admitted to throw more light upon the Jarrett affair, and that the above-named respected authorities had nothing before them to guide their judgment upon this point more than the confused and jangling testimony of Rebecca Jarrett and her old former companion, he was fully able to see the result. Although Mr. Stead's friends were clamorous for an appeal, he assured them that there were none of the usual grounds for a popular protest. He said. that whether the decision of the court be right or wrong, it cleared out of the way a matter of minor detail, and left the public face to face with the far more important matter of seeing that the Criminal Law Amendment Act, which had been so triumphantly worked through Parliament, be faithfully executed for the protection of English children.

He wished the people to forget him in his imprisonment, but that they should, if possible, renew their diligence in maintaining the cause of purity and moral reform, of which he had been at once the patron and victim, and the consideration of which had been forced upon the heart and conscience of the English race. Mr. Stead claimed, and justly, too, that the result of the movement was a revival, in democratic form, of the spirit of Christian chivalry, the recognition of the great doctrine of the sisterhood of woman, from which even the most degraded were not shut out; the birth of a new conviction as to the

necessity of treating women with equity and justice, and above all, the growth in the hearts of men of a stronger impulse for personal purity and self-sacrifice, in the cause of the helpless and the weak-these were the signs of the dawn of a new and brighter day, whose advent was already hailed with joy by the womanhood of Europe, and indeed of the world.

From that day forward Mr. Stead has been recognized as the leading social reformer of the English-speaking folk. As a result of that crusade laws were speedily enacted in far-away New Zealand, and Illinois was one of the first states of America to raise the age of consent as a direct result of that remarkable crusade so widely known as "The Maiden Tribute to Modern Babylon."

Those who would accuse him of sensationalism or selfishness would do well to ask themselves if they know any one who has made such sacrifice and devoted such untiring energies to the betterment of the social condition of women. They might go still further and look into their own hearts, recall their own thoughts and thoughtless remarks about women, their insinuations and their own past conduct of life. If their record is as stainless as the reformer, the prophet of the end of the Nineteenth Century, it is well with them. The earth needs many such to hasten the right conception of a common brotherhood, which includes humanity.

Sorrow is sometimes God's cure for selfishness.

To the eyes of a mule short ears are a deformity.

Big words often make a poor cloak for a small idea.

A heart must be broken before it can be made whole.

What an ocean of trouble can come out of a gallon jug.

If a man is selfish, getting married will not cure him of it.

That which is most deadly the devil often makes most beautiful.

When the devil comes to an empty mind, he is sure of a place to stay all night.

It is seldom that a man with a big income is ever persecuted for righteousness' sake.

If the road to the pit didn't begin in respectability, it wouldn't be so crowded. One of the things for which we find most fault with others is not agreeing with us.

There is as little mercy in stabbing with a word as there is in doing it with a knife. A wide-awake preacher will find some. way to keep his church from going to sleep.

If there is any dog in a man, it is pretty apt to growl when his food is not to his taste.

The man who has contentment has something that will do a great deal more for him than money.

As a general thing, the more money we put in the bank, the harder it is to lay up treasure in heaven.

Some very good people can never see any harm in sin while it can wear good clothes and ride in a coach.

Many a man refuses to love his neighbor as himself, because he has a garden and his neighbor keeps hens.

It may be that the reason Mathusaleh lived so long, was that some young woman had married him for his money.

If you are a church member, you are not helping the Lord any while on a street-car platform with a cigar in your mouth.

Though the violet loves the shade, it does not hide its perfume. So humility is one of the most fragrant of the Christian graces.

THE MID-CONTINENT.

Money and brains often defeat justice in this world. But there is no appeal from a decision at the bar of God.

Italy wants to transport all her large collection of anarchists to an island in the Red Sea. There she intends to let them

rave against society and wave red flags and go unbathed to their foul hearts' content. If they do not work and plant and fish, as do honest men the world over, they can starve. There is just such an island in Lake Michigan for the Chicago cut

throats and robbers. It is North Manitou Island, almost always surrounded by dashing waves, without harbor, far from land. A living could be made from the soil, and blue waters around. Let the enterprising Chicago press take up this plan.

It is said that church-bells were first suggested by Paulinus, an Italian Bishop, and were intended for "driving away spirits and ridding the air of devils."

"Why is it," some one asked not long ago, "that it is only a drink or a cigar that your friends ask you to have? You never hear a man say to another when he goes into a hardware store, 'Have a pound of nails?' or in a clothing store, 'Have a coat?' or in a bakery, 'Have a loaf of bread? It is always an offer of something you are better off without. I tell you, it is the bane of the times, and leads more young men to destruction than all other things combined."

HERALD AND PRESBYTER.

Dr. Lorrimer once met a man who boasted that he was a Christian, but had never joined any church, and gave as his reason that the dying thief never joined a church, and he went to heaven. "But you support the cause of missions ?" said the minister.

"No," said the other; "the dying thief never supported missions, and he went to heaven." "Yes," said the Doctor, "but he was a dying thief, and you are a living one."

Intoxicating candy is the substance through which assaults are made upon the children. Chicago and New York have been called upon lately to prevent the sale of candy containing brandy. It is too bad that the taste for intoxicants should be

thus insidiously aroused in young children, as is sought by the manufacturers of this confection. It should be positively and rigidly prohibited wherever attempts are made to put it on the market.

