Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-01-21

LII the world knows how danger.
~ Gus an experiment ii Is TO marry
- man to reform him. Thousands
OF luckless women have paid the penalty
for This mistake. "A man will run to
catch street car, but after he has caught
il there's no further need for him 10 run,
popular statement OF the case. And in
the remarkable romance told on this
page, the heroine. Mrs. George Caulkens
Long especially warns other girls OF the
pcriIs Of such an undertaking as hers
Mrs. Long points out, TOO, that the work
Of reformation had been voluntarily be
gun by her husband before she married
him.
Edna Caulkcns. daughter OF a
wealthy Brooklyn Ship-Owner married
George Long. an outcasi and drugridden
icroiict because OF the fight that he had
made for hi. own soul and because she
feared refusal would send him bach
into the ABYSS from which he had so pain
rulv climbed That she has succeeded.
she believes, and so do such men in Phils
hephia ae Anthony Dre1el Biddle. the
noted millionaire philanthropist Bishop
Rhnelander, Or tho Episcopal bioccs"
NJ Pennsylvania, and others OF their kind.
But no, until she faced the altar and
heard the words spoken that made her
he Wife OF the man who, when she first
.aw him had Nlled her with horror and
'oa'hin.. did this girl love him From
horror. m through srudging admiration,
love had climbed. and now in its frui.ion
has made her and her husband true
guardian angels Of the fallen.
Edna Caulkcns Long was the daughter
~ inc late Daniel r. CaulkcnS Of Brook
lyn Her mother is an EnSlishwoman OF
-cincmon; member OF well-to'do
nltra.conservativc London family. Little
Edna Was reared in The midst OF com
and Injury Her mother bpCan early
10 enuir her with all OF the accomplish
mcnts deemed necessary in her life
And while this child was being brou=hi
IN ny a careful mother in surroundings
NJ wealth and refinement. another child
pas changing into a little thief and
lrunhard in an orphan asylum or Roch
ester. Y y. These two seemed to
he AT opposite poles-and yet they were
destined to work together for humanity
the wear round.
The husband, who came 10 her through
Jerry McAuiey's Mission in New York,
ran hold up his head now with the best.
ilc is known from coast 10 coast as the
Man Maker because in five years time
he has led more than FIVE thousand men
back over the sodden trails OF blighted
hopes and ambitions. back TO the
crossroads OF love and into the right
paths He has established a million dol
lar mission in Philadelphia, the like of
which cannot be seen anywhere else in
the world Millionaires OF philanthropic
tendencies. churchmen of national prom
inencc and leaders in the nations field
If big business. are now interested in the
plan of the Man Maker" 10 establish a
string OF similar manrecla nation plants
in all the large cities from New York 10
San Francisco. The work has an cnor-
nous economic as we'll as spiritual value
The woman who lately married him
works daily and nightly by his side.
Her husbands passion for saliva ginc hui
man wrecks has become her own. and
she has renounced forever the frvolities
IF former days and looks back only with
amusement on her old life.
But here let the two tell their own
story
Mother brought me IN very strictly"
said Mrs. Long, particularly in the mat
Ter Of religion Mother was an Episcopa
liam. So | grew M with The self-satis-
fed viewpoint OF the faithful churchgocr.
was like thousands Of others OF my kind
reared in the atmosphere OF presentdav
Churchianity.' During the week | par,i.
rnated in routine OF social functions
and on Sunday became Christian.
But as ! grew older fcI, a srowinc
dissatisfaction; had feeling that my
life was not full enough
II wondered why people of my kind
did not apply their Christianity all the
year round as Christ did.
"One Sunday evening ! was asked 10
h'ttiu JURY MCauIeS Water StIGti
mission in New York accepted
shall never forget that evening, for il was
the turning point in my life. was al
most afraid as ! faced that throng OF
aownand-out men in the mission. Their
clothing, their sad. wrecked or disspate ed
faces filed ME with disgust. And al the
same time | marvelled that the Church
was NOT doing something to aid these
mon who surely needed saving.
In that little collection OF faces
STAMPED with sin and hopelessness was
ono thar filed me with horror. so brand.
cd was il with the error OF life. II
seemed TO me then that only Hades
could be the proper setting for such q
face. The eyes Jared in sunken sockets !:
the skin Of the face was Of deathly white.
ness and was stretched over the cheek
bones like the head OF an old drum. The
shoulders OF this man were bent like an
Old man. but something told me that he
va: not old. His chest was sunken like
hat OF consumptive.
"A faintness came over me when ! saw
that tho eyes OF this outcas, were fastened
upon me with burning intensity
Then il was that a little voice within
me seemed to say with faialisic preci-
Zion: