ing for
shelter. There is a grand stand for which the price of $1 for a
reserved seat is charged. The character of these reserved seats would
exceed belief on the part of those who have not been in them. And yet
the management who deal in this manner with a long forbearing public
find it not an unusual event to make $3000 clear profit from a single
game of base ball!"

But Boston has religion as well as base ball and "_Sufferings of God's
Mother_" was the heading of a piece of religious news in the Boston
Herald.

On the other hand the temperance influence through high license has
reduced the number of liquor saloons in Boston to 800 less than two
years ago.

MONOPOLY.--The latest monopoly under the name of a trust is the "Salt
Trust." Sixty-three companies unite to form it. The object is to
freeze out competition and keep up the prices. These "trusts" which
began with the Standard Oil, and are gradually extending over the
whole field of production, are as much opposed to the genius of our
institutions as Socialists or Nihilists. They are gigantic monopolies,
and the purpose is to do by combinations of capital what could never
be done under fair and honest competition.--_Herald_.

The remedy for this must be found in legislation. Boycotting is
illegal, monopoly _should be_.

WOMEN'S DRUDGERY.--Why should all the washing, cooking, and sewing of
each household be done by its women? We have laundries, ready-made
clothing, and bakeries, and now it is proposed in Boston to furnish a
complete supply of ready-cooked food. This _can be done_ cheaper than
families can supply themselves, if we leave out the American
propensity to speculate in exorbitant profits.

CHRISTIAN CIVILIZATION.--Wong Chin Foo may boast of the superiority of
heathenism as long as pauperism shows itself to be a vast ulcer, as in
the following despatch from London:

"Pauperism is on the increase in the metropolis. Last week
relief was given to 53,164 indoor, and 35,110 outdoor paupers.
The total shows an increase of 2011 over the corresponding week
last year. Trafalgar Square pavement is half covered nightly
with houseless vagrants, and church steps, benches, and doorways
in nearly all parts of London have their complements of
destitute people after midnight. Many resort to the parks in the
daytime to obtain on the grass the sleep which they are unable
to get on the stones by night, and begging cannot be s