The Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1859-1865, 1861-10-24

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JOHN THOMPSON, P. NJ.
Ebensburg, Oct. "a, 1861.
Few SEAsoNABLE REFLECTIONS
"The wind is sighing all day long,
A sad and melancholy song"
Winter is coming! We say it after due
elaboration, and with shiver that ex-
tends even unto our bootpoints. The
melancholy days" are now on hand, in
inexhaustible quantities, and of a quality
% suit the most fastidious fancier of the
article. The foliage of the forest has be-
come metamorphosed by process of ma
ture from living green to the "sere and
Yellow" and, ah . how dismally the frost
,ineed winds moan and sigh through the
almost denuded boughs Where month
ago were flowers, and waving grain, and
bhe, mirthsome songsters, and May-day
happiness, now appears gloomy desola-
ton.
The apples have been plucked from
their parent stem; the nuts are dropping
one by one from the trees the birds have
seeded to n warmer cline and in the
early morning, n rare network of white is
discovered enveloping hill and dale with
its gauzy presence.
Pretty soon-r'r'r'rip. urr the cold
North Wind will come swooping down
upon us, to clasp us in his icy embrace.
He will chase away the last lingering
beams of Summer, and assume the Of
fee of Weather Clerk himself. A fierce,
iLcontrollable despot is this same Frost
King! Genial Summer reigns with a
mild and steady reign, but he comes as an
avalanche, maintaining his sway "a ct ar
ms, as the land sharks say. He rattles
the clements in grand profusion around
our head, makes the innermost nook and
Granny of our tenement feel his inhu-
ence, and blows his frigid breath in our
very face.
That gale sweeping through the aisles
Of the forest is the auant courier of the
Frost King. Do you hear it :? If your
potatoes are yet to be housed, or your
coalbin to be replenished, you had better
heed it, This by the way, however.
And then will be in season icicles, hot
punches, rheumatism, fresides, oysters,
Oyerheated stoves, two in bed, ct cetera-
And sleigh-rides.
Especially the latter And, oh. young
reader, whoever you may be, as you glide
merrily over the "crvstal sheen," remem-
Der that Winter-whatcver it may prove
to others-is your halcyon era in life.-.
Wrap the bufaloes warmly around your
self aud partner, sit together snugglie, lay
on the whip right merrily, and bid Dull
Care be uncquivocally busted For after
you have departed from this sphere, there
will be the same jingle of silvery BELLS
the same gay and happy laughter-the
same fun, fancy, frolic, and fitting hither
and thither-two-phorty, g'lang. you
know-and the kosses will have to take it
all the same. In other words, go it while
you're young, tor when you get old you
can't!
Winter has many terrors to some
Hard times, empty granaries, racking
coughs, excruciating pains, and the like,
Ore few of these Man proposes but
tod disposes. Beggars of right should
not be choosers What cannot be cured
must be endured and all such should be
comf9rted by knowing that in their afflic-
ton or privation they are serving some
wise end of their Creator Another item
'fom which to extract some crumbs of
consolation is the fact THAT the cold term
e1tendeth over only three or four months,
instead Of eight or ten, as it might just as
asiy do.
And thus cnds the lesson.
FINANCIAL MATTER-Cyrus ~. Per-
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