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THE SANDERSVILLE HERALD.
A QUESTION.
Onnst thou without reward. save in thy mlntl,
The ralm content that springs from duty done,
See nil thine honors strtpt away, and ttn«l
Another with the prize thy merit won.
t'ntouchfid hy envy while the many wrong
Ills name with praise that to thine belong?
Const thou, when toes wax strong and friendships teas',
When men with evil words thy good de.aine.
In patience keep thy foul, hold fast thy peu' i .
And let thv life put slander's tongm to shame,—
Sure of the Inward verdict. without
How the great world may look upon thy deed.
Rejoice. O friend, and deem thy fortune rare!
Wl'inte er thine out ward let. thy . up ls luimnied
With richest hlessit.g; king'- no jewels tear
jipon their lirows whose light would sluiie undimmed,
Matched with the lustre ot that aureole
Wherewith the highest . Ilea veil- have c lowned thy soul.
LILA’S REVENGE. §
by MRS. ALEX. McVEIOH MILLER.
He came down from the Capitol anil
bearded the electric ear on Pennsyl
vania avenue, a handsome man of
thirty-five, stately, but with the pallor
of dissipation on his aristocratic fea
tures, and with clothing of the shab
by genteel type.
The only other occupant, a middle
aged man, with a soldierly air, started,
looked twice, then smiled.
••Claude Merrill, is it not?" and they
shook hands cordially.
"Major Graves, I am indebteded to
your kind remembrance. It must be
quite ten years since we met, and I
thought 1 had altered beyond recog
nition. I am down on my luck, you
see," fishing with the consciousness
of the warm overcoat that kept off
the cold of the winter day.
"Ten years! Why, it must bo
twelve!" cried the soldier, ignoring
ihe latter part of the speech. "Wasn’t
it In the White Mountains I saw you
last? That summer you were so
sweet on the little dark-eyed girl with
the prisoned song-bird In her white
throat. I forgot her name, but it Is
Mrs. Merrill, now, of course?”
"No.”
“Possible? So, then it was only a
flirtation! ’Pon honor, l thought it a
genuine ease of ‘spoons’,” laughed Maj
or Oaves.
"Don’t, Major! I cannot bear to re
member those old days!” and Claude
Merrill sighed from the bottom uf his
heart.
“You don’t mean to say she died?’
in a tone of awe. “Yet it must be so.
She would never have jilted you; she
loved you too well.”
“And I worshipped Lila Lnke, Maj
or Graves, but l never asked her to
marry me.”
“Did she marry some one else?”
"I don’t know. 1 never heard what
became of Lila, but 1’nt a bachelor
still, and if I knew where to find her
now, I’d beg her to forgive me and to
share nty altered fortunes, if she
would.”
"She is dead, perhaps,” said the
soldier.
"1 have often feared so—dead per
haps of a broken heart—poor little
Lila,” sighed Claude Merrill, dropping
into pathos, and thinking of Tenny
son’s hero weeping over the grave of
his broken-hearted little love:
‘‘There I put my face In the grass,
Whispered; ‘Listen to my despair;
1 repent me of all I did.
Speak a little, Ellen Adair!’”
Major Graves began to look greatly
Interested, but the ear stopped just
then to admit several more passen
gers, and Merrill continued, in a low
ered voice:
"I see you’re curious, and I wouldn’t,
mind telling you the whole story, only
—1 must leave you in a few minutes.
1 get off near the White House, to
call on Senator Lorton, who lives up
that way. I was at the Capitol to see
him, but the doorkeeper told me he’d
gone home to help his wife receive
her guests in the entertainment site
gives for the foreign legation this af-
afternoon.”
"Oh, yes, Lorton’s from your State.
Splendid speaker, and young, too, they
say—little over thirty. Friend of
yours, of course?”
“Do 1 look like a Senator’s friend?”
with a sarcastic glance downward at
his shabby clothing. "No, I’ve never
met Lorton, but I’m trying to secure
his influence to get me something un
der the Government—high-toned posi
tion if possible—if not, anything! I’m
ruined—have run through my fortune,
and must work now, for I’ve an aged
mother and an invalid brother to sup
port, you see, and I can’t afford to lie
particular.”
