syttis <:l) ylvan Valley News you Can't Keep 7>cbun a Tottffu l.e-fj VttU JJ. MINER. Mgr. BREVARD, TRANSYLVANIA CO., N. G., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4,T908. VOL. XIIL NO. 49. DilfK CASES IN 0. S. America Shows More Separations Than any Other Country. ONE MARBlAGijN TWELVE Eventually Fail—Desertion Most Com* men Cause of Divorce—Many Separa tions £>rc Ca.used by Drunkeness. Washington, D. C.—The divorce rate appears to be much higher in the United Slates than in any of the for eign countries for which statistics re- laFing to the subject have 'been ob tained, not loss than one maiTiage in twelve in this country ultimately ter minating in divorce. This fact haq been ascertained .by the census which has jv.st completed a compilation of statistics cf marriage and divorce cov ering the twenty years from 1887 to lOO'l, inclusive. Similar statistics for th100,000 of popula tion from 2D in 187i> to 82 in 1905 ; there be’ns: onp divorce for every 3,- 441 ]?ersons in the former years, while in thp latter there was one for every 11 persons. riirino; the twenty years from 1887 to 1908 the total number of recorded r.',arria?-e.s v>'as 12,SS2,044. w'hile the member cf divorces granted during ti'iis period was 945,fi25. For the pre- vi.^us tv/pntv Tenrs the number of di vorces was 32.'5.716. At the beginning «f the forty-years period divorces oc curred at the rate of 10.000 a year, while at the end of the period the an- ni’al nunihe’* was about 66,000. A more significant divorce rate is fVat Vv-h’ch is ba^ed. not on total pop ulation, but on the total married pop- n’rtion, since it is only married peo- ]!> V' can become divorced. These f.'icw that in 1870 the di vorce rate rer il00.000 married pop ulation was while in 1900 it was 200. This fbov,^s that divorce is at present two and a half times as com- Inon. coronared with the married pop ulation. as it was forty years ago. The average duration of marrla^o terminated by divorce is about ten years, 60 per cent of them being less than ten years. The number of years from marriage to separation w’as as certained in the cases of 770,929 di vorced counles. Of these 98,460, or 12.S per cent, separated in the first year of married life, and 14.2 per cent in the second year. The surprising faot that v/as revealed that 3.1 per cent of the total number separated ar.d became divorced after more than vp?»vr> cf married life. Children w^ere reported in 38.9 per f'pnt of the total number of divorced ca?e.':, children being present in 46.S per cent of the cases granted to the wife and in 20 per cent of those grant ed to the hiTsbard. Alimonv v:as demanded in 18 per cer,t cf the divorces granted to the v.'ife and .eranted in 1.?.7 per cent. The proportion cf husbands who asked for alinicnv v/as 2.S per cent WAO?JES WOFpJGTaCE Driving a Fiat Car Across the Line a Winner in Record Time. Savanna,b, On —'Covering the dis- . NEW YORK BREAD LIKE Labor Agent Powderly Says the Line Is Made of Liars. New York City.—That most of the unfortunates who stand shivering in New York’s bread line waiting for drj' bread and a cup of cofCee are liars and professional hoboes, who would not work if employment w'as offered them, is the opinion of T. V. Powder ly, a government labor agent, who has made a study of conditions here at close range. Speaking of his observations, the government agent said: “Some of the men are ail right, but more of them would not work if they had the chance. I took one man, for instance, to a restaurant and bought a meal. When it v/as served he asked if it might be taken home to his family. He was one of those who honestly w'anted to work and could find noth ing to do. “The majority told me tales about their lives—tales I knew to be false. Some of them pretended to have been bankers, brokers, or engaged in other lines of business. Their very speech betrayed them. Most of them are ‘bums’ 'and scalawags.” ENGLISH FEAR GERMANY Lord Roberts Warns Hit Country of Peril by Sea TEMPTirarW INVASION Great Britan’s Military Weakness Would Be the Cause of the Loss of Naval Supremacy THE CAMPAIGN FCNDS. STRSKE BREAKERS AT PENSACOLA. 300 Laborers Take Place of Striking Wharf Hands. Pensacola, Fla.—Nearly three hun dred negro laborers, in charge of 30 detectives, arrived here, the majority of them coming from Louisville, to take the places of the strikers 6n the three export wharves of the Louisville and Nashville, where the men went out on a strike a few days ago. With the arrival of the new men work on the wharves was resumed, but the newcomers are not satisfied, at least a portion of them are not, and declare they were not told that a strike was on here. Some of them applied to the mayor and wanted to be sent out of town, but were In formed that the city had nothing to do with the matter, excepting that they will not be allowed to remain in the city unless they secur« some kind of employment. London, England.