Is Poverty A Crime?

If it is, then there aje many crimináis, for many are too poor to live in any soit of decent comfoit. The standard of honeaty and excellence, in the minds of many men, is nioney. Give an individual plenty of money - flll his barns f uil, and examine his title papers to broad acres of land on wbich no mortgage lies ; and what a multitude of faults are hidden beneath these tlmigs ? Wealth hides more sins than anything else. "He was a poor, but an honest man." Ah, tbere it is. "Poor," yet "honesc," they say, as i f the two conditions were rare'.y allied. And that's the way the world feels towards poverty. Crime and poverty go hand in haud in the minds of too many ol' us, If men would learn to honor and trust each other for their intrinsic worth - their wealth of núnd and soul - their talent, genius, industry, sobriety, etc., be he rich or poor, and a lower estímate were placed upon eacli other for their wealth of purse, we should all be happier, wiser and better. Genius would oftener bo rewarded, and better apprcciated. "Poor yet honest" men would be stimulated to higher exertions, for they would feel and know that honor, trust and proüt might follow such exertions. A man should be honored and applauded for what he is, not for what he has. It was not your men of wealth who gave to the world the steam engine, the telegraph, sewing machine, and thousands of other useful and scientific inventior3 which have revolutionized all the civilized world; but men of poverty, who lived in obseurity, and under the ban of reproach on account of such poverty. It has ever been thus ; and we fear It will continue to be so, for man, by nature, is very ungratef ui, and money rules the world. Another experiment was made in Scotland lastmonth to test theasserted eff.cacy of oil to still the waves wheu poured on the waters of a troubled sea. Seventy gallons of oil were pumpedinto the harbor of Aberdeen when ruffled by a stiff southeasterly gale. The waves were greatly depressed by the action of the oil wherever it lay in heavy masses. Petroleum has been solidiöed in France by the aridition of a substance extracted from Euphorbiaceous plants. Thesolidoil burns like tallow, aad we suppose is non-explosive in this form.