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Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-12-18
they will so ordeT. their lives that i'll
advised mafriasea|swill be rare, and
they will then So conduct themselves
in their married relations that di.
vorces will be practically unknown.

Of the romantic bliss of courtship:
And when they find each day there is
less ecstasy and more imperfections
d1scOverable in each other do they
rush Immediately and without second
thought to the divorce courts?
The reason, II just got tired of Al
fred" or Margaret became such q
BORE" has been given by more than
one person who has applied for di
vorce. Looking in marriage for indi
vidual happiness only, how could they
remember their duty to the state?
Sociologists, writer's, doctors and
legalists on all hands are asking
What Is to be done? Should there
be a uniform divorce law that all the
different states will ratify? Should
the magistrate, the priest and the
preacher, when marrying couples, i'm
press upon them the sociological as
pect of their union, as well az the
spiritual and romantic?
From Various Views.
The different churches have dit
ferent beliefs concerning marriage
the different states have different
laws governing it, and they are both
content to rest their case there!
Thus the greatest sociological prob
lem in the United States to-day is be
ing tossed back and forth as If II
were some rubber ball, and vel
100000 divorces in 20 years are sure
to leave their influence on many livel
and many families.
Back in 174S Nine. de Chateaurou1
said: II see plainly that there will be
a general overthrow if no remedy is
used.'
What she said about the political
condition of France then we may say
about the divorce situation in the
United States today.
The divorce congress two years age
accomplished practically nothing, well
intentioned as it was. If federal legis
lation is urged in the spring on the
strength Of the detailed report of the
census bureau it will be challenged on
the ground of it's being unconstitu
tiOnal.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-12-18

| meets because we are not Submissive,
to our husbands misconception and
misunderstanding of u.s." =:
But" the defenders of the conyen-
tional type of woman reply, "youtE can
not accomplish anything great init,
erature, science or religion, and you
never have produced works of great
and universal genius The most YOU
can do is to make your own bread and
butter. Your trivial creations in art
and literature can be spared, and it is
your intellectual discomfort and un-
rest that is spreading the divorce
germ, which threatens soon to de-
Velop into divorce epidemic. Take
the place assigned to you by nature,
be mans helpmeet and all will be
WE'LL"
Has higher education made woman
dissatisfied with the domestic sphere?
Or is it that the nigh tension Of
modern everyday business life has
prevented the husband from giving
his wife the romantic attentions and
caresses demanded by her nature?
Modern Man Too Busy.
1t is not uncommon for the wives
OF business men to spend summer in
Europe and winter in the south, and
many times they find in these places
the romantic companionship and at
tention their own husbands had not
time to give them at home.
Like birds in a gilded cage" they
were treated, their husbands sending
them packages of lace and bundles of
silks, and bringing them home hand.
fuls of jewels, but if they ever sus-
pected their wives need of romance
and tenderness they were unable to
supply it, because of the demands on
their time by their many business in
terests.
Or is it that the modern inventions
for picking, preserving, dyeing and
cleaning have left the twentieth cen
fury woman with vast leisure on
her hands, and has her lack of domes-
tic occupations and cares made her
dissatisfied and hypercritical of her
busy and. worried husband?
And does she brood over his "cold.
ness" all day because in his haste to
keep some business engagement he
hurries forth without the morning
kiss?
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-12-18

the side of steep mountain. The open
cut shows great variety of rocks
and minerals, flint and quartz being
the most prominent.
The emeralds are found in a FOSSIL
ferrous limestone which shows in gray
streaks among the darker rocks. The
Spaniards used to get at the gems by
driving adits into the hill following
the veins. Now the open cut has been
adopted and the rock is terraced from
above.
High up on the mountain there are
copious water courses. These are
directed into artificial reservoirs and
f1umes-one of them six miles long
are carried down to the mine. The
quantity of water is so great that even
in dry seasons there Is sufficient to
carry on operations.
AS the rocks are pulverized the de.
bris is converted into slime and car
ried by the water down the mountain
to the Rio Minero far below, which
sweeps it along to the sea, The gems
are picked from, the washing troughs
by poems, who keep breaking up the
rock smaller and smaller, SO that
nothing is lost. .@3 35 .ses ,ss3.s
Altogether more than 100 laborers
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-12-18

