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MVOItCK. An IntorentlnB Article on Tluit Subjeol by Jtidgo John Jnmofon. Judge John A. Jameson, In the North American Review for April, says :, "It is conceded by all codes that permit divorce at all, that adultery is a sufficient cause. In the history of opinion in regard to it, however, there may be noted three grave inconsistencies : in the Bible the adultery held to justify divorce a vinculo seems to have meant, as it did among the ancient peoples generally, only the adultery of the wife.; when the rule was extended so as to deal equallyt with both sexes, the divorce permitted for i was confined to a separation a mensa et thoro; and finally, the sincerity of the Church in opposing divorces was placed in doubt by its practice of authorizing them for money, by papal dispensation thus, for mere purposes of revenue, winking at an infraction of the supposed divine law against divorces. As to the first, the reason given for the limitation was, in the main, a selfish, pe cuniary one, personal to the husband the danger of having cast upon him the care of spurious offspring. Spurious as to whom? Of course, to him alone, since as to thewife, the term could have no application. Hut was the offense, when committed by the wife, ever intrinsically more destructive of the integrity of the marriage, or in its consequences more fatal to the interests of the family, or of the public, than the adultery of the husband for merly winked at by the law and tolerated by the church? What force to justify even a separation, as sciinst a wife, was ihert- in tin- danger of spurious offspring, in a state of "-'j ...... miK.il i-Aiaicu in rrancc irom the time of Louts XVI. down to the revnln. tion, of whicli there could be no more graphic or accurate description than that of Mehemet bltendi, a l urkisli Ambassador, when h sam 10 a rrenenman : "ine lurks are great simpletons in comparison with the Christians. We are at the expense . and trouble of ke.'mnc a semnlin. nml in his our house ; but you ease yourselves of me uuruen, anu nave your seraglios in vour divorces a mensa for the adultery of both sexes, it clearly was not the rule of Jesus, but an extension of it, to meet social exigencies. If the rule could be extended at all for such a purpose, why might it not be extended so as to cover all the real exigencies of society ? Looking alone to the consequences is adul tery, by whosoever committed, deserving of greater conuemnauon man extreme cruelty, which, if repeated, is made the ground of di vorce? Cruelty is defined as clivsicil vin. lence endangering health or lile, and making jougcr cuuauiuiuuu practically impossible. From the nature of the case, such cruelty is commonly exercised by the husband upon the who n uiuiui icujjjci can wren men upon its object in but two ways by acts of vio lence, and by injurious words. The acts are commonly blows with the fist, or with the first weapon that comes to hand, dragging the wife by the hair of the head, and the like ; the words those dreadful epithets which, addressed to a woman, wound more cruellv than hlnwi. If the offender be the wife, there are assaults witn dangerous weapons, poison in one's coffee, with the most opprobious adjectives in the language applicable to man. Such con duct indicates a temper incompatible with ths marital relation, and, while it may inflict a less poignant mental distress than the scriptural cause, it ought not to be permitted, on any iciiiis, iu tumiimc. ii renuers one great ob ject of marriage.the tight training of offspring, impossible. In the present state of our laws there may be much drinking of spirituws liquou with . out legally endangering the status of marriage. So long as a husband is able to give to his family a maintenance and education suitable to their condition in life and adequate to their physical necessities, however loathsome he may be to his wife, however unkind tn his children, however useless to society, he may continue to squander his means, to brutalize minseii, and to disgust his friends, with im punity. Before he can be divorced for drun kenness he must fail to give to his family a necuniarv sunnort. As if ih mr Tail,,.. in feed and clothe his wife were the greatest, the most intolerable irjury to her, and the com pulsory making ot her, year after year, the mouier ui ouspring jiKeiy to become drunk' ards, ought to so for nothing 1 While He manding the production of the technical evi dence required bv law. no iuiW n.iim imnn cases of that kind, can or ought to overlook the terrible evidence of physiological fact ex. hiblted in the swollen face, the shaking hands and the tainted breath. No such man ought to be allowed to become the father of anv wo- man's children. The best good, therefore, of ine wne, 01 ine ennaren and ol the public, demands that some divorces shall be granted iur iiuu-scripiurai causes. In cases of desertion, it should be pro vided that, if the complainant be a wife, the court should have power to Grant the divorce. or, at her option, to continue the case to await htr amilication for a renuisitinn tn mm. pel her husband to return and resume the performance of his marital duties. Upfcn his undertaking to do so, he might be discharged T.'