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The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-12-07
RELIGIOUS CHIPS.

NN'''NNS Va WV i@pi'N'HNl SHultll IO'
day,
Father Hogan will conduct services in
st. Josephs church
There will be services in St. Patrck's
church to-day, conducted by Father Mas,
terson.
Services will be conducted at the usual
hours to-day in the Lutheran church, by
Rev. Knappc
M -Rev. Mr., Faris Of Anna is in the city
and will officiatc for Rev. George in the
Presbyterian church at the forenoon SER
vices. Services in the evening Us usual.
Rev. Whitaker will conduct the
services in the morning, afternoon and even
ing at the Methodist church to-day, A
cordial invitation is extended to all
Go to church to-day and take your
wife, brothers, sisters, cousins and aunts
and your mother-iu-law, oo,for that matter
And don't you forget it,
Rev, Bradley, the colorcd minister, is
hard at work at rebuilding his church
which was demolished by the storm, and
in the language of Rev, Shores, "is build
ing 'er right up like man.
The African Methodist congregation
will hold services in the old Turner hall
this forenoon, and in the Christian church
in the afternoon. So we are informed by
Elder Perkins.
Since music is said to exert gcncr-
ally good and religious influence, why does
not the playing of the ComiQue band on
our streets daily have beneficial effect
We pause for a reply from some phiosc-
phic mind
DIR. Dunning is a good looking, and
bigger man than We are, but we venture
the remark for all that, that our ministers
should pray for him to-day. lie needs it.
He is a sinner. In fact, he is IN favor Of
dancing and said 50 much, in his arch way.
at the Reform Hall Friday night and car
ried his point. Ii our ministers won't
pray for him, we shall consider it our duty
to do the job ourselt. We are determined
he shall be prayed for,
A bright thought strikes US, Let our
police officers, to man, attend church to-
day, We can't persuade ourselves to be.
lieyc that they do not need the good in.
hucnce which would there surround
them--in lact-but, we won't say ii.
Gong to church, We have often
been told, will make them good men but
poor officers, hut We won't believe this.
Let our infdels turn out to-day. In
fact let everybody turn out, but our infdels
especially, and fill our churches. Who are
they and where have they been all this
time: Let them not be. as Denton says
the Christians are; Like prisoner with
a window 10 the north who .wc,rs ,boro !.
no moon" bu, let them open window on
the Christian side and take a Ii,tle Of fine
CHRISTIAN liSht'
TIE BULLETIN d,irino fine venerable
and Honorable .Jpo. II, OborIy's MANAGE.
mept was Justly STYLED, "tho GREAT RELIGIONS
ORGAN If southern Illinois This tito :,
has zcolouslv Guarded cvcr since and s,il
insist. ON rotoinino Tur pr,,vr,x i lilo
fine Riblc Il finds no,hirg mora oos, ,ho,
to tolI and tn,ch ,bo trr, ro,h,,a co,,os
mara no,rrol ,oit T. hows 20 ,,o liro o,a
lct. fine chin. fall whore tbov may
'o' S"'ooH NccPclN a'c ho'' aS Is sup
Po''" ny 100 many All immoral men
i"c'' O"'''lcss Is Pecui'"f anu Tue puphc
uc'''o"" o''eh cohiPc!' SOME oi incl" 20
Keep open Oh sunday $ bu' tIlIs Is not 10
'hc point W 'I"' we 'n'cnucu 10 say was
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-12-07
WE HAVE on HAND.

lo0 pains l0X4 White Blankets. which we
will sell for :? 90 per PAR.
j, Burger.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-03-27
Life on the Frontier of India.

