Des Arc citizen., 1866-12-01
T,ife's Autumn,

Like the leaf, life has it's fading. We | speak and thiiill of it's sadness just as we think of the autumn season. But ] there should be no sadness at the fading of life that has done well it's work. l If we rejoice at the advent of q new life, if welcome the coming of a new pilgrim to the uncertainties of this
 worlds way, why should there be so much gloom when all these uncertain ties arc past, and life at it's waning
 wears the glory of completed task 1!
 Beautiful as is childhood in it's fresh ness and innocence, its beauty is that of an untried life. 1t is the beauty. of
 promise, of spring, of the bud. A h6- l Her and rarcr beauty is tie beauty which the waning life of faith and du ty wears. It is the duty of thing completed; and as men come together to congratulate each other when some
 great work has. been achieved, and see in its concluding nothing but gladness, so ought we to feel when the setting
 sun filings back it's beam upon a life that | has answered well lifc's purpose. When
 the bud-drops are blighted, and the
 mildew blasts the early grain, and there
 goes all hope of the harvest, one may
 well be sad but when the iipened year sinks amid a 9arniture of autumn flow CTS and leaves, why should we regret
 or mllrnur? And so life that is ready
 and waiting for the well done" of God, whose latest virtues and charities arc
 it's noblest, should be given back to God in uncomplaining reverence, we rejoic- ing that earth is capable of so much
 sadness, and is permitted such virtue.
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 HE EaoTIsT.-Thc egotist, like the monotone, is full of one all-engro ssing
 subject thatis, himself Self-glorifica- tion is the only kind of conversation that intereits him. He fatigues people, and provokes their ire by his continual
 reference to his wonderful sayings and
 doings. He has always something's to tell indicating his talents, his interest, his influence, his great general impor- tance. He never wearies of relating how he foresaw everything, forctold everything, advised or managed every thing: how much people honored, res pected, consulted, preferred him. You are led to wonder how even the world
 got on before he was born, and how it will do when he shall have passed away. Within certain limits he is generous to others. All his friends and relations are remarkable, eminent; each is the very foremost man in his peculiar sphere. If they are merchants or ban kers, they are millionaiIes, and their transactions regulate commerce and money market; if they have salaries, they have twice as much as others of
 the same class if they are authors, their works lead the age, they get fabulous sums from their publishers, and are read by millions; are they legislators, | it is they that rule arc they soldiers, it is they that win the battles. Whatever he has seen it is quite superior to what ever any one else has witnessed. No one ever saw so fine sunset. so grand
 storm, of such big hail-stones. His
 watch is perfect, and keeps better time
 then any other. Everything with which he is in any way connected be- comes invested with an air of greatness and superiority. He never failed or was batfied i'll any thing he undertook.
 Whatever may be the subject of con
 versation, he has some special informa- ton upon it, not accessible to ordinary
 mortals. He is very sensitive to ridi-
 cule or banter, when he can be brought
 to think you have dared so far, and you
 need not hope that he will eyer forgive
 you. There is only one way to get on with him. and that is on the principle
 that it is better to fatter fools than to 1 fipbt with them