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The Washington times., 1907-02-03

joined in with the singer and sang II
with great gusto. This song will add
greatly 10 Mis- Victorias reputation, and
she owes a great debt Of gratitude 20
the writer and composer who furnished
her with what is commonly termed a
| Knockout" Miss Victoria opened with
new song that is a sequel 10 Wait
Ing at the Church" 1t is called y Told
Is Missus All About I'm" but is not Of
much account She also has made rath-
er a hit with her. 20, Girls; Never Trust
Policeman" But it Is Poor john
that is her big success.
All Broadway. In fact, the entire
American theatrical world is interested
in the Actors Fund Fair to be held al
the Metropolitan Opera House the week
OF May o.
The Lambs Club. the Professional
Woman's League, the white Rats. the
Twelfth Night CLUB. and kindred or
CARNATIONS viii offer distinctive enter
tainments.
The Actors Church Alliance viii also
have a booth. and Edyth Tatten Ne
Grath. chairman OF the Alliance Booth
Committee, has already received numer-
Gus assurances of support.
The fair will be about the best adver-
Used affair OF the sort that was ever
pulled on Standing announcements will
be carried gratuitOusly in over 500
theater programs. Long before the date
Of the big fair the whole country will
be interested in the project to replenlsh
the treasury OF the Actors Fund. which
has disbursed over 81 .0o0,O0J in practical
relief 10 sick and disabled PLAYERS.
Every visitor 10 New York next spring.
from Maine 10 California. will know all
about the fair, which is likely TO take
first place as d metropolitan attraction
for six days and nights.
The entertainments will combine ia
nous players. singers. and vaudeville
people. The booths. bazaars. and novelty
eatures devised by the director general
Frederic Thompson, viii be on a large
ana brilliant scale.
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Farmers Institutes,

Minneapolis.-Fo is a list of
the farmers Institutes scheduled for
the last half of January, with the name
of the local corresponding secretary:
Dodge Center, Dodge county, Jan. %,
Peter ]. Schwarg; Granada, Martin
county, Jan. "a, Edward R. Deebach;
Welcome, Martin county, Jan. 25, H. A.
Zittel; Jackson, Jackson county, Jan.
rs, w. w. Void; Edgerton, Pipestone
county, Jan. %, c. F. Blackmere; Pipe
stone, Pipestene county, Jan. 20, F. A
Payne; Slayton, Murray county, Jan.
30, James Ruane; Luverne, Rock coun-
ty, Jan. 81, H. ]. Miller; Waconia,
Carver county, Jan. %, w. ]. Kuntz;
Norwood. Carver county, Jan. 23, ]. w
Craven; Gaylord, Sibley county, Jan
"a, Charles Wallin; Gibbon, Sfbley
county, Jan. rs, A. E. Nelson; Frank
lin, Renville county, Jan. 26, A. J.
DIN; Hanley Falls, Yellow Medicine
county, Jan. 20, w. E. Hanson; Clark
field, Yellow Medicine county, Jan. 80
A. ]. Johnson; Dawson, Lac qui Parle
county, N. F. Soderberg.
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news OF minnesota.
Coal is Found.

Owatonna-A large vein has been
discovered on the Albert Kasper farm
two miles south of this city. The vein
is five feet or more in width and
one hundred feet under ground. The
coal is said to be valuable for fuel pur-
poses, being a species of soft coal, but
still resembling anthracite
Some years ago, owners of land near
this farm discovered coal on the banks
of Straight river, which flows short
distance in the rear of the farm. The
coal was found at the foot of a hill and
close to the surface of the water, which
washes against it at this point. A
small quantity of the coal was tested
and found to be good. Since that time
however, no further developments have
been made and the discovery has been
allowed to CO.
A short time ago, Mr.. Kasper en-
gagged well diggers to drill well near
his house, and this work later was
started. The work went along smooth
ly until the drill was about one hum
dred feet below the surface, when it
was found that some hard substance
was being encountered by the drill. An
investigation Immediately was ordered
by the owner Of the machine, Edward
Austin, and the substance was brought
to the surface and carefully examined.
1t then was discovered that bed or
vein of coal had been struck by the
drill.
Samples Of the fuel were then taken
to the Kasper home and tested and
later used in the stove, where they were
found to burn well. Samples also were
brought to one Of the local blacksmith
shops and were used in the forge.
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More Money,

