Show CORRECT CLASSICAL BOSTON m hetue and vices innocence and infanticide fant icide EDITOR the punt year L have made several visits to boston usually remaining in the city for a term of several week and have at length become somewhat ome what familiar with abo hub its ways institutions and surroundings and all the large cities in the east I confess to liking boston rather better than any of tem t em at least in some respects the first thing that makes an impress um upon the stranger when taking his first news of the city H the crookedness and general irregularity of the streets and if he ventures to go alone any distance from hia hotel no ia almoite certain to lose h u bearings and yet when once familiar with her streets galleys courts and squar fei boston proves to be very convenient city for panting from point to point though crooked and irregular tho streets are very generally kept clean and wholesome As carpo american cities go boston is well governed her police system is ad and efficient and her municipal afi airs ara usually administered with ability and honesty boston has very appropriately been termed the modern lahens and probably no city of modern times no strongly that ancient seat of literature art civilization and pride s doea this probably no city in tho world at alio present time afi cra better facilities for acquiring learning for here are tau glit by the most able instructors nearly every branch of human knowledge generally on such as to enable young people of very moderate means to pursue them the attendance at school of children of proper age us compulsory and truant constantly patrol the street mhd take in charge boys and girls who arc bound in alio streets during school hours unless is reason for choir uon attendance at school boston is bordering on tho ancient gnostic doctrine that knowledge or lather education will savo mankind hence her enthusiasm in the cause of learning she is also very humane in her thories of treating and reforming criminals sometime sanco tho papers were discussing tho barbarity of allowing policemen to use a club as a means ot persuading refractory ones of them facetiously suggested that when a policeman was resisted in attempting an arrest he should hit the malefactor over the head with 11 greek lexicon as a sure means of subjugation your correspondent thinks that in extreme cases a copy of pilgrims or better still a bound volume of bev r joseph cooks lectures would prove an ex the lexicon it is claimed that cooks adjective are simply except by tho most and obdurate thoa beaton bublin is a wonderful and splendid institution it contains about volumes to which all residents have access with expense hundreds of volumes arc daily drawn from the library and taken to alie homes of resl dents where they may be kept fourteen daya to bo returned or renewed at tho expiration time hundreds of students come from abroad and take up a temporary residence in the city for the express purpose of getting to the contents of the library comprise tho choicest literature of several ns as the Enel irh there are several other extensive libraries in the cita to most of which access may bo had on certain terms thera ara eight theartres theatres the atres well patronized roni zed and at present in full blast this being e camou lamou city for the drama there are abw u or con netted with the city numerous nume rout hos petals charitably charit ablo and reform institutions do credit to the of the people but many more than exist arc needed while to outward appearance boston ia intelligent and a brilliant of ho flashy civilization civiliA tion of our afo and whilo tho abhorrent and of crimo are covered with an of sanctity and obedience to law thoro is in her midst an amount of criari and corruption positively incredible to tho ono of the most prominent ministers in the city the number of lewd women at forty thousand while the locc to any degree of credence places tho number thom and the city a population of about there is no doubt but thai tho spreading and being practiced loan extent that absolutely appalling Ilo cantly a audgo near beaton granted over of divorce at a dinglo of three even at rote diio docket is leapt crowded cut t anro moro refined und vulgar vices than most other leopla and when jonm ignatic knafo tho hilt ofhie as A pro tac t goiri ait greatly and is mortified to think thol such bromly krutal m have developed hi th leighly civilized civil izod abato of and yet whilo making much ado about the liili child by u ii dimly rl igou botin knows that hero aro an up the allar of lio tn rint yoi eliou band by libat who fur ri io sake rca sona lire tho or to dm troy tho boford l jq born or tr smother it after and al ahn f pa baiel iel oy ih dinelt rynard and tinman by wholesale ho to nl lical ind and surgical science brought and tend to obviate the over populations o hint that uch of human liff ari would ilo the inoel wealthy churco iTic mbeni tho custom cannot thoro forc he criminal it would be to accuse of th vat ft the american population of lew fing and but hang becika bec iua ho sacrificed hi child for alt cion of oake and t n later ahn i B JA fio fionn Tn slain ay iy |