Flesh-Eating.—Every now and then we read in the newspapers an item like this, "November 30. Masons[*] Eat Tainted Oysters; Three Dead." Here is another, "An Inquest Held over a Citizen in Canada, Who Died from Ptomain Poison from Eating Sausages." And the whole of one page of a Sunday paper is devoted to the oyster and clam beds of New York, and how they are fattened and polluted by the half billion barrels of sewage poured over them every day. And there are many other oysters and clams, besides those gathered in New York, from the mouth of the harbors of the big cities. It is on just such things as sewage and the offal of the ocean that the "delicious bivalves" fatten. Yet men will eat them, and still continue to eat flesh, notwithstanding ptomain poisoning. We believe in a grain, fruit, and vegetable diet because it is better. Many of the ills that are sweeping thousands away do not trouble the vegetarian.