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The currency question has thrown all between Churchmen and Nonconformists at Sion

The Foreign Policy of the other questions completely into the States. shade. The Republican platform makes reference, of course, to the Monroe doctrine, reaffirming "the right of the United States to give that doctrine effect by responding to the appeals of any State for friendly intervention in case of European encroachment," but it expressly precludes any interference, even of the friendliest nature, with "the existing possessions of any European Power in this hemisphere." European Powers have not, therefore, received formal notice to quit for which small mercy many thanks. The nearest approach to an aggressive policy is foreshadowed in the declaration that the United States should actively use its influence and good offices "to secure peace and give independence to Cuba." Considering that the Spaniards are preparing to send another army of 100,000 men to subdue the island, it will require something more than "good offices" to secure the independence of Cuba., The condition of the unfortunate Pearl of the Antilles is deplorable indeed. Probably even Senator Lodge himself must occasionally regret that Cuba is not part and parcel of the British Empire. It ought to have been a British colony. We conquered it once and held it, sacrificing 5,000 men in the conquest, but when peace came we abandoned it, as we afterwards abandoned Java, with results that have been deplorable alike to Spain, to Cuba, and the United States.

The Deceased

By one of those curious coincidences Wife's which occasionally occur in the affairs of Sister.' 'man, the day on which the Education Bill was abandoned in the House of Commons saw the second reading of the Deceased Wife's Sister Bill in the House of Lords. The 22nd must have been a bad day for the Bishops. It is to be hoped that the Bill, which has been before Parliament for the lifetime of this generation, may at last get passed into law, but of this at present there seems considerable doubt.

The Pope and

The question of the Reunion of Christ-
endom continues to be discussed in more

Reunion. or less languid fashion. The first result of Mr. Gladstone's effusive welcome of the Pope's intention to inquire into the validity of Anglican orders has been to emphasise the disunion that prevails, not merely between Anglicans and Nonconformists, but between what may be called the Catholic and Protestant wings of the Anglican Church. There has been one more Conference

College, at which Mr. Bryce was the chief speaker,
who took, as his manner is, a genial and hopeful
view of the situation. The denominations are
learning to be civil to each other. On the
other hand, the dear old Pope has been moved to
issue an encyclical on the unity of the Church. It
is a fine uncompromising document. The only unity
which the Pope can recognise is the unity of
obedience to himself. "Obey me,
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right; disobey me, and you can in no wise be
counted among the children of God; that is
its sum and substance. It will be interesting
to see what Lord Halifax can make of this
document, which roundly declares that bishops them-
selves, even if they are in Apostolical succession,
become a 66
mere lawless and disorderly crowd unless
they obey Peter," that is to say, the Pope. It is
evident, with such a doctrine at headquarters, the
fullest possible recognition of the validity of Angli-
can orders would not bring us a step nearer to union
with Rome. Nor is any other union possible except-
ing that which exists between the lion and the lamb
when the lamb lies down inside.

The Loss
of the

Castle."

The disasters which occurred in May at St. Louis and at Moscow have been more "Drummond than equalled by the fatalities of June. By far the greatest catastrophe that has been recorded for years is reported from Japan, where an earthquake followed by a tidal wave is said to have caused the death of 27,000 Japanese. Japan, however, is far away even in the days of the electric telegraph, and the fate of these luckless ones has not attracted one-hundredth part of the attention that was excited by the loss of the Drummond Castle, one of Sir Donald Currie's African steamers, which a little before midnight on the 16th inst. struck on a rock between the Island of Ushant and the mainland. Believing that he was outside the island instead of inside, the captain went at full steam upon the chain of rocks which renders it almost impossible to pass between Ushant and the mainland. There were 253 persons on board the ship; of these all but three were drowned. A few lingered for an hour or more in the water and then perished. With the majority it seems to have been all over in a very few minutes. The suddenness of the catastrophe and the exceedingly small number of the survivors combined to create a much deeper impression than is usually occasioned by a shipwreck, even when two or three hundred persons perish. >

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EVENTS OF THE MONTH.

June 1. Publication of Mr. Gla Istore's Letter on
Anglican Orders.

Rict at El Azhar University, Alexandria.
Burial of the vi. tims of the Khodinsky Plain
Disa: ter.

MR. W. H. CUMMINGS, New Principal of the Guildhall School of Music. (Photograph by Elliott and Fry, Baker Street.)

