The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1906-12-20

spent 10 New York. Ii Ia true that
gradually and even swiftly began TO
accommodate my mind to its envi'
ronment; that / also became deal TO
the anarchic music and blind to the
dazzling light; but never entirely
lost the feeling that 1 was living un'
der G conditions that had no more re-
remittance to those Of ordinary life
than az IL / were thrown on vol
csnic eruption or city In the throes
Of some mighty catastrophe. To
compare the tide OF lie as 1t runs In
London with the tide OF life as it
runs In New York is to compare the
swirl Of some mountain stream With
the roar and fury OF the unbound
ocean.
TRAVEL ON THE SUBWAY.
Take the question OF locomotion.
We have our underground railway,
| we had it twenty to thirty years be-
fore IL was ever thought OF In New
York, and l remember well the first
time ever travelled upon that IN
derpround railway, and how coming
from 80 small and quiet provincial
capital as Dublin, l was overwhelm
ed by the sight rs symbol OF the
might and glory Of this wonderful
new land into which had been cast
by fate. But the underground with
us has as much resemblance to the
underground-they call 1t 10 New
York the subway-as the slow crawl.
ing OF a suburban line has to the
speed and splendor OF the flying
Dutchmsn or the Irish express.
Again and again, when travelling In
the subway, had this overwhelming
sense OF wonder why people conduct
cd themselves 10 extraordinary condi
lions "a II they we're witnessing or do
Ing nothing in particular or out ofthe
way. Youg get in the train at Twenty.
eighth street You have just barely
time to Jump into the carriage When
it is eff again. Nobody stops; no
body talks; nobody hesitates; every
person-man or woman, or ever
child-makes for that train at once
at once takes seat, and Ia a SECOND
it is driving onward again. But thiI
Is not enough. You have passed
two or three stations wheny you com
' to Fourteenth street, and then yo'
get out and jumpinto another train
This is the express. Instead ofstop
ping at every station, 1t runs RICH
through half q dozen stations an
!. two or three miles at a speed tina
almost makes you dizzy. Peopl
> who are going in the other directio
:. do exactly the same thing. The
= also get out at Fourteenth stree
they also are carried in the opposi'
:. :, direction at lightning speed, passin
= station after station without stol
ping, and getting over two or thr'
- miles In almost a. many minutes.
- LIKE VICTIMS OF DESTINY.
= This mad rush Of speed and it's
feet upon you cannot be fully reelis
unless you can manage to get In
- your ears, as you read these linz
=. the almost appalling noise am
>. which all this rush backwards o.
w forwards Of trains takes pla
- Every three minutes almost =
~ hear the rush Of one train follow
no another into the same station.
- you fy past, three other trains
W. past, too; and ali this noise combil
~ and comminglss until you feel Il
'ne the world is being shaken to its Q
'us ter, end that there isa frenzy
81 noise that might make even heave
VI artillery sound tame and gen
And inside these trains you see p
\. pie not talkative, not gay. not
Ieir pansiye, a. the American Il usus
en-. supposed to BE-, but silent, Absorb
ted e. 1 thought, sad. This girl. Y
bty ell the dellcacJ Of beauty for VI
Ing American womanhood i cslsbra'
,sr. has On cir q serious and sbsor