Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-09-13
Broken in Health and Deserted
By Friends He Lives Secluded
In Florence
WORLD POINTS MORAL TO EARLE
New York Paper Recounts for Artist
Earle's Benefit the Story of Herron's
Desertion of Family and the Harvest
OF Misfortune That He Has Reaped
Since.
Special to Times Republican.

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Ctrinnell, Sept. 13.-As a word of adj
vice, to the artist Earle, the Sunday
| New York World has an interesting
article upon the career of George d..
Heron, who the World says, is liv-
I ms; with his affinity, Carrie Rand, IN
Florence, Italy, broken down in health
and forsaken by everybody.
The World tells over again the story
of Herron's desertion of his wife and
family and living with Miss Rand and
then recounts some incidents of the
effect his actions had upon his pub
lie standing. The World says:
AS soon.as the divorce and the FORTH
coming marriage of DR.. Heron and
Carrie Rand became public, the cele-
brated teacher, author and lecturer,
who had been able to gain at least
respectful hearing everywhere for his
violent attacks upon existing social and
religious institutions, found himself re-
fused on every hand.
DR.. Josiah Strong, who had been
Herron's intimate friend for sixteen
years, learned from the lips of the
a bandoned wife the story of Herron's
love for Carrie Rand He made tie
f;lcts public on the eve of dinner
which the Get Together Club had
planned for the reform lecturer. Dr..
Strong, decliningito speak from the
same platform with DR.. Heron. said.
He CDR. Herron) and his female ac-
complete in breaking up family have
committed crime against the funda-
mental institution of society and have
tl.ampled under foot the explicit and
unmistakable teaching of Jesus Christ.
Their conduct has been despicable ps-
yond the resources of my vocabulary
to express, and if all the facts in the
case were known these people would
rot be tolerated in any self-respectinS
society for an hour"
This broke up the Heron dinner.
Justice William ]. Gaynor declined to
preside and only two of the scheduled
speakers did not withdraw DR.. Newell
Dwight Hillis's excoriation of Heron
vas the most severe.
"Whv should I go to the Get To-
yethe Tub to hear Herron's views on
any subject?" asked Hr. Hills. II
cannot hear what Heron says, because
.he sobs Of his distressed babes thun-
der in my ears. If he will publicly re-
llounce this woman friend and break
his pledges to her for their announced
marriage; if he will then rinse out his
mouth with sulphuric acid and cleanse
1f x1Io ho will cl. h.,
Judge to remarry him to his deserted
children, and when they are Did
enough to understand it, beg their for
giveness. will, after am confident
Of his penitence, gladly meet him on
any platform. tho will never have
any interest In the economic state
ments of q man whose intellect can be
guilty Of such vagaries."
Shortly after the dinner incident DR..
Heron said in lecture in Cooper
Union that 1.-THE will to love is yet a
hidden power. When it becomes I'M
derstood it will be found ITO be nothing
more than the instinct of fellowship"
The World says that after the free
love marriage to Miss Rand "the wa
companions went to live on farm
at Pumptown, N. j., a present FROM
Mrs. Rand.
They were not mobbed but the Jer-
sey farmers left them severely alone,
and were little less outspoken in their
criticism Of the couple than have been
Earle's Orange County neighbors.
DR.. Herrons brilliant career as a
public lecturer ended with his mar
riage to Carrie Rand. He continued to
write of the predicted social revolution
A year and a. half ago, DIR. Herron's
health having broken away under tn.
strain of years Of criticism the family
went to Florence and purchased a villa
which may be the home of the com
panions" until the end.
At Pumptown it is said that DR.. Her
ION will not come home before next
summer, If at all. 1t is reported there |
are now three babies in the household
and that DR.. Heron and Carrie Rand
live together in perfect harmony and
love.