—Speaking in the house of lords Field Marshal Lord Roberts expressed the conviction that the lack of a military force sufficient to make hopeless the attempt of an iavasion would, in all probability, be the cause of the loss of Great Brit ain’s supremacy at sea. In a studied speech he pointed out the compara tive ease with which Germany couI*J land an army on the shores of En^ land. England would be forced, ho stid, to submit to most humiliating remands. Hq disclaimed all hostility to or fear of Germany, but he said that the defense of the islands re quired immediate attention. There should be an army so strong In num bers and efficient in quality that the most formidable of foreign nations would hesitate to make a landing in England. He had ascertained, the speaker continued, that vessels capa ble of accommodating 200,000 men always were available in the northern ports of Germany, and that that num ber of men could be collected in the districts of the nearest port without any trouble, and that all preliminar ies, up to the actual dispatch cf troops, could be carried out v/ith the utmost secrecy. “It would be folly,” declared Lord Roberts, ‘to shut our eyes to the pos sibilities, however much peace is de sired. The startling events in the near east have brought home to the most careless observer that nothing could save, that country which is not prepared to protect itself. If Great Britain continues to neglect the pre cautions she will some day find her self in the hands of the invaders and forced to submit to the most humiliat ing conditions. This danger is daily becoming more threatening. Within a decade Germany has created the greatest sea power that ever existed, except Great Britain. Lord Roberts said that the main temptation to the invasion of Great Britain was the comparatively small standing army. It was Great Britain’s interest, he. continued, to find out in what Way* the great increase in Germany’s great sea power was likely to affect her and to adopt measures necessary for her own defense. Great Britain’s military weakness would in all probability be the cause of the loss of her naval supremacy. Lord Roberts’ resolution to the ef fect that the defence of the islands necessitates the immediate attention of the government to make provisioi. for a strong and efficient army, was adopted by a vote of 74 to 32. INBDSTRIAL EDilCATiON OFFICERS Named and Convention in Atlanta, Georgia Adjourns. Atlanta, Ga.—With the report that the society now has four hundred ac tive members scattered throughout the United States ,the National Socie ty for the Promotion of Industrial Ed ucation closed its second annual con vention here. Alabama and Georgia are the southern states in which the members of the society are most num erous. The society also has organized stale committee's in twenty-eight states. It was reported at the final session that a great amount of infor mation concerning industrial educa tion has been distributed during the past year. The following officers were elected: Dr. Alexander C. Humphries of Ho boken, N. J„ president, Walter C. Kerr of New York city, vice president; Frederick B. Pratt of Pratt institute, Brooklyn, treasurer. The secretary v/ill be elected by the board of man agers. The board of managers elected to serve until 1912 follow: Fulton Cut ting, New York; Leslie W. Miller, Philadelphia; Miss Jane Adams, Chi- ca; Frank A. Vanderslip, New York; F. J. McNulty, Springfield, 111.; Wal ter M. Wood, Chicago; Louis Roullion, New York; Marcellus H. Dodge, Wor cester, Mass. TARIFF REFORM SURE, Hundreds of Letters Approve Judge Taft’s Position. Hot Springs, Va.—President-elect Taft’s announced position in favor of a thorough tariff revision is being aj>- proved in a correspondence which is developing to the amount of more than a hundred letters a day. Mr. Taft’s determination in this re spect continues and the trend of re cently expressed sentiment is most satisfactory to him. Democrats Received $620,644.77. Re publicans $1,700,000.00. Chicago, 111.—^The democratic na tional committee received in all $620,- 644.77 and spent $619,4>10.06 during the recent presidential campaign, leaving a balance on hand of $1,234.71. So reads a statement made public by the officers of the committee, and the Itemized statement will be filed for record in the office cf the secretary of state of New York, In compliance with the resolution adopted by the na tional committee at Lincoln, Neb., last July Auditor’s office $ 866.50 Secretary's office 4,108.51 Traesurer’s office 5,073.21 Commercial travelers ... 153.00 Club organization bureau.. 5,020.76 Labor bureau 37,401.36 Advisory committee .. 3,020.95 Organization of states., .. 129,053.62 Purchasing agent departm’t 1,340.73 Finance committee 26,586.54 Congressional committee .. 3,625.00 Publicity bureau 88,899.43 Ex-treasurer’s account, miscellaneous sight draft on Oklahoma bank 4,CIO.85 Sergeant at arms .. .. .. 4,016,37 Documents ~ .. .. 142.537.25 Chairman and vice chair. 6,430.00 Reproduction bureau .. .. 5,115.60 Speakers’ bureau 33,786.95 General fund .. 38,111.80 Hent of headquarters . .. 13,740.72 Telegrams.... .. . .. 13,761.90 Telephones 2,199.30 Express charges 113,061.17 Postage 37,452.51 $619,410.06 Balance on hand 1,234.71 Total amount cf money received .. .. .. ..$620,644.77 New York City,—The Taft campaign fund in round numbers aggregated $'1,- 700,000, according to the list of con tributors made public by George R. Sheldon, treasurer cf the republican national campaign committee, Charles P. Taft, a brother of the president elect was the heaviest contributor. He spent $160,000 to help his brother to the white house, J. Pierepont Morgan, Andrew Carnegie, Whitelaw Reid and William Nelson Cromwell come next with contributions of $25,000 each. President Roosevelt gave one thou sand dollars. MONEY FOR NAVY YAROS. Strong Plea Made for Extensive Na val Improvements. _ W’ashington, D. C.