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1911. 126 SIXTH ST. THE ONLY ENTRANCE TO LAXITY OF MARRIAGE VOWS SHOCK CZARINA WHO TRIES TO WORK CHANGE Bus'sians Good Lovers but Unfaithful HusbandsAll Classes Have Two or Three Wives Openly Acknowledged in Society and Czarina's Effort at Reform Brings Only Laughs. PORTLAND'S EMPORIUM Every Women's High Grade Hat in Stock at Your Unrestricted Choice $6.85 " . v -w--rTx 4 vn T 1 "VTT APT ft i iiiv ri.i m - vji . v w 1 '' ' aaaaysaajaaaS. aSB5SM . ajtoj!m!mmmmm r - ijv. r" ST. PETERSBURG. Jan. 7. (Special.) -Russian! make the best lovers In lb world." enthusiastically Cimtd Mise Halite Ermlnle Reeves, the well-known American authoref. a few moattia ao In Peterbur. Aa wife of roat Wfceeler. who la In the American diplomatic serrtce. and now etatloned at St. rterbr-. Mia Reerea haa had plenty of opportunities of studying Rutslan aocleiy. And ret her atate ment. which aroused great Interest as cornice from a. distlna-ulshed American, waa denied br sereral Russlana "They are the best lorers. perhaps." answered pe Princess, ""but they make the worst husbands la the world." "They are a-lorlously unfaithful." remarked one of the Tsar a adjutants, addlns. -But what dos that matter?" The fact Terrains that the marrlae-e bond Is looser In Russia than farther wet. no matter what class you take. Nobody looks upon It aa final, whether Prince or peasant. Plvorce. though theoretically so difficult to obtain that forelgnera wonder why the holy synod does not chanpe an antiquated proced ure, la easier than In any other coun try.' not barring America. The other day a well-known diplomat waa In a Petersburg drawing-room and asked a Russian to introduce him to hla wife. "Which oneT" was the retort. "There are three of them here at thla moment. My latest Is standing over there." This Is not a rare case. To have three wives, not divorced, and Ur with them all seems ridicu lous, and Tt It happens In Russia and all three are received In aoclety. Rua slans are far less strict about these things than Americans are. Take, for Instance, the case of Count Tarlo. who Is well known In Moscow and Peters burg society. He haa three wives. One he married "In a civil marriage In Petersburg. Thla civil marriage con sists In putting In the papers an an nouncement to the effect that Mr. So-and-So. la henceforward going to ac knowledge Mrs. or Miss Somebody as Ms wife. Some people object to re ceive the lady for a tlmf. Rut hun dreds of houses are open to her and the stricter ones give In after a while. Marriage Badly Mixed. So Count Tarlo had a wife In Peters burg. IU second wife lives In Moscow. He married her while still young, so she ouht to be called his first wife. The lady and the Count differed on some olnts. and each went a separate way But there are children. Tarlo goes to lee them and lives In his wlfes house and goes with her Into society while the visit lasts. In Moscow the elder wife Is received as the Countess Tarlo; In St. Petersburg, the younger one en joys this distinction. The Count's third wife lives in the country, where she meets are receives the neighboring landed proprietors as the Countess Tarlo. The most extraordinary part about such domestic conditions, from our point of view. Is that Russian law ran not touch theni so long as the In terested parties do not complain, though the church, of course, forbids a man to have more than one wife or a woman more than one husband at a time. The church only allows her clergy to marry once, and forbids the remarriage of a widower-clergyman; but does not appear to think such re strictions necessary for the laity. inmi.ar of the manr cases of big amy." as It would be called anywhere els. Is that of Olonel Millar, who mar ried a Miss de Roberts when he was Governor of Kovno. a large town In Lithuania- The Count left this post after some years and removed to Pe i...),nrr while his wife remained at their estate nesr Kovno. When In Petersburg he met a Madame Pxcva nek. who had been divorced from her .ttnd- and proclaimed her as his wife. He Is now Chief Magistrate of the City of Warsaw, and goes Into Rus sian society with his "second" wife. Wife No. 1 Is still In the country, but makes no attempt to press for her rights or get a divorce. Her husband visits her occasionally and her children are with their father most or tne ume. This state of things would not be tol erated In American society, both the man and his second wife would find It hard to get a footing Into any respect able house. And yet these cases are so common In Russia that nobody takea iht notice of them. Mrange Ca.e Confusing. A curious Instance of this kind elec