The last of thirty-five Battalions of Turkish
Troops sent to Crete.

2. Deputation from the Mining Association of Great Britain waited on the Home Secretary to recommend certain Amendments to the Coal Mines Regulation Bill.

A Meeting under the United Organisation of the Free Churches in Memorial Hall carrie Resolutions condemning the 27th Clause of the Education Bill. A Public Meeting in the City Temple condemned the Education Bill. Washington House of Representatives passel the River and Harbour Bill over the President's Veto by fifty-six to five votes. Sir Frederick Carrington arrived at Bulawayo 3. Deputations from the Miners' Nationa! Feleration and the Miners of Northumberland, Durham and Scotland waited upon the Home Secretary in reference to the Truck and Mines Bills.

The Prince of Wales's horse " "Persimmon"
won the Derby.

The Anglican Church Conference for Northern
and Central Europe opened at Vienna.
The Chinese Authorities granted permission for
French Engineers to construct a Railway join-
ing Lung Chan with the French Railway in
Tonking.

4. Mr. W. H. Cummings elected Principl of the Guildhall School of Music as successor of the Late Sir Joseph Barnby.

5. The Volksraad of the Orange Free Stat passe ! a Resolution in favour of the Government taking over the Railways in the State.

6. Matabele lost heavily near Bulawayo. Serious fighting in Crete.

7. Dervishes defeated at Ferket by an Egyptian

Force.

A Bomb thrown into a Religious Pro ession at
Barcelona killed several people.

8. The Shah, in an Address from the Throne, announcel that bread and meat would henceforth be free from taxation.

The Hungarian Parliament assemble for the first time in its new home.

The Mixel Tribunal at Cairo delivered judgment against the Egyptian Government and the

Cairse of the Public Debt for the advance made from the Reserve Fund for the Nile Expolition.

The Marquis de Morès murdered near El Quatia. 9. The Congress of Chambers of Commer.e of the Empire opened at Grocers' Hall.

Kurds reported to have killed 203 persons near
Smyrna..

Members of the Institution of Naval Ar bite t
arrived in Hamburg.

10. A Statue of the late Lord Granville by Mr. Hamo Thornycroft, unveiled in the Central Lobby of the Houses of Parliament.

Dr. Jameson and his Staff again surren leredd at Bow Street for investigation of charges against them. 11. Reform Prisoners release by the Transvaal Executive upon payment of £2,000 fine each. The New Zealand and South Australian Parliaments opened. Professor Goldwin Smith declirel the Honorary Degree of LL.D. from Toronto University. 12. A Deputation from the Associated Chambers of Conimerce called upon Lord Salisbury and Lord George Hamilton to ask the aid of the Government in making Trade Routes to China.

The Orange Free State resolved to invite Cape
Colony, Natal and the Transvaal to a Customs
Union Conference.

General Baratieri acquitted by the Court Marti 1
at Asmara.

13. Ten thousand workers went out on Strike in St. Petersburg.

14. A Monster Deputation waited upon President Kruger, thanking him for his kindness to the Reform Prisoners.

15. Unionist Meeting at Foreign Office on the state of Public Business.

16.

17.

18.

Li Hung Chang received by the German Emperor.

The International Congress of Publishers opened in Paris.

Mr. Harrison, a British Offi. ial, arrested by Venezuelans.

Dr. Jameson and five Officers committel for Trial.

Several leading Portuguese

Newspapers suppressed for
publishing statements regard-
ing the Anarchist Outrage at
Barcelona.

Opening of the International
Press Congress at Budapesth.
Celebration of Lord Kelvin's
Jubilee as Professor of Natural
History in Glasgow Uni-
versity.

The New Army Bill read a third
time in the Reichstag.
The Queensland Parliament
opened.

The Vali of Crete issuel a
proclamation convoking the
Assembly.

The Castle Line Steamer Drum.

mond Castle went down near Ushant, with all on board save three.

Li Hung Chang denied the exist-
ence of a Secret Treaty between
Russia and China.
Proclamation issued by the Sul-
tan expressing his desire for
Peace and Order in Crete.
Earthquake and Tidal Wave
destroyed 27,000 lives ia
Japan.

Loni Salisbury, in response to a
Deputation, said the Govern-
meut most earnestly desire
to use Arbitration in the
settlement of International
Disputes.
Monument to Emperor William
I. unveiled in the Thuringian
Forest.

