The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-03-07

branches Of trade or business, do not omit
the study Of history. Whatever you read ,
read history. Whatever you omit TO read,
do not omit to read history. II you do
not wish TO be tossed to aud fro and carried
about with every mind Of doctrine; if you
would be full and strong; if you would
have the mighty past 10 stand under You;
II You would rest upon the experiences of
the ages as so much that is assured in the
great ocean Of uncertainty, ,hen study 10
know what those ages speak through the
voice o! history to you.
You may keep yourselves filed with
the passing events Of to-day;
you may daily lcyour you:
newspapers, with their newspaper
literature, but if that is all, or about all,
you read, your weight mentally, your
strength mentally Wi! compare just abou,
as tavorably as would newspaper compare
in weight with well bound and compact
volume. The newspaper must suffer word
Of criticism.
You need not to read much. Indeed, I
might well say, do not read much; for one
OF the evils Of to-day is much reading
Read with determinations read wisely. Do
not suppose that ! an coniemning the
reading Of fiction, an not All mean
10 say Is, read the best books. The world
Is iulI Of the best books, and one is inexcus
able for spending his or her time up.
on trash Life is TOO short; life Is
too important 70 Justify US IN wasting il
upon tue worthless stuff winch sDounds up
on every shore Of the great ocean Of mind,
whose waters, alas, cast up so much mige
and dirt.
And so end this depression as | began
il, by saying, read history.
Turning now to my subject and for the
purpose Of closing il, may not ask you to
consider our situation as people in the
light Of our surroundings, in the light Of
the nineteenth century and in that trucsi
Of all lights, the light that comes shining
down upon US from the pages OF history.
For, if with the advantages Of our ,itua-
tion, with the extremely favorable circum.
stances which have always surrounded Us,
with the intelligence and morality
Of our people, with the queries of his.
tory holding aloit her shining torch
! for Us TO see closely wherein others have
gone astray-if with all these. we cannot
succeed, it will be because We cannot: be-
cause we are what we are; because that at
which we aim is ideal, uetopan because
nan is incapable Of self-goyernment. Our
| fathers, choosing for Us, chose as our ma.
tDnal emblem that proud bird Of the noun
tain top, the eagle of the air. But are We,
their descendants, 10 be like the eagle with
broken wing which, although aspiring 10
rise, his rising tells him that he possesses
not the power but only the aspiration TO
rise. Compelled to keep upon the earth,
possessing all that an eagle possesses, but,
a.as, having a broken wing, it seeks
out solitude in which TO die
So we, like il, having fallen in our attempt
10 rise, conclude ike it that We cannot rise
| But for US there no is solitude TO be sought
cut and in which to die. 1t is only left for
Us 10 turn our faces from the bright heavens
above TO the earth, and barring our necks
say, come, come come with your yokes of
power come with your chains Of slavery
and place them upon US. We thought we
we're treemen, bat We are slaves: come and
rule over US.
But We must not take too much counsel
Of our fears. He vino does so, will always
doubt, and will very often fail. Bulwers
Richeieu says that in the bright lexicon of
| youth there is no such word as fail. The
Xioms and rules Of individual conduct are
equally applicable 10 nations and people.
And we as a people should possess such
confidence in ourselves as will prevent our
being discouraged, crippled and overcome
~ fears and forebOdings Of coming evil or
disaster. Our success, our permenance, is,
nevertheless, contingent. 1t is contingent
upon our conduct. If we will insist firmly
and persistently insist, upon an increasing
intelligence and morality among the peo-
pie; if we will keep within their proper
bounds party politics and partisan ZEAL
which, from the phases they have more re.
Gently presented, seem, most clearly, 10 be
our chictest danger; if we will, for we can,
keep the ballot box pure; if we will shake
off the delusion that the right to the ballot
is to be determined by the mere accident
Of sex regardless of everything else,
if, IN word, We can retain
that which history and experience
have tested and tried and can obtain
that which history and experience sh ow US
we yet need, then in the ages to come
and when you and and ours have been
long forgotten, the history of our country
will be the philosophy of history.
Miss Anne Pitcher then concluded the
exercises with song, which was full of
music and pleasing indeed,
"AN OLD PHYSICIANS ADVICE. Coughs
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