. "My country, 'tis of thee!" or, The United States of America; past, present and future. A philosophic view of American history and of our present status, to be seen in the Columbian exhibition. i>_ I fTt^, -tan mi^ >^9R-,. OtJR CITIES. 497 ]ove(r~one to the burial groiiiia of the paupers isone of the terrible experiences which are verycommon in large cities. Some of them cannotafford even the small time necessary to do thatmuch ; so, with many tears and prayers, perhapssometimes with many curses upon the hard luckto which fate or fortune has reduced them, theremains are quietly carried
. "My country, 'tis of thee!" or, The United States of America; past, present and future. A philosophic view of American history and of our present status, to be seen in the Columbian exhibition. i>_ I fTt^, -tan mi^ >^9R-,. OtJR CITIES. 497 ]ove(r~one to the burial groiiiia of the paupers isone of the terrible experiences which are verycommon in large cities. Some of them cannotafford even the small time necessary to do thatmuch ; so, with many tears and prayers, perhapssometimes with many curses upon the hard luckto which fate or fortune has reduced them, theremains are quietly carried to the river-side atnight and there dropped from sight, though notfrom memory. A few years ago a newspaper at-tache, attending one of the large excursions givenby charitable persons to children of the poor,overheard a mother and daughter talking abouta sick babe which the daughter was to carry onboard the boat. The mother could not go. Shehad to work or the family must starve. She tookher child in her arms, again and again kissed it,cried over it, and then began a skilful conversa-tion with her daughter leading up to the possi-bility and advisability, in case of death duringthe trip, of dropping the little darlings remain
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