The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1869-08-31
EL0PEMEET AT DRURY.
An Old Mans Darling Becomes Young
Mans Slave.

Drury township is admirably located for
freedom from all the noise and excitement q
Of a vain glorious world. Situated at the
lower end Of Rock Island County, seldom
visited hy court house rats or barnac!es, and
no, even raded upon by horse thieves or
marauders it offers on unequalled retreat
for those who wish to meander down the
shady slopes of life with as little hustle or an
noyance as possible. It's cool groves seem
the very temples Of meditation; It's limpld
waters ripple with myriads of the 6nny
tribes; its prairies noursh cool bree2es that
refresh the decrepid invalid like gales from
the Sierra Nevadas in midsummer; its beau |
tiful farms delight the failing eye of age, while
grainaries bursting with plenty, preclude all
fears of the approach Of famine. In fact,
this enchanting rural district cannot fail to
recall to the imagination Of the visitor, the
golden age of man, when the harvests grew
r ldxuriantly over all the earth, and man had
not learned to struggle with his fellows
, And to the highly sentimental, 1T might
? even suggest that "land in the sun bright
o deep, where golden gardens glow; where
II the winds Of the north, becalmed in sleep
"a their conch shells never blow" In view OF
n the sad tale We must touch upon, it might
If also parallel with Eden before the serpent
A beguiled the TOO conGding Eve, and man
4 Co..
"a So perchance often unused an aged resi-
n, dent OF that quiet place, Mr.. Milton by name
Al whose white locks and seventy summers
es should have taught him better than to have
placed his trust in woman, sometimes more
an uncertain than princes in their power. Anc
ar. vet he boosted dear companion upoI
nd whose angelic countenance thirty'sx season.
MIA had touched but lightly, and il his font
nd dreams no doubt imagined that upon he
%. loved form his last lingering gaze shouI
va. rest, when the hand of death should chec'
it'll the current Of life along his veins. LAX
.dv Webster he no doubt cherished the hop
ON that bis last telescope observation oil tn
the burning orb of day might see 1t pourn
down it's dazzling rays upon a still unbroke
union. But no matter what be thought
lug his adorable Eliza thought otherwise. re
'"' some time past q gay Lothario name
"n' George W. Wray, twenty,six years OF az
W built like cedar Of Lebanon, and far
'n1 his strength as the rose Of Sharon, or II
o.O lilly of the valley, had charmed her BY b
. gracious presence and captivating manne'
-, He wove not, neither did he spin, but ge
w orally sported good store clothes, wore "stu
MIN" iewelry, and "traveled on his shape
He ptied her forlorn condition, and q
loved him for the dangers he had pass
~. through. The philosophy of "two sor
= with but a single thought, two hearts tn
beat as one" claimed their unqualified c
01' dorsement. So on last Friday night (26tl
" they determined to sbscond. The fair o
-, 80 collected her gorgeous apparel, and W
' even SO unfeeliug as to appropriate for /
%" paramour's use all her husbands wsrdro
luce not on his back, aud the two departed,
~ !" in which direction is not known. They
on the wing, and doting old husband
LETT musing on the relative merits OF .
IS old mans darling, or young ran's slav
'he Sic transit.