The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1873-01-01
Correspondence Of the BuIletin.l
FROM ANNA, ILLINOIS.
AFTER CHRISTMAS.

ANNA, Ills, Dec. 80, 1874.
Editor Bulletin:
The 26th of December ought tn be OK.
plunged from the calendar. II there is
any day in the year that could be spared
this is il, and yet it msy be the keystone
Of the arch in some mans life the very
time when some men somewhere happily
embarked upon . certain tide, which,
taken at its food, leads on to fortune.
Lucky fellows, they who catch the tide.
There has been little ebb or how in the
Affairs of our town. We are alternating
Old Winter has Dame Nature and her
infant daughter, Anna, in icy thrali, and
the foul asnd, yclept epizootic, hath the
horses by the throat. In sackcloth and
straw, the noble horse and the common
horse, for Epi is great leveler, are living
In recluse, teaching their lOrdly masters,
wesn while, that their health i. necessary
80 their welfare, a lesson that will be duly
appreciated for n month and day. We
are under cloud, but II will lift in the
swset by and by. and give US glimpses Of
better times end golden opportunities t.
10 improved, and VIZ resolve to improve
them TO the utter exclusion from all Of our
future retrospects 'those ssddest words
Of tongue or pen 1t might have BEEN
Our cloud hs, its silver lining reflected
from the mirror surface Of ice that 10
everywhere.
The Law Of compensation 10 not dead.
We have glsnces now and then at scenes
limaei By jack Frost's silver pencil that
are gioriously beautiful. The village ly-
ing in the early dawn, with ths stare
p,liLg their inefsctnsl fires before the
rising sun, Is = sight that have seen, and
isworta seeing Ice on the ground. on
tho hillsi les, in the forests, in the orchards.
bonding the apple an peach trees toward
tho ground - their boughs bowed but y
short time ago with tasir own proper
fruit-ics every where, and as the suns
rays shens through and over It, silvering
the landscape In the most brilliant man.
ner. I being but half awake, dreamed
that this was Dame Natures silver we'd
ding, and that VII night long the fniries
had been gathering smeralds, diamonds,
silver and every glistening thing, where.
with TO decorate her on her bridal morn
Da,ifui fairies, they did their work well
ushering forth their fnvorito to meet The
sun in rs gay sheen NJ WAS ever woven
BY the invisible fingers Of frost, or seen b,
mortal eyes. Yes, ice 10 pretty in dscora.
lions, ornamental on the window pHnei
and useful . tew months hence in sherry
cobblsrs, etc, but 1t will not do to stand
on. Somebody says man stands on slip
perry ground but that sounds like I
standing joke, and may be ironicsl.
Many's the slip tween foot aud hip,
In these icy days. Many times daily VI
sxclaim, "How are the mighty fallen p
saw u gentleman going down the inclinet
plane from Willard's to the posl-ofbcs
with ice to the right OF him. ice to the lef
OF him, ice under him, when suddenly hi
heels became ~inged-like Mercury's-
and he struck an attitude midway betwee
the perpendicular and horizontal, and hi
solss went marching on toward the hor
ION. For . moment l believed that b
had duly considered these degenerate day
Of equine dsprsvity and had resolved I
ride 10 humble imitation of our Savior
entry into Jerusalem. But he stoppe
and got straight up and then swore uni
there wss q strong smell OF birthstone O
the frosty air. "rhs man who laughs"
NO relative to the man who falls on ic
But can't warm with this icy suhjec
unless ] could stand in "cutty ark {
bald kneo,-our tallest pesk with me
curry i0s below, with . crown up
my forehead and m icicls In my han
duly authorised to write on ire new
lasting glaciers, the spi,sph Of the mes
81 man ! know. Even then, some o
would ssy that the Secord was an San
obituary"
The goblin Of the ice and the cpl dem
have gobblsdup al show Of business. The
y ssns slgn Of holiday sport. Many "
tsvs bssn compelled ~ abandon Lab
t4l hsvs given themselves up ~ IN absnd
Of fun, and " thus have . little msr
- = L. u.