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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-20
Grain Letter.

View of the grain market, furnished by
Thomas J. Myers, broker. ground door
Columbian building, Topeka, Kan.)
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Kansas city Grain.

the senate bill providing for the ap-
pointment of another assistant for
this work. That is not objectiona BILE
nor essential to the friends of the
house bill But it does not in the least
make up for the striking out of sec
ton 4
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and he said: 81 announce you man
and wife"
DR.. Herron's sister Margaret was
married shortly afterward by SIM
liar ceremony to Prof. Charles w.
Berghall, who is Heron disciple.
ousted by Congregationalists.
When news of Prof. Herron's action
was learned he was tried by council
of Congregational ministers at Grin
nell, Ia, and was found guilty of i'm
moral and unchristian conduct. The
report of the ministerial committee
was as follows:
"At a council held in the First Con-
gregational church of Grinnell on the
4th of June, 1901. to consider the right
of church membership and minis.
terial standing of George D. Heron,
the following findings were rendered:
'sThat the charge of immoral and
unchristian conduct is sustained by
the findings of the court which al
Algona, on March 81, 1901, granted a
decree of divorce to Mary Everhard
Heron from her husband on ths
grounds of desertion and inhumau
treatment.
Resolved, That we recommend to
the GrinneH association that the name
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of George D. Heron be dropped from
its roll of membership.
Resolved, That we recommend to
the First Congregational church OF
Grinnell that the name of George D..
Heron be dropped from it's roll OF
membership.
Resolved, That we express our con-
viction that George D. Heron has for
feited all right to be known by the
churches of our faith and order as
minister of the Gospel and that he is
by vote or this council deposed from
the Christian ministry"
1t was the intention Of the commit
tee of the Grinnell church to show that
DIR. Heron had no excuse for leaving
his wife save those contained in the
sophistries of his late arguments on
marriage and divorce. Eight women,
most of them wives Of professors at
GrinnelI college or teachers in that
institution, told the assembled church
men what the home life of Mrs. Her
ron had been during the past seven
years that she lived in Grinnell, strug-
Cling with the heart agony which
came from the growing knowledge
that her husband was becoming
estranged from her. She saw all the
bright hopes she had formed in the
days when they were college mates at
Ripon, Wis, fading away one by one.
She saw the influence of Mrs. Rand
and her daughter growing stronger
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INFLUENCE or HEREDITY.
Folly of Farmers to Let the Best OF
Their Live Stock Go for
High Prices.

That the characteristics OF parents
are transmitted to their offspring is a
fact very well known to all engaged in
the breeding of live stock, and yet
venture, says DR.. H. G. Reed, to say
there are hundreds who have not given
this subject sufficient thought to be
fully aware of the extent to which
their breeding operations are intiu-
enced by this law of heredity. Every
body knows that external conforma-
ton is hereditary; still many farmers
are tempted by high prices to sell their
best females and use inferior ones for
breeding purposes. and thus perpetu-
ate in their herds the very characters
tics which they should try to avoid
Disease is also well known to be
strongly hereditary. Among others
might be mentioned spavins, ringbones,
certain forms of business, roaring,
etc., and no farmer who wishes to OBJ
tain the best results will use for breed
ing purposes an animal suffering from
any of the above mentioned ailments,
unless he has the best grounds for sup
posing they are not due to any inher-
tied faint, but are the result of some
accident such as injury, or an enor-
nous strain upon the parts. Also, aside
from any hereditary faint of disease.
we have weakness of conformation
which predisposes to disease; for in
stance, a sickle hook predispOses to
curb, long thin neck with narrow
space between the lower jaw bones pre-
disposes to roaring; weak, shelly feet,
to laminitis, etc., and a horse with any
of those weaknesses of conformation,
even though he may not be blemished
himself because of being handled very
carefully, will be very likely to repro
1uce his own weakness, and blemisheS
will result in his progeny which are
not as carefully handled as himself.
Longevity is well known to run in
certain families. This is very we'll
marked in the human race, in which
nearly every member of certain FAM
lilies will live to ripe old cge, and
no reason can be assigned for it except
that they have inherited from their
ancestors some vital principles which
enable them to withstand the ravages
of time for d longer period than their
less fortunate neighborS
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in a lovers way, and have never had
any mind for matrimony. l could have
been married had / desired, for I have
refused score of offers"
DeWitt's reason for never marrying
is disappointment in love affair In
bis youth. II loved once,," he SAID,
'and was deceived. / could never
love another woman. Although false
to me, have carried the love Of that
ilrst love in my heart to this day"
In speaking of this event in his
early life Dewitt said to me, during a
visit at the soldiers home, that it oc-
Cured just after the close of the Mexl-
can war. He was a member of an In
diana regiment in that struggle and
when the war was over went to the
gold fields of California in search of a
fortune. Like SO many others, his
hopes of securing wealth were shat
tered, and he was on his way back to
the States. He stopped in Colorado
for awhile and there he met the
daughter of a rancher, who had emil
grated to Colorado from the east.
1t appeared to be a case OF love at
first sight, at least it was so on the
part of Dewitt, and, after Few
weeks courtship, they were engaged to
be married. The preliminaries OF the
marriage were all arranged and it was
to take place as soon as the license
could be secured. This in that early
day in Colorado was hard matter to
secure and there was considerable de-
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Judas 80 pieces of silver or 100000
makes no difference.
Hr-J1

