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Show A ClKMVAl, Of )!Olllli.lli. Chicago Is luxuriating In a carnival of robbery, If such an expression may buullowed. Onoof thepaors with a mildness of tone suggestive of timidity I renounces It a "fad, like the rage for chrysanthemums or the crate for play, lug the racos. It sajs thu suburban residents find themselves mixed up rather unpleasantly in this system of levying a tax on a cltlren for graciously gracious-ly permitting hlmto live. Whllutbey resent such Interference with their simple pleuurcs and batten to pursue the blghwa)inen down interminable r..adjand through romautlo bypaths with weird Instruments of retaliation ranging from shotguns to hayforks, the maraudtrs have escaped pretty well up to date. A number of lnttances areglvin, in which peaceable cltlfeus pursuing their dally oourso have been "heIdup"nnlsulJeoted to gross an-noyanco an-noyanco and even fright in some cases, while the danger In being mistaken for a hlghwsyman by thu over vigilant vig-ilant guarJIana of the peace Is jierhaps giritter than the other. In fact, we are luformed that the robberies, rob-beries, though numerous, have been singularly unprofitable. Whether the suburban resident, after sitllluj his winter's coil bill and purchasing his commutation ticket, baa little loose chuugo rumalnlng to turn over lu forctd loans to cuauoo acquaintances lu tnuks, or whether tboso, armed adventurers ad-venturers aio pursuod by desperate luck, Is not quite clear, Ho common aud audacious have tho robberies or attempted robberies become be-come that a general cleaning out of tho thieves aud ruiicsIUneous miosis Isdeaunded, "from thu sleuder pick-locltot pick-locltot nnd sueak-thlef to thu brawny Abramruauuudaind-oatger," aud It Is further declared that that "vast community nnd Its 'environs cannot submit longer to bo harried by piclur- isquo ruffians, whether they go 011 foot, ou horsthck or in oualsos." Hjbburs In chaises are a new development lu the practice of the "geutlimou of the road," und It has ruu lined for the city of great tiilerprlsei to Introduce that groteiquu method of pi uider to the woild. That such h statu ot thlnts should pruvall Just at 11 limn when all ot ilvlllutlou nnd a fiw more aro about to congregate at the lake city, Is umluous tit least. If highwaymen uau ply their vocation uudur normal olr lumtlancca nnd moot with S3 llltle dlscjurugeiucnt that tho business grows a) ace, and that, tt.o, when It Is evidently curie 1 011 by tyros and bunglers, what may v,u expeel wnen the place Is swkrmlug with vlsltois 1 Jill an 1 every onu of whom lint moro or leu money nut while ei. toting robbery of another aud more systematlo klnJ, Is not lu the least pre psre I Inr request to "halt and hand over" while pae. ably threading lh thoriighfarcs7 Just fancy what a maitrii Dick Tur-pin Tur-pin or Clsude IliiValwIlh a few well-tralnod well-tralnod and Iron-utrved pals could dot Chicago had better take on a bhc convulsion con-vulsion and shale (he Iswlcss crew cut of Its recedes; such ad rertislug will be found dUatrous. |