The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1878-06-22
"SH00"- FLY.

club room last nlgnt was hu improvement
on the two preceding gatherings, and in
dictated that when the elements are not I'M
favorable there is no tagging in interest of
those who have the temperance cause at heart.
Before the formal opening of the meet
ing. Hold the Fort" and hymns IA and s
were given, Mr.. W. F. Mckee conducting
the musical exercises, with Miss Emma
James at the organ.
The quartettc, "Save the Boy" by Mrs
Stansbury, Miss Hattie Mckee, Mr., W. +.
Mckee and Col. Wood followed and its
rendition was applauded by the audience
yice-Pfesdent Wright announced the
opening of the meeting, and called upon
Rev. Mr.. Morrison to pray. That gentle
man responded in brief effort.
Mr.. Wright announced that there would
be business meeting one week from next
Tuesday and that the members of the Cold
Water Army were expected to be at the
club-room this afternoon by half-past three
o'clock.
Secretary Hawkins then read communi-
cation from the Mystic Krew inviting the
Reform Club as body to join with them
in celebrating the Fourth.
The matter gave rise to some discussion,
participated in by Messrs, P, W. Barclay,
Hawkins, Hely and Roberts. Finally Mr..
Hawkins made motion that the receipt
of the communication be acknowledged,
and while rendering TO the Krew the best
wishes of the Club for their success, it is
deemed inexpedient to accept the invitation.
This was adopted.
Mr.. Wright then introduced Rev. Mr.. Fly.
The card Of the evening.
But unlike Brother Ferguson, the rever-
end gentlC m ms reputation as an orator was
not heralded with any loud flourish of
trumpets; if it had been, and the truth told,
a ;wenty-acre field would not afford room
for his listeners. He was supposed to adj
dress himself to the subject of Temperance,
but that was quickly subordinated and soon
entirely lost sight Of in a contempla-
ton Of the plainness of Fly, Of
Flys virtues and Fly's failings. At
intervals he would suddenly jerk
himself back to the rock Of temperance,
dwell thereon a minute, and then fly to
Hepsidam and to Fly. He is unique. He
stands out a bold, solitary figure in the
realms Of oratoy; without intending it, he
is the soul Of burlesquc; his FIGHTS Of e!o-
qucnce would m.ye cynic to mirth and
an ordinary mortal to the laughter Of tears
His apostrophc to the beautiful, tall flow
or, that stOod-whcrc" his delicate ref
erencc to that kind Of a llepsidam animal
that required boring the ancient and famil-
lar character of his anecdotes; his visit to
our beautiful city, which he was already
aware was surrounded by water" were all
gems in their way.
In opening his remarks he alluded to the
army Of temperance orators, to be found
scattered in every village and hamlet in the
land; how highly favored we, Of the
beautiful city Of Cairo, had been in this re-
spcct; he did not propose to say Uything
new and then entered into disqusition on
ncwncss in general, bringing Solomon and
the sun in to rescue himself from an
awkward illustration; he apoogized for in
duiging in few remarks about Fly; he
next laid down the original pro
position that intcmpcranCc was productive
Of ignorance and vice; passing from this
he asked his hearers if they knew what d
miniature hell was, and proceeded to apollo.
gizc for being plain man Of plain talk
for said the speaker, II was raised in Mis-
| sissippi, and reckon you know that thOst
people have a habit of talking plain" attcl
Calculating hell, he gave his experience OF
a journey to conference in Tennessee
how he had fallen in with 10
Of fellows who loved the "critter;' how
the subject Of the Dcechcr scandal cam
up: and how those fellows had said that al
preachers should be hung by the neck; on
Fly attributed this expression Of opinion t
the use of bad whisky; from this he wen
on to allude TO the IIepsidam orators, am
denied any intention Of boring his auditors
but there was kind Of AN animal tina
needed boring, he said; his flow Of Ian
guagc and plainncss seemed to fail hin
here, for he evidently meant something els
and felt dcicacy about saying il
he then conveyed the supcrnuous informs
ton that he was Republican. He hope
'thc banner of liberty would wave over til
people Of this country and
Long may it wave
Ocrihc land Of the free
And the home Of the brave
This fairly thrilled the audience. II
then rccited the venerable anccdotc OF I'll
farmers, the ditch, the lawyers and the t"
fat geese, he WAS plain man, he SAT-
and didn't want any laurcls for speaking