William McKinley nominated
as Republican Candidate for
the Presidency, and Mr.
Hobart for the Vice-Presi-
den y, of the Unite 1 States.

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Cabinet Council met to consider Education Fill. Martial Law proclaimed in Salisbury.

21.

22.

23.

24.

Cretans refused to submit to the Proclamation
of the Porte.

Cabinet Council held at the Foreign Offi e.
First Public Meeting of the Christian Conference
of Churchmen and Nonconformists at Sion
College.

Testimonial presented to Lord Dufferin at Paris.
Elections in Canada showed a Liberal Majority
of 40.

Many Armenians killed at Var.

True Bil found against Dr. Jameson.

Lord Brassey opened the Victorian l'arliament.
Hard fighting occurred near Salisbury.
Honorary Degrees conferrel by Oxford upon

Mr. Chamberlain, Mr. Morley and Mr. Bayari.
Mass Meeting held at St. James's Hall in
favour of the Release of the Irish Political
Prisoners.

Annual Demonstration in support of Dr.
Barnardo's Homes for Waifs held in Albert
Hall.

25. Li Hung Chang visited Prince Bismarck.
Mr. Harrison released by the Venezuelan Go-
vernment.

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LORD KELVIN,

Fifty Years Professor at Glasgow University. (Plotograph by Elliott and Fy, Baker Street.)

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Third Reading of the Wild Birds' Protection
Acts Amendment (No. 2) Bill, the Election
Petitions Bill, the Larceny Bill, and the
Reserve Forces Bill.

15. Post Office Consolidation Bill passed through
Committee.

The Government questioned as to the Promised
Inquiry into Recent Events in South Africa.
16. Third Reading of Locomotives on Highways
Bill.

Second Reading of Bill for the Prevention of
Floods.

19. The Bishopric of Bristol Act Amendment Bill
pissed through Committee.

22. Second Reading of the Marriage with a Decease Wife's Sister Bill carriel by 142 to 113 votes.

Discussion of Benefi es Bill by Mr. Foster, Mr.
Lecky and others. Amendment to omit
Clause 1 negatived by 202 to 22.
The Liverpool Court of Passage Bill and the
Merchandise Marks Act (1887) Amendment
Bill withdrawn.

4. Consideration of the Light Railways Bill
resumed at Clause 5.

5. Government interrogated as to its Soudan Policy
by Sir William Harcourt and others.
Votes passei for the Land Registry, County
Courts, Police Courts (London aud Sheerness),
and Police (England and Wales).

8. Mr. Gerald Balfour moved the Second Reading
of the Land Law (Ireland) Bill.
Discussion by Mr. Morley, Mr. Healy, Mr.
Reimond, and others. Motion agreed to.
Motion to refer the Bill to Committee on Tra le
negatived.

9. Civil Service Estimates in Committee of Supply.
Discussion on the Vote for the Royal Trish
Constabulary by Mr. McNeill, Mr. Redmond,
Mr. Healy, and others.

Motion for Ke luction of Vote negatived by 156
to 70, and Vote agreed to.

10. Third Reading of Liverpool Court of Pas-age
Bill.

11.

12.
15.

Discussion of Amendments to Benefices Bill.
Motion to postpore Clause 1 of the Education
Bill negatived by 202 to 121.
Amendment provi ling that the District Council
and not the County Council should be the
Education Authority, after much discussion
negatived by 29 to 125; that every Municipal
Borough shouli appoint an Education Com-
mittee for the purposes of this Act movel by
Sir A. Rollit. Motion to amend Amendment
carried by 287 to 117. Sir A. Rollit's Amend-
ment as amended carrie 1 by 332 to 83.
Debate on the Land Law (Ireland) Bill.
Debate on Education Bill resumed. Amend-
ment placing Urban Districts of 20,000 on the
same footing as Municipal Boroughs nega-
tived by 265 to 143.

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Mr Asquith, at Reading, ou the Policy of the
Gover.meut.

Mr. James Bryce, at Holborn Restaurant, on
Problems of South Africa.

13. Mr. James Bryce, at Oxford, on the Present
Goverment.

15. Dr. Conan Doyle, at Holborn Restaurant, on Literary Women.

17.

19.

25.

26.

