The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-11-21
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HERE LIES MANS ANCIENT ENEMY.
DILL CARE.
WHO ursINrEKs THE UNLovED CUES
| BEWAREi

ii WHO DIsISTEzs THE uNLovED cusS
TELL Us WHY.
Far, far from us in any way to knock
The game contrfbutory-that were treason;
But we are cek the pleasant shock
That goes with getting in this Shaft of
! Reason"
| Thus B. L. T. worlds greatest colyunist
Cwho now is keeping heavens angels cheery)
Once wrote to those who furnished colyum
And we're impeIled to voice again the query.
When we contribbed our days were free from
care:
We seemed, as did the others to adore IT;
We had our reasons but It's only fair
To ask if you have other reasons for it
Just why do you sends quips and verse to us
And wherein do you find the stunt a
It cannot be because you like the cuss
Who often throws away your choicest
treasure!
Perhaps we ought to know the reason we'll:
We don't: for we'd not ask you If we knew
Now won't you, please, our ignorance dispeI:
We want to know Thea moving why" you
do it
d
to tell B. l. T. why they gave their stuff to
him he ran their explanations, rhine and prose
under the caption, 'The Blessedness of Civ
ing. We varied the monotony Of that caption
one day with some lines headed, The Cussed-
ness of Giving" Our contribs may take their
choice of the two.
Particularly Cruel and Unusual.
From the Reynolds QlI) Press.J
report had come in from Math-
ersv1lle that three men had entered the
officer of the Alden Mining company.
had bound, gagged and bhndfolded Tom
Martin, the secretary, and had rtfed the
cash drawer of $17. -.
TOTHER eve at the ~Y~ Mr.. Stirratt told
Us how much he had enjoyed reading about |
our aches and pains and sore muscles. We !
wonder if he meant exactly what he said.
Well, it's great life and we WON'T weaken. !
We expect Ii to make young man Of us
before the winter is over.
NOT NECESSARY; WE'VE SUSPECTED FOR
SOME TIME THAT HE'S AWARE OF IT. !
Dear Mac: Shall | add my bit toward help
ing o. D. K. make the momentous selection of
name for THE girl? For something with a .
euphonlous grace which would artistically ?
drape the portals of her last Name would .
suggest:
K-K-K-Katy
K-k-k-Karoline
K-k-k-K-- Cwhatever her last name is
sincerely hope the initial k of her last !
name Is not silent, as that will destroy with
one fell swoop the musical, mathematical
whimsical, angelical, acTostical. GRAMMATICAL +
geometrical geographical historical romantl-
cal symbolical synthetical q-q-q -quintessence
OF perfection so laborousy painstakingly
perseveringly, perspiringy attempted bv me
But perhaps that doesn't appeal TO his hitting
fancy Did he say this was the steenth girl
and that he hoped and prayed the angels would
grant that the next be a boy? Then why not
call her Omega?
! think it would be perfectly wonderful to
ne the godmother of this wee girl and the
dramatis personae of the christening retinue
as suggested by Cleo including as il does the !
Handsome Reporter has warmed the verv Ii
cookies OF me heart; and the mere thought of
beng the cohort, aid and abettor Of such a
n nahasome prince among men as he, in the
observance and performance OF sucn an uplift- D
ing, inspiring, thrilling, soulful rite carries me
TO dizzy1ng heights OF wonder. and splendor
and the radiance thereof blinds me with it's i
dazzling briliance
- So saying such, I deity pin period to
'he end of the whiriing paragraph s
nut SAD thought interludes. Directly the {
Jay arter reading Cieo's inspired suggestion
| saw, with mine own eyes the Handsonne Pc
porter within the Knox mortuarv. and HE t
9nouloers dropped with a sad melancholy and I
pTHsnYe glance seemed to stray from his
oeduIIuI eyes Can it be that he was con- |
-emplating sufHing off this mortal coil ratbar
man undergo the torture of soul unavoidabIv
aCCehoant upon l9-year-old bashful cub-re- e
porter godfather? Mac, do search the how a
3ut and reassure him and from the denths of /
ny WISDOM, the breadth of thy knowIedz % | S
nnu the unlimited reach of experience qaine5 |
-nrough thy many years OF newspaper life eT- L
pam 10 MN tnat we are merely kidding him. Q
An. L think could yet pressagent him to e
ane and fortune and the luxuriant life n, a | V
'clnuiLacng star in the heavens OF n,oviaSo,,
we're only requested to do so. CACTUS.
The gentleman who took Cactuss mama in Il
am 1eeis that her selection OF 'srouchstonen
ut of all". 00' uhAlnoest II
she said. he tells Us, that probably 7 Il
new the derivation of the word wall 81 p
rive at the genesis of this word HrS. - t,
nuoeu me stone. then had touch then Il
enoVed the t and see what's Ieft-.o1cb: h
hnI hsten; it was Also necessary m re,,o-. L
he to, which left 'uch, u ieittoVe
remembering the recent learned .,,-, e
ractc discourse concerning the bab,ee who b
AID 'uch', can draw but one coneJ,sio1 ~ ~ ia
ady liners that toe in'!"
BIBLE CAKR-. b
Names of ingredients supplied nv e A, "
Jeremiah 17:11-Eegs ~ ~
l. Samuel A-25-Honev tc
jeremiah 6;20-Sweet Cane a.
Judges 5:25-Butter eC
l. Samuel 30:12-Raisfns rc
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