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The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-05-18
CHURCHES.


A FRICAN ". E.-Four;eeuth street. he'wec,9,
n Walnut and Cedar streets; services oaDDa'H -
r. N. and 20 p. tn; Sunday school l;5l p III
CHRISTIAN Eighteenth street; meeting SAB
\ bath 1899 ?. IN; preaching OCCASIONALLY
rUrRCH OF THE REDEEMER-tEFiscopaD
| Fourteenth street. Morning prayers 'sA3Os'll
i0.3J A. m: cycuiu. prayers, ~ J. NJ SApOAlH
tcAoo, a. m Rev - J, DiilouLee Rector
rIRsT MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH
i Preaching Ut 1870 a. m. p, NJ aud ~ 2. H.
sabbath school at 80 ?. N. Hc' i D. oA"''''
pastor.
r UruERAN-Thlr,e street; services SAN
/ bath II O. m and 13l y. H.; sunday rIAoo. VA
n. Rev DucrsgAucF, pastor
,IETHODIST-Cor Eighth aud Walug' streets
vi Preaching sabbath lu:5h O. N. and Z p. n
rrIygr meeting. "Wednesday iDj =. m; SILuA!
scto6l. 81. N. Rev. a. J. Morrison, pa,io'
DRESBYTERfAN- Eighth street; preaching on
| sabbath az II 90 8. %. and 40 p. NJ p!-!'.
meeting Wednesday AZ ,'j1 ?. m; NuhGa! sl-oo'
Gt8p. ~. Rev. i. Y. George pastor.
CECQND FREEWILL BAPTIST 49, Fi',eet'e
- street between Walnut aua CtlN sUe.''' --'
vices Sahhath AZ 3 and 1:sD p. 20.
ct. Joseph S-jRnmau Callolicl Corner cross
ana Walnut streets, services SNpHaiA lo'" a
n. SUNDAY school 90 > p. IN; Ncsp.F- p H. seq
vice. every day o. p. N.
C,T, PATRICK s. Roman Catholic Corner Ninth
- .,rtr, and Washington gycnGe; services San
na,h and lUa. m. Nyspcr- ?, m; sunday S,toG
% M. services every day 20 T. m, Rev + "aDs'
priest -
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-05-18
TINE TABLE.
r. R. TINE CARD AT CAIRO.

ILLINOIS CENTRAL Il r.
TRAINS ARRIVE, TRAINS pEPAET
MGiL...,......4;oj am. Mall. oa,m
Eyprcss,,,..,.2 900 pm. Express mann. 600 pm
CAIRO IL YINCENNESR K. X.
Nail,.."..... 1900 pm. Ma........ ....4aj am
CAIRO Il ST LOUIS r. X.
Express. ........... pm, Express ....... am
Accom- dallon...... pm. Accom- 'datOn..,..p pm
CHICAGO, ST LOUIS ANDNEW ORLEANS RI
Express ...,..ll:30 am, Express 3:Oop,m
Mail lO:3Op.m. MalI........ 800 AIN
c. A. IL T. RAILROAD
Texas express 2:iO am, Texas express .2l5p'n
Accommodate $3.50 IN.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-05-18
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY.
City Officers.

City Officers.
Mayor-N. b. Thistlewood.
Treasurcr-Edward DelOuia.
Cleyk-Deuui-. j, Foley.
Couusclor-Wm b. Gilbert.
Marshal-C D. AFTER.
Attoruey-William Hendricks,
Police Magstrate-J j. Bird.
BOARD or ALDERMEN.
First Wsrd-Wm. O'CallGhan, NJ. j. How.ey.
second WarG-Dayid T. Lincgar {. H. Wood
ward
Third Ward-W p. Wright Eghcrt Smith.
Fosrrn Ward-Charlcs o, Patier James hynaatol
Finh Ward-T. ". Halliday, Ernest Il. Petit.
County Officers.
ClrcuitJudcc-O. A. Harkcr.
Clfcuit Clerk. A. Reeves
Comfy Judge-R, :. NOcum.
County Clerks. J. liumm.
County Attornsy--W. G. Muikey. "A
County Treasurcr-A. j. Alden.
Shcrid-John Hodges.
Cof0uer-E. F.izgc-aiC. =, ..
County Commi-slouef--T W. HalAda! NJ '
Brown samuel Bricy.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-01-22
Lost in the Old Year.