16. Discussion of Sir John Lubbock's Amendment
to Clause 1 of the Education Bill resume by 22.
Sir John Gorst, continued by Sir Wm. Har-
court, Mr. Balfour and others. Closure car-
ried by 219 to 134. Amendment negatived
by 212 to 138.
Amendment provi ling that every County
Coun i should decide whether it would or
would not appoint a Committee for Elu.a-
tional Purposes uegative1 by 250 to 139.
Discussion of Sir C. Dilke's Amendment to
Clause 1 of the Education Bill resume1.
Amendment with drawn. Amendment pro-
viding that County and Borough Councils
should be the Education Authorities, nega-
tived by 293 to 118.

23. Third Reading and Passage of the Divorce 17. Amendment Bill.

Second Reading of Bill transferring the Right
of Presentation to the Professorships of
Botany and Natural History in the University
of Edinburgh, ant the Boyne Navigation
Transfer Bill.

Third Rea ling of the Bishopric of Bristol Bill.
Debate on the Agricultural Land Rating Bill.
Amendment re lucing the time of Operation of
Bill negatived by 258 to 140.
Several other Amendments moved but defeatel.
23. Second Reading of the Cabs (London) Bill, and
the Fisheries Acts (Norfolk and Suffolk)
Amendment Bill.

Third Reading of the Housing of the Working
Classes (Ireland) Bill.

26. The Floods Prevention and the Edinburgh
University Bills passed through Comm ttee.
29. Second Reading of the Working Men's Dwell-
ings Bill and the Diseases of Animals Bill.
Marriage with a De eased Wife's sister Bill
passed through Committee.

30. The Cabs (London) Bill and the Fisheries Acts (Norfolk and Suffolk) Amendment Bill passe.l through Committee.

Public Health (Sewers and Drains) Bill with

drawn.

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Diseases of Animals Bill reported without
Amendment.

Resolution Relating to a Guarantee for the West
Highland Railway agreed to by 168 to 43.

3. Motion to Amend the Benefices Bill as to Right
of Presentation reje tel by 116 to 4.

19.

22.

23.

24.

25.

Third Reading of the Cab3 (London) Bill.
Working Men's Dwellings Biil withdrawn.
Went into Committee of Supply and proceelel
to discuss the Army Estimates. Motion to
reduce the Salary of the Secretary of State
negative I by 203 to 93. Vote agree to.
For Army Me lical Establishments passed.
Votes for pay and allowance of the Militia. for
the Yeomanry Cavalry, for the Volunteer
service, for transport and remounts and for
Went into Committee on the Education Bill.
provisions and other supplies, agreed to.
Education Bill withdrawn by the Government.
Third Reading of the Diseases of Animals Bill.
Second Reading of Labourers (Ireland) Bill.
Debate on the Agricultural Land Rating Bill.
Amendment re iucing the time negativel by
258 to 140; as to distribution of Rates nega-
tived by 252 to 117; to prevent the rise of
Rates negative by 216 to 102.
Amendments discuss and negatived.
Debate on the Agricultural Land Rating Bill.
Debate on the Agricultural Land Rating Bill.
Clause 1 agreed to by 243 to 109.

27.

Mr. John Morley, at Manchester, on the Mis-
takes of the Government.

Mr. Chamberlain, at Westminster Palace Hotel,
on the Policy of the Unionist Government.
Mr. James Bryce, Rev. H. P. Hughes, Rev.
N. Hall and others, at Sion College, on
Union among Christians.

Lord Rosebery, opening the new Free Library
in Uxbridge Road, ou Public Libraries.
Mr. Asquith, at Criterion Restaurant, on the
Reasons for Withdrawal of the Education Bill.
Mr. Courtney, at Greenwich, on the Zullverein.
Mr. John Morley, at Forfar, oa the Houses of
l'arliament.

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26. Navy Estimates discussed in Committee of
Supply.

Motion to re luce the rate for Contra ́t work on
ship-building, etc., dis.ussed and withdrawn.
Vote agreed to.

Votes for Materials for ship-building, repairs, etc.,
aud for personnel, ship-building, etc., and for
the Admiralty Office, agreed to.
Debate on the rate for Educational Service by
Sir U. Kay-shuttleworth, Mr. Goschen,
Admiral Field, and others. Vote agreed to.

