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Show en In ,the garbage of neglactetf homes, their innocence and purity remain, re-main, and what a pity if is that, while they are still free from the stain of contact with the foul and unclean things, they cannot all of them be transported to homes where the moral atmosphere is pure, where the sunshine sun-shine of life enters in to cheer and lighten the burdens; to homes where song and laughter and whispering hope are lullabys and passports to sweet dreams. !THE PITY OF IT ALL; INNOCENT CHILDREN. I There Is a box car thief confined In the county jail. He Is married to a woman who has long since lost her r elf-respect. Husband and wire are : aidicted to the use of morphine and ether brain-muddling drugs. No one might bo much concerned over two human beings with the power of free agcncy.who debase themselves by wallowing wal-lowing in the mire, but the union of the man and woman has been the cause of bringing into tho world three children, a boy and two little girls, the oldest nine years of age. Tho mother says that when she started from her home in Salt Lake to visit her husband in jail In Ogden, the ; children offered their nickels . with j which to buy candy and apples for papa. Here is a case ot a world brut-1 ally Indifferent to three innocent lit- tie ones, and here is a case of mis-mating mis-mating more shockingly consequential consequen-tial than any case of miscegenation against which our laws thunder in condemnation and against which the white people rave. Nature, wo are told, does better by us than we are disposed to do for ourselves and nature tends to over-, over-, come all defects. In this case the children may have been born free from the weaknesses of their parents because of nature's struggle to overcome over-come sin and disease, but, struggle as tney may, tuese children cannot throw ; off the burden of environment, unless . in their infancy they are extended a j helping hand from w ithout a lu?lp-! ; ing hand which will lift them out of of tho contaminating inlluence ot a ; homo that has become polluted. 1 The people of Ogden and Salt Lako rail against the criminal, tho drunk- i 1 . ard, the drug fiend and, now and then. ! ! 1 they organize charity ballB for tho aid 1 j j of tho dependents. The profits ot j I these eleemosynary affairs are devot-I devot-I j ed to buying clothing and food. How i many within these charitable organi-1 organi-1 zatlons ever stop to inquire how much ! of the misery to which they aro applying ap-plying a balm had Its origin at tho very birth of these criminals, drunk-j drunk-j ards and fiends, and how much of that ; ; woe is attributable to tho failure or , whole communities to recognize a duty ' lj they owe to innocent prattling babes whose parents have brought them Into hovels of moral and physical tilth? j However deep llttlo ones are sunk-I sunk-I ' |