The Pullman Palace Car Company is engaged in the liquor business on a large scale. We see it stated that on June 29th

the company paid twelve thousand five

hundred dollars to the internal revenue collector in payment of the twenty-five dollars annual revenue, or Government tax, on its five hundred buffet-cars on which liquor is sold. The fact that the company is thus in the liquor business has nothing to do with the strike, but it is commentary on the moral character of the company.

SUNDAY-SCHOOL TIMES.

It is not a sign of character or of intellect to be always giving emphasis to one's disbeliefs. If a man does not believe this

thing or that, why should he trouble himself or others about it? If there is anything that he does believe, that is the thing for him to emphasize. If, indeed, he does not believe anything, the less he says about himself the better.

Everyone has possibilities which outreach toward the infinite. It is possible to overestimate one's capabilities when the capabilities are not in the line of immediate duty. But it is not possible to "hope too

much or dare too much" where duty calls. There is no limit to the chain of living forces which one weak child of earth may start into action. There is no weakness in a whole-hearted response to any call of God. The power of God lies behind and in that action which is in perfect obedience to his will.

One of the most encouraging things that we can say about a dispensation of God is that we do not understand it. Men mostly imagine that they can understand God's goodness in caring for his loved ones, when that care shows itself in their health, wealth and generally fulfilled desires. But when God's care shows itself in sickness, poverty and distress, they say they cannot understand it. Truly, if one of these forms of divine dealing can be understood, the other can; and if one cannot, neither can the other. We cannot understand the fullness of the meaning of "He careth for you." "If we could thoroughly understand anything, that would be enough to prove it undivine," says George MacDonald. So, when the understanding unconditionally surrenders to implicit trust, the whole man glorifies God.

THE INDEPENDENT.

Joseph Cook, LL.D., in a recent number of The Independent, contributes multum in parvo in an article, "Causes and Consequences of the Debs Strike." He says:

"Continental dictatorship is the prodigious prize which organized labor in the United States is endeavoring to capture. The Debs strike is a most instructive and costly illustration of the ambition of labor leaders and misleaders, but is not likely to be the last. Efforts have been working secretly for years to combine labor unions in such a way as to intimidate both capitalist and the public at large. The

scheme has failed because of its own audacity and foolishness, and also because several trade-unions had too much good sense to join the perilous enterprise."

The chief evils are: "1. Lives lost. 2. Property destroyed. 3. Wages lost. 4. Organized labor discredited. 5. Labor reform hindered. 6. Freedom of contract denied. 7. Evil principles taught. 8. Municipal misrule increased in virulence and portentousness. 9. The good name of the nation at large injured at home and abroad. 10. Military coercion necessitated in a republic proud of its intelligence, patriotism and prosperity."

The good results which may follow are: 1. The Federal government has been honored. 2. The weakness of the pestilent doctrine of State rights has been exposed. 3. South and North have been united in emphasizing law and order, and in supporting Federal authority against State inter

ference. 4. Socialistic and anarchistic principles have been unmasked and rebuked. 5. The sympathy of so-called Populists with dangerous principles has been instructively

exhibited. 6. The mischief of misleaders in the field of organized labor has been shown more impressively than ever before in our history. 7. The worth of the national army is better understood. 8. The barbarousness of the boycott as a remedy for labor grievances has been so painfully illustrated that this measure must hereafter be exposed to the condemnation of commerce and vary possibly both State and Federal laws. 9. The necessity of legal provision for the prevention of labor disturbances on a large scale has been unmistakably established. 10. The worth of Sunday has been emphasized by the lawlessness of those who rarely observe it. 11. The peril of an unsifted immigration appears in the fact that most of the names of rioters that have been

Yet still keep somewhat til yoursel'
Ye niver tell to ony.

"Easy writing," said Sheridan, the dramatist and wit, "makes hard reading." It is

SO.

Cream rises slowly, and is gathered with care, and is for those who appreciate the best. Skim-milk is for pigs and calves. The writer must work the mental dasher

long and vigorously, if he would produce thought worth preserving or publishing. As a general rule, the thought that flows from the point of a running pen is the skimmed milk of the deadly commonplace. We must not mistake fluidity for fluency.

Wealth without health is poverty. It is a surprise that people do not have sense enough to know that money expended in fashionable and allowable dissipation is worse than wasted; and that wealth won at the expense of health is the most disappointing attainment that is possible. The real wealth of life is in spiritual and physical health. He who possesses these need not pine for the accumulation of money. He has what will afford him more pleasure than any amount of property, and he has

what no amount of money can buy. There are but few to whom good health is not attainable; though it may be irretrievable if wantonly thrown away. The price of it is temperance in all things, industry, and cleanliness of body and of mind.

Practical philanthropy finds a good illustration in the action of Nathan Strauss, of New York, who some time ago established sterilized milk stations in that city at which he sold pure milk at a cent a glass. There was no intention of making a profit out of the undertaking, but the sales have now reached 6,000 glasses and 3,700 bottles of milk per day. The work now employs fifty-two distributors, and Mr. Strauss has determined to erect a permanent plant. Such an establishment in the tenement districts of any great city would be untold blessings to the poor, many of the a philanthropic enterprise productive of children of whom, during the summer season, are deprived of healthful nutriment, with results in mortality that are appalling. The New York Tribune's Fresh-air Fund is another enterprise of similar character except that it is absolutely gratuitous, as is also the Babies' Sanatorium on the Lake Shore in Chicago, to which everyone who patronizes a drug-store or other public place has the opportunity of contributing his mite. These are forms of practical philanthropy that commend themselves to a public always generous in good works where it sees and knows there is need, and that its benefactions find their way without unnecessary red tape directly to those for whom they are intended.