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Show I ' I f I THE CHICAGO BOY. "HE SEES A MULTITUDE OF THINCS AND I3NT AT ALU ASTONISHED. H aeUrn (Irandeura Are Indifferent to Him nd lie Implicit? llellevea There It Nottilnc Llk Chicago Anjtfliere. t"Uow did you find your way herei" Inquired In-quired the Brooklyn undo in sleepy surprise, sur-prise, rubbing bis eves as tho Cblcsgo Boy walked Into Hie room. "IlubP said the boy as be let tbo shade up m with a jump and dropped Into a chair, "that's essy enough." "True " said tho un- clc, with affected and affecting meek- ness. "Anybody who could get around I -Chicago, wbrrotboy namo their atccts so that Madison appears to bo tho next President to the sainted Washington, I Polk succeeds Adams.and Jefferson isn't ' I In It. as you would say anybody who could be up under such deplorable Ignor- ance of elementary history as that would bnvo no dlfllculty finding bis way around In a city whero tbaro aro reason- ably well defined rclat ns between tbo I names of consecutive streets." I "Iiub"' again said the Chicago boy wltn Increased scoru, "what 'relations,' as you call them, arc thcro between Poplar end Mlddugh and Cranberry and Orange- and Clark? What's MIddagb. anyway? Is it a tree or a fruit, and do I oranges and cranberries grow on tho same hill In this old town?" m And thus began a despcrnto strugglo I between a citizen of a solid, respectable I city Vad a representative of a communl- M ty tbnt prides ltaolf on stock-ynrds and a barber's shop with split dollars In the I floor. It only lasted one week, but It I was ahand-lo-hand combat all the while. I The undo never felt safe except when the boy was asleep, and firmly believes I tbat in that blessed time tho boy dovued new forms of pertinent criticism. Wucn the period ended It was a drawn batllo for tbo undo at best and the Chicago boy went home proudly conscious of a .humiliated opponent behind him. There aro good boys ami bad boys; there are boya that you lovo and boys that you hale, but tbo Chicago boy Is none of these. lift is noither bad nor good, at least you never consider such qualities In connection with him. You cannot love or bate him, for that brings lilni down to tbo plane of other boys. I You respect him, and when ynu como.to know lilui you fear him. lie knows every weak point In you by instinct and .you know ho knows it, lio knows tbat you know it, and if you dwell for a moment mo-ment upon this involved condition of affairs you get all tangled up and coma "back to the starting point, which is that -tho Chicago boy is unlike any other boy, and the sooner you admit It tbo less abject ab-ject will be your final surrender. lie Is what tho printers might call an "llUHl" AOAIN 8AID T1IK HOtT m "upper-caso" boy, and the only reason B all tbo loiters of the word are not capitals B Is an unwillingness on the part of tho W. writer to concedo everything. It was M three months ago when all these things IK -came to pass, nud it will bo nluo mouths before tbo Boy comes again. lie is a H thousand miles away, and a spark of M prido and confidence In the glory of tho m things about us has rovlvcd in tho writ- er's breast. Everything was conceded H when the Boy was here, and everything m will be conceded ouco moro next sum-H sum-H tner and as many summers as tho Buy H will come. lio is as welcome as tbo first m frost that opens tho chestnut burs and Jfl tbo wind that brings the nuts to tho jfl ground, as prickly as tho burs and as jfl cheery and inspiring as the wind and as jfl sound as tho nuts. m Coming over in a bridge car tbo uncle called attention to the promenade, not to any particular feature of It, but that tho Boy might know it was there. "Yes," said tho Boy, glancing indiffer-m indiffer-m entry at tho asphalt pavemont on tho m approaches; "Ashland boulevard Is jfl paved with that for miles." lie cast a flj look at the elevated railroad trains at the New York entrance and observed: "I sco yon have coma out to Pullman for your cars." In Broadway tho undo said with M great seriousness: "Now, Herbert, tins Is a crowded thoroughfare," "It looks liko West Mudlson street Just beyond tbo bridge," Interjected tho boy, and tho HJ undo groanod as ho thought of tho turn- hlc-down, rickety buildings "just beyond J tho bridge" uud then looked at the mas-B mas-B slve structures liulug Broadway; "and von must be caieful how you walk. Peoplo do not travol all over tho side-H side-H walk