trifled even Ft. Petersburg some time uo. A young army Captain. Apanoff, who had lust married, was sent out on active service. Several years passed, and his wife heard no newa of him. ao she thought him dead, though his name had never appeared on the lists of killed which were Issued by the War Office. Last year she married another man. without producing the certificate of her first husband'a death, which would be demanded In any other coun try. After she had been married sev eral months a visitor was announced riir as she sat In the drawing room, and her first husband entered. The situation was exceedingly awk ward, but what astonished their friends most wis the fact that the first hus band. Instead of settling the question h a duel, or at any rate a game of cards. In which the disputed wife formed the stakes, insisted in taking ' the question before the tribunal and riRlmlnz his wife In a legal way. This step puszled the Judges aa much as 1 antonlshed society. There waa no precedent to go on. and both martlages were quite legal accornina m ioo cu tnm of the country. The case Is no likely to be decided for years, and everybody blames the parties concerned for not "fixing It up" privately, society Micr ready to accept their verdlct- jejrirocx vrewjeir. cicsi- AV.V, r.VA tym ' CVS CroS - -r i . r x - Foreigners who see these things going on In perfectly -good - society r thelr eyebrowa and ask "Why?" The answer Is so difficult to find that vn throw Russians who have traveled much disagree about It. Most of them put It down to the Asiatic Influence of ation and this la the oi.lnlon of a member of the Holy Synod, who seld: "The question, of course. seems almost Inexplicable to foreigner. Rut nobody can understand us Russians unlera he understands the Influence of the Tartar. Though remaining Orthodox In name, the Runinans of that time were so used to seeing all sorts of Moham medan customs. Including polygamy, all around them, that It ceased to trouble , them, and found many imitators imom the pure RuswIunJ-. as well as among those who had married into iannr .... Boveral t hrlstian Kings, of Rus and Mus covy, which compose the modern Russia. followed the Tartar laemons 10 m. - tent of keeping three or four wtvee. The life of a RusMnn woman was spent In a harem till Pctor the Great, who had learned other Ideas In Europe, determined to Introduce them into kussss- i" women "caught on" so very reluctantly hat he was obliged to Jssue rescript which forbade womfyt to cover mcir r.M. i miMi and ordered them to at tend the theaters Cxar Peter opened In Moscow and St. FetereDurg. Wires IVon at Dice. cwnn..n rA esoeclallv French cus toms, gradually came In; but these seml Ortenutl views of marriage still remain. Kvtn today wives are nought and sold. The parties concerned settle the matter by gambling for the woman. More than one well-known dame in St. Petersburg society owes her present position to the turn of a card, or the throw or mo uit-o. One peculiar union is wnat is - political marrUige. of wnicn air. . Mrs. Ivanoir are a iair Ivanoff was a revolutionist ana mraio of the same party as her husband, whom. owever. she had never seen oeiore nisrrlnge was arranged. ne wae im prisoned. Her advice was greany ntru by those outsme. as snti nu eral bold attacks on the government. Only her mother, father or husband was al lowed to visit her. Her parenu. not revolutionaries, and she bad no bus band. So the committee of the party or- crcd Ivanoff to marry her, so as 10 p the right to visit ner id pn.u.u obeyed and now visits her twice a week, carrying party messages to and 1. One reason wny loreignera " " Russian customs on tne spot cu u. Idealise peasant me is me they take auch a very proealo view of marriage. M . Courtship, as we understand It. is almost unknown In the Russian village. A glrVa beauty counts lor nuim her chances of finding a husband, with the result that a pretty rlrl generally leavea her native nest as soon as pos alble, to seek an Irregular life In the towns. What the peasants look lor are robust health and a strong pair of arms, alnce the women do all mens work, even to PrlcKiayin. n . too. of a Russian worklngman making. home" for bis mate woum u.c. enter their heads. The customs are tar n.trirchai for mat. im " married pair live with the bridegroom a father and mother. Indeed, the bride haa been chosen by her mother-in-law. with the help of a woman called .khr a aort Of gO-Detween in mo marriage market. The bride brings no Mriinn but her wedding outfit, con .i.H.. r h!f m. dozen chemises, two pairs of boots, a sheepskin, pillows and a bed cover, but enriches her husband s family by working