The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-08-28
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|neRE LiES taAltS ANCIENT EAEsax,

chi, DAD!'
when all my world seems out Of joint
And Ill my skies are gray,
when vould-be wit seems minus point
/ And DER me gloom holds sway;
when 20 Flooding home at cen
Within my soul spiteful spleen
With dour. unsmiiing face,
Gainst all the human race;
Convinced I've much more than my share
OF all the human ills,
Sunk deep in depths Of dark despair
At thoughts OF unpaid bills;
Disguised, weary, sick at heart
A pessimist, in truth,
Who holds his gloomy self apart
From all the joys Of youth.
When friendship seems a cold. dead thing
Like ashes in an urn,
When Joy, it seems, has taken wing
To nevermore return
IT'S then, pom nearing home at last,
That feel strangely glad
Pattering footsteps o, so fast !. .
A joyous shout: Hi, Dad"
MR. cox proves the existence OF a $15,-
900 900 Republican "slush fund" Mr.. Upham
saws Mr. Coxs proof is "phony." Both may be
right or wrong-well never know. But the
port Mr.. Harding in return for a small appro-
priation from this fund. We shall need it this
winter to pay some person a salary for keeping
clear about half block of sidewalk near our
domicile during the winters SHOWS and (natur-
ally) slush.
The Foxy Mr.. Foxton.
(From the DeSmet, S. D.. News).
Among the citizens of Bozeman
are H. " Foxton and family, for
merly residents of De Smet, whom
Mr.. and Mrs. Sherwood saw while
there. Mr. Foxton is still in the land
of Mrs. Foxton, and his wife, former
had several very pleasant chats with
them.
o.D.K. reports lampine sign in Martins
luncheonette. Soup Changed Daily" He makes
no comment Perhaps because he had Just
inhaled bowl Of changed soup" and was "toc
full for utterance."
SOME OF THEM ARE
Sir: Somehow feel constrained to tell you
a little story, apropos of nothing, of course;
but you see was born and raised way dowr
south in Dixie" where we have the coloret
servants in all their primitive glory. My moth
er has dusky housemaid, whose husband i:
given to disappearing without announcing hi:
departure or even saying goOdbyefO his spouse
nation as to where he has been or what he ha!
been doing. Indy has somewhere learnet
wonderful wifely wisdom and never question!
! or reproaches, but just "be's glad" that he /!
| homo again. Once after Jim had been absen
for several days, Indy came in one morning
| radiating smiles and happiness and my mother
! said to her: why, Indy, you look so happ!
! this morning. that recreant husband Of your.
must have returned" "Yas'sm, yas'sm,' sale
she, "he is returned" Now Indy is nothinj
| if not quick to learn and she had Just Learned
a new word and proposed to use it just al
quickly as possible, SO upon going out she me
MY father and said Good mornin' Mr. H.
jes' wanta tell you dat ar vacant husband o
mine is returned" JANE DOE.
The Strong Arm Of Father.
| (From The Argus).
I The bride walked in on the arm Of
| her father, who gave her in marriage
NEW HAMPSHIRE AID OF DANIELS. S.
Davenport Democrat.
State or battleship?
MR. CLYNE charges Chicago department
! stores with selling shoes at 50 profit per PAL,
But Chicago people are buying them, and an
parently buying them in feverish haste Thre
feminine acquaintances who recently visite
the shoe department Of one Chicago's larges
stores report finding IAN immense crowd" be
ing fitted. And" said one, I'VE actually he'll
our noses until we could beat a retreat"
AN Associated Press correspondent in So
bastopol paid $25 for "one million Don rubles.
4 NEWSPAPER men are so improvident
r. E. MIG.