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The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1877-06-13
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LIVER PILLS.
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Hcpatitis or Liver Complaint,
DYSPEPSIA AID SICK HEADACHE.


Symptoms OF Diseased LAYER
DAN in the night side, under the
L edge ofthe ribs, increases on pres
sure; sometimes the pain is inthe left
sid, the patient is rarely able 10 lie
on tie left side sometimes the pam
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it frequently extends TO the top of
the shoulder, and is sometimes mis-
taken for a rheumatism in the arm.
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appetite and sickrc-s, The bowels in
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after death, has shown the LIVER to
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For all Bilious deranpements. and
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The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1877-06-13

TIE st. Louis Globe remarks that IAN
Ohio man would accept an Office, though
il took him to the crater Of Vesnyns in
one oi.its widest eruptions." But there
is no reason to bellevc::that the OHIO Re-
publicans differ from their brethren in
other States in this respect.
The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1877-06-13

The dealers who sell fruit In Chicago
declare, with tears in their eyes, that
they can't be honest, but they say II IS all
the fault OF the pesky farmers, who per
sist in putting up tn lr goods III such
sized packages as meet with The most
ready sale
The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1877-06-13

MINISTER KAssoN Is now in Washing
ton. receiving his instructions prepare
tory to sailing Tor Madrid. he expects
10 sail IRON New York on Jnly 4th'
The Portland daily press., 1877-12-17
IFrom the Fortnightly Reviev.l
In Defense of Reyiewers.

We require of our thoroughly-furnished critic
that he should have prepared himself for his
profession by comprehensive study of all that
human thought, experience and Imagination
have stored up for US. When We have used all
the short cuts to this goal which art and nature
have provided, how many years will such an
apprenticeship require? The data are wanting
on which to found calculation. Can the work
be got through in seven years, in twice seven, or
in three times seven? do not know. Arch
bishop Usher at twenty began to read the Fa-
theirs. Greek and Latin, with the resolution of
reading them through. The task was achieved
in nineteen years. Hammond, at Oxford read
thirteen hours day life of Usher, Life of
Hammond by FelL) Milton's industrious and
select reading,in preparation for the great
work to which he dedicated whole life long
choosing and late beginning, are as well known
as the thirty years spent by Edward Gibbon in
preparing for and composing his history. OF
course in this as in other trades, man learns
while he practices. Button told friend that
after passing fifty years at his desk, he was
every day learning to write. The critics
Judgment natures by many failures Without
these three elements-time, industry, arduous
endeavor-no man can attain to be a supreme
accustomed 10 set before yourselves quite an.
other ideal of the literary life. You have
thought the business of reviewing q lazy pro.
fessieu largely adopted by briefess barristers,
by incompetent clerks, by green youths fresh
from college examinations, and generally by
men who shirk hard work-in fact an easy
chair and slipper business. You have, perhaps
supposed that anybody can write review;
that essay writing is as easy as
talking; that it is ouly q matter of
cheek and fluency. You have imagined
that a quart srly or a weekly reviewer merely
got his knowledge of the subject in hand out OF
the book he had under review; that he there
upon dishonesty assumes to have known all
about it, and with voluble impertinence goes
on to retail this newly-acquired information as
If it were his own, seasoning it with sneers
and sarcasms at the author from whom he is
stealing. l know these things are said. 1
have heard even respectable reviews and mag
azines accused of paying for this sort of thing
BY the column, l. e., giving a pecuniary in
ducement to fill out paper with words
to make copy or padding, as it is called
l don't know if these things are done
in practice. If they are, they are fraudu-
ulent, and must, I should think, come
within the act of adulteration. What /
have set before you in the above outline is the
honest critic who gives his calling the devotion
OF life, prepares himself by antecedent study
and continues through the whole Of his career
TO make daily new acquisitions and to cultivate
his susceptibility to new Impressions
The Portland daily press., 1877-12-17
John g. Whittier.

