Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-11-19
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WHEN BROADWAY is DARK.


| said, as in mud / lay,
I'm living to dance with Mamie
In Jim's when the mornings gray.
They'll put me 10 rights,
And back to the sights
OF heavens own town I'll CO."
But where are the lights
The Broadway lights
The lights that / used to know?
At night, to the westward facing,
I'd see in the dead-black sky
Those fiery chariots racing
Hellbent on a sign-board high.
I'd whisper. Look theres
I'm watching the flare
OF lamps on the Scorchers' Row!"
But where is the glare
The Broadway glare
The glare that l used to know?
I said. "It1l be like heaven
Where CLEANS from the roof-tops
dart"
But here It's only eleven
And black as a Bsche's heart
Still sick from the fray,
I want TO be gay
And dance in the midnight show,
But where is the Way
The Bright. White Way
The Way that I used to know? !
John 0'Keefe in New York World
ONE man called another man a liar /
in a Chicago court the other day and
the papers printed column about it. /
And Colonel Roosevelt wasn't gne OF
the parties. either.
LAWYERS in Knoxville, Tenn, have
increased their fees on account of the
high cost Of living. 1t will be next in
order to have a tilt by the undertakers
owing to the high cost Of dying.
SEA cow, an animal almost extinct
has been introduced on New York res
taurant menus. It has become so
scarce that nearly everybody wants il.
| AS further evidence that Japan is
/ brushing up and getting in line with
the modernized countries Of the world,
] native wholesale concern has placed
an order in the United States for 1872
600 tooth brushes.
/ SOME ofshe Pennsylvania coal min
/ ers are averaging $3.50 per month in
wages This probably explains why
many Of the boys refuse to work regu-
larry. They must take day off now
and then to haul their money to bank.
AUGUSTA Rodin was born in $50
in Paris, says the Chicago Herald in
describing the death Saturday of the
famous sculptor Which ought, in a
measure. clear up the impression We
have in this country that the good die
iyoung in France
| IT has been necessary to forcibly
feed one of the White house pieketing
sufs who is in jail in Washington.
Thousands of her sisters over the land
would like to be in her shoes in these
times of high cost OF living.
YOU may be curious to know how
the Chicago city council is to permit
The continued sale Of intoxicants in
the cafes there and at the same time
suppress skating, as is proposed in a
} newly drafted ordinance
; THE British have been giving the
J Germans hell in the vicinity Of Helgo-
. land
o THE Cossacks have ridden into pow
ler in Russia What will the circuses
do for daring and picturesque riders
= next summer?
WE haven't heard anybody refer tC
S that disturbing incident at the Chicago
e grand opera the other night as bomt
D note. Wen. it wasn't any laughing
c matter. even though the pipe was
filled with gas.
n Il NOTE your reference to the WON
= an operating her swagger stick in uni
d son with her gum-chewing." postcard:
e lgnatz. But have you seen her sis
n ter with the hustle? Speaking o
/ boulevard poems, the latter is MI
notion of the heighth Of something
well worth looking at if one happen.
S TO be In the dumps and in search 0
k a laugh. And don't understand III,
) as ridiculing woman, AS rule sh'
= dresses in excellent taste. The com
It bination ] am pointing to is an ex
a. treme case. You ought to be able t.
draw the picture in your minds eye
The swagger stick swinging. the jaw
# ehugging and the hustle behaving a
q it is wont when it is under way"
= AN American heiress has just mar
Y ried foreign nobleman whom sh
n met at an ice carnival. Any remarks
MANY persons are writing wa
. songs to help the United States dc
:. feat Germany. Well, they might d
= the business if it could be arrange
> to get the songs on the records i
- Hunland.
MR.. Murphy chief Of Tamman,
lingering at French Lick, asked if h
rs was there to meet with other politics
T. leaders to pick the next presiden
he refused to answer. However. 1t nligl
ke be suggested that Murphy's fayorii
role fs that of plucker rHther +ha