The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-07-20
NO HELP FOR THE lLL-MATED.
More Liberal Divorce Laws Arc
Frowned Upon by Austrian Public.

Slipping honey in his own flower
garden has made the average Aus.
trian so contented that he is not CIV
ing his unhappy brother in bondage
the slightest encouragement in his
agitation for a reform in the marriage
laws of the Empire.
A regular organization of men and
women who live separate from their
mates has long been one OF the unique
institutions OF Vienna. They meet
with regularity, adopt resolutions, ar
range professions and send petitions
to the Diet, but with no success. Aus
tria is the most uncompromising foe
to divorce of all the Catholic coun-
tries of Europe and the outlook for the
establishing Of the great American
institution Is next to hopeless for
those who have married and are
sorry.
In fact, the heir to the throne Is
even more opposed to loose marriages
than the Emperor himself. During
the last four years five men in the i'm
mediate service of Archduke Francis
Ferdinand (the heir to the throne)
have been dismissed by him solely
because they could not live in peace
with their wives and obtained sepa-
rations. The Archduke has an especi-
ally enthusiastic ally in his wife. the
Duchess of Hohenberg. She is mar
ried to him morganatically and nat
urally feels safer in her position as
the time approaches when the Arch
duke will ascend the throne.
1t cannot be denied that the move
ment for more liberal marriage and
divorce laws has a considerable fol-
lowing. The movers succeeded in
having many broken-heart stories
printed in the more liberal papers.
hoping thereby to arouse public SYM
pathy To-day man whose wife is
living in San Francisco with another
husband writes this story of hard
luck:
Il am skilled furniture maker.
When | married my wife had only her
house linen for dowry. We lived to-
gether twelve years, quarreling and
making up, as am told many people
do
"One day my wife and the best
workman in my shop disappeared. My
four children looked for their mother
all over the city and | tried to find
the man. Up to this time / had been
hopeful that she would come back
and ask to be taken in, but when I
opened the family safe found that
they had taken 1000 crowns which
we had saved to buy wood and tools
81 was not able to hire a house
keeper and no. respectable woman
would share my roof with me because
was a married man. In desperation
gave up my Independent position, sold
my house and went to work for big
firm. My children were put to board
with families-the girl went out to |
service and the boys became common
lay laborers, because had no longer
he chance to earn money enough to
give them trade education.
1.-TWO years after my wife left me
learned that she was in San Fran
,isco, and was married to the man
with whom she eloped A divorce had
,een obtained in Bakersfield, Cal,
Without my knowledge.
"The two are prospering, and are
Is happy as can be. | am wreck,
physically and financially, separated
rom the mother of my children, who
lad a right to expect different fate
rom that which has been theirs.
IF l could have obtained a real
eparation from my runaway wife /
ould have married again, and might
ave made up for the loss of the
money she took but the laws of Aus
ria say that am still married to the
'oman, while in America she is re-
pected wife of some one else"