The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-01-26

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That had just fled from carnivOrous kitten.
Finally two of them perched on the top
most spray Of little clump to take in the
situation, which included an open window
and the objects %ithn, and idly pecked at
some shrivelled grapes left from the sum.
mer A brittle stem broke and down rat
tied a bunch into the midst Of some
hysterical gulneas, whose outcty was en-.
Joyed moment by the mischievous alarm
lists before they sought another spot. The
blue haze down the valley suggested brush.
piles, log heaps aud spring blowing, and
only by al effort could we remember that
It was January.
Saturday when the driving sleet came
down in such quantities we could not see
across twenty-acre held, aud everything
was as smooth and we'll iced as a bakers
prize.cake, We felt like next.ioor neighbors
to Yankton or Duluth, Those simple
birds had been, TO say the least, very pre-
mature; and while the blaa atmosphere
may have had its origin in log.heaps, it is
moro probable that the Wabash work.
train was responsible. Early in the week
il was, know Of certainty. AS an old
lady living along the line remarked, "1hlt
there railroad, she didn't believe, had the
sign Of strainer 10 its smokestackn Ret
ributioD Ia sometimes swift. Not more
thsn an hour after the men on that "rail.
road" had laughed at the frantic endeavos
Of an amateur fire company to beat out the
miscbieYous little tongues Of fire started
by sparks from that very smokestack, tie
caboose was tipped Oft the rails and the
men iu it shaken up as uuceremouiously as
dice in a box.
The exaggerated rumors rile 10 Cairo con-
corning the lttle accident aud the delay
it caused to the passenger train Tuesday
night, did not astonish us who live near
enough to johnson county to know that
among the Viennese, the recent earthquake
shook New Orleans out Of sight and
drowned sixty thousand citizens, Some of
our neighbors did not feel The shock. They
must be used to sleep a la baby huntin,
not to have felt such nauscstipg, dazing
motion. II seemed to come from the west,
and rattIed windows like young cyclone.
The association for the protection of
merchants from customers who will appear
in fresh and fashionable attire, in spite Of the
fact that their purses "look like an ele-
plant done trcmped on en-" is good
move. 1t will balk unprincipled extrava-
gance and restrain thoughtless extrsva.
gance. (The two are quite different. The
first losses its bead and says the world owes
it q living, while the second merely forgsts
poor Richards advice: Ere fancies you
consult, consul, your purse.) On the
other hand, the really honest but unror-
tunste, vii sometimes suffer; every reform
tramples upon few innocent ones.
But at present the clerks of the business
men interest me more than their customers
the latter are tolerably certain of finding
credit at one place or another, but the
former can not shift about so easily. Ny
thoughts were turned in their direction by
something which happened recently in one
of the pre,tiest little cities in the state;
and began to wonder whether an employ.
er should not consider himself as held TO
account in a measure, for the moral wei.
fare of those in his employ; 10
see that they leave his service no
worse at least, than when they entered it.
would not attempt to teach that each
employer should snatch up helmet bu k
Ter aud sword and start out on a crusade
against the temptations surrounding his
clerks. Far from il. In that case both he
and must ultimately fsil-he for lack of
clerks, and Tor lack Of hearers, people not
liking to be watched too closely or advised
too pointedly.
But is it impossible for dignity and
kindness to go hand in handl Would not
any employer receive as deferential treat.
ment at the hands of employees whom be
praises for some voluntary piece of business
diplomacy, or personal attention, as at the
hands of those vino are continually found
fault with, treated with assumed distrus,--
"to keep the young fellows straight" or
held in sullen silence to the very last notch
from Monday morning till Saturday night
IL is supposed that clerks are allowed the
lay ofrest enjoyed BY farmers horses)
Net all the disappointment, blue days,
md ill.digestcd dinners belong to the pro.
,retors. Noindeed there are plenty enough
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