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The evening world., 1908-11-28
DIVORCE EVIL
IS APPALLING,
CARDINAL SAYS
Revelations of Census Bureau
"Simply" Shocking Is Opin-
ion of Gibbons.

BALTIMORE. Nov. cs-The remark.
able figures of the Census Bureau on
divorce--practically one divorce in every
twelve marriages-were forcefully dis.
said:
The statistics given ont by the Cen
sus Bureau are simply shocking. The
revelations are nothing less than appal-
ling. The extent of the divorce evil is
so great as ia strike at the very root OF
our social system. | myself am writing
and speaking constantly on this sub.
.ect. and | am In sympathy with any
effort to check the growth Of divorce in
this country.
The Government figures show that
divorces are multiplying about three
times as fast as the population They
disclose that one marriage in twelve
ends In divorce. The figures are the
more striking when considered by the
side of the figures OF Canada. for in
stance. where the number OF divorces is
relatiNe ely small
Divorce is becoming so prevalent that
marriage Is getting to be little better
than a system Of free love
People are too much bent on pleas
ure Men and women enter the mar
riage state without regard to the sacred
nature of the bond they are undertake
ing. They look too much upon life with
regard only 10 what pleasure they can
get out OF II and with too little regard
for that solemn word duty
1t is the result of false, loose inter
pretauon OF the gospel, Every one OF
the Sosepls Is opposed 10 divorce II
divorce is 10 be checked, there must be
a stricter regard for the truths of the
Christian religion as they are taught
BY the Catholic Church. If We profess
10 be Christians. let us he Christians.
Another reason why divorce is on the
increase is found In the attitude of soci-
ETY. toward persons who are divorced,
In former times. woman who was
divorced was Stunned. She was no,
received or recognized in good society
and was frowned upon Now this is not
the case, II divorce is to be checked
let the divorced person be stunned
The evening world., 1908-11-28
CLEVER WIFE

1t is quite significant the number OF
persons who get well of alarming
heart trouble when they let up N
coffee and use Postum as the bever
age at meals,
There Is nothing surprising about
1t, however, because the harmful al
kaloid in coffee-caffeine- not
present in Postum, which is made OF
clean, hard wheat.
Two years ago I was having so
much trouble with my heart" writes
a lady in Washington, that at times
| felt quite alarmed My husband
took me to a specialist to have my
heart examined.
The doctor said he could find no
organic trouble, but said my heart
was irritable from some food i had
been accustomed 10 eat, and asked
me TO try and remember what dsa-
greed with me.
Il remembered that coffee always
soured on my stomach and caused
me trouble from palpitation OF the
heart So ! stopped coffee and be,
gan to use Postum. ! have had nc
further trouble since.
"A neighbor of ours, an old man
was so irritable from drinking cof
fee that his wife wanted him Ia
drink Postum. This made him very
angry, but his wue secured some
Postum ard made II carefully ac
cording 10 directions,
"He drank the Postum and did not
know the difference, and is still using
~ IN his lasting benefit He tells his
The evening world., 1908-11-28
W0MAN'S ARREST
ENDS HER CHASE
OF WEALTHY MAN
Addison Weeks Says Mrs.
frost Has Annoyed Him for
Twenty Years.

