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Show Killed Oy Diseased Meat. San Francisco. The coroner's Jury In the Inquest upon tho remains of James P. tloynolds. the waiter who died soon nfter partaking of tho I nt Aiare island navy yard following tho launching of the Unite" Stntoi co'ller Prometheus, and which mad scores of the liuyltcd guests Borlously 111. returned a verdict exonerating th caterer xrto served and the butchei whs supplied tlr dlseused beef. Tho Jury found that tho animal from which the beef was obtained was diseased dis-eased beforo being slaughtered, t m Washington Whisperings ;; T Interoatlnf( Bits ofNewi Gathered - J at tho National Capital. Amazing Increase in Divorce Is Shown WASHINGTON. It wns generally known that divorces In tho United States wero getting more numerous each year, but nobody wns prepared for the surprising statement mndo In a census bureau report thnt ono marriage out of every twclvo In tho country terminates In divorce. Yet such Is tho case, as shown by the bureau's figures. Tbo statistics aro tho result of care-fid care-fid gathering of figures In every stnto In tho union, tho period covered being from 1887 to 1900, Tho Inst Bet of national statistics on mnrrlnge nnd dlvorco covered tho period from 1SC7 to 18S0. The present set of stntlstics, tnken In conjunction with tho former one, thorcforo, gives n view of tho marriage and dlvorco question for the past 40 years. Tho totnl number of marriages recorded re-corded for the 20-year period from 1887 to 1900 was 12,832,044. Tho total number of divorces for tho period wns 945,026. For tho period of tho first Investigation Investiga-tion of tho subject, from 18C7 to 188C, the totnl numbor of divorces wns 328,-710, 328,-710, At tbo beginning of tho 40-year period covered by both Investigations tbero wcro In this country 10,000 divorces di-vorces annually; ,nt the end of tho period there wero 06,000 onnunlly. The dlvorco rate per 100,000 population popula-tion Increased from 29 In 1897 to 82 In 1905, Tho rnto per 100,000 mnrrled population wns SI in 1870 nnd 200 In 1890, "This comparison," says tho bulletin, "Indicates that dlvorco Is at present two and one-half times ' ns common, compnrcd with married population, ns It wns 40 years ago." Tho Dakotas, which hno n national reputntlon ns dlvorco states, provo, on analysis of the tables, to bo nowhere, clthor In totnl number ot divorces granted or number or divorces per 100,000 ot population, as against otlior States. In discussing the relation ot dlvorco to population, tho bulletin snys: "An Incrcnso of 30 per cent In population botween tho. years 1870 to 1880 was accompanied by nn Increase of 79 per cent, In tho number of divorces granted In tho next decade, 1880 to 1890, tho population Increased 25 per cent nnd divorces 70 per cent, nnd In tho following fol-lowing deendo, 1S90 to 1900, an In-crenso In-crenso ot 21 per cent. In population was accompanied by an Incrcnso ot 00 per cent. In tho number of divorces. In tho six years from 1900 to 190C, population, ns estimated, Increased 10.5 per cent, nnd divorces 29.3 por cent. "It thus nppenrs that at the end ot tho 40-year period divorces woro Increasing In-creasing about three times ns fast as population, whllo In tho first decado (1870 to 1880) they Increased only about two and two-thirds ns fast. "Divorce rates appear to bo much hlgbor In tho United States than In nny of tho foreign countries for which statistics relating to this subject hnvo been obtnlned." , Two-thirds of tho totnl numbor ot divorces granted In tho 20-yenr period covered by this Investigation wero granted to the wlfo. Children wero reported re-ported In 39.8 per cent of tho total number of dlvorco cases. Ethel Roosevelt Mourns Loss of Lemon TUB strenuous llfo Is not for Lomon, a small bull pup, whoso habitat, until recently, was tho White Houso. Lomon noticed a door ajar tho qthcr morning whllo roaming tho White House, looking for excitement, and has not returned. Though his name might not Indicate It, Lomon la n puppy of class and caste. Hut for all that he's a dog nnd tho sight ot his vagabond brothors romping In the streets, dodging automobiles auto-mobiles nnd snapping nt horses' heels dlsgustod the Lomon with being the first dog In tho land and ho beat It. . Lemon Is the property of Miss Ethel Tloosevelt, debutanto elect, who report" ed hor loss to tho police. Instnntor a general lookout order was sent to every district In tho precinct, nnd by nightfall there was not a dog on tho streots