Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1867-02-15

ries there.
From Walton's Journal.
4 CHICAGO Man IN A HURRY-Ile is an
old friend OF my boyhoOd. He goes to New
York and Boston half dozen times year
and have repeatedly urged him to take the
Northern route and give u call sometime,
promising HIM the rarest treat Of landscape
wonders; but he Is always in hurry
deuse of hurry" | thought sketch of
the unrlvalled scenery of the Green Mount
aims and greener valleys and hills, Of Sum
mer entertainments. Autumlal glories and
Winter sublimities, would certainly bring
him; but he stood on the probable loss OF a
few hours to business and complained Of
being in an "efervcscence Of a hurry"
wrote again, and stronger than before, tell
ing hlm that he would pass straight through
the very middle Of the Elysian Fields. the
Garden of Eden, the Paradise of the World,
on the Vermont Central, and he replied ''if
it were Heaven itself and filled with Cheru-
bins and Seraphims, could not possibly 90
fifty miles out of the direct course TO see 1t.
| am in such al everlasting hurry"
visited him years ago, and there was no lack
of generous and even lavish hospitality HIS
servants and all his establishment contained
were put at my command. Railroad tickets
tickets TO concerts and shows, and pres
ents too, were showered upon me, bat Of my
friend saw very little. He was a dissolv-
ing figure, ever on the run and jump; whip
ping round q corner; dashIng across the
street with hair flying tumbling over apple
stands, children and dogs in his hurry. He
came into his meals like prairie whirlwind,
and right out again ike tornado, before |
had half finished the first course. Now and
then | rode with him TO the store, or some
business place, but he would drive so like
Jehu in tempest that it was as much as 1
could do to keep my seat. My stay at Chi
cago seemed more like being at a fire, a
wreck "a row and general muster, all together.
than anything else can think of / was
glad to turn my lace to Vermont again. |
have ever since been expecting to hear that
my Chicago friend had broken his head
against lamp-post or a dray-horse, or was
strangled to death in the gorge and Jam of
one Of those whirligig bridges; but not so
he is still living and whisking about the
streets of that hubbub city in the same ter
rible wild hurry. | received a letter from
him recently. Young men, who so fippant-
ly quote Douglass on your birthplace, and
that other infdel line-''W Westward the Star
of Empire takes its way,"-just read this
before you start.
CHICAGO. Jan. %.
DEAR FRIEND Yours received, hastily read
and must be hastily answered. Business is close
behind me with q sharp stick / don't open the
lids OF book or read paper once a year, for
an hurried to death. My business occupies all
my time and more too (; | baYe not half time
enough 10 do It justice. | have not had time to
call on my wife and children for weeks, may be
months, and don't know that | shall ever be
able to see them again. Day and night is all
the same to me ! don't know when the sun
rises or sets, or whether ! ever eat, drink or
sleep at all, am in such deuce of a hurry.
Leisure moments Why ! have got the tiger
by the tail and am holding on with all my
might and msin dare net so much as look
of. live IN the constant apprehension that
the alp Of single hair would be certain death.
The tiger is pushing on, aud % am |.
Do ever stopl Perhaps | do, but cannot
say positively. If | do. it is the stop of the
race horse, or the over-hested machine. just to
cool of These few lines give me cold chilli
they will make snarl in my business | shall
not be able to unravel for weeks. Enclosed |
send you ticket for the round trip Il return
I'd il in.tanter J come and see me and stay
Whole year; but don't, pray you, ask me to
come bv way Of Vermont again, for am in an
awful hurry.
Yours in q hurry,
SMITH.
Young man, if Chicago is your destina-
ton, take a last, long look Of all that has
charmed you in books. in earth, in air and /
sky.
If you have any loving Of nature or art to |
do. OF any tender sentiment to cultivate, /
here IN dear old New Eugland is your final
chance. If you will 20 to that modern Ba-
bylon. whose chief god is Hurry" and
where the people chase each other through |
the narrow crowded streets, as tho halt Of
them were thieves, and the other half police
men IN bot pursuit, then put yourself into
condition, reduce your weight, drop
all supesfuous baggage, practice Jumping of
and on swinging bridges, lodging loeomO-
tives and omnibusses, and eat and sleepon
the wing.
To be respectable Chicago man, my
friend, you must be in a coniounded hurry,
"a hurry that has no holidays. no fields and
groves to walk in, no mountains and valleys
TO visit, no Z" lodge in q vast wilderness
with one fair spirit for your minister. A
Chicago hurry is the sort OF hurry a man
feels with big injun after. him,-wIth
mad dog or raving bull at his heels If
you like that kind of a hurry, 60 to Chicago
and you will get it. When YOU arrive and
present your credentials, them fellows will
iry you as they do your Morgan and Morrill,
horses, to see il you have the element Of
burry-the two-eighteen speed.
Ii yon are ready to run the gauntlet be.
tween two rows Of bowling ssvages all the
rest of your life, ready to bid an everlasting
farewell to all the quiet scenes of life, and
to henceforth wear your hat on the back side .
IF your head, to cut your coat-tsils short off.
20 IN your shirt sleeves summer and winter. ,
% eat. drink. dress, walk, talk, and 90 to
he devil in Murray, betake yourself to Chi
ago by ali means that is just the place for
7ou. Go to Chicago, go ;-coniusion 90 ,
Nth you. FELT IT Or
Warren, W.. Feb. 4.