The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-07-25


grievances public in the shape of series Of
resolutions. Senator Logan had better
keep his eye on the black brigade, or else II
will desert to the enemy this fall
1T was last Sunday-iust week age
to.day-that we took stroll TO st. Mary:
park for recreation and, having thought
lessly passed the park we took rest I'M
der one of the immense trees which grace
that portion of our city. We had been
there but short time when youth and
maiden-both of them handsome and in
teresting -strolled along and not observing
our presence, reclined in the shade of a
neighboring oak:
Beneath the shady tree they sat
He held her hand, she held bis hat,
Weheld our breath and lay right Hat.
They kissed we saw them do IT.
He held that kissing was no crime,
She held her headu W every time,
We held our peace and wrote this rhyme,
While they thought no one knew IT,
Judge Bird has returned from the con-
vention OF colored men recently held al
Springfield, which seems to have been
called for the purpose of demanding Of
the Republican party porportionate share
of the loaves and fishes. They claim that
while they furnish large share of the
votes, they are totally neglected in the dis
tribution of the offices. Flanagan, of
Texas, outlined the situation IN nut shell
when he claimed at the Chicago conven
ton, What are we here for il not for the
ofiicesl" The Republican party should see
TO It that the colored voters have their re-
ward. There has been, heretofore, dis
position to deny II to them, and the colored
men have an undoubted right to complain
At tine Springfield convention they en-
boiled their grievances in an address.
In July and August there seems to
settle down upon the people spirit of rest
and quietude that furnishes little material
for public comment All who car, afford the
expense oftaking themselves out of town to
seek enjoyment and health, while those
who do remain havn't sufficient life left to
get up ar able bodied sensation Of any
kind. Even the brute creation seems to
drink in the spirit of quietude, and
the frequent runaway fails to
furnish its item of interest. Yet,
upon the weary seeker for items comes the
inexorable demand for news. Every morn
ing as he enters upon the duties of the day,
there hangs before him blank sheet as a
reminder that so much space must be filled
with something readable for the public.
Then it is that the newspaper man slghs for
something to turn up. Then it is that even
the startling cry Of fire" falls upon his ear
as welcome sound. Then it is that an
occasional suicide becomes, in his estima-
ton, taking off, to be commended.
But alas, these things IN July or Au
gust, like everything else in the way
of news, are almost certain to fail and the
newspaper man is compelled to 60 down
into his own inner consciousness and evolve
therefrom something that he cannot
find in the great world out
side. 1t is the opinion Of some good peo
pie that newspapers must be mighty hard
up for something to write about when
more than usual space is occupied in tell
ing about small affair. 1t is evident
that these good people never tried to edit a
newspaper in the month of July. "Hard
up for something to write about" don't be-
gin to express it, Very small things,
indeed, prove a bonanza in such a
time. Even the subjects that do
present themselves possess no in
tcrest for the general reader in July and
August. Who wants to sit down and read
fiery political article with the mercury up
among the nineties' Who cares to read
long moral homilies on the exceeding sim
fitness of sin?' These things will do well
enough in their season, but the season Is
nor July or August. Like oysters as an ar
tce of diet these things belong to months
with an r in them. The average
reader now wants something
light and airy-some,hng that
doesn't require stretch OF intellect to
grasp, or an effort to digest and assimlate
The newspaper man, if he could have his
way, would prefer to go fishing, but un.
fortunately the average newspaper man
finds a greater 'goncness' in his pocket
than in the world Of news, and nothing is
t,c. l,,t M ,ur;tn ol,,,,t yntb;,,r and payn,