The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-09-05


Johns Io'e grew hot as it grew late,
He vowed that Nell was his ain mate,
Whites quafhn' at fearful rate
The swats afore him.
Unmindfu' o. the awful fate
That lowered DER him.
Alas sim first the light o. day
Cast into Eden its first day.
This rule has held, and will for aye
'Tis stated clearly:
That they wha sin the price maun pay.
And pay fu dearly.
For frankie time passed slow AVA;
She sailed forth to find and ca
Her Johnnie hame Then what she saw
Was maist displeasin'.
She burst upo' the feckless twa
Wi blue bleezin.
The tavern ne'er saw Sic splore!
Nell ran in terror DOT the door
AS Frankies gun spoke wi roar
yen get yer fairin!
Screamed frankie Johnnie, in his gore,
Lay deid's a herrin'r
Though frankie said John did her wrang
The jury didna argue lang
But quickly ruled that ae maun hang
Wha killed anither.
Sac moo they suffer mony pang
In hell thegither.
THE IDEA of reteIling the narrowing tale OF
frankie 'and Johnny. imagine the great
Scottish bard might have told it, came to US
weeks ago. Our intentions were good but our
execution poor. We trust the poem will meet
the approval of Willie Green. since it is not
viewed from the strictly conventional stand
point-a family affair.
Obvioushly tn Composition Shelebrated tn
Shild's Arrival.
[From the Sherrard tIll) Buletin.I
A daughter (fihst born shild)
born Monday to Mr.. and Mrs. Leroy
Borst. Mrs. Borst before her marriage
was Miss Sarah Nichol of Sherrard.
LANDS Scored for Baseball Job by Law
yer."-New York Tribune.
The scorer Is in error.
IS THERE A SECOND TO THIS MOTION?
Dear Mac: In recent issue you referred
to your column as the backbone of the page"
Then why not call it the spinal column, and
yourself the chief chiropractor? Think of the
fun could have "crackin' bones at our
clinic! 1t opens immense field, and think
of the good you could do with your adjust
ments, especially in such cases as that of
Willie Green. Pause We, and think what a
single Atlas adjustment might do for him
ETEOCLES.
P. s.: For the benefit of non-P. S c. fol-
lowers, Atlas has to do with interior of ivory
domes.
AS things go in this topsy turvy world the
chances are that Mr.. and Mrs. George kuss of
Pittsburgh, Pa, never do.
IN WHICH SOLOMON DISCLOSES, BY DE-
VIOUS WAYS, A BIT OF HIS WISDOM
Sir: Perhaps you remember away back
when ,"Old Man Shocks developed the Deadly
Nightshade into vigorous plant with pretty
berries and partly to show his authority and
partly to impress the seven little Snookses
with his extraordinary knowledge of vegeta-
ton, he closed his lecture to them by saying:
These berries, if eaten, will bring on a severe
case of acute Indigestion with cramps of va
rlous sizes, good and plenty, and OWN to the
low prices of corn and hawgs and the high
prices old Smirk gifts f'r funerals | don't want
none f'r awhile, at least. an l frbid We to
eat any of 'emi"
The kids as unit disobeyed. The result
is known in history.
Also when lack Simpkins said to his son
John, The moon-eyed mule is an outlaw and
frbid ye to git nigh him, but let the hired
man take the chances,2 John disobeyei his
father. grasped board and commenced an
argument with the mule Laughing his Door
old father to scorn). During the melee the
mule lost shoe, John having swallowed it.
And nearly all of his teeth were gone when he
came out OF the seance. About all he is good
for today is to play the part of toothless old
man in home talent plays. All because he dis
obeyed his parent.
pleasing contrast have, however in
the case Of ElGorado Packer, Who Obeyed
Her Parents; even to point of absurdity in
these exciting times incident to getting back
to normally.
Eldorado had just rolled EN- and was in
quandary as to whether short skirts or knick-
erbockers would cause most comment Just
as she was leaving to go shopping her mother
said: Edo, FIR land sakes, We amt goin down
town with no skirt on air ye?" To which
Edo replied: "Mothah deah, have it on; only
it is one of those fashionable short skirts and
rathaw hard to see." NO, Eldo," protested
her mother. Il see it on the back of cheer
clost t the dresser; go an see yrself" She
Obeyed her mother and loi her mother was
right! She was saved from humiliation and
scorn. AS happy sequel she married a mil
honaire's son with sense. and today gets a
very nice amount of alimony
Young Friends, which is the better-Obe-
dience or Disobedence? The Poet said some
thing like this:
"Whateer your parents bid you do,
Keep it forever in your breast;
However strange it seems to you
They've allus knowed enough TO get by
someway!" SOLOMON PIFTT f
ARE we never going to have an opportunity
to print our diary? Contributions are taking
up all the colyum space and right now there
is at least a half column in the overset galley
Well, we asked for help and we got it
AND, chiropractically speaking, we'll have
TO adjust our colyum to the new condition.
R. E NC