Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-10-24

THEY LOOKED PALEFACED AND WORRIED.
dents, smoked cigar with n dictator, eaten
dinner with a governor and played poker
with a supreme court judge. they rose up
and howled Tor JOY. There was no longer
any fear that we wouldn't do the right thing
in the right place.
His eXcellency arrived by stage at .
o'clock Tuesday afternoon. There was
crowd of 1900 people in the streets to wei
come him. We stepped forward as the
great man descended and extended the
freedom of the town. Our little speech was
only 80 seconds long. There We're two rea-
sons for this. We knew the governor was
weary, and we felt sure that if we held him
in that crowd over minute some of the
boys would begin to ache to shoot at his
standup collar. His reply was neat and
graceful, and if he had only worn red
shirt and dropped in few cuss words the
crowd would have carried him on their
shoulders in triumph.
We ate dinner with his excellency at his
own request Such of our fellow citizens as
expected to see us eat with our knife. drink
out of our saucer or lick our plate were
doomed to disappointment. If we made
any mistake, 1t was in picking up the leg of
a jack rabbit and gnawing the meat off,
the banquet Dan Riardon, our popular I'M
dertaker, brought around the hack which
always leads funeral procession, and the
distinguished visitor and ourself drove
about the town. We could not help but
admire his candor. He thought il poor
location for town and found nothing pic
turesque or romantic Indeed he was
frank enough to say that if he was mayor
of the town he'd put the streets i'll better
shape or bust lung. We silently accepted
the reproof, realizing that he didn't know
our crowd and hadn't been told that our
road fund for year amounted to only Sl3
and an Old revolver. We saved our private
graveyard for the last sight, and we must
confess to our disappointment that it pro-
duced little or no effect on the governor
Nature not only made it a romantic spot,
but we have planted II men there and spent
upward of $500 to beautify it.
We expected our visitor to get out of the
carriage and stroll around the sacred spot
with us, but he merely glanced about and
observed that editorial private graveyards
We're so numerous in New Mexico that no
one gave them any attention. He must
have been thinking of mule and cattle
ranches. Without the slightest disrespect
to him we hereby offer reward of $500 to
any person VINO can lOcaJe one single prl-
vate graveyard in that country They don't
have 'em and can't start 'em. We are per-
sonally acquainted with % editors in New
Mexico and wilIyager 800 to $40 that not
one of them cat'put a bullet into a mule
tied to post so feet away
His eXcellency left shortly after O'Clock.
expressing himself well pleased ON the
whole. He was repeatedly called upon to
speak, but was wise enough to refuse Any
subject he could have touched upon would
have riled somebody and resulted in him
being called liar. After his departure a
committee Of citizens called at THE KICKER
office and presented us with an assortment
of thanks for the way we did it, and we
took advantage of the occasion to somewhat
increase our subscription list
The word reverend occurs but once
in the Bible, which is in the ninth verse