AS the road approached Peshawar,
which stands in the trough Of pre-his-
toric lake, the character Of the adjacent
scene altered. The ground of the lakes
bed is fertile Crops waved in the sun
shine. The pleased eye rested upon YER
liable grass. Thick clumps of foliage
and bushy trees studded the plain and
girdled the cultivated clearings. Vii
lagos were frequent; but not the strag
Cling villages Of Lower India, through
whose frail wicker huts and incl osures a
resolute OK might charge unobstructed,
but compact villages, with substantial
habitations Of thick plastered mud, sur
rounded with mud walls which had at
least the aspect Of some strength. From
the long faces of those mud walls rude
loopholes looked out, through which in
times still recent the muzzles OF match
locks and jezails have grimly warned oft
unwelcome approachers. The people,
too, differed in aspect from the people
Of the plain country. They were more
warmly clad; they saalked with longer
and freer strides, as if used to climb
ascents springily; they carried their
heads high, and their eyes met yours
straight, with certain pride Of equal
manliness-at times. as it seemed to me,
with glance of covert defiance. This
new race was certainly not IA comely fea-
tuMd race, but every face was full Of
character. The deepset eyes glowered
out from under knotted foreheads,
fringed with thick black eyebrows the
huge nose of exaggerated Arab, rather
than Of European Jewish type, overhung
the thick mustache, and doomed so large
that some faces seemed all nose; the
mouth always large, often immense, yet
never faced the lips thick, yet firm and
closing tightly when in repose the
teeth strong, white, and showing with a
flash when the great mouth opened the
lean, yet square chin, covered with hair,
sometimes thin and black, oftener bushy
and dyed a peculiar bronze color. The
people seemed to have masterful mus
cularity, both Of character and Of frame,
such as I had observed hitherto in no
Indian race, and witha q certain sugges-
ton of ruthlesmess in their aspect that
somehow grew upon one without any
conscious mental process. There was a
steadfast fellness in the grim smile, with
its CLEAN of lurid eye and flash Of white
teeth; that made one instinctively glance
down TO the girdle in quest Of poinards
and daggers. A ready handed, relent-
less, c,uel-hearted race, to all seeming,
hot to anger, and reckless in their anger
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-03-27
Esthetic Filtration.

The lexicon says the word Irritation
signifies playing at oourtship," but in
the cultivated circles, where leisure and
opportunity are most abundant for this
sort of amusement, it is doubtful if such
Specification can now be applied to it
with anything like accuracy. Filtration
is quite distinct from coQuetiy, both in
the minds and intentions Of those who
possess any substantial claim to elevation
of character.
The sole basis or spring from which
those conversations generally termed
firtations arise, il quite as often AS
otherwise, simply q desire to afford
pleasure to Others 1t takes the form of
graceful courtesies gracefully extended,
or graceful discussions all the more
elegantly and brightly expressed because
two persons happen to possess certain
potent mental qualities which compel
from each other fairer, finer and
cleverer thought, than either OF them
could have formulated and expressed to
another person of a duller or perhaps
only a dissimilar quality Of intellect.
That is all The less witty world look
ing on without an incisive vision, and
possibly with malicious tendencies, or
perhaps igloble purposes, either whispers
orperhaps cries out, Irritation, filtration"
and the very key OF the shout transforms
the most innocent and really eleyating
expressions of kindly speech into a
miserere, or perhaps into a death chant
to all social pleasures. If it does not
uproot peace and happiness altogether,
and wither them beyond a possibility OF
resuscitation, thanks be to a better in
telligence that has lately sprung into life
in our best society.
Ii only some new world could Ike
ordained for this sort Of charming sparkle
OF talk between gentlemen and ladies so
that its old sound could be utterly for
gotten beyond the possibility Of rousing
its faintest and dulest echo; and there
could be absolutely nothing left 10 re-
mind one of the miscries which the IN
charitable have wrought by just utte,ing
! its taboo, the best of men and women
would be glad.
An insinuating grace and kindness Of
manner, and an evident intention OF be-
| slowing enjoyment, is called Irritation,
and that, too, in its degrading sense,
when it is offered by woman to a man,
or by man to a woman, but how differ
ent the judgment when it is displayed
by o woman to women.-Homc Journal.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-03-27
Miss Wharton's Pie.

Miss Margaret Wharton was lady Of
good family and large fortune. She was
one of the Whartons of SHELTON Castle,
cleveland, and possessed .f2OO,O 900, half
of which she gave to nephew. She
was well known in Scarborough, where
she used to send out for 81 pennyworth
of cream" and ~ pennyworth of straw
berries" always paying her penny down.
From this little popularity she became
known as Peg Pennyworth. On one oc-
casion while in Scarborough, she had a
meat-pie made; it was very large, as it
was for herself, some visitors, and
the servants She ordered her
footman to take it out to the bake-house.
He refused, saying it was not consist
ent with his dignity to he seen dressed
in plush and tags, carrying meat pie.
Mistress Peg then desired the coachman
to take it but he also declined. "Bring
out the carriage" was the command.
The carriage was harnessed, the coach
man donned his powdered wig, and
mounted the box; the footman assembled
behind, and Mistress Margaret Wharton,
sitting in state in the carriage, bore the
meat-pie in her lap Drive to the bake
house p WAS her command. In An hour
or two. the same state being observed,
the pie was brought back. "Now," she
said to the goodman, "you have kept
your place, which is to drive; and you"
turning to the footman, shave kept
yours, which is to wait and now we
will all have some Of the p;e."-Cham-
bers' Journal.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-03-27
The Worlds End.

