Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-12-03
4 VOICE FROM THE JAIL.


schedule on his personal property.
A VOICE FROM THE JAIL.
We have this note from the Rock
Island county Jail: Say, old top, cut
them slams at the hoboes that have
been running in your paper. Ours is
a tough enough life without having
the press turned against us. With
snow In the offing it amt going to be
easy for q boomer to get to other
fields. Then the railroads are con-
gested already, and we wouldn't be
patriotic if we loaded the cars any
further. Lay off US till spring, and
Well get out on the first steamers
that will give us work. You have
the grandest sheriff that l have met
in all my travels, and, believe me,
I have sauntered some in my day, He
treats US as human beings Why the
last time / was turned loose ] felt as
II / was being banished from my own
fireside. OF course it is a trifle crowd
ed here at present, but / apprehend
that the congestion will be consider
ably relieved when the boys head for
home for their Christmas turkeys.
You may take it that / am attempting
to be faeetiOus in this prediction. but
not at all. I have one friend here
who intends to beat it for home, and
he has a good one. as soon as ne is
able to accumulate enough coin Of the
realm to get a change Of duds, a
shave and carfare, for he expects his
folks to meet him at the station and
not in the yards. His explanation is
TO be that he has been in South
America and got caught in q reyolu-
ton The truth is that he was caught
in a suds station, where he insisted
hanging around when he didn't pos
sess the wherewith to purchase
! There are others Of US who are simply
/ temporarily in the scrap heap, Well
come back if we get half chance
that is, we'll come back here if the
cold world turns its back on us wheT
we reach the great open again. In
truth, brother. ours is not the soft
| life that so many Of those who have
not experienced it suspicion. Perhaps
all of us should be at work. But W.
I seem TO make no headway when VIZ
are employed The most We accom-
kpiish is to take money that would dt
a real service if 1t fell into the handl
Of men having something to live for
Wishing you a merry Christmas, ant
trusting that you'll stay the mallet
| I beg to remain, speaking in behalf o
all my brethren Of the side door Pull
man, yours most sincerely,
THEY must have changed the die
of the tiger from raw meat to boz
bons 1t is announced that Tamman,
hall is ready to open its doors t
women.
| THEY do say that Elsie Janis ca,
be catty when she has a mind to be
but 1t appears that in her latest out
burst she met her equal. in Miz7
Hajos. Elsie, by way of professions
observation, opined it would be
mighty interesting experiment il Mis-
Haios were starred in London unde
her right name, whereupon Mizzi re
torted that it probably would be nor
so if Elsie followed her own sugges
ton and sprung on the British tn
name she is known by in her HON
,, town-Elsie Bierbauer. Mizzi, yo
! know, is a Hungarian.
, DOES the reported coalition of Sc
cialists in Russia happen to have an,
thing to do with the fuel situate
there?" inquiries B. B. Not that W
know of. unless you mead to infe
. that 1t win tend to warm things u
: TURKEY is said already to hay
, grown tired Of German dominate,
The kaiser can fool 'em for tin.
! with his honeyed words, but wheI
! after feeding en- candy for q spell
: he shows EN- the mailed fist, the
: waken to realization that they hay
fallen into the hands Of a power wi,
: selfish motives only.
A JAP has invented a ohemicI
: which he ayers is a satisfactory sui
: stitute for meat, II it's the coed thir
claimed for 1t 1t may help to take ii
, autocratic strut ont OF the America
: pig.
AS exclusively prophesled IN tn
, column, Mrs, De Saulles has been a
! quilted by a Jury OF the murder Of h
husband, Doubtless she owes mo
to her beauty doctor than to h
lawyers.
II AS further proof Of the tobogannt,
| OF the Russian royal household, II
= stated that prince OF that oounfr
cousin Of the lately booted Me
q lis to take as his wife an Americ,
It opera singer. Well, that isn't bad
a pinch.
n JOHN ], Stream of Chicago has be
apposnted en- assistant 60 Food Admi
1. istrator Hoover. He ought to be at
= to keep foods flowing in the prop
81 eaasaslls.s~ $3.50 IN s.