/ *.. — SOME CRUEL AND UNUSUAL Double Penalty Threatened for Th:so Who Dared to Interfere With the Wires Rotorua has been laughing over thlace by the Public Works depart. Bent on some of the electric wirq posts on the road to Okere, In New Zealand. Some time ngo a Maori youth, who teemed to have a misguided taste tot experimenting, threw a long piece o| cable over the electric wires that ruD to Rotorua from the power station a| the Okere Falls. The town was at once plunged in darkness for two or three hours until the mischief had been located. The dusky and youthful experi menter was carpeted in the court and fined for his scientific enthusiasm, and the department put up this no tice: "Any persons climbing the electrlo light poles or damaging the Insulators are Ilablo to a fatal shock and a pen alty of £10.”—Tit-Bits. HIS VOCATION. I-Z’VP-— -jxn i___1 “1 suppose you’ll be an agrlcultur 1st when you grow up?” "No’m. I’m jest goln’ to work op this farm, that’s all.” The Difference. "John M. Harlan,” said a Chicago lawyer," In a eulogy of the late Su premo Court Justice, “had a way o( pointing an observation with a story. Once ho wanted to rebuke a man for exaggeration, so ho said he was as bad as a Pittsburg millionaire who was being Interviewed by a New York reporter. ‘“Where, sir, were you born?’ the reporter, us he sharpened Ills pencil, asked. "'1 was born In Pittsburg,’ said the millionaire. ‘“And where did you first—er sen the light of day?’ “ ‘When 1 was nine,’ the millionaire replied. 'My people then moved to Philadelphia.” Wanted—A Handhold. Meandering Mlko heaved such a deep sigh that his companion was moved to ask him what the matter was: “I was just thinking about bad roads and the wonders of sclenco,” was the answer. “This earth Is spin ning round faster'n a railway train behind time.” "Well, we ain't fell ofT yet." "No. Hut think of what a conveni ence It would be If wo could have some place to grab on to while de ter ritory slid under our feet until de placo we wanted to go to come along.” —Youth's Companion. Give and Take. Howell—Does he take things philo sophically? Powell—Yes, but he doesn’t part rlth them philosophically.—Woman's Jomc Companion. Above Him. "You say that she married beneath her?” “She certainly did; her father was an aviator and her husband a chauf feur.” THE LITTLE WIDOW A Mighty Good Sort of Neighbor to Have. ••A little widow, n neighbor of mine, persuaded me to try Grape-Nuts when my stomach was so weak that it would not retain food of any other kind,” writes a grateful woman, from Ban Bernardino Co., Cal. "I had been ill and confined to my bed with fever and nervous prostra tion for three long months after thq birth of my second boy. We were iq .. Jespair until the little widow's advice brought relief. “1 liked Grape-Nuts food from thd beginning, and in an incredibly short time it gave me such strength that 1 was able to leave my bed and enjoy my three good meals a day. In 2 months my weight increased from 9E to 113 pounds, my nerves had steadied „ down and I felt ready for anything My neighbors were amazed to see mi gain so rapidly, and still more sc when they heard that Grapo-Nuts alone had brought the change. “My 4-year-old boy had eczema verj bad last spring anil lost bis appetite entirely, which made him cross ani peevish. I put him on a diet of Grape Nuts, which he relished at once, lb improved from the beginning, the ec lama disappeared and now he is fa ind rosy, with a delightfully soft.clea ikin. The Grape-Nuts diet did It. I wil willingly answer all Inquiries. Nam. given by Postum Co., Battle Creefc ft Mich. Read the little book, “The Road t( Wellvllle,” In pkgs. “There’s a reason. Ever read the above letter* A nev one appear* front time to time. The: ore wentiluc, true, nod full of hurnai Interest. SHALL ENGLAND LEAD AMERICA IN PROGRESS Mark Sullivan In Collier’*. Professor Dicey, K. C., Is one of the most eminent lawyers In England, and his fame as a scholar and writer In the field of constitutional law is Interna tional. Last summer, Just after Dloyd George secured his famous reforms, Professor Dicey wanted to make per fectly clear to everybody Just what had happened. So he put some funda mental facts concerning tho constitu tional law of England Into tho simplest possible terms, In form of a dialogue or catechism. The reason this catechism is Interesting to Americans will be ap parent to those who give a minute to reading it: Professor Dicey, K. C.—My object is to state in popular language the mean ing of the Parliament act. First Question—What are the legisla tive powers of the house of lords as to money bills? Answer—The house of lords have no legislative powers whatever In regard to any money bill, and a money bill In the Parliament act means, In effect, any hill which the speaker of the house of commons sees fit to Indorse as a money bill. It was this situation which gave Im portance to the controversy about whether the speaker or the house itself should decide what was a money bill, the speaker being traditionally a fair and nonpartisan officer. Of course, the house of lords has a sort of power of protest, but Just how much this amounts to Professor Dicey goes on to explain in very clear language: Tho power under the act of the house of lords to discuss a money bill and thus protest