The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-03-09
For TnB CAIRO BULLETIN.
DREAMER DREAMS.

THAT EMBODlEs MUCH OF THE yIsI0NAY |
ANDsoMETHING OF THE PRACTICAL
The prejudice IN the minds Of many per-
sons against anything new, is only counter
balanced by the amount Of enthusiasm en-
tertained in the same minds for anything
old--for everything old-for the good old
times Of our ancestors, and their good old
customs and habits" for old pictures, old
china, old books and old houses, and--old
shoes. For this last mentioned aged article,
there is, even in the minds of an otherwise
liberal enough people, a very remarkable
prediction and preference exhibited.
Why is not easily understood by the indi-
vidual who is careful to secure shoe that
fits; for this reason, that the well.ftting
shoe is as comfortable in its palmy days
while yet new and beautiful as any number
of years OF hard wear and scuiiling around
can possibly make it. Unfortunate as it
may be deemed it is, nevertheless, true that
the larger number of earth's inhabitants are
so constituted that much Of the joy OF their
lives as well as their miseries are dependent
in great measure, upon trivaitics; even
smaller thingsthan the fit of shoe, Were
our minds are not overbalanced by secret
prejudces that we harbor and foster and
that so harbored and fostered grow with
our growth, and often, eer we our
selves, are fully aware of it, have
gained a strength beyond our own, we
might indeed, snap our fingers in the face
of little trouble, and keep ourselves for
ever braced up and fully prepared to en-
counter any great trial that might await US
on lifes journey, with strong sense of
security in the knowledge we possessed Of
the frmness of our Unborn strength
The one person in this world that no one
need envy, however seemingly happily that
person may be situated is the person who sees
not or heeds not the many sources around
him from which spring the little joys in life,
the little joys that poverty can not crush
out, that youth or old age has no power to
obliterate. The one person in this world
never to be envcd by any one, is the per-
son who is waiting for happiness. He is
the poorest Of Gods creatures who can not
find it in every day and hour. Did any
one ever know solitary soul on earth that
found happiness when happiness was the
one thing sought No, no! Happiness
can not be bought can not be sold; We can
not find it as We find material things, by
digging and delying or plotting and plan.
ing tor 1t; but We may, each and all of Us
have il, if we will but accept it as it comes
in the little things in life.
The one person in life whom we
may we'll envy is the per-
who accepts, with ready hand and grateful
heart, the tiny good things that come to
him. Who has not known, Of some time,
one Of those happy souls' The richest
Of all Gods chiIdren--and the wiseSt,
however, simple in worldly wisdom-thesc
people to whom no great JOY has ever come
and who expect no great joy to ever
come. These people who look up and are
glad of the light of the stars, when there is
no moon in their heaven. nor fret them
when their sun is risen, in constant appre-
hension Of the clouds that may rise and
obscure It. That cloud, that We all know,
Is tic darker for our approximations, and
that may, SITTER all, never core. But, who
that lives and has an eye For the trivial
things in life, aud care FOR the welfare of
his fellow kind can find happiness, however
happily disposed, if when she steps abroad
her artistic eye is assailed aud affronted
and though her eye her appreciative
sense of the fitness Of things Is outraged
her love Of an observance of the proptieties
shocked, and her moral senses reduced from
a state Of the strictest morality to a state
bordering closely upon the very verge of the
very immora' And all this by observing
as all may observe, that our ladies' young
and old, are subjected to the humiliating
appearance Of having been put under ar
rest the moment they set foot on our streets;
and Of being then and there in the custody
Of anything masculine that happens to be
the escort, and Of being at the
disadvantage the weaker party usually is
underin like circumstances namely: being
walked of to the calaboose, a reluctant
prisoner, If anything ever presents a more
perfect appearance of stubborn Woman II,
! the grasp Of determined officer man the
rear view Of one Of our ladies as stc ap-
pears when her lover or husband or friend
has grabbed her by the arm and walked her
off, fiat other thing must be Charley AFTER
when kc ~ compelled to call help to hold