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Show THE HI3L0 MVOHCC CVhE. Tins notorious divorce suit recently recent-ly occupied a good deal of attention diroughout the civilized world. A otemporary thus briefly aud cor-ectli cor-ectli sums up its merib-. "Lady Dunlo was fnnncrH Belle liilton, a In,lon music-hall singer of rregular fife. Lord Buulo is the son if tho liirl of Clancariy and is also a person of irregular life. When tho young aprig of a wornoul aristocracy named tno music-hall tiuger, with mil knowlege of her profession and ier way of life, tbu alliance was a ,ierfoclly equal one, with the balance f merit rather upon the woman's ide, inasmuch as she had ai least torked for her living, whilo ho bad aever earned an hunet dollar or eaten iu honeal dinner. tlut the Larl of Clancarty deemed us son's niarnajra a xefilUaneet and, u the anoesirai robber spirit of his -lass, he set aDout n&cnncing tho oman who seems to have been olameless as a wife to tho arrogance f his caste pride. With malignant j ingenuity he made hi son abandon ms wife and leaio her helpless aud ' rithout means of livelihood in London, Lon-don, and set a watch upon her to see ' into whit appearance of owl herdls- I iress, of his de visins. might lead her, nopiug thus to secure the annulment of the marriage. Tho son had not manhood enough left in him to resist or to defend his wife from the plot to detrov her. -At the trial of the diorceuit no blame of any kind waa ijstoced upon tlie woman. If there had been, every robust mind would still hasc said that the malignant Larl and his characterless character-less sou were not entitled to profit by a wrong of their on u procurement. In fact no wrong was proved. Lidy Dunlo is still Lady Danlo. and her husband can lie held for her support. "It is wall, Tue noble house ef Clancarty will not be digraced by the union of its heir with Bello Hilton the music-hall singer. Its character sank far below that txuiibil-ity txuiibil-ity w hen an Earl capable of sach a conspiracy against a woman ltecanie Its head." |