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THE DAILY COOS BAY TIMES, MARSHFIELD, OREGON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER IS, 1906. ------------. ... --.4. DIVORCE RATE IN UNITED STATES IS . GREATER THAN IN OTHER COUNTRIES We Want to Call Your Attention Interesting Data on Marriage and Marital Failures Compiled by-the American Bureau of Census . v t rk- r iu uui CHRISTMAS GOODS HBailIIIIIIllll Our stock this season is larger and more com-;; plete than ever before And we are able to give the offered as we took the opportunity last Spring of J ordering direct trom the factory. Our Holiday Is too large to enumerate but we have presents All the latest books of fiction and TOYS of every description Fountain pens at all prices, from $1 to $15.00. - Everything will be found here and we are always glad to help you in your selections. We especially wish the friends And would like to fill - - - --- Two Good Policies K) havo Is ono upon your Lille ana 10 other upon your Property. 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Launches a Specially t Foot of Queen i t s a L,ine ui best values ever Line for everyone old or young, I sending away presents to 7 arrival before Christmas, - - - - - - - - - - frj fe fr frfre fr BARGAIN! best brands of Linoleum mndo order and as a result wo nro over 4 at 70c and 75c. It will pay you this before you buy. tlio following cigars: --- Avenue, Marshfield NSEN The United States Bureau or tho Census has Just completed a com pilation ot the statistics of marriage and divorce covering' a period of twenty years from 1887 to 190G, in clusive. This is the second statis tical investigation of this character authorized by tho Federal Govern ment, tho earlier inquiry being car ried out through tho agency of tho Department (now Bureau) of Labor, under the direction ot Carroll D. Wright, who was then Commissioner of Labor. Mr. Wright has also been associated with the prcsont inquiry, acting as an expert special agent of the Census Bureau. Tho detailed re port presenting the results of the present Inquiry, and Including also a summarization of figures presonted in the former report, which Is now out of print, Is In press; but In tho meantime tho Census Bureau has is sued a bulletin, prepared by Joseph A. Hill, which presents a summary of the results of the Inquiry with as much detail as will probably bo de sired by the general public. Over Twelvo Million Marriages. The total number of marriages re corded during the twenty years from 1887 to 190C, Inclusive, was 12832, 044. The number annually reported increased from 483,069 in tho year 1887 to 853,290 In the year 1906. The increase year by year was by no means uniform. The marriage rato is quickly responsive to changes in economic conditions. A small In crease shown for 1893 and an actual decrease in the succeeding year re flect tho Influence of tho panic of 1892, and normal conditions do not appear to have been restored In the matrimonial market until the year 1899. It is computed that if the average annual Increase In marriages during tho five years ending with 1892 had continued for the next six years, the aggregate number of mar riages contracted during the latter period would have been greater than It was by 259,813. It Is to bo pre sumed that a considerable number of persons in this large total never con tracted marriage. This suggests a loss to the community heretofore lit tle considered in connection with pe riods of financial depression. Marrlngo Rate. The marriage rate in the United States in the year 1900 was 93 per 10,000 population. Based upon the adult unmarried (single, widowed, or divorced) population, the rato bo- comes 321 per 10,000, indicating that In each year something over 3 per cent of the unmarried adult popula tion marry. The marriage rate base 1 on the total population is higher in the United States than in any other country for which reliable statistics are available. But taking the mar riageable population as the basis that is, the population which is of marriageable age but not married the rate In tho United States is not as high as it is in Hungary, Is about the same as it Is In Saxony, but is still higher than in any of tho other countries included In the compari son. Nearly Ono Million Marital Failures. The total number of divorces re ported for the twenty years, 1887 to 1906, inclusive, was 945,625. For the earlier Investigation, covering the twenty years, 1867 to 1886, inclusive, the number reported was 328,716 or hardly more than one-third of the number recorded In tho second twen ty years. At the beginning