1t is the custom, as we all know, with
business men and capitalists Of every sort,
to take stock of their goods with the
beginning of the year, to find how much
solid material they have for future opera
alions, what they have gained Since last
New Years day, and what they have lost
through carelessness or neglect. 1t is dull
work enough for most Of them jlst now.
But what if we should all begin to. day to
reckon up those intangible possessions
which are neither stocks nor money, to
find out how much we have let Slip from
us which we can never regain? What II
drcary business that would be! 1t is
singular, too, TO notice the kind Of losses
which wrench II man 5 soul hardest in the
remembrance. He is apt to console him
self for bankruptcy by cursing some other
man or the times; somebody's shoulders
besides his own can always be found to
carry the blame; sickness during the year
was forgotten rs soon rs health returned.
Even the dead whom we have laid 10 rest
we think of us waiting for Us in some bet
ter home than that to which they shall
never come again, but of the agony OF that
loss iu the grave is born higher hope than
we ever knew before.
| But the things which Il man in middle
or old age looks back upon with the impo
tent rage of remorse are the lost opportu.
mites; certain goods of life better thar
money, which his stupidity thrust away
when offered; the education which he
would not take, the want of which ha!
weakened him ut every step, the friend:
lost by neglect; the affection given to hin
ut his own irc.ide chilled and killed by
his cold indifference. Sometimes, if h,
belong to the higher order of men, he sees
too, the man he might have been if he
had been true to himself; the work fo
which he was fitted left undonc, that h
might make money; the kind words whicl
he never spoke; the brave high par
which he did not take among his fellows
the weak and erring and helpless whom
kind hand would have brought 10 lhei
Masters feet, but whom he passed by o
trampled under foot Reckoning Of thi
sort may he mada by ail of us lo.dly, i
We so choose.
We arc reminded of it by slrang
story told last summer by the crew Of
sailing vessel returning from Japan. he
reported that they We're driven out {
their course, and made an island. to tn
south Of the Samoan group, inhabited b
about thirty men and women, who, liitee
years before, had been shipwrccked on i
: they had made themselves homes, cult
waited the rich tropical ground, constructe
u rude form Of government, and wcI
; prosperous and happy. But they had II,
retained a single relic Of their past live
In the long storm which preceded the shil
wreck, they had thrown ovcrboard over,
thing but the barest necesSarie. The
had brought from the ship only cIolhe
Y tools and food Little nlementocs of wi
t and children, which seemed vllueess
f them then, were remembered niterwar,
with an agony of longing. If ha
5 only cried one woman, but II rag whit
! had worn in my old home," For lifUoc
years shut in on this volcanic island 1
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-01-22
THE RIVER TIME.

Obi wonderful stream Is that river Time
Asitruns throughthe realm of Tears,
With a faultless ryhlhm aud musical rhyme
Aud broader sweep, aud surge sublime,
Asitblends with the ocean OF years.
How the winters are drifting like lakes Of snow
And the summer Ike buds between.
And the years in the sheaf SO they come aud 90
On tho rivers breast with ebb AMI flow,
Asst gliles in the shadow and sheen.
There's a magical lsle up the Time,
Where the soltest airs are playing;
There's a cOudess sky, and a tropical cline,
And a song as sweet as a vesper chime,
And the Juues with the roses are staying.
The name Of this Isle Is the Long Ago,
And we bury our treasures there,
There are brows of hcauty and bosoms Of snow,
They are now heaps Of dust but we loved ther
There are tinbcts and tIesses orhair.
There are fragments cfsnns that nobody sings,
And part of An infant prayer,
There's q Lutte unswep and Il harp without string
There are broken vows and pieces of rings,
And the garments she used to wear.
There are hands that are waved wien the fair
shore
BY the mirage is lifted to air,
And we s?netmes hear through the tmbuIen
roar
Sweet voices we heard IN the days gone before
When the wind down the river Is 'air.
Ont rcu embeled for aye be that blessed Isle,
All the days of our life till night,
When the evening comes with its beautiful smile
And our eyes are clio -ing to slumber awhile,
MAY that Gleeuwool Of soll lie in sight.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-01-22
A ParniciOus Error Corrected.

