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ABOUT PEOPLE.

more touching, no contest more pathetic to witness, than that of some of these girls, born poor, living to be poorer, with no power to do well any one thing, even menial work, thus receiving wretched pay; probably supporting some relative, or child, if left widowed or deserted, and at last giving up the fight for goodness, and yielding for preservation of self and of others.

The cause of evil that ranks next to that of ill-paid remuneration for labor is that of intoxication. Wrong-doing and love of drink are so inseparably connected that it is hard to distinguish cause from effect. When the first step in evil has been taken for other reasons, this second cause reacts and intensifies the capacity for further ill-doing. All grades of sin recognize the service that liquor renders them, and do not hesitate to apply its aid to their purposes.

The overcrowded dwellings of the poor are the third cause. The proximity of parents and children, brothers and sisters and boarders, in

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