Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-11-30

tonlghs, Tor be CORY it was not what va
molght call riprisintitive audience at
all. livery non in Airin Prairie that
had dom bit of sinse staid at boma ;,
IN ONO we had to wait over at rail-
road crossings several times for two or
three hours In order to connect. This ia
very tiresome job, and so we most al
ways hunt up billiard room and wear
out the time by PLAYING pool and bill
hards. Pool in Ohio is not an EXPENSIVE
game, especially at the CROSSINGS and
functions. We had to wait two bonrs
at one junction, so we went to the hotel.
got our coats checked and then went To
temperance billiard hall, where at the
cigar counter they used a natural gas
well for cigar lighting.
The tables We're rather old and had
been slept on a good deal too much. and
the cushions moaned when ball struck
them, and the cues needed new tins. and
the floors needed concentrated I've and A
freshet
We played eight games in two hours.
Tor winch we We're rec uired to pay forty
cents, or five. cents per game. When
TINS was done the proprietor gave us six
teen cigars.
"They are pool cigars" he said. 1--WE
give them, two for IA game, here. They
amt imported cigars, but our fellers
smokes 'em quite good deal"
SO we got sixteen cigars, eight games
of pool and went away. There being
three of us, it came to 13b cents apiece,
and no charge at the hotel for checking
our overcoats. The cigars We're of the
saleratus blond type, with real jute
filler If one is careful not to tip the
cigar up so as to let the works fall out,
he can smoke one almost up. They are
domestic cigars, and lave never had the
benefits of travel. A few more of them
would cure me of the appetite for to-
bacco and put me on the platform as a
worker against its use. But later find
that they are not con posed of tobacco,
so we must not be unjust
Noticing recently that Manager J. NJ.
Hill is getting on his broken leg again.
reminds me of an incident which took
place some years ago when young man
in the balcony at the Standard theater
seemed to be just full enough to court
come forward and get killed. You have
seen that style of Jag which yearns for
something to crush and mutilate. 1t
generally finds several of those before it
gets through.
This young man saj with his hat on
and rested his broad, intelligent feet on
the seat in front of him. When the
usher asked him for his check he told
him TO get out or he would beat out his
brains with a damp towel. Oh, he was
a coarse, bad man, and the usher was a
pale, slight, girlish figure with pompa-
dour hair and an Eden Musee dress suit.
The bad man looked around over the
house and babe the show to open up and
turn loose. He was temporarily in pos
session of the house, and glad of it. LET
her go; were all in! Ring her up, and
damn be the first Teller that says 'Nuffr"
Pretty soon Wis ting pastor from
Maine sat down in the seat in front of
the tough gent from Avenue A and
gently asked him to take down his feet,
! as they annoyed him and sort of chafed
him under the arms.
The bad man smiled at the good man
and sort of tickled him under the arms
with the toe of his boot. I'm here,
elder, you bet yer sweet life; ats swat's
matter. come in here and set where
| just by gosh happen to want to. Re-
served seats no object to me. Where 1
set down is my reserve seat. See"
Just then the visiting pastor from
Maine gathered the massive feet, one
under each arm, and gently took for the
aisle. Gayly he tripped up the aisle,
knocking off a lumbar vertebrR at every
jump. Around he went to the stair, and
so trickling along down with the bad
man at his heels, shedding front teeth