The arrest of Mrs. Evelyn frost. OF
Louis by Addison Weeks, wealthy
paper manufacturer. also of New York
charging her with petit larceny, brings
to light the story OF the woman S
strange, relentless pursuit of the man
now seventy years old-a pursuit that
has lasted twenty years and taken in
half continent.
Weeks now lives in De Soto. Mo. and
he says he met Mrs. frost in 1856 in this
city. She first gained notoriety in 1890,
when she was living in Brooklyn, by Sc
curing indictments for blackmail against
Charles j. Hinman and Cornelius
Sleight. both widely known and
wealthy. The woman says she is forty
five years old. but her appearance in
dicates that she Is a great deal older.
The Case Was Dropped.
AT that time the woman said her hus-
band, Herman II. frost, an exporter OF
Peruvian guano. died In 1884, leaving
her $4,000. In boarding house in
Brooklyn she met Sleight. who made
love to her, borrowed money from her
and to whom she gave her picture.
Later she met Hinman, who told her
that Sleight, claiming she had Tilted
him and swearing TO be revenged, had
placed the photograph on the wall OF
room In disorderly house. Hinman.
she said told her that Sleight would re-
turn the picture for 500. and at a meet
Ing with the two men she handed over
the money. After the Indictment the
money was returned to Mrs. frost and
the case was dropped
Weeks says he was manager of
big business house in this city when
he met Mrs, frost in 1886. His wife and
daughter were in Europe at the time
and when he told Mrs. frost that their
relations must cease when his wife re-
turned the woman threatened colos-
sal scandal, To escape this, he says,
he sold his business in New York and
fled to Chicago. Previously. however.
while living at No. 665 ST. MARKS ave-
nue., Brooklyn he had been arrested
for abandonment. but the case was
amicably adjusted
For some years the Weekses lived in
Chicago. hut one day Mrs. frost ap-
peared and demanded money She made
life there so exciting for him that once
again he pulled up stakes. this time Sc
lecting st. Louis as a possible haven.
6rinss Suit Against Him.
But Mrs frost had not given up her
pursuit. and 10 escape her he moved to
the small town OF Desoto. There she
arrived in due time and registered at a
hotel as his wife, This created a scan
dal, which grew when she entered suit
against him for S2O,O0O-a suit. "e says,
which was compromised for SEQ, His
daughter died soon after this In Desoto.
In 81. Louis the woman sued him for
divorce, and II WAS this move that de-
cided him TO have her arrested for petit
larceny. He claims that she snatched
Sl3 from his hand In a department store
and refused to give II back to him,
After her arraisnment on this charge
and release in $500 bail she was re-
arrested charged with perjury in her
divorce suit. She says that not until
recently did she learn that Weeks had
another wife.
The evening world., 1908-11-28
Thousands of Letters, Repre-
senting Every School in the
Greater City, Received.
KEEN INTEREST ROUSED.
Competition Proves Writing Is
Well Taught in the Pub
lie Schools of City.

The most popular contest ever waged
D., through newspaper-The Evening
Worlds handwriting competition-closes
! to-day. All coupons OF to-day's date
will be accepted
Every mail for weeks has brought to
; this office great sacks of letters from
! boy and girl contestants. Each school
/. in the five boroughs is represented
; 1t would seem that practically all
i the million school children OF the
Greater City nave awaited themselves
of The Evening Worlds offer.
The ,ffer. in brief. was this:
The Evening World asks rs yonns red ga
: best handSrit,nr and send ii to The Eve
hs S0ys a P4e a4s ss; vs
$40; second <, q nTiFe $40 third pga7e. s. six
! thig y 1--WE nrISes Of s. eaSh '-''' "
h sAe es.' FL FRS. 500 second 20 pTs
sad Of PSF 81 @ and ,d " 81 81
, To the boys and girl. from 10 to l2 years
prizes OF 81 each ana thirty,:ive prizes OF 81
% M IN oqEs s.. and fs 'rST pse IL So 4? "a ,sani
/ each: s,I. prizes Of 81 each, and thirty 1--WE
I'd, he SoS: AND girls from m ,J6 i to 10 yeaEs.
$40 ,flss ss p s Sc six and Of g
Any boy or rrl no; nor ,nsn sixteen
for one Of the prizes.
Object of the Contest.
The contest was purely educational
/ 1t was devised TO encourage children in
! their writing lessons, to help the teach
! ers in charge OF this important branch
! OF study by offering new stimulus to
their pupils. and 10 interest parents
! and guardians in the progress of their
young folks penmansnip.
In all these respects 1t has been I'M
expectedly successful. The competi-
tion, however, has done more. 1t has
once and for all disproved the charge
that handwriting has deteriorated of
late years. The specimens are almost
unanimously creditable alike 10 pupils
pnd teachers. Elegance. character and
legibilty are strong components of the
majority OF the specimens of writing
sent in. Thoroughness. too Is appar-
ent. No children who had not been
carefully and we'll Instructed along that
line for years could have written so
well.
Not only the school children Of
Greater New York, but their teachers
as well, are to be compimented on this
excellence of penmanship. The contest,
II is believed, has added still further
impetus TO scholars interest in this
study.
Teachers Keen Interest.
That teachers as we'll as pupils have
taken keen concern in The Evening
World competition is proved by numer-
Gus incidents of which the following
may be cited as an example;
Yesterday one OF the preceptors Of
. the famous Cathedral School. No. Ill
East Fiftieth street. brought in person
90 this office for the contest. n folio
containing specimens OF handwriting
from almost every pupil in the entire
school.
The Evening World heartily congrat-
ulates the school children of Greater
New York, and still more their able
teachers, on the nearly universal clear
Eess, character and general excellence
OF penmanship.
Prizes will be. awarded as soon as the
experts chosen as judges can complete
their tremendous task OF going care
fully through the avalanche of letters.
The evening world., 1908-11-28
ENGLAND PLEASED AT
OUR JAPANESE TREATY.

