Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-06-14


|sral 1I1EWass sufncie ntly fndepu
snt for. Ihadz done. &c alone havlnnsi
5been s.abovo the ordinary feelinxlIs ~
loneliness. Nsyerths less. he wae "a - s.
.peramentally lonesome, and &c this.
particular moment desperately Is.
He had drifted. into New York. some
rs years before, utterly unheralded.
.unnoticed He had begun By Milling s
smaM clerkship 81 Z little dry goods
store. He kept It It until he owned
the store. and after that a larger store
on better street. He had developed
q genius for trade, and an executive.
ability IL accord, until the original.
little shop had expanded into. rs
story building covering q block on the.
principal thoroughfare Of New York.
city, and its owner had become . pow.
er In finance merchant prince.
Such was George Gormly
He was, too, Q scrupulouslyS honest
man. He sold good goods, Vii hout
deceit. Things were as he represent.
ed them. He established principles OF.
accommodation in his dealings. that
were unique when they were first in.
stituted In New York. He made no
dishonest dollars His money vas
good everywhere because it was un-.
tainted. He prospered exceedingly.
one expansion following another.
Eschewing speculation Of any kind
and devoting himself strictly to the
business. he found himself IN middle
life the head. the foot, the sole owner
Of the greatest enterprise Of the kind
that the world had ever seen.
This had not been achieved lightly.
He had brought it about because. with
absolute singleness Of heart, he had
put every ounce of strength and time.
and talent. which in him amounted to-
genius. at the service of his affairs.
Time, talent, and genius do not always
produce such results; fortune still
must be considered In the game. on
portunity had favored Gormly. He.
had succeeded in everything beyond
his own or anyone's widest dreams.
He might have gone on indefinitely.
in his mercantile operations without
attracting special attention to himself
personally, had it not been for one
fact. That momentous happening waa.
his meeting with Miss Haldane.
It had come about in a common-
place way enough. Miss Haldane,=
deeply interested In social settlement.
work and being brought in contact.
thereby with some Of the poorer en-;
ployees of the great Gormly establish
ment. had concluded to call on. the
proprietor thereof to see il she could
not induce him to make some ade-
quate contribution to the work she
had so much at heart. Like every
other business man in New York.
Gormly was overwhelmed by chart
table demands. His business was one
thing; his charity another. He en-
ployed a special secretary to look. aft,
er the eleemosynary end of his af-
fairs.
There were two reasons why the
secretary felt himself unequal to deal
with Miss Haldane and her demands.
The first reason was Miss Haldane
herself. She was member Of the
oldest and most exclusive circle in
New York society. Her family was
one Of the richest and most esteemed
in that hive of multi-milli onaries,
would be-sos, also-rans, and other Spe0.
pie. The second was the mh6 Minds
OF Miss Haldane' demand. She
ed somethin6 like a million dol1argsl
This. amount appalled, the secreta Z.
She realized mat 8 man IKE Gorm !.
indeed most men IL they Had the pow
en- would much rather give million
than dime to an undertaking that
appealed to them. Still, Gormly, hay-
ing, devoted his attention so exclusive
~ to his business heretofore, was
rather staggered by the magnitude OF
the amount. He would have been
more staggered by it had he been less
SO by Miss Haldane herself.
Miss Haldane had beauty. Thou
sands Of people-women, that Is, and
some few men-have that. She had
more; she had presence and person
ality. Hundreds Of men, and #some
few women, have these.
Those who have ali three In either
sex are rare and come to view intro.
quently. Whether it was Miss Hal
danes undoubted beauty, or Miss Hall
danes exquisite breeding and man-
ner, or Miss Haldane's force OF char
acter and determination, that most Inn
pressed him, or whether his instant
subjugation was due to the influences
of all three, Gormly could not tell Z
He was given to self-analysis. 40
lonely people usually are. By analyz-
ing himself he learned to analyze 9TH
ers. 1ntrospection and observation had
been great factors in his success Here
again his experience was at fault for
| Miss Haldane defied analysis, as the
breath of summer compounded Of -
thousand balmy scents cannot be re-
solved into its elements, save BY the
hard scientist who is insensible to its.
| fragrance ssz..5.
GRO BE coNr1NUED.)
The Wonders About Us.
Let not care and humdrum deadens
Us to the wonders and mysteries amid
which we live. nor to the splendosss
and glories. We need not translate