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into improvement or large harvests from the uncertainty of securing labor to perform the work necessary at the proper time. They generally lack ambition to raise in the world, and are content if they can provide sufficient to feed and clothe themselves, seldom laying up anything as a provision against want. True there are many exceptions, and the rising generation, will, under the influence of education prove better and more reliable citizens, in the meantime, the country suffers from their irregularity, and will continue so to do, until they realized the folly of acting in this manner. Another reason exists in the fact that farmers generally do not like to take families, so that when the husbands are obliged to leave their wives and children here, their wages will not support them. I am doing all I can to get these people homes in the country, where their families can be kept together. This city is crowded with a lot of women and children that are actually suffering for the necessaries of life. The Soup house has kept them from starvation, and I have issued wood as economically as I could, also provided the worst cases with

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