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Show How People Live. A correspond ent of a New York journal dt sites lc fenow how a laboring man is to get n is li vi u e th e com i ng winter, with wags at ouo dollar per day, rent-1 rent-1 at i-'O to i-A) a ytrur, potatoes per bushel, and buckwheat, the main food of the poorer class, at $1 U $1.-0, and nru at eighty and ninety cents a bushel. '1 lie outlook, it mu i be cor. teased, is nut pW-n-.uit. Tut journal to which tho question w it-put it-put couid find no other re.-ponse thai to ad viae more c ireful study of E l ropean methods of economy. Mum agricultural laborers in England, tsa that journal, where tlia wag' a are higher than in some other cnuutries. leave to gt along en tnreu doiUrn pet week. His hour-e Ci-sts hiru $'J-j a year, fuel ns much more, and me.tl-uiiiher me.tl-uiiiher tt:an witn us; yet lie livi and raUes children. Ihe French and Belgian peasant live even on le.-a ai.d in many instances' b ive-mnm-y. Tney inherit, as a part of their edue tion, tt.e htriLtfT-t iiuIuiaIs of economy. econo-my. A F cm '-h ptas mt mak-s i savory soup out of lnf,, a mfrsel o! moat, vegeUtile, hcThi, and eiicb dry eci.ips of bread ai an American houHewit': would throw away. It h.i always been our UjasI t'nat there were no rf ally pryr people in America. Ameri-ca. There were nou, at le.iit, wlio as a chias, could not earn more money than the poore-i paid clas in foreign countries. But hi the oountry grow.-in grow.-in population and land becomes der our conditions will approximate to theirs. Tne i.atural tendency is in times of plenty to hvo pretty well up to our income.4, and carry nothing but wasteful h'ibila lo le-s faijrab!e periods. rian Francisco (Jil(. |