ings was as much a symptom of helplessness as of anything else. It was a counsel of despair, and it is unfortunate that the Northern Star writers, who ought to have known better, should have encouraged this vain and absurd practice by declaiming in big headlines about "triumphant victories" over the League, "the Plague" as they were pleased to call it, and by assuming to believe that such "victories" were rendering service to their cause.