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The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1907-02-22
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ZD REMEDY FOR THE DIVORCE EVIL

conclude to get married. and of course an elopement Is in order. A marriage liceanse, and a justice of the peace com plete the drama, or rather the tragedy. Both fooled
 Is this the foundation upon which so- clety can be expected to stand for any length of time? What knowledge did these young people have of each others manner or disposition beyond what they could learn during parlor interview? Talk of gambling! If person would lend an umbrella upon such acquaintance as that he deserves to lose 1t, and yet these young people give. or pretend to give, their hands and hearts to each other and In so doing stake their hap piness here and hereafter Is 1t not time that some stronger power than the pa rental should he called into being to save these wilful young people from the con sequences of their folly?
 The saddest chapter in the little story of romances which the young girl con jured up in her fancy is the story of the neglect and desertion which are al- most certain to follow such marriages A divorced wife at 19 years of age Her faith in man shattered, her heart hard ened by the disappointment, her hopes in life crushed out. These are thy fruits, easy marriages.
 Two things should be done to save the
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bachelors and such-llke freak legislations it Is time some other restraints on mar riage besides those of youth and im- becility should be established and en- forced. glance at some of our daily papers, profusely illustrated with the photographs of the victims of domestic infelicity or ineompatahiity. might well give rise to the question: Is the instltu- ton known as marriage played out? And is it worth remarking that only the cele- brated cases are honored by such noto- rlety, the thousand and one commonplace, every day domestic ruptures find no moro mention than does the name of Tommy Atkins figure in the list of killed or wounded generals.
 Nasty ill-advised, unadvised, secret, and easily made marriages are at the foundation of the divorce evil. It is not only useless to attempt to prevent the separation of installed people, it would be actual cruelty to compel them to re- main united: but as their troubles are the results of their own indiscretions they should be taught that such acts cannot be done with impunity. Both fooled" was the laconic expression em- ployed by a newspaper reporter recently to tell a story of a nasty marriage and a soon separation. Had it been case where only one of the high contracting parties had been fooled 1t would have been too usual, too common to deserve
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particular mention, but when the parties fool each other the case rises to the dignity of a sensation. May not such folly be largely attributable to the lem ieney of the laws that have apparently forgotten the command that what God had joined no man should put asunder. When the negro woman was told the biblical text she said she was married by a justice of the peace and not by God Almighty a clear proof that she set no more value on the obligation than any other mere promise would be worth.
 Marriage Is continually being referred to as the foundation on which society is built; that the home Is the unit of gov ernment, that children are blessings, and several other highly complementary lit- tie speeches may be heard in favor of the marriage state: but unless the founda- ton of a building is made of solid matter the structure will not last very long Is the marriage solid which can be dissolved at the first frown of diversity or broken at the first stroke of fortune? Is the home the unit of government when the inmates of that home can be scattered by the first gust of temper on the part of one of the members? Are children blessings when they are thrown upon the world to be- come vagrants or inmates of charitable asylums? And these are the results or the hasty marriage and the easily obtained divorce. The evil effects of unrestrained
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most in a matter and in a manner which would be characterized as reeklessness were 1t not for the fact that a remedy IS close at hand and easily obtainable. Be fore a person can be induced to buy and pay for a piece of real estate, no matter how tempting a bargain 1t may appear and no matter how small the amount of money involved, he requires certain as suranees and makes certain investigations into the title and condition of the prop erty, all of which requires little time and reflection; this, too, in matter in which a mistake, even if beyond repair, means only financial loss at the worst; but in what has ever been regarded as the most important act in persons life, an act which, like the sped arrow or the spoken word, can never be recalled, how many people are there who take chances that would make an amateur gambler hesitat@ If, like the gambler, a person could say, q played and lost my money 1t would be only partial loss, but when person puts his happiness here on earth and his salvation hereafter in the balance, it ought not to be done on the lottery principle.
 The courts and churches are best quail fled to handle the divorce evil when t arises, but society should protect itself against the evil by exercising some con- trol over the contracting parties 10 marriage. Instead of passing laws taxing
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THEIR ROCK AND OUR ROCK

that term his most noticeable feats were the introduction of his spot resolutions, D and the delivery of an eleetioneering speech in favor of General Taylor to the Presidency. His spot resolutions" not only made his own reelection impossible but gave his district over to the demo- crats. His speech in favor of Taylor l have read carefully and repeatedly. It was low, coarse, vulger. mean and utterly despicable. And yet this same speaker afterwards delivered the Gettysburg ad dress which shook two continents, and is yet the admiration of the world. That address was little longer than this para graph, and when the exercises were over, MT. Everett, the orator of the day. said.
 Well, Mir. President, your twenty lines were worth more than all my. pages, and Everett was doubtless right. MT. Lincoln had marvelousy improved as a speaker
 1 have sometimes thought that Moses must have made a similar improvement in oratory. When first called to deliver Israel, he objected on the ground that he was no speaker; and Jehovah seems to have admitted that this was true. And yet Deuteronomy" is largely com posed of addresses from Moses, and much
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marriage are showing themselves in the deterioration of the race No need to particularize along what lines these in- dlactlons are most notlcible, but the med ical authorities are aware of them, and among the most eminent in the profession those symptoms are regarded with alarm.
 Parents have long since lost control over their boys once they reach 15 or 16 years of age, and with girls the case is becoming little better. The causes of this revolt need not be discussed, the results more deeply concern society. Presuming on their independence they choose their own companions, their places of amuse- ment, their hours to return home at night Parental interference is not toler- ated, parental advice never asked. Young people go to public places of recreation and meet other young people young men visit young girls in their parlors and re- main long after the family has retired to rest. The parents of many of these young girls would not know their daugh- ters visitor if they met him on the street.
 Very often all the daughter herself knows is that her visitor is a very nice young man with the cutest blue eyes in the world and always has chewing gum in his pocket. The visiting young man knows that the young lady Is the sweet est thing in the world and looks charm ing in her parlor. With this knowledge of each other Blue-eyes and Bright-eyes
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~ oMEONE has said that marriages
 are made in heaven, and the same N< person, if living today, would prob hbly keep on talking and say that d. gorces are made in hell, and he would be about as correct in one instance as the other. The world has progressed consd- erably since that phrase was coined; the writer or speaker of which was most like iy sublimely ignorant of our modern methods of business so tersely expressed In three words-"do it now" Who, today, pays any attention to the philosophic ad vice, "hasten slowly or look before you leap?" The seven ages of a man are well defined and known, but the seven ages of the world are as yet only partly known. We have had the stone age, the iron age, the age Of reason, fortunate ly a short one, and now we have the quick age, typefied in the 'get-rich-quiclx' scheme of business life and the quick lunch counter in our daily life. This ce- lerity, like all motion downwards, has Increased until it has reached a stage bordering on impetuosity almost amount to rashness, after which comes ruin in the regular order of nature.
 By most remarkable and inexplicable turn in buman affairs this haste, which Is attended with disaster in most instances and the greater the undertaking the graver the consequences-manif itself
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-19
BY J. C. HIDEN, D. D.

the most exalted estimate of the moral teachings of Jesus; said very truly that Christ's doctrine, that the greatest are those who do the most service. was one of the best and most original that ever fell from the lips of any moral teacher: powerfully defended the authenticity of the teachings of Christ ns set forth by the Evangelists. and said that 1t was In conceivable that these teachings should ever be forgotten so long as anything like civilization remains upon the earth. He even went to the length of insisting that however skeptleal n man might be, he could not devise a better scheme of life than so to live that Christ would approve his life In plain English, the outcome of all his reasoning is; Be a skeptie in your creed; but by all means be Christian in your life.' think 1t only fair to MT, NTH to say that he came nearer to following this impractleable course than did any other man with whose career l am acquainted. I have given to his views as careful and candid consideration as I am capable of giv- ing. and I have not the slightest dlsposi- tion to do him any sort of injustice moral or logical.
 cannot, however, honestly say that am without prejudice" on matter
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-19
BY F. I. MONKS.

nation and the people of the nation from the disasters of unrestricted marriage; d- voree should be granted by federal courts only so as 10 make uniformity in grounds of divorce, and to make violations of the orders of the court punishable all over the United States. In this respect also no divorce should be made absolute for at least twelve months. by which time the parties may have become recou- ciled or al least delay the marriage which often prompts the divorce. And In the second place marriage licenses should not be granted permitting the marriage of any girl under 21 years without the knowl- edge or consent of her parents or guard ians.
 It Is a sad commentary upon the Unt- ted States, a nation which ranks first in education and progress. that it should also take precedence in divorees. It Is growing evil it's baneful effects taint the whole social atmosphere, bringing doubt into the minds of the married and dis couragement to the unmarried,
 Poor and content is rich, and rich enough; but riches fneless is poor as winter to him who ever dreads he shall be poor" The horrible spectre of divorce which stalks through the land has more terrors for most men than has famine or sickness. When that unclean spirit enters Into a nation the devil has an active agent at work.
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THE RAzoRLEss SHAVE.
If Witherspoon Has Really Struck It
 He Will Have Mankind's Thanks.

From the Chicago Evening Post.
 Shaving may seem matter of minor and private importance, but in a country of at least 100000 sfavers and as many more little or would-be shavers. anything that concerns the custom concerns every one, If not everyone and his wife. A statistlcian might easily make meaning less and impressive diagrams showing the globe encircled by halo of --'s shay ing sticks, of which many thousand miles must annually be rubbed on the face of the nation. He might show the republics collective shaving brush, bristljng as roughly as n porcupine, or of the repub- lies 10000, ,O0o razors all in one, savage hair staying weapon.
 It would be just as well to have these giant figures declared, because the razor, the stick, the brush--all are threatened with extinction. Future museums may be expected to cherish MT. Roosevelts last razor as they now cherish Washing tons snuffbox. An Englishman Is an- nounced to have invented a harmless paste which removes the sprouting hairs as soap removes dirt A few minutes work--and the shaver turns a smooth. bland, smiling face to the matutinal look ing glass. No more midday operations carried on with promiscuous razors, and afternoone spent with a countenance flat tened and patted by the cold-hngered barber.
 The shaving paste promises economy. celerity, cleanliness. We will exchange our razors and brushes for 1t as well comedy as our ancestors exchanged flint and steel for the match. If MT. Wither- ington. the English inventor. has the gen uine article, he has the thanks of man kind-or all of 1t that doesn't punctuate It's hours by crying 'NeXtp'
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, the north. At that time Lord Palmer ston was prime minister. He was a southern sympathizer. A typical beef-eat- ing Englishman, he was to statesman ship what Tom Sayres was to pugillsm
 ne hoped the south would win, and be- lieved it would win. Two sentimentalists like Hughes and Beecher were only cal culated to irritate such man as Pal merston, but the cool heads at Washing ton requested August Belmont, man of as much common sense as Palmerston himself to talk the thing over with the i- -ritish foreign office. He soon convinced them that the cause of the south was hopeless as long as the north was deter mined, and 1t was manifest to all that the north was determined. No man did more tc prevent English interposition, and no other man did so much to place Uni ted States government loans with Eu- ropean bankers. Had he been secretary of tie treasury the war would have cost anout 40 per cent of what it did cost, so far as was shown in the national debt statement. There would have been no greenbacks.
 MT. Belmont supported Mcclellan in 1861, and Seymour in 1868. When Greedy was nomna ted, he resigned from to national committee. He was delegate to every national convention from 1860 to 1884 both inclusive. He died in 1890, after having been a leader of his party and con spicuous citizen of the Gnited States for fifty years.
 Edmund Perry, of Devonshire, England, was a direct descendant in the sixth generation from Sir William Wallace, hero of Scotland. He came to America in 1650 and settled in Massachusetts. A descend ant of his. Christopher Ray Perry, a naval officer of the United States, was father of five sons, all officers of the United States navy-Oliyer Hazard, Ray
 mond II. J., Mathew C., James Alexander, and Nathaniel Hazard The history of our navy could not be written without cop ious narration as to at least two of these. the eldest hero of Lake Erie. and the third son. Matthew C., the man who in- troduced Japan to civilization. The Rod gers family contributed as abundantly to the American navy as did the Perry, and the two are of close kin.
 Commodore Matthew C. Perrys wife was a sister of John Slidell formerly Unl- ted States senator from Louisiana, who, with James M Mason of Virginia. was a Confederate commissioner to the courts of Europe. They were taken from the British merchantmen Trent, during the war of 1861 1865. and but for the coolness and good sense of Abraham Lincoln, the episode would have been followed by war. when the United States had on hand all the war she could stand. August Bel mont married daughter of Matthew c. Perry. and of that union Perry Belmont was the eldest child.
