Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-27

SPRING..

SPRING.
All luscious spring, you sealed my fate,
With your soft perfumes and balmy air;
You witched away my bachelor heart
You-and that maiden fair.
Can L ever forget her winsome face
With its pretty flush and its roseate hue?
Can ever forget that kiss stole
All me! Who could? Could you?
Over the prairie so broad and green
Under the western starlit sky
We wandered alone on that soft spring night
With never watcher by.
And the pIover piped his merriest notes
And the whippoorwin tuned his sweetest lay:
While the yellow daisies nodded their heads
AS she stole my heart away.
Considering how things are going elsewhere
over the world the q. S. is a pretty quiet place.
No bolsheVik movement, no revolutions, gen.
eral strikes, martial law or anything Even
congress isn't in session
STICKING CLOSE TO BUSINESS.
Sir: 1 make all possible haste to inform you
that Dick Satchel, travelling salesman for =
music house, was a business caller in the city
tother day. Not only that, but the person he
called upon to sell his wares was no other than
Mrs. Journy. T. J.
Street Car Comedy.
Scene: front vestibule. Cast: first work
man, second workman, politician, motorman
and thin young man with cigaret
F. W--Well whatcha think>of 1t?
S. W.-About what?
F. W.-This getting up an hour earlier
mornings
s. W-oh, well, what's the use of thinking
about it?
F. w-cause there's use to think about 1t.
S. W.-H0Wja fgger it out?
VT affects don't it,
S. W.-Naw, not SOS you could notice it
P-Gotta get up at instead of 6, don't you!
F. W-Naw, you get up at s.
S. W-You get up at ..
P-Sure.
F. W-Your clock says 6, don't It?
S. W.-Sure, but it's just the same.
P-CouId set my clock ahead tonight
couldn't 1?
S. w.-sure he could Clocks don't mean
anything.
F. W.-They do when the whistle blows to
them.
Pr go by the sun.
S. W.-So do l.
F. W.-Well, faint right, nohow
S. WI go to bed an hour earlier and get
up an hour earlier, don't 1?
P.-Sure he does. That settles it.
F. W.-Yes but you don't fgger out that
going to bed an hour earlier in the hot months
puts you in hot room and you get out OF the
same room which is cool in the morning an
hour earlier, do you?
S. WY house is so hot in the summer it
don't make much difference wnen 1 got to be
in it
P.-Mine, too. I'll pay in ice all the coal
I've not bought this winter.
M-Well you guys can crab all you want
about getting up in the morning, what mean
is that it's going to be so derned uncomfortable
after July 1 you won't be sleeping nights no
matter when you go to bed.
T. Y. M W. C.-If they hadn't raised the
price of cigarets so much I'd not care when
they made me sneak in the hay
F. w.-Yon know it's law for the bankers
and them fellers-
S. W.-Cuts no ice with me-
P.-Hey, stop at this corner, get out here
M.-Don't care when they make US get up,
this line never will operate on schedule, any
way. EYE GEE ELL
WHO was the stenog of the. city hall who
went to Chicago recently for a gay time ana
who Immediately after her arrival in the s. c.
Windy city, ate some oysters which poisoned
her. forcing her to bed for the remainder OF
her visit, and who shortly after her return
home nearly suffered relapse when her broth
err who was unaware of her misfortune in Chi
cago, brought home some nice, big oysters for
a stew as a treat TO his sister? GLIB.
JUST TICKLED DELIRIOUS.
Sir: Would you be glad to know that Meth
er A L. nor A D. F1eu of Davenport suffered
in the epidemic of last fall? J. H c.
One Man in a Thousand.
(Galesburg Republcan-Register).
THE HANDYMAN has come 10 town again;
will do your teaming or hauling of any kind,
plow your garden and single your houses or
anything in the carpenter line; would also
like a place in meat market on Saturday even ]
When in need of competent help call 141O Red
mr. annIy in Derson at 1874 South West street. |