as they do In Chicago whore they H aro not accustumed to walks. Youmust keep to tho right as others do. Young man. if you rija agaln9t people like that, getting over there where you don't belong, be-long, you'll get your head broken." "Sandbagged, maybe," said the Boy, cheerfully. "1 understand that's pretty common here." "There hasn't been a case of sandbagging sand-bagging la New York In a quarter of a century," cried the uncle, atung to Indignation In-dignation at this outrageous accusation. "Let's see," said the Boy, "there was " and ho mentioned two or three cases. "I guess those all happened wltbln your quailer of a century' It is a peculiarity of tho Chicago boy that ho thrusts upon you the ownership of everything he does not like. lie will say "your old hotel" when you are In doubt whether you may not bo asked by a porter what your business there is.and "your cemetery" when you show him Trinity, or "your elevated road" when the fact that you have to pay flvo cents every time you uso It Is sufficient evld-enco evld-enco for you that Mr. Gnuld and you are not In partnership. You own none of theso things, but you are mado to feel tbat you arc personally responsible for their imperfections. At luncheon on the piazza of ona of the big hotels tho Boy wnnted Ice-cream. Thero the undo put his foot down and told hlra that while bo would uot vonture to Interfere In sny wuy with bis immortal im-mortal soul he was responsible to the Boy's father for bis physical continuance continu-ance on earth and that Ice-cream he could not and should nut have. Tho Boy acquiesced and satlificd bis longings long-ings later in the day by drinking two huge glasses of sclizcr lemonade, a concoction con-coction for which he bad recently acquired ac-quired an unnatural fondness. Tito things out of which tho Boy "look a fall." as he expressed it In tho BEKtmi TUG SMUTS. week be was here, aro tber not numbered number-ed In the guldo book? Tbo Staluo of Liberty did not seem Tery much tn blm. lie raced up tho precipitous btalrs to the bead, strong of wind when ho got there, and as fresh as a daisy, ho saw tho navy yard, and declared the Chicago tbo finest ship afloat, "as sho ought to bo with tbat namo," ho remarked. Tho Madison Squaro Garden was not as big as the Auditorium; nothing was as big as that, in fact; the best thing at Rock-away Rock-away was tho "dodging coon," and when tho uncle, moved to tbat enthusiasm enthusi-asm wblvii occasionally possesses even a New Yorker, said, as they stood in Wall street, "Look at these magnificent buildings, thorn Is nothing like tbem In Chicago." tbo Boy looked around and said. "Wbcro?" And ha meant It, too. Whatever tha faults of tho Chlcagoan, man or boy, there dwells not on the face of the earth a being moro loyal to bis city. Eastern men who go there to llvo notice It at once, and though they may not agreo with all that Is asscrtod of tho big, boastful Western town, they admire tho spirit that prompts It. To tbo Chicago mrfn thcrn Is no place on the two hemispheres hem-ispheres like his own city, thcro never has been and thcro never will be. The groat cities of tbo Old World are viewed with moro or less intelligent appreciation apprecia-tion and tbo ruins of civilization greater, perhaps, thau ours are "worth seeing." But, nfter all, they aro ouly ruins, and the capitals of those other countries are in bis eyes only a faint reflection of what bis owu city Is to be. It Is this mngnlficenl civic loyalty tbat has made Chicago what It is, and iu It rests tho promise of tho future. You can not llvo in It without with-out feeling It all around you and it will be strnngo Indeed If you do not absorb some of it yourself. , And so tho days run by and It becamo tlmo for the cloar-boaded, critical Chicago Chi-cago Boy to go home. Tbo undo Insisted In-sisted that ho should como again next year, for though nt times exaspcratlngly indifferent to all theso thin us of which wo aro justly proud, tho Chicago Boy Is a wholesome, healtbv boy, and a midsummer mid-summer tonic. Tho Boy promised to como again, and bo will. Do generally admitted that bo bad bad a good time, and there were faint cvldoncca of a liking lik-ing for New York. Perhaps it was the fear of this that mado him anxious to go; perhaps it was that feeling tbat thero wore certain familiar faces dearer than anything else In tbo world out in tbo big town wbero tbo Chicago Boy llvos when he is at home. JV. V. Times. |