Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-02-16

streets, but we cannot show YOU how to
! sit up straight along West street or Full
ton street or lower Broadway and look
like an ice cream Joseph while the rum
, nosed driver of load of loud smelling
/ green hides and pelts peels the nice paint
off your carriage and curses you in low
discord cut tones. You could also run
up "arents" for US, but You must get
yourself out of the Founding asylum,
and the dead letter Office, and the Old
Woman's home if You get lost. Icannot
agree to go in search OF my beautiful
Earnest among the bro 3 els and such
things which are the baIt of our grow
ing town. You must be home nights,
Earnest, and wash off the cow and put
neatsfoot oil on your boots against the
coming of the morrow
And you cannot sit in the box with
us at The opera unless you have an extra
pair of boots aside from those You do
your chores in, Earnest.
You shall have as good board as do,
Earnest, except that generally get the
hrst yhack at the porterhouse steak,
because l am not real well and have
to be careful of myself As for "logins,"
You will sleep in the most desirable
rooms over the harness room. and the
smell Of new mown hay, and the drow-
sy coo of the Shanghai, and the Plym-
outh Rock, and the Polled Angus, and
the Mambrino King will lull you to
sleep in your little bed. Earnest. Come
as soon as you can.
Today l received nice typewriter
letter from the we'll known poultry
works at Newton, Sussex county. n. J.
l need not give the name, but the letter
asks: May send You a sample box of
three, six, nine or twelve dozen new
laid table eggs: l have 1000 laying
hens, many of them game. The eggs
are shipped the next day after they are
laid. Respectfully,
On the lower left hand margin of the
letter is the list of ladies in New York
who use these eggs exclusively. The
list reads like, that of the patronesses of
the Charity balls. 1t is very swell
array o. pomp, wealth and good victuals.
People are there named who think no
more of paying seventy-five cents a doz-
en- for the eggs of a blooded hen than
do of using white sugar in my coffee
every day of my life
But that is not the wav to catch me
and Russell Sage. We don't work all
day hari, and then sock our whole salary
into diamond back terrapin debauch at
night; do we, Russ? And we do not buv
eggs at 81 a dozen, just so as to eat the
same breed of eggs that Col. Elliott
does; do we, Russ? We would
rather be little, plain, American citizen.
eating the honest handiwork of broad
and democratic, though low flung hen.
than to pay four prices for the highly
legitimate masterpiece of a gamey her
Just because those gamey eggs are use.i
habitually by the tallyho sons-in-law Of
the Nauvoo Rich,
That's me and that's Russ Sage.
This Is not all. This peSky egg sharp
advertises to supply only the bong tong
with goods from his fowl works, but
does he? Does he confne himself to the
tables o. the wealthy? Am / assured
that those eggs will not be also sold to
coarse and vulgar people who nurse their
own children? Pah! The thought of it
would drive me wild.
No, the egg works at Newton cannot
sell me any eggs. | am afraid that the
proprietor might forget himself some
time and sell to the tradespeople.
If 1 thought had secured an eggist
whom | could trust, and in fancied Sc
curity l bought and ate the eggs of his
naughty hens, many of whom are game.
and palq big price for them. knowing
that there had been no scandal connected
with them for many generations back.
and then | should find that | had been
duped, and that it was not true. or that
there was strain of Plymouth Rock or
a double yolker mesalliance which had
been husaed up by the press, or that the
dealer, in whom l had trusted as
thoroughly exclusive, had been prosti-
tutlng his business and his fair name by
selling the same eggs to the vulgar herd.
the low, coarse people who are not
wealthy enough to run an account and
then get cut Of paying it, the canaille, the
sans culoJtes and sans finger bowls, who
laugh when they feel like it. and weep
when they are sad, and who otherwise
demean themselves, / would almost give
up the fight and ask some kind friend 10
take me out behind the barn and knock
me in the head.
Again, how am I to know that the
eggs are 1ain--yes, lain-on the day be-
fore: Is each hen to be provided with
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