Two miles from Fair Haven, across
the line, in Hampton, We found the old
residence of Prophet Miller, who fore
told that the world would come to an
end in 1S48. The place has passed out
Of the hands Of the family, but one son
lives near 10y and a number of grand
children. The Adventists, as they are
called, now have & small chapel on the
old farm, in which services are some
times held-whenever q stray preacher
comes along. The old Baptist church
which stood near by thirty years ago,
and which all of the AIillers formerly
attended, has been pulled down. A
plain arble shaft marks the prophets
grave in cemetery near by. He died
in the Winter of lS49, and we attended
his funeral Hines of Boston preached
the sermon, which was more then two
hours long, in the Congregational church
at Fair Haven. He began by saying
"l ought to be with yonder mourners,
for am one." Himes at that time
published an Advent journal, but we
are told he has since apostatized. He
was a talented man. Mrs. Miller out
lived her husband. We attended Il we'd
ding after her husbands death, where
she was present, and found her to be
pleasant and activelady. The ceremony
was performed by William Miller, the
prophets oldest son. The happy couple
were "horned' until u basket OF dough
nuts and pitcher Of cider were passed
around, when the musicians, who had
made an hour at least hideous, went
away. This was late in the Winter of
1850. The Adventists are still looking
for the coming of Christ at no distant
day, but as the days 60 by without a re-
.alization of their faith, it grows less and
so does the number of its adherents.
There are only enough now in all the
towns around the old home of the
prophet to ill the small chapel A few
sleigh tracks told Of meeting since the
storm. There are no sheds attached to
it. The old beech grove has almost all
been cut away, aud this to us was typ
ical of the speedy decay Of the whole
Thirty years ago it was beautiful and
vigorous. There was the old school
house where we had eleven hoys big
enough to pitch us out Of doors. We
went in. The teacher had but handful
Of small boys, but the blackboard and
stove made us welcome. 1t seemed as
if we could carry the school house away
in our vest pocket. Where were our
scholars ? Dead, married, gone-a few
left.-Troy Times Letter.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-03-27
Cushlng's Working Power

Caleb Gushing was one Of the most ex-
traordinary men Of this age, for this rea-
son He had memory probably IN
equaled dy any man now alive. He
could read sixteen hours every day for
month, and never forget an important
fact obtained in that time, and this fac
ulty made him the protoundest authority
on Federal law in this country. His
memory and his power OF work were
the secrets of his success. As an illus
tration OF this the following snecodo-e is
told: In 1888, or ,hereabout he was
appointed Chief Justice OF the Supreme
Bench o! Massachusetts He was out
practice and 10 USE MS own words. very
rusty )" He Sc, 10 work however, and
in nineteen days had read sixty volumes
on difteren: laws questions Of preced-
en., laws OF contracts, laws exchange,
etc. Abou, seventeen volumes were
devoted TO Massachusetts law twice Us
many more were made up of reports,
and he reading was altogether extrem-
ely varied Now f0r an example OF his
power o. work: Between the ages OF
twenyseven and fifty four he never new
wha, il was 10 be sick. He was accus-
toned in Washington 10 sc; TO work in
the morning a. five O'Clock and labor
tremendously through meal houres, and
and without taking rest, until eleven
O'Clock a. n'gh,. Then he would smoke
a cigar, ge. into bed and read history un-
I'll he fell asleep. In one winter he FIN
ished in this manner thirteen octave VOL
umes OF scientific trave, and recen, his
tory. While Attorney General he would
have his meals brought to him and laid
or his writing desk. His custom often
was TO ca, the entire meal without look
ing a, i. or resting from his work. Fri
ends or business associates dunng the
time when he was trying TO adjust the
Hudson Bay Company's claims, and Of
ten on ordinary occasions, would find
him buried in writing paper or law books
at four o'clock in the morning. he having
been at his desk for twenty three hours
without rest.-Boston Herald.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-03-27
When a Woman VIII She Will

