THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG Established 1870 TWEDDELL'S For all new style, good wearing Suits $20 up to $45 All Prices Between | 5 1 4 Americans Do Not Stay Married UT of every ten marriages that occur In the United States one ends in divorce. Such are the startling figures il | that are to be gleaned from a res il | cently-issued bulletin by the United | States Census Bureau, a reading of which may throw some 'light upon the old question, "Is Marriage a Failure?" Ofcourse, statistics willnot $ | show the number of unhappy mare ! riages, the number of mismated peo- ple who continue to drag their chains Automobile Owners Attention Why worry about the many troubles that develop in your car. Just bring it to DAVIS OCK COMPANY and have their mechanics do the necessary work to make DRY things right. WE CAN DO IT. 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Quite as ominous as the fact that in 1916 not less than 10.66 per cent. of the marriages were dissolved is the fact that the ratio of divores is increasing steadily. For more than forty years it has been advanc out of proportion to the population or the number of marriages. In 1880 divorces were slightly less than six Per cent. of the marriages; in 1900 they were slightly less than eight per cent.; in 1908 they were about eight and a quarter per cent. The same thing has been noted in Canada, and the war has no doubt resulted in a tremendous increase of violated homes. - But in Canada the Govern ment keeps a tight hold on divorce. Nobody can be diverced in Canada except by a special get of Parliament hé happens to live in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia or British Columbia. * In these provinces there were divorce courts before the Dom- inion of Canada was federated, and they were retained. Moreover, di- vorce in Canada is expensive as com- pared with American divorce. Be cause of these different: conditions there can be no fair comparison he ! in the United States, In the United States each state 8 law unto itself. with regard to divorce. We find police magis- trates issuing separation decrees as freely as though they were dog In cue state there is nc ™ Sr a - N . The Prevailing Prices of _ Should bring you more frequently to the store of low prices. Our + advertising space is limited, therefore it would pay you to visit our store and convince yourself of our low prices. § _ YOUNG MEN'S SUITS Our range of Young Men's Suits cannot be overlooked -- they come in tweeds, worsteds and serges--in form fitting and Waist line models; workmanship guaranteed Tweeds and Wor- 'steds. ~~ . Regular $40.00 to $45.00, Saturday ..........$3000 | Regular $45.0019$50.00, © In 'Reg. $10 to $15.00, Sat. . to 3 at- ab 8. 00 slendid clearing Button Shoes in all si; Reg. $7 to $8.50 Rr MEN'S SUITS Men's Business Suits, 3 button : coat; best of tailoring through- out. They come in several shades such as grey, blue, brown and mixed tweeds. Reg. $45, Saturday $35.00 =m Serges, reg. $50 to $60, i" Saturday . . ..$35and $40.00 H a, i jl | native Indians, Also a line of tweeds and worsteds. and $30, y . * \: Trousers with Governor. asten- 22 yo... $7500 $12.00 e251 NE $19.50 3 4 i ! divorce, and that 18 Soutn Carolina, | ¢H00c4000 but whether the fact has anything to do with the rice industry there is doubtful. Elsewhere the divorce statistics are very unequal, but! whether this is entirely to the vary- ing strictness of the law is not exe plained, though one naturally draws this jnference. In the District of Columbia, there were only 13 divorces in 1916, for every 100,000 of the population; in' New Yor there were 32 to every 100,000% while In Nevada there are 607 to the same unit of population. The states that have easy divorce laws naturally attract citizens of other states, wha des to have their mar- riages dissolved, and in this connec- tion of course, Nevada is famous. In the case of Nevada it was not that the divorce laws were especially lax, but that as a new state in haste to make citizens it established a very short time in which citizenship could legally be secured. At one time it was six months. So, unhappy New Yorkers, could establish residence in Reno for six months, and then were entitled to the benefit of all the state laws, including divorce. Of late this citizenship period has "een increased. With the exception of Colorado, Maine, South Dakota, West Virg'nig, and of course South rolina . oo were more divorces in the United States in 1916 than in 1906. Only in these states and in Mississippi, Alabama, North Dakota, and the Dis- trict of Columbia was the ratio not increased. The 1916 statistics, of course, do not cover the war period in the United States, and it may be that the United States, which was less affected by the war than any of the other great belligerent powers, will not find its divorces so greatly infly- enced by the war as they have done, but undoubtedly there will be some effect, and undoubtedly it will be in the direction of more divorce peti- tions. It is to be noted that alimony is being more frequently sought than in the past. Thirty years ago, it was asked in only about 10 per cent. of the cases. Now it is demanded in 20 per cent. of the cases, and granted in perhaps 15 per cent. of them.. ! The wife applies for the divorce in two-thirds of the cases, but here against statistics may mislead. When a couple agree to separate it is cus- tomary for the man to permit his Wife to bring the suit to end a con- dition of which they are equally tir- ed. Moreover the wife has more legal grounds for divorce than the hus- band. A husband can be divorced for cruelty, for instance, and the sta- tween marriage and divorce here and | tistics show that she advances this cause four times as often as the hus- band. Then she can divorce her hus- band if he fails to provide for her, but a husband can only in rare in- stances bring such a charge against his wife. Of the 108,702 divorces granted in 1916, only 12,486 were based on infidelity. But here again | it- ought to be observed that if a divorce can be had on less serious | grounds