—Rear Admiral R. C. Holliday, chief of the bureau of yards and docks of the United States navy, makes a strong plea for more extensive improvements at insular stations, and for a higher standard in the maintenance of home navy yards, in his annual report to the sec retary of the navy. No extensive improvements, he says, have been made during the last year at the insu lar stations. The estimates for navy yards and station^ recommended to be submit ted to congress at its coming session are as follows: Public works, including repairs and preservation $9,811,730; maintenance yards and docks, 1,500,000; contingent yards and docks, $30,000. Total, $11,- 341,730. The estimates include: Navy yard. Charleston, S. C., $442,500; naval sta tion, Guantanamo, Cuba, including $400,000 for a dry dock to cost $2,- 500,000', $450,000; naval station. Key Vv^est, Fla., $30,000; navy yard, Nor folk, Va., $911,000; naval station, at Pearl Harbor, including an estimate of $200,000 toward the construction of a dry dock to cost $2,000,000, $1,000,- 000; navy yard at Pensacola, Fla., $35,- 000. TREATY BETWEEN JAPAN iND U. S. Agreement Covers Policy of the Two Countries in the Pacific. W’^ashiiigton, D. C.—Despite"”officia] reticence, information from reliable Bources has been obtained of an agreement of far-reaching importance between the United States and Japan covering the policy of the two coun tries in the Pacific. The agreement is based on the idea of encouraging and defending free and peaceful commercial development in the Pacific. It contains not only a mutual guarantee to respect each oth er’s territorial possessions there, 'but defines the attitude of the two coun tries toward China, binding each to de fend, by every peaceful means, Chi na’s independence and integrity, and to give equal commercial opportunity In the Chinese empire to all nations. But more important still, the agree ment in the event of complications, threatening the status quo, binds the United States and Japan to consult each other with a view to acting to gether. LATE NEWS NOHS, OFFICERS _^ST NOT TALK. No More Discussion of Newport Con ference Will Be Allowed. Washington, D. C.—That there shall no further public discussion by na val officers concerning the Newport conference without permission of the president, is the purpose cf an order Issued hr Secretary Metcalf, by direc tion cf the president. On October 30th the department is sued an order permitting officers to dipcuss the work of this conference, except so far as it applied to changes to be made on ships to be authorized in the future. The president has now concluded that public discussions of ^liGged defects of ibattle-ships will not serve any good purpose. Monnment for Lee aoil Grant. Raleigh, N. C.—Governor Glenn has endorsed heartily the plan for a suit able joint monument by the people of the north and south to the military fame and glory of Generals Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant on the famous bloody angle of Spottsylvania battle ground. The governor says; “The time has come when all sectional animosity and bitterness should be forgotten and for given. That the south can but remem- her with gratitude General Grant’s generosity and kindness to General Lee, and a monument to both In spirit of fraternal love would do a great deal to cause them to be remembered joint ly as heroes of a reunited country. ’ FAVORS HEVlSiOW OF TARIFF. Joseph Q. Cannon Places Himself On , Record To That Effect. Chicago, 111.—^Joseph Q. Cannon, speaker - ute has been paid at the Chinese le gation to the memoiy of the deceas ed emperor and empress dowager of China. Practically all the members of the diplomatic corps. Vice Presi dent Fairbanks, several members oi the supreme court and assistant scv'- retaries of the various executive de partments attended. President Roose velt sent one of his military aides, Colonel Charles S. Bromwell, who left the president’s card and those of the secretary to the president, and of Cap- tAin Archibald Butt, another military aide. Secretary Root was suffering from an indisposition and sent a mes sage cf sympathy through Hunington Wilson, assistant secretary of state, as did also Admiral Dewey through an aide. Admiral Sperry cabled the navy de partment that he would allow the men of the Atlantic fleet shore leave at Manila and permit them to partic ipate in a parade and various festiv ities arranged in their honor. He says a few existing cases of cholera in the Philippine capital are isolated as not to be a menace to the health of the fleet. Major General John F, Weston, now in command of the Philippine forces, has been assigned to command the de partment of California, with headquar ters at San Francisco, vice Brigadier General Fred A. Smith, who will he assigned to other duties. Major Gen eral W. P. Duvall will succeed to the Philippine command. American Minister Rockhill, at Pe* kin, cabled the state department say- ing that the Chinese government is anxious for a postponement of the meeting of the international opium commission at Shanghai, from Janu-' ary 1 to February 1. The Chinese are not yet ready -for the meeting. There will be no objetcion to the request on the part of this government. When Secretary Strauss of the de partment of commerce and labor was asked if he contemplated “a shake- up” among the officials of the immi gration service at New York, he re plied that an improvement of the ser vice was in contemplation, “Public office is not a private *franchise, as I myself will soon learn,” said the sec retary. TORNADO IN ARKANSAS Demolished Many Towns in Northwesten Part of State. MUCH PROPlff lESTROYED 20 Persons Ware Kilied and Many Others Injured—Vast Tracks of Timber Lands were Ruined. Little Rock, Ark.