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A TRAVELER FROM ALTRURIA.

"What is incivism?"

I interpreted, "Bad citizenship."

"Well then, if you will excuse me, Mr. Homos," she said, "I think that is simply impossible. There must be rich and there must be poor. There always have been, and there always will be. That woman said it as well as anybody. Didn't Christ himself say, 'The poor ye have always with you'?"