The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-08-12

''on' Vi iesiuehces that they may feed their
horses in the shade of the trees, is extreme.
ly annoying, and should be stopped. II
not unfrequently happens that the horses,
detached from the wagon, are lett alone, for
hours. Becoming alarmed at some unusual
sight on the streets, they rear and plunge
until they break their fastenings, or are
quoted down bylpassing strangers. The
limbs and lives of children that may be
playing In the shade, are
endangered, and all this
that the owner Of the team may save the
five or ten cents charged at the wagon
yards, or be saved the trouble of driving
to the commons. III any event the street
and sidewalk are left covered with straw,
corn cobS and animal excrescence which
the owner of the abutting property is com
PEELED to clean away If we have no or
dinance forbidding such a use OF the streets
under our public shade trees, the council
should pass one as soon as it can be put
through the prescribed routine.
Sunday evening last, one Of the Hi
nois Central employees left his house and
repaired to the round house, leaving his
wife, who was somewhat indisposed, lying
on the bed. He had been gone but short
time until strange negro, Il great muscu-
lar fellow, walked into the room where the
wife was lying, approached the looking
glass, took survey OF himself therein, and
then turning on his heel, approached the
bed. you don't appear to be very well, "
he remarked: Let me"-but he didn't
finish the sentence Quick as thought the
brave woman seized bludgeon, and han
died it so adroitly that the black intruder
was glad to make himself scarce. As he
left the house he placed his hand upon the
door knob, and the blow that hand received
seemed to crush every bone in it. To all of
which we say well and brayely done"
If all unprotected women could and would
defend themselves with like spirit, tramp
Ing vagabonds and others who enter other
peoples homes unbidden, would, in most
instances, have care to first find out that
"the old woman wasn't at home"
1t might be enough to say of Harper's
Magazine for September, that it is up to the
Harper standard, but 1t has peculiar fea-
lures especially deserving of particular no
tice. Among the most novel and interest
ing of these Is the ghost story by Howard
Pyle, with eight illustrations drawn by the
author. The story has something of that
charm which made Irying's tales 50 fasci-
mating, and the pictures are among the
very best examples Of character sketches
as fine as they are striking. Not less strik-
ing, though Of more stately order, are Mr..
Remnants admirable pictures illustrating
Mrs. CHAMPSEy's Newport Society in the
last Century" The article Is one of unusual
interest, relating to the period when the
French officers ochambeau, and others
made this garrison town their favorite re-
sort Lucy LARCoM's spirited lyric, My
Mariner" Is accompanied by an equally
spirited illustration by Fredercks. But we
needn't enumerate further. If you arenot
irregular reader Of Harper, buy the number
for September. 1t will give you an ex-
Cellent idea of what it takes to constitute
a Harper's New Monthly Magazine.
The quarantine is effective in keeping
tramps out Of Cairo, however faulty it may
be otherwise. While those points lying
within the yellow fever zone are not throng-
ed with such vagabonds during hot weather.
tits true, nevertheless, that ouI quarantine
not only led to the expulsion of a number
from our midst, but has kept very consid-
cradle number out. But what we gain in
this particular, operates in like degree to
the disadvantage of others. All of our ex-
changes, and especially those that are pub
ished IN the country towns north, complain
of the increased numbers and audacity of
itincrant vagabonds. In those States where
the Legislatures failed to enact tramp
laws" the country people are kept in con
slant dread, and robberies, acts of incen-
diarsm, rape and murder are Of every day
occurrence. A late telegram from New
York says that in New Jersey the Pennsyl-
vania road has prison car, into which
tramps are thrown when they are caught
along the route trying to steal rides on
freight trains. They are then taken to
some town, where they are sent to work
house and forced to work for the summer
for the benefit of the community upon
which they tried to prey. 1t is only
through extreme measures of this charac.
ter that the country can rid itself Of the