Silence and Peace, his spirits perfect prize,
He won by strife and speech; and ever saw
Above hard sleeps flushed mountain nights arise
Liberty after Law.
He saw, with prophet-eyes led Of sight,
A promise Of the dawn through deepest dark;
And as a wind of morning risen with light,
Clear-voiced like lark,
His song was when the day OF freedom broke
Upon darkened race made heavy with chains;
His song upheld the hands that warred and woke
Unnumbered echoing strains.
Three-headed Evil stood before his way:
One face was Anger and one face was Scorn,
And one was blind Indifference-who shall say
Which were the deadliest worn?I
BE followed freedom, as in days of old
Orpheus among the shadows sought his wife
Nor once looked back, but led her from the cold
Strange house of Death-in-Life.
Time's snow may hide not one immortal leaf
That lies above the.poet's honored brow;
Amid the bards of war once easily chief,
Peace crowns him laureate now.
happy winter of the poets year!
When heavens soft blessings falling without ceas,
Upon fought fields well won in war, appear
A snow-whte robe of peace.
The Portland daily press., 1877-12-17
Ad Vatem.
BY EDMUND G. srEDMAN.

Whittierl the Land that loves thee, she whose child
Thou art,-and whose uplifted hands thou long
Hast stayed with song availing like prayer
She feels a sudden pang, who gave thee birth,
And gave to thee the lneaments supreme
OF her own freedom, that she could no. make
Thy tissues all immortal, or, If to change,
To bloom through5years coeval with Iher own;
So that no touch Of age nor frost of time
Shoudwither thee, nor furrow thy dear face,
Nor heck thy hair with silver. Ay, she feels
A double pang that thee, with each new year,
Glad Youth may not revisit. like the Spring
That routs her nothern Winter and anew
Melts of the hoar snow from her puissant hills.
Thou sangest her always in abiding verse,
And hast thy fame immortal-as we say
Immortal in this earth that yet must die,
And al IN TINS land now fairest and most young
Thy words shall last; albeit thou growest old,
Men say; but never old the poets soul
Becomes; only its covering takes on
A reverend splendor as in the misty fall
Thine own auroral forests, ere at last
Passes the spirit Of the wooded dell.
And stay thou with us longi vouchsafe us long
This brave autumnal presence, ere the hues
Slow tading,-ere the quaver Of thy voice,
The twilight Of thine eye, move men to ask
Where hides the chaIiot,-in what sunset vale,
Beyond thy chosen river, champ the steeds
That wait to bear thee skyward? Since we too
Would feign thee, in our tenderness, to be
Inviolate, excepted from thy kind,
And that our bard and prophet best-belOved
Shall vanish like that other: him that stood
Undaunted in the pleasure-house Of kings,
And unto kings and crowned harlots spake
Gods truth and Judgment. At his sacred feet
Far followed all the lesser men Of old
Whose lips were touched with fire. and caught from
him
The gift of prophecy; and thus from thee,
Whittier. the younger singers,-whom thou seest
Each emulous to be thy staff this day.
What learned they9 righteous anger, burning scorn
OF the oppressOr, love to humankind,
Sweet fealty to country and to home,
Peace, stainless purity, high thoughts of heaven,
And the clear, natural music of thy song.
The Portland daily press., 1877-12-17

A CORRESPONDENT asks the meaning OF
the terms characterization" and "remoneti-
zation" as used in the discussion of the sill
yer bill. In 1873 an act was passed by Con-
gress regulating the coinage. By that act
silver was deprived of its quality of legal
tender (except for small change up to five
dolars) and the coinage of the silver dollar
was stopped. In fact, no silver dollars had
been coined since 1858, and silver had not
been used to any extent as currency, except
as small change, since 1884; but the law
recognized the silver dollar of 4124 grains as
full legal tender. By the reconciliation of
silver is meant the restoration of the legal
tender quality to the silver dollar, and its un-
limited coinage, compelling all men to take it
in payment of debts. At the time it was de-
monetized the silver dollar was worth 1O3
cents; it is now worth about ninety cents.
The act was passed because of the inequality
of value between the gold and silver dollars.
The Portland daily press., 1877-12-17
Sentiment.
RY WILLIAM 8. CHADWICK.

