The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1866-11-22
Established 1925.
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'FALL."
"Gris," of The Cincinnati Times,
does the melancholy days up brown,
as follows:
This is the season Of the year known
as fall, 30 called because merchants
get on their tall goods at this time
Bennett gets out his tall style of hats,
also.
The first fall of which there is any
authentic account occurred in the
Garden Of Eden. 1t was called Adam s
falL, and was one of the scycrest falls,
in its effect upon the human race (as
well as the Spring and Fall Races ev-
er known, Had it not been for that
particular fall there would have been
no death in the world, consequently
no undertakers, no funeral professions,
no wearing Grape on the hat, no gay,
young widows, no waiting for rich
old relative to kick the bucket, no
newspaper obituaries, (tbank heavenly
no tombstones and no epitaphs.
Sin would be unknown; 80 there
would be no courts of justice, no pen.
iteDtiaries, no faro banks, no whisky
shops, no police court reporters, no
headaches in the morning, no cheating
at cards, no fraud on the printer, no
sueing for your money after losing it
on square bet, no running away with
another mans wife, no illegal voting,
no garroting, no stealing billiards, no
watering of whiskey, no auctioneers,
no political preachers, no refusing to
marry the GIRL" no false counts in
ten pins, no sand in eugar, no tearing
down show bills, no gift enterprises,
no landlords, no tight boots, no threw.
ing trains off the track, no stufing
ballot boxes, no gas monopoly, no
money lenders, "no license" no lying
about your neighbors, lying in wait or
lying late in bed, no war correspondent,
"no one to blame" and know moth
lag.
This is the season when u variety
of things are made right, or should
be, according to agreement We loan
ed a stranger some money last spring
He said he would make it all right in
the fall" 1t is fall now, but he basn I
made it all right. Perhaps he meant
some other fall.
This season isn't always called fall
School girls call it Autumn" and
write compositions upon it. Here is a
specimen Of school girls compost
ton:
"Autumh. How delightful is Au.
tumn. Autumn iS one OF the sweetest
seasons in the whole year. The trees
are clothed in purple and gold, the
wind shakes down the beech-nuts,
which the squirrel gathers up and
takes 10 his home to put on his table
for dessert during the winter, and the
creak of the cider. press is heard thro
the land.
How sweet it is to walk forth upon
an autumnal morning in autumn, to
hear the music of the autumnal gale
and to feel the warmth of the autum.
nal sun, especially in the autumn
The dead leaves fly along your path
and they seem to- whisper: Follow
US to sunland and bathe in a sea o
rainbows.' Angels beckon us to the
palaces of the West, and their walls
of crystal light. Then the burdocki
lift their heads and say: whittier
goeth thou, sisters2' And then tn,
leaves replyi .'We are borne on thu
arms Of the wind-god and We know
not whltherest we goest'
of all the seasons of the year, give
me, oh give me Autumn. LULIE."
Owing to the excessive rains w
have had this fall, it might appropri
ately be called a wdter:faH. As An
thony says in his celebrated funera
oration over The body Of ]. Cezar
rat'er fall was there my country
men?
The fall races occur in the fall
mostly, although they are sometime
postponed till spring,
This is the season, in the country
for huskings and pairing bees, eide
making and the opening of the Dis
trict School, potato digging and Coun
ty Fairs, mud roads and banking u
the houses, election and gathering ap
pies, pulling turnips and boiling cider
listing doors and putting up the par
lor stove, opening the dancing seasoI
and saving wood, repairing roads an
putting on your "woolen."
OF all the seasons give US Autumn