortable home
and make q good wife and mother OF
her
But suppose I said, "she declines
to marry you unless permitted to fol
low the life she has chosen:
4 ssShe won't do that" he replied 'tShe
i loves me-
4 The next time | saw Hincsley he
i was bitter against the Salvationists
i "The whole thing is 4 fraud he said
'saThere is but one among them who is
. not making all they can out of it; she
is sincere.
Captain Ida Sherwood"
Eyes
Il 'SWhy do you except her?'
!, Because she loves me as / love her
and she won't leave her work becaUsi
she loves it better than either me @
herself"
"H'm," I replied musingly. "Weil
having found one sincere person
among them, perhaps in time you vii
find others But if you love her an.
q wish to possess her why don't you per
: nit her to go on with her work afte
marriage?
!, "She says that a marriage betwee
i Salvationist and one absorbed in gel
ting rich would be no marriage at all.
I met Hinckley on the street not Ion
). after this, and scarcely knew hin
q He was walking abstractedly, with hi
;. eyes staring vacantly before him, an
did not see me till tapped him on tn
shoulder.
"Why, Hinckley," exclaimed
whats happened"
Nothing
'.Nothing!'
slim, I'm wearing out he said, b
reserve suddenly breaking down.
Business matters?:
'sNo. I'm getting rich Everything
touch turns to gold. It's in the heart
ssThe Salvation lassie?"
Eyes
"Can't you strike a compromised
"a woman doesn't know what tt
word means"
"Cant help you?
He shook his head mournfully, broi
away from me and went on.
One night / passed the Salvation A
. my headquarters and, seeing a gre;
: crowd entering. went in with I'll
throng. I had no sooner entered thu
saw there on the stage the ca
tain, and beside her in flaming II
shirt stood my old friend Hinckley.
was rubbing my eyes to make sure tn
1t was he when a Salvation officer a
IS vanced and announced that Recru
Henry Hinckley and Captain Ida She
wood would solemnize the bonds
matrimony. waited for the service
Is be over, then left as quickly as possib
n I did not care to meet Hinckley or
have him know that I had witness
: his humiliation
When I saw Hinckley again the
was a great change in him. He had /
come one Of the principal commando
in the Salvation ARMY and was Who'll