81
Dear Whittier: When the MUSES. unto thee
Gave, in largess, the power of poesy,
They laid no limit to thy mnstresy:
But made thee apt, at thy OCCASIONS need,
To deftly use or lutte or Tyre or reed,-
ALI music's means; but babe thee ever heed
These two behests; that. using each at will,
Whate'er thy instrument or theme, thou still,
By every song, some human want should'st fill;
And that, whate'r reward should lure thy song,
Thou neer should'st be the laureate OF Wrongi
So hast thou sungi So was thy matin lay,
Thy noon-tide psalm, the vesper of thy day,
True unto Truth, o, bameless bardl alway.
So now thou singest on the hither shore
That banks the wave too soon must bear thee o'ei
To that fair realm thy song has reached before.
So may'st thou sing, until thy last note-dies?
Nay! is translated, through the choral skies,
To mingle with the heavenly harmonies.
So shall thy ear liest celestial song
Thy latest earthly melody prolongi
The Portland daily press., 1877-12-17
TERMS $500 PER ANNUM, IN ADVANCE

The advocates of the Bland bill do not pro-
pose to remedy that inequality by issuing
coins containing silver equal in value to 25.8
grains of gold dollar; but they propose to
take ninety cents worth of silver, stamp it
as dollar, and compel people to take it in
discharge of dollar debt. That is all. 1t
is like taking three peck measure, filling it
and selling its contents as bushel. Our
correspondent will find the silver ques-
ton very fully and entertainingly discussed
in monetary treatises like Jevon's "Money
and Mechanism of Exchange" and Nc
Adams alphabet in Finance" the last book,
one of Putnam's "Popular Manuals"
The Portland daily press., 1877-12-17
The Golden Calendar.


Count not the years that boarding Time has told,
Save by the starry memories in their train;
Not by the vacant moons that wax and wane,
Nor all the seasons changing robes enfold:
Look on the life whose record is unrolledl
Bid thought, word, action, breathe. burn, strive
again,
Old affairs flame whose ashes scarce are cold,
Bid the freed captive clank his broken chaini
So will we count thy years and months and days,
Poet whose heart-strings thrill upon thy Tyre,
Whose kndling spirit lent, like Hecla's fire,
The heat to freedoms faint aurora blaze,
But waste no words the loving soul to tire
That finds its life in duty, not in praisei
The Portland daily press., 1877-12-17
A Friends Greeting.
BY BAYARD TAYLOR.

Snow-bound for earth. u t sum ner-soued for thee,
Thy nata morning shines:
Hail. Friend and Poetl Give tn hand to me,
And let me read its hnesi
For skilled in Fancy's palmistry am 1,
Wheu years have set their crown;
When Life gives light to read its secrets by,
And deed explains renown.
so' looking backwa I'd from thy seventieth year
The pictures OF thy spirits Past arc clear,
And each lnterprets thee.
see thee, first, on hills our Aryan slrss
In Times lost morning, knew,
ktndling, as priest, the lonely altar-fres
That from earth's darkness grew.
Then, wise with secrets of Chaldaan lore,
In high Akkadian fame;
Or pacing slow by Egypt's riVer-shOIe,
In Thothmes' glorious reign.
L hear thee. with with all iuiqutI ss
That Judah's kings betrayed,
Preach from Ain-Jidi's rock thy Gods DEGREES,
Or Names terebinth shade.
And, ah, most piteous vision of the Past,
Drawn by thy beings law,
see thee, martyr, in the arena cast
Beneath the lions paw.i
Yet, afterwards, how rang thy sword upon
The Paynim helm and shield
How shone with Godfrey and at Askalon,
Thy white plume DER the fieldi
The boundless desert sea,
The Bedouin spearmen found their destined head,
Their dark-eyed chief-in tbeel
And thou vert friar in Cluny's sanity cell,
And skald by Norway's foam,
Ere fate of Poet fixed thy soul, to dwell
In this New England home.
Here art thou Poet-more than warrior, priest;
And here thy quiet years
Yield more to US than sacrifice or feast,
Or clash of swords and spears.
The faith that lifts, the courage that sustains,
These thou vert sent to teach;
Hot blood If battle, beating in thy veins,
Is turned to gentle speech.
Not less but more, than others thou hast striyen;
Thy victories remain
The scars of ancient hate, long since forgiven,
Have lost their power to pain.
Apostle pure of Freedom and of Right
Thou had'st thy one reward;
Thy prayers were heard, and flashed upon thy sight
The Coming Of the Lordl
Now, sheathed in myrtle of thy tender songs,
Slumbers the blade of TRUTH
But Ages wisdom crowning thee prolongS
The eager hope of Youth
Another line npon thy hand trace,
All destinies above;
Men know thee most as one that loves his race,
And bless thee with their love!
The Portland daily press., 1877-12-17

