Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-02-09


Proud and happy that she made hit.
she has b~7en ever since sweeping a1av
the Old cigar stubs, and resodding the
bald place where the raw and hairy ex-
cursonist from distance cut his water
melon and bedded down Lis team IN
Fairmount park in 1876.
| could not avoid a little pzn- or two
OF pain when I rode through The bcauti-
ful parks Of Chicago in November. and
was told that there the great hurry
gurdy would have its home for a few
months IN 1862, and that time alone
could 1nd0 the devastation. And who
is most benefited by a Worlds fair:
Surely not those vino pay for II. But
why speak 50 sadly of what i FOR the
general good, though 1t may come OF
personal sacrifice:
Two hundred and thirty-six acres were
| devoted 70 the Worlds fair II Phiia5eI-
| phia. Horticultural hall was the most
| ornate binding on the grounds MANY
| believe that there viii be nothing or
| mater at Chicago than this same brIild-
ing, which was built at a cost Of over a
quarter Of a million OF dollars by the
city Of Philadelphia.
| admire Boston. l love Chicago. /
do my trading in New York, and paw
my pew rent on Staten Island. but re-
spect Philadelphia. and although l have
| never yet succeeded In running an ac-
count at Dir. Wanamaker's l often 90
over and visit Franklins grave.
Mr.. Charles Dickens, the great novel
lst and Rudyard Kipling Of his time.
says: The journey from New York to
Philadelphia Is made by railroad and
two ferries. and usually occupies between
five and six hours. 1t was a fine even
ing when we were Passengers referring
to himself in the plural number, ike the
man who Is addicted to the tapewo-Tnl
in the train, and watching the bright
sunset from a little window near the
door by which We sat Ny attention
was attracted to remarkable appear
ance issuing from the windows OF the
| gentlennen's car immediately IN front Of
US, which | supposed for some time was
| occaaoned by number of industrious
| persons inside ripping open feather beds
| and giving the feathers 10 the wind At
length 1t occurred 10 NE that they were
only splitting, which was indeed the
case, though how any nun Der Of passeu-
gers which 1t was possible for that car
TO contain could have maintained such
playful and incessant shower Of ex-
| pectoration / am still al a loss TO IN
derstand, notwithstanding the expe-
hence IN all sahyatOry phenomena
which afterward acquired"
MIR. Dickens was and Is my favorite
author, but in his descriptions of Amer
lean scenery he showed conclusively that
he allowed his bright red fancy to run
around loose when be should have
checked it, and left the check at the
Office. When | go over 10 Philadelphia
l often think Of this disagreeable expe-
r1ence Of my fellow author, but do not
find it duplicated. OF course the Amer
lean does expectorate too much. but the
habit was acquired at "A time when that
was the only appropriate way of show
ing manly disgust for the foreign foe.
We are getting over it now great deal.
1t Is almost as difficult to get chewing
tobacco in New York and eastern cities
| now as 1t is in Paris or London And ii
Is very inconvenient indeed to be caught
abroad without chewing tobacco if one
be accustomed to it. A friend Of mine
who is greatly addicted to the use of to-
bacco in this form told me one day. as
we stood at the apex of the Matterhorn,
looking off toward Sandy Hook, that he
had but one great sorrow and disap-
pointment in the midst of that hour of
triumph. "And what is that" | asked
as scratched my chilblain against ny
alpenstock and looked down into his
melancholy eye.
"Ah," he said, breaking off row of
icicles that hung from his chin whiskers.
81 ran out of tobacco yesterday, and the
dream of my boyhood's geography days
is vanished, for cannot do what came
here to do. l cannot stand upon the
bleak brow of the mighty Matterhorn
and spit an amber hole in the snow"
Mr.. Dickens said that Philadelphia
was handsome city, but distractingly
regular. AFTER walking about it for an
hour or two" he goes on to state, 81 felt
that would have given the world for a
| crooked street." Possibly if he could
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