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but recently become known to them as a lost woman, 

 and they at once led the father and brother to the 

 house in which she was living. As they entered the 

 brightly lighted parlors, the girl recognized her father, 

 and, with a wild cry of joy, sprang into his arms. 

 There was no need of explanation, and the father had 

 no reproaches for the poor, sinful wanderer. Lifting 

 her tenderly in his arms, he bore her to the street, 

 sobbing out joyfully as they passed the portals of the 

 house of shame : 



" We've saved her, thank God ! We've saved Lizzie ! " 



That night all three left for their distant home. 



This is not an isolated case. There is many an un- 

 fortunate who has trod the hard streets of the metro- 

 polis, with no eye but the pitying one above to look 

 kindly on her, who could tell of a home from which 

 the hard hand of poverty drove her. 



It is a most lamentable condition of affairs that 

 makes these things possible. It is not so with other 

 callings. The labor of the merchant, the manufac- 

 turer, the small trader, the professional man, enables 

 him to do better for his children, and to give them a 

 home of refinement and happiness, which they enjoy, 

 and which makes them eager to provide homes of their 

 own when they arrive at man's and woman's estate. 

 But the reverse is too often the case with the farmer. 

 His sons have no wish to toil as their father, and they 

 seek to escape from the farm, and change their pursuits 

 as soon as they can. The farmer's daughter, seeing 

 her mother's daily toil and care, and the constant 

 struggle of both parents to earn a decent living, has no 

 wish to become a farmer's wife, and she too seeks to 

 leave home at the earliest possible moment. 



