Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-12-12

Ihose are his words a. remember them
dimly at this writing
Yesterday | received a pitiful letter
from Ms Bartholomew Tidd of Per.
Gale, y. She address sed me at Mount
oterlng, KY, and writes as follows:
GU can do me great service while
IN kentucky by making inquiries for
my husband, Bartholomew Tidd, of this
place, who left home for Lexington over
SIX weeks ago intending to open Kelley
olchloride of gold institute in Kentucky.
his family fear that he has been mean
tlous. perhaps, and met with foul play.
Oh, sir, be kind enough to inouire and
IL death hiss really been his portion will
you help me get track of his remains be-
lore they become undesirable?'
hadn't the heart to look for Bartholo-
new after | read that he had started in
here to build Kelley institute. 1t was
foolhardy thing to do. Some men do
not know much. They have good hearts.
but they are impulsive and do their re-
fiectlng with their digestive organs it
would seem. Barth olomew Tidd will
never more return to Percale, Ohio, and
his home. He meant well, but his iudg-
ment should have teen brought in of
nights when the cold weather came on.
Many man with good heart has gone
to his death because his Judgment bag
ged at the knees
We passed through Dwight, Ills, not
long ago Dwight is the home of the
Kelley institute. Certainly 1000 men
N limo m. 1x 70 col ;xE e.
their regular hypodermic bichloride of
gold, and they were good looking men
too. Sad to say, they were in the main
young men. Surely 75 per cent were
below forty, and none that / saw looked
like wrecks. They were healthy and
normal in every way apparently, except
that one horror that had darkened their
own lives and tear stained many pill
low in far away homes.
1t must be a good thing. Sometime
or four patients who have tried the home
treatment have died, but probably
| through ignorance or carelessness, and
the best proof of the Institutes success
| is the growth of the patronage.
If 1T will do the work we will let DR..
Kelley settle with his conscience, and
every editor can well afford to give him
column advertisement every Sunday
morning. 1t will do more good than
many bales of dark and morbid litera.
ture of the Father, dear father, come
home with me now order.
From Dwight we sailed into Chicago
| for a day and saw the big fat stock
| show. | am passionately fond of fine
stock, having quite considerable of il
myself on my country place at Buck
| Shoals, n. G..
Whenever | see a wide horse with .
heavy head of whiskers on his feet or 2
buff or baritone rooster, l am tempted tC
purchase him for my stud farm.
Some of the ablest Shorthorns were
there, and / must say that they are :
| more popular class of cattle with me
| though not so tailor made, perhaps, n;
the Jersey and Attorney. The Short
horn is possessed of those elegant quail
| ties of mind and heart which make hin
beloved by good people everywhere. Ht
is full of good impulses az jus, and ever
| in death we gather round him and ap
preciate him. The Shorthorn strikes {
good average for weight, too, for five
steers of this class left Mount Sterling
recently averaging 2,150 pounds apiece.
Along with the fat stock and adjoin
ing the hog department was the Lincoln
log cabin. never before so fully real
| lied from what humble and beggarly
beginning this powerful and gentle mar
arose. 1t is a little broken backed sly
of one room TO begin with, and another
worse one added w1en Abe got too bis
to sleep with his parents. 1t is not the
romantic log cabin of joaquin Miller
but the shiftless, badly Numbered hove
of weak and hopeless, doless, miserable
| poverty of the inexcusable class.
From here he started away down the
river with his fiatboat load of farm
produce and badly rectified whisky, onl,
to give his work and cargo over to tn,
| first unidentified bU nco man, who bough
his load and agreed to meet him later =
New Orleans and ray him, but who for
got about it up 10 the present time
| Here he visited the old folks again as III
left for the White House, and here h
drove sharpened stake in after year
to mark the grave of his father and plac,
a monument there.
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