Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-08-24

HIS OLD TINE CLOTHES.
but do not pine for the return of those
days. ! can recall the days when our
family clothed itself from the wool of our
own slender flock, and when my mother
cut out my clothes by means of pruning
knife. People who criticise my appear
ance now should have cast their eye over
me then
But look now at the swift and beauti-
full schedules of our vast railway sys-
tens, gridironing as | may say the
great and prosperous land. Everywhere.
too, new pleasure and health resorts are
springing up. From Bar Harbor to ST.
Augustine, the entire Atlantic coast is
fringed with beautiful seaside cottages
and taverns for the rich, the middle
sized rich, and even those who can af-
ford only day or two by the side of the
odd smelling sea.
started few weeks ago from nv
North Carolina retreat. and in twenty
Snur enjoyable hours was i'll New York
without change. 1t was not the first
time had found myself in New York
without change, and by recent arrange
ment the Pennsylvania railroad-which
by the way, have always regarded as
one of our most talented and gifted
Goads-hGs established a sleeping car
i'ervice, by means of which, without
change, the New Yorker may, inside of
twenty-four hours, find himself in the
high and healthful hills of western North
Carolina with an appetite certainly out
of proportion to his income.
Reversing this order | came up on a
train, arriving at Jersey City at 1870.
then walked on board Fall River boat
at $50, On whose decks as | arrived a
delightful band was playing See the
Conquering hero Comes" Hastily doff-
ing my dapper little speckled straw hat
placed in charge of the steward, Mr.
David " lshington, a large watermelon
which l had hurriedly bought and con-
cealed IN a shawl strap, and going for
ward was soon seen chatting gayly with
a bunco nan, who said that he had often
been delighted by my rare genius and
such thin 90 as that. He was a man, too,
whom do not rem ember ever to have
saw before nor since.
How many new acquaintance one
may pick up about New York if he
shows a pleased and joyous nature. New
York is about eight sizes too large for
me | sometimes think. Cohasset is more
my size. Large towns make me shy
and snort like grass fed elderly farm
horse at The Fall Of Babylon fireworks.
Inferior people notice me with scorn in
New Yorl; and comment on my sylvan
but -,
Mr.. Cleveland and Herr Joseph Jeffer-
son and Mr.. Booth and Mr.. Glider and
Mr.. Robson, all of whom are sturdy
woodsmen, raising their own vegetables
at enormous expense, | feel less skit-
fish.
Mr.. Jefferson said: Come up. Here
you are safe. There is not a bunco man
on Buzzard's Bay" So we took passage
on the Why? new steam yacht
which Mr.. Robson is having repaired
most of the time, he says, for the rare
exhilaration afforded by knowing that
he has a nice yacht at the paint shop or
the plumbers Just getting the finishing
touches put on it"
He claims that yacht most always
needs SON ething done to it tomorrow,
and then It takes day or two for the
paint to dry, and then you suddenly look
at your watch and find that the summer
is gone and work begun. Is it not so
generally in this life? Oh. how often l
sometimes think that terrapin and Jo-
hannisberger go with insomnia, while
health and hunger often go with low
spirited bread and prune sauce.
Oh, take me back, often cry at night,
Is the soft winds moan through the cost
'ly laces of my easement; take me back
and lay me once more across my moth
er's knee as of yore, only taking care to
have me placed the other side up.
Charles Jefferson was the pioneer of
Buzzard's Bay. He bought at thirty
two dollars per acre what is now selling
by the front foot along the beautiful
waters of Buttermilk bay, think it is,
an arm OF Buzzard's bay. and now one
may see at eventide the hale and sleek
Charles gloating over his i'll gotten gains,
while near by is the hospitable roof of
his fathers CHEEKY house on one side and
the pretty cottages of Tom and Mr.. JEFF
ferson's sister COMFY on the other
l was surprised to find Mr.. Booths
nealth so good and his endurance so
great. He listened to an entire play Of