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THE RUTHERFORD CASE.

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A MESSAGE FROM MARS, letter of the island law and completa wives. For the lunatic there is mercy. contempt for the spirit of it. "Es For the lunatic's wife there is none. openly derides and denounced the This may seem in the syee of the islard law as hartli and inhumane, Martian stark, staring lunacy, but and his satírically remarks that 'such the fanatical priests revel in lubacy is the law Esgland.' 'He confesses when it rivete their venerable code an The following appears in a warily that the lords cannot soften the their belpless victims. They say it is Home paper from the pen of Mr. horrors of the law. It reata with the law of God. The fact that it des James Douglas-

Parliament ho declares, to end a troya bolief in God does not alarm "I tako this extract from the state of things which in a civilised them. And yet it is hard, oven for an Diary of a Martian:-"Mare, Novem-community and in the name of islander to believe in a God whose' ber 4th, 1922-Being rather bored morality impares an intolerable hard-law chains a wife to a murderer and by Martion politics, I have amused ship upon innocent men and women.' luustio. myrell after dianer tonight by It seems that Mrs. Rutherford glancing at the Interstellar News can not marry another man without

"The truth,.of course, is that the Service. The Earth gossip is being arrested and sent to prison for island God has nothing to do with the flatter than usual. Although bigamy. If she should defy the law bigotry of the insular prieste. He is the Barthians ara suffering and live with another man as bis more merciful than those who take actually from a severe shortage of wife, the consequences would be flis name in vain. The law of the wars, there is a sharp epidemic of equall dreadful.

Their childrty priests is a malignant parody of His electionitis in England. The island is blanketed by a dense fog caused by political oratore who belch vapour that hangs in heavy banka outside the three-mile linsit causing many collisiola and thipwrecks. The is. landris do not know where they are, and many of them don't care, a sad Etate of affairs.

would be illegitimate. The priests of the island Church would excom municate her on the ground that she was living in a state of sin. She would he ostracised from respectable society She would be branded as no immoral woman. Nobody would invite her to dinner or to tea. Her lot would be All because she bad dared to be unfaithful to a murderer and a lunatic!

uncadurable,

LUDICROUS TRAVESTIES.

pity and Hie justice. If the pricate were wise they would break their masty old bonde and shatter their moth caten ald formulae. But they are not wise. They are morely arrogant. Their pride is greater than thoir iety. They are rolustant to surrender their power over the lives of the islanders. And the islandere fear them because it is not good form A STRANGE CASE. "Some of their customs are curious.

to defy them. They prefer to sin in I am interested in their quaint war-

secret rither than overthrow their riage superstiticos. They are mildly

Tume islandera, in truth, appear tyranny. And yet hundreds of years perturbed by a etrauge case of mar to be quite mad. They do not like ago their great poet, Milton, raid that riage, murder, and lunacy. It serins the lane which produce these law cannot command love, without that twenty years ago a girl of twenty ludicrous travestien of xnreason, these which matrimony can have so true ran away with a medical student klicula caricatures of justice, but belug, no good, no solace, nothing of coiled Rutherford, who was then les cannot either mend them or end God's instituting, nothing but so twentyone. For many years Mrs. them. Their judges ponr derision sordid and no low as to be disdained Rutherford auffered incredible anguiet and xcration upon the laws which of any generous person””. by reason of her husband's un- they are paid to interpret and enforce. But there islanders bave pot yet got faithfulness and cruelty. In 1919 he But nothing is done to humanise so far as Milton, although he died in mordered a friend of bere, call, d'Major the laws, or is likely to be done. In 1674, At their present rate of Seton. He was tried for murder. In-set, there islanders seem to be un progress they may not reach the atead of hanging him the judge order able to escape from their own brutal Miltonic stage of liberty till 2674," ed him to be kept tafely and comfort- and barbarous laws. In Mors laws "I am shocked by my Martian's ably in a criminal lunatic asylum, are made for Martians. In England views, He seems to think that a Bis wife in June 1921 obtained a the unfortunate inhabitants appear layman in England has the right of divorce from this homicidal lunatic on to be made for the laws, as pigs are privato judgment. In the law of the ground of ble misconduct with a made for sausage machines. Liko divorce he has no ay at all, although lady called Miss Richardson.. Miss the pigs, they may squeal but they in a few days he will-elect a Parlia Richardson.in November 1921-vindi-mast be minced,

ment which, like all its predocensore, cated her honour before the Court of "A leained Martian tells nic that will take its orders from the brach Appeal and Mis. Rutherford lost her the island laws could be altered | of binhops and not from the needs of divorce and her liberty,

instantly if the islanders could get humanity." rid of their priests, who rule them "Mrs. Rutherford then appealed with a rod of iron. Even their law- from the Court of Appeal to the yers, he stures me, are more merciful supreme appellant tribunal of the than their priests. It is difficult to isiurd, known as the House of Lords, understand why the islandere allow They heard her appeal in July and themselves to be governed by their then they cogitated, debated, irm pitiless. priests, for they never ceaso itated, agitated, and meditated over to beast of their freedom. They are it for more than three months. It was never tired of preclaiming that their whispered that the eix lords of appeal island is the paradies of liberty, and were equally divided, and therefore yet they permit their implacable could come to no decision for ever priests to uphold a marriage law ard ever. But at length and at last which is more tyrannical than any on November 3rd the six law lorde code on any other placet. This law solemnly met. Four of them were is monstrously despoife that all the against Ms. Rutherfcid and two of islanders are revolting ogsinet it

They can be given with perfect safety them were for her. One of the four but the inexorable pricets laugh at admitted that he lad changed his their rebellion. The unhappy is

the youngest infant;

They are a safe and efficient medicine mind. If he bad not elonged his landers have no remedy. In order for the troubles they are indicated to mind there would have been a dood. to place the priests they must relieve and cure.* lock. Three law lads would have humbly conform to their ob.olete voted for setting the wife free from marriage ruka. If the priests con the morcerer lunatic and three di mn them to lifelong misery they against siting her free.

TIED FOR LIFE.

The murderer-lunatic it forty-one. Ha wife is forty. He may live thirty years or more. So may the. But the island law ties her to bim until

must bear it.

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"If Rutherford had been hanged for murder (as we hang our mad murderere] his wife would have been

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