Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-04-02

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as the door of my Office was locked
and ! was alone. l must have simply
walked over to, the window and
dropped out while in my sleep.
have no other explanation. / am not
drinking man, and therefore / can
not attribute the mistake to an alco
ho1ic delirium. 1t never happened to
me before"
| The professional man was helped
back to his Office, where a physician
was summoned to see whether an,
bones had been broken. There were
not. Hereafter, he says, when he lies
down in his office to smoke a new
baby" cigar he will first see that the
windows opening onto the roof are
locked
OUR INSIDE INFORMATION BUREAU.
Emily En- locating a hammock
you must consider the matter from
various angles. If your home is SO
situated that the electric light illum-
mates the front veranda. we would
advise that you have your family pro-
vide two hammocks-one to be placed
where the light does not interfere and
the other on the front veranda, where
the remainder of the folks may have
opportunity to view the passing
throng
Mary Dive were too pressed by
private business affairs and therefore
were obliged to send our regrets, but
from personal friends who were among
those present we have it that the we'd
ding of Miss DAILY and the count was
an exceedingly elaborate affair, and
that it was truly love match, con-
trary to your suspicious that itN was
q cooked up union for the purpose of
landing another title in an American
family. The count may not have been
as we'll heeled before he met his flu
ture bride as he is now. but we don't
feel that 1t is any of our business, or
yours either, inasmuch as apparently
they are both satisfied. The departed
pater got his easy. and there is moth
ing particularly to be said against cut
ting the pile with a nice behaving
young chap representing one of the
royal houses on the other side of the
briny. You inquire why it Is that
American girls are so easily won by
men with titles. We confess our ina
bility to answer satisfactorily from
your viewpoint. The highest we have
reached is the National league, and
we don't know what kind OF a ball
they are using on the other side. But
We understand the pitching system is
changed each season. That may have
something to do with it,
David P.-The last letter we had
from King Menelik he was in good
health, and you can imagine our per-
sonal sadness when we read, as you
did, that he had slipped away again.
We tried to reach his household by
cable. but the wires are down, and
there's nothing doing. So that we are
forced to await official confirmation.
Meme. as we knew him when he at
tended school at East ST Louis in
1891, was most cordial and demo
cratic sort. Our one dislike of him
was his native-acquired habit of con-
tinually smoking strong cigarets.
After he finished school he floated back
to the home heath, and began flirting
with the throne. He finally landed,
and has been doing well, so he wrote
us. In recent years he complained Of
brought on, no doubt, by
close confinement. as he was afflicted
by impaired vision, and could not al
ways get out of the way when show
cred with bricks and kindred missiles
by his admiring countrymen. He
could back pair of jacks farther than
any scout of our personal acQuaint-
ance. At school his favorite flower
was the lemon.