“No,” assented the soldier.
"But I’m not sanguine of success,”
continued Merrill, gloomily. “I’ve no
real claim on Lorton, only that 1 voted
for him, and am from his State. Then
too, he must know of my family— the
highest in the county, and once the
richest. But I may fail. How
with you, major? Have you any influ
ence you cbuld use for me?”
"None at all, I’m sorry to say. You
see, Merrill, my politics and the Pres
ident’s are of a different- complexion
entirely, and that cuts me out of any
influence. But come and join me in
a little supper tonight, and tell me
what luck you had with Lorton—you
must!” handing Merrill his address.
“Well, then, I will, thank you, ma
jor. But this is my corner. Au re
volt’.”
"Who is he, major?” asked an ac
quaintance, as Merrill left the car.
"Old acquaintance—Claude Merrill,
front down South. Quite a grandee
once—down on his luck now, and seek
ing government work.”
"Oh, ah?—I wish hint luck!" and
the subject dropped, but the major
looked forward impatiently to the lit
tle supper that night.
The old days had their pain and
their charm for him, too; for, unknown
to all, tin major—it had been plain
captain then—had secretly cherished
an affection for the beautiful girl who
had. as he said, “a song-bird In her
white throat.” But Claude Merrill had
monopolized her so completely that
every one else t-eetned quite out of
the running.
"And he let her go, after all, the
fool,” the major muttered to himself,
as lie impatiently awaited his guest
that evening.
The door opened. Through the curl
ing blue smoke of his cigar lie saw
Claude Merrill's face, pale, strangely
excited.
"Congratulate me!” he cried, in a
strange voice.
"With all my heart,” and they shook
hands.
“Tell me all about it,” cried the
major.
"Well, 1 saw the Senator. He was
very kind. I am successful beyond
my hopes. I get a good berth In the
Pension Department with a big sal
ary!”
"No wonder you look excited! Why,
man alive, your face is pale, your
eyes wild, as if you had seen a ghost.
"Perhaps I have, major.”
He drew a deep breath its he light
ed a cigar and threw back Ills hand
some head. His gray eyes glittered
strangely.
“The ghost I care most to hear
about Is Lila Lake,” said the soldier.
"You promised this afternoon, you.
know—”
"Yes, 1 will tell you all,” said Mer
rill. “Hark to the wind, how It raves!
A stormy night, my friend."
“Yes, yes; but It cannot penetrate
here, and supper will be served pres
ently. Let us have the story first.
Why did you not marry Lila? A lov
er’s quarrel?”
"No.”
"Then why the deuce—”
"Softly, major. Your excitement
makes me suspicious.”
"A fig for your suspicions! I loved
Lila Lake myself! There! I thought
you meant to marry her, or 1 would
have offered her my hand.”
"I wish you had, Major Graves, I
was a better match perhaps then, as
money goes, but your heart was the
truer. Listen, then, and despise me.”
Outside the winter wind raved wild
ly, moaning along the broad avenues
like a dirge. The two men gazed at
each other eagerly.
“You know my family, Major Graves.
The best blood ran in our veins, and
we were rich, too. 1 was a catch In
those days.”
“Yes.”
“And when I fell in love with Lila
Luke, who was summering in the
White Mountains, 1 never dreamed
hut that she was of my own rank In
life. Young, lovely, gifted, she was
my ideal, and you know I spared no
pains to win her heart."
And you succeeded,” said the ma
jor, with a groan.
"Yes, her beautiful dark eyes and
every tone of her sweet voice when
she spoke to me told me that. I was
sure of her answer I was In no
hurry to speak, and the day that she
left to return to the city 1 told her I
should follow her the next week, and
asked permission to call on her at
her home.”
"Yes.”
"She looked at me with such a
sweet and trusting smile and gave
me a card with her address. It was
on such an obscure street that I look
ed at her in uncontrollable surprise.
"She hushed, and murmured lialf-
proudly:
“T don't live on Beacon Hill, you
see. I am only a working-girl, Mr.
Merrill.'
