St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-04-03
"Oh, yes.''

Pollard i'll February. 1898. requesting
| the pleasure of her company at a recep-
| ton to Hon. w. c. 2. Breckenridge at
Norwood institute. which he read. BY
| questions concerning
THE COLONIES RESIDENCE
| in LeXington. in 1854. Mr.. Wilson clio
tied the information that his home was
| on the same street with the houSe-tf
Sarah Guess. tour blocks away. Then
! he asked:
How long had you known Sarah
! Guess?' to which Col. Breckinrldge
answered: 81
On. l can't tell. Perhaps twenty
| years.
Did you know the character of her
house?' -
II did, A.
Had you ever been there before you
| went with the plaintItf?"
| Il was"
Then l understand that before you
met the plaintiff you had tor years
known Sarah Guess. known the char
! acfer OF the house. known the location
| of The house, aud had been there before
| you went there with the PLAINTIFF" az
Il lch OF these statements is true.' 2
| Turning to the letter produced by the
defense and purportlng to have come
| from Miss Pollard, Mr.. Wilson asked
lnridge replied that it had been lost. 1t
was his general custom to preserve all
| his letters, but the first letter from the
| plaintiff he could not tiud.
You have received a great many
letters from her?'
Il have"
And you are only able to produce of
| all of them what is called this wooden
or dummy IetterT''
Cd, hot = lur
| letter. Alter the relations which grew
up between the plaintiff aud myself ON
| the LIST Of August, 1854. L did not want
| to preserve the letters, because Of many
| references i'll Them
You have received many kilograms
! troin the piaintitf?''
II never was i'll the habit of preserv-
ing teleyranS."
so that of ali your correspondence
with the plaintiff, extending over nine
! years, you have only this letter.
at seems So"
Mr.. Wilson requested a specific ac-
count of all Miss Pollard had said dur
| ing the first
! VISIT OF COL. BRECKINRIDGE
| To the Wesleyan seminary, aud that
| interview was again diSSected, the
| colonel denying that Miss Pollard had
said that il was part of her agreement
with Rhodes 10 repay the money he had
! advanced for her schooling If she did
not marry him, but explained that she
had asked if II would not be all right if
She repaid the money.
III his most pathetic tones the colonel
| repeated ali the details of the interview;
how she had Insisted upon telling him
! all. and he had demonstrated that there
| were things she probably did not want
| to say to stranger, advising her 10 go
te her grandfather, mother or uncles.
There is an Impression Oh my mem-
| Dry, although | cannot remember her.
| language after the ten years, that she
said she had given HIN even higher
| proof of her Intention 10 marry him.
Then ! told her that she could not afford
not to marry him."
And that same rule would apply to
man under the same circumstances"
| "Weil that Is question OF caSulStry
| or sociology. L would not care 10 an
swer. If you ask me whether would
| advise young woman who had hat
| improper relations with man To marry
him, would say yes, but with man 1t
would be different, for the knowledge
of 1t by the public would destroy TIE
woman. and would only injure the
| man."
Would it not hurt the man?''
| ''On, il would not iHjur him so much
as the woman. Society looks upon these
things differently. If young man
| should come to me under certain cir
| cumStances, l would advise him to
| marry a woman; under other circun-
stances. L would say to him, better
death or hell. am not talking of the
| justice of -" -
"Oh, no." interrupted NJ. Wilson,
| with contemptuouS air. Il was not
| asking NOu aDDiir lilStIcn.'
Are you a IuenDer OF the Christian
| Endeavor society" pH1
No Sir" o
''Did you take the Christian Endeavor
pledge?'
Never. To be candid. will say that
| | was twice invited to deliver ali adj
dress at the annual meetings in New.
York and Montreal Oh The Possibili-
ties of
THE PRESENT AGE
| wanted very much TO deliver that, but
| was prevented
By further questioning Mr. Wilson
ELECTED the further Information that the
colonel had delivered speech before a
Woman'S society in Nashville and been
presented with basket of flowers. He
denied that he had said that he had 10
wife to present them TO in his response,
aud was anxious to explain what he had
| SdIli, uuG MI w llSOl nUu4U uOt pei.
| ihIl.
Are YOU a member of the Masonic
fraternity"
II am
Did you know that Miss Pollard's
father was MasOn?'
II did not. l knew that he was an
Odd Fellow"
Are there any obligations to the
widow or daughters of members grow
ing out of membership iii those Organi-
zationS?'
Phil Thompson objected to this ques-
ton, and the objection was sustained.
You are wide reader?"
without vanity L think l can say
yes"
"You are familiar with the history of
Louis XIII. and XIV, Henry VIII. and
George " ?"
I'm general way l am as well
acquainted with them as most men OF
our profession"
He had read Thackeray and Dickens,
so Mr.. Wilson found on cross-examina-
ton; was not SO we'll acquainted with
Addison, and he wished he had been,
because bread winning prevented; had
read all OF Fielding and Smollett, but
not Zola and Dumas. because the war
broke in Oh his French. Considered
| George Eliot the greatest literary wom-
an. with the exception, perhaps, of Mrs
| Browning: was not custodian of the
mails; but had never heard that George
EliOt's works were excluded from the
mails.
~ assume" explained Mr.. Wilson,
that when Mr.. Butterwortn asked YOU
about George Eliot he had some object
in view. L want to know what it was"
well, the plaintiff said" continued
| Col. Breckenridge, THAT she considered
the life of George Eliot with Mr.. Lewes
protest against
| MAWKISH SENTMENTALITY,
| concerning what were often considered
improper relations. and said she had
| rather live as George Eliot did than to
sew on buttons, churn butter and live
| the life of a woman in somewhat strait
| ened circumstances on a Kentucky
| farm"