The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1903-09-25
SCORES DEACON FAMILY
Watterson Writes Their Family His.
tory in Caustic Vein.

Louisville. KY, Sept. 24.-Henry Wat
terson has not been won over to thu
smart set by his long stay in the cas-
and at the yacht races. In fact, h.
seems to be more and more disgusted
The editor Of the Courier-Journal nov
refers to a telegram from Paris which
he says is floating around in the so
,ciety columns of the yellow journal
referring to the social triumphs o.
GLADYS Deacon. Reprinting this tele
.lgram, Mr.. Watterson says:
TT was at Nice. Mr.. Deacon was
wealthy young man of Boston, or there
labouts, his wife the daughter of al
fAmerican admiral, the niece of thu
president of not the least Of the great
american railway systems She mac
been educated at an ultra fashionable
school in New York ana grew up amid
the inner circles Of Gotham and New
port. The couple went abroad tt
dawdle, as the idle rich are wont to DO
peacon's Crime
Deacon thought he had reason tt
suspect his wife, as the sequel proved
ne had. Pretending to take the trail
for Paris he doubled on himself, re.
turned toward morning, entered hii
Wife's apartment, found there the OBJ
5ect Of his suspicion and shot him dead
{, Deacon was acquitted and released
~ AAeN''
been made known. There was no di.
vorce. Ten years later the public be.
gan to hear of a weak minded person
of the name Of Deacon aimlessly wan,
Hering about. He would turn up al
Newport. He would make a scene IL
q Paris cafe. Drink perhaps. There
was talk Of an asylum. And finally ht
died, he died, this poor devil who m1gh
have been a recreant himself, Wht
might have been, perhaps, a good hus-
band and good citizen, and the guilty
the disgraced wife, disappeared from
| the vulgar gaze, escaped from the
gaudy glare of her consuming sin.
"a woman of sensibility would hav'
! welcomed this. II she had done this HI
We're indeed villain who dared to lif
! the VEIL Not bit of it. Your adult
gently born and bred, becomes a wan
ton equally to the statutes, moral ant
! legal and to the report Of men; sh'
begins after q while to weave her lif'
into drame end to fancy herself ;
heroine; she defies the past; she will
compel the future; she is, in imagina
ton, at once world and a law unit,
herself Thus this highly educated
woman, her Frenchman in a bloody
her husband In dishonored, grave
her daughters grown to a glorious an'
beautiful womanhood, herself yet un
bent, untouched by sorrow and undis
mayed by scandal, still stylish they cal
/ it, and handsome, flowers out into
title-seeking mammal precious. NOR
sci for the yellow journals-and TO
/ three years from the alleged affair wit
/ the crown prince of Germany to tn
newly reported speculations with a
English duke in posse and pennies
nobleman of the house of Warwick i
esse, we have had the doings, the exit
and the entrances Of these people.
u 1T is against such things that tn
meralist may well exclaim. Out, of goo
society is developed the four hundred
out of the four hundred the smart Sc
out of the smart set the sWagger set
what next? Shall there be no poir
where decency may draw the line an
morality call a halt upon the braze
and the lewd? When the prairies ar
afire people fire the grass at q distanc
ahead to make an arid space the flame
cannot overleap and so check this niue
of threatened desolation 1t would b
well for society to follow this good ex
ample. At least it can cry veto an
bar the door,"