M. Chas. J. Lefèvre, 69.

26. Dr. Chas. H. Kalfe.

27. Major John Pe ryman, V.C.. 70.
29. Lord Fitz-Hardinge, 70.

Henry Dunckley, journalist, 72.
DEATHS ANNOUNCED.

Sir James Browne, 57.

Dr. Chas. P. Blake, 77.

M. de Rozière, archæologist, 76.

Dervish Pasha, Senior Marshal of Turkey, 80.
Hubert Kufferath, composer, 78.

Hamilton Macallum, R.I., 55.

M. Louis Courajot, Curator of Sculpture at the
Louvre, 55.

DR. BARNARDO: THE FATHER OF "NOBODY'S CHILDREN."

PART I.-GENESIS.

I. JIM.

THE world knows little of the messengers of God.

Day by a brilliant and imposing audience. The Heir to the Throne of the British Empire was there, with the Princess of Wales, to do honour to the work of the Father of "Nobody's Children." The Duke of Sutherland was in the chair, and the Duchess, the uncrowned queen of North Britain, presented the prizes. The picked flower of English society, philanthropic and imperial, crowded the splendid hall. Everything that rank and beauty, art and music, discipline and enthusiasm, could effect was done, and done admirably, to ensure the success of an appeal made for one of the worthiest causes ever submitted to the British public. It was a magnificent tribute to a magnificent work, one of the most distinctive of the glories of modern England.

THE HEAD OFFICES IN STEPNEY CAUSEWAY.

And yet in the whole of that brilliant assemblage, of all those cheering thousands, was there more than one who, in the moment of assured triumph, remembered the humble messenger of God by whom the seed of the Word was brought, as the fertilising pollen is brought by the insect to the flower, and from which the imposing congeries of benevolent institutions associated with the name of Dr. Barnardo have sprung? Dr. Barnardo, no doubt, remembered him well. But to the multitude he was as if he had never been. The very fact of his existence has perished from the memory of man. But the work, in the foundation of which he played so momentous a part, looms ever larger and larger before the eyes

of all.

But who was he, this messenger of the Lord? His name was Jim-James Jervis he said it was, but he was only known as Jim. He was born when all England rang with the fool frenzy of the Crimean war, but he did not emerge into the light of history until nearly ten years later, just after the roar of the cannon in the war with Denmark announced the opening of the great world-drama of the unification of Germany.

No one knows where he was born, nor exactly when; nor has any one been able to trace his family belongings. He never knew his father. His mother was a Roman Catholic who was always sick, and

who died in a workhouse infirmary, Jim looking on with wonder at the black-coated priest whose apparition at the deathbed of his mother was the immediate precursor of her disappearance from the world.

When about five years old, Jim, being alone in the world and not liking the restraint of the workhouse school, made a bolt for liberty, aud, succeeding, began independent existence as a free Arab of the Streets. From that point his history is pretty clear, and may be read in an autobiographical interview which is not without a certain historic interest. For Jim, little Jim, may yet be found to have played a more important part in the history of our epoch than nine-tenths of the personages who figure in "Debrett," or even than most of the chosen few who are selected for immortality by Leslie Stephen and the editors of "The Dictionary of National Biography." Here, then, is his life-story from five to ten, as told to an interviewer thirty years ago after coffee had loosened his tongue and kindly words had won his confidence:--

"I got along o' a lot of boys, sir, down near Wapping way; an' there wor an ole lady lived there as wunst knowed mother, an' she let me lie in a shed at the back; an' while I wor there I got on werry well. She wor werry kind, an' gev' me nice bits o' broken wittals. Arter this I did odd jobs with a lighterman, to help him aboard a barge. He treated me werry bad-knocked me about frightful. He used to thrash me for nothin', an' I didn't sometimes have anything to eat; an' sometimes he'd go away for days, an' leave me alone with the boat."

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DR. T. J. BARNARDO TO-DAY.

(Photographed in the Studio of the Boys' Home.)

"Why did you not run away, then, and leave him?" I asked.