Judas 80 pieces of silver or 100000
makes no difference.
Wife Made Desperate.
"The first supposition leaves him a
coward in not defending his babies
mother. The second leaves him a
monster. and his friends may take
their choice If there is community
in this land that represents New Eng
land Congregationalism, scholarship,
plain living and high Christian think
ing, it is the old town of Grinnell, Ia,
founded by the heroic Iowa band of
IA graduates of Yale college.
with one accord these professors,
editors, lawyers and business men and
women assert that Mrs. Heron is a
retiring woman, self-sacrificing, de-
voted to her babies during her hus-
bands long and repeated absences, a
woman who represents all the home
virtues of wife and mother. Driven
to desperation, if she accepted money
she accepted it for her helpless chill
dren and not for herself.
"And she declares that when she
finally consented she did it upon the
ground that Heron and Miss Rand
should go before the judge and when
the Judge divorced the man from the
wife he should marry Heron to the
one who had superseded Mrs. Heron
in his affection.
"Now, when every possible excuse,
based upon incompatibility, has been
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his first call on me at our home. He had
been there only a short time when in
the presence of the other members of the
family he proposed marriage to me. He
knew my objections to matrimony and,
as he coupled mis- proposal with the
statement that he wanted wife and
housekeeper,' l answered him pretty
sharply. From my earliest girlhood
days / was never in love, as other girls
understand it. I do not really know
what it is, because never cared for men
in that way. There are more people get
ting married than stay married. The
name old maid never gave any offense
to me. | believe have been happier all
of my life because have not been mar
ried. At century old am attracting
more attention as an old maid" she add
ed with a smile, ethan If l was mar
ried woman"
Miss Williams did all her own house,
work until she was 80 years of age and
continued sewing until she was SO. She
has always been great reader and is
well educated, having for many years
been engaged in teaching. Although she
has not been queen of home, she has
been a princess in it, devoting much OF
her life to the care of invalid parents
and giving mothers love and atten-
ton to several families of children.
"No," she said, "that was not my rea-
son for never getting married. It was
because I never loved in the lovers
sense, or, as perhaps you would express
it, never met my fate. 1t was better
thus | have always been happy. / be-
lieve in looking on the bright side OF
life Although am growing. very old,
/ try to feel young love to be in the
company of the young. In many re-
spects, try to make their ways my
ways. Us old people ought to cultivate
the spirit of feeling young even If our
lifes pendulum is rapidly approaching
the time when it will cease to swing"
FRANK DILDINE.
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the eye of the needle are novel to
Americans. DR.. Heron is slight in
stature and was not strong as child,
but he is possessed of a Paulian spirit
and, right or wrong as may be his
views, his sincerity is questioned by
no one.
DR.. Heron first brought himself into
public notice by articles published in
several religious periodicals, among
them an address in the Christian
Union entitled: "The Message of Je-
sus to Men of Wealth" This was
afterward used as a booklet by the
Christian society. At this time DR..
Heron was pastor of small church
in an obscure town in Minnesota. He
was called to be the assistant pastor
of the Congregational church at Bur-
lington, Ia, and his ministry there
was very successful. He was in
stalled in Burlington in 1891, and
from that time his name became ma
tionally famous. In 1898 DR.. Her
ron was made professor of applied
Christianity in Iowa college (Congre-
gational), which was endowed for him
by Mrs. E. D. Rand, of Burlington,
whose daughter, Carrie, has since in
herited the Rand millions. and who has
turned th4rs over to her companion"
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Using a Stove.

