The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-02-19
For the CARO- BUILETlS.
REFRESHING SUBJECT.

TREATED PROM A "DREAMER's' STANDPOINT
THE PERsoNEL or CAIRO TEMPERANCE
MEN-sUNDRY SUGGESTIONS, ETC.
Mr.. EDITOR Fascinating as was the al
dress of Mr.. Youngbiood; well delivered as
it undoubtedly was. and as full of interest
as il was to every one who heard it, i fell
on one pair OF ears that were. in measure,
deadened TO its eloquence and its beauties
one mind tina. was so devided between its
own undercurrent of thought and It's
efforts to keep up to the requisite standard
of conscienciou, appreciatiye listener, that
neither is own thoughts nor those of the
gentleman speaking were fully matured or
digested. Would your readers give "a
penny for my thoughts" think you. That
is. am assured, the intrinsic value Sc,
upon the thoughts of most women by
large proportion of their sterner brothers,
Here are some Of my thoughts as | sat
in that well lighted, observation-disclosures
pleasant hall. that evening: What a pleas
ant place this is what an intelligent, clean.
locking, orderly crowd What contrast
one cannot help drawing between the APP
pearance OF some OF these men, tonight,
sitting here 50 gentemanly and nice, TO
the appearance the same men made
less than two years ago. Why, de-
clare one would hardly know them for the
same men. | can actually count, sitting
right here, eleven men whom have seen,
over and over again, as drunk as lords,
with boards two weeks old; heads guiltlcss
of comb or brush: hands and faces hat set
one 70 calculating how long u time had
elapsed since they had known the touch Of
water shoes down at the heels boots I'M.
/ blackcned; coats fracd and buttonlcss: hats
/ banged and bruised and ragged, and most
/ unpleasant OF all to see were the counter
auces devoid Of intelligence, or lighted up
only by passions little less sickening to
look upon than vacuity itself would be, in
the human countcnance. What has
brought this change! Sure as am liv-
ing woman, If there isn't Mr. bright as
a button and clean as new pin. and his
wife is with him too Well, that DOES look
good, now;I never if it doesn't, Why,
I've known that woman more years than
like to remember, and her husband too,
and never saw her in a crowd before, in
my life; and never saw him look decent,
before / wonder if she is proud
Of him. The man, certain, has lovely
blue eyes. Strange never observed it be-
fore And his hair actually curls! Ny.
= What nice looking man old Mr. is!
And his wife positively looks younger to-
night. ! have always thought Of her as
old MIS-. What a bcautifer happi-
ness is wonder how many years it has
been since she sang a tune before, and here
she is, now, singing like everything. Her
voice is not very harmonious, but there GER
tainly is a glad kind otsound in it, Us il
she were light of heart and happy. There
is such u contcnted look about her, | cant
keep my eyes off of hcr--and she always
such depressed, sullcn looking woman,
too. What u wonderful change in so many
people see here, tonight. 1t must be
this temperance movement that has brought
it about; and who brought about the tenn
perancc movement DR.. Reynolds. And
how die he come to be here! Why, few
energetic gentlemen succeeded, by great
effort and much expenditure of time ant
means IN getting DR.. Reynolds here, and
he organized the red-ribbor
club and the white ribbon
club, and the childrcns' cold water army
of course; don't you remember! Ant
by the time lay disconnected thoughts hat
gotten the thing up to this point some un
usually pointed and emphatic sentence o
the gifted orator penetrated my prc-occu
pied brain, and drove all else from my mind
for the balance of the evening; but sine,
then have taken up the thread OF my
rambling thoughts again, and wovc it into
the following shape; Why should there