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Show rush immediately and without second ent day back to PotlphaVa wife and David of old show It to have been the thought to the divorce courts? and forever! The reason, "I Just got tired of Al- same yesterday, to-da- y HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF DIVORCES UNITED IN THE STATES WHY? fred, or Margaret became such a bore, has been given by more than one person who has applied for divorce. Looking In marriage for Individual happiness only, how could they remember their duty to the state? Sociologists, writers, doctors and legalists on all hands are asking, "What is to be done? 8hould there be a uniform divorce law that all the different slates will ratify? Should the magistrate, the priest and the For Separation. r rlTlUN the last 20 years there, have been 1.300,000 dlvorres In the United the place assigned to you by nature, be man's helpmeet and all will be well. Has higher education made woman These figures are States. supplied by the census bu- dissatisfied with the domestic sphere? Or Is it that the high tension of reau at Washington, which Is etui at work preparing the complete modern everyday business life has and official report. prevented the husband from giving This Is an. Increase of 1.000,000 In hla wife the romantic attentions and the last 20 years over the 20 prece- caressea demanded by her nature? des years, and the appalling part of ttt Is that or nearly 900,000, Modern Man Too Buay. of these divorces have been granted, It Is not uncommon for the wives says the New York Sunday Herald. of business men to spend summer In Europe and winter In the south, and many, times they find In these pluces the romantic companionship and attention their own husbands had not time to give them at home. Like birds In a glided cage" they were treated, their husbands sending them packages of lace and bundles of silks,' and bringing them home handwe need Is a doctrine of fuls of jewels, but If they ever sus- WIIAT There Is no clear pected their wives need of romance cut doctrine of marriage. The church and tenderness they were unable to Is tied up to the ethics of 2,000 years supply it, because of the demands on ago, the oriental fantasies of Paul. their time by their many business in"The old idea of marriage was Interests. culcated and secured through two Or Is It that the modern Inventions fundamental principles reverence to for pickling, preserving, dyeing and parents and the understanding that cleaning have left the twentieth cen- marriage was to be permanent. These tury woman with "vast leisure" on principles are both imperiled," is the her hands, and has her lack of domes- Idea of Dr. Felix Adler. tic occupations and cares made her W Under present conditions they are dissatisfied and hypercritical of her no longer tenable, for the first was busy and worried husband? founded on the idea that the child had And does she brood over his cold- no rights except through Its parents. ness all day because In his haste to Its position was one of the subkeep some business engagement he servience, of unquestioned obedience hurrlca forth without the morning to the parents, and as regards the perkiss? manence of the marriage tie, it was chiefly a bond that tied the woman to Othsr Reasons Given. the man. Her position was one of subordination. Or is that It at look young couples lleve In the Bible. It Is regrettable "To-da- y we admit that the child has too see and not do childishly marriage that there are so many different state the which we are bound to respect rights and economic, sociological political laws governing divorce, and I feel sides of the family? Do they not and that the woman is the equal of sorry for the children of all these di- realize Ita Integral relation to the the man. vorced people, says Rev. Phoebe A. One trouble with modern marriage state? iHanaford. preDo they consider It as a personal is that the masculine element No, It Is not the fault of the new In the ceremonial. dominates This does dull and their sense the of thing, woman. There Is no new woman. aspect of marriage dull should not be so.' The great trouble (A woman Is a woman. There are good sociological them to the sociological aspect of di- Is that people who marry nowadays women and bad women, but no new look in marriage only for happiness. vorce? .women. Happiness Is not the end of marriage, Or are too entered lightly marriages There are too many hasty maras most people think, but only an Inriages. This should be looked after. cident of married life. They are bound to find many trials. They should When the census bureau began its respect the etchical Ideals; their great Investigation It had to leave out near responsibility 1b to future generations, the good of the race! ly 600,000 cases which were pending, and of the 2,900 Investigators, clerks, Under the multiplication of divorces In this country the Issue Is etc., employed In the bureau In the whether the sensuous nature of the preparation of this report 140 are still at work getting It In its final and commarriage contract Is to prevail or whether the spiritual Is to predomplete shape. France has only 79 divorce courts, inate. I believe In separation, but never In divorce. Germany only 28, England only one, and the United States has 2,921 courts empowered to grant divorces. These