Where there is stove it ventilates
the house, because current of air is
constantly passing into the stove
Even a dwelling house is sometimes
damp during certain periods, though
stoves may be numerous. The walls
of a poultry house are always of the
same temperature as the surrounding
atmosphere, but sometimes, when the
interior is warm and the exterior cold
the moisture condenses on the walls
because the walls are colder than the
air of the interior, but as the walls be-
come warmer the moisture passes off.
It will do no harm to ventilate it. It
can be done without causing drafts on
the fowls. A stable lantern suspended
from the ceiling sometimes dries the
house, and lot Of freshly burned
lime also serves to absorb moisture -
Farm and Fireside.
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Young Woman Like a Baby.

Owing to a strange case of mental
relapse, Miss Mary Scally, 10 years
old, OF Msrristown, N. j., who was a
few days ago like any other womaL,
bright, active and enjoying health, to-
day is like baby, scarcely able to
walk and approaching nothing of what
goes or around her. Twice before she
had these periods of relapse to in
fancy. She is not weak in intellect, as
as she was graduated from parochial
school as one Of the brightest members
of her class. Her case is not one or
insanity, but she is incapable OF
thought, speech or responsible action.
10 all intents and purposes she is an
infant
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lay in getting it. In the meantime De-
Witt was called to st. Louis on some inn
portant business matter to him, and
when in several weeks he returned he
found that the girl had married another
man.
After that he wandered aimlessly
about, working as a carpenter and at
other trades, and finally settling down
to hermit's life in Indiana, living on
a pension received from the government
for his service during the Mexican war.
Some years ago he went to the soldiers
home at Lafayette. He is now regarded
as one of the most eccentric inmates
there, is pointed out to the visitor as the
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Plenty of Soldiers.