“She a working girl!—that incarna
tion of beauty, grace and talent! The
ground seemed to reel beneath my
feet. 1 stared at her, almost offensive
ly, 1 know, in my great surprise, for
she drew herself up proudly, and said,
in a stiff little voice:
“ ’I ought to have told you all about
myself before, but I did not think it
was anyone’s business tinless—unless
—they were particularly interested In
me—and you—you have been very—
friendly’—she blushed warmly here—
‘so I will be frank with you, and then
—then—you can call cr not, as you
please, when you return to the city.’
"She told me then that she was an
orphan. Poor little girl, only seven
teen and an orphan! She lived with a
widowed aunt at the address she had
given mn. But they were poor, and
I»'a, dainty, beautiful Lila, with her
tdined manners and elegant bearing,
worked in a store—sold gloves and ev
en tried them on mincing fine ladies
at the glove counter.
" ’And on Sundays 1 sing at the ca
thedral. and I get as much for my con
tralto in tlie choir, for one single day,
as I do for my whole week in the great
Boston store,’ she added, with a lit
tle air ot pride. ’Indeed, only for the
singing I never could have saved mon
ey to come to the mountains and rest.
It is very tiresome at a glove counter,
you know. One’s side gets to aching
so badly from leaning over and trying
cn people’s gloves.’ ”
"She said it with a proud, sweet
air. like a princess, and if 1 had not
been a fool and a coward. I should
have taken her in my arms and told
her that her weary, toilsome days
were over and that site must soon lie
my bride. But I was horrified; my
pride rose in arms.”
"Yes," the major said, dreamily,
through his cigar smoke.
“We parted in mutual constraint, Li
la wounded and very quiet. I saying
simply that I would call on her when
1 passed through Boston on my way
South. I do not think even then sh •
believed me, for she was very proud,
very quiet. I saw her sweet lips
trembling when she tried to smile a
ay good-bye.”
“And you have never seen her
ince?"
"Oh. yes, for I canto through the
city and stayed two weeks. But I did
net call on Lila. A struggle was go
ing on in my mind between love and
ide. How could I, the proud, aris
tocratic Claude Merrill, take for my
bride a little salesgirl from a glove
counter? My proud relations would
have disowned tne. My dead ancest
ors would have turned in their graves.
“So you came away?”
"Yes, after two weeks, during which
1 saw her daily, myself unseen. I was
at the cathedral when she sang. I
was at the grand emporium where she
sold gloves. 1 saw how sad and pale
the lovely face had grown. I heard the
accents of despair In her sweet young
vc-lce. My heart was breaking, too,
but I could not relent front my cruel
pride.- I came away at last, and made
no sign."
"Poor Lila!” murmured the major.
"1 wonder if 1 could find her in Bos
ton now.”
“No; I wrote there years ago in a
quiet way. Her aunt was dead. Lila
had left the city. No one knew where
she had gone.”
"And that is the end of her little
story of love and sorrow. Poor Lila!”
anil the major's head drooped on his
breast.
There was a strange smile on
Claude Merrill's face.
"Now let me tell you about my call
on the Senator," he said.
"Is there p~” thing more? You have
already said . hi would get the place
under the Government.”
“Not much more. But it was a
grand success, was it not? Major
Graves, you ^jtow that many a poor
“She came to the library alone, she
gave me her little white hand, all daz
zling with jewels, and cried:
“ ’Do you remember little Lila Lake?
1 have never forgotten you. As soon
as the Senator mentioned your name,
I remembered you and spoke up for
you. No, not one word of thanks. I
owe it to you for helping to make that
summer in the mountains so bright and
happy. And I wonder what became
of dear Captain Graves? I liked him
very much also, you know. And you
never called when you came through
Boston, as you promised, Mr. Merrill?
I thought I saw you once at the Cathe
dral and again at the store. But I
was mistaken, of course. At first I
was very much disappointed, hut—I
got over It In time. And you tire mar
ried now. 1 suppose?”
"I stammered out something ridicu
lous that make* me grow hot and cold
now. ‘No, I was not married yet. She
was the only woman I had ever seen
that I could love like that. I had
written her that in Boston four years
later, but she had gone away, and I
could learn no more. Could she ever
forgive me?’
"Her smile was sunshine itself.
