ome of the more prejudiced priests, who suppose that
the poor are thus removed from ecclesiastical influences. A class of
children, whom we used thus to benefit, are now sent to the Catholic
Protectory, or are retained in the City Alms-house on Randall's Island.

Were our movement allowed its full scope, we could take the place of
every Orphan Asylum and Alms-house for pauper children in and around New
York, and thus save the public hundreds of thousands of dollars, and
immensely benefit the children. We could easily "locate" 5,000 children
per annum, from the ages of two years to fifteen, in good homes in the
West, at an average net cost of fifteen dollars per head.

If Professor Fawcett's objection [See Fawcett on "Pauperism."] be urged,
that we are thus doing for the children of the Alms-house poor, what the
industrious and self-supporting poor cannot get done for their own
children, we answer that we are perfectly ready to do the same for the
outside hard-working poor; but their attachment to the city, their
ignorance or bigotry, and their affection for their children, will
always prevent them from making use of such a benefaction to any large
degree. The poor, living in their own homes, seldom wish to send out
their children in this way. We do "place out" a certain number of such
children; but the great majority of our little emigrants are the "waifs
and strays" of the streets in a large city.

OUR AGENTS.

The Charity I am describing has been singularly fortunate in its agents;
but in none more so than in those who performed its responsible work in
the West.

Mr. E. P. Smith, who writes the interesting description above, of the
first expedition we sent to the West, has since become honorably
distinguished by labors among the freedmen as agent of the Christian
Commission.

Our most successful agent, however, was Mr. C. C. Tracy, who had a
certain quaintness of conversation and anecdote, and a solid kindness
and benevolence, which won his way with the Western farmers, as well as
the little flocks he conducted to their new fold.

One of his favorite apothegms became almost a proverb.

"Won't the boy ran away?" was the frequent anxious inquiry from the
farmers.

"Did ye ever see a cow run _away_ from a haystack?" was Mr. Tracy's,
rejoinder. "Treat him well, and he'll be sure to stay."

And the bland and benevolent manner in which he would reply to an
irritated employer, who ca