for mm in tne neiu u nm ilia ion to And work, gen erally spending the whole Winter, and often many years, away from his na tive village. The aoll la too badly tilled to enable the whole family to live on it. so he must go away. He returns home for the harvest, when all pos sible hands are needed In the country. If his work does not keep him in the factories. But the chances are ten to nn that he haa taken to himself a second wife In the town, who. though knowing of the existence of wife num ber one. does not trouble about her. Distances are so long and communica tion so difficult thatrthey will probably never see one another, though cases are by no means rare when they meet and even live together on fairly good terms. Gorky's Case Is Recalled. This system helps one to understand Gorky's astonishment when New York tabooed him for traveling about with a lady who waa not his wife. "She is my wife In my eyes and the eyes of God," he Indignantly toia nowppr T tinrietirtand tne stales i all." he complained on reacning cm- rone. "They eay it is a ireo nd yet I couia not. nuu mtmm W M Willi HI ICVVBU " " ' These words explain the whole differ- ence between Russian laeas nu uui. The lady with whom he went to America was known among his rnenas his wife. His -first.- who kucw. too, and did not oojecu iwc, he aeked. "ehould other people?" The same Ideas run mrouKn an classes, and this is wny noooay ever stops to censure them. People rush Into marriage witnout nesnanun cause It IS so eaey 10 biio - yoke as soon as It proves Duroensumo. The present Tsarina's Ideas about the marriage bond have done much towards making her unpopular among the aristocracy. Having been brought up in her simple German home with very different Idea, ahe was Inex pressibly shocked at the "laxity." as she termed It, which prevailed among the ladles of the court. She even went so far as to say she would not receive divorced women into ner immuii circle. "Then you will see nobody," the Dowager Empress V al to n? J'" torted. Many ladies were cut off the llet of waiting ladies, or "frayling. as they are called, on this account, with the result that the aristocracy only frequented the court when absolutely obliged to do so. This curtailment of the circle of the Tsarina has grown to such an extent that many princely houses think It useless to go to the capital and live In Moscow, always the "capital of the dlecontented." since St Petersburg was built. The Tsarina gave great offense once by calling out Indignantly to a maid of honor, whom annual: CHOICE OF THE HOUSE SALE Xo matter hoW beautiful. W elegant or exquisite the hat may be or whether priced at $12.50, $lo, $18, $20, $25 or even still higher, will be on sale Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday at $6.85. The high character of our stock, .so well known to many women, will make them all the more eager to obtain these unparalleled values. This sale is so extraordinary and the price so remarkably low that you simply cannot afford to miss it. All our $7 to$12.B0 Hats must go at $4.29 All our $Tto$6 Hats must go at $2.2ft All our cheaper ones must go at $1.49 AH our Ostrich and Willow Plumes Va PRICE - . -- " 1 T"T" TT All our Furs must sro at 2 All our $2 and $2.50 Baby Bonnet3. .98 Every Untrimmed Shape on our Economy 3d floor S1.29 Big reduction in our. Cloak and Suit Department. 'T " " " ' Come Early and Get First Choice she saw kissing one of the little Grand Duchesses. "How dare you embrace my child?' The maid of honor was so hurt that ahe persuaded her husband to give up a very high position at court ao that she might retire. The Tsarina explained her words by saying that though she could not help seeing the wife of a high official at court, she felt that the caress of a woman of such utterly worthless reputation could only contaminate an innocent child. The Tsar has quite bowed to her opinion in this matter, but his mother laughs at her daughter-in-law, collecting around her many of those friends of her youth on whose foibles and "Asiatic ideas," as the young Tsar ina calls them, she has winked for ao long. But. so far. the Empress Is alone In her efforts to reform Kussia's ideas on the subject of marriage. People all over the country, where political lib erty Is . a myth, enjoy, and evidently mean to keep, an amount of individual license unknown elsewhere. Social se verity Is therefore tabooed. Nobody asks how many wives a man hae, or how many husbands a woman has wedded. Even the ordinary forms are uncared for. Married men and women openly go about with their sweethearts and no hostess would dream of asking her friends without Including their af finities In