The Slaithwaite Guardian and Colne Valley News. — 1903-04-09 (Slaithwaite, West Yorkshire, England)

HAIGH AND BAXTER.  In the Divorce Court before Mr. Ju3lice uno, on Monday, Mr. Frederick Haigh, stommason, of Goleta, sought the dissolution of his marriage with Silvia _Olive _Haigh  by reason of her adultery with Henry Baxter, engine fireman. The parties were married at Milnsbridge on November 3rd. P 494, and afterwards lived at tiolcar. The wife, it appears, took to drink, and got her husband into financial difficulties. He thereupon remonstrated with her, with the result that one evening she disappeared, and had never returned to her husband. They had two children, and b3th were living. Since leaving him she had given birth to two children, of which he was not the father, and it was alleged that respondent had committed adultery with several unknown men, and with co-respandent. Petitioner's inother-in-law, Hr. L.Booth, had sem Mrs. Haigh enter a train going to Hudderrfield, and there was no one in the carriage but her :tad Baster. From the neat carriage the brother-inlaw saw the parties named misconduct themselves. His Lordship granted a decree nisi with costs against the co-respondent. Mr. Newsome (barrister at law), inttructed by Messrs. Owen and Bailey, Huddersfield, appeared for petitioner. The 'nib was undefended.  Standard works should be read early, in the 'teens, especially the seventeens and eighteens. How soon the possibility of standard reading slips away from us! Either we get more modern LIS we get older and lose the taste for robust work or business or pleasure or religion absorbs us wholly; but certain it is that as time goes on. time leaves us no leisure or inclination for the monumental literature of the past. "Make 11..ste to be done with your reading," my father would uty, "era you are caught up by the fever of study."  It grieves me much to watch the perfect plan Of life, and feel thro' all the lovely days And nights that sound eternal hymns of praise How like Nature woos the heart of man. Dead are the days that knew the Great God Pan. When Twenty spoke is rippling water-ways, In wind and wood of flower and light that sleep, The dark, ere yet the cold, dead days began! much I grieve to see Time's ruthless touch Sl!atter the sweet ideals of our youth, While Nature still all lovely cloth endure; But in these present ages overmuch I grieve to see indifference for Truth, And lama and lack of reverence for the Pure, —John B. O'Hara.  WE. t 'now, know thoroughly. Th ero are few instances, in modern times, of a use equal to that of Sir Edward Sugden. After one of the Weymouth elections, I was shut up with him in a carriage for twenty-four hours. I ventured to ask him what was the secret of his success. His answer was, "I resolved when beginning to read law, to make everything I acquired perfectly my own, and never to go to a second thing till I had entirely accomplished the first. Many of my competitors read as much in a day as I read in a week; but at the end of twelve months my knowledge was as fresh as on the day it was acquired, while theirs had glided away from their recollection.—Sir T. F. Buxton.  Consider for a mcment, f you will, the fog thinking meaning of that phrase, "Sin shall not have chnuirion over you." Surely ti;ctt means something more than that a man will IA commit a sin; it means that he will not want to commit it. It means that he will no longer be tempted to commit it. It means that the lust is lost, the love of sin is changed to loathing. It means that the old pet fault or folly has lost its charm. 1- means that the soul i 3 from thedominion of evil. Can the law do that for any man? It may frighten him away from the deed he lengs to do; it may hold him back while, as Jesus said, he is a murderer, or an adulterer, in hi 3 heart. But, if so, in the sight God he has sinned the sir, though in the sight of man he is guiltless. Law cannot charre the devices of the soul, and turn its affections and inclinations from evil to good. Thi., I world of grace.—Rev. C. Silveater Horne.  iie