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past weakness. He had absolutely nothing. The clothes which he wore lie was buying at one dollar per week. They still belonged to the installment firm. He earned from three to sixteen dollars per week in a glass works. There was only one chance of paying her the money. He had had his life insured in her favor for the amount he owed her. He was old, feeble and care-worn, and would soon die. Then she would get the money. The one aim of his life was to keep up the pre miums on the insurance. There were two men on his bond as guardian, but they were poor men, who would be ruined if they had to pay for him. He would do anything in sacrificing himself to save them. It was, indeed, a difficult case. The attor ney finally decided to have the old man file his accounting, so that if at any time either surety had any money, the Society could get it for the girl. It did not seem wise for a charitable society to throw the sureties into greater distress than that of the girl. The old man came to the Society for advice as to the drawing up of the accounting, so that one attorney was in the unusual position of con ducting an action for both parties. A case more pleasant to contemplate was that of an old man who had inherited five hundred dollars. A friend of his, a lawyer, undertook to get the money for him. The executor would not pay, and fraudulently used up the estate. The old lawyer in pro ceeding against the executor managed to get the case in an inextricable tangle. When the case came to the Society, the old lawyer, after countless attempts to explain how matters stood, exclaimed in desperation, ''You musí begin dcro novo." And this the Society did with success by going against a surety com pany which had all the time been on the bond of the insolvent executor. The cases to secure support for deserted wives and children furnish many interesting studies in human nature. A woman who re cently came into the office said: "My hus

band has two wives, and I want to find out which one I am." A remarkable feature of this sort of case is the surprisingly good feel ing which exists between the two or more women who have been victimized. It is not at all infrequent for two women to come into ihe office together, each holding the other's hand, and for one of them to say, "My hus band is living with her, and we want to know what we can do about it." Not long ago, while the Society was trying to straighten out the difficulties of two wives, a letter was re ceived from a third, who lived in New Haven, Conn., in which she expressed the earnest desire that the other two come to pay her a visit. "We would have so much to talk about," she said. A woman came into the office one after noon, and told this story : About a year be fore she had been married in England, and her husband had come to this country to pre pare a home for her. About a month before, as the result of a letter from him she had come over to join him. Her husband had met her at the steamer—apparently with joy. lAs they entered his home, they were met by a woman, whom her husband described as lus housekeeper. He introduced his wife to her as his sister. The wife at once corrected this. "Oh, no, you are not his wife," exclaimed the other woman; "I am his wife." In telling about the case, the little English woman did not seem to object seriously to the housekeeper's living with her husband. But her husband, who kept a Turkish bath, was in the habit of bathing the other woman. Then she would bathe him. The wife said she "couldn't stand for that." The Society took the case under advisement. The very next day, by a curious coincident, the hus band, of his own accord, came in and begged the aid of the Society in getting rid of his wife. He told about the same story, saying that he had got his wife over here, and now d:d not know what to do with her. When the Society had him locked up he said, "And