."'"J,;i'r'i"""",.,"ur";"l Jfclib'nncir.Tatriok McCoy, FB& JohTisorT v "r,.cnr " '",f"v-. -Mollratney, Eddlo upon reasonable conditions as to future goodi cinduct; or, upon his refusal, he might be' ordered to be committed to prison, if it should appear that he had absented himself from her without reasonable cause and against her will. That this scheme of legislation would involve a Federal enactment authorizing requisitions in such cases, constitutes no objection to it. One who has lost a watch worth $1$ or $20 by tlftft in Maine may set in motion the formidable machinery of State and Federal law and drag the thief back to that State from the remotest corner of Oregon. Why should the wretch who has left his helpless wife and children, in the same State of Maine, and cone West to crow up with the country" and another wife, not to be dragged back from Oregon as well 1 If it be said that theft is a crime, and that the desertion of one's family is a mere social wrong, then let the wrong, so infinitely surpassing the crime in its meanness and in the misery it entails, be reclassified, or a definition be given to crime which shall em brace it. Doubtless a Federal status upon that subject ought to be supplemented by oth ers regulating the whole subject ol marriage and divorce, now, under the varying statutory regulations of the States, the despair of courts and 'publicists and the opprobrium of the law. Bakawali. From tho TImcs-Democnit. Thoro Is In the Hindustani Intiguniro n nm-- vclous tnlo written by n Moslum, but trcntlnir nevertheless ot tho undent irods of India, nml of tho Apsiirus nml of tho Unpshnsus. "Tho ltoso of ltu kuwall" It Is called. Therein nlso umy bo found many htinntto histories of foun tains tilled with imiKleii! wutors, ulmnitlnir tho sox of thoso who bathe therein; mid histories of llowora created by wltcliumft, novur fiul lnir, whoso perfume irlvu slirht tn tho blind; -and, nliovo nil, this history of lovo hiiiifiin nml eupeihiinian, for which a pnnillel may not bu found In days when the great Rajah Zain- ulmuluk reigned over the eastern kingdoms of Hindostan, it came tniiass that Bakawali, the Apsara, fell in love with n mortal youth who was none other than the son of the Ra jah. For the lad was beautiful as a girl beautiful even as the god Kama, -and seem ingly created for love. Now in that land all living things are sensitive to loveliness, even the plants themselves, like the Asoka that bursts into odorous blossom when touched even by the foot of a comely maiden. Yet liakawali fairer than any earthly creature, being a daughter of the immortals; and those who had seen her, believing her born of mortal woman, would answer when interro gated concerning her : "Ask not us 1 rather ask thou the nightingale to sing of her beauty. Never had the youth Taj-ulmuluk guessed that his beloved was not of mortal race, having encountered her as by hazard, and being secretly united to her after the Gand harva fashion. Hut he knew that her eyes were preternaturally large and dark, and the odor of her hair like Tartary musk; and there seemed to trampire from her when she moved such a light and such a perfume that he re mained bereft of utUrance, while watching her, and immobile as a figure painted upon a wall. And the lamp of love being enkindled in the heart of liakawali, her wisdom, like a golden moth, consumed itself in the flame thereof so that she forgot her people utterly. and her immortality, and even tho courts of heaven wherein sue was wont to dwelt. In the sacred books of the Hindus there is much written concerning the eternal city Ar managar, whose inhabitants are immortal. There Indra, azure-bearded, dwells in sleep less pleasure, surrounded by his never-slumbering rourt of celestial bayaderes, circling about him as the constellations of heaven circle .in their golden dance about Surya, the sun. And this was Bakawali's home, thai she had abandoned for the love of a man. So it came to pass one night, a night of perlume and of pleasure, that Indra started up from his couch like one suddenly remember ing a thing long forgotten, and asked of those about him :"How happens it that Bakawali, daughter of Firoz, no more appears before us?" And one of them made answer, say ing: "O, great Indra, that pretty fi ll hath been caught in the net of human love I Like the nightingale, never does she cease to com plain because it is not possible for her to love even more; intoxica'ed is she with the perish able youth and beauty ot her mortal lover ; and she lives only for him and in him, so that even her own kindred are now forgotten or have become to her objects of aversion. And it is because of him, O Lord of Suras and Dcvat, that the rosy one no longer pre sents herself before thy court." Then was Indra wroth ; and he command) d that liakawali be perforce brought before him, that she might render account of her amor jus folly. And the Devas, awaking her, placed her in their cloud-chsriot, and brought her into the presence of Indra, her lips still humid with mortal kisses, and on her throat red-blossom marks leit by human lips. And she knelt before him. with fingers joined as in prayer; while the Lord of the firmament gazed at her in si lent anper. with such a frown as he was