The French CONSUMPTION for the
army is more or less of grab bag,
and more than once some recruit has
presented himself, in answer to a
summons, who has scarcely topped a
yard measure The recent conscrip-
ton from the Rodez district tended
somewhat to even things up, for one Of
the conscripts, with the diminutiye
name of Cot, was found to scale seven
feet four inches. Nothing in the mill
tary stores would fit him, and before
he could join the uniformed ranks he
had to be provided with an outfit es-
Iecia1ly made for him. Because OF the
disparity of mis- size with that of his
companions he VIII not be compelled
to take his place ir the ranks, bur
some special service will be found for
him.
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man who has built his own coffin and
his own tomb, giving as his reasons that
he has no relatives to care for him and
that if he dies without the work being
done mere friends and acquaintances
will not carry out his wishes.
He has been at work on his tombstone
for five years. 1t is in the cemetery at
Battle Ground, eight miles from Lafay-
cite. The marble shaft is six feet high
and two feet square, standing beneath a
spreading tree to escape the suns rays.
On it, carved by DeWitt's own hands,
are his name and the date of his birth
and the following epitaph:
"A bachelor lies beneath this sod
Who disobeyed the laws of God.
Advice to others thus 1 give
Don't live a bach as / did live"
The marble stands on mound and
beneath it the veteran has almost COM
pleted his grave. II is unlike any other
grave in the cemetery and occupies
more space. II want plenty of room to
turn around" said Dewitt in explana-
ton of this fact. 1t is walled with brick,
the bottom is concrete, and the roof.
ment. Dewitt has done all the work.
In it he had no assistance, either in ex-
cavating the earth, mixing the mortar
or laying the brick that forms the walls
of his tomb. Throughout it all he la
bored patiently, never happier than
when he was at work at it. Es is now
waiting for the end of his life to come.
Miss Williams is perhaps the oldest
old maid in the United States. Her girl
hood home was in Pennsylvania, but for
many years she has been living in In
diana. She says she has never kept con-
pany regularly with any young man.
The offers of marriage that came to her
came without the customary courtship,
some of them pretty abruptly.
Il will have to tell you about one or
them" she said, laughingly. 1T was in
the case of a young man who had made
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After seven years of service in the
college, during which time the chair of
applied Christianity in general, and
Prof. Heron in particular, were the OBJ
jects of constant and bitter attack,
the professor sent in his resignation.
He did this only after Mrs. Rand had
agreed that the $4,000 with which
she had endowed the special chair
should not be taken away from the
college.
Couple Becomes Companions.
Miss Rand became the professor
companion" under peculiar circum-
stances. Her mother, widow with
unlimited means, became a member of
the professors cult, after she heard
him declare that he did not believe
that the present marriage system is
sacred or good. She encouraged her
own daughter in this belief, with the
result that Prof. Herrons home was
broken up, he deserted his wife and
four children which he brought into
with Miss Rand, calling her his "com-
panion.
The Herrons and the Rands were
fast friends. Mrs. Heron knew and
loved Carrie Rand, who has sup
planted her in the affections of her
husband, and the young woman was
frequent visitor at the Heron
home, hence the shock to Mrs. Heron
when upon returning from European
trip the professor announced to her
that he had ceased to love her, and
invited her to institute proceedings for
a divorce.
Rumor of Marriage.
It is said of the pair that in New
York, prior to the death of Mrs. Rand,
and in her apartments, Prof. Heron
and Miss Rand signified their inten-
tions of becoming companions" in
this manner. Taking the young WON
an by the hand, the professor said:
II take Carrie Rand to be my com
panion."
The young woman said:
81 take George d. Heron to be my
companion"
But, Notwithstanding the fact that
they were to be companions" it does
not appear that either was wholly sat
isfied with this declaration of "com-
partnership" for after the words had
been spoken minister was called in
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Among the two oldest living persons
In Indiana to-day are Miss Eliza Will
liams, of Anderson, and Hugh Dewitt.
who is an inmate of the soldiers home
at Lafayette. Miss Williams has
passed the century mark, now nearing
the age of 101 years, and Dewitt 90.
and both are yet in the enjoyment of
reasonably good health. A popularity
about the lives of both is that neither
was ever married, although their rea-
sons for remaining single are widely
different. Miss Williams gives as her
reasons for remaining spinster:
God never intended that / should
marry l never cared for men, that is
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week by week and still she bravely
kept up the fight and strove to wiz
her husband back to her, confident, as
one of the women testified, that hel
love was so strong for him that in the
end it would triumph.
Not Pleased with Colony.
Nothing has ever stirred the quiet
village of Metuchen to such indigna
ton as the reports that have been cir
culated from time to time of the prog
ress toward building up sOcialistiC
colony on the Heron property.
The people of Metuchen, whose
characteristics have been modesty and
retirement, have been unanimous in
letting Prof. Heron and his friends
severely alone. This policy of non
intercourse has given the comings and
goings of Prof. Heron and the Rands
an air of mystery.
The character of the improvements
which have been made at such great
cost on the farms purchased with the
late Mrs. Rand's money have every
indication of purpose to provide fol
an extensive colony. The nucleus OF
this colony is already on the place.
number of sympathizers with Prof
Herron's beliefs live in the different
cottages at Elmwood farm.
Regular services are held in kline
of open air temple, which has beer
built at considerable expense next tt
the Heron residence.
Views Meet Disapproval.
A rain Of disapproval of his position
has been showered upon Prof. Heron
Several months ago he was to have
been the guest of the Get Together
club in New York, and among the in
vited guests were Rev. DR.. Newell
Dwight Hills, pastor of Plymouth
church, Brooklyn; Rossiter w. Ray
mond, Rev. DR.. S. d. Mcconnell, rec
tor OF Holy Trinity; DR.. Josiah Strong
and others. DR.. Hills refused to at
tend and voiced his sentiments in thu
following language:
Il do not wish to be unkind, bu
there are sins so grievous, SO bald
vulgar and Grass in their persistency
their virulence, that they consume tht
mantle of charity as a flame the gar
ment.
Consider the conceded facts in thu
case. This man marries young WON
an and is the father of four children
almost babes; forms friendship will
young unmarried woman, from
xx,6n bn 10 h11x HI
clothes, hats, shoes and travelling ex
penses; against his wife's protest goe:
abroad with this woman friend anC
her mother for q year; returns to tel
his wife that he has ceased to love her
but loves another, and persistently
urges his wife to obtain a divorce.
when the wife is asked by the
Judge if there is any obstacle to theil
living together she replies: No, ex
cept in my husbands mind Th.:
mans spokesman and bosom friend il
New Haven justifies the fathers de
sertion of the four children by sayins
the woman frIenu gave the wife $100,
600 to give her husband up to her
Mrs. Herron's friends assert that tn,
amount paid was only $4,000.
Now, some money was paid Mrs
Heron or else it was not Suppos,
no money was paid her. Why has b,
not denied the statement to save TIL
honor of the mother of his children
If any sum of money was paid hi,
wife by this woman friend, then thi
man sold himself. and whether TO