1t is too true that in effect, If not in the
ory, society prescrihes one standard for
young men, and another for young women.
Lapses into evil behavior on the part of
the first are soon pardoned, or easily con-
doned, while the slightest oilenses of the
second are considered to be without cX-
cuse. Yet how must it be in God's sight?
If u woman must be from early girlhood
clean of heart and life, truthful, honest,
temperate, and faithful to IL lofty ideal OF
purity, should II man be less So? 1t is only
Sir Galahad who can say " My strength is
as the strength of ten, because my heart is
pure" Humility, modesty, manly
straightforwardness Il high sense Of hon
or, true sef-rcspect and u loyal looking
upward to God are essential to the making
up of Il good man, us we'll us to that of a
good woman.
A man should offer TO his bride, rs some
security for their united happiness, the
same qualities which he desires in her
Good temper, freedom from vice, sunny
and open. hearted faith in Col are ncedful
10 husbands as well rs to wives.
The too prevalent idea is that a man
may indulge in courses of dissipation
waste, like the prodigal son, his substance
in riotous living, and then bring the dregs
of his worn-out youth to some lovely girl
and be reformed and rebuilt ut her eX.
pense. Never was there more perniciou>
error, never one which spread farther and
duo deeper in its fatal results. Women
the queens of home and of society, ar(
greatly to blame for the existence of sucl
Il theory, and for the possibility Of sucl
sacrifices. They should equally train theil
sons, rs they do their daughters, from thl
very beginning, TO be delicate minded
self-restraining, and noble in conduct
They should refuse to let their sweet, in
nocent girls associate with men dissolute
depraved and vile, though their sins b,
CLOSED over with superficial refinement
or hidden by the glamour Of wealth
Many woman has borne II breaking
heart though the fair rooms Of palatla
home, when she might, had she been trul,
mated, have possessed happy one in ;
bare and simple cottage. If II man rcall,
love woman, he will not object to rc
forming himself before he marries her
and to undergoing term of probation
long enough to prove that the change il
deeper than the surface.
No reform of conduct is vital, it shoul,
be remembered, which does not sprin;
from true repentance and humility befor
God. Only divine grace ever saves tn
; drunkard, Wlely love has been prove
inadequate II hundred thousand times
: Parental love has not been strong enoug
to do it. The one hope and refuge 70
diseased and discouraged humanity is nc
in woman's love but in ChriSl'S out
stretched hand.-Chrjstidn at Work.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-01-22

In point of intelligence the cat has been
often unfnvorably compared with the dog ;
and yet it can be shown that pusS is capa-
bic of much natural ability. Thus DR..
Smellie tells ola cat that had learned to
lift the latch of u door; and other tales
have been related of cats that have been
taught TO ring bell by hanging to the
bell-rope; and this anecdote is related by
the ilustrious sam Slick of Slickville. 1t
occurred several times that his servant
enteredIthe library without having been
summoned by his master, and in all these
cases the domestic was quite sure he had
heard the bell Great wonderment WAS
caused by this, and the servant began to
suspect that the house was haunted. 1t
was ut length noticed that on all these
mysterious occasions the cat entered with
the servant. She was therefore watched; ;
and it was soon perceived that when she
found the library door shut against her,
she jumped on to the windowsill and
thence sprang at the bell.
Cats do not like being transplanted from
one place to another, rs the following
anecdote will show. A family named
Sbuker lived at Dawlcy. in the county of
Salop, but had occasion to leave and 90
to Nottingham. They of course removed
all their household goods, including fine
cat, which had been in the family for
years. Arriving at Nottingham, the cal
showed signs of dissatisfaction with hel
new abode, and after Il few days disap
pearcd. Shortly afterwards the cat walked
into the old house at DAwley, TO the great
surprise of the neighbors. AS might bC
expected she was very footsore and lame
When it is considered that the distance
travelled on foot by the cat from Noting
ham to Dawley, is over seventy miles, the
feat seems very wonderful. Hundreds
tlocked to see the four-footed pedestrian
and large sums were refused by the owne
for the favorite.
A family in Callander had in their pos
sion IL f;tvorite Tom-cat, which had OF
several occasions exhibited more THAI
ordinary slgacity. One day Tom made
off with piece of beef, and the servan
followed him cautiously, with the intention
of cntching and administering to hlm
little wholesome correction. 10 her amaze
ment she saw the cat 60 into corner o
the ward in which she knew II rat-hol
existed, and lay the beef down by the sld'
of it. Leaving the beef there, puss hi
himself short distance off, and watche,
until II rat made her appearance. Tom
tail then began to wag; and just as tn
rat was moving away with the bait, h
sprang upon and killed it,
A lady residing in Glasgow had
handsome cat sent to her from Edinburgh
it was conveyed to her in close baske
in II carriage. The animal was CAREFUL
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-01-22