"So I would, sir, but Dick-that's his name, they called him 'Swearin' Dick'-one day arter he thrashed me awful, swore if ever I runned away, he'd catch me, an' take my life; an' he'd got a dog aboard as he made smell me, an' he telled me, if I tried to leave the barge, the dog 'ud be arter me; an', sir, he were such a big, fierce un. Sometimes, when Dick were drunk, he'd put the dog on me, 'out of fun,' as he called it; an' look 'ere, sir, that's what he did wunst." And the poor little fellow pulled aside some of his rags, and showed me the scarred marks, as of teeth, right down his leg. "Well, sir, I stopped a long while with Dick. I dunno how long it wor; I'd have runned a way often, but I wor afeared, till one day a man came aboard, and said as how Dick was gone'listed for a soldier when he wor drunk. So I says to him, Mister,' says I, will yer 'old that dog a minit?' So he goes down the 'atchway with him, an' I shuts down the 'atch tight on 'em both; and I cries, 'Ooray!' an' off I jumps ashore an' runs for my werry life, an' never stops till I gets up near the Meat Market; an' all that day I wor afeared old Dick's dog 'ud be arter me."

ELEVEN YEARS OLD.

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"Oh, sir," continued the bcy, his eyes now lit up with excitement, "it wor foine, not to get no thrashing, an' not to be afeared of nobody; I thought I wor going to be 'appy now, 'specially as most people took pity on me, an' gev' me a penny now an' then; an' one ole lady, as kep' a tripe and trotter stall, gev' me a bit now an' then, when I 'elped her at night to put her things on the barrer, an' gev' it a shove 'ome. The big chaps on the streets wouldn't let me go with 'em, so I took up by myself. But lor, sir, the perlice wor the wust; there wor no getting no rest from 'em. They always kept a-movin' me on. Sometimes, when I 'ad a good stroke of luck, I got a thrippeny doss, but it wor awful in the lodging-houses o' summer nights. What with the bitin' and the scratchin', I couldn't get no sleep; so in summer I mostly slep' out on the wharf or anywheres. Twice I wor up before the beak for sleepin' out. When the bobbies catched me, sometimes, they'd let me off with a kick, or a good knock on the side of the 'ead. But one night an awful cross fellow caught me on a docrstep, an' locked me up. Then I got six days at the workus, an' arterwards runned away; an' ever since I've bin in an' out, an' up an' down, where I could; but since the cold kem on this year it's been werry bad. I ain't 'ad no luck at all, an' it's been sleepin' out on an empty stom.ck most every night."

"Have you ever been to school?" I asked.

"Yes, sir. At the workus they made me go to school, an' I've been into one on a Sunday in Whitechapel; there's a kind genelman there as used to give us toke arterwards." Now, Jim, have you ever heard of Jesus?"

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A quick nod of assent was the response. The boy seemed quite pleased at knowing something of what I was talking about.

"Yes, sir," he added; "I knows about Him." "Well, who is He? What do you know about Him?" "Oh, sir," he said, and he looked sharply about the room, and with a timorous glance into the darker corners where the shadows fell, then sinking his voice into a whisper, added, "HE'S THE POPE O' ROME."

II. THE DOCTOR.

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So much for Jim. At the time when this interview took place Jim was ragged, dirty, pinched with hunger. He was one of the most disreputable little imps Providence ever employed to carry its message. But he did the work, and very effectively too, as will speedily appear.

The other party to that interview was a young man who had but just attained his majority, whose name was entered in the student books of the London Hospital as Thomas John Barnardo. He was a serious young man, about as unlike the typical Bob Sawyer as it is possible to imagine. Aud yet perhaps not so unlike. For Bob suffered chiefly from an absurdly wasteful method of working off excess of vitality. There are French physicians who maintain that girls at certain periods in their development display a tendency which, if it is not diverted to mysticism or religion, will find satisfaction in vice; so there is some possibility that the two students, variously known as Sawyer and Barnardo, are both object-lessons as to the excess of energy, in one case operating to the waste of tissue by intemperate excessive indulgence, in the other to the waste of nervous energy by excessive sacrifice in using every moment for the helping of others. In both cases there is relief, but there is this difference: relief à la Sawyer is relief by suicide, relief à la Barnardo is relief by salvation.

Dr. Barnardo is a singular instance of the benefits which result from a judicious cross. His father was born in Germany, of Spanish descent. His mother was born in Ireland, of English blood. He himself is thus a curious hybrid

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THIRTY-SIX YEARS OLD.

ment and human passion. If Dr. Barnardo had been born in England he would probably have been much more lukewarm in his hostility to Rome. He would also in all probability have been less passionate in his devotion to the children.

When quite a youth he came und r deep conviction of

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