II HE prevalence of divorces in the
i United States is reproach alike
to the country and to the church, Is
the declaration of DR.. Robert Stuart
Macarthur. The American republic
has a most unenviable prominence in
this regard. The detailed accounts of
suits for divorce, as these suits are
pressed in the various courts, are dis
gushing in the extreme. They bring
reproach alike upon American men
and women in all parts of our country.
These facts are admitted and at the
same time are sadly regretted by our
best citizens and our most devoted
churchmen and churchwomen.
The causes for divorce are numer-
Gus. They are not limited in re-
sponsibility, either to men or to
women. 1t is not sufficient state
ment to say that the broader educa.
ton of women and their emancipa-
ton from the greater subsection of
former years is the chief cause, as
Mrs. Anna Rogers says. The men
and women who rush into the divorce
courts elicit our contempt for their
vulgarity and coarseness, not to use
even stronger terms. It is difficult so
to control ones moral indignation be-
cause of the vulgarity of these d.
vorce cases as to speak of them with
the restraint becoming a newspaper
article. How men and women can
stoop to charge abominable crimes
against each other in order to secure
divorces makes one ashamed of his
race. Idleness, lack of spiritual occu-
pati0p and suggestion, and vulgar con-
formity to low ideals in life-these
are causes largely responsible for the
prevalence of divorce. Hasty mar
rage is also somewhat responsible.
Many men and women rush into mar
rage with less serious thoug1lfulness
than they would show regarding any
ordinary business transaction. The
clergy also are somewhat responsible
by the haste with which they Of
ficiate at marriages without knowing
the facts in the case of those who de-
sire to enter into this relationship.
Marriage must be made more hon.
orable, it's obligations must be lifted
to higher level. In single word
the correction Of the evils of divorce,
as in the case of all other evils, must,
in it's finality, depend upon higher
spiritual ideals, nobler characters and
more religious conceptions of all the
duties and obligations of life in its
manifold relations. Uniform divorce
laws in the states would partially re-
move the evils of divorce. There is
no one specific cause-there is no one
specific cure. When men and women
realize their dignity and glory as the
children of God and heirs of eternity,
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-12-18
DENMARK.

Ellegaard, the Danish .wheelman,
has come to America in the interest
OF his favorite sport
Denmark exported farm products to
England for $56,OOO,OOO during the
trst ten months of the present year.
The commune of Hjerm, Iglland, has
decided to close its only saloon, the
vote being 270 to II. Both men and
women were allowed to vote.
1t is proposed to give each of the
veterans from the War of 1864 year.
ly pension of $27. About $1,000 of
those veterans are still living
Niels Gron, whose name has ap.
peared off and on for many years in
American politics, has organized a
society near Horsens for agitating in
favor of initiative and referendum.
Peasant catchers" is standing ex-
preston for men who try to live by
fooling the credulous in different ways.
But the word is really obsolete The
Danish farmer is wide-aWake and
shrewd fellow, who is amply able to
take care of himself and even to steal
an occasional march on city people.
Therefore it has been proposed to
substitute fool catcher" for peasant
catcher"
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-12-18

WHAT We need is a doctrine Of
w marriage. There is no clear
cut doctrine of marriage. The church
is tied up to the ethics of 1000 years
ago, the oriental fantasies of Paul.
THE old idea of marriage was in.
culcated and secured through two
fundamental rinciples-reverence to
parents and the understanding that
marriage was to be permanent. These
principles are both imperiled," is the
idea of DR.. Felix Adler.
Under present conditions they are
no longer tenable, for the first was
founded on the idea that the child had
no rights except through it's parents.
Its position was one of the sub
servience, Of unquestioned obedience
to the parents, and as regards the per-
manence of the marriage tie, it was
chiefly bond that tied the woman to
the man. Her position was one of
subordination.
''To-day we admit that the child has
rights which we are bound to respect
and that the woman IS the equal of
the man.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-12-18
Kindly Charles Lamb.

