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Work Department For Adults
It is highly desirable that the business of this department should be increased, in order that it may pay its expenses, and that its benefits may be extended to a larger number of meritorious and industrious persons, who are striving to keep away from the almshouse, and to whom the bread of charity is not palatable. It ought to have an income of its own. The scanty funds of the institution are too limited to supply the wants of the workshop....