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Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 183, 2 August 1913, Page 17

In order to fulfil a promise to his dead wife, a San Diego (California) man married his second wife recently, just twenty hours after the death of hi 6 first wife, and twelve hours before the funeral bad occurred. A justice of the peace officiated. The funeral of tbe man's wife was held the next afternoon. There were three small children by the first marriage, and for their welfare, it is said, the late wife asked her hnsband to lose no time in filling her place. EXTRAORDINARY DUEL. The account of a remarkable duel to the death is reported from Charleston, West Virginia. A 16-year-old lad, named Frank Carter, who had the misfortune to be a hunchback, had recently been driven almost mad by tbe gibes of other lids at his deformity. Matters reached a climax, and Carter challenged bis chief tormentor, a youth named Miller, to a duel to the death. The challenge was accepted. Each lad filed down a small poker until it had taken a keen edge and point, and then fought out tbe duel in the presence of seconds. Both were soon covered with blood, but the fight did not last long, for Miller received a thrust through the heart, and quickly died. ATTACK ON AN EXPRESS. Bloodhounds (says a Springfield, Illinois, message) were laid on the trail of the two masked bandits who held up tbe express train near Springfield on Wednesday, June 18, and after a short chase they were run to earth. The pair were sleeping when the posse arrived, and the amazement of the police was great when they found that the bandits were mere lads, one not more* than 20 and the other 16. The younger was he who held up the men on the engine, while his companion calmly exploded si.. charges of dynamite in an unsuccessful effort to open the safe. DRESS AND MORALS. Amusing accounts are furnished in the American newspapers of the embarrassment caused policemen in tbe town of Rochester by an ordinance authorising the Morals' Efficiency Committee to prohibit from the streets rail slashed skirts, gauze hosiery, and "pneumonia blouses." Several women were stopped by officers of the law, who addressed them in the stereotyped phrase, "I am very sorry, madam, but I am compelled by the Morals Efficiency Committee to place you under arrest unless you will agree to return to your home and change your mode of dress." Several women, after checking a tendency to faint, a6ked indignantly, "What have I done?" "Yon are not properly dressed," was the policeman's invariable reply. They all, says a telegram to the New Torfe "World," eventually went home, though powerful persuasion was needed in one or two cases. The committee, according to the "World," are now engaged in classifying wearing apparel for women under the headings, "Permissible" and "Undesirable." A -WOMAN OF TI-HPERAMENX. Mrs. Met-a Sinclair, .who achieved what she declared was independence in 1011 by eloping with Mr. Harry Kemp, the poet friend of ber husband, Mr. Upton Sinclair, the novelist, is about to marry again. Her second husband will be Mr. Hubert Halliwell, the son of a wealthy jeweller at Poughkeepsie, New York State, by the terms of whose will he enjoys an Income of fourteen shillings a week until he marries. After his marriage, Mr. Halliwell-s weekly allowance is increased to £30, which will be further augmented when be becomes a father. The betrothal was announced at the artists' colony at Woodstock, New York, of which the couple are members. Mrs. Sinclair prides herself on the possession of an "artistic Greek temperament," which, she explained, was hopelessly incompatible with the "over-developed intellectuality and strict ascetic temperament" of her first husband. After the divorce she separated from Mr. Kemp, the poet, declaring that though she was blissfully happy with -him he was a "poor provider." DIVORCE FOR FRIENDSHIP. "I hope to restore through divorce the beautiful friendship with my husband which I lost through marriage," was the reason given on June 17 by Mrs. Joseph Lander Eastland, one of the leaders of, society at San Francisco, why she Is suing her 'husband, the millionaire Consul for Venezuela, for a divorce and £100,000: alimony. I The psychology of the case, as Mrs. Eastland explains it, is remarkable. After their marriage at Chicago two years ago, the couple went to Paris to live, returning to California last autumn, when Mr. Eastland took quarters at his club and Mrs. Eastland in a bungalow at Coronado. She "waited in vain for any signs of a revival of the "beautiful friendship,"' and then decided to try the experiment of divorce. "I am suing on grounds of incompatibility," she said. "Isn't that sad. seeing that 'incompatibility' was the last word that could have been applied to us at the time of our marriage? We had been such good friends for so many years that marriage seemed the ideal outcome. "So 'we married and found that love does not spring from friendship, and that -we were only friends and not sweethearts. I think that two persons might marry for love and develop friendship, but I am now convinced that they cannot reverse the order with success."