The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1908-12-18

vorces increased twenty-nine per
cent. Next to desertion the most
common cause given for divorce is,
for the men, adultery, and for the
women, cruelty. Out of every six
teen wives seeking divorce three
asked for alimony and two got it.
The average duration of marriage
terminated by divorce was ten
years and children we're involved in
forty per cent of the total number of
cases.
Another expedition in search OF
treasure lost in the Spanish main in
the days of the galleon and the free
booter has come to grief. This time
it was party Of five old Harvard
men who blithely set forth in the
former cup defender Maynower, with
divers and all the paraphernaIla nee
essary to penetrate the hold of a
sunken treasure ship and recover
enough doubloons and bullion to
place the gold reserve on an ,mpreg-
nable basis. About the time the
treasure seekers set sail it was re-
ported that a swarthy crew of Jolly
Rogers who wore the blue of old
Yale had chartered a low, rakish
craft to trail the Mayhower. With
cutlasses and pixies, and not forget
ting the barrel of rum, these bold
pirates planned to let the sons or
Harvard perform the hard and dam
gerous work Of recovering the fab
ulous treasure; then shot across
the bows, boaders over the side with
cutlasses in teeth, five wearers OF
the crimson walking the plank,
scuttled Mayf1ower, and then scoot
to the Businesses Of some West IN
dian coral bay to divide the booty
But there will be no chance for the
amateur Captain Kidds and Mar
gans to carry out their part of the
joke; it has been far from a joke
with the original treasure seekers.
A hurricane came up, and the May
flower is now dismantled derellct
somewhere in the gulf stream, while
the party Of five, together with the
seven members of the crew who were
rescued from the battered hulk, to
which they had chung for forty-eight
hours, have been landed at the port
OF Baltimore by an unromantic Nor
wSgian tramp steamer. Treasure
trove has seemingly irresistible
fascination for the adventurous. 1t
also excites the cupidity of those
who are not adventurous, and a pro-
moter, 1t was announced few days
ago, proposes to capitalize that fact
by floating million dollars of stock
in corporation to recover about
$50,O00,0OO worth Of gold from a
vessel that foundered some hundred
years ago at a spot that has been
exactly" located. Every school boy
knows that the ghost of the lamented
Captain Kidd stalks to protect his
| illgotten, hidden wealth, for which
vain search has been made. Now,
It's just as certain that the spooks
Of other free-booters and mariners
who sailed the Spanish main are on
guard. They resent the penetration
of their sentimental past in this day
of steam and gasoline, except by the
delivers of the pen, who find fction's
most thrilling field in that romantic
era; and they make the hurricanes
blow as warning to those who
would disturb the mysteries of Davy
Jones locker. If you are not SUPER
stitious enough to believe it Just
ponder the net results of lost treas
Nre seeking in real life.
The enrolment of the three-year-
old baby, Pu Ye, as Emperor Hsuan
Tung, of China, took place in the
palace Of Pekin Wednesday. Hun
dreds of high officials took part in
the ceremony, first kow towing to
the tablets in memory of the late
rulers and then to the imperial in
FAINT. After this the mourning dress
of the child was changed to one of
a lighter hue embroidered with the
imperial dragon. Thus arrayed, the
toddling infant assembled the throne
amid the playing of drums and the
firing of crackers, he did this with
out any helping hand, and from the
throne bowed to his stepmother, the
dowager empress, Ye Honaia. Then
all the princes bowed to the tiny
emperor, after which he descended
and was again clad in his dress Of
mourning. Then was issued the
edict declaring the accession and
granting amnesty to political prison.
ers.
1t surprises the public to learn
that the cost of the postal frank
ing privilege last year was $4,000
900, or more than twice the amount
OF the postal deficit. This leak de-
mands the prompt attention of con-
i gress.
Liliuokalani. the former queen of
the Hawaiian Islands has arrived at
Washington with retinue. to ask
Congress for a grant Of 5000, 900
that she may live as a royal person
age should, her present income be-
ing only $4,000. With her came
princn Ka1anianao1o tho uiwoHon