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Poverty - by James Platt

funnel, causing the sympathetic remark, "Oh, the poor souls at sea I."

In our island home we are more familiar with the wind and its effects on the ocean which lashes our coasts; thus we are able to study the laws that govern the windy storms. Telegrams now come from the other side of the Atlantic, telling us of the probability of a storm reaching our coasts in such and such a quarter; and messages are sent by telegraph to the different seaports, to warn captains of ships about to sail of the approaching danger, and all around our coasts, on the most dangerous spots, are stationed lifeboats, that are manned by volunteers, who rush to the rescue in the time of danger, many of which have been presented by benevolent