The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1878-07-30
COL. WILL s. HAYS.
A LARGE CROWD OUT TO GREET THE EMINENT
BALLADIsT-T ERsONAL POINTS.

A LARGE CROWD OUT TO GREET THE EMINENT
BALLADIsT-TE Rs0NAL POINTS.
The reception given by the Re "orm clab
to Col. Will s. Hays last night was a sue
cess. 1t YVES largely attended and the pro-
gramme of exercises seemed to give salts
faction.
No. 8 on the club slip was given out Mr..
Mckee directing and Miss Emma James at
the organ. A solo--'What World was
sang by Miss Pitcher with organ accom-
paniment, and this was followed with aquar-
, tette--"Death is Thereby Misses Pitcher
and Phills and Messrs. Hacker and Mckee.
Little White Dunning then gave the
audience "Father is a Drunkardand Mother
is Dead, in that style familiar to frequent.
ers of the club and which never fails to
draw forth applause
DR.. Dunnng introduced Col. viii S.
Hays and spoke Of him as a gentleman who
had done more in aid Of the to Gperancc
cal Sc than any other man west of the
Allegheoies.
Tho Colonel, although past the meridian
of lie, still preserves some of the traces of
a former beauty. Upon the lapel of his
coat-the left lepei-he wore what is known
in good society as a button-hole bouquet. A
figure above the medium height, slightly
bent with age, appareled according
| to the latest DEGREES of fashion--even to the
chaste and becoming spotless tie, His hair
| and mustache presented model of tonsori-
al perFec Jon, every hair adjusted to its prop
er place and to a degree of nicely and har-
mony that must have inspired the most in
different in such matters with rapture. The
large, soft eye Of the colonel beamed good.
naturally yet shrewdly upon his auditors
and standing there, as he did, upon the
regulation Louisville foundaton--a very
large but shapely foot-he looked every inch
the man who writes the peoples ballads and
the river news of the Courier-Journal. The
Colonc delivered a unique address. 1t had
all the elements of really great effort, ard
only missed being such by incongruity-or
rather LET us say, by lack of arrangements as
to details. There was pathos; there We're
passages strong and eloquent; some humor
and great deal of wit lone or two anecdotes,
and if our memory serves U.s. a personal
reminiscerce. Separately considered, that
is apart from the effort as whole, these
features were all good. But where the
Colonel seems to miss it is in connec ing
these links. They did not hitch prop
erly; and after being once got to-
gcther there was apparent painful ten
dency of each separate link to make it
as uncomfortable for its companion as
possible, as il it wanted TO break away and |
soar (f We may use sucn an expression |
about Inks to a more cogenial atmos-
phere. Then there are the gestures Of the
orator. No man upon the platform can be
more graceful or possesses in larger de-
gree the eloquence that comes from a judi
c;ous use of the limbs and head. But while
the Colorel is thus blessed by nature he
seems to have the misfortune to inject his
gestures into the wrong place, or else fail to
use them at all. This is productive Of
awkwardness always, creating meriment
at times, it is true, but always marring the
finest flights Of the Colonel. His
English was deep well, I'M
defled in its way, and its lack of polish
and elegance was doubtless part Of the
speakers pan to give terseness and vigor to
his node of expression. But where shall
we look to find the diamond without blem-
ish the newspaper man without faut2 We
answer that we don't know;
and if Col. Hays did not came up
in every instance to the expec,s .iols
formed Of him, it must be attributed rather
to the excited fancy of those poor morta.s
who have only been permitted to admire
him at distance than to any lack on the
Colonel's part to fill the full measure Of an
orator, singer and an editor.
Wercgrct that our space forbids the pub
licatioa Of even synopsis of his remarks,
but those who had the good fortune to
hear him have doubtless treasured each
thought as it fell from his lips in their heart
Of hearts.
A song by quartette, ofwhich the Col
one was member, concluded the exercises
Of the evening.
MOTHERS will grow weary and sigh over