Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-12-28
TWO KINDS OF FRIENDS.
There Are Those Who Are Reserved and
Others Who Show Their Love.

Others WHO sho" 1heH Love-
The pleasantest things that come to writers |
are the letters from strangers, who know us |
only through our published thoughts. They |
are frequently letters full Of appreciation
and sympathy, that cheer and warm our
hears and set US to sharpening our pencils
to finer point
Strangers, did sayi 1t would have been
better to have written acquaintance instead,
for who knows US so well as sympathetic
readeri
Writers are often shv about expressing
their tbopqbts by the tin of their tongues,
hut give them a pencil and bit of paper and
they can no more help dropping bit Of
their hearts blood on it than a bird can fly
among flowers of spring and not sing a song
to them.
And that drop of hearts blood! how it
wideus and spreads, and what magic and
marnetism there is in itl Just SO nv heart
has bled " writes some one from little town
close bv. and ssiust so nv heart has bled,n
writes another from distant city. and oiust
so nv heart has bled. writes some poor,
| desolate soul with pen that is ignorant of
the rules of grammar and the art Of SPELL
inc md all the mora pathetic for it
| 80 the SvmnatlAtlG letters come. proving
always that one touch of nature makes all
of MS little bit akin.
| "Poobr1 said a shallow woman TO ma ons
dsv svop can't make me believe that Won
writers feel what Won writer 81 shall not
try y answered jsnouidlv. .gife ia too short
on5 vour brain ;s too norrovn
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on,S es,,,, sor+ ,f ,,,,,,'o,, a,rbn,v ard bar
80 .. =, H., o--r.a- Thont baoyen,
Jstan to ol,Iioa to sbate II erain ;ts
oy,,,a, as,t ware bsyine, shaken mei
Tbara is a sowing that s,it is better TO have
tba GOOD will than the Ill will of even dog. y
h,,, T. is NOT a sa,.ino of mine II ;s a rosi.
~, ~, 70 mo re fsai ta+ certsir ,,aorla
d;sl,,-a mo as hesrti1c as 7 disIita tbeno
Tha,.a j. a aoror obn,,t il and like n favor
!. in d;sl;l,o &c val ne in 1--we
If faT Of ns wo,15 come souare ont in orr
1n-as o,,7 1ie1,r-as believe ,ba yrorld 1ro,,1d
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ar,a fr,yn fa, h,- Iias ,nd r,sr,y
- 700 s.,,, ~ -
ov,5 do,,btinr tho f~o,,5
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S'Ie. -, ,,;s t,,,,5 o,,d Ill 80
nt Of nv s,raw honss into bonse Of hric
5 Give me an enemy with a shotgun in hi
r hand. and will run around the corner; bu
give me an enemy with a sharp little asp tha
/ stinEs under her kisses, or an enemy whit
), gives me a glass of wine with poison in it, o.
S a slice of bread raised by the Yeast of slander
e and have no way TO protect myself
: Give me friend who says frankly, Il Low
d you;' who shows 1t III her glad smile whel
n we meet, makes me feel it IN the warm clas
, Of her hand, and who does not leave me il
r doubt of her sympathy when the sunshine q
Is happiness brlshtens my pathway, or IN
thunders Of trouble roll over my head.
it Such a friend, full Of demonstrative tel
II deruess, is daysprins OF delight and not
k be swapped on Tor many worth costumes c
n much fine gold.
d But the friend whose eyes never brighte
70 at my approach, whose lips never say Il al
y glad for you. gladness, sad for your sadness
If whose hands are never stretched out to brea
y, my fall into trouble, and who turns away hi
De face lest should discover that he sya
pathizes with me-pSha"' sucn an undemol
strative friend as that SHOULD be laid aero
70 tie lap OF neglect and spanked with duty.
ir II there Is one law tnat sits hlGh up on