against It Is not legis lative power at all; It Is a power pos sessed by every debating society throughout tho United Kingdom, and the protest against a money bill of the Trade Union congress will carry more weight than the strongest protest of the house of lords. (Parliament Act, Section 1.) In order to be more emphatic, Profes sor Dicey then states the absolute pow er of the house of commons In another way: Second Question—What are powers of the house of commons as to money bills? Answer—The power of the house of commons as to any money bill what ever Is absolute and unrestricted. Finally, Professor Dicey, to show how impotent the lords have become, consid ers what power they have left over a bill to abolish their very existence: But the lords can exercise a suspen sive veto, which may delay such bill (e. g., a bill for the total abolition of the house of lords) from passing Into an act for a little more than two years. (See section 2-1.) Fourth Question—What is now the legislative power of the house of com mons with regard to any public bill which is not a money bill? Answer—Tho parliament act gives to the honso of commons, or, In fact, to the majority thereof, for the time being, power to pass Into law any such public bill whatever, in spite of the rejection thereof by the house of lords. Every statute, past, present and to come, is rendered subject to the sole despotic authority of any faction which may ob tain a majority by whatever mean* In the house of commons. Translated Into terms of American legislation, this would mean that when ever the lower house of congress should pass a bill, It would thereupon become a law, regardless of what the Senate or the president might say or do. If we had had this English system In Ameri ca, the woolen schedule which the low er house passed last session would now be In effect, so would the farmers' free list, so would the bill for the direct election of United States senators which passed the House with only fifteen dissenting votes. The contem plation of this will shock that class of Americans who think that our system of vetoes, of checks and balances. Is the safeguard of civilization. Otner Americans may be caused, by this little exposition from Professor Dicey, to wonder whether we have not outgrown a system which was natural to cau tious men setting up a new and untried form of government—men who partly were distrustful of democracy, and Eartly were Justified In their caution y the conditions of the time. When the constitution was made there was no railroad, no telegraph, no telephone, no press In the sense that we know today. The proportion of persons who could not read or write was very much larger. Do not the agencies that have risen In a hundred years to make pub lic opinion more readily Informed, to give the Individual voter greater ac curacy of Judgment, suggest that we might profitably make the crystalliza tion of public opinion Into statutes a simpler matter than It now Is? Professor Dicey has shown how sim ply and quickly the subjects of a Brit ish king can express themselves In sta tutes; one American example, recent and vivid In every mind, will show how long and difficult Is the distance be tween what the people want apd what the law Is. The Payne-Aldrlch tariff became a law on August 5, 1909. Every body knows that If a vote of the people of the United States had been taken on the following day four out of five votes would have been cast against the bill. But people did not get a chance to express themselves at the polls for considerably over a year—un til November, 1910. Then they showed their opinion of the Payne-Aldrlch act by electing a congress overwhelmingly democratic. But that was only a third of what It Is necessary for them to do. The senate and the president remain republican, senators with terms of six years and the president four. In order finally to overturn the party that passed a detested law, the people must wait four years or more. And the peo ple must continue In the same state of mind for that length of time. There Is always the chance that they may get tired hating a law or economic con ditions may change; a new Issue may arise; a dozen things may happen. This Is whnt the standpatters and the beneficiaries of the tariff are Just now eagerly hoping. And the recent elec tion In Massachusetts proves that the people of that state aro less bitter against the tariff now than they were two years ago. In England, an unpop ular bill would be voted down In a few weeks; In America, It Is time and the standpatters against the people. Picture Gifts fr Ilenc Mansfield In Woman's World. A dozen cards Judiciously chosen, stamped and tied up attractively with Christinas ribbons, make themselves a most acceptable little gift. Who does not know some invalid or elderly per son who does not get out a groat deal, to whom cards thus ready for the mall box would be a convenience and a de light? Select a few cards bearing New Year's greetings, others with birthday greetings; some that have pretty word ed congratulations on the birth of a baby, and the anniversary of a wedding of simple thanks for a gift, and If the person for whom the cards are Intended lives In the same town. Include u few local scenes of Interest. For the friend of literary tastes one might select a group of artistic