Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1901-06-15
THE pATHos OF 1T.
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 wiz by infinite love and
~ceaseless study the man who, to use
her own words, had companionshtp
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 woman 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. n 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 till the small hours.
read his seldom letters and prayed that
her o-vermastering devotion and al
ready brilliant attachments would win
him back TO her and to his children.
But the testimony aIso showed that
Carrie Rand was all this time paying
the bills. She had the money and she
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 ard his first
wife were fellow students at Ripon.
WIS, the mans eyes were so weak thar
he could not have followed his studies
without her aid; she read his lessons to
him, coached him in the -~ery founda-
ton of his supposed learning, and at
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 seam5tress.
united In telling of the singular unsclf-
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
d~istraught wife and mother, yet cling
ing to her fading hopes, said that there
were times when she would like to lie
down and die"
The seamstress told how, when Her
ron was starting with Miss Rand for
a tour OF Europe, he had commanded,
Mamma, pack my valise." and mann
ma had packed 1t, and with her babies
I 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 Heprons, appeared
as witnesses. No dirty linen was
! washed. There were no hints OF phys
f, zeal brutality. The witnesses were all
men and women OF a high order or
culture. The whole trial revolved about
I 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 old Of Mrs. Herron's
fierce and unyielding efforts to achieve
intellectual supremacy over Miss Rand
were pathetic, tragic n 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 ambi-
lions were making life a burden for
everybody concerned.