The times and democrat. (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, August 01, 1907, Page 5, Image 5
DIVORCE FREAKS
Some Queer Cases Revealed by
the Census Bureast.
CHICAGO IS CENTRE.
Strarge Freaks of Domestic Infelicity
Brought to Light by the Divorce
Courts. The Windy City Holds
the Record of 132 to Every 100,
000 Inhabitants Increasing in Ru
ral Districts.
period for Chicago will show 43,658
applications as against 31,785 de
crees.
COMPARISON WITH OTHER CITIES.
To appreciate the proportion of
Chicago divorces from other cities
may be compared. Boston promises
63>divorces in the 100,000 of popula
tion; Philadelphia 63, and New York
50 divorces. In these figures, how
ever, one may not read the story of
the comparative marital unhappiness
in these cities. The New York law,
for one, is such as to show smaller
proportion of divorces to the amount
of domestic infelicity. It is only
where virtue is conceded simply be
cause a man and his wife live togeth
er the cat and dog life that others
refuse to tolerate, that these com
parative figures have a show at sug
gesting community .morality.
Although divorces are on the in
crease in the cities, they show a I
greater ratio of increase in the coun
try districts, almost without excep
tion. Why this situation without
exists has been accounted for by the
possibility that the life in country
districts?in closer relation with the
life of the cities.-has caused the
farmers' wives to rebel more strong
ly and effectively against the hard-.
The divorce courts of Chicago and
other cities of the United States re
veal strange motives of the martial
infelicity. It has remained for the
United States census bureau to col
lect- the particulars of these frank
divorces and compile them into a
government report. For two years ships and monotony of the farm.
120 agents of the census bureau have In spite of the increase of the num
searched the court records of the ber of divorces, Judge Robert Tay
country for odd and unusual featur- lor, of the federl court of Ohio, re
es to divorce suits. The results of ,cently called attention to the fact
these two years' labor are soon to be that never before in the history of
presented in official form. With them j the country had it been easier for a
will be presented the usual statistics1 man to have a plurality of wives with
revealing the growth 6f the divorce less risk to his liberty. Under the
evil in the United States. . judge's observations this might be a
Chicago, as therepnted "divorce I condition tending to lessen the ap
j center" of the nation, will continue plication for divorce, only that in the
divorce records now being canvassed
it is shown that of the applicants for
legalized separation the proportion is
two women to one man. The hus
Ito hold her unenviable record, with
}132 divorces granted for every 100,
of population for the last twenty
As an indication of how many ap
plications for divorce have been filed
said not granted, the second ten-year
bandr by all odds is more content!
with marital union.
In the opinion of Judge Taylor the I
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and has been made under his per*
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$1.50 and $2.00 Top
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All fancy 25c belts at 19c.
12c Pillow case at 8c.
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best "routing" lot a divorce tour at
the present time should begin in
South Carolina, where divorces are
not recognized at all.
The new husband should remain
with his bride in that state long
enough to acquire citizenship. Go
ing to some get-a-divorce-easy state,
the husband would file suit for a di
vorce on the ground of desertion.
These papers would be sent to the
sheriff of some other county in
South Carolina than that in which
the bride resided. Naturally, they
would be served upon his wife, and
returned unserved, the letter of the
state law would be carried out, and
the divorce granted without the
wife's knowing anything about it.
LEGALLY DEAD AFTER FIVE YEARS.
Chicago is another likely place if
the divorced man seeks another ven
ture. When he tires of this second
venture, the judge advises his going
to Arkansas, which has a system of
automatic divorce accomplished by
desertion, In this state the absence
of wife or, husband for five years
makes the absentee member of the
family legally dead. In Arkansas
the man married in Chicago and
leaving his bride there may sue for
divorce on the ground of desertion,
filing the summons to the defendant
in some obscure corner of an obscure
weekly paper.
Thereafter this man on the mar
riage route may go from state to
state, acquiring matrimonial bonds
here and divesting himself of them
there, finally after five years return
ing to Arkanses. There, if the first
wife be living, and without the pro
cess of divorce court he is privileged
j to. marry two sexes. Is man so much
more the part of this first helpmeet.
Why. the wife should be doubly dis
posed over her husband to seek di
vorce is a question open to settle
I ment from the two points of view of
the two sexes. Is man so much more
the intolerable brute that where all
! is serene to him the finer sensibilities
of the wife suffer the agonies of the
lost? Or is the woman so "uncer
tain, coy and hard to please" that
the poor creature of coarser fiber
but greater loyalty to his vows must
be dragged by the heels into the dis
grace of the courts?