preacher, when marrying couples. Imfacts alone are sufficient to give the upon them the sociological aspress thinker pause and ask What Is the of their union, as well as the pect remedy? two-third- Hasty Marriages David's own wives are described as women of comely countenance and of good understanding, and there la no record where either Abigail or Ahlnoam closed their cook books to study law or uttered a single idea not the echo of their Joint husband. If they had. who knows? They might have saved him from the sin of sending the poor HIttIte to the aforefront et the hottest battle that he might take his beaulful wife Bathsheha. Who knows, had they seasoned the sameness of the married way with an occasional dash of original thought? The sacred Milton, the divine Shelley, Cicero, Dante and the Immortal Shakespeare are all melancholy examples of marital unrest, though none of them was divorced. If divorce Is growing greater it is not because marital unrest Is growing worse, but because offenses In marriage and hypocrisy are growing less. To make the happiness of the indiIn marriage viduals only an Incident Is only to defend Dr. Adlers dream of a higher and finer race. Insure the happiness of husband and wife and It will follow as the day the night that we will have a finer generation of offspring and a purer society of men and women. condition of France then we may say about - the divorce situation In the United States The divorce congress two years ago accomplished practically nothing, well intentloned as It was. If federal legislation Is urged In the spring on the strength of the detailed report of the census bureau It will be challenged on the ground of its being unconstitutional. to-da- I Should Be Sacrament "1& spiritual and romantic? "New Woman Blamed. Writers who defend the conventional and "domestic type of woman put all the blame on the new woman." They say she has left her legitimate sphere the home that she no longer loveB or Inspires love, and that. In defiance of all history and her own apparent destiny, refuses to consider marriage and motherhood the object of her existence. They urge she has abandoned the hearthstone to become a writer, an artist, a playwright, an actress, a teacher, or whatnot, and during the period In which she has gained her rights (the last 20 years) the marriage Institution has been assailed on all sides. Is It the new woman's" fault? The new woman differs from her sister this respect at least she has no flattery for the tyrant mao. She turns right around and places all the blame for the marital unrest on In From Various Views. The different churches have different beliefs concerning marriage, the different states have different laws governing It, and they are both eontent to vest their case there! Thus the greatest sociological problem In the United States Is being tossed back and forth as If It were some vubber ball, and yet 1,300,000 divorces in 20 years are sure to leave thei,' Influence on many lives and many families. Back In 1748 Mme. de Chateauroux said: I see plainly that there will be a general overthrow it no remedy Is used." What she said about the political to-da- y WearAZUsA'a. THE reason for so many divorces Is women do not spend enough time studying the characteristics of their Intended husbands, according to Mrs. Elizabeth Bacon Walling. It la not caused by the fact that modern machinery and inventiona have taken woman's domestic work from her, thus leaving her with lots of time on her hands to flirt and get Into mischief. The athletic girl Is all right. I have nothing against her. A young woman living in Nineteenth street married a man she had only known three months. Oue day, In looking from her front window, she saw him sitting In a back window of a his shoulders. "Man does not understand our complex nature, she says, and while he considers marriage as only one stage of his own mental and spiritual development. he InslHts that we shall consider It the only excuse for our ex- Twentieth street apartment, writing letters and reading a newspaper comistence. . . , placently. , him She what he was doing asked Calls Contentions Unfair. He replied he was visiting his there. This Is unfair," she continues. Johnson. Subsequently It deWe are not to bo classed with our friend a wife and family had that he veloped We them domestic sisters. but pity theie. this Isnt appalling? we are not of them. We have alms, The young woman came to me aspirations and ambitions the same as heartbroken. What could I do? When men. and to attempt to force us Into understand that nmrrlnge Is a people us. to suffocate Is We domesticity sacrament aa the church knows It to object to being called uudutlful helpmeets because we are not 'submissive' le there will he fewer divorces, and to our husbands' misconception and to a large extent there will be no marital unrest. misunderstanding of us. But, the defenders of the conventional type of woman reply, you can-ne- t Into? Rev. Dr. Houghton, pastor of accomplish anything great In lit- "The Little Church Around the Corerature, science or religion, and you ner, now hfts the bans called, which never have produced works of great means that three weeks public notice and universal genius. The most you Is given of all Intended marriages In can do Is to make your own bread and the church. Do husbands and wives expect