st. Paul.-The state treasury has re-
ceived the semi-annual interest on the
Massachusetts, gold bonds, which pay
81 per cent and the Virginia funding
bonds at per cent The interest re-
ceived from the Massachusetts, bonds
amounts to $39,535, and the interest
from the Virginia bonds, $31,725. OF
this latter, the school fund will receive
$24,525 and the university $5,325. The
internal improvement fund of the state
will receive 1915 and the state insti-
tutions' fund will be enriched $1,000 by
the payment of this interest. The Vir-
GINA bonds are among the lowest in
terest- bearing securities that the state
holds and the amount held by the state
Of these bonds is $1,635, 900.
State Treasurer Julius Block. a year
and half ago, ordered the investment
board to transfer this money to the
state so that it could be loaned within
the state to the several counties and
school districts at per cent.
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by good fortune as Mr.. Corey was
said to be. Mr.. White lived for SO
years with the wife of his youth. To-
gether they had planned and worked
to build up the foundations of his
millions. After they had grown old
and rich together they found that love
had flown out through the window
as the millions came pouring in at the
door. Mr.. White left home and Mrs
White sued for divorce. There was
no public scandal in the case, but it
certainly was enough to make Cupid
weep. He likes to see the white
haired man and wife going down the
hill of life hand in hand. Having
borne the burden of the day together,
they should reconcile themselves to
the calm and peace of the evening.
w. ]. Lemp, the millionaire brewer
of st. Louis, also had trouble which
resulted in his separation from tho
beautiful Mrs. Lemp, known in st.
Louis as the "lavendar lady" on &C.
count of the prevailing color scheme
of her many beautiful gowns.
Four Times as Many Separations.
Among the more famous Chicago
cases of the year might be mentioned
that of Clarence Eddy, the organist.
This was musical romance, in which
the first discord was struck after near
ly 80 years of married life. The "ar-
tistic temperament" of the great or
ganist is mentioned in connection
with the domestic unhappiness. Cupid
has had trouble from time immemorial
with the artistic temperament. The
separation of the Eddys occurred in
Paris, and Mr.. Eddy first brought suit
in Chicago, but afterward dismissed
his case and secured the divorce in
South Dakota last summer.
The list of the years domestic trag-
edies might be continued almost end
lessly. 1t is no wonder that Cupid
weeps. Efforts are being made by di.
vorce congresses and reformers to
cure the evil by national divorce
law. 1t is claimed that if the road
to separation were made more diff
cult to travel there would be fewer
divorces and perhaps less unhappi-
ness.
In recent years, while the popula-
ton was increasing 80 per cent, the
number of divorces has risen 800 per
cent. The disproportion is increas-
ing rapidly. If it keeps on for another
generation there will be divorce for
every marriage.
Meantime detected Cupid ponders
the case. He knows how to make
people fall in love and marry, but he
can find no way in which they may
be happy though married. He doubts
much if legislation against divorce
would compel them to continue to-
love one another.
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Chicago.-Surely New Year S day
must have been the saddest that Gu
pid ever has spent. When the little
god balances his books for 1906 he
will be compelled to sit down and
weep, for the list of the matrimonial
wrecks of the year shows an awful
number of disasters. There have
been enough domestic jars to shake
the continent worse than the earth
quake shook San Francisco, if they all
had occurred at one instant. The
tears that have been shed would make
a salty sea If they could be collected
in the desert basin of Sahara.
Indeed, it has been a bad year for
Cupid. Divorces have been more
numerous than in any other twelve
months since marriage became an in
stitution. Princes, dukes, counts,
statesmen, magnates, and millionaires,
butchers, doctors, grocers, lawyers,
and laborers have come to grief in
their love affairs.
In the good old days people married
and lived happily ever after" Now
the problem of the novel begins in
stead of ending at the altar. People
get married and then get divorced.
Chicago still leads the world in di-
vorce population, and perhaps in the
facility with which divorce is grant
ed, due cause being shown. The hear
ing of testimony and the granting of
a decree in default cases in this city
takes only few minutes, and the
average length of time consumed is
estimated at ten minutes by people
who study divorce methods. That
is why the local courts are known as
divorce mills" They work with the
speed of q steam buzz saw as they go
through the knots of matrimony. Your
lawyer files the papers, your case
is called, and burr-r-r-you are di-
vorced.
1t is the women who keep the buzz
saw working in the divorce mills in
Chicago. Four out of five suits are
brought by the wives. The men are
meaner than the women, perhaps;
or else the husbands are more willing
to tough it out without appeals to the
court
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SAD YEAR FOR CUPID
WAS ONE JUST PAST
DOMESTIC JARS FREQUENT AND SEVERE
Matrimonial Wrecks Almost Beyond Counting Haze
Streuon the Shores of Life West Far Ahead of the
East in the Number of Diuorces That Haze
Been Asked For and Granted