Perhaps some of the stories of do
mestic infelicity upon which divorce
decrees have been granted, and
which enter into the returns of this
forth-coming divorce bulletin, may
shed material light upon the question
of a whole.
Merely because a man has literal
cold feet when crawling into bed
scarcely seems provocation to inspire
divorce proceedings on the part of a
wife. But the literal icy foot, scarce
ly less than tne "fugitive ice mitt,"
has served to break up many fami
lies.
It is different in the case of the
man who shows that on the morning
after their marriage his wife came
into the room where he was still
sleeping, blacking both his eyes with
the heels of her shoes.
FLIRTATION ON WEDDING TRIP.
Another plan of a wife that for
months at a time her husband would
not speak to her, scarcely stacks up
with the case of the poor husband, '
who, on the bridal trip from New 1
York watched his bride fall in love
with a German fellow passenger. j
"She sat on the mat seat with the ,
German, entwined in his arms and i
kissing him," says the divorce peti- i
tion, "The plaintiff remonstrated, j
but to no effect, the conduct of the
wife causing the husband untold men
tal suffering." x.
In another case a brutal husband
came home one night, and, with a
big knife in his hand, forced the wife
to sit up in bed until dawn, threat- :
ening to cut her heart out if she !
moved from the position. But on the
other hand, an angered wife threw a
pot of scalding tea in hubby's face .
blinding him in one eye for life. \
One husband, who chronically fail
ed to work on the six days recom
mended by the Ten Commandments,
would put on his old clothes eariy
Sunday mornings, and work like a !
beaver till the cows came home. But
that other case of the wife who re
fused to cook for her husband, not
only for six days, but on Sunday, too,
seems to have been a greater provoc
tion.
NOT ALLOWED TO RUN TO FIRE.
There is the story of th^ husband
who refused to let the chiMren go to
church, at the same time the case is
on record where the wife absolutely
refused to let he** husband get up at
night and run to a lovely fire down
the street. If he went she insisted
on staying awake the rest of the
night quarreling about the little out
ing and rendering him unfit for work
the next day. This wife, too, never
had sown a button on for him, and
he brought a witness to prove that
often the witness had seen the plain
tiff going around with only one but
ton on his waistcoat.
It looked bad for a husband to
pinch his wife's nose until it becomes
so chronically red that neither face
bleach nor powder will serve to hide
her mortification. But in one con
trasting case a wife pulled her hub
by out of bed by his whiskers, while
in another case the poor husband pro
duced as "exhibit B" in proof of his
allegations a large tuft of hair which
the wife had abstracted from his
cranial roof.
There is the story of the husband
who one night threw a boot at his
better half, missing her by half a
hard. But surely of greater signifi
cance are those other cases in which
the 190-pound wife struck the poor
man with a stove lid, breaking a rib
and later knocking him down with a
chair: where "in the last year the
plaintiff with pokers, flatirons, and
other hard substances," even that
case in which the wife struck her
otherwise life partner with a wire
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SCARED TO DEATH.
Lightning Flash Revealed Big Ele
phant Before Her.
Mrs. Fanny Mercier died early
Thursday morning from an attack o:
heart disease brought on by sudden
fright when the huge head of an ele
phant loomed up during a flash of
lightning under a covered bridge at
Bethel, Maine.
A circus was in town, and just he
fore the show ended a thunderstorm
ripped some of the canvas and knock
ed a few of the tent poles down. A
great many of the spectators sought
refuge from the downpour under the
covered bridge, and among them was
Mrs. Mercier, who was in an auto
mobile with some friends.
The circus men started the ele
phants and camels for the train as
soon as the spectators left the ground
and the line of animals filed into the
bridge unseen by many of the people
who sought refuge there. The big
elephant of the lot found the automo
bile in front of him and putting his
head against it, pushed it to one side
to make a passage for himself.
The occupants of the machine did
not know what was happening until a
glare of lightning dispelled the gloom
and when Mrs. Mercier saw the head
of the elephant she gave a scream
and fainted. Two physicians attend
ed her during the night, but she did
not recover consciousness
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POWDER EXPLODED
Causing the Death of Three Men by
Burning.
Three men were burned to death
Friday by an explosion in a powder
house at Two Lick coal mine near
Clarksburg, W. Va.