of the forty-year period, covered by the two investigations, divorces occurred at the rato of 10,000 a year; at the end of that period the annual num ber was about 66,000. This increjue, however, must bo considered in con nection with increase in population. An increase of 30 per cent in pop vlation between tho years 1870 to 1880 was accompanied by an in crease of 79 per cent in tho numbnr of divorces granted. In the next de cade, 1880 to 1890, the population increased 25 per cent and divorce '0 per cent, and in the following de cade, 1890 to 1900, an increase of 21 per cent in population waj ac companied by an increase of 16 per cent in tho number of divorces. In the six years from 1900 to" 1906, pop ulation, as estimated, increaui 10.5 per cent and dlvorc? 29.3 per 'o. It thus appears that at tho ond of the forty-year period divorces wore increasing about threo times as fast aa population, while in tho first de cade (1870 to 1880) they Increased only about two and two-thlrda as fast, The divorce rato per 100,000 pop ulation increased from 29 in 1870 to 82 in 1905.' In tho former year there was 1 divorce for every 3,441 persons and in tho latter year 1, for every 1,218. Since It Is only mar ried people who can become divorced, a more significant divorce rate is that which is based, not upon total pop ulation, but upon tho total married population. Tho rato per 100,000 married population was 81 in tho year 1870 and 200 In tho jear 1900. This comparison Indicates that di vorce is at present two and one-half times as common, compared with married population, as it was forty years ago. A divorce rate of 200 por 100,000 married population is equivalent to 2 per 1,000 married population. Assuming that 1,000 married people represent 500 mar.rled couples, it follows that in each year 4 married couples out of every 1,000 secure a divorce. This does not mean that only 4 marriages out of 1,000 aro terminat ed by divorce. The rate, it will bo noted', Is an annual rate, continuous ly operative, and comes far short of measuring tho probability' of ulti mate divorce. The avallablo data lndicato, however, that not less than I marriage In 12 is ultimately ter minated by divorce. Divorce rates appear to be much higher in tho United States than in any ot the foreign countries for which statistics relating to this sub ject havo been obtained. Wives Obtain Twice As Many Di vorces As Husbands. Two-thirds of the total number of divorces granted In the twenty-year period covered by this Investigation were granted to the wife. Without any reference to tho question of which party Is tho more frequently responsible for the marital unhapplness that leads to divorce, it may be said that the wife has a legal ground for dlvorco more frequently than the husband; that is to say, there aro certain well-recognized and comparatively common grounds that are more readily applicable as against tho husband than as against the wife. Notably there Is "neglect to provide" or nonsupport, which, for tho husband seeking dlvorco, Is hard ly an available ground, although the present investigation found 6 cases In tho state of Utah, In which the husband obtained a dlvorco on that ground. Cruelty, although" not In frequently the ground for divorces granted to husbands, Is more general ly existent. Five divorces for cruolty are granted to the wife for every 1 granted to the husband. Causes of Divorce. The most common single ground for dlvorco Is desertion. This ac counts for 38.9 per cent of all di vorces (period 1887 to 1906); 49.4 per cent, or almost one-half of those granted to the husband, and 33.5 per cent, or one-third, of those granted to the wife. Tho next most Important ground of dlvorco Is, for husbands, adultery, and for wives, cruelty. Of tho di vorces granted to husbands (1887 to 1906) 28.8 per cent were for adul tery; and of those granted to wives 27.5 per cent were for cruolty. Only 10 per cent of tho divorces granted to wives were for adultery of the husband, and 10.5 per cont of di vorces granted to husbands wero for cruelty on tho part of tho wife. Drunkenness was tho ground for dlvorco In 5.3 per cent of tho cases in which the wife brought suit, and In 1.1 per cent of the cases In which the suit was brought by tho husband. Tho above percentages represent those cases In which tho specified cause was the solo ground on which the divorce was granted, Very fre quently, however, divorces are granted, not upon ono ground only, but upon two c more In combination. In many cases In which drunken ness or intemperance was not recog nized In tho decree of tho court as a ground