The Rock Island Argus

June is a queer month, and each year it is growing queerer. It used to be devoted to roses and commencement exercises, but of late years it has robbed April of its principal characteristics—showers—and fitful dashes of rain now alternate with flashes of sunshine, making it a crazy quilt sort of a month as regards its weather. In years gone by, it was the custom of the youths and maidens to get together and flock to the dells where spring flowers first made their annual appearance. But things in this respect have changed wonderfully, and our successors in this pastime of youth find that the flowers are later, though the girls, we believe, are not. In fact they are a little earlier, if anything; that is to say, somewhat more previous. But, just the same, most of them still love flowers, and she who loves flowers, music and children, has no treason in her soul.
June, however, still has claims on roses and commencements, and may it be many years ere she loses her grip on them. Bright, interesting young graduates. There is a place for each of you in the world, and there certainly is room at the top, but most people are willing to stop on the fourth or fifth of the thousand rounds in the ladder of life and stay there. We don't give you this solid chunk of experience to discourage you but merely to remind you that though "Beyond the Alps lies Italy," the aforesaid Alps, individually and collectively, are high and hard to climb. Still with the Alpenstock of education to assist you, you are better qualified to battle with life than those not so well prepared, and we earnestly hope each and every one of you will gird your armor on and get to the front, where we will be glad to greet you.
There are tides in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, lead on to fortune. It often happens that fortunes are lost by neglecting slight precautions; just as people sacrifice their health and lives by omitting proper care to resist the onslaughts of disease. Mishler's Herb Bitters, kept in the house, will prove an invaluable safeguard against malaria, chills and fever, ague, dyspepsia, liver and kidney complaints, that annually carry away thousands of men and women before they have reached their prime.
The Cleveland Leader still insists that Col. Craig is a "bitter, unreconstructed rebel." Thus are three years' service in the Union army outweighed by a single inaccurate flourish of a correspondent's pencil.