in Africa, and brought nigh unto death. To-day she is compelled to seek the warmer climates in winter, as a direct result of exposure in China. And she did her work not for hire, but this was her way of giving freely a laudable excuse for her existence. Her efforts were not given as Sir Launfal tossed the beggar a piece of gold in scorn. "Better to me the poor man's crust, Better the blessings of the poor, Though I turn me empty from his door;

That is no true alms which the hand can hold; He gives only the worthless gold

Who gives from a sense of duty,

But he who gives but a slender mite,
And gives to that which is out of sight,
That thread of the all-sustaining Beauty
Which runs through all and doth all unite-
The hand cannot clasp the whole of his alms,
The heart outstretches its eager palms,
For a God goes with it, and makes it store
To the soul that was starving in darkness before."

During her journeyings she spoke to audiences through two hundred and fiftythree interpreters, who translated her words into forty-seven different languages. She visited almost every nation, organized one hundred and forty-three different societies, traveled over one hundred and sixty-one thousand miles, wrote thirty-three thousand, two hundred and eighty-eight pages, mostly for publication, held two thousand, three hundred and thirty different meetings, sailed' in one hundred and sixteen different steamers, interviewed nearly all the rulers and potentates of their countries, rode in almost every sort of vehicle, and in almost every fashion that is to-day known.

From New Zealand she went to Australia, thence to Japan, Corea, China, Siam, Burmah, India, Ceylon, Mauritius, Madagascar, South Africa, Great Britain, thence to the Congo, Sierra Leone, Madeira, Portugal, Greece, Egypt, the Holy Land, thence to Rome, Florence, and again to England. Finally, in June, 1891, she returned to Boston, after an absence of eight years. She had girdled the world with a chain of

organizations, made up of bands of women, who began thenceforward to put forth united effort for the purity of home, and for the banishment of a worse curse than our slavery was.

She had required seven thousand dollars, exclusive of local expenses, paid usually by the local organization, and not reported to her, and had through her own efforts raised five thousand, or five sevenths of the cost of her tour. For eight years her contributions to the Union Signal were one of the leading features of that widely-read paper. Since her return Mrs. Leavitt has devoted herself to her literary work, and to the giv ing of lectures on reform and movements for good.

Verily, women are learning the extent of their own power, and are developing the courage to carry out independently their own convictions. To countless numbers, and to generations unborn, the example of Mrs. Leavitt will prove a helpful inspiration, while the circlet she has woven about the globe will year by year become brighter by its inherent worth-a transcendent power for good among the people of the earth.

To live for humanity! Christ more than lived for humanity-he died, that we might live, and from lives of self-sacrifice we glean something of that perfect love which Lowell speaks of:

"I would not have this perfect love of ours
Grow from a single root, a single stem,
Bearing no goodly fruit, but only flowers
That idly hide life's iron diadem;

It should grow always like that Eastern Tree Whose limbs take root and spread forth constantly;

That love for one, from which there doth not spring

Wide love for all, is but a worthless thing.
Not in another world, as poets prate,
Dwell we apart, above the tide of things,
High floating o'er earth's clouds on fiery wings;
But our pure love doth ever elevate
Into a holy bond of brotherhood
All earthly things, making them pure and good."
HAZLITT ALVA CUPPY.

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DEMOREST'S MAGAZINE.

N the October number of Demorest's a number of distinguished men give their personal opinions on "Shall Boys and Girls Receive the Same Education ?"

Dr. H. M. McCracken, Chancellor of the University of the City of New York, says: "If you mean to include under girls and boys, only children less than fifteen or sixteen, I should say that girls should attend the same school as boys, if it be more convenient than for them to attend different schools." As to whether girls should receive the same training or not, he thinks that a distinction should be made, and that girls should be "trained to house work, and the accepted womanly occupations. Boys should be trained to work with carpenters' tools and the like." As to mere text-books, he would make little distinction.

Dr. Thomas S. Hastings, President of the Union Theological Seminary, of New York, says: "I should let girls have all the education they want and can take. Educational opportunities should be open to them. But girls should have domestic education before advancing so far in scholastic or academic

education as to feel themselves superior to learning how to sew, and how to make bread that is light and sweet."