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Perry Belmont was boen December 2S, 1851 He received his education at the best schools of both hemispheres-Har- vard the University of Berlin, and Co., lumbia law school. He chose the law for a .jrofession and upon his admission to t.-e bar entered the office of the firm Of which William M. Evarts was the head His father and Charles O'Conor, the dean ol the American bar, were intimate as- sooiates and personal and political friends; but O'Conor had practically retired from practice. and perhaps that is why young Belmont was not associated with hlm. ''On form" as the race folk say Evarts was our greatest lawyer. He appeared for Andy Johnson in the impeachment proceedings He was chief counsel Of the United States before the Geneva tribunal of interna tional arbitration. He was senior counsel for Hayes before the elec- toral tribunal. He was successful in all, It was in the office of the firm headed by this great jurist, whose life ambition it was to be chief justice of the United States supreme court, that Perry Bel mont was fitted for a public career.
 In 1880 young Belmont was elected to Congress from a Long Island district. It is the general impression that he was a Tammany man. That is an error. He first appeared in the national councils in 1881 upon the assembling of the Forty seventh Congress. Keller was speaker and the republican majority very narrow. No one dreamed that Perry Belmont's name would be on every tongue before the first session was completed, but 1t was heralded from one end of the coun- try to the other in the spring of 1882, when he had the temerity to enter the lists against James G. Blaine, then the idol of the republican party and one of the very powerful individuals in public affairs in the United States.
 MT. Blaine became secretary or state In 1881 against the advice of his friends and contrary to his personal inclination. Mo- body knew better than he that his place was in the forum rather than in the closet. He had had no training for the caoinet. least of all the state department, whose head Is expected to write dis matches for the criticism of every Tor eign office of the old world. In the Sen ate or the House he was at home, ready for all comers-if not the ablest certain ly the most dashing and audacious de- bater of his day. But Blaine was uxori- ous. that accounts for his becoming the head of the cabinet. He could and would have managed Garfield anyhow. from the Senate chamber as from the state de- nartment. In a little while Blaine fell in love with his new job. and doubtless had dreams of Rlchelieu, of Chatham, of Bismarck. Maybe he hoped to splinter a lance with that greater Blaine-Ben- jamin Disraeli.
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it was when Moses spoke it. The admis- sions of inhdels and agnosties make up one of the strongest chapters in the Evl- denees of Christianity.
 Yoltare did not like the Bible, but he said: If there were not God, 1t would be necessary to invent Him. He loved money. and was not too nice in his ways of getting it, but he spent no small sum in building q church to be dedicated to "rhe One God
 J. ]. Rousseau was man of wonderful genius, and one of the most influential In idels that France ever produced, and 1t was he who said; If the life and death of Socrates were those of philosopher the life and death of Jesus Christ were those of a God.'
 Lord Byron was one of the most ribald and radical infidels of a strangely infidel age and yet he is credited with saying in one of his saner moments; ''rhe worst of 1t all Is that I do believe
 Benjamin Franklin was decidedly skep- tical, and yet in protesting against the publication of an inidel book, he wrote to the author: "If men are so bad with religion, what would they be without it?s
 John Adams was skeptlcal, and yet so powerfully was he impressed with the iin-
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portanee of maintaining religion as police force," that he was very slow in yielding to the powerful arguments of Jefferson and Madison. in behalf of abso- fute religious freedom, and contended that the state would be seriously irnperilled unless the clergy received state support.
 Charles Darwin, a pronounced agnostio, wrote divers books whose logical tendency was to legislate God out of His own uni verse, and yet he speaks of "the en- nobling belief in the existence of a God, He strongly supported the clergyman Of his parish; contributed freely to his en- terphises, and, after being convinced that he had been wrong in his opinion that nothing could be done with the brutal barbarians of Terra del Fuego, candldly confessed his error, and sent a liberal con- tribution to the missionaries in that deso- late region.
 The most powerful blows which have been inflicted on organized Christianity in modern times were delivered by John Stuart Mill From his earliest remem- brance he had been taught by his able and learned father to believe that Chris tianity was distinctly immoral. He wrote a book to prove that blank skeptieism Is the only position that any rational thinker can hold, and yet he expressed