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ally, for it is enforced by the boy proprietor of the hotel, to whom it is a matter of business.

In 1 895 taxes were levied to support the poor. Finally a bill was introduced in the legislature and enacted into law, stipu-

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lating that after a certain day the paupers' table supported by the government should be abolished. There were a dozen pau- pers, who had contented themselves with the spare diet of that table. They treated the matter as a joke and predicted that when the day arrived, the citizens would do what the charities of New York had always done, feed the hungry whether deserving or not. But the citi/ens were tax-payers. When the day arrived the policemen ordered the paupers to move on. They moved; and before night had found work and earned enough to ja\ ii a heavy supper. Since that day there have been no paupers. Of course, there is no problem of the unemployed in this Junior Republic, and so the paupers cannot throw the burden of proof upon the philanthropists.