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Show MiitiiiAin: ami niiuiun. riiunii Hai um, Michigan, haa a law ult now In progreaa which reveal eouitf curlou com; llcatlona In tho way of marriage aud divorce. Jennlu J, Church commenced tult agalLat lnr huilaud, K, 1". Church, to rratraln him In Uio illatrlhutlon of hi momy. The coii le were married early In 1870. Hl montha after marriage Mra. Church vlalted friend lu New York. While there, Mr. Church vlalled Illinois, rrocured a dlvorco from Jennlu Church, and married anethvr womau. After wma time he found lhat owing totnformalltfe hi divorce was void, no he obtained a second divorce, and remarried hi ivond wife. Hlx yuara aflr, thla tecond wife obtalued n divorce from Church. In 18.U he met hi flrat wife, Jennie, lu Detroit. He renewed marital relation with In r, and ro reaenled to lnr that hi dlvorcu from her wa frau JulouL They went lo live together a man and wife. Church I au army pensioner In re-cel re-cel t ot 7J 00 r mouth. 1 u religion ho la an Advenllal, and believe In Ihe tithing ayairm of church kiinrt- He !) one-leiith of his Income to his church, sn 1 thu bulk of tho rtmaloJcr he give tu hi relative. Ills wlfo aetk by proces of law to rratraln him from handing hi money over to them. Kite alau seek to have Ihe llllnol divorce et aalde, aud that the bu do-dared do-dared hla lawful wife. lliru Ian very peculiar hlalory Initio llfeof an humble clllteu, lnltaro.n-voheil lnltaro.n-voheil two marrlagra and a dtvurcu with one woman, whllo with uuother, there are two divorce, ono civil mar. rlage, mid one common law marriage. The caae Is before Ihe Circuit Court, and It romlsi to prove a knotty rob. Irm. Itlsonlj one of the nmuy iiccullar marital complications hlch rlng up from da) to da), and which call j ubllo atle'itlon In u general wuy to thu liialltutlou of mnrrige, Cue of till kind are not confine I lo the United Htalee. The crouiii lu emry ruunlry of the cIMIIzcdaiid "(. hrla-lUn" hrla-lUn" world. Only recently In Lug. land the court decide I that a huibjnu coul I not compel hla b to conform to the letter of ttiu luurlagu contracl, while lu Ohio a few uecka,r, the court tuitalotd ii huabaud hhu look hla wife by lij ileal force lo till own home, from that of her father llotwhalglvcalhel ngllati ram lta peculiar character la the fact that though tin liuihan I ccull not by law compel hla wife to live with him, yet he caul I not by Inw get a divorce from hrr Thla case haa cau-ed much ilia-cuaalon ilia-cuaalon among Ihe I ngllati public. It I contended on one elJe tht the hue-band hue-band hould bo entltleil lo divorce for dewrllon on the I art of hla wife, thlniaklngpowertoflia term of from two tu four year within which the woman woul I have the tlvllege of returning to her huiteind. Ou the other hand, this scheme Is opld moil vehtmeutly, the contention conten-tion being that marriage aa a solemn liiitltullou, csremmy, aicramrnt or ordinance woul I U entirely destroyed One of thuablcal writers ou this alio says "A mor aerlona I low to th Institution or marriage ws ran hardly rollivl e. Th real caiis ol tho great nuiillKir of uti hippy marrlagca I tbe llglit niln lediieaa with which marrlitge l contrctol And aueh a law aa lir.t Khan I anggeU would inullli ly llixlsugerof light minded mind-ed mnrrhgi a lonfoil. A contract which coul 1 lie dlnaolvrd by a two year' or e n a four year' dcrti n, woul 1 hrd ly 1 reardeil a rmnf nl coiitrct t all, Mill leaa aa a luoat aacred one which It I a ahame arrl dligrac lo t roak through. We shout I oon'hiiUlto a nulnlierof eojto here, there lri'.ly re, wo belloeo In (lerinany, wholi I ox imrlnie nted on inarriage hi vrloo dlrec Hoik, anl whoa llie were Inkenup Into short section uf eloae aoelatloii with a wire and other ex.wlva,nr a hua-btid hua-btid nd other x.liiibnrta And when once Ihl ram to oa, an 1 camo to ) without Rhauionu I dlagnec to Hi io who had aoorderrl Ihtir Uvea, there woul I be n elnl lo the aanctlly i f innrrlsgs lto-avthsr." lto-avthsr." In thu United rjlatc this conacr-vallamonthe conacr-vallamonthe i art of l'ngllihmeii I luokrdupon aalumcy. Moro decree for the dlasolutlou of msrrlaga are given In America than In nil thu ' ChrUtlau" comitrle of tho world comllued lu I67i) 11 1 cent of the marriage of the United Htntc terminated ter-minated by divorce, and In ISO), IIS rrcnt. That Is, for evrrySlclcoulia married In 180.1, 11 married couples weredlvorced. I'urllietruoru (he ratio of dlvorre to msrrlig ha doubled within the pan twenty jear. To thlrdaof tho divorce olitaluml In till country are grautrd on the plication of wives. Many romlni nt aoclolnglil suggeat the iitabllahinent of a uniform divorce law for Ihe United Klatea, hoping that II would remove much of Hie evil now extatlng. Huch a law prevalla In HwlUerUnd, and ha been In force there during ten years, but It has had no i Orel on the divorce rale 111 the dltlercnlcauton. The (Jbtfe A'uyoii allow dlvorcu by mutual consent. Thl codu laliiforcolu Hrlgluni, and It la a curlou fct that the loweat rule of divorce lu Ih world Ii In that country. Thlsqutsllonls a good deal llkesllveraud tlnnlile, the mole one ludlrtlt, the more vn? Heated It bo-comc. |