Show = Country Editors Day of i Q Vcry likely I you have not heard of entia Mo This Is not strange bee be-e Chula has but recently been placed upon the maps of a state whose citizens insist upon being shown and who refuse to give proper cultivation culti-vation to their credulity It is not exactly correct to say that Chula has been placed upon the maps 0jon one bright redletter day In Its Ileldcon It was thrown upon tho maps a bright red splotch by a country I or This editor came to the city f other day as tho guest of the St h 1l railroad He occupied an en 6w drawingroom car ate rich food oift drank sparkling wines and received re-ceived adulations from the colored porter all tho way from Chula and back again at the expense of a soul fas corporation iTho man who compelled the map l mkera to take notice of Chula en feys the not uncommon name of italth R H Smith Smiths great opportunity came when the St Paul put the Southwest sited train into service between ilcago and Kansas City The train ses through Chula on Its eastward westward flights and there were ngs about It that mado a great 1m I sslon upon Smiths Imagination watched the flight of the South t Limited as it tore great holes the atmosphere of Chula and then to this about tho train Ite new train on the Chicago Mil Jukoe and St Paul railway passed tough Chula for the first time Sunday Sun-day night about three hours after tfsark There was no hesitation at IIa town at least none perceptible Mere ere are no high places in Chula Yo Yon hence we question whether sho r touched the track She Just rip a great fiery hole In tho darkness left the atmosphere heated steam for a second then whistled for ntlc or Chicago we are not cer which If Central had not been ed we would have telephoned to cago to see If she hadnt run clean ugh the Union station She Is euro I a hurryup train Chicago Is y about three miles up tho track Sho Is a gleam of summer sun tvestlbuled and electric lighted the cowcatcher clear back a died yards behind tho last coach Is knee deep with velvet carpets her cushions are as soft as a s check She is lighted to a daz and heated to a frazzle She was It to beat the world and her torg I cous splendor makes us chuckle to think we have a pass on her She goes so fast ttyat the six porters look like one big fat nigger She Is called The Southwest Limited She stops going both ways at ChllUcotho and you can get on her there but youll have to hurry In the gratitude of his heart the general passenger agent wrote the poeteditor that whenever ho desired to como to Chicago ho would be more than pleased to cause the Southwest Limited to pause long enough at Chula to take him on and pgaln to let him off The offer was accepted by wire an Editor Smith does not believe In toying with fortune nor flirting with opportunity Then he wrote a piece for his paper as everything that happens hap-pens if anything does happen In Chula Is news and told the citizens that ho was going to Chicago on the limited and as the guest of the general gen-eral passenger agent and of the road As might be expected the entire business of Chula was suspended the following day and every man woman and child not bedridden was down to the depot bright and early The Chula band in full uniform was there playIng play-Ing suggestive pieces about conquering conquer-ing heroes and Chulas mayor revised his last Fourth of July oration to fit tho occasion It was a gala day for Chula and the editor had to tell them with becoming modesty how he had achieved greatness About the time ho reached the spreadeagle stage of his address there was a long mournful wall pitched pitch-ed in a minor key which sounded like the expiring war whoop of an Apache Indian It was the Southwest Limited Limit-ed hailing Chula Mo Editor Smith grasped his now 275 suit case firmly by both straps and waited all atrem ble with excitement The band began be-gan a furious fanfarlng and the citizens citi-zens of Chula held their breaths There were two more long wails followed fol-lowed by two short ones an tho lim Iteds mogul swept down upon Chulas only grade crossing a cloud of blinding blind-ing dust an answering toot to the tower man as he dropped the semaphore sema-phore Indicating a clear track and a faint mban was borne upon a passing breeze to Smith and to Chulas population popula-tion as the mogul whistled for Nlan tic or Chicago which Smith standing disconsolate with grip in hand and with Chulas population popula-tion gazing seemingly with a million eyes clear through him didnt care much which it was Without so much as a look at his fellows the Chula News editor turned and hastened to his sanctum where ho sent a telegram which read When it comes to four flushes there are others Needless to say that it was all a mistake The general passenger agent apologized by wire the limited did not forget to hesitate at Chula the following day And thus was Chula Mo placed upon the map Chicago RecordHerald |