“ 'Four years ago? Why, I was In
Europe then. You aee, it was two
years after I first knew you that Sen
ator Lorton heard me sing, and fell in
love with my voice. He sought my ac
quaintance, and —he was not a Sen
ator yet. you know—and I lost my
heart to his bonny blue eyes. We
were married soon and went abroad.
What! did he not tell you that? Why,
1 have been Mrs. Ixirtop these top
years!'"—From Good Literature.
The
Italy.
QUAINT AND CURIOUS.
electric post is to be tried
in
RETURNING CONFIDENCE.
devil has hupg, about the lobby of the
Capitol for years, and never got any
thing halt" So good as this for his
pains, though he lay in the very dust,
at the Congressmen’s feet. Well, you
know my Influence must have been
strong."
“Very—but how was it?”
"They were in the very thick of the
grand entertainment when I sent in
my card to Senator Lorton. His
flunkeys were incensed at my cheek,
but I insisted. I was desperate with
suspense, and I didn’t care for a hun
dred legations. I’d been running af
ter the Senator and writing to him for
a week. I was determined to get a
hearing.”
"And he saw you?”
“Yes. He came to me in the library.
He was very proud at first, and 1 fan
cied half contemptuous. My blood be-
ga nto boil then. 1 saw him putting
some sort of restraint on himself, and
he said quietly that he had not
thought he could help me at all when
he first got my letter—the place was
actually promised to another man, and
he could not see just how he was go
ing to make it up to the other fellow,
but a lady of his household had inter
ceded for me, and as he could refuse
her nothing, he had agreed to get me
the place.
“Then he looked at me a little cold
ly cut of his splendid blue eyes, and
asked me if I ever knew a Miss Lake
—Miss Lila Lake.
"I told him yes, and that I would
give the world to see her again.
“ ’Perhaps she can see you a few
moments. I will go send her to you,
and you must thank her for the ap
pointment you will receives tomorrow
morning. It is all her doing,’ and he
bowed himself out o ft he library.”
Major Graves threw down his cigar
In high excitement.
“Ah. now I see how it will all turn
out!" he cried. “Lila was the-gover
ness, or perhaps even a relation. She
loved you still, she interceded for you,
you found her still young and lovely—
after all, she could not he quite out of
her twenties yet—she forgave you, and
will yet be your bride.’
Claude Merrill smiled a ghastly
smile, almost a sneer.
"Major Graves, how you run on," he
said, abruptly. "But, yes, 1 found her
si iil young and lovely—indeed, more
beautiful than ever. And she was
dressed like a queen, in silks and lace*
and diamonds, all snow-white, like a
bride. You remember how gay and
bright she was at the White Moun
tains? She was just the same now
The years that have turned you and
me gray, dear major, have only lent
her the added charm of ripened beau
ty.
Cardiff exports twelve million tons
of coal yearly.
Steel rails average 139 tons of metal
to the mile; iron, 145 tons.
The tariff of the Indian railways are
lowest of any in the world.
The entire native population of Si
beria does not exceed 700,000.
Four and a half tons of cotton rags
will make 2 4-5 tons of paper.
Over one. million exiles have been
transported to Siberia since 1840.
There were 9914 new hooks published
In 1907, or 1311 more than for 190C.
In most large cities death rate in
winter is much greater than in sum
mer.
The census of the lawyers of Netv
York City shows that there is one for
every 250 persons.
The first secretary of the Chinese le
gation in St. Petersburg remarked (lie
other day that the Chinese government
has a stronger hold on its people than
the Russian has on its own, and that
the Chinese people are less cultivated
and more oppressed.
One would think that a writer whose
stories have reached the enormous
sale of 5,000,000 copies would he
known to everybody, yet the name of
Mr. Nat Gould Is probably not at all
familiar to the most of the ordinary
novel-reading public.
.lustin McCarthy, the historian and
ex-leader of the Irish party. Is now
living In retirement at Westgate-on-
Sea. McCarthy is still busy, but his
sight has become greatly impaired. He
dictates for an hour or two every
morning to an amanuensis.
At the recent meeting of parochial
school principals in the Columbus,
Ohio. Roman Catholic diocese, it was
decided to take practical steps for
teaching Gregorian music in the pa
rochial schools in order to make easier
its Introduction Into the churches.
