Reform Wanted

The question, What shall we do with onr burglars in the intervals of their convictions? has been partly solved by a nian who appeared roc-ently at the central criminal court, London. HÍ9 story, says the London News, was ono of vulgar crime ia most of its details. He had been oaught into a house and he was now sentenced to 12 jnonths' hard labor. It was particularly well deserved, as he was an old offender. But the pólice were able to show that since his last release froru gaol he had been geting a living by reporting inquests for newspapers. No one can cast the first stone at an honorable profession on that account, for was not Mr. Peace a gentleman with a gig of his own and a distingnished musical amateur? The more interesting question is whether the prisoner was well advised in his choice of a department of press work. Inquests must be demoraliüing in tiheir tendency, as they fsrailiarize the mind with crime. Fires, on the other hand, ought to be purifying, and a close attntion to the business of the pólice courts, with its abundance of awful examples, should make a man four square in moral resistance to every ill wind that blows.