for divorce It appears to havo been present as a contributory In fluence. Intemperance was, In fact, reported as an indirect or contrib utory cause of dlvorco in 5 per cont of tho divorces granted to tho hus band and in 18 por cent of tho di vorces granted to tho wlfo, and ap peared as a direct or indirect cause in 19.5 per cent of all divorces, and 26.3 per cent of those granted to wives and 6.1 per cent of those grant ed to husbands. Only 15 per cent of tho divorces were returned as contested, and prob ably in many of these cases tho con testing was hardly moro than a for mality. Ono Divorced Wife In Eight Gets Alimony. Alimony was demanded in 18 por cent of tho divorces granted to tho wife, and was granted in 12.7 per cent. In other words, 3 wives out of 16 asked for alimony, and 2 out of 16, or 1 out of 8, obtained It.' Tho proportion of husbnnds TVho askod for alimony was 2.8 per cent, and the proportion obtaining it was 2 per cent. ' Duration of Divorced Marriages. , The average duration of marriages 'terminated by divorce Is about ten years. Sixty per cent, or three-flftha, , last less than ten years and 40 por cent last longer. Tho number of divorces occurring In the first year of married life dur ing the entire period, 1887 to 1906, was 18,876; the number Increases to 27,764 in tho second year of married life, and reaches Us maximum in tha fifth year, when It becomes 68,770. From that point on tho number diminishes year by year, but does not fall below tho number granted in tho first year of married life until tho eighteenth year Is reached. The rapidity with which matters como to a crisis In tho married careers of divorced couples Is more clearly Indicated by tho number of years which elapse between marrlago and separation. Usually separation precedes divorce by a considerable length of time; and a certain period must necessarily elapse before a di vorce can bo obtained after tho occa sion for It arises. The number of years from marrlago to separation was ascertained In case of 770J929 divorced couples. Of theao 98,468, or 12.8 per cent, separated In, tho first year of married life, and 109, 689, or 14.2 per cent, In tho second year; in tho third year tho number falls off to 76,102; at tho ond of the fifth one-half of the total number of separations havo taken place. But It is a somewhat surprising fact that 24,143 married couples, or 3.1 per cent of tho total number, separated and became divorced after, tho com pletion of twenty-five years of mar ried life. I'laco of Marriage , Of tho divorced couples known to have been married in tho Unltod, Sta tes 88.5 per cont wero married in tho same stato in which they were di vorced, and 21.5 per cent In other states. Of the divorced couples known to havo been married in for eign countries 36.9 por cent wero married in Canada; 12.7 per cent, In England; 16.1 per cont, In Ger many; and 1.9 por cent, in Ireland. The percentage for Ireland is notably small, as compared with the popula tion of Irish birth, which, In fact, constituted 15. C per cent of tho total foreign born population in tho year 1900. It Is further noteworthy, that tho divorced marriages contracted in Germany aro moro than 8 times as many as'thoso contracted In Ireland, although tho German born popula tion is only 64 por cent larger than tho Irish, Children In Dlvorco Cases. Children wero reported in 89.8 per cent of the total number of divorced cases. Tho proportion Id much larger for divorces granted to the wlfo than for divorces granted to the husband; children being prosont In 46.8 por cent of tho former class of. divorces and 26 per cent of tho latter. A reason suggested for this la that' the children aro usually assigned by the court to tho mothor, and to her, therefore, dlvorco does not imply reparation from hor children, while to tho husband it Involves a .sever ance of tho parental as well aa . tho marital relation. ; ' VOTE SCHOOL TAX ,. Coqulllo Electors Unlnlmoufl Por Eight Mill Levy. COQUILLE, Ore, Dec. 11.- At the meeting of electors of Coqullle school district, held at tho school house pursuant to tho call of the board, it was unanimously voted to levy an 8 mill tax for the pnrposo of defraying tho cost of a full term of school. Including Haiti, Santa Domingo, Panama and Liberia, thero are now twenty-four republics In tho world. Although the sand In tho Sahara only averages thirty feet in depth, it has been found 200 feet below, tho surface. i. Buy your Boy a Shot Gun or Rifle at MILNER'B. Christmas crockery Just , the thing for a Christmas prosont A bis lot to choose from at the COOS BAY CASH STORE. , m i !M
