The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-08-04


than the best type of manhood will
pot-house politician and the frenZied
financier are each and all held up to
scorn and ridicule by the press of the
country and to condemnation by judge
and jury.
We are beginning to seek men of real
worth, men of warm hearts as well
as big brains. We no longer, jest
ingly, permit the motto, eff you can't
be honest, be as honest as you can"
to guide us. We are learning to say
with Robert LOverman:
What care l for caste or creed?
1t is the deed, it is the deed
What for class OF what for clan?
1t is the man, it is the mani
Hattie Horner Louthan of Denver,
anticipating our growth, has been long
preparing, against our need, a story
setting forth the deeds and the man
of today and tomorrow. Not a 'Thad-
deus of Warsaw man, whose deeds
are great and actions right because
nothing other than these occur to him;
but flesh and blood man who must
strive to know the right and earnestly
strive in the doing of it. A man who
realizes that eternal vigilance is the
price Of any worthy achievement and
that two decades of right thinking and
right living may produce a more per-
feet gentleman than four generations
of Indifferent existence in an aristO-
cratic atmosphere.
The story has to do with the pres
ent time in Colorado and depicts,
faithfully, western men and women
and thought.
The central figures are a boy and
girl who grew up side by side, receiv-
ing their education from a cultured
clergyman who lived near; the one oc-
cupying something like the position of
an adopted son and the other was the
daughter of the mouse, the only daugh-
ter of a father who had inherited the
means and traditions of the English
nobility. Thus Paul Menendez and
Lilys Eldreth grew to young manhood
and young womanhood the highest
types of democrat and aristocrat.
1t Is not simply a love story, but the
story of the love of this young man
for the young woman and her ripening
love for him are neatly portrayed that
we may learn to so guide and control
this strongest emotion of man that it
may not bring pain and confusion
through its uncurbed enjoyment. Let
these extracts illustrate.
His was face to be remembered,
face that having once seen, you felt
unreasoningly drawn to see again and
again. The eyes were grave yet mar
VelOuSly tender, and the soul that
looked through them attracted irresis-
tably because it gave only momentary
and but half revealing glimpses of it
self; and you could but feel that be-
meath that dreamy, half-poetic smile
there lay will that, however velvet
fingered, was irOn-wristed and steel
sinewed. Assertive, virile strength
spoke in the vigorous, we'll knit limbs
the strong, shapely hands, and the
firm-Set mouth.
LilyS was a slim, lissome girl of
perhaps 20, with the erect carriage
the superb vitality of body, and the
quick grace of movement that bespoke
an active outdoor life; strong, supple
little wrists, and firm ankles that told
of tennis, golf and climbing. Her COM
plexion was fiush-pink seen through
ivory. Her eyes were stars at dusk.
The crimson peoples at her bodice
matched her full lips. As she ap-
preached the carriage she spread UP
her white parasol, whose dropping
drifts of costly lace formed the ideal
background for her sparkling face and
ringlets Of jetty hair.
x X X
He stopped in his walk before the
chair of his teacher, his strong gaze
fastened upon him. A man may be a
bondslave in Gods freest country; he
may be manacled by the debts and
sins of the dead; he may be weighted
by the ball-and-chain of a masters
malice, and. thus shackled, may be
made the daily scorn of scorners Add
then a soul within him consumed with
love for that masters only daughter,
a love which, if ever wrung from him.
would be spurned as insult; add but
these, and what is mere death to such
depths Of misery? Tell me Edwin |
Allen
But his teacher intercepted him. |
There is another side to all this, and |
must show it to you, whether YOU |
go or stay. What 1 am about to say
viii hurt, but neither of us has vet |
shrunk from the truth because it was |
painful. Let us suppose it possible that |
you win the love of Lilys Eldreth. |
What then? Marriage. Now. 1 know |
Pierce Eldreth as few know him. his |
thorough worldliness. his inordinate |
pride, his unbounded ambition for his
children He would be unforgiving, in |
exorable. She would be disinherited. |
cut off and sent adrift from her family |
and social mornings. All her life she |
has had ease, luxury, indulgence. high
social position, attention from the ex- |
elusive circle within the select circle |
These are the very air she breathes I
Doubtless she would fling them all |
away for the man of her choice. like
any other loving woman, but after
ward she would wake to find life with |
out them unbearable'"
X X X
During the long silence, the cloud |
broke and the rain ceased with the |
characteristic of the eli
mate and the season. Neither made a |
move to go: each was afraid the other |
n n -n 10
these were the last moments he could !