APRopos of the fisheries commission dis
pute Mast makes evident his opinion that
Great Britain doesn't give bread with one
fish-ball. The current number of Harper's
Weekly has two other neat hits by his pen
Gil, one representing Senator Davis as Man
DARN toy liable to tip all ways, and the other
picturing Patterson and Conover in the act
of conciliating Butler.
The Portland daily press., 1877-12-17

Clara Louise Kellogg wanted to rehearse the
polonaise in "Mignon" With the orchestra con-
ductor Behrens, but her music had all gone on
to New York, and none of the Chicago stores
had the piece, SO that they had to ask lady
who owned it to lend her a copy. When the
messenger arrived at this lady's house, she was
out, aud her daughter, who was II, and sup
posably knew something, after rummaging
around the house, sent back word that she did
not know exactly which the "Mignon'' polon-
aise was, but that her mother had only three,
and no one of them was large enough to fit
Miss Kellogg, whom she understood was lit
tie stout.
France has had her revenge on Gustave
Courbet for his share in the destruction Of the
Vendome column during the commune. That
he did it for arts sake was not allowed as an
excuse, and the sale of his pictures at his Paris
house was decreed. 1t proved barren judg-
ment, however; the shrewd Gustave had got
away with everything of great value, and the
whole sale, including furniture aad picture
frames only amounted to about S26OO.
Theatre parties are the rage with some Of the
New Yorkers. Whole "blocks" of seats are
taken for a certain number of persons acquaint-
ed with each other, and they make themselves
very much at home. But there is some COM
plant that they make themselves too much at
home, and annoy others in the audience by
their exceeding freedom,
The Portland daily press., 1877-12-17

AT the last MacMahon found himself too
weak to attempt revolution. The Legiti-
msts and Orleanists refused to support him
in his scheme for dissolution of the As
sembly, and he did not dare to do it with the
aid of the Bonapartists alone, so he stepped
up like little man and submitted to the Re-
puhlicans.
The Portland daily press., 1877-12-17

There Is young girl a. one of the London
theatres called zsgel, who dives through the
air from high platform and alights in net
ninety feet below. She drops head frst but
gracefully swerves 10 her flight until at last
she strikes on her back in the net and arises
unharmed,
The Portland daily press., 1877-12-17
The Whittier Tribute.

The Literary World pays q unique tribute
to Mr.. Whittier, whose birthday will be the
18th OF this month. In the current number
there are poems in honor of the event by Hen
ry W. Longfellow, Bayard Taylor, Edmund
Clarence Stedman, Oliver Wendell Holmes,
Paul FL. Hayne, J. G. Holland, George Parsons
Lathrop, Hiram Rich, VIM. Lloyd Garrison,
Lydia Maria Child, James Freeman Clarke,
VIM. s. Shurtleff, Celia Thaxter and Charlotte
f. Bates; and greetings in prose from Richard
Fl. Dana, William Cullen Bryant. George
Bancroft, Charles w. Eliot, +. Parkman, II.
b. Stowe. Thos Wentworth Higginson, Oliver
johnson and Robert Collyer. Charles B. Rice
describes Mr.. Whittier's home-life in a short
paper. An authentic list of Mr.. Whittier's
writings closes this testimonial We find space
for five of the poems:
The Portland daily press., 1877-12-17
Ten Times Seven.
BY j. G. HOLLAND.

Ten gentle-hearted boys of seven,
Too young and sweet to stray from heaven,
Will-counting up the little men
Amount to threescore years and ten.
Two gracious men of thirty-five,
With wits alight and hearts alive,
Will fill complete the rounded spheres
OF seventy strong and manly years.
Nay, Whittier, thou art not old;
Thy register lie hath told,
For lives devote to love and truth
Do only multiply their youth.
Thou art ten gentle boys Of seven,
With souls too sweet to stray from heaven;
Thou art two men OF thirty-hve,
With wits alight and hearts aliyel
The Portland daily press., 1877-12-17
THE PRESS.
MONDAY MORNING, DEC. IL.

We do not read anonymous etters and communi-
Cations The name and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty of good faith.
We cannot undertake to return or preserve COM
'munications that are not used.
The Portland daily press., 1877-12-17

ONE would like to know the Congressional
definition of diplomatic document" Not
few letters from Congressman to their con-
stituents come under this head, and are these
to be sent through the mails free?
The Portland daily press., 1877-12-17
The Three siIences.