wnnt to wear when riding to battle upon Ills ele -Full regular iiiude colored socks for 25 "N phant triplc-trunkcd. Then said he to the Devas about him : " Let her be purified by fire, inasmuch as I discern about her an odor of mortality offensive to immortal sense. And even so of'cn as she returns to her folly, so often let her be consumed in my sight".... Accordingly they bound the fairest of Ap saras, and cast her Into a lurnace furious as the fires of the sun, so that within a moment her body was changed to a white heap of ashes. But over the ashes was magical water sprinkled; and out of the furnace liakawali arose, nude as one newly born, but more per fect In rosy beauty even .than before. And Indra commanded her to dance before him, as stie was wont to do in other days. So she danced all those dances known in the courts of heaven, curving herself as flowers curve under a perfumed breeze, as water serpentines under the light; and she circled before them rapidly as a leaf-whirling wind, lightly as a bee. with myriad varia tions of delirious grace, with ever-shifting en chantmeht of motion, until the hearts of all who looked upon her were beneath those shining feet, and Jail cried 'loud O flower bjdyl Orose-bodyl OIja m ne of the Garden of Gracel blossom of daintiness! O flower body! Thus was she each night obliged to appear before Indra at Armanagar, and each night to suffer the fiercest purification of fire lor asmuch as she would not forsake her folly; and each night nlso did she -return to her mortal lover, and take her wonted place be side him without awaking him, having first bathed her in the great fountain of roscwatcr within the court. Hut once it happened that Taj-ulmuluk awoke in the night, and reaching out his arms found she was not there. Only the perfume of her head upon the pillow, and odorous gar ments flung in charming formlessness upon every divan When she returned, seemingly fairer than before, the youth uttered no reproach, hut on the night following he slit up the tin of his finger with a sharp knif-, and filled the wound with salt, that he might not sleep. Then, when the a:rcal chariot descended all noiselessly, like some long cloud moon silvered, he arose and followed liakawali unperceived. Clinging underneath the chariot he was borne above winds even to Ann ana gar, and into the jeweled courts and into the presence ol Indra. Hut Indra knew not, lor his senses were dizzy with sights of beauty and the fumes of soma-wine. Then did Taj-ulmuluk, standing in the snadow ot a pillar, uenoid beauty sucn as lie had never before seen, save in liakawali, and hear music sweeter than mortal musician may ever learn. Splendors bewildered his eyes; and the crossing of the fretted and jeweled archwork above him seemed an intercrossing and interblending of innumerable rainbows. But when it was given to him, all unexpectedly, to view the awful purification of Bakawali, his heart felt like ice withii him, and he shrieked. Nor could he have refrained from casting himself also into that burst of white fire, had not the magical words been pro nounced, and the wizard water sprinkled he fore he was able to move a limb. Then did he behold Bakawali rising from her snowy cinders shining like an image of the Goddess Lakshmi in the fairest of her thousand forms more radiant than before like some comet returning from the embraces ol the sun with brighter curves ol form and longer glories of luminous hair And liakawali danced and departed ; Taj ulmuluk likewise returning even as' he had come But when he told her in the dawn of the morning that he had accompanied her in her voyage and had surprised her secret, liaka wali wept and trembled for fear: "Alas! Al'S! what hast thou done? " she sobbed; " thou hast become thine own greatest enemy. Never canst thou know alt that 1 have suffered for thy take, the maledictions of my kindred, the insulis of all belonging to my race. Yet rather than turn away my lace from thy love, I suffered nightly the agonies of burning; I have ied a myriad deaths rather than lose thee ; thou hat seen it with thine own eyci!....But none of mankind may visit un bidden the dwelling of the gods and return with impunity. Now, alasl the evil hath been done! nor can I devise any plan by which to avert lliy danger, save that of bringing thee again secretly to Armanagar and charming Icdra in such wise that he may pardon all." So Bakawali the Apsira suffered once more the agony of fire, and danced before the gods, not only as she had danced before, but so that the eyes of all beholding her became dim in watching the varying curves of her limbs, the dizzy spced'of her white feet, the tossing light of her hair. And the charm of her beauty be witched 'he tongues of all there, so that the cry O flower-body! fainted into indistin guishable whispers, and the lingers ot the musicians were numbed with languor, and thr music weakened tremblingly, quiveringly dving down into an amorous swoon. And nut of the great silence broke the soft I'linvler of Indra's pleased voice "O Baka wali I usk me for whatever thou wilt, and it shall be accorded thee by the Trimurtl I swear 1" ...... But she, kneeling before him, with bosom still fluttering from the dance, murmured : " I pray thee, divine