The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-10-21
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HERE LIES MANS ANCIENT ENEMY,
! DILL CARE
WHO prsINTERs THE UNLovEp1cUss.
NEWARK!
BALLAD OF MATRIMONY.

This day 1 hail with gleefuI cheers,
Nor sigh one sigh of vain regret;
Content I've been for many years
And well contented am I yet
Although I've had some cause to fret
And by my woes I've oft been harried:
Today 1 have no heart ito let
Just fourteen years ago we married
Some days of laughter, some of tears
We've SEEM ma chere, since first we met:
But. sitting all our foolish fears,
We've boldly stormed LIES parapet
Our brows oft damp with honest sweat
The blows of Fate we've bravery parted
And held aloft Loves coronet-
Just fourteen years ago we married!
Though storms have howled about our ears
And clouds have lowered, black as jet,
Although we've heard some raucous jeers,
By dire misfortunes been beset;
Although we've often been in debt
What mattered it that riches tarried?
Love came and taught US to forget -.
Just fourteen years ago we married.
ENvOI.
All, Princess! you're my one best bet
Till DER the Styx at last Ina ferried. .s
All me, the eyes of Time are wet
Just fourteen years ago we married
ORR revered parent sheet is loose again.
A headline Yesterday stated that Fifty Masons
will Journey to Try-Cites' Shriner F. L.
wants to know WHY Masons are 1ourneylng
to try the cities We don't know, were sure,
but we assume they'll not forget the slogan:
TRY Rock Island first.
In Which Ye Correspondent Dwells Upon Ye
IHexorable Flyghte o. Tyne
bushnell Corr, Galesburg Republican
Reg!ster.1
Mrs. F. = Sutherland of North Dean
street will on Wednesday, Oct 10, have
reached her 8Oth milestone on life's path
way She will soon be an octegenerlan.
Mrs Sutherland has been one of the
residents Of Bushnell for many years,
in this long period has made many
friends who will at this time congratu-
late her on reaching this her 80th birth
day anniversary and wish her many re-
turns of the same. Mrs. Sutherland was
of the charter members of the w.
R G. and has been loyal and faithful
member of the same, and was nearly
always hand at their meetings until
old age, which came gradually creeping
on, halted her regular attendance. Your
correspondent, who is well acquainted
with this estimable lady and. like hun
dreds of others, wishes her a happy voy-
age the remainder Of her days down
Hfe's pathway
PROBABLY we should award Oddities
for "octegenerian". 1t deserves honorable
to say the least Webster by the
way, tells US an octogenarian is SO person
eighty more and less than ninety years old.
TO A yFULL-BLO0DED RASCAL.
l see you, cunning rascal, with your bright
and shining eyes,
Half hidden meath pillow, soft and white;
You greet me with uncertainty, vague and
mild surprise,
Part stepped in fear and part in keen
delight.
see you, you young rascal. though you try
to hide from me
A subtle tricky trait that you possess.
He who is standing near me makes an effort |
not to see
Lest for your acts the blame he must |
confess.
III admit you're interesting, though your &C |
tons 1 condemn
You've kept me wake by your persistency: |
[ have got up in the night time, your hilarty |
to stem.
AS full of righteous rage as one could be, |
You may hold your nightly revels with some
other in this bedi
This place is yours-that's all I'VE got to |
say.
3ut dire are maledictions resting on the land
lords head
Confound place with bedbugs, anyway!
SOLOMON PIFFTE.