The President of Packard's College, S. S. Packard, says: "Two questions seem to be involved in your inquiry: Shall boys and girls receive the same education? and, Shall they be educated together? The latter may in your thought include the other. Strictly speaking, no two persons ever 'receive' the same education, though they may have the same teachers and study the same books. The question seems to be, should boys and girls have equal educational opportunities? To this I should say, unreservedly and unqualifiedly, yes. There can be no question, of course, as to opening to young men all sources of knowledge, the only doubt about the girls being whether they can stand it, or

whether they will make proper use of all they may acquire. My private opinionand my public opinion as well-is that at the worst the boys have greatly the advantage of the girls in the struggle for life, the whole system of education and of treatment being based upon the fallacy that girls must be taken care of, while boys must care for themselves and for the girls. I call it a fallacy because it is. It is a very pretty sentiment, and would be lovely in

practice if it were put in practice; but it is not, and there is where the injustice comes. "And when it comes to the matter of earning a living, I say that the boys have three chances to the girl's one. It is only within the last ten years, since the first introduction of the typewriter, that the girls have had any hold on a profession or a calling; and even this they have had to fight for, and have won it as the Britannia won her victories-by having better sailing qualities. There is no sentiment, and really no economic impulse that helps to fill the down-town offices with girl stenographers; it is simply a matter of putting the right person in the right place. And the young man who complains of being crowded out only proclaims his own folly and lack of manly qualities."

He also thinks that boys and girls should attend the same schools, and he speaks from fifty years' experience-fifteen as the co-pupil with girls, and thirty-five as a practical promoter of co-education.

Charles H. Knox, President of the Board of Education, of the city of New York, among other things says: "There is one reason, above all others, why a girl should receive the same training as a boy; namely, the vast majority of teachers

in our public schools are women. Now, these women received in girlhood the same education as our boys; if they had not, how could they teach the boys? A girl in this country can be anything she determines to be, if she devotes her life to the object. Why not, then, concede the right and justice of co-education of the sexes?"

Edmund P. Platt, Chairman Executive Committee Y. M. C. A., of the State of New York, says: "In reply to your question, we look upon boys and girls as equal in brain and ability for almost every sort of work, except manual labor. Girls should always be equipped with such training as the schools and colleges afford, that they may have an even chance in the race for life. For home and social positions this training is especially important, as their influence in many ways exceeds that of the boys."

Rev. James M. Taylor, President of Vassar College, says: "Put me down as decidedly in favor of offering the same educational advantages to both sexes. I'm 'way off in the woods, so can't very well go into detail now."

If this is any cue, it may not be long until young gentlemen will be admitted to Vassar College. There is no denying the fact that co-education is constantly gaining ground, and the fact that so many of our leading people favor equal advantages for boys and girls, is in itself an argument in favor of the rights enjoyed by men being extended as well to women. It must follow

as a logical conclusion.

to their benighted fathers and sisters and do missionary work among them. In "ZeeWee" Mr. Boyesen shows the utter futility of such measures, and at the same time paints a powerful picture of Indian life at the agencies. The contrast he makes between the modern Indian and the proud red man of Cooper's novels is startling.

In "As Talked in the Sanctum," the editor deals in his usual charming fashion with the so-called Civil Service Reform in the Consular Service, and in the "Etc." he has something to say about the ten-cent magazines.

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THE ECLECTIC.

HE Eclectic for September, as usual, has the pick from the articles which have appeared in the latest foreign publications. There are There are some very good points in an article on "Sleeplessness," by A. Symons Eccles.

Restlessness, according to the writer, is the characteristic feature of the present day. "Whatever phase of civilized life presents itself, social, political or commercial, the same condition of kaleidoscopic unrest bewilders the observer, who seeks in vain, even in the regions of theology and science, for evidences of freedom from the prevailing signs of the times.