the Invitation. The "liaisons" are talked about quite openly and lapses from domestic virtue are Invari ably excused. field for civil prohibitive legislation? Our next subject will be "The Deca logue and the Republic." OIL LEASE CAUSES MURDER Rich Kansan Kills President ot Company Which Contests. CANET, Kan.. Jan.' 7. J. T. S. Nee. ley, president of the Wichita Pipe Line, president of the Lima fOhlo) Trust Company, and head of several large oil companies, was snot ana Kiuea mo Palace Hotel here this morning by Al O. Truskett, a prominent business man of Caney. The shooting was the result of litigation over an oil lease. Truskett surrendered Immediately. - Truskett Is of one of the oldest and wealthiest families In the city. The lease which led to the litigation between Truskett and the pipe line company was to a tract of oil land four miles south of this city. Robert F, Goodman, a minor Indian, who owned the tract, leased it several years ago. to Hugh Bronson. an oil man. wio later disposed or it to Winkler, Anerfleld & Hicks, a local oil firm, for $400. Trus kett paid this firm J9100 for the lease. Shortly afterward the Wichita Pipe Line Company claimed the lease of the tract, saying It had come into posses, slon of it through a lease by Goodman to Fred C. Losser and Herbert Scott, who were interested in the Wichita Company. The company asserted that the leasing to Truskett had been il legal. . , Owen Owen, of Caney, a nephew of Senator Owen, of Oklahoma traveled with the Indian boy, Goodman, from the time the rival claims arose until the boy became of age, September 24 last. It was said Owen was In the employ of the Wichita Company. On the date Goodman became of age, the Wichita Company began action In the Federal Court to clear its lease to the land. Litigation haa been in progress ever since. Truskett asserted the pipe line company used undue Influence on the Indian boy, spirited him away and finally bought from him the lease for J5000. i VEIN OF COAL IS FOUND Property of I4ttel, Near Centralla, Will Bo Developed at Once. CENTRALIA, Wash., Jan. 1. (Spe cial.) Another industry has been add ed to Lewis County. At Llttel. eight miles from Centralla, a splendid vein of coal has been discovered after care ful development, and the company ex pects to have more than 200 men at work there before the end of this year. About 60 miners will begin work with in a few days. A remarkable feature about the new mine is the difference of Its coal from the kind hitherto mined In this oounty. Nothing but lignite has, so far, been mined here, but the new vein is lounci to be bituminous, similar to the coal mined In Virginia collieries. CHRISTIANITY'S AUTHOR IS RULER OF NATIONS Writer Sees Divine Power IfctabUshiiii Its Rule on Earth in the Unrest and Upheaval Among Nations. Jfo. S. - BT REV. J. H. 'LErPER. Having reached the conclusion in our last article that the American Republic is a Christian Nation, we proceed to elucidate the necessary and reasonable deductions. To be Christian is to be in harmony with Chrlat In word and con duct. Christ sustains a much closer re lation to the church than he does to the state. He Is the head of the church (Colosslans. 1:18) and "the head over all thlnaa (else) to the church." (Ephe- slans. 1:22). It might be profitable to secuiansta to discern the import of that phrase. "Head over all things to the church," and then to remember that the "all things in cludes civil government. This world In Its present probation would not stand an hour were it not for the presence. ot God's redeemed people In It. It ft axiomatic that the great Redeemer of man could never have accomplished his mission to our world unless all things and all powers had been made subject unto him. Bad men pale In his pres ence; and devils tremble. Of course the secularist refuses to accept either our argument or conclusion. So much the worse for him. He Is Coleridge's owl flitting athwart the aky under glare of the noonday aun, seeing nothing not even the aun itself. We refer the reader to the Bible as authority in our riiiu?uaslon In the confidence that all will recognise the propriety of doing so without our stopping here to estab lish Its Inerrancy. The Bible's assertions of the supreme rulershlp of the Redeemer of man are so numerous that we shall refer to a very few of the most prominent- All Bible scholars agree that the person referred to In Psalm 110:1 as lord." from the Hebrew AdonU Is the Messiah of the Old Testament and the Christ of the New Testament. The first, sec ond, fifth and sixth verses proclaim his supremacy over human rulers. He la expressly declared in this official character In the book of