Show THE MYSTERY UNRAVELED A clever newspaper mm mail ines ma U ballon of a tremendous blocked lo 10 what is IV if I 1 who is hurt llull anybody An bodi been run over Is it a man in a litt lit high above the ceaseless durable anil and roar of traffic loso rose humin voices in ill fulz iotis ious inquire inquiry anil and the debiso throng at ali intersection of state and madison street grew denser still it vas was just befort and the knighty inist heart of chi cagos business center throbbed with the feverish fe ansh energy that marked the closing bours of another day of toil and tin burr hunting ying homeward of restless tai thousands Ou sands the tile swiftly moving stream of humanity that are wont went to meet in eddying whirls in fix tins this dizzy vortex aid and then aliver ich ergo 0 o and move onward again each in in ita its destined course had sudden ly become blocher and chaos reigned pushed toward the common center by the e ever er hurrying throngs afoot in car aiges and in street cars and unable to extricate themselves themuel cs men tt omen women and children gasped for breath and the crowd in the streets and on the side walks overflowed into alleys and surged hither and yon you like the resistless ebb and flow of ft a mighty sei sea A policeman on tho the outskirts of tle lie dense thi climbed a lamppost and from his flis elevated ele atad position surveyed survey eun od pd the scene give him air he shouted sternly etell waving hia Us club give him airl tho the matteri matt eee inquired a linn dred voices as lie clini climbed bed down 1 I dont know and with gloomy lowering brow lie strutted up the street disappeared down a short flight of stairs from which a few moments later ho lie emerged vi wiping ping hi me mouthy mouth and in tho the fame rame ebern to ims 1 I 1 I 1 promising way lib wip macd licea a V 0 k tarther fa r tin and d bent sent in a iro fire alarm meanwhile Mean whilo the surging multitude at state and madison grow every moment more appalling and inextricable something must be done fiercely elbowing his way through tho the crowd a newspaper reporter at last was seen bearing down toward the center of the compact mass maw his hadavas ila 1 off his hair fly flying tug in tho the wind air anu III his face faco was deathly pale ant with set teeth and dilated nostrils lio lie tore big lis way along thrusting to the right and left every ono om no who opposed his progress reaching the center of tho the throng ho he seized two individuals by their arms arm and in the same sanio to fearless way may opened a passage for them to the outside and as if by magic tho the vast concourse dir solved the converging streams of lia ila manity whirled and eddied as before and tho the business heart of tho the great city cit throbbed ag again aln the I 1 ic porter had conjectured rightly the blockade was caused by two women who had met in the exact center of the street and stopped to tell each other tal tho ic troubles 0 s they were having with their hired girls chicago tribune |