The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-01-09

now and would have to travel conMders
bic distance before they would meet with
equal kindness from the authorities. Blu
common humanity dictates that they should
be given what care we can in these severe
nights and the action of the authorities IL
this respect will receive general commenda
ton.
-Haverlys Comedy company at the
Opera House Friday evening promises tc
give US something in the funny line, which
will bear the most liberal patronage. "Oul
Strategists" is genuine comedy Of errors
and is said to have thousand laughs in
every act. The fun begins early and II
retained throughout the evening. New
York, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, 81
Louis, Cleveland, Brookly and San Francis
co papers are enthusiastic in their praise of
both the company and the play.
The transfer steamers are still debar-
red from landing at the Birds Point incline
by the heavy sheet of ice that envelopes it.
They have cut sort of canal through the
ice, from the point to the Missouri shore
opposite Mr.. Birds house, over halt mile
long and wide enough TO permit bats to
turn around and pass each other; and pass.
engers coming in either on the Texas & st.
Louis or Iron Mountain trains must leave
the cars there and walk aboard the steam
ers over gang plank, to be transferred to
Cairo. The Morgan and Duncan have, by
running frequently back and forth, man
aged to keep this canal open during the Sc
we're cold.
While railroads generally have suffer
ed much from the late snow storm In the
Mississippi valley. those centring here
have managed to come through very well,
comparatively speaking. Trains have
come and gone every day on nearly oil the
roads, the only trouble being an uncertainty
as to the time Of arrival. Yesterdays train
on the Illinois Central, from Chicago, was
only about an hour and half behind the
schedule time. The Wabash was little
less fortunate, probably the polar wave &C.
lected it as line of travel. The train due
here at 10 o'clock Monday night did not
arrive until 8 o'clock Yesterday morning.
The snow was especially heavy between
here and Carni, and water tanks all along
were frozen up. The Iron Mountain has
been prevented from coming In daily by
the ice at the Missouri incline, though the
trains arrived regularly enough at Birds
Point. The little Texas & St. Louis was
subject to the same difficulty. The Mobile
& Ohio and the Southern Illinois Central
were not troubled much in any way and
came in nearly on time. But the little
St. Louis & CAIRO road beat them all, for
throughout this week or ten days Of wind
and weather." it has come and gone every
day on schedule time with every train, and
probably made things too warm for Old
Boress. Or, perhaps, Capt. Williams sent
ray or two of his beaming countenance
along the line at regular intervals, and thus
melted the snow from the track aud kept
the tanks in running trim.
Young men of Cairo, like young men
elsewhere, have doubtless been resoluting
little during the last week or longer.
They have resolved to do many things that,
in the past, they failed to do, and to not do
any more many things which in the past
they did to their injury, perhaps also to
their sorrow. But there is one thing which
perhaps many of them have forgotten to
notice in any OF their resolutions, VIZ, the
habit of going into debt. 1t is not to be
inferred from this that many young men in
Cairo are in the habit of going into debt
not at all. There are probably less num-
Der of youthful, chronic debters In this
city than in any other of it's size. But
there are a few who need very much to
resolve and to keep the resolutlon--to pay
as they 60 and moi to go" If they can't
pay. The many, also, who are happily out
of debt, would not be injured, either in
pride or purse, to pass similar resolution,
for they may thereby be induced to avoid
giving way to a strong emptatlon in the
near, uncertain future. 1t is not
open to dispute at all, that one
OF the most fatal steps young man can
make is to contract debt. 1t mortgages
his future. 1t means in nearly every case
that he is living beyond his means. Debt
is what ruins so many of our business men.
They begin with small accounts and as
their busidess increases they increase their
accounts and finally their habits of living
become so expensive that the debts begin
to far exceed the returns of business. The
result Is failure, disappointment and dis