The Rome IN. W Sentinel has a
curious story about married couple in
Springfield. 1t says: when a Mas
sachusetts woman forms habit it is all
a waste OF time for her husband to try
to break her Of it. Well knowing his
wife's disposition to make him present
regularly at the anniversary CT his birth
day, a citizen of the Bay State, who like
wise forcibly realized the fact that
economy was an absolute necessity in
the household, said to his wife: This year
YOU must not undertake to make me a
present, insist. 1t would be absurd to
do 80 at this time, when We need every
thing we can rake and scrape. give
YOU fair notite that if you do carryeput
your former custom this year, l will
burn up the present as surely as you
make IT, So the wife bethought her
self. She could not bear the idea OF
being deprived Of her annual pleasure.
Therefore she gathered together her
dimes and bought her dearly beloved, as
birthday present, ton Of coal.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-03-27
Theories Regarding a Fire.

The other day when house on Fifth
fremen in Il damaged condition, they
set about trying to discover the cause
Of the accident, and in so doing ques-
toned various inmates of the family.
The head of the house had his theory
alreody.
at is my opinion he began, ''that
some enemy of mine has climbed to the
roof and emptied Goals on the shingles"
The idea was laughed at and the wife
said:
"Well, there was IL amp up stairs,
but it was not lighted. Now, if the rats
go. hold Of matches and tried to light
that lamp, they Just as quick throw q
lighted match or the bed as TO blow it
out. don't say they set the house afire
on purpose, but You know how careless
rats are.
That theory didn't hold with the fire
men, and the oldest daughter was called
upon.
81 expect it was spontaneous COM
bustion," she began. "You see in my
loom up stairs, where the fire broke out,
there was q hole in the chimney. ]
didn't like the smoke coming in my
room and SO | stuffed the hole full of
straw. 1t may be that the straw, the
mortar and the bricks caused spontane-
Gus combustion.
The firemen were about TO accept her
theory when the small boy of the family
came up and said:
Il know all about it. We see, Bill
Smith he was on the shed a-heavin'
snow balls at dogs. Tom, tie Teller
with one arm, was in the barn playin'
with my goat. That Turner gal she was
on the fence out there calm us names,
and her mother had the clothes line and
was tIyin' to lssso stick of wood off a
wagon in the alley went down cellar
to see if my mud-turtle had got away,
and was jest tryin' to set the cat on
him when | heard father fall down
stairs and mother gave a yell, and that's
how the house got atire. and now | won't
have TO 60 to school for six weeks.--De-
troit Free Press.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-03-27
A Printers Blunder.

Napoleon II is one Of the iaintest OF fg-
ures in French history In poin, OF fact he
never reigned and was never recognized
BY that title save once by the executive
committee OF the chambers before the &C
cession of Louis XVIIl He was known
as the King Of Rome and la,,erly as The
Duke Of Reichs,ad.. His life, after the
six years o! royal babyhood in the Tu,ler-
les. was spent IN Austria with his moth
er's amily. In 1882, at the age Of al, he
died a, Schonburn, many said Of poison
A weak and efemina,e creature, i,
was absurd to give him place among the
reigning monarchs Of France. When the
Second Empire was established many
wondered at the title assumed by the
Emperor Napoleon Ill' |, was ex
planned then tina, he desired TO be
considered sovereign BY legitimate
he,edi,y and had thus recognized the
claim OF his cousin, as that OF the poor
Prince in the temple was recognized by
the Bourbons after the restoration. But
it appears now, upon the authority Of the
h;s,oi ian kingake, that the intention Of
Lous Napoleon was 10 call himself SNIP
" Napoleon, and that printers blunder
was responsible for the change. Just
before The coup de,at a Minister Of the
home Office, busy preparing provincial
sentiment wrote :"Que lie mot d'ordre
sol, Vive Napolian II" The printer
took the ordinations for " Ill, and so
the proclamation went out, was copied
by the press and incorporated in public
speech. Il was NO time for explanations
and soeshe nephew Of his uncle adopted
tn title
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-03-27
Incorruptible Omcials.

From Through Asiatic Turkey" we
learn that some of the higher Turkish
officers have proved themselves perfectly
incorruptible. Midhat Pasha, when APP
pointed Grand Vizier. was so low in
money after years of othceholding that
he employed a confidential agent to sell
a very valuable watch and chain he
possessed. The person to whom it was
offered recognized it, purchased it, and
on Midha,s departure sent it to him,
begging HIM to accept it as mark of
esteem. Another instance in point is
furnished -Ahmed Vofyk Pasha, who
after holding many high administrative
posts, including that Of Grand Vizier,
now lives in little wooden cottage on
the Bosphorus.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-03-27
sylvester Scott, the Bear Hunter.

