improved dwelling rates, emigration rates. We must think of those that have to pay as well as of those that are to receive. Many of the former deserve our sympathy quite as much as the latter. We cannot allow any one, "let the cause of destitution be what it may," to die for want of help; but the treatment of the casual poor should be such as to discourage and diminish the army of vagrants that in the past were maintained by a system of bounties that enabled a large class to eat the bread of idleness, by trading upon the sentiment and emotion of human nature.

The policy to pursue is to begin with the children-the poor deserted little waifs, whose very physical forms bear the marks of inherited disease, and whose better feelings have been left undeveloped, and who require great care to check their distinct tendency, physically and morally, to swell the crowd of pauperism, and whom it is not only our duty, but common sense shows it to be wise policy, to train so as to order their goings in life on new paths. How to give these little outcasts a "home" is a matter that requires our greatest care, as upon whether this be well or ill done will depend the pauperism of the future. To put them on the right track to earn their living, is important; to make them feel it a disgrace to be the recipients of "charity" in any form, is still more so; to start thorn in life imbued with a belief that they may be and should be able to earn an honest living, and, by intelligent industry and thoughtful thrift, make their way upward, is essential. The object should be to rescue the children from their surroundings, not to stamp them with a mark of inferiority; you must