Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-05-05

VIZ W NC d CudTH SudTIIlS, however,
when neglected, become at times nui-
sanceS.
| We were visiting Lima not long since,
a thrifty town with all the snap and
vigor of a new gold camp in the west,
yet with the shrewd and cool headed
business tact of Cape Cod town. She
has this characteristic, however, to which
l have darkly alluded. 1t is a public
square. The public square was of course
intended to be on the start a thing of
beauty, but it has in too many of the
middle state towns become an open air
hvery stable, covered with the choice
decorations of a badly farmed farm.
! The square is of course geographically
in the center of the town, and is dis
tinctly Wis BILE from every direction. The
idea is a good one, but when it becomes
the grazing ground of the motheaten
horse and the home of the watermelon
rind, the spring of the year adds no
beauties to it and Taxpayer and Veritas
write pieces about it.
1t is also in many cases hay and
wood market. Here the man in the blue
army overCoat Che has never been in the
army or he would not be wearing it,
meets the man in the buffalo overcoat,
and they borrow tobacco of each other,
chew some of it, spit eight times, water
their stock and go homo.
People come to the editor and say:
THAT square is getting to be blamed
nuisance. You ought to roast it. Go
for it" Then the editor says in his pa
per, provided the man who made the
suggestion has paid for his advertising
promptly:
1--WE regret greatly to see our beauti-
full public square in such a neglected
condition. VIII not some one move in
the natter 1t is a sin and shame, and
as matter of fact it is high time to call
a halt"
Teams not actually engaged in traffic
on the streets ought not to be permitted
to stand hitched inside the business part
of any city whatever. Even Mime
apolis, big and prosperous as she is, still
permits hundreds of farm teams to stand
tied along its train avenues, not only by
the hour, but by the day, a vast fringe
of starvation, cAlc and bolts in the very
heart of great, thriving and beautiful
city.
The farmer would not want the gas
works on his farm. Why does he expect
to bring his nuisances into town? Because
the farm is too often in the spring of the
year vast, humiliating exposure, that
is no reason why these sanitary methods
should be brought into town, is it?
Lima has about the earliest electric
car line in America. 1t is double trolly
system, and the cars are getting old and
childish. The rolling stock is to be re-
newed very soon.
at all these towns nearly every ones
room is heated by natural gas 1t holds
out very wei. was through this state
early in the discovery business, and |
then prophesied that gas from the in
terror of the earth would continue to
manifest itself up to the present time,
and possibly even later. Subsequent his
tory has shown that was right
The electric street cars of Lima are
sadly out of repair, as said. They have
the odor of q cheap lodging house on the
Bowery, as nearly as can recall it now.
They are sha bby in the extreme. Also
in the middle. Next Lent shall abstain
from the use of these cars.
Lima is one of the thrifty and prosper
GUS cities of Ohio. and is also the home
of the Lima bean.
In Cincinnati the other day we tried
to buy New York draft. The first four
banks were j. asst out of New York drafts,
and the fifth one had just been plagia-
rized by gentleman with cough"
who downed the bank for some $27.35.
believe, and so it did not feel like sell
ing New York exchange to strangers"
The bank had just offered reward of
seventyfve cents for the arrest and ap-
prehension Of the fiend who had did it
up" in that bold way.
| 1t seems that some months ago man
from Chattanooga came in with
cough" and presented draft for pay
ment. 1t was pretty large, and the
cashier looked susp;ciously at the owner
of the paper, but he kept his hand up to