The vails on the Belt line road in
Philadelphia are the heaviest in the
world. They weiglt 142 pounds to the
yard, and are seventeen pounds heav
ier than any rail ever used before. They
are ballasted in concrete, and nine-
inch girders were used to hind them.
To the uninitiated the various grades
of railway uniform are bewildering.
The London & Northwestern Railway
company alone has no fewer than 130
different forms of caps in issue at the
present time, the various trimmings,
bands or lettering of which indicate the
position of the wearer.
A ‘‘Let Us Alone' 1 cartoon by Davenport, in the New York Mail.
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ORIGIN OF “LET US ALONE" SLOGAN.
The "Let Us Alone' Society, which was organized in
St. Louis recently, is a direct outgrowth of efforts by B.
F. Yoakum, chairman of the Board of Directors of the St.
Louis and San Francisco lines. The organization in
cludes many of the most prominent business men of St.
Louis, E. C. Simmons being at its head. Within the last
two months Mr. Yoakum has spoken several times on the
necessity of inaugurating what he termed a "Let Us
Alone" policy, in order to restore confidence in the com
mercial world and to prevent a serious check to the nat
ural developments of the resources of the country in the
West and Southwest.
REMARKABLE SPREAD OF THE “GIVE US A REST”
AND “LET US ALONE” MOVEMENT
Slogan Proposed by Railroad Man Catches on Like Wildfire
and Promoters Are Delighted—A Campaign of Cheerful
ness For a “Fair Deal, Sunshine and a Square Meal.”
St. Louts, Mo.—The most hopeful
sign of an improvement soon to come
in the condition of business is the for
mation of the National Prosperity As
sociation of St. Louis, with its slogan,
“Let us alone,” and its platform,
"Give us a rest and sunshine.”
Numerous organizations through
out the country have taken up the
matter, and already the outlook is
brighter.
AU thinking men agree that the
two greatest curses in this country
are the politicians and the yellow
journals, and any association formed
to combat the harm they have done
and are doing can but result in good
for the country.
The National Prosperity Associa
tion of St. Louis was organized, fol
lowing an address of B. F. Yoakum,
chairman of the Executive Board of
the Rock Island-'Frisco railroads be
fore the St. Louis Trade Club. His
"Let us alone’’ suggestion was taken
up by the business organizations, and
a “Give us a rest and sunshine” cam
paign planned, under the National
Prosperity Association.
The purpose of the organization
Is to inaugurate a national movement
for the restoration of confidence, and
a general revival of commercial and
Industrial activity. The platform,
received from the Business Men's As
sociation, Danbury, Conn.; the Com
mercial Club, Cape Girardeau, Mo ;
the Board of Trade, Little Rock,
Ark.; the Business Men's League, St.
Joseph, Mo.; the Commercial Club.
Brookfield, Mo.; tile ijt. Louis Credit
Men’s Association; the Business Men's*
League, Little Rock, nrk.; the Busi
ness Men's League, Helena, Ark.; the
Business Men's Association, Sedalia,
Mo.; the Retail Merchants' Associa
tion, East St. Louis, 111.; the Busi
ness Men’s Club, Memphis, Tenn.,
and the Commercial Club, East St.
Louis, 111.
Thousands of letters came from
corporations in different cities of the
East, North, South and West.
The Business Men's Association of
Danbury, Conn., was the first organi
zation of any of the rmaller cities in
the East to officially express its ap
proval of the movement.
That general business conditions
are improving all along the line was
also the unanimous opinion of these
men, who are in close touch with all
sections.
"The growing wealth of the coun
try will not permit business to re
main stagnant for any length of
time.” they said. "If the crops are
good, and at present there is every
indication they will be, there is likely
adopted unanimously by the leaders j to be a business revival that will sur-
of the movement, is—To keep the
dinner pail full, to keep the pay car
going, to keep the factory busy, to
keep the workmen employed, to keep
the present wages up.
The Idea spread like wildfire
throughout the country, and to aid in
the dissemination of the cheer the
Executive Committee had printed
pass anything of the kind the country
has ever experienced.
"That the people have more money
than they ever had before is demon
strated by the fact that there is about
$ 1 60,000,000 more gold in the coun
try at this date than there was six
months ago.”