the sea, they had no communication with
the outside world. Their life, full and
comfortable, was unnatural, being abso-
luely without background.
Whether the story be a fact or only n
sailors tale, it has II terrible truth in it.
For we are all making haste to bring our
selves into the condition of these men OF
Samoan. From childhood to old age, we
hurry on in pursuit of money, dropping at
every step some priceless possession which
we can never take up again, though we
search for it carefully and with tears.
The young man finds his father a bore and
his mother old-fashioned, and he shoves
them and their affection into the back
ground, out of sight of his new compan-
ions, he falls in love presently, and 1t is n
| genuine healthy action Of heart and soul,
but after II year of mari led life love begins
to seem mawkish and sentimental; he and
his wife turn marriage into hackneyed,
tedious partnership, and give their real
energies to business and to society; when
| the first child comes, both of them proba-
| bly, feel throb of real emotion; but very
soon the child is II burden, and is thrust
off on nurses and teachers. Friends he
suffers to fall away one by one. Religion
he utterly neglects. Nothing as he crosses
this great sea of life seems worth saving
to him but the means of living. Suddenly
Old age comes npon him. and he stands
upon rock like the shipwrecked voy-
ayers, with nothing left but food and
clothes
When we come to stand where he does,
what shall we have brought with us out
of the long storm of lfeo The blessing
of the old father and mother whom we
have tenderly lovedp The strength given
bv the love of wife and children to whom
we have been faithful, of the friends dear
to us, of the poor whom we have helped,
of the Master whom we have served
When we start upon that last voyage Of
all, 10 which we can take not penny OF
our wealth, these things shall go with us.
How many of them have we lost this
year? ?-Ira6une.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-01-22
LITE AND DEATH.

At morning sto1d Oh the mountains brow
In its May wreath crown, and there
Saw day rise in gold and in purple glow,
And cried, = o Lie, how fairl'
AS the binds in the bowers their lay began,
When the dawning time was nigh,
SO wakened for song in the breast ofman
a passion heroic and high.
My spirit then felt the longing to soar
From home diar in lis flight;
TO roam, like the sun, still from shore TO shore
A creator of flowers and light.
At even | stood on the mountains brow,
And, raptin devotion and prayer,
saw night Use in silver and purple glow,
And cried. " o pcath, how fairl"
And when the soft evening wind so meek
With its balmy breathing came,
1t seemed as though nature kissed my cheek
And tendcrly sighed my name!
saw the vast Heaven euc1mpassing all,
Like children the stars to her came,
The exploits ofman then seemed to me small,
Naught great save the Inllnites name!
All how unheedel the charms which invest
The joys and the hopes that men prize,
While the eternal thoughts in The poets breast
Like stars in the heavens rise.
From the SWGiish
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-01-22

SELF Observation-Disclosures ON yourself;
Never initiate. Your own gift you can
present every minute with the cumulative
force of whole life's cultivation; but OF
the adopted talent of another you have an
extraneous, half possession. That which
each can do best, none but his Maker can
teach him. No man yet knows what it is,
nor can, till that person has exhibited it.
Where is the master who could have
taught Shakespeare? Where is the master
who could have instructed Franklin. or
Washington, or Bacon, or NewtonP Every
man is unique. The Scipionism OF
Scipio is precisely that part which he
could not borrow. If anybody will tell
me whom the great man initiates in the
original crisis when he performs IL great
act. will tell him who else than himself
can teach him. Shakspeares can never be
made by the study of Shakespeare. Dc
that which is assigned thee, and thou cans
not hope too much or dare too much
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-01-22

How He GOT THE SERMoN.-The
Watchnlan tells this demonstrating story
of a young man who stood before pres
bytery in Scotland asking ordination.
Principal Robinson was moderator. The
young man was rigidly examined, and
asked to preach. The examntion and the
sermon were both satisfactory. The can
ddate retired and the moderator said:
feel compelled to say that the sermon
which the young man preached is not his
own 1t is taken from an old volume of
sermons long out of print. Where he
found it l do not know. supposed the
only copy of the volume to be found was
in my library, and the candidate has no
access to that" The young man was
called in and asked if the sermon he had
preached was his own. NO." he frankly
said, II was pressed for time, and could
not make a sermon in season. The sermon
| preached was one which heard Princi-
pal Robinson preach some time ago. |
took notes of it, and liked it so well that l
wrote it out from memory, and have
preached it to-day" Nothing was said
there was nothing to be said!
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-01-22

