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Alimony is "the greatest curse in America," said Judge William N. Germmill, of the Superior Court in Chicago, in commenting on the merits of a
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The women. . feel that all they have to do is to come into court: and ask it to give them money, and the can, make the man pay for the rest of his life." The re- buke is widely echoed; the mari- tal advestures
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These views are not peculiar to the jurists of Chicago, observes the "Philadelphia Record." "They are cordially indorsed by judges In this of the municipal court
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"It has become common young, childless women to sue for divorce on meaningless grounds, poorly supported evidence, and their sex as with sympathy for their principal reliance, for the sole purpose of obtaining their in- dependence, legally and financial- ly. It has been a great field for adverturesses, and thousands of innocent men have been victimia. ed.
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Lage of the unequal rights grant- ed them through the alimony abule." The "Philadelphia Even- ing Bulletin" notes that there can be no question of the justice of alimony payments for the support DEATH ANNOUNCED AT HOME Der A. Wings of children.
Lane, Crawfords The death was announced in mail Mackintoshs week at Shefield of Major-General. Sinceres Alexander H E Campbell, one of Wm. Powells £1,400 TAKEN DURING CHURCH the few survivors of the Indian
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General Campbell, whe was 93; H.K. Constructions A recent cartoon illustrating the had a remarkable career as soldier, B. Ind. G.$ Bonds thankfulness of the young man who judge and preacher. had been robbed of all he possess- The son of a judge of the Madras ed but who escaped with his life High Court, he was trained for the finds vivid confirmation from Chi East India Company's Civil and cago, where the First Rumanian Military Service. Synagogue was recently raided by! He was at school with the late gummen, who obtained money and Lord Roberts, and the two eement jewels valued at 21,400 from the ed a lifelong friendship. At 17 be. congregation of 80, man and women. joined the Army, cbtaining an ap When the thieves had gone Rabbi pointiment in the Indian Cavalry. Goldstein offered up a prayer of During the Indian Mutiny he thankfulness that no lives had been passed through many bitter and an- taken. The rabbi had a special xious experiences of which, in after reason for gratefulness, since the life, he seldom spoke. chief of the robbers had returned him his money on discovering his identity.
Soldier-Clergyman
A member of the Wesleyan
The congregation had assembled Methodist Church, General Campbell
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against the wall. With resolvers he served for ten years as Judge ly resembles that of the bearer and shotguns openly displayed they to the Nizam's Suburban Court at that few experts can distinguish made a leisurely search for money Hyderabad, and at the completion between the two, The Chinchilla- and jowels.
e of 42 years in India he returned to Rex and other derivatives of the Rex rabbit are in great deinand One woman Hd her Jewels England. bedeath some doughnuts she bad in In Sheffield, where he made his throughout the world a box, and as a gunman approached home, he took a prominent part in her offered him a doughnut Republic affairs. He was closely as refused scornfully and neglected to sociated with the Wesleyan move
ment and help to ment of solife
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rstone of
ial
A Standards Commission super intended by the Ministry of Agri- culture maintains a complete re- cord of the stud animals. The breed's essential feature is the complete absence of guard hars that is to say, hairs which stand out from the others' above the coat
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