The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-07-29
NEWS FROM PULASKI COUNTY.
CENTER SHOTS FOR SOMEBODY.

| haNc just iaiu YOU uoWu uOut take
you myself, but some friends of mine who
get you every morning occasionally let me
see you. have read all about DR.. Tanner,
who is not worth the ice that cools his
tongue every day; for what good does it do
the world to know that man can bare
ly keep hold Of the golden card of life by
lying on cot when not leaning back in q
cushioned carriage, and wherever he may
be is surrounded by intelligent people who
talk to him, or remain silent just as he
pleasest
No wonder the addle patei old piece Of
vanity can do without coffee and bread,
guess you could get along without the
"butcher and baker" (the third Of that
illustrious trio is nowhere since the intro.
duction Of kerosene and Edison) if it were
| not for all those columns to be filled every
day, couldn't you? know could, for
a while at least, if some one else would
kindly make the chlldren's jeans and
ginghams up for me, and darn Darins's
socks, after she had the squashes bugged
and sprinGled with ashes,
the cucumbers gathered and put in brine,
the poultry fed and watered, the droopy
ones forced to swallow spoonful of black
pepper or acolnite, Gt is immaterial which
remedy is used one kills as quickly as the
other and the mitey ones creased with
meat fryings to say nothing Of milking
old "Switchtail' and being dragged all
over the lot at one end Of her bcastly calls
rope and hundred and one other things
which | need not catalogue, have read too
about your trouble with your poor little
sharp penned editor, and feel sorry that you
have to submit to being run by such q
pugnacious creature hope you will sur
vive the modification of getting your name
up before the public You should teach
him that retiring modes,y would better
become him
The enc familiarity about your reading
matter, however, is the dulcet tones Of all
your correspondence, whether it comes from
Thebes or Elco, is signed by Mrs. Saobs or
Truro According to them they are con
tinually giving or accepting prizes for good
behavior, beauty or popularity; getting up
Sunday School picuics or suppers and
amounting each other with the oil of fiat.
terry, till methinks it will soon reach even
to the end of the state
II believe those letters | believe that
the citizens Of those towns are bound to.
gether by brotherly love and sisterly atFec-
ton, but | do not believe them, Ibeg you
will take notice that sag nothing
that may bring me into the
presence of your angus: judge and his
coatllss clerk I cali no names. sim.
ply state my belief, or rather disbelief,
which is founded On the following facts
In this neighborhood we have plenty of
people, kinsmen and women, who mingle
together, it is true, but mercy how we
talk about each other, Why we call each
other thieves; say We get money on false
pretenses, for instance we make two or
three suppers ostensibly for the purpose OF
getting fine organ for the people, they 90
and get a mean, little cheap second hand
thing that can't be heard fifty feet from
the church, and come Haunting out the
next Sunday in new tinery, bought with the |
rest OF the money--money gives towards |
buying "a fine, big instrument with lots of |
those little knobs, a-sticking out above the |
key board And we say that each other
amt worth shucks now, and what's more,
never was neither here nor no where's else.
And whenever some Of US appear in nicely
ironei, or neatly made over garments,
that havn't lain on the merchants counter
for scores and scores OF moons, all the
rest OF US get together and make up our
minds at once that they are putting on
airs, trying to run US with their fine
clothes. But we let them see we don't care
the snap Of finger for en- so we don't
speak the next time we meet or
else we make them speak, whether
they want 10 or not, Just to
let them know that such as
they can't hurt such as we, any more than a
barking dog can annoy Luna, pale orb of
night"
Darius sometimes leaves the pillow to
come in for cool drink and to say that if
he can sell out he will 90 to a better coun-
.ry-Nebraska or Texas; but that will
never consent to. Here It's neither too
hot nor too cold and so salubrious that
there is no opening for new physician;
the old doctors are obliged to depend on
else than prescriptions for a liv.
ng.
We never have hurricanes, though we
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