The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-11-14

nary apparel The museum of the city has also its chamber of horrors. The visitor witnesses scenes of gross brutality and injustice treated by the public as of trivial importance The vicious ls .1ar- rsni of the slums are to him, really de serving and destitute people, and he cheerfully yields the dime or quarter that is quickly exchanged for rum the moment his back is turned.
 It is considered the thing" for the people-and the pIess-of the eastern and southern states, to ridicule Chicago. Yet it would be difficult to locate the ex- act class of this city against whom the ridicule and sarcasm are especially hurled The foreign element of Chicago came from the same Faderland the same italy the same rugged scenes o: Norway and Sweden the same tight little isle of England; the saTe "most dis,ressful country" oi Ireland; the same vine-clad hills of sunny France. as did that of New York, of Boston, of Cincinnati. of Phia- delphia, of S;. Louis. Is the butt of ridi- cule, then, to be found in the purely American classes2 A majority of this class is eastern born or descended from strictly Yankee percentage.
 Perhaps this peculiar Chicago individ. uality is in the air. Mayhap Chicaso's cit zans live in fixed atmosphere of laughing gas. Certain it is that the resi- dents of this city are universally consid. cred to be sui generis original, solitary and unique.
 The average Chicago man stands out against no strongly reflected background of solid, substantial ancestry. Solitary and alone he looms against the horizon of the great northwest. Such as he IS, all see him. For just what he is worth all take him particularly h.s bride. The Chicago man asks no one to examine his genealogical arch v s as evidence of his good repute. If successful in business that settles it. He meets every one on the threshold and blocks wih his portly figure the doorway to enquiry.
 Lampereel, the unfortunate ex-suitor if Imogen Pettigrew's, had not proven himself successful Chicago business man. Therefore Lampereel was under a ban-yes, long ways under it True, he had "laid down for a round sum making bona fide failure with no pros- peet of paying one penny on the dollar. Although the affair had created hardly a ripple in financial circles, every one had cold, frost-bitten shoulder for L4m- pereel. He had made one O the worst of breaks-a genuine failure. He had surprised and disappointed his bes, friends-in having no snug sum covertly secreted from the prying eyes of the as- signee's ferret. Nc. being typical mod ern failure men said that Lampereel was cranky that he must have allowed his reason to totter on her throne.
 From the favor of Imogen Pettigrew Mir. Lampereel had gone forth into the cold and cruel world a blighted being From the door of his mercantile estab- lishment he had gone out broken man Tucknp, Teriwilliger and Vernouth had each refused to lend helping hand to keep Lampereel's head above water. He had tested their professed friendship and found it sadly wanting by several thou sand dollars. So Lampereel had gone sorrowfully back to his counting room discharged his clerks, confidential ard otherwise, and failed liabilities colossal assets nominal.
 One early morripg before sunris. Lampereel walked along the docks lining the banks of the Chicago river, below l. c. north of Twen,y-second street Down" Lake Michigan is toward the north. On the supposition that the Chi csgo river runs into the lake the course of the south branch would be ortherly. But the Chicago river runs, or more prop erly speaking, drags its sluggish length along, in a direction rem the lake pass ing into an artificial canal and thence n 0 the Illinois river. Consequer fly whenev- CT vessel m owes down the Chicago river it goes up stream, and vice versa. Lam pereel was walking up stream, down the river, Strangers visiting Chicago are fur nished chart accurately explaining this puzzling paradox of the great northwes, ]
 Passing down the river, up stream, MT Lampereel encountered scenes which were new to him, although he had lived eighteen years in the city. As he moved among the cool recesses of the vast, ba'my lumber piles, he saw coarse-vis-