to trivial creations In art buttur v and Feature can be spared, and It Is And In marriage only a continuation your Intellectual discontent and un- of the romantic bliss of courtship? rest that Is spreading the divorce And when they find each day there Is germ, which threatens soon to de- lest ecstasy and more Imperfections velop Into a divorce epidemic. Take discoverable In each other do they Marital Unrest jztrcs MARITAL unrest Is neither an of the new woman nor the evil outgrowth of freer and juster di- vorce laws, declares Dr. Clarke Houghton. It Is as old as the world. To charge It up to the conscience of the "new woman Is neither fair minded nor rational. The Old Testament reeks with it, and th biographers of our great warriors, statesmen, poets and prophets all the way down the ages, from Earle or Gorky of tbs pres HFjfraz&r STuAprjticJimp. of divorces in the THE prevalence States Is a alike reproach to the country and to the church, Is the declaration of Dr, Robert Stuart MacArthur. The American republic has a most unenviable prominence in this regard. The detailed accounts of suits for divorce, as these suits are pressed in the various courts, are disgusting in the extreme. They bring reproach alike upon American men and women In all parts of our country. These facts are admitted and at the same time are sadly regretted by our best citizens and our most devoted churchmen and churchwomen. The causes for divorce are numerous. They are not limited In responsibility, either to men or to women. It Is not a sufficient statement to say that the broader education of women and their ' emancipation from the greater subjection of former years Is the chief cause, as Mrs. Anna Rogers says. The men and women who rush Into the divorce courts elicit our contempt for their vulgarity and coarseness, not to use even stronger terms. It Is difficult so to control ones moral Indignation because of the vulgarity of these divorce cases as to speak of them with the restraint becoming a newspaper How men and women can article. stoop to charge abominable crimes against each other In order to cure divorces makes one ashamed of hls race. Idleness, lack of spiritual occupation and suggestion, and vulgar conformity to low Ideals In life these are causes largely responsible for the prevalence of divorce. Hasty marriage Is also somewhat responsible. Many men and women rush Into marriage with less serious thoughfulness than they would show regarding any ordinary business transaction. The clergy also are somewhat responsible by the haste with which they officiate at marriages without knowing the facts In the case of those who desire to enter Into this relationship. Marriage must be made more honorable. Its obligations must bo lifted to a higher level. In a single word, the correction of the evils of divorce, as In the case of all other evils, must, In Its finality, depend upon higher spiritual ideals, nobler characters and more religious conceptions of all the duties and obligations of life In Its manifold relations. Uniform divorce laws In the states would partially r move the evils of divorce. There Is no one specific cause there is no one specific cure. When men and women realize their dignity and glory the children of God and heirs of etv nity, they will so order their lives that ill advised marriages will be rare, and they will then so conduct themselves In their married relations that divorces will be practically unknown. MINES AND MINING in The production of gold In Utah Inamounted to $5,218,386, an crease of $97,466 over that of 1905. In the Despite the stringency money market, the money required at for the cyanide plant to be erected raised been Boise, Idaho, has There are six set of leasers workat ing on the Honerlne properties forwarded Is ore being and Stockton, to the valley smelters each week." In the Virgin river oil section there are sixteen rigs now set up ready for at action, many of which are hard work drilling. Such as are idle are awaiting the arrival of broken parts. A suit Is to be brought to test the validity of the corporation license tax law passed by the last session ol the Utah legislature.' Over 100 cop porations have joined In the expense of conducting the fight. The production of zinc oxide, ot zinc white, In this country In 1906 was 154,675,188 pounds,, or 74,680 short tons, an increase of 5,977 tons, or 8.7 per cent over the production ' . in 1905. , Baker City and Payette have organized an oil company. They have secured land near the well of the Oregon company at Payette, Idaho, and propose to begin drilling with as little delay as possible. Novembers copper exports were 33,787 tons, establishing a new record, and bringing the total of 1907 to date back to a figure only 1,448 tons below last years exports. The Increase over October was 6,001 tons, over November last year 15,336. of the- Sunnyslde mill The clean-ufor the month of November was nearly $20,000, says the Round Mountain, Nevada, Nugget. This was gathered in three retorts which had a temporary resting place In the company Bafe until Its removal last week. The old Ketchum smelter, between Ketchum and the Guyer hot springs, Is being demolished. Mobt of the timbers and other wood work has been shipped, much of it to Nampa, where it will be used to build sheds and a warehouse for the sugar factory. One of the