LONDON, Nov. 2S-The reported
agreement betweer the United states
and Japan for the maintenance OF the
status quo In the Pacific and guar
antee!ns the integrity of China is given
a prominent place N the afternoon pa
pers of London and is clearly consld-
cred to he of great importance.
editorial comment, hut the Pail Mall
Gazette says It will be heartily well
coined as a contribution to the security
tangling alliance" but an agreement
That is all 10 the good from every
viewpoint" as well as a most desirable
complement TO the Anglo-Japanese all
lance,
II should assist also. this paper says,
In the friendly adjustment of other
questions between the United States
syA Japan.
The evening world., 1908-11-28
ELECTIONS AND MEETINGS.

NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVES TO THE
stockholders ~ the Douglas Phlnogrlpn
Company that the directors tf such cor.
porntion have duly adopted resolution
that II is in their opinion adv sable to I,s-
solve such corporation forthwith. \ meet
voting upon the proposition that such cur
poratlpn be forthwith dissolved. and rr
such other business AS shall PROBABLY come
before such mertiEg, Is hereby called tJ bu
held at the office 4 the couprHy, So. 50
Chambers ST., city OF New York ON the
O'Clock IN me afternoon. Dated New Y,rk.
Nov, T. 1905 JoHN r HELM secretary
The evening world., 1908-11-28
CUPID BREAKS UP CHOIR.

Because Of the number OF marriages
recently between singers In the choir of
the Forty sixth street Methodist Episco-
pal Church at Bayonne. n. j., the music
committee has found II necessary tn
issue n call for volunteers
The latest marriage was that of Miss
Mathryn King Nalleau, a soloist, to
Lester X. Van Weert, another singer
to-day, in the church. by Rev. William
J. Hampton.
The evening world., 1908-11-28
CHILD BITTEN BY CAT.

A stray cat In the hallway OF an apart
ment-house a. No, 800 West One Hun
dred and Fifty-fourth street attacked
fastening its teeth In her under lip H.I
father knocked the animal out with q
blow with his foot and then sent l. 10
the Board OF Health. The child will bs
sent TO - Pasteur, Institute II the cat Il
The evening world., 1908-11-28
EOR SALE.

our system nt home furnishing is a success
The following customer may call for thr.r
Mrs BURGESS. Ila Highland av Youk Is.
y Y. Ms F'"a1le a Maple St. youa 10.
y. y NJ mas Srunus f7H r. gel ST..
Mikefir'.. '. " Mr. H. sullivan. o south
JON az ~ Vernon Y z
THE CDNTl MENTAL.
Furrifura 0r. fluusrr1'I nls'rihuftrr %
In. & T ION Z. Nnm Ynr.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-09-25
Carving Costs o Million.

Records of childish romances
scrawled on walls, scratched on win
dow panes, and carved on desks and
woodwork in the New York public
schools will this year cost the city
$1,000,000 to efface.
Supt C. B. ] Snyder has just made
his report of what 1t will cost to put
the 500 schools buildings in shape
for the fall term, which opens Sep
tenn Der IA: Practically all that needs
be done, he says, is to repair the
walls, windows and desks. which
were defaced last year by the chill.
dren. =.
There are sos 200 boys and glrla
In the New York schools, and fgur.
ing there are as many girls as boys
this means about 347,600 romances.
Judging from the records found by
Mr.. Snyder Cupid is no respecter OF
persons. Legends announcing 81 love
Alice" mabel is my girl" or "Wil.
lie Jones is lovely boy" are just as
numerous in the schools of the aris.
tocratic sections as they are in the
Ghetto.
1t is expected that the total enroll.
ment for the coming season will be
10000, or $4,000 in excess of the
enrolment last session.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-09-25
For the
Younger
Children.

