uary issue, except that Prof. Farnam puts it in more refined language. It seems exceedingly probable to me and I believe some time we shall know enough about the subject to be able to verify this idea by observation of the 22 Poverty and Crime from Intemperance. facts that irrational and excessive eating causes vastly more crime than over-drinking. For one thing, it is responsible for a large share of that very over- drinking which is charged with producing so much crime. Highly seasoned food, an overloaded stomach, distress or uncomfortable feelings caused by abuse of the stomach and alimentary canal are very prolific sources of over-stimulation. It may take the form of several cordials after a meal, or of an unquenchable thirst an hour or two after, or restlessness at night calling for sedatives or stimulants, etc. It may cause a chronic false thirst or appetite and lead from bad to worse. For another thing, if irrational and ex- cessive eating I do not speak only of over-eating causes many bodily evils, it is by that fact alone a fertile source of crime, for it is bodily evils that largely generate the mental and moral conditions in which crime is hatched. It is the general state of mental unrest, of moral depression, the pessimistic or nar- rowly brutal view of life, the abnormal stimulation of