The small-boy who has been well and piously brought up hates the heathen, though policy compels him to conceal his feelings. He envies the heathen small-boy, and at the same time looks upon him as a selfish and remorseless absorber of Christian pennies. This is natural and inevitable. The small-boy is told that his heathen contemporary goes constantly barefooted, wears very little clothing, is never washed, never goes to school, and is never taught anything that is good and useful. Moreover, the heathen small boy lives in a country where tigers and other delightful wild beasts abound, and where the exciting spectacle of a widow burning to death in company with her husband’s corpse—an attraction which no circus in this country has had the enterprise to offer—is frequently exhibited free. Of course, the small-boy of Christian lands envies the blessed lot of his heathen brother, and would give worlds had he, too, been born a heathen. Now, when this envious small-boy is compelled to give 50 per cent. of his pennies to the heathen, he feels that it is both unreasonable and unjust, and his anger burns against the heathen small-boy who, although rolling in every kind of heathen luxury, meanly absorbs the scant wealth of small-boys who have had the misfortune to be born in Christian countries. He cannot avoid noticing that the grown-up folks who think that he should give one-half of his pennies to the heathen, do not divide their own property in that way, and he never drops a copper in the collector’s box without feeling that he is the victim of moral blackmailing. Now and then there arises a small-boy with a gigantic intellect, and a degree of courage which marks him as a born leader of his race. It is the exceptional small-boy of this variety who heads expeditions against the Indians and organizes gangs of juvenile highwaymen. That these enterprises do not meet with success is due to forces beyond his control, but they display the greatness of his intellect and the boldness of his character. Of this type of small-boy is Master Jaggars, of North Meriden, Conn., who lately devised an ingenious and entirely novel scheme for arresting the flow of American copper coins toward the heathen pockets of juvenile India. Some two months since, Master Jaggars, who had painfully accumulated the sum of twenty-five cents, with a view to an expected circus, was compelled to consecrate fifteen cents to the hated small-boys of India. It was this last of a long series of pecuniary outrages that determined him to take a bold stand against missionary assessments, and he, therefore, summoned a mass-meeting of small-boys on Saturday afternoon at Deacon Pratt’s barn, ostensibly with a view to rats, but really in order to propose a plan of defense against heathen encroachments.