The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-03-15
MOTIFS HERE AND THERE.
The Dutch Recruit,
The Secret Leagues" parting hymn
The colonel as cnoirester:

nc D0tCA ASSCA uIb'
The Secret Leagues" parting hymn.
The colonel as cnolrester:
"Ho, boys, carry me long,
Garry me till | die;
Garry me up to the public crib
But don't you carry me by"
There were 7053 miles of railroad
built in this country last year, for which
Texas has over one-third, She has now
more roads 10 process of construction than
all the rest Of the United States.
The pillow business is remarkably good
both here aad in Moline. B. D. Buford L
Co. of this city are crowded with orders.
Yesterday they loaded and shipped six
car loads of plows. which is only sample
of what they are doing every day. This
speaks well for the superiority of their
goods.
Jim, inquired schoolooy of one of
his mates, what is the meaning of relics ?"
Don't you know? Well, | can tell you.
You know the master licked me in school
yesterday?' Yes" We'll, he wasn't
satisfied with that, but he kept me in and
licked me again, That's what l call a re-
lick"
"A man who had announced his first
attack of rheumatism learned in one half
hour that the following would cure it:
lodlde of potassium, quinine. glauber salts.
onions, raw lemons, raw silk, Oil silk, gin
and tansey, rock candy and whisky. Tur-
kish baths, potato carried inshis pocket,
horse chestnut carried in his pocket an
eel skin around his leg, suit of red fan
mel, chlorotorm liniment, hot lemonade, q
| trip south, dry. atmosphere, equable tenn
perature, sulphur baths, mustard and hot
water, camphoT liniment, and electricity
The Mason County Democrat speaking
of the Nationals says: The third party
10 politics is like third wheel to gig
neither ornamental nor useful. The third
party in the politics of the nation to-day
is composed of the disaffected, disap-
pointed, sore headed elements of both thu
existing parties, who, having outlived Their
usefulness as public functionaries, affect
to believe the country is going to the dem
milton pow vows, because the people Dc
longer recognize their official umbency
as indispensable to the we'll being of the
country. Nothing so seriously impresse.
this fact upon the mind of man as
want of recognition OF his peculiar fitness
for office by the votes Of either party. L
brings the disappointed antagonists o.
both parties togetherl on sympathzinG
terms, and the great depths of their pa
triotism is stirred up, and forthwith they
organize third party to save the country
from the hands of the old parties, which
were all right as long as they kept these
men in Office. Human nature develops
itself in politics as well as in anything
else. The third party" is engineered
and led by men who believe they have 6
divine right TO hold Office, although there
are many honest men who fall 10 line with
them, unaware of the sinister motives Of
the leaders of the reform ~ movement
10 which they propose to revolutionize pol
ltics by installing themselves in Office
There are but two sides to the questions
which separate the democratic and repub-
licau parties, and either the one or the
other is wrong. If, in your judgment, the
republican is right, in Gods name vote al
your Judgment dictates; if, in your judg-
ment, the democratic party is right, vote
with that party, but don't 60 off in the
wilderness into political hermitage where
your vote and influence will have no more
weight or influence than the idle wind.