Three Silenees there are: the fret Of speech,
The second of desire, the third Of thought;
This is the lore Spanish monk, distraught
With dreams and visions, was the first to teach.
These Siences, commingling each with each,
Made up the perfect Silence that he sought
And prayed for, and wherein at times he caught
Mysterious sounds trom realms beyond our reach.
o thou, whose daily life anticipates
The life to come, and in whose thought and word
The spiritual world preponderates,
Hermit of Amesbury, thou, too hast heard
Voices and melodies from beyond the gates,
And speakest only whe a thy soul is stirredl
The Portland daily press., 1877-12-17
BY PAUL II. HAYNR.

From this far realm of pines wait thee now
brothers greeting, poet, tried and true;
SO thick the laurels on thy reverend brow
We scarce can see the white locks gmmering
through.
o pure of thought Earnest in heart as pen,
The tests of time have left thee undefied;
And Ger the SHOWS Of threescOre years and ten
Shines the unsullied aureoe of child.
The Portland daily press., 1877-12-17

EVERY regular attache of the PRESS is furnished
with Card certificate couDtersigned by Stanley 7.
Pullen, Editor. All railway, steamboat and hotel
managers will confer favor upon us by demanding
credentials of every person claiming to represent our
The Portland daily press., 1877-12-17
tFrom the Worcester Press.l
Editors We Read Ahant.

We have been reading THAT Wife of Nine"
and unlike most readers, have found in 1t
character that is-not interesting nor enter
tanning, but-for want Of better word we will
say-curious. 1t is the husband of that wife.
He is an edtor-"the kind you read about
At the beginning of the story, which is some
distance along in the book, he occupies a sub
ordinate position on a newspaper. Then he
goes abroad and does some occasional corre-
spondence for the paper. Then he returns and
is offered a position as chief editor. This may
all seem very natural to the author of "That
Wife of Mine" and to the average reader; but
from the newspaper point of view it Is the
man who holds subordinate position
does not go abroad. On the con-
trary he pledges his salary in advance to
his landlady, and wastes his energies in dodg-
ing his washerwoman. But supposing that he
does not go abroad-he is not the one who, re-
turning home, is called to the chief editors
chair. That responsibility is conferred upon
the other young man who has grown somewhat
old and thin by close application to his work,
and not upon the one who has grown robust in
the easy capacity of tourist and occasional cor
respondent. Later in the book we find this
editor in the midst of a third editorial article
of the day-the other two lying on his desk,
cooling. Now the leading writer of a news.
paper DOESN'T reel OH aDl0 editorials In any
such wholesale manner. He has some mod
esty about him-and consideration for his read
ers. Again we find this remarkable editor
jestiDg lightly over the loss of five hundred
dollar watch and some two or three hundred
dollars In ready cash. This is the baldest kind
of fiction. 1t is barely possible that an editor
might jest over the loss of that amount of prop
erty; but the loss of it implies former possess
ion Of it-a situation which none but the
most audacious purveyor of fiction would
think of embodying in a story illustrative of
real life. Throughout tho book we find this
editorial husband of that wife talking in the
language of scholarly leaders and sarcastic
squibs; whereas nine editors wives out of a
possible ten will reluctantly admit that
they ara puzzled to understand what there
is in the atmosphere of an editorial
room to give even a fair degree of brilliancy to
the thoughts of one who is so conspicuously
stupid and commonplace at home. Perhaps
there will sometime arise a playwright or q
book writer who shall introduce in his play or
book character bearing some slight resem-
blance to the flesh and blood editor. And IL
there does the public will behold or read about
a character who. instead of talking 10 loud
tones dealing in sarcasm and wit with enviable
ease. wearing his hair on tiptoe and staring
wildly at everybody will be a very common
place sort of chap whose chief character
istic will be evident feeling of awkwardness at
being go far away from his desk.
The Portland daily press., 1877-12-17

THE Texas difficulty seems to be little more
than squabble over disputed land tides. The
squatters refuse to recognize the old Spanish
grants.
The Portland daily press., 1877-12-17

SERvIA has at last declared war against
Turkey. This is the ass's kick indeed.