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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-26

See our huge 25 cent china sale, all
next week. A great variety of prices
Simmons Book Store.
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,ham berlain, optometrist.

DR. Billiard. osteopatn. rs e. Main.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-26

Dr. Mairs has returned and will now
be found for consultation at his office,
during Office hours.
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Those who have enjoyed "Uncle
Josh Spruceby" in times past will not
need any urging, and to those who
have never enjoyed that pleasure, we
can say. look in on "Uncle Josh
Spruceby" and you will know that
you have put in pleasant evening
and only regret that the time passed
so quickly. At the Odeon Sunday night.
Prices 10, %. IS and so cents.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-12-13

AH!C:1z3
NHaNWczzEs

1t is queer thing, but true, never
ring are like sailors ashore. Quite
few of the best scrappers don't know
what fear is in the roped arena, but
on the outside are as scary as rab-
bit Look at Joe Cans, for instance. In
the ring Joe is as brave a lion. He
walloped all the lightweights he could
find, took Joe Walcott, the welter-
weight, and handed him lacing and
then when the field looked clear
offered to fight Jack O'Brien. Cans
knows no fear in the ring, but on
the street at night Joe is scared to
death. Young Corbett says that the
old master has a fearful dread of hold
up men. He never goes along dark
street if he can help it, but seeks the
light every time he can, and at that
is breaking his neck looking around.
There is another thing that has
Cans goat, and that is an earthquake.
Joe was in Frisco couple of years
ago when the big wriggle came off,
and he beat it out of town so fast
they thought he was a comet. Joe
went back later on to appear in fights,
but he was almost frightened to
death thinking that another might
come while he was in town.
Well, for that matter, look at JEFF
fries. He was invincible in the ring,
but his little wife has him eating
out of her hand when he is at home.
Tommy Burns better half has him as
bad. Why, she won't even let hubby
box colored men. Terry McGovern is
scared to death of cops. A year or
so ago when Terry was run down and
bit to the bad, he was ordered out
of the betting ring at the track. One
day Terry started over to place a
roll on some skate when a cop, 60
years old, grabbed him by the collar
and ordered him out. Terry looked
as simple as a clown, and turned on
his heel and walked away.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-12-13

r. 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 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-
spensibility, either to men or to
women. 1t is not a 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. 1t 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 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-
patton and suggestion, and vulgar con.
formity to low ideals in Hfe-these
are causes largely responsible for the
prevalence of divorce. Hasty mar.
riage is also somewhat responsible.
Many men and women rush into mar
riage with less serious thoughfulness
than they would show regarding any
ordinary business transaction. The
clergy also are somewhat responsible
by the haste with which they of.
f1ciate at marriages without knowing
the facts in the case of those who de
SlT0 W 0uJ0T luIO thIS lOldIlOuohips
Marriage must be made more hon.
orable, it's obligations must be lifted
to a 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 it's
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.
they will so order their lives that ill
advised marriages will be rare, and
they will then so conduct themselves
in their married relations that d.
vorces will bs practically unknown.
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Killed by His Wagon.

Red Wing.-Herman Prigge was
killed on his farm, four miles from
Mazeppa, Goodhue county, as re-
suit of his wagon being upset. Her
man, Richard Gerken and Charles
Sewers had been in Mazeppa on bust
ness, and had all started home to-
gether. When well on their way
some pump pipes which Sewers had
on his load got pushed ahead and
Gerken gave his team to Prigge to
lead behind the rig, while he helped
Sewers push the pipes back. Mr.. Prigge
drove on ahead, and as near as can be
determined, while going down hill
Gerken's team pushed and upturned
Priggs's wagon. The edge of the
wagon box struck the man above the
left ear, breaking his neck.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-12-13
Suicide,

Brainerd. Werdin, mana
ger of the Monarch elevator at this
place, was found in the elevator Office
with two bullets from 32-caliber
revolver in his brain. The revolver,
with two empty chambers, two empty
shells and one unexploded cartridge,
was found by his side. He died in
about fifteen minutes without regain
ing consciousness.
Mr.. Werdin's parents reside in Eden
Valley and he came here from Glen
wood, Mimi, about six weeks ago to
take charge of the elevator.
Coroner Gibson took the remains in
charge and is making an investigation
through there seems little reason to
doubt that it was case of suicide.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-12-13
NEWS NOTES.