"A Sonoma County California; ex
change says: Thomas Porter tells us
that Sylvester Scott visited his Buckeye
ranch one week ago lost Friday, and
that up to that time on single hunt
he had killed thirteen bears and one
panther. Mr.. Scott is the most success
full bear hunter in California, and his
fame has gone forth far beyond the
State of his adoption. A hunt with
Scott on the trail of hruin is all event
of interest in the life of the most expe-
rienced sportsman. Mr. Scott is a
farmer and stock raiser, and quite a
character in his way. He is and old
settler in Sonoma, having raised family
on a ranch in the mountains. Although
about 40 years of age, he has done his
share in retaining and populating the
wilderness. He and two Of his neigh
bors have built school house for their
district and furnished its census
roll, which comprises .39 chill
dren. SCOTS contribution is four
teen. He and his boys, by their own
labor, have fenced his rancho, comprising
in one tract 1000 acres. During the
Winter months Scott always INDUCES
his passion for bear hunting. He has a
pack of twenty-five trained hounds, and
when he starts on the trail he scOurs the
mountains for miles about his stock,
until not trace Of the presence Of a live
bear can be found. A campaign fire.
quently lasts for a month, seldom less
than ten days or fortnight, and rarely
results in the killing of less than dozen
bears. Scott is most remarkable pc
destrian. Put OLeary or Weston be-
side him on a trail of bear in the hills
and he will walk their legs of, and break
every bone in their body in day. He
always goes on foot, keeps up with the
hounds, and is on hand to close with
bruin as soon as the dogs bay him. How
he gets over the ground 10 fast is a
mystery, and how he glides down rocky
and precipitous desents, as he does avery
day when on the trail, without ever
being injured is wonder to his COM
panions. A couple Of English tourists
accompanied him on his last hunt. On
their return they were loud in their ad-
miration and wonder, one of them de-
claring that in following a sportsman's
bent around the world he had never met
such another hunter, nor experienced
such exciting sport elsewhere.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-03-27
Cattle Trade with Great Britain

The Alta California has the follow
ing: 1t is felt in England that the
prohibition of the importation Of Amer
lean cattle into that country would be a
great misfortune to the thousands who
would thus I've deprived of meat at a
reasonable or cheap rate. If there should
be good and sufficient cause for such pro-
hibition, no one has any right to com
plain. Sir George Campbell was to have
moved OH Tuesday afternoon motion
to the effect that a summary prohibition
of the importation of American cattle
would deprive the people Of having cheap
meat 1t is well known that people de
penden. upon small salaries or day wages
could not afford to buy much meat at the
price held for British-fed and fattened
beef previous to the Importation of
American cattle That trade has grown
rapidly, and has proved a great blessing
to the many of the British population,
as we'll as furnishing 4 profitable
employment for many steamships,
and remInerative market for
cattle men. But naturally the
British authorities, who usually have
some care for the health of the public,
fear the introduction Of diseased cattle.
They cannot be blamed for their pre-
caution, if well founded on the fear of
danger. AS human nature exists it is
only safe to assume that some men en-
gagged in the business would not hesitate
to sell, ship, transport and put on the
British market diseased cattle, knowing
them to be sucls provided they could see
a good opportunity to do SO with impu
punity. The best way to prevent such
q course would seem to be to give suf
tcient authority to some department, of
orr government TO establish a rigid pre-
cautionary Examining Commission for
ascertaining the health Of the cattle be-
fore they leave our shores, none to be
allowed to go on board ship unless per
fectly healthy. Such authority is to be
asked of Congress bv Secretary Shei-
man, and it will probably he granted.
1t is duty which the government owes
to the authorities and people Of Great
Britain, as well as TO the people Of
America engaged in the traffic, to the
ship-owners, cattle-traders and raiscis,
and to the good name of our country
A little poem in an exchange, signed
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-03-27

III curse the hour We were married.
exclaimed an enraged husband to his
better-half. To which she mildly re
piled: "Don't my dear, for that was
The only happy hour We have ever seen
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-03-27

With all thy false love still, muir
INJURED young man as he calmly handed
his girl the artificial teeth that she had
sneezed into his lap.