One,' only that thou wilt allow me to depart hence, and dwell with this mortal whom I love during all the years of life allotted unto him." And she gazed upon the youth Taj-ulmuluk. Buf Indra, hearing these words and looking also at Taj-ulmuluk, frowned so darkly that gloom filled all the courts of heaven. And he said: "Thou also, son of man, wouldst doubt less make the same prayer; yet think not thou mayst take hence an Apsara like Bakawali to make her thy wife without grief to thyself! And as for thee, O shameless liakawali, thou mayst depart with him, indeed, since I have sworn; but I swear also to thee that from thy waist unto thy feet thou shalt remain a woman of marble for the space of 12 year's Now let thy lover rejoice in thee I" And Bakawali was placed in the? chamber of a ruined pagoda, deep-buried within the forests of Ceylon; and there did she pass the years, sitting upon a scat of stone, herself stone from feet to waist. But Taj-ulmuluk found her and ministered unto her, as to the statue of a goddess; and he waited for her through the long years. The ruined pavement, grass-disjointed, trembled to the passing tread of wild ele phants; often did tigers peer through the pillared entrance with eyes flaming like em eralds. But Taj-ulmuluk was never weary nor afraid; and he waited by her through all the weary and fearful years. Gem-eyed lizards clung and wondered; ser pents watched with marvelous chrysolite gaze; vast spiders wove their silvered lace above the- head of the human statue, sunset feathered birds, with huge and' flesh-colored beaks, hatched their young in peace under the eyes of liakawali Until it came to pass at the close of the nth year, Tajulmu luk being In search of fruit for food, that the ruin fell, burying the helpless Apsara un der a ponderous and monstrous destruction beyond the power of any single arm to re move Then Taj ulmuluk wepf; but he still waited, knowing that the immortals could not die. And out of the shapeless mass of ruins there soon grew a marvelous tree, graceful, dainty, round-limbed like a woman; and Taj-ulmuluk watched it waxing tall under the mighty heat of the summer, bearing flowers lovelier than that narcissus whose blossoms have been compared to the eyes of Oriental girls, and rosy fruit as smooth-skinned as maiden flesh. So the twelfth year passed. And with the passing of its last moon, a great fruit parted itself, and therefrom issued the body of a woman, slender and exquisite whose supple limbs had been folded up within the fruit, asa butterfly is folded up within its chrysalis, comely as an Indian dawn, deeper-eyed than ever woman of earh. bcim? indeed nn im mortal, being no. Apsara, liakawali rein carnated for her lover, and relieved from the malediction of the gods. A 1'iitrtiitfa JUIsjiIhhIiiiiL Family. From tho Zazoo City Sentinel. Mr. J. M., better known as "Huff." Chis- holm, of this county, has four children, be tween each of whom there is just two years, the first being born on the 4th of July two vr.iri nftrr. thr tl.ir.l nn ih ..1. of July, the second on the 4th of July two yean aucr ine second, nnu tne lourth on the 4th of July two years after the third. Mr. Bob Tucker, who lives on Iiee Lake, in Holines county, has five children, the first of whom was born on Sunday, the second on Monday, the third on Tuesday, the fourth on Wednesday and the filth on Thursday, but each in a different year. These births are re markable, and we suppose two such cases are not on record. Tho Oulckont Act oil Kacord. From the South Ilenil Tribune. A Polander at the Oliver Chilled Plow works, Wednesday, exhibited a coolness of head and presence of mind which saved one of his fellow-workmen from a horrible death. The man was working with a belt in the pol-ishing-room, when, by ome means, he was caught and dragged ton ard the ceiling with frightful velocity. A Polander who was pass ing al.rg saw the peril of the man, and whip ping a large jack-knife out of his hip pocket, opened it and 'evced the belt, which is about a quarter of an inch thick, at one draw of the knife, and the man dropped to the floor. Had the Polander carried the knife in any picket where it would have taken an instant longer to get it, or had h s made the least false motion, the man would have been pounded to a jelly over the shaft. The accident so un nerved him that he was unable to work the rest of the day. Tho Sheep ltomeily for Iunoiiinlu. From tho Boston Globe. A California man troubled with insomnia was told that he would be cured by going to bed, closing his eyes and picturing in the mind u flock of sheep jumping a fence one at a time. The experiment nearly made him in sane. "I jumped about 20co over the fence," he says, "and there were about 1,000,000 left. Sleepl I'd given $1000 not to see those sheep jump that fence. I could have gone to sleep right away but for the 2,000,000 stupid, white-faced sheep standing waiting like a lot of fools 'for me to jump 'em over the fence. Jump 'em, did I say? I had to boost 'em, lift 'em, drive 'em, hoist c cry one of those 6,000,000 sheep over that pasture fence, and when I turned and looked back there were 13,000,000 sheep, stupid, black-faced, white, woolly imps waiting there, each saying: "Me, too; my turn next.'" u; f -1