The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-09-02

wer me with the thought. This is as il
should be, God meant 1t so in the be-
ginning to him | say; am not deal
ing with that phase of the question.
What God meant in the beginning !
have no means OF determining. Evil
Is in the world to-day, and rampant
How it came, aud why, is n secret
locked up in the bosom Of God. The
conditions are reversed; the times are
out of joint, Hundreds of women and
children are without protectors and,
what Is worse, unable to protect them
selves. Your argument would have
some force--a very little-if every wo-
man married happily and could have
guarantee, signed, sealed, and deliver
cd, that her husband should be strong,
temperate, competent and long-lived.
But it has no force at all while unmar-
ried women are on every hand and or
phaned children fill the air with their
piteous lamentations. The promise of
happy home and wlfehood cannot be
given. What father or mother, then,
will dare lift up presumptory voice to
say, These things shall not come to
me or mineP In tho face of these
things, in the face Of the glazing and
terrible stories Of dosertion, cruelty
and murder that fill our papers, do you
tell me that woman should not be fitted
for n life-work as well rs Il manP
There is senseless prejudice
against tho liberal education Of woman,
which finds its best expression in the
term strong-minded,' applied to any
woman who thinks, reads, and reasons.
It is said that such women arc not fond
of home; that they neglect its chief
duties and find their chief happiness
elsewhere. But have never seen
more beautiful homes than those of
women in Syracuse, N, Y, who spend
their Saturdays in the woods botaniz-
ing, and who have been so successful
in their favorite study that they are
quoted as authority by the fayorltc bot
anists of America. | have never seen
n loveler home than that of Il Boston
woman who has made close, careful,
and systematic study of Shakespeare for
more than twenty years. have never
breathcd swceter air than that of 4
household on Mississippi plahta-
ton, presided over by II gentle woman
full Of sweetness and grace, yet
who gives part of each day TO the study
of political economy for tho comprc-
hension and intelligent discussion Of
free-trade and tarin-reform. Home
it is tho sweetest word in the wide
range Of any true woman 5 vocabulary.
claim the highest education for wo-
man, that she may have tho power to
fill her home with inspiration, with all
,piritual forces that will fit her for sit
ting worthily at the head of her house,
hold. Such training lends glory to
material things, and lifts up tho COM
monplace TO the plane of the spiritual.
Every simple, homely art becomes tho
symbol Of willingness to please, and
desire TO give our best to those we
love and honor. This education Is be-
coming the ambition of young Ameri-
can womanhood, but Us yet tho girls OF
the South must look away from home
for tho opportunities of u broad and
deep culture. Tho spirit Of the higher
education is abroad; our girls are be-
ginning to hunger and thirst. Soon no
one VIII dare shut tho door of any col
lege in womans face with his dog
| matte thus far and no farther We
who believe not in capricious idol of
power, but in just Father who loves;
we who hold that there is nothing
which is not in God, cannot doubt tho
end. 1t is beautiful thought that our
best desires arc but pictures of the
things God means to give us: and SO it
is that | see in tho wish nearest my
heart the bold outline of university
which, to use DR.. Mayo's words, shall
be furnished with everything needful,
without flaw Of sham education, from
lofty turret to foundation stone, so we'll
endowed that for 5000 year thou
sand students will throng its corridors,
and no good girl will be kept out be-
cause of her poverty. The great
acquired and inherited fortunes will do
this work. And whenever, through
out the land, such n work is needed, do
~, iiou huu NOuicl VI lno NOElu anu
South. use the words North and
South in n geographical sense only.
They have no other meaning to us now.
We are all simply Americans. There
was family row, but it is settled now
and the boy in gray has como home to
spend his days. The impulsive, hot
headed, large-hearted boy, youngest
and we'll beloved son of fond mother,
noundered about in his little state
rights boat till it went to pieces in the
breakers. He returned as if awaken
cd from troubled dream. The blue
eye and the bright sunlight were above
him. Putting his arms about his
mothers neck, he said Mother | will
be a good boy now Smoothing his
hair with her fair, soft hand, and wiping
the tears from his eyes, she pressed up
on his lips the kiss of peace and recon-
ciliation. He has kept his word, and
today there is no more loving or moro
loyal son in all the land than tho boy
in gray, way down in Dixie"