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Show Our Dirty Htraeta. Harper's Weekly. In this country it is not easy to decide which of the great cities is tho must liliby. All of them claim this unsavory preeminence from timo to timo. Now and then tho public prints of New York will, with furious energy and great affluence of polished billingsgate, denounce de-nounce that city as the most illy oleauod city of tho country, and therefore of tho civilized world. Then a Chicago journal will echo tlio self-accusing cry, and lash its own commun'tv with the sniiie. Indictment, Again I'hiladclphia or St. Louis newspapers will use tho scourge w ith pious, zeal. jut as a medieval me-dieval monk was wont to scarify his bare back when a specially holy cuthu- aiiism slipped the leash, Between suoh cries of "peccavi" it is difficult to make a choice. It is safe to conclude that all these rivals for the palm of iucleaiili-nes iucleaiili-nes aro vile enough, and much worse than they ought to bo. |