| Show A CARNIVAL OF ROBBERY chicago is i luxuriating in a carnival of ef robbery if such an expression may be allowed one of the papers with a mildness of tone suggestive of timidity pronounces pronoun oes it a fad ad like the rage for chrysanthemums or the he craze for play ing the race it says aya the suburban residents find bind themselves mixed up rather unpleasantly in this etem of levying a tax on a citizen for graciously pox him to live while lethey they resent recent much interference with their simple pleasures res and hasten to pursue the highwaymen down interminable roa roads doand and through romantic with weird instruments instrument of retaliation ranging from shotguns to hayforks hay forks the marauders have hare escaped pretty well up tu date A number or of instances izuta noea are given in which peaceable citizens pursuing their dally daily course have been held up and aad subjected to grow grew annoyance and even fright in some esses while the danger in being mistaken mi taken for a highwayman by the ever vigilant guardians guardian of the peace is in perhaps greater than the other I 1 la a fact we are informed that the robberies though numerous nume roua have been singularly unprofitable whether the suburban burban au resident after settling his hia winter winters win tera s coal bill and purchasing his hia commutation ticket has little loose change remaining to turn over in forced loans to chance acquaintances in masks maaks or whether those armed adventurers are pursued by desperate luck is not quite clear so bo common and audacious have the robberies or attempted robberies be come that a general cleaning out of the thieves and miscellaneous rascals Is demanded from the slender blender pickpocket and sneak neak thief to the tb brawny abram man and sandbagger 11 1 and it to te further declared that that vast vait community and its ita environs environ cannot submit longer ion ft to he be harried by kietur esque ruf ruf flani flans whether they go 90 en elk toot foot on OB horseback ho or lu lb haidea hai iea robbers bobben in chaesin are a new development devel eBent in the practice of the gentlemen of the road and it has bai remained for the eity city of great enterprises to introduce that grotesque method of plunder to the world that such a tate state ol of things should prevail just juit at a time when all of civilization and a few more sri are about to congregate at the lake city la Is ominous at least if highway highwaymen mea oan can ply their vocation under normal cir and meet with so BO little discouragement that the business grows apace and that too to when it to evidently carried on by tyron and bunglers what may we expect when the place is ie with visitors each and every one of whom has baa more or less leb money and while expecting robbery of another and more systematic kind la Is not in the leat least prepared for a request to halt mind and hand overn over while peace ably threading the thorough thoroughfare faree just juit fancy what a modern dick turpin or claude duval with a few well trained and iron nerved palo pal could dot chicago had better take on a big con cola aulsion and shake hake the lawless crew out of its recesses reee such ad ver will be found dis disastrous |