largeut Independent smelters in the west will probably be built at Leadville, Colorado, within the next year by the owners of the famous Greenback mine at Bingham, Utah. ' This syndicate owns the smelter at Bingham, which has been closed down by Injunction proceedings. Before action was taken to close down the Washoe smelter and Butte mines, the situation was carefully canvassed by the officials of the varicomous Amalgamated subsidiary panies. There were present at the conference, which lasted three days, H. II. Rogers, James Stillman and William Rockefeller. F. C. Cooley, representing the Mine & Smelter Supply company In Salt Lake, has been making an Investigation of the southern Utah oil fields, and has returned so impressed with their future and present needs that ne has recommended to hls house that a full line of oil drilling rigs, tools, machinery, casing and supplies, be put In at once. A letter from the superintendent of the Yerington Copper Mountain companys properties to a prominent Salt Laker advises that the shaft on the companys Lydia claim has attained a depth of fifty-on- e feet, and that there has been eighteen Inches of fine copper ore In evidence for every foot from the surface down, with the best showing In the bottom. The mine owners of Falrvlew, Wonder, Yerington and considerable other 1906 . - p mineral-producin- g territory In that re- gion have got to get relief from Borne sources one of these days, and the Impression Is that some of the big companies will get together during the winter and decide to put In mills and Bmelters and Invade the metal mar keta on their own accounts during the coming year. A general Improvement In sentiment is noticeable In tho Iron world. Every one seems to be awaiting the time when Increased activity will be Justified. It seems to be the general Impression of the furnuce managers from all the different districts that long depression need not be looked for, and that in the early part of next year considerable Inquiry for pig iron may be expected. One mining section of Idaho that Is not feeling the present slumpy tendency throughout the country Is the Spring Mountain district of Lemhi county. There are eight producing mines In the dintrlct, the oret carry lug lead and copper. One mine alone has contracted to deliver tons of ore a day to tho smelter, fifty there being 20.0U0 tons of ore in sight at the pru eat time. , Recently two men offered eighteen sacks of gold oro to tho Tacoma smelter. Assays showed Its value to bo $25,000. The smelters refused to buy kecauBo tho men could not definitely account for themselves. a boy appeared at the smelter Latur with a sack containing similar ore. This was refused. When questioned the also boy hastily departed. Tho smelter official are Inclined to believe the ore is a portion of large amounts stolen at Goldfield, Nevada. recently Mining mon In the Boise basin' are making loud complaints about people taking timber claims upon mineral land and the state filing on tho same -uch land an affidavit must be mudo showing that mLS DOt C0UtttlQ The post week marked the of ore shipments from the starting phyry deposit ot the Boston Cornell, dated for the treatment of which there baa been expended no (500,000. a limited tonSage log forwarded to the Garfieia Conce.v Iretor, however. SOUTIl-BOUN- For Payson, Santaquln and Lo Anselm No. 5 For PatHim, Badtaquln 'ind Nephi No. For Payson, Ne'phf"aoi No. 61 ,, .. MftnU NOBTH-BODN- No. D For Provo, Pl.Grove. Amer. . Jean Fork, Lehl, Mercur, Halt Lake ... . No. M For Provo, Salt L'ake'aii'i''''T:0 Intermediate point i ,r' ' No. M For Provo, Salt Intermediate point Palatial train are now runnini''d'iuJ tween Salt Lake and the Pacino UTAH COUNTY la in direct tone? 1 great oitlea. . Beat local train service District Passenger Agent J. N N. Pstsksm, Depot Ticket Agent SB - Lake-aui',,- 1 "h Bim-rnaR- ilDGRAliD Arrival and departure of train from Depc No. 7 For Sprlngvllle.Provo.Salt Lake and all point east and west., No. 2 ForSprtngvllle Provo. Salt Lake and all points east and west t No. S For Eureka, Mammoth and Sll. y verClty No. !8 For Eureka, Mammoth and Sll- -gm. e. sflmi of thi- n dr "Cl of th Connections made In Ogden Union denot WJt all trains of Southern Paolflc and Oregoo Shot Line OFFERS CHOICE OF ft FAST THROUGH TRAINS DAILY AND THREE DISTINCT SCENIC ROUTE Pulman Palaee and ordinary Sleeping can Denver, Omaha, Kansas City, St. Louis Chicago without change. 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BROVN e X What's the matter CUB the gul wh K i IDAHO with by ' Uft T of t edu AE Thousands of acres of laud have becu reclaimed to cultivation by during irrigation in that State the past 10 years. Thousand-morwill be reclaimed within the next 10 years. This mean an openiug for many thousand e W of homes. Have You Investigated IDAHO? It has been truthfully termed a Land of Opportunities A Land of Homes The Oregon Short Line Railroad Co. will be pleased to send descriptive ms' ter regarding Idaho's resources. rw to D. E. Burley, O P. Ah or D. h- - Spacer, A. G. P. A., Salt Lake City. Ct- - B. H. BROWN, Stable 'rnoMi No. 12. Spanish Pork, . , General Merchandise Flour, Grain Produco. and tlannfaotursri ot Boots and 0 Shoes. JOHN JONES, SupL Spanish Fork - - - - to tr 01 Pi ft 8 b Hack Meets all Trains Harness, tr tl Livery Dealers In m ht UU& |