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28 sufferer is thrown out of work, and sent to the hospital, while his wife and family are reduced to the brink of starvation. Often the man rendered desperate by his hopeless position, plunges into drink, and gives himself over to ruin. At other times, the working classes, in a frenzy of rage at their infernal circumstances, determine that they will have higher wages or perish. Hence result the disastrous strikes and the terrible social revolution's that have in recent times so often convulsed society. But they are in vain; they are but the blind efforts of men to do something or die, the fruitless heavings of a man in a nightmare. The mountain of misery invariably falls back upon their breast, with only increased pressure; and forces them, worn out by impotent struggles, to bear it quietly for another little season."

This terrible picture applies more forcibly to England but finds, in our own land, a sufficient verification to cause every philanthropic heart to ache. Take the following from the New York Times:

"Mrs. A. makes vests at eighteen cents apiece for a wholesale house. She can earn eight dollars a month by working fourteen hours a day, including Sundays; she pays three dollars a month for her attic, and has two small children to support; she has eaten meat once only—and then it was given her—since Thanksgiving Day. Another case: Kate A., a "finisher" of fine shirts, makes about two dollars a week, working hard for it. She has a grandmother to support, and has often lived for weeks on bread and water, in order to afford the old woman a little broth every day. The Star, which is enabled to describe these cases from the diary of a lady who has visited them, gives a still more painful instance of the hardships caused