of Washington. In tho collection collec-tion hold for Identification was every species of canine from a mangy mastiff to a flea-bitten flco, but none answered to tho name ot Lemon. Various motives, If n dog may have a motlvo, may bo assigned to Lemon's abrupt departuro from tho Roosevelt household. Ho might hnvo had a vision of a small bull pup swinging to tho port Bide ot a Hon In the wilds ot Africa, and his master's volco shouting shout-ing "slo 'cm Lomon." Again, ho might have dreaded tho tlmo when ho would rench tho proper ago to bo harnessed to one ot Master Archlo's carts, or bo matched In a mnln with tho household cat, or wear nn empty can attached to his tall. However, Lemon's motlvo for running away is purely speculative, for It Is not given In tho pollco roport, and his mistress "can attribute no cause for tho rash act" Naval Officers Experts in Diplomacy Sip WHKN It comes to diplomatic mnnouvorlng to accomplish their designs tho officers of the nnvy can give pointers to tho Russians nnd tho Japanese As nn Instnnco tho case of tho hospital ship Keller may bo cited. It will be remembered that last win-torPrcsldont win-torPrcsldont IlooBovelt mado an order or-der that tho Itollof should bo commanded com-manded by a medical officer. Tho men at the nnvy department wero amazed that a doctor should bo given command com-mand ot a vessel, but there was no appeal from Mr. Iloosovelt's order. Tho Holict wns detailed to accompany tbo licet on Its trip around tho world. Letters from men who aro with tho licet havo been received hero telling of the sad 'experiences ot tho hospltnl ship and her commander- In describing describ-ing those experiences' ono writer prefaced pref-aced his letter ns follows! "The Poller Po-ller Is tho most unpopular Institution In tho nnvy. There Is no exception. Tho Itollof has everything else beaten," Tbe story Is that the Poller has boon burdened with woo over since tho crulso began, nnd thnt every offlcor of tho navy, except the doctors, Is tickled to death that this Is so. The lino officers who didn't npprovo having ui doctor ns their commander havo round many ways, tho story goes, ot making lite miserable to tho men In charge or tho hospital ship. Of courso tho suggestion of n sorvlco conspiracy to this end would bo rcsonted and could not bo proven, but there Is- a sub rosa Intimation that something vory Jlko n cabal, has been formed with tho purposo of proving how much a doctor doesn't know about running a ship. Wherever tho fleet has been tho He-lift He-lift has usually limped along behind tho procession. 81ie has had trouble getting supplies, getting coal, gottlng consideration ot all kinds. It always Just happened this way and nobody In purtlcular was to blame. It Is hinted that when tho fleet returns suggestions sug-gestions will be mado In many quarters quar-ters that tho crulso has demonstrated that nobody Is competent to tnanagr n war vessel who Is not nn accredited officer ot tho navy. In othor words, thnt the cxperlenco ot tho Hollof, wltb a medical ofllcer In command, hal been a hopeless failure. LW.eatIier--Kiosk-to- Be-Plaeed-onStreetj AN Interesting experiment Is about to bo conductc 1 In Washington, If It meets with success It will bo extended ex-tended to other cities, In the course of a few dnya thore will bo opened at ono ot the busiest points on Pennsylvania, Pennsyl-vania, avenue a weather kiosk similar to thoso now In use In Purlin nnd other places In Germany. Tho object ot the ngrlcultural department In bringing about this Innovation Is to supply meteorological Information In popular form. Dehlml the curtnlned windows of tho kiosk will bo copies of tho dally weather charts, forecasts Issued Is-sued by the weathor bureau, maximum maxi-mum thermomotor and tboronograph for recording temperuturu and rnlt gauge. There will be no bproraetor tor It Is tho wish of tho department t'"" i. iiiiu.i..! uuu m ludi" simplest form shall be shown. Olllclals of the weather bureau believe be-lieve thore will bo great publlo Interest Inter-est lu their now scheme. It their hopes are realized similar kiosks Vll.' be erected In about 15 cities In the courso of tho next five or sl.v months. Among oihor things, expected ot these kiosks, is that they will ruin tho repuhulons tu;j o. rv n cut a ot tbe United States, especially Washington for excessive Summer heat, mnny records rec-ords ot this kind having boon estab llshed by Inaccurate thermometers bo ing hung outside stores and othel buildings not vonduclvo to corroo readings. |