cards that have a quotation from some well known author beneath a picture of him, or, with a little trouble, one may search out mottoes and quotations from the author known to be a favorite of some friend. A sot of postcard blotters makes an unpretentious but useful gift for a man. From the regulation-size sheet of blot ting paper, which comes In a variety of colors, the red or green, however, being preferable for Christmas usage, you can cut exactly twelve blotters four inches wide by nine and one-half Inches long. Fasto a motto card, preferably about a quarter of on Inch from one end, and, If desired, one leaf from a small calendar in the remaining space. A dozen scarlet blotters, with the capi tal letters of the mottoes touched up with scarlet or green, a monthly calen dar always at hand, and the whole tied op with holly ribbon—anybody who ever "takes a pen In hand" Is sure to be pleased with a gift like this. There Is no end to the Interesting Dm Postal Cards varieties of calendars that may be got ten up with the aid of the postcard; hobby calendars, pretty girl calendars, ' art gallery calendars, travel calendars, kiddie calendars and calendars of cheer-up philosophy, served a la carte. .Six inches wide by nine inches long Is a good size to make the leaves of these calendars, which may be cut from water color paper, thin cardboard or any art paper suitable for the purpose. Each leaf may he pasted at the bottom, beneath the postcard small calendars for one, two or three months, accord ing to the number of leaves you wish to make. These leaves are tied to gether at the top with a bow of narrow ribbon or cord. Very attractive are those made from brown paper, each leaf having one of the author cards in brown tones pasted in the center of It, and brown raffia used for the tying at the top. The same principles of selection may be carried out in choosing postcards for passepartout framing. Charming little pictures may be made quite easily that will be most acceptable for den or bed room or nursery. One may buy, for fifty cents, a passepartout outfit com plete that contains six cardboard mounts seven by eight and one-quarter Inches, six cardboard backs the same size, three rolls of the gummed passe partout binding, a tube of paste, a glass cutter and suspension rings. Or one may buy cardboard in sheets and cut it any shape desired. Three or six cards mounted In panel form, on card board of a color to suit the subject chosen, make a good shaped picture. The cards may bo simply pasted on the board, or slipped behind apertures that have been cut with a very sharp knife. The Business Duel From Harper's Weekly. The business duel Is the skirmish that never makes a ripple In the gen eral business world. It Is never heard of outside Its own "line.'' The big conflicts of big concerns, struggling for pre-emlence In a territory that may be nation wide, are not duels at all. They are great campaigns of many battles fought by armies. A small group of men. It may be only two, make up the real business duel. One of them, or perhaps several, falls by It, precisely as a man goes down In a field just after sunrise with a bullet In his brain or a rapier passed through his throat. Two obstinate firms, who make boil er stoking equipment, are operating close to New York today. "Good times” have prevailed during the past nine years for those who have wanted the product of either concern. All any of them have had to do has been to hint to one firm that the other stood a very excellent chance of getting an order. These tactics have been played over and over again, but tho concerns have never seemed to see It. Jealously they have kept on reducing prices, "meet ing" their rival's quotations. It has been an easy thing to get that prod uct so close to the cost of production that time and again It has actually been sold at a loss. The skill the two firms have shown In financing themselves has been worthy of a better cause. Both are still affoat, though with pitifully small actual assets. It haB been a real per sonal duel that they have been wag ing. It started In a dispute over a patent. Rather than thresh the ques tlo out at a joint meeting or go to law about It. the wrangle has been allowed to rankle, and each firm has steadfastly tried to “kill" the other. It will not take long now. Mutval friends have long since given up hope of getting cither of the parties to list en to reason. The Hidden Hoards of America From Harper’s Weekly, i None can estimate the wealth hidden In I civil war times. Down mountain slopes, 1 across the great plantations, and along ■ tlie streets of cities of the south are the ■ trails of lost fortunes. On the Mississippi river the shanty-boaters tell tales of ket * ties of gold coin and money that were * hurled in the brakes or revealed in the | caving bank of the Mississippi by a cas cade of coin rushing lown the crumbling [ slope Into the flood. Now and then some oharp darky appears with a handful of , * old gold. , A muthemat'clan might estimate the quantity of nugget gold hidden by the r'lacer miners. the loggers, tinkers, ramps, soldiers—all the kinds of fortunes * that are tucked away in useless and wasteful neglect in all parts of tne ccran r try—in stockings, mattresses, old clothes, garrets, cellars, hollow trees, hovels, man i «toas, cache# o! desperadote, hidings of foreigners. If only one In 10,000 hides $100 that Is never found—and In every village and town the proportion Is larger, among farmers and back country people, much larger—the loss will amount to JS00.M0. The chances are that there are $W$>0»MOO of hidden fortunes In this country now gold, silver, precious stones, and paper wealth. Many a farm, many a trtty prop erty, goes into neglect and decay be cause the heirs never know of It. Although the United States has the smallest foreign going merchant ma rine In the world It possesses the most perfectly equipped and elaborate light house service to be found on any coast line. During the last half century this service has cost $150,000,000, and Its .maintenance calls for the appropria tion of about $7,000,000 annually. WESTERN CANADA FARMER SECURES WORLD’S PRIZE FOR WHEAT _ A ROSTHERN, SASK., FARMER THE LUCKY WINNER. Sir Thomas Shaughnessy of the Ca nadian Pacific Railway ofTered $1,000 in gold as a prize for the best 100 lbs. of wheat, grown on the American con tinent, to be competed for at the re cent Land Show in New York. In making the competition open, the donor of this handsome prize showed his belief in the superiority of Ca nadian wheat lands, by throwing the contest open to farmers of all Amer ica, both United States and Canada. The United States railways were by no means anxious to have the Ca nadian railways represented at the show and a New York paper comment ing on the results of the competitions says that they were not to be blamed, as the Canadians captured the most important prize of the show. The winner of this big wheat prize was Mr. Seager Wheeler of Rosthern, Saskatchewan, and its winning has brought a great deal of credit on the district. The winning wheat was the Marquis variety, and received no more attention from Mr. Wheeler than his other grain, but he is a very particu lar farmer. His farm is one of the cleanest and best kept in the Ros thern district, and this year he won first prize in a good farm competition which included every feature of farm ing and every part of the farm. Last winter Wheeler was a prize winner at the provincial seed fair in Regina. Wheeler Is a firm believer in sow ing clean seed of the best quality pro curable, consequently his grain is much sought after by the best far mers for seed purposes. Wheeler is an Englishman. He is a pioneer of Rosthern, coming here fif teen years ago. In the last six years he has done much experimenting, par ticularly in wheat varieties. His farm resembles an experimental farm. A long driveway, lined on both sides with trees, leads to a modest house, the home of Wheeler, a modest, unas suming man with the appearance of a student rather than a man engaged in commercial pursuits. There are now no free homesteads to be had in this district, and farm lands are worth from $20 to $40 per acre, which a few years ago were se cured by their present owners, either as a free gift or purchased at from $5 to $8 per acre. It is not many miles from Rosthern, where the farmer lives, who secured the first prize for wheat last year at the National Corn Exposition at Co lumbus and West of Rosthern, about 130 miles, lives Messrs. Hill and Son, who won the Colorado Silver Trophy, valued at $1,500, for the best peck of oats, also awarded at the National Corn Show at Columbus in 1910. Not contented with the l.igh honors obtained in its wheat, Canada again stepped forward into the show ring, and carried off the Stillwell trophy and $1,000 for the best potatoes on the continent. This time the winner was a British Columbia man, Mr. Asahel Smith, the “Potato King,” of that province. The exhibit consisted of one hundred and ono varieties drawn from all parts of the province aggregating in weight one and a half tons. At the recent Dry Farming Con gress, held at Colorado Springs, and at which time It was decided to hold the next Congress at Lethbridge, in 1912, the Province of Alberta made a wonderful showing of grains, grasses and vegetables. “At the Congress, Alberta got more prizes and trophies, ten to one, than any state of the Union,” said Mr. Hotchkiss to the Edmonton Bulletin. “We brought back all but the build ing with us, and they offered us that, laying we might as well take all that was going. We would have brought 4 Nov. 19.—"As well as ever, thank God,” was Pastor Russell's message to the millions who read his sermons weekly In the secu lar press. His text was from Psalm *111, 1-8, especially the words, “All thy waves and thy bil lows are gone over me.” St. David spoke of his own experiences, h 1 a own tribulations; but prophetically he represented the Messiah—Head and Body—Jesus and His saintly few gathered during this age out of all nations, sects and parties—“the Church of the first borns, whose names are written In heav en.”—Hebrews xii, 23. m Love, iNot in Anger. The Prophet’s experiences—wave after wav? of trouble, disappointments, etc.