Charles Lamb was awakened early
one morning by noise in his kitchen,
and on going down to that apartment
found a burglar doing his spoons up
in bundle.
why DIDO you s-s-st-t-teal?" he
asked
Because I'm starving" returned the
house-breaker, sullenly.
"Are y-you re-re-really ver.very
ng-gug-gery:hungry?" asked
Lamb.
Very" replied the burglar. turning
away.
"Pup-pup-poor fut.fut.fellow," said
the essayist. There's q l-l-leg of r
L-Lamb for you" ".''
And SO saying, with dexterous
movement of his right leg, he elected
the marauder into the street, and lock-
ing the door securely went back to
bed. The burglar confessed / after
wards that he didn't see the Joke tor
six weeks. ssts 7E. IL ':5S
I'm
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rope. Then he tied the rope to a tele-
phone cable. He placed the trained
ferret on the ground and released the
rat. The ferret, instead of springing
right on the rat, chased him about a
bit, until the rat lodged into the end
of the conduit. Then, as the rat came
through the other end, one of the
workmen seized the string, pulled it
through, and then pulled through the
rope and the length Of cable. The
whole thing was done in about third
of the time it ordinarily took to lay a
length. Uncle Billy was tickled all
the way through at the success of his
plan.
cts all right to talk ABOUT your
electro-scientific MYSTERIES he said,
triumphant like, but, when it comes
to actual results, an inventive genius
with the help of a trained ferret can
copper science every DEAL =:
1.-THE foreman looked as il he didn't
quite want to admit all that, but he
couldn't deny that Uncle Billy's plan
had worked. .--... -
"'Ths beauty Of your Uncle Billy's
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-12-18

M ARITAL unrest is neither an of.
w spring of the new woman nor the
evil outgrowth of freer and juster d.
vOrce laws, declares Dr. Clarke
Houghton. 1t is as old as the world.
To charge it up to the conscience Of
the new woman" is neither fair mind.
ed nor rational. The Old Testament
reeks with it, and the biographers Of
our great warriors, statesmen, poets
and prophets all the way down the
ages, from Earle or Gorky of the pres
ent day back to Potiphar's wife and
David Of old show it to have been the
same yesterday, to-day and forever!
David's own wives are described
as women of comely countenance and
Of good understanding, and there is
no record where either Abigail or
Ahinoam closed their cook books to
study law or uttered a single idea not
the echo Of their joint husband If
they had, who knows? They might
have saved him from the sin of send
ing the poor Hittite to the aforefront
CT the hottest battle that he might
take his beautiful wife Bathsheba.
Who knows, had they seasoned the
sameness Of the married way with
an occasional dash of original thought?
The sacred Milton, the divine Shel-
ley, Cicero, Dante and the immortal
Shakespeare are all melancholy ex-
amples of marital unrest, though
none of them was divorced.
If divorce is growing greater 1t is
not because marital unrest is grow
ing worse, but because .offenses in
marriage and hypocrisy are growing
less.
To make the happiness of the indi.
viduals only an incident in marriage
is only to defend DR.. Adler's dream
of higher and finer race. Insure the
happiness of husband and wife and 1t
will follow as the day the night that
we will have finer generation of of
spring and purer society of men and
women
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-12-18

cable-layirg cor,tinat:eo,' SD Uncle
Billy jubila1tly, is that il will work as
easily through ten lengths of pipe as
through one
I'm the end Uncle Billy made con-
tract with the telephone company that
brought him in more IN a day than he
could earn in month on his farm.
Things were pretty prosperous in In
diana about that time, almost every
town wanted an extension of its tele-
phone lines, and as the fame of his
system for laying cables spread, Uncle
Billy's bank roll grew to plethoric d.
mansions. Some of the other boys
tried to work the same game; but
they didn't have Uncle Billy's knack
for training ferrets, and the rats were
either killed before they entered tho
conduits, or when they were only
about half way through. Uncle Billy
was pretty indignant at these At
tempts to cut into his business.
"'By rights I ought to be able to
get out patent on my idea,' he used
to say. OF course, I'm not really the
inventor of ferrets, but it was my
modest genius that first a&U the peg
sibilities of utilizing thetF dislike for
rats
IF it hadn't been for the meanness
and treachery of Pete Johnson, Uncle
Billy to-day might be one of the rich
est men in the state. Pete and Uncle
Billy formerly had been partners, but
little disagreement had severed
their friendship, and Pete for months
had been looking for a chance to get
even. One day, when the faithful fer
ret was helping lay cables under the
direction of Uncle Billy, Pete Zap
pened on the scene.
81 thought all your laborers be-
longed to the union, he said to the
foreman. .
''The foreman allowed they did.
"'They dog sneered Pete We'll, I'd
like to know to what union that ferret
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-12-18
|!ScAXDzMAVxANNEWS
Principal Events Gathered In the
Old Scandinavian Countries

