and hedges,
crowded into poorhouses, jails and prisons, to expiate their
crimes growing out of poverty on the one hand and patriotism on
the other.

"A far more fitting way to celebrate the year of Jubilee would
be for the Queen to scatter the millions hoarded in her private
vaults among her needy subjects, to mitigate, in some measure,
the miseries they have endured from generation to generation; to
inaugurate some grand improvement in her system of education; to
extend still further the civil and political rights of her
people; to suggest, perchance, an Inviolable Homestead Bill for
Ireland, and to open the prison doors to her noble priests and
patriots.

"But instead of such worthy ambitions in the fiftieth year of her
reign, what does the Queen propose? With her knowledge and
consent, committees of ladies are formed in every county, town
and village in all the colonies under her flag, to solicit these
penny and pound contributions, to be placed at her disposal.

"Ladies go from house to house, not only to the residences of
the rich, but to the cottages of the poor, through all the marts
of trade, the fields, the factories, begging pennies for the
Queen from servants and day-laborers."

These forced collections are not entirely for the benefit of the
Queen, but are to be appropriated also to a vast variety of local
objects and institutions.

THE OUTLOOK OF DIOGENES.

The ancient philosopher Diogenes, whom even the presence of Alexander
could not overawe, is one of the most marked and heroic figures of
ancient history. It is said "The Athenians admired his contempt for
comfort, and allowed him a wide latitude of comment and rebuke.
Practical good was the chief aim of his philosophy; for literature and
the fine arts he did not conceal his disdain. He laughed at men of
letters for reading the sufferings of Ulysses while neglecting their
own; at musicians who spent in stringing their lyres the time which
would have been much better employed in making their own discordant
natures harmonious; at savants for gazing at the heavenly bodies while
sublimely incognizant of earthly ones; at orators who studied how to
enforce truth, but not how to practice it. * * * When asked what
business he was proficient in, he answered, 'to command men.'"

Psychometry brings up these ancient characters as vividly and
truthfully as history. Su