The dead:
Deshla Barnets, age 23, single, of
Bethlehem, Pa.
Nicolina Plenorites, 21, single, of
Benwood. W. Va.
Frank Goff, 21, single, Clarksburg.
The powder- ignited from a pipe
ane of the men were s/noking. The
building was demolished.
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A JAPANESE SPY.
Irrested Taking Photographs of Bat
teries in Action.
A Japanese was taken into custody
Friday at the Texas state military en
:ampment at Austin. It is charged
le was taking photographs of bat
eries in action and other features of
he camp. He is being held pending
in investigation on the part of the
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A FIENDISH CRIMINAL.
Five Little Girls Are Victims of Ber
lin Madman.
At Berlin, Germany, a fiendish and
ittrocious criminal has made his ap
pearance on the streets and five lit
tle girls are his victims. The man ap
proached the children on the streets
and by a deft stroke ripped open their
stomachs with a knife. One of the
children is dead. Each crime was
committed in a different locality in
the city. The criminal has, up to the
present time, escaped capture. He
is presumed to be a madman.
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TRIED TO WRECK TRAIN.
Two Yonng Negro Boys Charged
With Serious Crime.
Two little negro boys, aged ten
and eleven, were placed in the county
jail at Fayetteville, N. C, Thursday
charged with attempting to wreck a
passenger train. Sunday afternoon
on the Atlantic; Coast Line, fourteen
miles south of that city. Crosties
placed on the track were discovered
by the engineer in time to prevent a
wreck.
Sewerage system nearly complete.
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Wood is scarce and coal is high.
Why not let the Orangeburg Material
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SERIES OF QUEER FIRES.
Seven Occurred in Two Hours in a
Home of Union.
According to the Union Progress
remarkable series of seven unusual
mysterious, even uncanny fires oc
curred Wednesday night in the short
space of an hour and a half at the
home of Mr. John Wix of Buffalo.
It seems that about 7:30 it was
discovered that there was a fire in
one of the up-stairs rooms. The fire
was in a bed and by the time all the
mattresses and bed clothing were
gotten to and thrown out, they were
practically consumed.
After everything had apparently
been extinguished much to the sur
prise of everyone, in about fifteen
minutes the odor of something burn
ing was again noticed. Investigation
showed that a bed in the same room,
but entirely apart from the one burn
ed, was ablaze. This was thrown
out and a through search of every
thing was- then made. No traces of
matches or burning material seemed
left.
Hardly had everything settled
down easy when again attention was
attracted by smoke, and it was found
that the inside of a dresser in the
same room was ablaze, and almost
consumed.
Following this mysterious fire in
a few minutes attention was drawn
to another room, in a closet which
had been shut up for some time, and
which was apparently closed, and in
this the bedclothing and clothes were
found to be burning.
While this was being put out the
bed down stairs was found to be
ablaze. Following this in a few min
utes: the fire was discovered in one
closet and .after it was distinguished
apparently altogether, another place
was discovered in the closet to be
on fire.
This morning at 11:30 when Mr.
Wix was telephoned to to confirm the
locations, time and occurrence of this
fire, it was found that he was having
still another and his eighth fire in a
down, stairs room, and that he was
at that, moment at home attempting
to put it out.
For a while it was not known
whether the fire was caused by in
stantaneous combustion on account
of the continued intense heat, but at
noon Thursday Mr. Wix saye that he
has just discovered a few stumps of
matches, so it seems that these eight
fires were caused by little rodents
who seemed determined to burn his
home and all its contents. As it Is,
his loss amounts to over $100, par
tially covered by insurance.
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20 Pieces of white and black figured
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"Winthrop College" Waists at 10c,
This is a great value. ,
We offer some very close prices on
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College Girls very close figures.
We have a very complete line of
Chambrays in solid colors and
Stirpes and checks. These are
worth 12 *2 today, but 1 am oll'er
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in stock.
New line of lingene skirting, 10, 12*2
and 15 cents. Nothing more pop
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Cannon Cloth at 10 and 12cents.
Persian Lawns. 12 }2, 15 20, 25 and
35 cents. These prices are right
auid will give you as good values as
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New Line of Brown Linens.
New Block Dress Goods, sonic very
special values, 50 to 81.00.
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Rev. J. G. Dukes, Pastor of the Uni
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"My little boy ten years old, was pale
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Wy e try always to buy the most substantial things in
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where.
G
ive ns a trial?and be convinced.
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