The presidents of the royal courts
OF Sweden have addressed a communi.
cation to the department of Justice
arguing against the stiff, formal style
used in legal documents.
The car ferries which the govern
ments of Sweden and Germany are
to run between those countries will
be 355 feet long and have draft of
II feet. In ordinary weather they are
expected to cross the Baltic sea in
three and One-half hours. The gov.
eminent of Sweden will have to spend
about $2,700,000 on the new line and
on necessary improvements connect,
ed with it.
Stockholm, Dec. 1O-The cere.
monies attending the distribution of
the Nobel prizes, apart from the peace
prize, which was awarded at Chris.
tlania, took place at o'clock this af.
ternoon in the building of the Acad-
envy of Sciences. Owing to the re-
cent death of King Oscar there was
no public function, and the banquet
which it is customary to give in the
evening was omitted on account of the
public mourning for the deceased soy.
ereign. The prize for literature was
awarded to Rudyard Kipling; that for
physicists to Prof. Albert A. Michel
son of the University of Chicago; that
OF medicine to DR.. Laveran of Paris
and that of chemistry to Prof. Edouard
Buchner of the University of Berlin.
All the recipients were present. In
addition to the prizes which this year
amount each to $37,475, each recipient
will be given a diploma and a gold
medal.
After speedy trial before the SUI.
perior court of Monaco, We're St. Leger
Goold and his wife, Marie, were con.
victed of the murder of Emma Levin
the widow of a rich Swedish business
man. The court found Mrs. Goold was
the chief instigator of the crime and
sentenced her to death by the guillo
tine, and that Goold was less respon.
sible because under the influence OF
liquor at the time the murder was
committed and sentenced him to i'm.
prisonment for life. The evidence
went to show that Emma Levin, who
was possessed Of considerable jewelry
and some money, had been invited to
visit the Goods, who were in needy
circumstances. There she was killed
and later a quantity of her jewelry
was found in the possession of Goold
and his wife. Her body was dismem
bered and placed in a trunk and va
lise, which the murderers were try
ing to dispose of when the crime was
discovered.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-12-18
NORWAY.

Hans Aanoud. a popular author, pro.
poses DR.. Sigurd Ibsen as director Of
the National theater.
The men employed in the Nordrei-
sen copper mines, near Tromso, have
been discharged. But the work on
the smelling furnace is rushed with
the greatest speed. The ore ready for
the furnace represents value of $780,.
900.
Norwegian machine shops have
turned out steam boilers and other
heavy articles for several wood pulp
factories in northern Sweden. Some
NorWegians are also planning the
construction of a large pulp factory
of their own in the same part of Swe-
den.
Shipowners in Kristiania and Tons
berg have signed a contract to ship
all the ore mined by the South Var
anger Ore Company during the years
1910-1920. The ships are to be loaded
at Kirkenas and unloaded at Ham
burg, Rotterdam and other cities. The
export will amount to several hun
dred thousand tons a year.
Kristiania, Dec. 10.-The Nobel
peace prize is this year to be equally
divided between Ernesto Teodoro
Moneta of Italy and Louis Renault
of France. The premier eulogized the
late King Oscar of Sweden, who, he
said, had been prominent among the
kingly peacemakers of the world. NJ.
Renault is the permanent delegate
of France to the Hague tribunal and
represented his country at the second
peace conference last summer NJ.
Moneto has been prominent as work
er for peace in Italy. He was elected
president of the fiftieth universal
peace conference at Milan in Septem.
Der, 1906.
The Norwegian government has
planned four new railway lines, which
it is proposed, to complete in twelve
years at cost of about $16,O0O,000
One of them is to run from Kristiania
to Trondhjem through Gudbrands.
| dalen. This is to have a branch line
running from Domaas through Roms.
dial amt to Aandalsnas. A third line
is to run from Kristiania to Kragero,
and this will be part of the "Vest-
| land" railway, which is to follow the
coast. Finally, new line is to be
built in Nordland. If this general plan
| Is adopted by the storting the exact
! location of some of the lines will
cause bitter controversies among the
localities directly concerned.
The city of Kristiansand has intro
duced @tcurfeW' ordnance, which
provides that no child under the age
of fifteen shall appear on the street
| after half past nine o'clock in the
evening without being accompanied by
a grown person.
The country is flooded with new
books, and the critics who are sup
| posed to keep track of the book mar
ket are at their wits end
! Bjornson and wife and several of
| their: children, all of whom are mar.
ried, are going to spend part of the
winter in Rome
! There is very vigorous religious
activity among the common people,
and the most radical sects can point
to a successful campaign. The re-
vivalists have been aided by the
gloomy weather, which is apt to put
many people in religious mood.
King st. Olaf of Norway won his
first battle off Haro, near Stockholm,
in the year 1907, and a monument is
to be raised at the spot in memory OF
the event.
! Heldrup Rasmussen and wife, OF
Boro, have celebrated their diamond
! wedding. .~~ 30, T.
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FINLAND.