than the loss of the man who has
been her husband.
All this is like comic opera, but it
makes Cupid weep. He has been tell
ing the world for thousands of years
that marriage Is sacred institution,
and now he first discovers that it is
a joke.
The proportion of divorces to mar
riages in New York is one in four.
In Chicago it is one in nine; in San
Francisco it is one in four. The
further west you go the more fire.
quent are divorces. The decree sepa-
ration has hitched its wagon to the
star of empire. Kansas City, Los An
geles, and Seattle are as bad as San
Francisco, in each of these cities there
being one divorce to every four mar
riages. The statistics for Sioux Falls
are kept locked up in a reporter proof
vault.
The most notable case of the year,
perhaps, was the international tragedy
of the Castellanes. For years the
world had witnessed the extrava-
gances and indiscretions of Count
Boni and wondered how much longer
the poor countess would endure them
for the sake of her children. Ameri-
can sympathy, almost without excep-
ton, has been with Anna Gould, for
however much Jay Gould, the rail
road magnate, may have been dis
trusted, his daughters always were
popular. Count Castellane was RI
diculous joke to people who took life
lightly and an exaggerated villain to
those who took it seriously.
Troubles of Heiresses and Titles.
When the countess finally left her
husband, people on both sides of the
Atlantic said it served him right. The
matter of separation has been set
tied, but the count still is clamoring
for money-millions of ito pay his
debts. Perhaps in the final DISPOSE
ton of the case he will receive an
allowance even greater than the all
mony of Mrs. o. H. P. Belmont, who
draws $250,000 year from her former
husband, w. K Vanderbilt Count
Castellane is said to have cost $751;
100000 when the Gould family first
bought his title and it probably will
take as much more for them to be rid
of their bad bargain.
The domestic wreck of Tho Marlbor-
oughs was more of a surprise to the
world. There had been rumors Of
disagreements, but these were not
thought to be serious. The duke Of
Marlborough, like the count de Cas-
tellane, was not able to understand
the character of American girls. They
might be attracted by title, but they
would not submit to the indiscretions
it is a mild word-of their hus-
bands. 1t was said at the time Miss
Consuelo Vanderbilt married the duke
that she had made the best bargain
of any American girl that ever
bought foreign lordling, but her
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Air of Festivity in Courtroom.

While Cupid weeps at the sight of
a divorce court, that is more than the
complainant does. One Chicago di-
vorce lawyer says that there is a no.
ticeable air of festivity in the court
room when cases are being heard
The average woman who appeals to
the courts for release manifests no
sense of sorrow or humiliation. 1t
is a business proposition with her.
She sues her husband for his cruelty
or, desertion and tells the story to the
court in a business-like way. The
uniformed stranger, strolling into
the courtroom, easily might think the
dispute was over grocery bill or a
ruined gown, rather than a ruined
life. The law says she may have a
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THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

