Show vol WITH TAU BY Q copyright 1807 1907 by byron williams the flight behold a door that opens wide wherein Is warmth and fancies fair A new born fledgling tries his wings and enters at the casement there ah happy bird within the house his throat is pulsed with gladsome pride but ere the song Is halt half complete another doorway opens wide vf it and fate pate attract attra c ta him through its frame f rame to e uti aid and deep oblivion this Is tl e ike life of mortal man A span of son gand life Is done the open door 0 of youth Is sweet the apace space within lite life s house Is light and then the yawning door to death 7 eternity the endless night the greenhorn in ch cago long stood the noble youth oppress d with awe 6 and stupid at the wondrous things he surpassing paw saw asing common faith transgressing nature natures s law dryden the greenhorn was timid when he bett the great station he had a place 1 14 to go but he didn dian t know how to get there he realized in a vague sort of way that a policeman might tell him but bat burely a cab would take him there the street car would have cost him 5 cents the cab cost him 2 the greenhorn in chicago always spends bis his money this way ignorance ot of conditions and locations costs money he was left at the elevated loop and inquired hia his way at the window while the crowd fussed at his heels to get past him when he laid down his nickel he said to the woman ticket please she took his coin with a swoop pd nd rung it up and while he was waiting for the ticket the mad crowd caught him and burled hurled him onto the platform do I 1 take the train going this way or that way to set get to td sheridan parka he asked of a man V hp was 00 too oo busy to answer they only go one way laughed a second individual who was kind enough to notice his predicament once more the them crowd pushed him this time inside the car etwas crowded and he tell fell over seventeen pairs of feet and landed in a fat lady a lap as the elevated train swung around a snake curve he ile apologized his face very red and his body in a very awk ward poise then he noted the and caught one where he hung with a stalwart grip as the curves lashed him like a string in the wind he expected every minute to hear the conductor coming to put him off because he had no ticket and he wondered eted it if he be t already passed his station he let go of the strap to walk to the end ot of the car and ask the guard and stepped on an average citizen citizens s corns the average citizen swore softly and continued to read his paper the greenhorn took to the platform after that and set his grips dove down n oh the opposite side from where the gates opened last at the next step the gates opened on his side and he blocked traffic while he moved again he was woefully uncomfortable as it was but when the gate swung open unexpectedly at the next stop and hit him on the nose he was read to quit the maddening mart forever it he ever got off that train he heard the guards calling out local train local train I 1 express arami train split express and other things he did not understand and he gave up all hope of ever reaching his destination it was a maelstrom of pandemonium and then some he wished himself back in illes corners for the hun dreth time there was a visible relief when he reached the station which the guard assured him w was where he wanted to go he t know he had forgot ten by the dim light of a street lamp he brought out the paper on which was the address he ae sought then ten he began to wonder which way to start he asked a boy who didn dian t know a man who was a stranger in the neigh boyhood and a suburbanite who told him in a general way to go south and then east he knew which way up was and he was wag almost prepared to go that way but as for north and south he was in a quan dary it was growing dark and he must find that number he set out by instinct like a carrier pigeon re turning to its nest and walked until he was tired then a policeman set him right and he found the number he rapped and nobody came to the door it was a big stone place and he wondered it if his friends owned it all he ile rapped again then he noticed a card with their name in the hallway and he rang the bell still nobody came he heard a faint voice ask who was there and it sounded sepulchral as though it came from the uttermost recesses of the earth could his friends live in the basement 9 he rang again and at last a maid came down the stairway and asked him through the closed glass door what he wanted he ile told her and she went back up stairs he ile was just getting ready to leave in disgust when his friend hove in sight and grasped him by the hand and cried why didn t you answer the tube hank the women folks are afraid of burglars you know hank was so glad to find his friend be he forgot his trouble and began to enjoy city life at once it is always thus when the greenhorn farst visits S chicago y ay iy t |