St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-11-01

ing to New Orleans, he became MEM
Der of the famous Yarmouth leg
islature, and AS sanitary physician
to New Orleans, added to his world
wide host of friends. While in Eng
land, in 1S73 his Lectures on the re-
sources of the Mississippi valley at
tracted WIDE attention, aud he was
Greeted on E5ls Resurn
by an ovation in tie New Orleans acad-
envy OF music. Colorado again claimed
him for seven happy, industrious years,
marked by an eloquent defense of the
Denver mining exposition, for which
they presented him with cabinet of
minerals that. according TO experts, is
intrinsically worth $1,000. though it
would take vastly more to buy it from a
man so cOvetouS of honor. Removing
to Washington, he published curious
little book called Islander and Defama
ton of Character
Sickness came to this learned and be-
nevolent man, and he went to London
for treatment, but famous surgeons.
after operating, could give him no
hope. and he came back to his
adopted country 10 die. To his amaze
ment he found his home broken uD, his
valuable furniture sold, his wife gone.
The mystery of the case" he has said,
sis that my wife and | never had the
least falling out. Her desertiOn of me
in my old age and supposed last illness
was like lightning out Of a clear sky.
The thought came to me, Dying man
that | am, it will be sweet to die free"
He then came West and settled IN Sioux
Falls, and either the invigOrating eli
mate, or The inspiration of freedom, or
the shock Of his wife's desertion for in
some diseases sudden shock delays or
defeats death by effecting an electric
change in the bodily currents setting
restward) have worked a marvellous
change, for to-day this amiaDle and ac-
cOmplished old man is the
Picture of Health.
There are many other cases of great
interest in the divorce colony at Sioux
Falls, but this plain statement of few is
enough to show how grossly the person.
mel and character of the colony have
been slandered by certain sensational
and corrupt newspaper correspondents.
For more than six months have studied
the conduct and natures of the persons
who compose the divorce colony, and
every reputable citizen of Sioux Falls
VIII SubStantiate my statement that
with possibly three exceptions, the d.
vOrce seekers have been remarkable for
the Inherent justice of their suits and
the dignity of their behavior during
their residence. in this town. The at
tempt to give them and the place
an unenviable notoriety, made
by certain newspapers, is stain
Oh American journalism. Men and
women suffer enough before they
seek divorce court. 1t is ghouliSh to
pursue them in the press with misrep-
resentation and ridicule, or with expos
ure of their marital miSeres. Divorce
is not merely legal right of the indi-
vidual; it is often moral duty which
ought to be demanded by society from
truly dignified woman or man: for to
cOhabit where there is no love between
husband and wife. worse still where the
atmosphere has become surcharged with
hate, and 10 foiSt on society children
begOtten and reared in all atmosphere
that may crush out every noble impulse
and lofty desire, besides the subtle dis
cords Of heredity that must mark their
temperaments. is not merely a most
pathetic blunder for the parties pri-
marly affected. but wrong to the race
"a crime against civilization.