The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-04-20

came in yesterdays mail You may not re-
member Tor perhaps you didn't know that
we want to fill this Silo Of Sentiment with
poetic tributes to mother on the Saturday pre-
ceding Mothers day-the second Sunday In
May; and let US add that we will not rob any
contrib Of space by using any Of our verses on
that day. :. We DO. however. expect coptribs
to write much better stuff than ours. That ~
plies to any day We're forced to ill this COL
yum but we're not compelled to approve every
thing we write; you are not forced to help NIL
it, but when you volunteer to do so we are durn
usual rates.
Somebody Ought to Warn Flora.
From the Atkinson Nevs.]
The reason We talk advertising Is
that it helps the tired business man to-
make more money 80 he can afford to
take in Flora De voss when tho show
comes to town.
TOPPING the pictures Of 10 army oihce-s
The Argus headlines, New Major Generals IN
U. s. Navy r. f. who saw it first, thinks
that, since the headline was large, she ought
to tell us about it,.
The army, it would seem, is lost in Normal
Sea.
YOUR FIRST DAY THERE.
think you spent your first day there,
OF things you said about Sir Oliver
But gathered to you all the little children
Who in their tattered lives On earth
Had never heard OF Treasure Island.
l think you read it to them till the sun went
down,
Brushing dream-laughter over the face
OF every sleeping child in paradise;
You stood awhile amid the happy slumberers.
knowing at last what beauty was,
Free to revel in il,
Like pagan captive unfettered,
Watching the dawn throw gold over his home
land;
Then YOU smiled mischievously,
And, assured that nobody was looking,
Stole into Saint Peters library
To chuckle unheavenly over misspelled words
And at the thought that some admirer
In the so-called human race might even then
Be writing about you in free verse;
And you went back to the children.
And called it the best day,
And fell to sleeping in the moonlight
Thomas Hornsby Ferril in the Denver Tmes
THERE, it seems to Ms. Is the best word
picture Of the real B. l. T. that has been paint
ed since he shouldered his pack and trudged
cheerfully forth on 1.-THE Road to Anywhere.
FRESH JERSEY COW for SALE A real mixer
fresh this week. Reason for selling, bucket
won't hold the milk and besides when you
skim the cream there's no milk left to drink
Some milk cow" Harold Williams, phone
124SM.-Ottumwa Courier.
Mr. Wiliams COW reminds Us Of the Scotch
dominic who read to his congregation, And
I said in my haste all men are liars, then
looked over the assemblage and remarked
drily: Had SD Paul been a member O. thia
parish he wadna had need tae regret his haste.
NJ nrs~.x>-Aa u.y.a v>,v.
[From the Chicago ld-Examinerl
Washington urchin heard Mr.. Hard
ing liked golf. 50 he got up to White
house window somehow and made the
president present Of one.
IVORY QUINBY has Just been reelected tt
serve three years on the Monmouth school
board. Would you conclude that Ivory is solid
with the voters!
Fortunately He Fell on His Head. So Ne
Bones Were Broken.
From the Erie Ull.) Independent.1
Frankie Lanphere came near being 60
riously injured Tuesday afternoon. He
was riding his bicycle ON the sidewalk
with Gail Cooking perched ON the handle
bars. As he turned the corner at the
bakery the wheel skidded and pitched
the youngsters Of Gail escaped injury,
but Frankie's face was bruised and
skinned and . bump raised on his head
| the size of an egg. Spectators who went
to his Vsistanee expected to ind some
bones broken.
We are not optimistic about the plan Il
| revive the lost art OF spelling promulsatsf
BY Prof. Van H. Smith OF BURLINGTON. n. Z
As B. L. T. said. ~one spells. OF one doesnt-.
Showing IL FsRils II Realhg Ne FurtAer
Than the Headlines.
Iron the Quincy Whig-Journal's colyuml
Sixteenth district Rotary has elected
Cedar Rapids brewer governor. But
| there's probably no thirsty dgnihcancs in
the fact.
| IF Mr.. Brewer. Who 70 publisher Of tn,
Cedar Rapids Republican, eees that the Wi,
colyumist can chooss his weapons.
| SAN GOAPERS and his bride STONED n ,
ncn-union hotel In Buffalo two DAYS.
WELL man can't b expected to remsm
osf everything On ssoonA heesymooa.
RE Ma.