The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-07-10
and women, therefore, are largely RESPONSE.
Ole Tor national prosperity.

ole Tor national prosperity.
The theme may be hackneyed, but it
seems to me there is still not enough atten-
ton paid to the beginnings. Down In the
pleasant valleys where childhood IS playing,
where the little feet of
future men and women are
romping, there are not enough thinkers
at work. The present generation has
got itsgrowth. Its purpose as regards itself
are largely accomplished. The next is tot
terlng on the threshold of life, ignorant,
unframed, mere protoplasm.
by and by it must take its place in the
arena Of thought and action. What is the
mean time2 In the meantime the men 20
to-day reign as its regents and exercise
vicarious authority; women hold in their
hands the whole plastic substance and arc
molding with coarse or delicate fingers the
millions of atoms that, by and by, will
make up the ranks of rulers and ruled"
"WHAT is the use of thee, thou gnarled
sapling2" said young larch tree to a
young oak. ~ grow three feet in a year,
thou scarcely as many inches; am straight
and taper as reed, thou struggling and
twisted as loosened wlthe." "And thy
| duration, answered the oak, sis some third
part Of mans life, and | am appointed to
flourish for thousand years. Thou art
felled and sawed into paling, where thou
rottest and art burned after single sum-
mer; of me are fashioned battle ships and
carry mariners and heroes into unknown
seas"
The richer nature, the harder and
slower it's development. Two boys we're
once of class in the Edinburgh grammar
school; John ever trim, precise and dux
Walter ever slovenly, confused and dolt
In due time, John became Bailie John Of
Hunter square, and Walter became Sil
Walter Scott of the universe.
The quickest and completest of all yege
tables is the cabbage
| THE name of Calderon de la Barca i
familiar to ali the lovers of literature il
Europe as well as in America, and he is con
sidered by the Spanish as the first OF thei
dramatic writers, unequaled in the vigo
originality and rich imagery of his odes an
dramas. The most popular of his dram'
, are Life is Dream and The AIcalde
Zalamea.'
There was colossal statue of Caldero
opposite the Madrid palace, and at its fee
the different sections of the procession de
posted each its crowns and wreaths as
passed.
Last OF all came the very carriage tina
bore the poor, love-crazed Queen Jane whe
she carried her dead Philip around from
place to place before she would allow hin
to be buried. 1t is one of the most beauti
full specimens of wood carving in existence
Even the spokes of the wheels are carved
jours. 1t was drawn by eight white horse
accompanied by the ghosts of its forme
coachman and palefreniers; CHESTS an
horses accoutred according to the fashio
of their day. Weird and shadow-like tn
vehicle rolled noiselessly by us on its black
lace wheels, q monument of the past, an
yet possibly it may outlast all that ha
formed part of the procession with ii, 70
notwithstanding its great age, it Is in perfe'
preservation. The procession has been
skillfully and artistlcally organized, Il
past and the present so blended, that
think we all felt as it passed US somewh
dazed, hardly knowing which belonged
the past or which to the present.