it is not uspal to advance the most disgraceful. It is also to be noted that more suits brought by the husband are contested than those brought by wives, because it is sup- | posed that ordidarily. a woman who has been divorced is in a worse posi- tion than a man in similar plight. Where Wood Is Money. . "Who ever héard of wooden money? "The only known currency of this 'kind is issued by the Hudson Bay Company, and circulates all over the Vast territory controlled by that powerful trading concern. It is a coinage consisting of piecos of wood known as. "castors," which are stamped with a die. These are accepted everywhere in that territory a8 cash, and are exchangeable for all sorts of supplies and sommodi- ties at the widely scattered stations of the corporation. = The area governed hy the com- pany is vast. In one straight line it extends as far as from London to Mecca: from King's Posts to ihe 'Pelly Banks is further than from ris to Sarmacand. Over all of 'this the corporation exerci-* a complete dominjon, employing the fefly Ojiboway and Crees, to collect the furs which fur- nish its revenue. - Hudson Ray is about two-thirds the size of the Gulf of Mexico. It is An almost landlocked sea, with 3,000 miles of coast line. More than 300 years ago Hendrik Hudson, trying to "find the northwest passage, wintered there. His crew mutinied and set him afloat In an open boat with his Son and seven others. He and his companions were never seen again. - The unit of value in that part of the world is a beaver skin. Two martens are equal to one beaver, and 'twenty muskrats are equivalent to marten. The trapping is done in , and. in spring the Indians the pelis to. the stations, re- g in payment for them wooden ey. With the latter they buy supplies they need at the store tained by the company. at the '| 'be: General Staff . COOOOOOIPMTDOODN § Mitchell's Hobby Made Him Famous RIG.-GEN. C. H. MITCHELL, | C.B., C.M.G,, D.8.0.. Legion | of Honor (French), Order of | Leopold, Crdix de Guerre (Belgium), Order of the Crown and Cross of War (Italian); had adebby. And that hobby suddenly picked him up in its arms and carried him up to the stars. i In spite of the blazing streak of | ribbon on his left breast, he is not a | | professional soldier. Before the war, | he was an engineer, an enthusiastio" | investigator of industry, bath in the engineering and socialogical »sense. And he had a hobby which he rode fervently, furiously, joyqusly. i -And that hobby was science of military intelligence. In his younger days, when he was consulting ' engineer at Niagara, he | was a member of an infantry militia regiment. But that line of soldiering | desultory ~-{inadequate drilling, shooting and an annual camping trip with red-coat manoeuvres, did- n't strike his enquiring mind as be- ing up-to-date.- And, of course, there was the hobby. 80 in due course he began to agi- tate for the formation of some mili- tary unit which would have army intelligence, maps and topography as its medium of service. In 1903, the Corps of Guides was formed and he became ofie of its senior officers. He studied the ground. He learn ed to see a landsca in a map, a bird's-eye view from a chart. He studied earth, trees, streams, con- tours, figured out how to defend any |i place from anything. He doped out the defence of To~ ronto against invaders from all directions. . His engineering confreres regard ed his zealous devotion to the subs Ject with deprecatory smiles. Why couldn't Charlie bend all this energy to something more profitable? But then the war fell with a crash, and the major, (as he was then in the Corps of Guides), prompt- ly stepped into his ordained place as Staff officer, intelligence, in the first contingent. His hobby develop ed into a gold mine for the troops. For besides having an eye trained to see everything of importance in a Piece of ground, the major's enthus- lastic studies had taught him alse how to see spies, and more important still, how to grasp instantly the fea~ | tures of such things as trench ware | fare, patrols, organization of intelli. | gence branches in small units, A Canadian patrol in No Man's! Land captures a German prisoner near Hooge. This prisoner, before going to prison camp, comes before an intelligence officer. © He belongs to the 127th Landwehr. And how long has he been in the Hooge sec- | tion, Ten days. Where was he be- | fore that? Down at Arras? The 4th { Prussian Guards Reserve | Ho, ho! says the Intelligence offi- cer, the second rate Landwehr is pulled out of the line at Arras and the snappy, offensive guards are put in! Something coming off at Arras! Word 1s sent down. Our observa- tion balloons watch the German lines at Arras for increasing artillery, in creasing 'traffic on the roads in tear, new work on trenches and so on. The troops at Arras make a raid and discover from prisoners that some- thing is "coming off." : So down by Arras, the British put ig a lot 'more guns, shell the roads in rear, put fresh troops in the line. Old ' Heinie discovers thet he has been discovered and calls off his at- tack. Hell has been check-mated, Hundreds of lives saved! Why? Be- Cause an intelligence officer talked to a Hun prisoner a hundred miles away, but, gathering all his facts to- gether, had "doped out" the situa~ tion. Gen. Mitchell was one of the most distinguished of these Intelligence officers. To describe all that the In- telligence, Service deals in would take an encyclopaedia. But they gather everything, from the moves ment of enemy armies: down to the digging of a new Hun machine gum Post on a quiet sector of the line. They must everything from the number of ehemy guns on a cere tain piece of front to the number of good wells of drinking water to be found in a village we propose to Gen. Mitchell did great work as Chief of Intelligence in the Canadian Corps from its first trip to the line. He was a wisard with maps. He the airplane as a photo- grapher of enemy positions. He help- ed make air photographs the sol dier's best guide. He could smell an enemy attack weeks ahead. 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