Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-09-01

l did not succeed in drawing out Mr..
Cleveland regarding his candidacy. but
he said naively, as he turned aside to
spit on his bait, that his health was tip
top.
That" said he, as he unfaStened his
hook from the wainscorinG Of my trous-
ers, lis one thing which like about me.
While not i'll any sense Il candidate, you
may say in general way that my health
IS right good"
What ! admire about Mr.. Cleve-
land" said Mr.. Jefferson The following
day, is. that he Is a Just man. Even
his enemies must admit that. When
We go out fishing and return at
night, Mr.. Cleveland will not accept
more than his Just share of the catch.
| do not say that Mr.. Blaine would ex-
pect 10 catch clubs and pumpkin
seeds all day and then expect TO Offset
them against brook trout, but al the
same time think that he might con-
slider that his conversational powers
would offset his suckers, while NJ.
Cleveland does not try TO so work his
diplomatic gifts as to keep him in grub.
He is a man who wants TO give sub>ran-
tial justice to everybody, and Of course
this does not suit those who never
tried it.
Mr., Cleveland and his wife make
good neighbors here. and he has never
borrowed anything YET that he has not
returned. help him in having and he
helps me in harvest. We exchange
works. | let him have my 'autobi-
ography' to read and he loans me some
Of his most spicy old messages TO CON
gress.
Property has greatly appreciated in
this country since the arrival Of the
Clevelands, Jelfe-sons and Gilders
From $32 per acre paid by Mr.. Charles
jefferson, the price has gone up TO $3.50
and $500 and even TO a price per front
foot. But fortunately the specuIator
viii not get a chance at it. for the colony
holds enought Of it to keep the semibar-
barism Of boom ont of il. What can
be saddeT than the stcaliAy football Of a
81 boom III the soothing silence of the
primeval forest: What can be more sac
religious than the Gzzle of soda foun-
tain or a fictitious value where nature
has held the age on the false and the
artificial for centuries?
The tendency for the past few years
among those who have leisure and even
moderate means Is TO foster the growth
Of cottage life, and to the detriment Of
the great, overgrowu summer hotel, witt!
its waste Of piazzas and raw material.
its tiddledewinks greatness, its James
Grow aristocracy. its noise and newness,
salt air and starvation. its fussy invalids
and footpad walters.
Why not have even fifty dollar log
cabin in the hills or a wall tent by the
waIling sea in preference 10 all this?
have a wall tent this summer which
is much larger than any room ever
had at seaside hotel and have pros
pect on the outside that money could not
buy. We have also in the North Caro-
lima mountains a style of refrigerator for
meats that would surprise and amuse
the uninitiated. 1t consists of rectan-
gular cage, covered with mosquito wire
and attached to rope. We put pulley
up in high pine tree and run the rope
over it. Then we attach the refrigerator,
put in our meats and pull the whole
thing up in the tree. 1t keeps sweet and
improves for a week or ten days. The
reader will be tempted to disbelieve this
unless lie has lived in a mountain coun-
try and tried it.
Looking over the United States. it is
wonderful how health and pleasure re-
sorts have built up within a few years.
From the east to the west, from the north
to the south the coast and the hills are
freckled with cottages and inns for those
who have learned that change of air is
better than the entire pharmacopeia.
Nantasket beach, the Coney island of
Boston, is beautiful stretch of shore,
giving upon Boston harbor. saw a
wagon load of young men on the Jeru-
salem road who had been up to Nam
tasket and improved their health SO much
that they spoke about it in high terms
to every one they met, even stopping
good many carriages to tell joyfully and