The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-12-12

hands-of people who know barely enough
to wade into the sea Of high sounding words
without knowing how to get out again, at
least not without being fecked and stained
with the foam OF differentiation, evolution
and coquate protoplasm. Spencer must
think it pitifully, ungratefu state Of
affairs that he has to depend principally on
American purchases of his works for live
lihood, which at best is precarlous.
| should not wonder If he sometimes
wished when the beef and coal bill come
around, that he had kept at civil engineer
ing and improving old inventions, or max
ing new ones, since it has been impossible
for him as yet, even with the kindly assist
ancc of Darwin and the rest of that ilk,
to happen upon the proper conditions
for spontaneous existence, If they could,
should ask a favor Of them. If such learn
ed persons as they have discovered that
there is not so much difference between
them and the highest ape as between the
highest and lowest apes and best of all
have found the component parts thereof,
they can do more, and I wish they would
take enough of carbonic acid and water
and ammonia to make good batch of
protoplaSm and set it to rise and enolve
into nice looking, healthy, active, good
natured, truthful, respectful, industrious
boy, about fifteen years old
l need boy Of that description very
much, and if they could furnish me with
one by Christmas | should be delighted,
though if the formal basis had not been of
sufficient strength to get the psychological
portion of the mixture IN readiness by that
date could wait till along about garden
ing time. | wish they would not put any
slang in with the other ingredients, but
would throw in good handful of psychic
stuff. You see | want the little evolutor to
be possessed of enough soul and mind to
discriminate between young radishes and
smart.weed, which he ought to do intui-
lively since the formal basis of all life,
vegetable or animal, is the same, we are
told, and that all living powers, irrespective
Of kind or quality, are fundamentally of the
same character.
Notwithstanding, am candid enough to
say in the very face of that statement that
Ill naturally wear the young man out, and
if find that his sympathy for his fellow
creatures prompts him to shield and pro-
tect that hateful crab-grass and disgust
lngly familiar rag weed, which fondly
hope to have eradlcated from my vegetables
by another season. 1t may be that am
talking ahead Of time, but mean I should
do so and so in case the English creators
should succeed If the heat force of the
sun be so slight in Great Britain as 1t has
been in this region for the past few weeks,
would suggest that the gentlemen set the
dough-the protoplasm, mean-on box
or STOOL near Ddse-ourner.
Winter came on US so long ago many
of us were unprepared orit. Corn gather
ing and wood chopping have been delayed
to the present time. The first is very un-
pleasant work with frosty little imps nip
ping toes, fingers, and ears the while.
The snow which lasted for two weeks and
over here, where there are not hundreds Of
vehicles to cut into and deface the pure
whiteness, forced game from forest haunts
in quest of food. Four deers were shot
within sight of this little town. Ipresumc
they were shipped to Cairo.
Another item, of a very different nature,
and I am done. Within week there
were two robberies of considerable extent.
One of the stores was relieved of valuable
goods, and quite sum or money. Soon
after one of the farmers near by had some
thing less than hundred dollars taken
from his pocket, while he peacefully
dreamed Of the fine COW he intended to
purchase the following day.
mention the robberies to show that we
are not so far from civilization as might be
supposed, though that was the first step
Of the kind we have taken toward pro-
gress. MRS. D. GREEN.
CACHE, Dec 8, 1880.