The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-12-10

Travelled throughout the United
States, welcomed everywhere. his ef-
forts were unavailing. There was
more than one woman who would
have been glad to accept the mans
suit; whom, If he had wooed ever so
slightly he could have won, but he
was friendly with everyone and in
love with none.
At the end of two years society gave
him up as confirmed in his isolation
and loneliness. He was not the less
welcome, but he was no longer a
matrimonial possibility, nor was he
any more the wonder that he had
been. New things engrossed public
attention. The world presently took
Charnock as he would fain have it
take him. as a matter of course.
He did things slowly, not because
that was his nature, but from an in
vincible determination to do things
right. He made his plans deliberately
and had formulated an enterprise so
comprehensive in its scope, so vast in
its outlay and with such infinite posi-.
bilities of help to the poor, the
wretched, the down-trodden classes of
society, that when the foreshadowings
of 1t were announced, people stood
amazed An undertaking so great was
not within the power even Of Char
mock. His resources were utterly un.
equal to it, but he had enough to make
magnificent beginning and by devo-
| ting to 1t the whole revenue of his es-
tate, and the estate itself after he
died, gradually the enterprise would
be achieved.
There was no necessity for secrecy
about 1t. Indeed with that simplicity
and candor 80 unusual and SO uncon-
ventional, which touch with the world
had never been able to alter, he had
spoken of his plans without reserve
and he had declared with equal frank
ness that what he was doing was in
memory of the noblest and the truest
| Of women, to whom he owed 1t that
he was human being and not an ami
NAL
| Whitaker, of whose judgment he
thought highly and with desert, was
called from the naval service to be
the executive head of the great I'M
dertaking. The spiritual work was to
| be placed in the hands of the chaplain
who had so endeared himself to the
promoter and deviser of it all. Char
mock realized that these men who had
known Katharine Brenton would enter
more alphabetically into his views
and could be depended upon to carry
them out in case anything happened
| to him. He and his uncle and one or
two others of excellent judgment
whom he had met, were associated
with the two mentioned to carry out
all the founders plans.
Now, this thing was not done In a
ccrner The news of 1t was carried
over the United States and spread
even to foreign lands. The world read
1t and marveled again. A newspaper
carrying an account Of It fell under
the eye of lonely man in San Fran
cisco, who had just returned from q
long voyage in northern seas. The
name "Charnock" caught his eye first;
and then Langford saw the name of
the woman he loved. He read with
avidity. approaching as none could
better do than he from his trained
| business acumen the scope and yet
the feasibility of the undertaking. He
| had wondered cynically what would
be the career Of the man in the Uni
ted States. He knew the value, as
did every business man. especially ev-
cry man with large transportation in
terests like his, Of the Charnock es-
tate. He would have wagered that
Charnock would lose his head as
ninety-nine men out Of hundred
would have done, and that intoxi-
Gated by the sudden touch of the
matarial 'uc-'S --,Ni,s-7- t,