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Show " STARVING MAN TOOK A BONE AWAY FROM DOG Crop Failure and High Taxes Have Reduced Many Parts of Germany to Pivcrty. With tbes word he bee an to tear the meat from the bona. Some of the onlooker on-looker offered him money, which h refuted, re-futed, aayin that he wanted only work, but he- at with ravenous appetite the lunch of a laboring: man. who offered It to htm. The man wa a year a-o a merchant, but had failed, as he could not collect outstanding debts, and for months he had been trying to jet work, until hl last penny wa gone, and all but the clothes he wore bad been pawned to ret food. : There are hundreds yes, thousands of cases of the same kind, and it is no wonder that the number of those who Oppose existing; condition grow every day, and the ranks of the Socialists swell with alarm! n rapidity. v BERLIN. Nov. 10. The unusual drought and heat of the summer have almost totally rained all kinds of crops all over the country, and the heavy taxes made necessary to maintain an enormous army and satisfy the Kaiser's demand for a great navy have sapped the people of their savings. American competition and invasion of Germany . m have brought merchants and manufacturers manufac-turers to the verge of ruin, and strikes have impoverished both employers an" workers. Not for many years have there been so many people out of work Jurt before the coming of winter, and. the misery end poverty in Berlin and other, great cities to which, the unemployed flock in ever-Increasing numbers defy all descriptions, de-scriptions, i Public and private charity cannot relieve re-lieve even the most distressing cases of need, and the coming of winter will mean deaths by thousands from cold and starvation. " . . An Incident which was witnessed the other day InNi street, of the city of Hanover give a . striking example of the destitution even among people a short time ago In comfortable circumstance circum-stance .A.cook In a restaurant threw a bone with ome meat on to a' passing dog, which was on the point of running o(T with it when a man,, quite well dressed, rushed at the dog, caught It by the collar and tore the bona away from It Several people stopped and tried to Interfere, but the man cried: "I am more hungry than the dog. I have eaten nothing for three days, and I cannot |