The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1885-10-20
LOCAL NEWS RECORD.
THE ACTION OF THE COURTS.
or Interest to Pnl-Pounders - Fine
Corn-Lost . Foot-Csanty Road
Matters-Postai Notes--Marri-
ages and Othsr Items
of General Interest.
Autocrst Of the weather /.

"No, Colonel Sapsucker, there is 70
use in trying to enforce on me your
abominsbiy misquoted sentiment that
these days are the melancholy ones,
and the saddest Of the year, at that.
The idea Ia played out sad the mere
fact that a few old flowers and leaves
are fading, does not, In my mind, con-
stitute an array OF facts sufficient to
predicate suoh an indictment OF the
present season as you have suggest
Cd" So spoke the reporter to critic
OF an calculated turn, who was about
to turn en- the delightful Texas au-
tumn the full ferOcity OF his unfed ma.
ture. Sspsncker was stunned, but
neither psrslyzsi nor petrified. NV ny,
my dear SIR" said he, lido you pretend
TO sec in all these evidences Of decay
about you, ouch AZ the death OF vsge--
tation, the Information OF animals aud
the burrowiug OF insects, no admoni.
ton of impending suffering and want,
no indication OF approaching misery?
Do you not snuff In the
cold breezes the shiverings
Of tens OF thousands OF cattle
on quite a number Of hills and the
clustering OF very many thous-
ands OF teeth in very many thousands
OF human jaws, whose proprietOrs will,
In all human probability, freeze upon
the visitation Of the reinorseless hlix-
card? Do you"
"Desiccate ut once" WAS tho reply
Of the enragod reporter; "know
you not, vile defaimer OF prsvi.
dental widOm,that all things are for the
best? Don't you know that the leaves
whose departure you so lugubrioustey
deplore, are filled with swarms OF
mans worst enemy; that tho coming
fr0ss Will destroy The retreat OF the
musquitO, and send him forth, vile tor
mentor that he IN. OvercoRtless and un.
covered, to q people covered by the
blankets and comforts which his arte.
sian process can never penetrate
Don't You know that thus unsheltare,i
no must die, and yet will You anathe-
matize the weather that brings such re-
lief to those who are compelled 10 rec
Ognfze you as q member Of the game
race? Sapsucker, you are abnormal
In your conceits, atrosious In your
strained ssntlmentality and altogether
sheepish in your manner OF re-
garding nature and her works"
Sapsuoker ventured to interposo here
that as he was just recovering from an
attack OF dengue he might have been
perhaps little rough on the divine
management, but he was not excused
or allowed TO proceed. In his weak
state no was again assailed aud alb
Tuptly b0unced:
"Why, sir, do you allow your little
aches and palms to constitute la youI
-puny hearE an enmity to the whole
plan and purpose OF creation? just
because your rotten bones have been
grabbed by pain do you feel justified
IN turning loose your blundefbuss ON
the world or dropping your Limburger
In everb0dy's pocket? Don't you know,
air, that springtime Ia planting season {?
that summer 10 the period of growth,
and autumn that Of ripe maturity and
harvest? and do you come around pip.
ing and whining that because your pos.
sessions In the way OF carbonate of
limo, or bones, have an unpleasant
tw1nge therefore, even the time whom
such paltry suffering occurs must he
condemned as an unhoy fraction of
the Integral year? Sspsucker, you are
an egregrious slmpleton, n stupendous
dissimulator, or perhaps worse, 1t may
DO that your heart ID naturally vile,
and that you vent, your spleen on ma
ture generally, because too cowardly
to confne IL 10 individuals who might
resent your brutality. But 1t must be
confessed your case IL one OF unusual
lhtrlcacv as well as maliInity. You
are an idiot-that's the reason you are
given to such Stiffness. Just to think OF
the great blessings OF this season. No
election In Texas! Great crops of ey.
erything that grows! More than we
can eat and more than we can shir
away! Nature has cspsizsd her cornu.
oopia and her children draw around
the great hearlh-xtone, enjoy tho rich
bounteousnehs of her loving prodigal
ity-all IL mellowed happiness, and
diseord 10 bAnished until you, Sapauck
OF, yes, even you, blow upon the fuzzy
guxxy and stsrtlo the happy throng BY
TIE announcement that the watermei
on season In over and the sad avs O
the year have come indeed. You ar,
nrst.class fraud, colonel. Autumn i
with US, and the morriest season OF th,
year IL fast approaching.