NERVOUSNESS OF GREAT ORATORS
Great orators generally suffer from nerv-
Gus anxiety in beginning their best speech
es. Speakers who are always cool and
self-possessed never attain such eminent
success as those who possess more sens-
tive organizations. Robert Hall never
went into the pulpit without fear of fail
ure. The father of the present Lord
Derby, of England, was one of the best
debators in parliament. He was COM
plimented AS the Rupert of debate" and
was noted for apparent composure. Yet
he said TO II friend, " My throat and lips.
when l am going to speak, are us dry us
those of u man who is going to be hang,
ed" Tiemay, famous for his readiness and
tiuency on all occasions, said he never
spoke without feeling his knees smite to-
gether when he rose. Canning, one of the
most brilliant speakers in the whole his
tory of the House of Commons, said he
always knew when he was to do better
than usual, by the quickness of his pulse
and the trembling of his limbs. 1t is ont
of the compensations of nature that or
those who suffer most in advance is be
slowed the highest triumphs.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-01-22

The CLEAN NEwsPAPER.-rhere is a
growing feeling in every healthy commu-
nifty against journals which make it their
special object to minister to perverted
taste by seeking out and serving up in a
seductive form disgusting and licentious
revelations There is good reason to be-
leve that the clean newspaper is more
highly priced to day than it was four or
five years ago. 1t is also safe to predict
that as people in all ranks of life who pro-
tect their own, at least from contamina-
ton, become conscious of the pernicious
influence of q certain class of journals,
called enterprising because they ;lre ambi-
tous to serve us dirty scandals, they will
be careful to see that the journals they per-
NIT to be read in the family circle are of
the class that never forget the proprieties
of life. Already men and women Of re-
iinement and healthy morals have had
their attention called to the pernicous in
tluence of bad literature, and have made
commendable efforts to counteract the
same, by causing sound literature to be
published and sold at popular prices.
These efforts are working u silent but
sure revolution. The best authors are
more generally read to-day than at any
previous date. The sickly sentimental
story paper and the wild ranger and pirate
story book are slowly but surely yielding
the field to worthier claimants. TO the
praise of the decent newspaper it may be
said that where it has place in the fami
ly and has been read for years by young
us well as old, it has developed such 1
healthy tone and such II discriminating
taste that literature of the slums has nj
admirers. Fortunately. the number o
such families is increasing in the land, ant
as they increase the journal devoting itsel
TO sickening revelations Of immortality will
be compelled to find its supporters among
those classes who practice vice and crime
or are ambitious to follow such ways,
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-01-22
DINAH AND THE TELEPHONE

Pse bin tllkiu' wild lie spelrits,
An' I heord ole Gabrie's horn
And nebber seed sich doiu's,
Ncbber since ole Dinah's born;
Now, you niggahs, don'tssy nuflin,
Jcs' yer wait an heah me froo,
Fur de tale Ihab ter tell yer
Beats de debbil-yaas, it do.
When | seed dc crowd a-standin'
Roun' dat box in Mas Jim's stU',
lies knew dat sumpn's comm,
AM it did come sariln sho';
Dey was AKIN all sorts oh questions
Wild deir mouf, close ter dat box,
An de lnsWers-LOrd have mussyl
Nebber did / heIh sich talks.
BY itself de box wuz nuflin',
But it had 4 string dat luH-
Wal | SEED it so way ober
Dc house-tops, toward lie sun,-
An de tinss heard a-tricklin'
Thru dat box was mighty queer,
An know'I beio' dey tole me
Dat de spcrrils was pow'ful near.
Mas Jim, he axed some questions
Jes' fur me-about de crap,
An how long belo' ole Dinah
In de grave wud hab to drap,
An lie answer wuz de wusteet-
All de summers gvine be dry,
An DcfO' annudcr season
Pn' ole Dinah's got to die.
Arter dat de sweetest mOosic
Qulvercd thru that cotton string,
An Mas Jim, he SAID dc tootin'
Wus ole Gabriel on dc wing.
An wild dat LETT an lit out,
An Pse hyar-but not for long;
ls jcs' waitin' for de angels
Waitin' TIL ley SCUM lie gong.
What dat, pOmp-no use in wuAln'
Arter what lie spenits said?
Yer lazy nisgah, git de ho", sab,
An rcprJye dat cjlllrd bed.
Wha' de sperlils seq am one ting,
An de colltrls am annuIcr-
OATS ez troo q Pomp's nisgah,
AM dat is 'Ompcy's mudderl
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-01-22

SEA SIcKNEss.-lt is q common theory
that sea sickness is the result of the imag-
ination acting through the sense of sight,
and that If one were resolutely to shut his
eyes during the whole period of voyage
he would escape nausea. If this theory
were valid it would follow that persons
totally blind would be free from sea sick
ness. To test this hypothesis we have
made inquiry at the asylum for the blind
We are assured, however, that blind
peoble who 60 to sea are neither more
nor less liable to sea sickness than other
people. fact which we commend TO the
theorists as profitable for their instruction
and reproof. f.-Nep York World.