The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1917-05-12
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know who you are?"
The speakers words arrested his at
tention. 1t seemed as though she were
talking directly to him.
"Know ye not We are godsE AS |
long rs YOU keep on, like the PROOF
eoI eating husks, you will never know.
Arise and go to your Father. he Is
willing to give you all that you can
nossiblv need or want. But you must
/ 90 70 him. You must claim your re-
latiOnship."
Much more she said that seemed TO
thrill and light up dark corners III
the mans consciousness. After the
others were nearly all gone he went
M to her. May when you nave
more time-speak to you?' he asked.
"Nhy. YES" she said pleasantly.
"Con Won come" She was about 10
name an hour the next day when some
thing in the mans face arrested her.
Fright now?" she added. But walt!
Have you had any breakfast!
If was O new sensation for him 10
he ashamed to admit he had not. but
with this woman it must be the truth.
60 no told her. At once she took him
70 the dining room, and asked announcer
lady to see that he had q lunch,' ana
thnn 70 come to her. After his meal
he was taken to an upper room manu-.
someIv furnished like a combination OF
study and library.
"Does it seem sure to you" he
asked, "that what you have SAID TINS
morning is true?"
"I am sure" she said. IT have proved
it. If 1 had not 1 wouldn't dare 10
speak"
, "I think I am not the same man
was when I came in. It's Stranse'
: Won know don't want to be the
same man"
2 Then she drew from him something
: Of his early life. He had left the hlgn
: school with great hopes of literary
! success. His father had died when ne
: was a small lad, and his mother couic
e not afford to send him to collese
G Routine work at q desk or counter
r simnlv drove him mad. He was borl
k dreamer, and he meant to put HE
J. dreams on paper, and live Dy THEM
It Rrt the stories and poems he Wrot'
l. come hack to him. He did not STUD!
e the popular taste with practlcal eye
y He would not make CONCESSIONS IL
1t was NOT pliable to the general. III
J. relatives one and all united IN glVlhi
him advice which was to stop frlttel
3 ing away his time, and go 10 "orh
e an the sweat of thy face shalt tho
b oot hreod." But as Ruskin adds: !
81 was not written, "1n the breaking
d thv heart" His mother had encoul
b AGED him, but when she died, ana I
81 hitter announcement was added dlr
81 novertv. one day he tried to emu
H oil but had been found before III
81 was quite gone, hurried under arres
81 RI q hosnital, and brought back
81 the struggling, unhappy living. q
81 was hauled I'D in court, properly pul
81 ,sbad and set adrift without XIII
II word an offer of help, or the sllgh
est inducement to not again try u
q experiment with better chances
Fl success. She, Mrs. Berlan, the spea
II or. did not tell him he was weak al
II good for nothing, because he had
Il himself become a tramp and DER
VI lief She told him to wipe the pa
2, off the slate, and begin then and the
Z TO know himself. She asked MIN
Il he was willing to work at anythl
II fiji he could get his start at ms oN
l | 10 Tho n1yt 6HV NJ
III Berlan found him clothes, and j
\ He also did some secretarlal VIC
@ for her. One Sunday the pretty g
who played the piano did not appe
and Mrs. Berlan was troubled u
they were to have no music.
49,. "WilI you let me try" Irf
asked.
Mrs. Berlan assented with so
ere trepidation. Against her own tea
go ings. the lurking devilishnesS IN
had ewes made her fearful. But when
tier Of Mendelssohn's Songs WITH
me- Words" vibrated through the ro'
nlaved with fine feeling. she sat pa
NON closed her eyes, and enjoyed it.
vos This was the way the pretty
nos and the man became acquainted.
the told him he must write something
;nco let her try to sell 1t. He insisted
,ros was no use. But something IN
no made him do it. She took 1t to
moro brother who was a magazine edl
INV and told him he must read 1t at OF
him When she walked into the office
tha schedule time she looked at the
noe. itor and said: "Well?"
If "Where did you find it," he ask
"That isn't to the point. Are
from going to print it and pay for it,!
sbo demanded.
oo,n- 81 am. And am also going to
- 20 on your neck for bringing the st
- Why. the man Is a genius
, 70 II suppose" she remarked, "tha
.ome why they wouldn't publish his W
, be George, I actually feel respect
the you"
+ain. Gerald Trask doesn't write over
once own name, so you wouldn't know
o,,+:. by this, but he Is now one OF
the 'high-priced" men.
pre- one Oh MS $500 go
,,bon Resurrection of Soul"