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Show MILLION8 IN POPULATION AND MISERY. There Is pride in big figures. The country of largest population, boasts of its numerical strength; the clfy of greatest numbers displays th fact In large letters. New Ynrk would be prouder as the possessor of nioro pop ulation than London than to be able to announce that there Is lean poverty in that city than in any other great metropolis Just now London. Berlin and New York are rivals for first place in pop ulation, but thero is not one word of comparison as to how contented are the people of the three cities Berlin claims four million, New York has 5.163,Omi, and London contains 7, 260.000 At least one-third of each city is made up of half starved human beings; another third is Just on the pdge of poverty, and the Other third Is divided between the middle class and the well-to-do. We would prefer to live in a city of 30.000. where there Is no real poverty pov-erty and nearly all the people are far removed from want than to be part of London with Its seven million and dally come in contact with the sad dest side of life Ogden to us, holds out more Induce ment6 as a place to live in than New York or Berlin with Its million -moans and groans |