Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1872-11-06
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The hips and hops % every hsdge,
Bsepeaks Nossm6sr eonel All sst
We stsud ON winters crumbiiag edcr!
Like nature opening grave We eye
The one brief month not yet gpue by.n
Another month has gone its roundL new
window has been knocked INTO the wall Of
the great house of time, . . new supply
Of light has dawnei on the world. For In
tacsc times when history marches rapidly,
We count the worlds progress mot by CEN
turies or by fears. but BY mouths.
The Franco-Prussian war and all its gilt
ter and fierce coloring, where were they In
= few months? Long before the year was
out we find them obscured in the new de-
ve!opments of politics in the gradual mer-
cling Of all Germany into n united king
dom.
Our country has jast passed through one
of the most exciting presidential canvasses
that it has experienced since the
birth Of our republic, and it would seem
that so great an event in / n,tion's history
would not soon be forgotten by its people 9.
that the great and exciting topics Of so impor-
tant an event would be so indellibly stamped
upon the min,Is and memories OF the particle
pants therein that, half q century hence
would find 1t fresh and green in memory Us
II Tut yesterday.
But not SO. the results of the fifth OF No
rember's work and the policies and acts of
those elected to the several Off ses on that
day may perhaps be such That they will rot
be forgotten within a century,. But the can
vass Is to what We aliuie, with all that each
and all of us have said anil done, will be but
a. II wave cast upon the shore Of tim to
remain hut a moment, and then return TO
the great sea Of oblivion never to be seen
again. Not only are great political events
matters of more than annual occurrence in
this century. but even great reforms AMI the
rapid dcvIopemcnt Of great ideas and their
practical inception are chronicleJ, and with
truth We may say weekly. But we have
wandered n little from our first remark; 10
be sure it was not a very striking one since
1t amounted only to the assertion that AL
other month had expired, or as We were CO.
ing to say that we had corle to 4 beautiful
first Of N0ycm5cr, and
Snow the leaf
lnccssant rtis!!es from the mourniul grove,
On startling such as, studivus walk below,
And slowly circles Ihroag., the wgvin. air"
We have thus far had i beautiful tall, dry,
cool. frosty Indian summer.
Did you ever, when Il boy, wander through
the woods in autumn, hunting hickory nuts
and walnuts? Up hill and down hill, over
fences, wade creeks. crawl through brush
aud briar tticse;., tearing your clothes,
scratching your legs, hands and face, until
they would bleed, making you look rs
though you had had u fight with halfa dozen
tom cats? Didn't you enjoy tho sport:
wasn't it delightful TO see the yellow leaves
falling. and strewn Upon the ground to
smell the sweet paw-paw, TO hear the nuts
falling like great hail stones! and OIL in
your wahderings to come suddenly upon a
black huw patch. Were not those the hap
piest days of all your lifef
What a deep longing and endless love oil
beauty must have been in the heart of the old
German poet who sang
Sum @aIS, Sum Fab"
ooh, wood, thou wood, for thee / year..i
Alone lli go alone, return!
There all ID pleasant glad and gay,
And life Is an endless holiday.
Thou dark green wood to thee allied
As earihly groom To heavenly bride,
i love hut tnee, to thee Pm true,
Forever art thou fresh and new.
Yes, in the forest dark to sec,
The lonely hunters tomb shall be.
Ho! for the green wood-rock and fern,
Alone I'll so, alone RETURN
Do You understand it, this deep love for
the forest like that Of bridegroom for bride,
that love which is all oftruth, and which lets
nothing In but goodness and beauty?
Have you never gone SO far As to know
that simply In visible and audible nature,
among leaves and waters and without going
further, there is \ consolation and infinite,
thrilling rapture to him or to her who has
once penetrated it? DC learn that great Sc
cret of freedom and Joyousness. Nature pre-
sents us with many useful lessonssehe sea
sons suggest our lives.
Like leaves on trees the race of msn is found,
Now green in youth, now whitening on the
another race the following spring supplies.
They 1. u successive, and successive rise,
So ganel .'tions in their course decay,
30 nuori,i these when those are passed
away
ABUNDANCE OF NUTS.
There is bountiful crop of all kinds of
nuts here this fall. .lazlcnuts, wallutS anu
hickorynuts in greatest abundance. All the
little boys aud girls, too, like so many SPUR
rels have been quite busy lay ing up their
winter stores and have all prepared them
selves with a bouutiful supply OF nuts for
winters cracking.
NUTTING PAETIEn
have been very fashionable here this fall
with the larger girls and boys, but such par
ties seldom return from the forest with any
considerable quantity OF nuts, thus neglect
ing to lay il. 4 winters supply will have to
crack jokes instead Of nuts, around the fire.
sides this winter. which no doubt will prove
as pleasant and agreeable past.lnc TO them
rs cracking nuts : 10 The little ones.
THE WHEAT CROP
in this neighbOrhood is considered No L.
TIL early sown looks very tine-the late SOW
ing notwithstanding. the dry weather has
conc up very well.
MYSTERIOUS DIsAPrEAkANCE.
A Mr.. Johnson, better known here rs
Hardware" who lived on the island n short
distance below our town, solitary and alone,
where lie followed the business Of fishing
and gardenin. the past summer, disappeared
from his hoina last week-fears are enter
tanned that lie has been foully dealt with.
WAGON AND A Jess STOLEN.
One night last week q thief or thieves
stole from Joseph Hammer, of Fair View
neighbcrhood, his two horse wagon and lar-
ness. The wagon stosd but a short distance
from the house.
Suspicion rest upon two men who lent
for Texas about that time. This is another
very bold THEFT.
AULLVILLE ITEMS.
From the Herald, LIST.
CUTTING AFFRAY.-A MISUNDERSTANDING
and discussion occurred on last Tuesday
evening. at the store Of Capt. NJ. l.. Belt
between MIR. 4. Shelby and samuel Ander.
SON, resulting in . cutting afJay in which
dirk knife from thefhand Of the first named
gentleman. WerrSrctte0 mulch the occur.
rence of this unforsanate melee, but We trus,
Inofhiny fatal will be the ~Hscduen Calm