West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1878-10-26
October Days.

'Once more Octobers wealth of love
illness is here" And with her wealth of
loveiness comes her wealth of weather.
her wealth of autumn woods,-vcry rich
in diversity of colors, like the rich
coat of Joseph her wealth of fruits.
and her wealth OF MONDAY suns and
morning and evening fogs,-and to many,
too, her wealth of fever and ague and
rheumatism.
How different our months Of the fall
ing leaf TO those of many parts of the
old county! Foreigners are astonished
and amazed at American autumns
There the leaves on the trees never
change color till a whole grand forest
looks like gorgeous bouquet, but the
green leaf slips from it's parent branch
| and falls untarnished TO the ground.
Here, before they are naked, the woods
assume all the hues of dying dolphin.
This peculiar coloring Of the leaves
Is attributed 10 the peculiarities OF our
soil and climate. The chemical elements
are different and of greater variety than
i'm many European countries. In an
analysis of the autumn leaves, they are
found to have absorbed great deal Of
iron. Iron is, however, the life of ami
mails and plants-it gives coloring and
beauty and enjoyment TO everything.
Take u man from whose blood the iron
has almost departed, and you will find
melancholy, morbid fellow, more mel.
ancholy and morbid still in the fall and
spring of the year. In all those beauti-
ful, rich leaves that you zee in forest
and flowers, in the bracing atmosphere
of our best days, you will find this pow
erful chemical element. II adds 10 the
glory and the grandeur of the day, and
invigorates and animates all about us.
Glorious Octoberl What sound 10
the sense is that very word, October IL
breathes of hope aud energy for the
future, and wakens glad memories of the
past. Nutting-days in the forests, cider
making days in the orchards, with the
mellow smell of bellehowers and pippins,
rambeaus and lady-blushes; the boyish
shouting at old, crazy-eyed. high -boned
Dobbin turning the windlass of the
cider-mill, the Juicy crush of apples
and the gushing fluid Delightful mem
ories these But the fact, as well as the
memory, is still with us. We have a
patent cider-mill, TO be sure, that is not
so " romantic as the old wooden one,
with its uncouth cogs, and we have
patent apples, ool-But our boys are
Just as jubilant while the spry pony
turns our patent mill, as ne were when
crow-bate Dobbin plodded slowly his
weary circle only at the crack Of the
whip, taking every chance to idle when
he was not urged 10 his work.
But welcome month il October still,
and always will be, 10 youth Perhaps
he who is in the October of his life may
not greet the season with 40 much ex-
ultation, as 1t il TO him an emblem and
memorial at once; yet still, to the old
as well as the young, il brings some
blessings and some joys, though amelio-
rated by the fading luster of age.
If those who, in the course OF years,
have gathered wealth into their garners,
Will besgener0us, no matter how old they
may be, the month will bring plenty of
blessings, now and for all their future.
October is n busy month for the
thrifty farmer. He is pushing forward
all necessary repairs about his farm !;
Tightening up his houses and sheds for
more stock; husking his winter corn
sowing his winter grain preparing the
soil for spring; storing away his oats
and vegetables. There is al ways work
for such farmers. October, when rightly
used pays as we'll AZ any month in the
year; and If all men will use IL righ tly
we need fear neither pestilence nor
famine