The decision of the imperial au-
thorities to do away with the fortress
of Sveaborg, opposite Helsingfors,
came as great surprise. .
The London Times devotes consid-
cradle space to explain how tyranni-
cal principles are trampling liberty
into the dust in Finland, now, that
the national legislature of the coun-
try has passed law prohibiting the
manufacture, importation and sale Of
intoxicating drinks. The great "thun.
derer" is really sorry because sound
Judgment has been defeated by feel
ings in this matter. The only rift that
the Times can see in the lurid clouds
is the probability that the car will
never sanction this law.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-12-18
Calls Contentious Unfair.

This is unfair she continues.
I'VE are not to be classed with our
domestic sisters. We pity them but
we are not of them. We have aims,
aspirations and ambitions the same as
men,, and to attempt to force us into
domesticity is to SURROGATE us. We
object to being called undutiful help
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-12-18

investigation it had to leave out near.
ly 100000 cases which were pending,
and of the 1900 Investigators, clerks,
ETC., employed in the bureau in the
preparation of this report 140 are still
at work getting it in it's final and COM
plete shape.
France has only 70 divorce courts,
Germany only %, England only one,
and the United States has 1921 courts
empowered to grant divorces. These
facts alone are sufficient to give the
thinker pause and ask What is the
remedy?"
"New Woman" Blamed.
Writers who defend the conven-
tional and domestic" type of woman
put all the blame on the new wom-
an They say she has left her legiti-
mate sphere-the home-that she no
longer loves or inspires love, and that,
in defiance of all history and her own
apparent destiny, refuses to consider
marriage and motherhood the object
of her existence.
They urge she has abandoned the
hearthstone to become writer, an
artist, playwright, an actress, a
teacher, or whatnot, and during the
period in which she has gained her
rights (the last 20 years. the mar
riage institution has been assailed on
all sides.
Is it the new woman's" fault?
The new woman" differs from her
sister in this respect at least-she
has no flattery for ''the tyrant man."
She turns right around and places all
the blame for the marital unrest on
his shoulders
Man does not understand our CON-
pick nature" she says, land while he
considers marriage as only one stage
of his own mental and spiritual devel-
opment, he insists that we shall con-
slider it the only excuse for our ex-
istence.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-12-18

I AM minister of the gospel. I be.
i ieve In the Bible. It is regrettable
that there, are so many different state
laws governing divorce, and feel
sorry for the children of all these d.
vorced people, says Rev. Phoebe A.
Hanaford.
No, It is not the fault Of the new
woman" There is no new woman"
A woman is woman. There are good
women and bad women, but no new
women"
There are too many hasty mar.
riages. This should be looked after.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-12-18
Other Reasons Given.

Or is it that young couples look at
marriage too childishly and do not see
the economic, sociological and political
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-12-18

only because of inefficient methods.
Last year emeralds to the value of not
less than $1,0oo.00o in gold were taken
out and sold, .,..F