The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-12-03
FROM CACHE.
.INTLREs TING LETTER FROM THE BULLETIN y
CORRESPONDENT.
price"

Darius says | write, too hurredly and
often leave out very important words. Per
haps he is right just now have no proof
to the contrary, but thought, until SAW it
in print that my last stated that we saw
the first white frost that morning To
have seen the first FROST of the season
would have been rather remarkable, con.
sidering the date, the northerly course Of
Cache and the writer's everpresent never
failing desire to be strictly truthful.
Yesterday morning we were astonished
10 see everything covered with snow, There
had been no hint Of it in the clear sky and
bright starlight the evening before. But
thought it sealed the fate of late roses it
was welcome; it reminded flock of wild
geese which had fed for two weeks on the
young whea! that they were not so far south
as they might be. So they unfolded their
wings and sped away in the edge Of a grey
cloud. From early morning TIL nine
o'clock they gratited their herbivorous
propensity, one old sentinel being stationed
on the highest point in the field, with head
erect ready TO give warning upon the
slightest DC aston.
Thanksgiving is at hand. Crops in this
section W re abundant, health is good,
those long yearned for new families have
actually begun to move in, and we ought
to feel happy. But can not. For once |
can indorse the eloquent Col. IDgersoll,
who tcnderly says he never allowed even
chicken to be killed on his place so thor
oughly opposed is he to giving pain { any
living creature. Would there were more
as Angelic dispositions For the last six
weeks | have ted sheIled corn and boiled
potatoes seasoned with red pepper to my
poultry, with the sole purpose and inten
tion of decapitating them in warm blood
on Wednesday the Goth.
My conscience hurts me from the first ;
and az the time drew near felt more and
more like miserable decsiver when the
gentle birds, used to my care from the
time they were downy puffs, came accking
about me the moment | stepped into the
yard and eagerly accompanied me, with
noisy gatherings and clucklng, from place
to place. Perhaps they only associated me
with full crops; but let me still think they
valued my friendship because Of earlier
days, when the little things were dosed with
turpentine and copperas, and covered up in
wicker baskets to gasp in the fumes OF
sulphur on hot shovel, in the fond hope
that few would survive the treatment and
"gapes.'
The last Thursday in November recalls
"the good ship of Mayaower," Pilgrim
Rock, long weary days and scant harvests
on black Atlantic shores, when the crops
were tended with the hoe in one hand and
iowlng piece in the other, in readiness for
an inQuisitive Indian or q welcome bit Of
game; of grateful Governor Bradbury, gen
tie Lady Arbella johnson, stout-hearted
John Endicott that int-hearted victim of
Cupid, Miles Standish, the magnificent
Winthrop, in black velvet and rare old
lace and lberal.minded Roger Williams,
destined to distress and persecution though
in the new world. Poor man when we re-
member his sutferings and the witch craft
craze we should charitably remember also
that the "cradle Of Liberty" was not yet
erected, which is some excuse for those
early eccentricities.
Like begets like The Puritants' Sc
we're measures with each other were proba-
bly, due to the shabby treatment they had
received at home across the water and
there was really no use to have Liberty if
there was no cradle to soothe it in when
ever itgrew troublesome,
That reminds me of "Old Trims idea
of compulsory education. do not dispute
that IN many things his wisdom equals his
age, but upon this point he is certainly
wrong. Does he not see what might fol
low such a move among our law-makers9
Drive all the children into schools, make
tho schools after one pattern, with the
same rules of government, the same text
books Tor all; have one church the same
doctrine to be preached from every pulpit
merge all the different politics into one
party That is description Of our possible
future. Sit down and think calmly, Trim.
With everybody moulded in the same
form, knowing as much as every other
body, where would be the use of talking'
We would not differ with each other be-