Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-17

call the past. and forecast the future
&C odness dies not Good works are
not lost in the dust.
This is why memorial and his
tcrical association is established and
perpetuated.
Our forefathers~had something to
Go with the making of today, and we
have something to do with the max
.irg of tomorrow
OF course we do well to talk over
the past, and to venerate those who
did their part and did it We'll Thei:
achievements are worthy of a place
on the tablet of memory, and upon
cur historic records.
Let us remember that the people
CT those primitive days were quite wei.
fitted to each other. Though neigh
tors were few and far between they
were neighborly. They were brave,
generous, hospitable.
Held Ideas in Common.
Common ideas were the basis OF
their common life Each was glad 20
near another's voice, 10 listen to the
tread of another's feet. to clasp an
others hand, to come when needed to
another's help. Think of woman
living in cabin for weeks and weeks
without seeing the face of another of
her sex. and many times whole days
With only rattlesnakes and Indians for
company for herself and babe, when
her husband had occasion, from neces-
sity,asto be out of sight and hearing,
| OR absent from the place.
Common necessity wove the threads
of neighborly lives into a common
| homespun webb.
| When the first one died all were
sad, and sympathies were tender and
sincere. while they talked of burial
and wondered where they ought tc
bury their dead
| How lonely was the scene when the
| first plain coffin was lowered in the
grave on that little promontory in the
woods on the north side of the Dunlap
| farm,
What changes the years have
wrought! Like an echo in the wilder
ness we hear their recital-births,
deaths, courtships, marriages, tearing
down of old cabins as civilization adj
vanced, removing of old landmarks
building of roads and bridges. and
making all things new.
Just here the thought occurs i'll re-
gard to the early days of Andalusia--
Gem of the Mississippi-Eye of the
Notwithstanding over into the unsettled
great, Unreasonable, illimitable Be
You'd The medieval history of this
region is the history of Andalusia S
ralmy days. If Cobledick. and Heath
and Wells, and Buffum, and their com
peers could return for day and walk
these streets. and stroll along the river
tank, they would be moved to cry out
q, Andalusia! Where is the business
of the SOS and the COS of our day?
The half dozen warehouses, the
steam boats, the immense lumber
fleets, and massive lumber yards; the
lnultitudes of teams coming from the
rrairies with loads of wheat. ant
corn. and oats, and potatoes. and re
> turning with loads of lumber; where
are they? Echo answers: Where?
The many railroads since erected
!, respond: Here! we have taken al
Your trade. The recent progressive
rushing times could not wait on you
river craft, and so we have it nearl.
ell. And so those dear old timers ex
. claim: o, the fmpermanency. the IN
certainty. the unreliability of thi
worlds huCineCCf
Only the river have not the progres
sive ages taken away from its prima
l mission, and We are glad TO see
$ moving on in the glory and majest
end power, and durability, and mag
} nificence of the eternity.
d o, We men, who linger here and d
L business in other ways, and fill u
+ the measure of your days in othe
callings, lay up for yourselves treasur
II that endureth, in country where di:
e 8strous changes are unknown.
+ River Tells own Story.
This river tells a story of its own
{ of fortunes won and lost; of TRACED
and comedy: of vessels wrecked an