Progress, activity and competition, naturally resulting from the increasing facilities for locomotion and interchange of thought and knowledge of passing events throughout the world, are no doubt fraught with value both to the community and to the individual, so long as they can be kept within reasonable bounds; but but unfortunately, it is not always possible to control their growth and development within healthy limits, so that too rapid progress leads to degeneration; over-activity begets

unrest, and excess of competition ends in decay. Thus, to the demands of unduly rapid progress and excessive competition must be attributed the morbid restlessness of individuals so frequently met with at the present time; and the results of this unrestfulness are so serious and increasingly common, that a brief consideration of the most prominent and perhaps the earliest evil effect of over-activity may not be without interest. Sleepless

ness is one of the commonest complaints of the present day, and employing the term in its widest sense to embrace defects in the quantity and the quality of sleep, it may be alleged that by far the greater number of sufferers from insomnia could trace the initial disturbance of the sleep function to the prolongation of mental strain or bodily fatigue, induced by over-activity in the pursuit of business or pleasure, interfering with the proper rythm of rest and work. Formerly sleep was believed to be dependent on a state of comparative bloodlessness of the brain, and by the condition of the circulation of the blood through that organ the character and duration of sleep was held to be modified."

While this is true, according to the writer, there are other conditions to be considered, such as those which physiological chemistry has recently thrown more light upon, and the actual chemical condition of the braincells. "As the formation of clinkers in a furnace reduces the fierceness of the flames and interferes with the activity of combustion, so the accumulation of fatigue products within the brain-cells, formed during the waking hours, tends to induce unconsciousness by reducing the activity of chemical action and interchange between the blood, the vehicle of nourishment, and the braincell needing replenishment. The healthy alternation of work and rest is thus pro

vided. Interference with rythmical habit of work and rest is probably one of the commonest causes of disordered or defective sleep, and for this reason the over-activity, hurry and restlessness of the present time may be held responsible for the majority of cases of insomnia so commonly met with.”

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have regular occupations, and live a regular life, seldom suffer from insomnia. We should therefore live orderly lives, and do our work systematically. After dinner sit awhile, after supper walk a mile,' is an adage which holds as good to-day as at the time when it was first enunciated. Moderate exercise, involving a certain measure of healthy tiredness, will favor the production of non-stimulating waste product and the elimination of irritating substances from the body, which accumulate when muscular activity is neglected. An evening walk will

often conduce to that condition of mental

repose and bodily fatigue which is essential to the onset of sleep."

There is a tendency, too often prevalent among young people, to neglect the very important laws of health. As a result, they lose much vital force, and are thereby incapacitated for work which they might otherwise ably perform. Two or three times the amount of work may be done by the individual who reduces his life to a

system, and we learn that most of those who have won the highest places in whatever line of work they have chosen, are men who regard strenuously the laws of health.

THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY.

The woman, in old age, kept a sort of home for tramps and showed many good qualities of heart in her kindness to them. She met a horrible death while stealing a ride on a train.

"The Kidnapped Bride" is a story of an early French settlement on the Mississippi. Celeste was to be given in marriage against her will to a man of fifty. Gabriel, her lover, with the young men of the village, make up a scheme to disguise themselves as Indians, surprise the wedding party on the way to the church, and carry off the bride. Celeste is told, and consents to the plan. As the Indians had made many such raids before, only the bride would know these were not real Indians. The plan was good, but the real Indians attacked the wedding party before Gabriel arrives, and they carry off the bride, who believes she is in her lover's arms until too late to try to make her escape. Gabriel and his friends in their disguise follow the Indians and recover the bride ten miles from home. They return in triumph, and the father gladly rewards the rescuer with the hand of his daughter.

"In a Washington Hop-field" is the story of a day spent with the harvesters in a hopfield; four or five hundred men, women and children lend a hand, receiving one dollar for each box. The day of hard work ends with a supper hastily cooked in the "shacks," of which the settlement consisted, and a platform dance. A glimpse is given in this story of western life both interesting and refreshing.

The writer of "The Storm and Stress in Germany" takes the view that for the past fifty years the vital energy of the German people has been consumed in the struggle for national and material prosperity, and literature has been lagging behind. At