Daniel (7: 13-14.) He himself laid claim, to uni versal supremacy. "All power is given ti ma In heaven and In earth" (Mat thew 2S:18.) John, while on the island of Patmos heard a voice from heaven ,.vlni: "The kingdoms of thla world are become the kingdoms of our Lord and of his Christ; and he ahall reign forever and ever" (Keveiationa n:io.j This power has never been and never will be surrendered or delgated to any man or angel. Men have denied Its iatence and - myriads still deny and ignore It. They are anarchists in the realm of 3od Why do heethea nations rage? Why vain thinH do MODle mind? of earth In plots Dsas; rulers are In league combined. Tim. asalnst the lrd they speak aialnit hla Christ they say: t ... . inln their bands to braak, let us fmt their cords away. Ha shall laush who sits above. Ood most high shall scorn them all. Them nl anger fierce reproce; burning wrath h.;l tn them fa.ll. Tht fact for the recognition of which we are pleading is as clearly ....rteil In the letter to the Romans. (13:1-7) as It Is possible for human language to make it. (&ee the pas sage.) When Paul wrote these words Nero was on the Roman throne wield ing in the moBt diabolical manner the scepter or tne empire. e waa nroaiy abusing tne power wun wnicn no w thus clothed. His administration was a travesty of Justice. Paul was enjoy ing obedience to civil authority as an authority of God. He was not com mending Its awful abuse by a wicked emperor whose hands were red with the blood of his own mother and w'fe and with the blood of thousands of the followers of Christ. Nero stepped out into the blackness of darkness by his own suicidal hand at the age of 31 to account to him who has said: "Vengeance is mine; I will repay saith the Lord." But he left the throne be hind him. And the righteous features or Roman law remain to this day 'n the Jurisprudence, of civilized nations. But only those elements of Roman law traceable to the divine source have come down to us through the ages. The infallible lawgiver is gradually and surely casting the Jurisprudence of the world to the knowledge of the rock principles of civic righteous ness. "He must reign till he has pot all enemies under his feet." (Cor. 1:24.) The gradual and certain fulfillment of this prediction is exactly what Is causing the unrest and upheavals among the nations. "I came not to bring peace on- the earth," said Jesus, "but a sword." And as long as satan Is permitted to muster his minions against the advance of Christian civil ization that sword will refuse fo re turn to its scabbard. People who pray have for long, long ages been Implor ing the lord of nations to establish his rule on, the earth: "Thy kingdom come," has been their prayer. There are encouraging signs of an approach ing answer to that prayer. It can only be answered after the removal of dominant evils. The most serious feature of the situation is the fact that some of the most formidable forces of evil have succeeded in forti fying themselves behind human enact ment. For example, there are on the stat ute books of various states of the Re public more than two-score reasons for divorcing husbands and wives. All but one or two of these reasons are in contravention of the divine law. How has it worked? Between 1868 and 1887 (I have no later statistics) 328. 716 divorces were granted" by our courts! In the .llrht of such figures what becomes of the sanctity and purity of the home?. Tell me of your firesides and I will tell you of your Nation. The stability of the Nation can be secure only when the' home is main tained on the divine basis of marriage and divorce. The drink traffic has succeeded In drawing the folds of our National flag about Its unspeakable form. Its friends conceived the strategic idea of enlist ing the Savler of sinners and placing him at the head of their ranks; be cause he furnished unfermented wine at a Jewish wedding! They would have us believe It was intoxicating stuff. And thus they would make a brewer out of the son of God! But the same spirit that sanctioned that act of Jesus Christ held Solomon's pen while he wrote: "Look not thou on the wine when It is red. when It glveth Its color In the cup, when It moveth Itself aright (ferments). At the last It blteth like a serpent and stingeth like an adder." (Prov. 23:31 32.) Htfw suggestive is the next verse of the kindred of the vices! "Thine eyes shall behold strange (lewd) women and thy heart shall utter perverse things"! (obscenity and profanity.) The pen of Solomon easily glided from the description of the one vice to. the other. Then as now they were in separable. 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