uIn AFRAID that her mother had to sew
it over again, but the wee little girl
did tho best she could. They were
talking about children's party that
they were going to in few days, for
they had children's parties In this old
Quaker town, with its brick and
succeed houses and white doorways.
ways.
At o'clock on the afternoon OF
the party day, ten little girls, ten dear
little Quaker girls In white frocks,
went to Lydia's house on Penn street.
Lydias mother and Lydia's aunt met
them at the white doorway. took of
the ten littlo bonnets. and all the lit.
tie girls went to the back porch to
see tho kittens. They drew strings
on the floor and tho kittens ran after
and tumbled ovor one another. and
every one laughed and the kittens
purred. Then Lydla's mother took
the ten little girls out into tho gar
den and showed them the flowers.
Lydla's aunt played games with the
ten little girls, and then the party
supper was ready. All the little girls
sat at the big dining table, and Ly-
dia's mother and Lydta'a aunt placed
something nice on every plate. How
pretty the table looked with tho china
and silver and the colored jellles and
the cakes! There were little cakes
and great big cake frosted. This
was kept for the last. 1t was on
big plate and cut so that each little
girl could pull slice out Lydia's
aunt took tho plate and said to Mary:
"Will thee have slice Of cake:"
How good 1t was! Mary loved
frosting, but her little heart was shy.
and to pull out the first slice while
every one lookedl
"No, thank thee" she replied.
"Will thee have q slice of cake?"
asked Lydia's aunt of the next little
girl.
mo, I thank thee" she answered.
"Will thee have slice?" Lydla's
aunt asked of the third little girl.
mo. thank thee"
Ten little girls wanted the cake.
Ten little girls replied, mo. thank
thee" because no one wanted to be.
gin. Ten little girls were shy ana SO
disappointed.
Lydia's mother knew.
"Ob," she exclaimed. gently. "thee
will have a slice, Mary, won't thee?"
She smiled as she slipped out the
first piece and laid 1t on Mary's plate.
'"The next little girl will have
slice, will she not?" Another smile,
and another piece of cake was laid
on plate.
"Sue will have a piece?"
Harriet will have piece?"
Every little girl had a slice OF the
cake Every one liked Lydia's moth.
er. She knew. The party went gay.
ly on. Every one had a slice Of the
big party cake. frosted. - Harriet
Mendelhall, in St. Nicholas.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-09-25
MAIWA'S REVENGE
ALLAN QUATERMAIN's GREATEST ADVENTURE.
By H. RIDER HAGGARD.
CHAPTER ".
Continued.

Author of "She," "King Solomon's Mines Etc.

"Oh, yes, young man." he answered.
'sft is all very well for you to talk like
that, but if you had found yourself in
the position which it was my privilege
to occupy few hours afterward, it is
my belief that you would have thrown
the tusks away altogether and taken to
your heels"
"Oh," said Good, $50 that isn't the
end of the yarn? A very good yarn,
Quatermain, by the way; I couldn't
have made up better one myself"
The old gentleman looked at Good
severely, for it irritated him to be
chaffed about his stories.
81 don't know what you mean, Good.
81 don't see that there is any COM
parison between true story Of adj
venture and the preposterous tales
which you invent about ibex hanging
BY their horns.
"No, it is not the end Of the story;
the most exciting part is yet to come.
"But have talked enough for to-
night; and If you go on in that way.
Good, it will be some time before be-
gin again"
"Sorry spoke, I'm sure,' said Good,
humbly. "Lets have split to show
that there is no ill-feeling." And they
did.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-09-25
Viking Craft.

The viking funeral ship which ha,
just been discovered in Norway is not
the first of its kind. The. most in.
teresting sight at Christiania, in the
grounds Of The museum, is similar
galley, more than 1000 years old
which was unearthed at Katwich
1t is in presence of this vessel
about the size of Yarmouth fishing
smack-that the tourist realizes the
kind of craft in which the vikings
crossed to England, and even to
America and the eastern shores of the
Mediterranean. Among the relics in
the Katwich galley were found some
peacock feathers, which proved that
The daring, nayigators had been to the
Last.-Londoi Chronicle.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-09-25
LOST AMONG SAVAGES.

In 1916 the bark Peruvian was
wrecked off the coast of Queensland.
The story of the one survivor, James
Murrell, as told in Marcus Clarke's S
Australia of the Past" is as strange
as the adventures of Robinson Cru
soe." For seventeen years Murrell
lived among the savages, and all but
forgot his own language. him name
and the memory of his native land.
At last one day vessel came to
the shore while Murrell was absent,
and the sailors gave shirts to the
natives. Murrell told the natives
that if ever another ship came and he
was not on the spot, they should find
him. Another ship did come, and
the savages. remembering the wishes
OF their companion, tried to attract
the crew. But the Englishmen, not
understanding their wild shouts,
fired at them and drove them away.
Murrell despaired of ever seeing
home again.
Not long after, a white man with
two horses came upon some natives
lamenting the death OF an old nan.
Possibly he mistook the ceremonies
for signs of hostility. At any rate,
he shot the old mans son, and for
this was murdered by the tribe, who
became so suspicious of whites that
Murrell had less chance than before
OF coming face to face with his ooun-
trymen.
He told the natives that the white
men fred at them because they did
not understand the language, and
said that next time he would go him
self and explain. They consented,
and Murrell went exploring with a
native, until he came to white
mans hut, many miles down the
coast.
Getting clear of the shrub, the ex-
lie saw the smoke of a chimney and
sheep feeding on the grass. The
sight of these strange animals fright
ened the native, and he ran back
alone.
Murrell went into a water hole,
where he washed himself as white as
he could, and then. standing on the
fence, where the dogs could not bit
him, he hailed the hut. There were
two men living there. One came out
and cried, Bill, there's yellow man
standing on the rails, naked. He's
not black. Bring the gun"
Murrell cried, Don't shoot! 1 am
British object" t"-for he had so far
forgotten his language that he con-
fused "object" and "subiect'-"a
shipwrecked sailor
The two men received him kindly
and heard his story. They asked
him if he knew what date it was. He
did not.
THE twenty-ffth of January
1863. You have been lost seventeen
years.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-09-25
THE RIVER ELF

