Thomas County cat., 1889-09-05
ThK BEAUTIFUL

InfANibls Signs Of the Approach ef That
Delightful Season.
Just about this time we feel sure that we
are drifting into that delightful season,
We know that is here, BE-
cause the other day man informed us that
he had seen blue bird dart through tho air
with straw In his bill, and we ourselves
heard frog croak In q wayside pool
No one sighs: "Come, gentle -" be-
cause gentle - seems to be already
here. The horse and the coachman arr,
shedding their winter coats, and the poet ie
expressing his sentiments C. o. d.
The man who has found crocus easily
imagines that he has also found a violet, and
feels 80 confident that - must be here
that he hangs his rugs out the window,
leaving the windows open, and does other
unwise things that are unerring symptoms
of that well-known spiritual malady, II We
may so put it, - fever.
Setting out trees and setting hens are
now popular forms of illustrating the fact
that's in the air. The pussy willow
puts forth its tender buds, and the click of
the pruning shears is heard in the Usage
orange hedge. The Shanghai rooster struts
about, tossing his fine comb in the air, and
feels bigger than the president Of the sugar
trust
You may feel that - is here, when
the swart Tuscan with the Simian col
league pauses before the oriel and grinds
out t"-,-,b beautiful a." and fol-
lows 1t up with, 1.-THE Flowers that Bloom
in the --, ira, Ia" Because when the
swart Tuscan does the same, you know it
is time to let the fire out in the cellar, and
put the price Of the winters coal into
quinine pills. And, as you start forth In
quest of these sugar-coated spheres of bit
terness, you see your neighbor raking the
fertilizer on his lawn, and by the number
of ''Old Crow bottles in the mass, you can
not help fancying that he has been fertil.
izing foS rye.
The actions Of the landlord with four or
five vacant houses on his hands IL also .
human advertisement Of the advent o.
He belongs To- more than does
the North river shad and the Bermuds
onion. q
He Is what would be called q ''rustIern in
California and he outrustles q new silk
dress with train twelve feet long on ai
winding stair In his activity to lease his
houses. He advertises them in the papers,
and invites prospective tenants to luncheon,
and drives them about the place, and does 4
every thing but bring them out in . special Il
vestibule dining-csr and tell them the truth n
about the place
The passion for gardening is now break
ing out in spots-like q coach dog-amone
the people that didn't try it last year; and
the agent OF the rose grower boards the
train as 1t stops, to head you OF before you
can jump into your carriage.
Newspapers have recently printed para,
graphs full Of the beauties Of Juicy. mellow
-, with such heads as: g. In Con4
necticut-" "- At Smithville, l. I ~ And,
from these we fancy 1t must be -, mi
deed. But out in New Jersey 1t Is difYerent.t
There you can always tell 1t is -, wheuI
you hear the first mosquito, or, rather
tarantula; and observe the retailer a. he{
fishes up bolt Of last years pink nettinG,l
faded to q dull yellow, that makes il lookf
like new, bangsit on the counter, and burstsI
into jocund smile, moro howery and fra,!
grant than the ethereal mildness of lovelvl
itself.-Puck