Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1901-06-15
II PArHOs OF 1T.
Mrs. Herron's Struggle to Retain Her
Husbands Affection.

Mrs. Hcrron's Struggle to Retain Her
Husbands Affection.
Grinnell, Ia, special: The testimony
Of the women who best knew Mrs. Her
ron developed the proof Of her singular
struggle to win by infinite love and
ceaseless study the nan who, to use
her own words, had companionship
with another woman who leads him
into heights to which his wife cannot
follow" 1t appeared that Mrs. Her
ION saw In Carrie Rand a mi who
was leading her husband into intellec-
tual heights whittier the faithful wife
with her family Of children could not
follow.
But even then she did not despair.
She read everything her husband
wrote. She followed courses of read
Ing. learned German, hung upon his
slightest hint, adopted his scheme Of
philosophy. packed the valises which
he carried to Europe at her rivals ex-
pense. and when he left her alone and
went abroad with the affinity Who
was leading him to the heights. she
drudged at home with her four little
children, studied TIL the small hours.
read his seldom letters and prayed that
hef overmastering devotion and al
ready brilliant attachments would VIII
him back to her and TO his children.
But the testimony a;so showed that
AdTTIe tbdnu was All tnlS tiHIc pdylhB
the bills. She had the money and h
was leading him up the heights
whittier his wife and children could not
follow.
One young woman, Mrs. Cole, .the
wife of a professor at Grinnell college,
said hat when Heron and his first
wife were fellow students at Ripon,
Wis, the mans eyes were so weak that
he could not have followed his studies
without her aid: she read his lessons TO
him, coached him in the very founda-
ton OF his supposed learning, and al
that time surpassed him in scholar
ship.
1t was shown that the dominating
influence OF Mrs. Herron's life was the
success OF the person whom she called
husband for seventeen years. She
lived for him alone and for her chill
dren by him. Schoolmates. neighbors.
pastors, even the Heron seamstress,
United In telling of the singular unself-
ishness of Mrs. Heron, from the col
lege days of the pair through the nine
years OF Carrie Rand's presence In the
family, up to the latter days when the
distraught wife and mother, yet cling
ing to her fading hopes, said that there
were times when she would III to lie
down and de"
The seamstress told how, when Her
ron was starting with Miss Rand for
q our of Europe, he q commanded,
Mamma, pack my valise," and man.
ma had packed 1t, and with her babies
hanging tearfully about, had kissed him
goodby as he went away with Miss
Rand, to the heights whittier she
could not follow"
A dozen women, all intimates or ac-
quaintances of the Herrons, appeared
as witnesses. No dirty linen was
washed. There were no hints OF phys
ical brutality. The witnesses were all
men and women of a high order OF
culture. The whole trial revolved about
questions of intellectual affinity and
the apparent inability of the wife to
follow Heron into the mental attitudes
TO which Miss Rand seemed to be tbs
only accredited guide. The stories
which the women told Of Mrs. Herron's
fierce and unyielding efforts to achieve
intellectual supremacy over Miss Rand
were pathetic, tragic and even incredi-
BILE. They said that, In their opinions,
Mrs. Heron was infinitely more intel
lectual, more scholarly and more capa-
BILE than the man whose Alpine ambt-
lions were making life a burden for
everybody concerned.