THE RIVER ELF
He wears bit of river mist
About him as a wrap,
And from the dainty jewel-weec
He gets his peaked cap.
He sails abroad upon the web
The water-spider weaves;
And green above, and red below,
He paints the lily leaves.
He colors, with o yellow gay.
The turtles horny hide:
And on the darting dragon-fy
Delights to steal ride.
He polishes the fishes scales,
And always in the spring
Establishes his evening school
To teach young frogs to sing.
Wee bits of mud with moonoeams brigh
He fashions at his ease,
They fit away as hrehies
To dance among the trees.
And when dark night has hushed tn
leaves
And hid the king-bird's nest,
Upon a softly curling wave
He slips away to rest.
Mary C. Metcalf, in St. Nicholas.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-09-25
TENNYSON's IMPULSIVE FATHE-

TENNYSON'S IMPULSIVE FATHER
The poet Tennyson once related t,
Captain M. Gordon McCabe a peril
Gus adventure that befe1l his fathe
while a guest of Lord st. Helens, thu
! English ambassador to Russia.
| was during a state dinner, and some
guarded allusion was made to the
death of Czar Paul. The Century
Magazine tells the story as follows
My father, said the laureate, was
most impulsive man, and al
ways spoke out whatever was upper.
most in his mind. He leaned over
almost across the breast of some Rus
sian dignitary covered with decora.
tions, who sat next to him, and cried
out in his quick, impulsive way
why, st. Helens, what's the use OF
speaking so gingerly about matter
SO notorious? We know we'll enough
in England that the Emperor Paul
was murdered in the Mikhailovski
Palace, and we know exactly who did
it. Count Zoboff knocked him down,
and Benningsen and Count Pahlen
strangled him.
An appalling hush fell for a mo-
ment upon the table, and then Lord
ST.. Helens at once rushed into some
subject discreetly foreign to the mat
ter under discussion.
It's the custom in Russia to go af-
ter dinner into another room where
the samovar is, and have tea. AS the
company rose Lord St. Helens, stand
ing at the door as the guests filed
out, gave my father a meaning look
to drop behind the rest. AS my
father came up to him, he said, in a
hurried whisper:
Don't go into the next room, but
fly for your life. No flag can pro-
tect you in such country as this.
The man next to you, across whose
one of the most powerful mobiles in
Russia. Zoboff was at the table, too,
and you have publicly charged both
of them with being assassins If
you don't get away tonight, you'll
be inside the dungeons of st. Peter
and St. Paul within forty-eight hours.
Go to a Scotch merchant, whom l
know, just outside of Odessa (giving
him the name), and he will conceal
you until I can contriye to get you
out of the country, if it be possible.
Post to-night-the fastest horses you
can get. I'll keep the company as
late as I can. Don't even stop to
change your clothes"
My father rushed away to his ho-
tel, called up his courier, and made
him order a four-horse droshky,
while he literally pitched his clothes
into his portmanteau. He posted all
night and next day, still, in his even
ing clothes, although the weather
was bitterly cold; but he had a clev-
er courier, and found his Scotchman,
in whose house he lay concealed for
weeks.
st. Helens managed TO get a mes
sage to him to be on the alert. and
when he heard the horn of the
greens messenger" blcwn three
times. to be ready to go with the man
who gave the signal. At last, one
stormy night, he heard the welcome
sound, and disgu sed as a servant of
the messenger, Vho was going home
with dispatchef., and for whom an
English frigat, was waiting at Odes-
sa, got safely on board, and so back
to England,
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-09-25
Mystery.

Gee, I can't do this!" complained
Ted, busy over his homework Say,
mother, how many turnips in a
bushel?"
Il don't know, dear. Surely your
teacher didn't ask you that"
She did, sure; we've got to have
it tomorrow in our music exam"
The perplexed parent made in
quiries, and found tbs demand to be:
How many beats in measrre?"-
Century.