The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-06-22
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III TIC STauu oiu uays VI simplicity anu
innocence there was sameness in the lives
of men, harmony that kept all relations
smooth and pleasant. But with increase
of knowledge came increase Of wants, and
with strains to satisfy these discordant elc-
ments came the Sharps and Flats. First
they appear only as restorers Of harmony,
then as necessary elements in the general
composition Of society.
Seeking to enlarge the different strains
which make up the music of life, we find
first, the Sharps, or those people who are
always astonishing the world, with their
great deeds and works. These are the
men we believe in and reverence, for it is
natural and necessary to believe in great
men.
Emerson says, ''If the companions of our
childhood, should turn out to be heroes,
and their condition regal, it would not sur
| prise us in the least"
The search after the great is the bright.
est dream Of youth, and the most serious
occupation of manhood.
But we find the Sharps in common life.
They are those people who are always
hurrying and driving through the world as
if what they tailed to do never could be
done by any possibility by any one
else.
They are the people who cannot under
stand how anything can be accomplished
without fuss, and who have not a particle
of patience with Others who may see the
obvious impracticability of setting the
world to rights, in ones short lifetime.
But they soon waste and exhaust the
powers of life, and dry up the very sources
Of true happiness. And when they near
| the banks of the river Of death, they will
look back in utter establishment at the
! little they have accomplished.
Sharps abound in all the departments
of life. In the literary world we have
men of considerable intellectual ability,
who furnish most Of the spice Of literature.
Most Of the editors of our daily papers
are good examples of this class. What a
reputation they have! They are sort of
mental reservoir, that may burst upon you
and overwhelm you at any moment.
Then we have Sharps among our poll
ticians, who are tougher than India-rubber,
and whose consciences are much more
elastic.
Even the ministry has its share of men
who are always keeping their respective
denominations in hot water, by trying to
create sensation by the PRONUNCIATION of
heretical doctrines, or the use of questiona-
BILE measures to increase their own fame.
If the bodies of some of these men were
as crooked as their minds, they would be
able TO ride on their own backs.
And now, for fear of having our opera all
in Sharps, let us look for the Flats.
We have heard the crash of the orchcs.
ira, in the political and religious wars, and
the different instruments in the different
classes of Sharps, but, as it has all been in
the higher keys, let us change the key and
seek more mellow strain.
Some one has said, the best recipe for
going through the world in an exquisite
way, is to feel that every one, no matter
how rich or poor, needs all the kindness he
can get from Others, in the world, and in
this way the Flats, or the really good peo-
pie, in the world, are trying to live. We
, have illustrated our Sharps by great men,
Il but the truly great belong among the
Flats, that is, those undetermined men,
: who have sacrificed everything for the good
l OF others, for no other motive, save that of
t disinterested benevolence, could have
S prompted them. What a glory is shed
e around every action, evncing such an en-
y tire denunciation of self What dignity
does 1t import, to the character of man,
to see one governed in all his conduct, by u
. principle so far removed from the sordid
: maxms and the policy Of selfish self
seeking world. Here is greatness which
G all must acknowledge and revere. Here Is
j found every element Of character, with
0 which true greatness, can be invested,
$ aud the solid foundation of the whole, is
$ that virtue which consists in love to God,
5 and love to man. These are the people
whose work is slow, sometimes almost i'm
perceptble, but as sure as the water, which
by constant flowing, wears away the hard-'
est rock. II is their mission on earth to
make life more pleasant, to calm the
troubled scenes Of war and conflict; they
are indeed the peace makers on earth.
| I'm every home there is some one whose
, duty it is to smooth the rough places Of
domestic life, and upon whose shoulders al.