The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-11-03

LNHS 10 A R01KN1IAL Pk10DEN1.
Yssne MN, Doadef Il you rsaliss,
e Al he NTH decree that you shall live
Han's stAtufe u attain, that you may Kiss
Ono day to b orr Chief Executive.
The fAct your dad Il but IN humble bard
Has nausht to do with whatN You may
A MAS life Is his own-and. little pard,
-Tis made or narred BY what he doth believe.
When you have reached the inches Of 4 man.
When you car boast beard upon your face,
You probably will find the human clan
queer lot, and the world queerer place
We loudly pirate d justice, truth and right.
But very rarely practice what we preach;
| Our characters would Be perfection, quite,
II thoughts and actions Tailed with our
speech.
&c. son. although this seems to be . jest.
An idle dream tina. cannot well come true
I'd like to feel that you will meet the test
OF any task that may be set for you;
II II be for q great or humble wage,
| To know that you will do the best you can;
And though you be labOrer or sage
| To know that FIRST Of all you are man!
| THE defeated presidential candidate may
be comforted by the sweetly solemn thought
| that within two weeks at most he will be- we'll
on the way to the haven Of misty memories.
Unless he be Of Rooseveltian or Bryanesque
metal he will cut no ice in the swiftly con-
gealing lake of the public mind. And We
! commend to him another 8. 8. t.: It's better
to have run and lost than never to have run
/ a: all.
@Ain't He The Sassy Thingr
| From the Reynolds Press).
| l have on my farm In Buffalo Prai-
| rie town quite lot Of fairly good oak
| 4 %.
for the cutting. II some Of you farmers
down there that are paying these ex-
/ orbitant prices for coal and can hardly
| get it ct that, wish some of this WOOD
I you are welcome to 1t. II you have
Il gotten too opulent or lazy to cut it your
self, We will cut it for you. either into
| poles cord wood, or stove lengths. but
We will have to charge . little for that
For particulars, in quire Of the un-
! undersigned, or at the farm.
| c. J. SEARLE,
| Rock Island. Ill
! THE Democrats wondered derisively where
Senator-pardon, President-elect Harding. dug
up normally" II the New York World
quotes Secretary Tumulty correctly the Re-
publicans might speculate on the whereabouts
lof the sepulohre from which he disinterred
enlistment"
Mere, Girls, II Tou Seek Publicity, Is the
Golden Opportunity.
| (From the Galesburg Republican Register).
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. in waist de-
partment, one who has had experience
in the ready-to-w wear lines only. will be !
considered The position is permanent
with good pay and further opportunity
for advertisement
-. SHE is preparing to give . re-
cital some time in the not-far- distant future"
moline Dispatch.
Ths~Qispatch. one assumes, suffers no
shortage Of print paper.
AS Cardinal Gibbons observes. it doesn't
matter much who is elected; the country
moves on about the same. The cardinal. he
says, has listened to prophecies of calamity
for 50 years. He might be interested in this
ione although it's only 20 years old:
at is generally conceded in Repub-
lican circles that if President Mckinley
Is reelected Mark Hanna will be the log
ical candidate for the succession four
| years henceTif the republic lasts that
long"
| YOUNG MAN wishes neat furnished room
with bath, widow or small family; state par
t'culars Box sos, 1854 Third ayenue-New
York World
Which. if you couldn't have EN- all. would
YOU PREFER!
WE are LOST" the Coxwain shouted, as he
staggered down the stairs.
AND the cellar is SO damp, too!