Minneapolis D. Meyers,
agent for wine company in San
Francisco, was found dead in his room
at the Nicollet hotel, and Coroner
Kistler will hold an autopsy to learn
whether the man took poison.
Sank Center.-John Hooper, aged
ID, son of George Hooper, we'll
known farmer and James Draper,
aged %, a farmland employed by Dan
lei Buckley, were drowned in Sank
lake, about mile above town, while
skating.
st. Cloud.-A chambermaid en-
ployed at the Grand Central hotel
found wallet under a pillow contain
ing S., $3.50. The money belonged
to N. P. Sand of New Munich, Stearns
county. Manager Leimbacher COM
municated with Mr.. Sand and later
received letter from him saying he
had not missed the money.
st. Paula scratch on the thumb
from nail received week ago while
dragging an old grip from shelf in
parcelroom at the st. Paul Union sta
ton, proved fatal to Joseph Kouba,
who died at st. Joseph's hospital.
Lakeville.-Robert Rochlieu, the
twelve-year-old son of Lester Roch-
lieu, was drowned in Prairie lake
while skating with several compan-
ions.
Minneapolis. -Charles Frank, a
business man of Williston, N. D., re-
ported to the police that he had been
robbed of a pocketbook containing
S3, 900.
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condition of France then we may say
about the divorce situation in the
United States to-day.
The divorce congress two years ago
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.
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emit day back to Potiphar's Wits and
David of old show it to have been the

emit day back to Potiphar's wits and
David of old show it to have been the
same yesterday, to-day and forever!
Davids 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
If 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 Shell
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 it 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 it
will follow as the day the night that
we will have a finer generation of Off
spring and a purer society of men and
women.
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MINNESOTA NEWS
I'D Interesting Items Gathered In the n
! r. Gopher State r.
Fines Robinson 500.

st. Cloud-Senator j. E. G.. Robin.
son was fined 500 by Judge Taylor
in the district court, for malfeasance
in office. This is the case of the ap-
peal of the State against Robinson,
who, it was charged, did not enforce
the Sunday closing laws while holding
office of mayor, which Office he re-
signed year ago to accept the office
of senator. Assistant Attorney Gen.
eral George w. Peterson appeared for
the state and Theo Breunner for Rob-
inson. Breunner stated that he would
be satisfied with judgment of custer
if the state insisted on the fine, and
Peterson asked minimum fine. No
testimony was taken. The outcome is
regarded as a great victory for Rev.
w. c. Stark, who now is connected
with the Anti-saloon league. The
judgment of custer will have no effect
as Robinson resigned a year ago.
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THE reason for so many divorces is
i that women do not spend enough
time studying the characteristics oil
their intended husbands, according to
Mrs. Elizabeth Bacon Walling. 1t is
not caused by the fact that modern
machinery and inventions have taken
womans domestic work from her,
thus leaving her with lots Of time on
her hands to flirt and get into mis-.
chief. The athletic girl is all right !
have nothing against her.
A young woman living in Nine
teenth street married a man she had
only known three months. One day,
in looking from her front window, she
saw him sitting in back window of a
Twentieth street apartment, writing
letters and reading a newspaper COM
placently.
She asked him what he was doing
there. He replied he was visiting his
friend Johnson. Subsequently it de-
veloped that he had wife and family
there. Isn't this appalling?
The young woman came to me
heartbroken. What could I do? When
people understand that marriage is a
sacrament as the church knows it to
be there. will be fewer divorces, and
to large extent there will be no
marital unrest.
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rush immediately and without second

rush Immediately and without second
thought to the divorce courts?
The reason, Il just got tired Of Al
fred" or Margaret became such a
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 uniform divorce law that all the
different states will ratify? Should
the magistrate, the priest and the
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-12-13

M ARITAL unrest is neither an of.
lvA 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
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-12-13
Moose Lake Court.

Moose Lake-David Eckman plead.
ed guilty yesterday before Justice Ire.
land to the charge of stealing sos
from the home Of ]. E. Carlson, who
lives four miles west of Moose Lake.
Mr.. Carlson had deposited his money
in a bureau drawer, thinking it safer
there than in the bank, and was with
his family attending the funeral of
Mrs. Soderberg when the theft was
committed.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-12-13

| 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 principles 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.
It's 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.
Zone trouble with modern marriage
is that the masculine element pre-
dominates in the ceremonial. This
should not be so. The great trouble
is that people who marry nowadays
look in marriage only for happiness
Happiness is not the end of marriage,
as most people think, but only an in
cident of married life. They are
bound to find many trials. They should
respect the etchical ideals; their great
responsibility is to future generations,
the good of the race!
Under the multiplication of di-
vorces in this country the issue is
whether the sensuous nature of the
marriage contract is to prevail or
whether the spiritual is to FREEDOM
mate. 1 believe in separation, but
never in divorce"
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into? Rev. DR.. Houghton, pastor Of
"The Little Church Around the Cor
ner," now has the bans called, which
means that three weeks public notice
is given of all intended marriages in
the church.
Do husbands and wives expect to
find in marriage only continuation
of the romantic bliss of courtship?
And when they find each day there is
less ecstasy and more imperfections
discoverable in each other do they
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Victory for lanrum.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Taw-
ney and his colleagues of the Mime
sofa delegation won an easy and
complete victory in the Republican
caucus of the house of representa-
tives in securing the nomination of
Samuel A. Langum of Preston to be
postmaster of the house by unani-
nous vote, which will result in his
election on Monday. Mr.. Langum's
name went in with those of the officers
of the house in the last congress and
all were nominated without opposi-
ton.
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From Various Views.