— he knew were not evidences of God’s dis favor, but contrawise—proofs of the Heav enly Father’s love and care—evidences that he was being taught by God, in prep aration for a work which he was to do. He was pursued by Satan’s devices and was like an antelope in the chase, fam ished for water. “As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, oh! God;” “My soul thirst eth for God, for the living God*. When shall I come and appear before thee, oh! God?” When will my trials, my testing be finished? When shall I be received into everlasting fellowship as the son of the Highest? My tears have been my meat day and night while they continue to say unto me, "Where Is thy God?” The people in general could not under stand how Divine favor could be with one so tempted, so tried, so beset by per secutors, so maligned; as he said, “Mine enemies speak evil of me. When shall he die and his name perish? If he come to me as a reporter he speaketh falsely; his heart gathereth iniquity to itself when he goeth abroad he telleth it. All that hate me whisper together against me.”—Psalm xll, 5-7. Full of faith St. David could not be overwhelmed. His faith would outride the storms. He would learn his lesson. He would thus demonstrate his faith, his loy alty to God. lie says. “The Lord will com mand His loving kindness in the daytime —(in the coming day of the New Dispen sation); In the night His song shall be with me and my prayer shall be unto the God of my life.” The Greater David—Beloved. Pastor Russell declared the most im portant feature of St. David’s career cen tered In the fact that he typified the Mes siah-Head and Members. The name David signifies Beloved, and Messiah is the beloved Son of God. lie Is the Chief or Head over this house of sons, all of whom are God’s dear children—Beloved. Thus the prophecies of the future In which David figures prominently are properly understood to refer to the great work of Messiah’s Kingdom—the throne of David will be the throne of Messiah which will be established under the whole heavens. The waves and billows of trouble which passed over the Prophet David, typified the trials and difficulties of the narrow way in which Jesus and His faithful followers of the new creation must walk to attain the promised glory, honor and immortality. St. David’s trials of faith and loyalty to God typed the faith and loyalty of Christ Jesus and the Church and the severe les sons and disciplines of the present mo ment, which are the Divine means for the W’orking out of a “far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;” they prefigured the trials that will come with the end of the present night time ushering in the New Day, In which Christ will reign in righteousness for the overthrow of sin and death: “Weeping may endure for a night, but Joy cometh in the morning.”— Psalm xxx, 5. The Groaning Creation’s Hope. Although the world may escape many of the special tribulations sent upon the Elect, nevertheless the Pastor believes that the trials of life rest more heavily upon the world than upon the true Church. This, he said, Is because the Church has an Advocate—through whom she receives exceeding great and precious promises that buoy her up and permit her to sing in “the valley of the shadow of death”—in the night of weeping. The w’orld not only lacks knowledge of God and has no basis for a future hope, but it has no hope-as an anchor, sure and steadfast, entering within the veil to Jesus the Fore-runner. The world endeavors to make merry. It pursues pleasure and strives to attain happiness, but the end is vanity and vexation of spirit. “There Is no peace to the wicked, saith my God:” yea, and even to those who are seeking righteousness the peace of God cannot come except through its appointed Chan nel, Christ. Our Mission Now—arid Then. Sin, the fall, degradation and selfishness have had the effect of hardening the hearts of mankind. They are stony-heart ed by reason of the prevalent selfishness; the tender-hearted, who love righteous ness, are bruised—wounded—broken. This heart-breaking is not injurious. The broken-hearted are the more ready to receive the message of God’s love and mercy. It is of this broken-hearted class that the Lord Is making up His Elect Church: “Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.” So far from its being the mission of the Church to break men’s hearts it is the very reverse—it is theirs “to bind up tho broken-hearted.” It Is from this broken-hearted class that the Church is being developed. Each one who receives the blessed Influence of the Holy Spirit, justifying and begetting him, becomes an ambassador cf God to pro claim the same blessed opportunities to others—and so the work goes on. Not un til the end of this Age will the Church of Christ have thus “made herself ready.”— Revelation, xlx. 7. Then will come tM Church's future work, for which all of her present ex periences are preparations—overruled by Divine providence. Present experiences with trials and difficulties, battling with tho waves of trouble and obtaining Divine assistance to surmount them, will all be valuable preparations of tho Church for her future work of glory. Then she will be perfect with her Redeemer on His Heavenly throne. How much her own present experiences will serve to make this class sympathetic and merciful priests of God In the Age to come none but God can foretell. Aftermath. When the summer fields are mown, When the birds are Hedged and Hown, And the dry leaves strew the path; With the falling of the snow, With the cawing of the crow. One© again the fields we mow And gather in the aftermath. 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