The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-09-15

travel are popularity supposed to be runous
they arc in some cases very far from being
so. The grand Trunk is making money at
| IS from Chicago to Boston, and the pas
senger receipts Of the Erie road for August
were rs per cent greater than for the Au-
gust of last year. This means rs per cent
more money on probably the same expense
for operating Thus il is shown that d.
minished fares result in vastly increased
traffic and both tho public and the roads
are gamers. This affords hint of what
might be the effect of general reduction
of fares to truly popular basis. If fares
could be cut down to say one cent mile
Gnstead of three, as at present. we are per-
suaded that the roads would make more
money from this source than they now do,
such would be the stimulus to travel which
such reduction would exert. But at pres
ent the immense majority Of our people
hardly ever see the inside of railroad
coach, and one-hundred- mile trip is the
event of decade.
Captain Paul Boyton, the famous navi-
gator, is about making one of the longest
voyages Of his life in his India rubber suit,
starting from the headwaters of the Vel
lowstone and following down that stream
and the Missouri river to St. Louis. The
friends Of the captain in this city know
his mettle, and that he will perform what
ever he undertakes. This will probably be
his last venture Of the kind. St. Louisans
may expect to see him landing in their har-
Dor lust before the snowhakes begin to fly
and the autumn leaves have fallen. Re-
garding his trip Captain Boyton writes
from st. Paul, under date of September 8,
as follows: 81 am almost all ready tor
my great voyage. On the 18th inst. l will
take water somewhere near the head OF
navigation of the Yellowstone, and CON-
mence my long and lonesome voyage down
| to st. Louis. Just imagine about $500
miles all alone. Doc, this time | will keep
you well posted as I come down. 1t is at
present impossible to make any calculation
on the time ii will take me. will be ex-
posed to much danger from cyclones,
thunder-storms, Indians, snags and biz
yards, but / hope to pull through, as |
have always done, right side up. Give the
word OF my start to the papers go west
on the N. p II. II. about Saturday or Mon
day, the 18th inst. to Glendale, Montana,
then up the river by stage or boat. could
get no reporter to accompany me. | expect
to have lot of fun in the wilderness, cook
ing my own meals, ETC."
Once upon time one William Pitt, a
member of the English parliament, was
accused, in sneering manner by fellow
member, of being young mana "boy,"
as it we're. Pitts reply to this sneerng
accusation was pointed, yet diguifed, and
may be aptly quoted, with some moditica-
tons, in answer to similar slurs even in
these days of advanced intelligence.
Pitt said. "The atrocious crime of being
young man, which, with so
much spirit and decency the honorable
gentleman has charged upon me, shall
neither attempt to palliate nor deny; but
content myself with wishing that may be
one of those whose follies cease with their
youth; and not of that number who are ig
norant IN spite of experience. Whether
youth can be imputed to any man as re-
proach, will not assume the province of
determining; but, surely, age may
become justly contemplate if the
opportunities which it brings have passed
away without improvement, and vice ap-
pears to prevail when the passions have
SUBSIDIZED. The wretch that, after having
seen the consequences of thousand errors,
continues still to bunder, and whose age
has only added obstinacy to stupidity, is
surely the object OF either adherence or
contempt, (or pity, we might add and de-
serves not that his gray head should
screen him from insults. Much more is he
to be abhorrod (pitted), who, as he has
advanced in age has receded from virtue
Common sense), and becomes more wicked
Qoolish), with less temptation with in
creased opportunities tor learning who
prostitutes himself abuses community
for money which he cannot enjoy and
spends the remains of his life in the rum
of his country
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