From Various Views.
The different churches have diff
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 it
were some rubber ball, and yet
100000 divorces in 20 years are sure
to leave their influence on many lives
and many families.
Back in 174s Nine. de Chateauroux
said: II see plainly that there will be
a general overthrow if no remedy is
used"
What she said about the political
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WHY?

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 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?.
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Other Reasons Given.

Or is it that young couples look at
marriage too childishly and do not see
the economic, sociological and political
sides of the family? Do they not
realize its integral relation to the
state?
Do they consider it as a personal
thing, and does their dull sense Of the
sociological aspect of marriage dull
them to the sociological aspect of d.
vorce?
Or are marriages too lightly entered
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is still at work preparing the complete
and official report.
This is an increase of 100000 in
the last 20 years over the 20 proceed
ing years, and the appalling part of
1t is that two-thirds, or nearly 100000,
of these divorces have been granted,
says the New York Sunday Herald.
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WV "a
1t is said to be a rarity for more
than one great athlete to be in the
same immediate family, but 1t ap-
pears that the Rose family of Cal.
ifornia, of which Ralph Rose, the
great shot putter, is member, is an
exception to the rule. The holder Of
every shot-putting record on the ANA
tetur Athletic unions books has
younger brother who is the finest
scholastic athlete in the far west
The younger Rose, who is way under
his majority, stands six feet three
inches in his bare feet, and tips the
beam at 21O pounds in his athletic
suit. Already the youngster has
shown glimpse of championship pos
sibility. He has romped through 100
yards in "ten one" Gan interscholastic
record for his state), and has flung
the 16-pound shot out As feet These
are, indeed, remarkable performances
for a lad of Roses age. More than
likely young Rose will not be heard
from in open games for a long time.
First of all, his father, Judge Rose, is
greatly opposed to the notoriety that
athletic sports bring to his sons. The
many fabulous stories printed about
Ralph in the last few years have been
source of much discomfort to Judge
Rose and had more to do with keeping
the record holder away from athlet-
les during 1906 than anything else. 1t
was nothing but this undue publicity
that made Rose stay away from the
game, and furthermore it took all the
influence of Trainer Walter Christy,
backed by the Olympic club, to get
the big boy back in the game again.
After prolonged coaxing, Rose con-
scented to do bit of training, and
came east for the exposition. He
trained just II days, and smashed
every shot-putting record on the
books.
In direct contrast to the conditions
that prevailed at Athens last year,
where the men waded through the
loose cinders almost up to their
ankles, the track at the English sta
dunn, where the Olympic games will
be held next year, will be as nearly
perfect as it can be made. 1t is al
ready completed, and, during the nine
months that will elapse before the
games are opened, will have chance
to pack and become settled. The tank
in which the aquatic sports will be
contested has also been completed.
The area seats will all be erected by
Christmas.
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Railroad Earnings.

Minneapolis.-The gross earnings of
the railroads during the fiscal year
ending on June 80, 1907, on business
credited to Minnesota show an in
crease of more than 81 1000, 900 over
the same figures for the preceding
fiscal year, according to the railroad
reports to the railroad and warehouse
commission. The gross earnings for
last year were $Ss, $3.50, 374.56, as COM
pared with $S1, 1884, 237.05 for 1905 a
gain of $7,Os2, 1877. 81 in spite of the
fact that the reduced merchandise
rates were in effect for the greater
part of last year and the 2-cent pass
enger fare rate was in effect for two
months of that period.
The gross earnings Of the railroads
operating in Minnesota on the bust
ness of the entire lines also shows a
large increase over the preceding
year. The gross earnings for the
year just ended were $3.50, 423, 972. O6,
while for 1906 they were $433, $685.
6S3.33, a gain of $47, O6s, 2Ss.73.
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preacher, when marrying couples, i'm
press upon them the sociological as
pect of their union, as we'll as the
spiritual and romantic?
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THIN the last 20 years
there have been 100000
divorces in the United
States. These figures are
supplied by the census bu-
reau at Washington, which
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Cats Run Wild.

Two Harbors.-Tales of strange
animals roaming through the woods,
as related by returning hunters and
woodsmen, have excited the natives
from time to time, but the mystery
has been solved at last. These ami
mails are nothing but common house
cats that have become wild by wan
dering in the tall and uncut timber.
A land locker who frequents the
wooded districts in the gooseberry
tract in the town of Silver Creek
estimates that fully 1000 cats are
roaming about in that neighborhood.
They seem to thrive after being turn
ed loose, and are said to be increasing
in numbers rapidly. Almost every
logging camp has one or more cats
and when the camps are deserted the
feline members are generally left be-
hind to live as best they can.
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When the census bureau began its
investigation it had to leave out near.
iy 100000 cases which were pending,
and of the 1900 investigators, clerks,
ETC., employed in the bureau in the
preparation of this report 40 are still
at work getting it in its 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?"