Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-03-21


you ever married 10 one of those-a
woman who was yoU superior in every
way and kept the fact at the head of the
column next to pare reading matter?
This reminds me somehow of Mr..
Wilde. If could have seen Willie in
time | would liz told him never to
marry a superior woman, even though
she should throw pen to him the door
to every avenue Of literary success" as
his wife did. | knew man once who
married a Superior woman and he died
in a madhouse, and the visitor is still
shown the marks on his little iron bed
stead where lie bi, it while thinking of
his past life
The falls of Ma cara are grand and
beautiful, besides having worldwide
reputation so are the Brooklyn bridge
and the national debt, but would not
care, even if footloose (which am not,
| to marry either one Of them.
But let us return We have been for
| days in the lumber region, i. e., the
| spinal column of it. At every little sta,
ton we are joined b. lumbermen, most
| ly foreigners, wearing the picturesque
| costumes of the camp. We saw the
Berry Wall of the pine region yesterday.
| He wore a new buckskin shirt, fluted
! at the seams, and pair of wooden
panties or over-underwear knitted from
| the worsted remnants of a big yarn
carnival, / judged They were the
most lurid trou RS ever saw. Wher-
| ever he went you could almost seem to
smell something burning. 1t was a
wooden kaleidoscope which reminded
one of a picture of volcanic eruption
executed by an Incorporate wagon
painter
Underneath the clothes have named
above he had all the other clothes he
had ever owned since he grew up. This
! gave him a choked and suffocating ap-
pearance, and gave rise to the remark,
in the Scandinavian dialect: Il gort
too - many pantses on. OATS be-
corse | svet so"
The lumberman carries a valise made
of a two bushel grain bag fastened to-
| gether by top and bottom corner so
that he can sling it over his shoulder.
In this, think, he has pair Of heavy
kip boots, some edible tobacco AID a
large bottle of alcohol
Sometimes the prosperous chopper has
square, black papier mache va'isr with
a toy lock on it. Yesterday Two men
! got on the train at the same time. One
| of them was n Canlck and the other
was q Norwegian. TIE Canuck had one
| of these little black bags with the tin
lock on it which is so exactly like sew
eral thousand other little black valises
peculiar to the railroad.
Hole on dar, you Frantsmansw said
the Norske man. ''TOu gort my sassle
dart"
mo, sare," said the gentleman from
San Pierre; lit is eemposseble."
BY that time both men had hold Of
the handle. They talked broken Eng
lish back and forth for some time. Then
the Norwegian said, Wort you gort in
yours sassle:"
The Frenchman told of few things,
such as hair oil, hoarhpund candy, comb,
brush, snowshoes, etc.
The Norske told what he had, and in
the meantime they pulled hard on the
bag and the train got good start. AS
we crossed trestle they were both ap-
palled and put to confusion, for the bag
1
there fell a porous plaster and big fiat
bottle of something that thawed great
holes in the ice wherever it struck. The
bag, it seems, did not belong to either
of them.
l spent two weeks il a lumber camp
once by advice of my physicians. They
said | needed pure air and a good deal
of it. Every evening around big hot
fire the choppers from Denmark and
Christiana would remove nine pairs of
hose apiece to dry them by the nice hot
stove, and SO | went back home where
the air was less resinols. do not care
to be too healthy. l. makes one look
coarse
st. Paul and Minneapolis are making
great calculations on entertaining the
j delegates to the national convention.
They will do it well too. They have a
good deal of local pride and the means
! to sustain their repu alton for enter