Last fall more than $100,000,000
1.000,000 copies of the platform, of gold was imported from Europe.
These, with letters, were sent to Since then onlv about $6,000,000 has
every business, labor and civic organ- j been exported." In the meantime the
ization in the United Slates. ' mines in this country have been pio-
Ihrough all the avenues of public- ducing more than $10,000,000 a
lty the “give us a rest” declaration ; month
has circulated rapidly and effectually,! Statistics also show that as far
reaching hamlets on the country cross back as last January there was in cir-
roads and settlements on the inter
national boundaries, and from all
parts of the United States are coming
spontaneous responses.
The movement is now far beyond
the period of an exchange of greet-
culatlou in this country $191,000,000
more actual money than there was on
the corresponding date in 1907 anu
$413,000,000 more than on the corre
sponding date in 1906.
Bankers also pointed out that proof
To Collect Post Cards.
A Danish girl living in her father’s
home in Denmark, having probably
heard something about Sydney, and
anxious to add to her collection of
postcard views from this state, hit up
on a plan the success of which will
probably astonish her.
Having selected a card with a very
pretty rural scene of the home in which
she lived the little maiden addressed
the card in English "To the cleverest
girl In the biggest school in Sydney,
and would she please send a card in
retu rn?”
The card was delivered by the post
man to the Girls’ High school in Eliz
abeth street. The pupils, numbering
some 500, are going to forward each
a card to their unknown Danish friend.
Site will therefore receive 500 post
cards.—British Australasian.
An Ingenious Yankee made a loco
motive run his toy factory not long
since when repairs were necessary hi
the power plant and there were large
numbers of rush orders on hand.
ings and assurances, and there are | of the general improvement in the
situation was contained in the re
ports of commercial houses regarding
collections and in the resumption of
buying by merchants in the interior.
Under such conditions, they declareu,
there must be a gradual resumption
of mills all through the country.
But the "let us alone” theory will
work more harm than good, accord
ing to some of the statements, if a
proper check is not kept on the specu
lator. He is the mar, it is explained,
who has worked much of the harm
and will work more if he is not taken
in hand.
Many of the responses are coming
in by mail, owing to the necessity of
numerous tangible evidences that it
will lead soon into an actual national
assertion against pernicious agita
tion. The “fair deal, sunshine and
square meal” principle is expressed
in all the letters received, and the
officers of the association are aston
ished at the number and tone of let
ters from corporations and individ
uals in distant parts of the country.
Merchants, railroad men, bankers,
brokers and men conducting every
other sort of business joined in the
new slogan, "let us alone,” sounded
against the indiscriminate flaying of
corporate interests.
With one accord they agreed that
it is time to put a stop to the destruc-! formal action by the various business
tion of economic stability that such a I organizations, but the mas? of tele-
nnlipv pflticofl i , . ... tbA
policy caused.
The most encouraging messages in
the mass received were from New
York, Chicago and Kansas City. The
Idea seems to have taken hold almost
instantly in the East and Middle
West.
Assurances of zealous support were
Women Janitors For Yale—The
Middle-Aged Receive Preference.
New Haven, Conn.—Under the
heading, "A Startling Innovation,”
the Yale News announces that women
janitors will be gradually installed in
the Yale dormitories.
The experiment will first he made
in Vanderbilt Hall. Bursar Osborn,
of the University, said that young
women need not apply for the jobs,
and that middle-aged women with
families who have been thrown on
their own resources would receive the
preference.
grams and letters from all over the
country received daily indicate be
yond any doubt that the National
Prosperity Association is producing
substantial benefits, and that tn°
“fair deai, sunshine and square
meal” platform has touched a sympa
thetic chord.
Ex-Senator Chandler Frames the
Fight on Secretary Taft.
Washington. D. C.— Former Sena
tor William E. Chandler, whose re
sourceful tactics secured to Ruthei-
ford B. Hayes the Presidency, has as
sumed charge of thetactical campum'
, of the allies opposing the nomination
i of Secretary Taft. A month ago a*r.
| Chandler was one of the intimates a
the White House, and acted hk g°'
' between for the President and tn
1 Democratic Senators on the Rate hoi-
Then came the controversy in whnm
] the President scored Chandler.