—According to dis patches received, meager because of the remoteness of the section affect ed, more than a score of lives were lost and many other persons were in jured in a tornado which swept tho northwestern section of this state, completely demolishing several towns and razing vast tracts of timber. The tornado,, approaching from the southwest, crossed the Arkansas rivdr several miles south of tUe settlement of Piney, and proceeding in a easterly direction, swept through tho towns of Londcuy Wailerville, Jethroy Lodi, Lewisville, Paterson and Berry- ville and outlying portions o£ M.ulber- ry, either completely wrecking or lay ing waste the larger part of theso places and destroying timber and crops throughout the intermediate country. At Plney, It is stated that twelve persons were killed, and a number in jured, Practically the entire settle ment was demolished. At London ten are reported to have lost their lives, and considerable dam* age to property occurred. Wailerville and Jethro are reported in the path of the storm. In the vi cinity of Mulberry the death list ia placed at flve. At Berryvillei- one woman, Mrs. J.. O. Hoskins, was seriously injured, andl several other persons sustained lesser injuries. A path of dOO yards wide was cut through the town, six build ings being completely wrecked, and a number of others damaged, either be ing torn from their foundations or un» roofed. Here the property loss is e» timated at $25,000*. From the outlying districts consid erable damage to property is also re* ported, but no loss of life. At LfOdi three buildings were de* stroyed, and one woman seriously In jured. Advices from Lewisville, in the wes tern portion of Lafayette county, re port the destruction of several build ings at that place, and at Patmos con siderable damage to property as well as injury to a number of persons ia repbrtGv^f HOBSON MAKES DEMAND. Congressman Orders Roosevett to Keep th« Fleet in the Pacific Ocean. Akron, Ohio,^—Congressman Rich mond P. Hobson, who was here has sent a letter to President Roosevelt demanding that he rescind his orders recallkig the United States fleet from the Pacific. In his letter, he scored President for his interference in th« Japanese troubles in California, say ing: “Our presidents have invariably re* fused to interfere in local matters, even when foreign subjects were be ing assassinated, but in this case, Mr. President, you did interfere where foreign subjects were not being harm ed. If you were Justified then in call ing on the people of San Francisco to surrender, you are not justified now in withdrawing the fleet and again placing them and their neighbors on the whole coast in precisely the same defenseless position.” * Conditions that have no counterpart in the Atlantic exist, Hobson says, and it would be a national and inter national calamity to withdraw tba- fleet. ALMOST STRUCK ROOSEVELT, Bicycle Rider Arrested for Nearly Running Down the President. Washington, D. C,—Because he barely avoided running down the president of the United States with a bicycle while the latter was walking to church Gilbert Beyer, a youth, was arrested on the charge of “not having a suitable bell on his bicycle,” Boyer was released upon putting up $5 collateral, which he forfeited rath er than stand trial upon the charge. President Roosevelt was walking briskly down E street with two secret service men at his heels and started to cross Fifteenth street, when ' he heard a shout of warning from some one in front of him. The president sprang back just in tin>e to miss being hit by a bicycle ridden by a boy who was trying to steer the wheel with one hand and carry a basket of milk bottles with the other. When the president shouted at him to admonish him for his reckless rid ing, the youth merely grinned and ped aled swiftly away. -•Nl mikm BDSIHESS WITfl THE SODTB Prediction That It Will Soon Be En hanced 50 Per Cent. Chicago, 111,—“Chicago’s busines with the southern states will be en hanced 50 per cent in the next two years. Southern resources are wait ing for development and Chicago cajh ital will set them in motion. We are going after the business of the Mia- sisippi valley at once.’’ This is the verdict cf thirty dele gates of the Association of Commerce, who, after a two weeks’ tour of south ern states, returned here. The return ed visitors declare that chief among the results of the trip will be a closer affiliation of the banking interests oX the south v/ith those of Chicago.