The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-04-07


never mind, brother do not allow a little
disappointment to break your spirit; the
future is yet before you and, you know,
there is nothing surer than the annual APP
pearance of the delinquent tax-list Be
licve us, when we say, that though II Is
difficult to understand why some poor
struggling human beings should
be doomed to such bitter disappoint
nlents, yet all is tor the best
We have found it so in our short but
eventful life and now, when We contcm
plate the surprises and disappointment
embodied in tins "mighty maze" we can
discover and appreciate the consolation
contained in the words Sin each event OF
life how clear Thy ruling hand ! see"-and
we recommend this beautiful and sugges.
tive verse to our brother of the Levee lumi
nary, believing that his ailment demands
Just such tonic as is contained it it.
Some ofour northern visitors never tail
to be Mortified at the condition Of our
streets during rainy weather and pretend
that streets at home or sob SO nice Just
as.nr rain" bur the press at home doesn't
seem TO take the hint, or doesn't care wheth-
er it places some of its subscribers in a
dilemma by telling the truth, or not.
While Carols enjoying dry and solid streets
those of northern cities are in a fearful
condition. The Springfield Register, in
its last issue, has the following: "Yester-
day afternoon a horse upon which was
seated countryman, happened to strike
piece OF solid earth just opposite GRIM
sleys mill, on West Adams street, and
fell in the mud with the rider underneath.
He was 'quashed" into the mud so that
he had to be pulled out by some
sympathizing passers-by. The horse got
up, shook himself, and ran off down the
street, but was finally captured" A writer
in the Peoria Democrat has the hardihood
to fall into poetay on the subject as fol-
lows:
Drowned in the mud
o maiden gay,
Tripping across the street today
Beware your grip
Youll trip
And slip
And sink like leadeu plummet down
To drown
Deep in the depths of the mirky flood
The hapless prey Of the mud, the mud
A satisfactory explanation to those
who think that last Sundays darkness was
due to neglect on the part OF
the gas company's employe
may be found in the fact that, &C
cording to the company's contract with the
city, the lamps were not to be lighted on
that night nor on any moon
light night until about an
hour before the moon sets. Sunday night
was proclaimed by the calender 10 be in
part moonlight night, and it would have
been had there been no clouds. The
moon was there in strict obedience to the
rule laid down in the almanacs and this
was a sufficient excuse-in fact it
was the duty Of the lamp lighter,
prescribed in written agree
ment with the city--not to light the street
lamps until about an hour before, accord
ing to the almanac, the lovely orb ought to
sink behind the horizon, The street lamp
lighter must be something of an astrono-
mer-he must be "star gazer"-and the
most disagreeable duty imposed upon him
Is, doubtless, that Of studying the almanac.
He must know every night that ought to be
II moon light night, and he must know how
long it ought to be moon light night. 1t
is not his business to see whether what
ought he is or not, it is sufficient for HIM to
know what ought to be and let his light
shine accordingly. II the als
manac says that the moon goes down
tonight at 10 46A then, at about 946A,
the street lamps are to be lighted. This,
we understand, is the agreement. 1t mat
tiers not if"a pall-like gloom ore'cast the
skies and rain pours IN torrents down
upon the bcnighted traveller and garroters
peer out from every crcvis to pounce upon
him, The gas lighter is to sit serenely,
smoking his pipe and studying his alma
nae, until about 946A o'clock, when he is
to sally forth and give the city light.
In the meantime citizens, who
have been to church, sociablc,
theatre or attending to business,
have attempted to go home at the hour
of nine, when, according to the almanac, the
goddess Of the night should be dispelling
with her eiiulgcnt rays the dark darkness
that darkcnS the darkenlng dark here be-
low; but he finds not ray to illume his
path and, after having turned several