j. j. Hill has given $4,000 to the
endowment fund of Manchester col
lege, Minneapolis.
1t is said John D. Rockefeller has
promised the University of Louisville
a gift of 100000.
Henry Squires, at one time Ameri-
cas- leading tenor, died in Burlington,
Iowa, aged so years.
Edward w. Hoch and the other new
Republican state officers were inau-
gurated at Topeka, Kan. 4.
AS the result of mine explosion at
Clinton, Ind, eight men are dead and
two others seriously injured
In a desperate battle between police
and workingmen at st. Petersburg
four officers were killed and three in.
jured
Venezuela will not take part in the
jamestown exposition, according to a
decision just reached by the govern
ment.
Threecent street car fares are now
the vogue in Cleveland, pending the
settlement of the traction problem in
that CITY,
Jacob Gruen, wine importer and
prominent in G. A. R. circles, died at
his home in ST. Louis from apoplexy,
aged II years.
Stephen B. Elkins received the Re
publican caucus nomination for his
third successive term as senator from
West Virginia.
Revenue Commissioner Yerkes in a
report to the president denies a charge
that he had been working against the
denatured alcohol law
Jesse r. Straughan, aged SO, died
at Fort Wayne, Ind. He was the first
superintendent of the Pittsburg, Ft.
Wayne & Chicago railroad.
William Smith and John Jones, min
ers at Steubenville, o., were torn to
| pieces by shot from a gun dropped by
Mike Bolinsky, night Waterman.
The White Star Steamship lines
change of port from Liverpool to
Southampton is expected to precipi
tate bitter competition for Atlantic
| traffic.
Oliver Dyer, who is said to have in
troduced stenography into this coun.
try and was the first shorthand report
err in the United States senate, died
in Boston, aged SO years.
Senior Torriente, the Cuban minister
to Spain, who resigned recently, has
made public statement saying that
his action was caused by shame at the
| spectacle his country has presented
to the world.
| Peters pence, collected in the Rom
an catholic churches of the archdio
cese of Chicago, which will be deliv
cred to the pope in Rome within the
next three weeks by Archbishop Quig
ley, will amount to $4,000.
A college conference at the Auditor
ium, Chicago, voted against all pro
posed recommendations and reforms
with the exception of that regarding
the time for opening football practice
September 20 being accepted as the
date.
/
ing the night from a small stove used
| for heating caused the death of Meyer
Rubin, aged so years, his wife Rose
IS, their daughter Rosa, Is, and theil
son, Phillip, II, in Brooklyn tene
ment
G. w. Thomas, Toledo, o., may die
John Olinger of Toledo was seriously
hurt and five other persons were in
| jured in rear-end collision between
Monon passenger train and Wa
bash train at the 18TH street crossing
Chicago.
Rudolph Koradi, consul for the
Swiss government in Philadelphia, is
dead at the age of 81 years. Mr.. Ko
radi, who was made consul at this
| port in 1856, was said to be the Oldest
| consul in the world in point of years
and service.
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grave charges against Mrs. Hartje
and her coachman and counter
charges on the part of the wife that
she was the victim of a conspiracy,
in which her husband-the man she
had loved and with whom she had
lived-sought to blast her reputation
by hired and perjured testimony. This
was one of the most notorious domes-
tic tragedies ever aired in any court
of any land. 1t was worse even than
the Tagagrt case. Alone it was enough
to make the year memorable in the
matter Of divorce.
In contrast with this the trouble of
Mrs. Charles T. Yerkes and Wilson
Miner were almost farcical Mr..
Yerkes, the traction magnate, died
in New York in December last under
circumstances that called the atten-
ton of the whole world to his widow
Although they had not been living to-
gether tremendously during the later
years of his life, Mrs. Yerkes declared
that her husband had never ceased
to love her, and that she was devoted
to his memory.
Yet within a month it was an
nounced that Mrs. Yerkes had mar
ried Wilson Miner. At first the pub
lie refused to believe it. Miner was
not 80 and the widow Of Yerkes was
more than so. He was gay young
soldier of fortune, and people only
laughed when he smiled and admitted
that the marriage had taken place,
especially as Mrs. Yerkes tearfully
and Indignantly declared that the idea
was absurd.
Mrs. Yerkes were man and wife. Be
fore people were through talking
about the case the couple quarreled
and parted and remained apart 1t
was said, though not known to be
true, that Mr.. Miner had insisted
upon her giving him $1,OOO,OO0, and
that she had refused After the sep
aration Mrs. Yerkes-Mizner explained
the marriage by saying: "Mr Miner
came to me at time when I was
looking at life through eyes that were
filled with tears. He was an artist.
He enchanted me. The way was ap-
preached first startled and amazed
me, then captivated me-" But within
a few days she discovered, she says,
that the young man did not love her.
The case was nine days joke to the
public, but it was a great shock to
Cupid, who insists that all matters
pertaining to love be taken seriously.
Cupid and Senator Plat.
Senator Thomas G. Plat of New
York is reported as saying: 1T is
better to be wise than to be rich"
and that "a good wife is the best of
all mans possessions" Yet Sena-
tor Plat was not wise enough to get
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News Notes.

Observation-Disclosures H Furch was
appointed postmaster at Burtrum, Todd
county, Mimi, vice F. w. Wilson res
signed, and c. E. Melgaard at Rosby,
Hubbard county, Mimi, vice K. Erick-
son, resigned.
Mankato.-Rev. and Mrs. N. B. Foot
celebrated their golden wedding an
niversary at their home in Eagle Lake.
Rev. Foot has held charges in several
Southern Minnesota towns during his
long residence in the state, and is also
prominent in Masonic and Grand Army
circles.
Blackduck.-On account of the mild
weather which has prevailed so far
this winter logging is practically at a
standstill in this vicinity. There is
snow to spare in the woods, but it fell
before the ground had frozen. The
snow is about three feet on the level,
but has no foundation Heavy haul
ing is impossible and only light loads
can be carried.
Minneapolis.-Joe Mahoney and Ed
Bryant, proprietors of the Unique the
ater Seventh and Jackson streets, sot
into a fight in the theater, after which
N4duOIey Was lOuHu Will HIS TlSHI ear
nearly cut off, his left ear penetrated
by knife blade and two gashes on
his neck, one of which narrowly es-
capped the jugular vein.
Winona.-W. L. Miller, alderman
from the Third ward, was examined for
insanity and committed to the asylum
at Rochester. His trouble dates back
to about tive years ago, when he was
the victim of a severe electric shock.
Rochester.-Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Durand OF this city, each eighty-four
years old, celebrated their sixty-sixth
wedding anniversary.
Frank Danna, 45 years old, a switch
man in the employ Of the Minneapolis
Transfer Company, was run over by a
train and instantly killed.
st. Paul-Labor Commissioner Will
Jams is in favor of establishing two
more state labor bureaus
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greater distress to Cupid, the deity
of all true lovers. 1t would seem that
the CLEAN Of suddenly acquired mil
lions, as seen through the smoky at
mosphere Of Pittsburg, is sufficient to
blind the eyes of love.
William E. Corey was ruined by Mr..
Carnegie, so Mr.. Corey's uncle is re-
ported to have said. This was be-
cause Mr. Carnegie put Mr.. Corey in
the way of becoming rich. The head
of the great steel trust, looking for
pleasure and thrills" in the byways
of life, found only unhappiness. AS
the familiar saying goes, "he couldn't
stand prosperity" All the world is
familiar with the story Of Mr.. Corey's
spectacular rise in the world of fl
nance and of the alleged escapades
which caused his wife to leave him.
She obtained divorce last summer
after living in the state of Nevada
long enough to acquire citizenship
under the liberal laws of that state.
In her bill she charged her husband
with desertion, but it generally was
understood that the family happiness
was wrecked by Mr. Corey's public at
tentions to Mabelle Gilman, an act
regs.
Coachman Figures in Many Cases.
The Hartje case of Pittsburg made
uyho iru
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Richardson Wins in Delaware.

Dover, DEL, Jan. 15.-Henry Rich
Monday night the Republican nominee
for the United States senate on the
ninth ballot in the caucus of the SO
assemblymen of the lower branch of
the Delaware legislature. The ballot
resulted: Richardson, 20; Alice, 10;
Burton, 1; Marshall, 1; Addicks, 1;
Layton, 2; Pennewill, l.
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Car Shortage.

MISUNDERSTANDING to the car
shortage, which precluded the possibil-
ity of adequately handling wheat ship
ments during the last three months Of
1905, there were 1858 less cars Of
freight received at Minneapolis during
the year just closed than in 1905.
The report of the Minneapolis Com
mercial Club shows that during the
past year a total of 2S5O5S car lots Of
freight was received, as against $780,
726 in 1905.
To counteract this and to show the
rapid growth Of Minneapolis as man.
ufacturing center the report shows that
the freight shipments from this city
amounted to 7,OO3,519 pounds more
than in 1905.
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a good wfcN, II what he says be true.
Or If his wife was good, as she de-
clares She was, then the aged New
York senator was not wise enough to
keep her. He is not the first man
marked by Cupid, however, as being
unable to live up to his own epigrams.
When the separation of the Platts
occurred a few months ago Mrs. Plat
defied her husband, Notwithstanding
the charges he made, and threatened
to bring suit against him. She in
sisted that he should give her share
of his riches. She is quoted as say
ing: "He bought nay beauty; now let
him pay for it." If the senator did
not pay in money, at least he paid in
sorrow and humiliation and loss of
dignity-paid to the last farthing.
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Love Leaves After Many Years.

It is small wonder that Senator Plat
declared in one of his latest inter-
views that his life as he had lived it
was not worth the living" and that
If he had the years back he would
spend them differently. Rich and
powerful as he is he finds nothing in
his old age to compensate him for the
disrupted home.
w. ]. White, the chewing gum mag
nate of Cleveland, was the central
figure in one of the domestic wrecks
of the year. Perhaps he was spoiled