Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-17
SNAP SHOTS IN SEASON.
FATE acts as bunko steerer to the victim Of
circumstance.

SNAP SHOTS IN SEASON.
FATE acts as bunko steerer to the victim Of
circumstance.
COUNTRY Autumn, city Autumn-rural
| frolics, town melancholies. Did your baby
| eyes first open upon green fields; or did they
peep on bleak walls and dancing chimney potsi
| Did you first creep on the home woven Joseph.
coat colored carpet and play with the apple
blossoms scattered there; or did you crawl on
the velvety fruit of the loom and pluck at the
scentless flowers therein? Did You romp over
cloddy fields and smell the healthful odors that
follow the plow; or did you stub your tender
toes on the stones of the city streetf Did you
see leaves fall in shady lane; or did you see
them turn on scraggy trees and drop in busy
street? And did you leave the green fields,
the hay scent, the apple blossoms, the rural
quiet. for the stony streets, the tall walls, the
close quarters, the swift life before you really
tasted the sweets of the country Autumn? Some
of you did, others didn't. Many upon many
never saw the apples fall, the grains ripen, the
tired furnisher of food at play. They never
dwelt beyond the hustle belt They In golden
youth never counted the Fall days dragging
their slow length Autumnward along the path
that led to the old gray barn, waiting and
watching for the gayest frolic of the Autumn
QayS. IQey never saw Inc Dig UOOfS open WIDE
revealing heaps of yellow corn ready to the
hand of the merry huskers They never saw
the lads and lasses of the countryside climb up
the crispy, glittering hills, form in laughing
lines and with jesting lip and joyous face
strip the rustling clothing from the yellow corn
lantern and mellow light above, laugh and
love below. They never saw the ROBUSTNESS
of the girls who found seed ears in the yellow
rows, and the race they ran through the rust
ling husks and the forfeit claimed from
their pouting lips at the merry husk-
ing bee. They never saw the Autumn
frolic in the ripened corn. They never
tasted sweeter feast than that one spread on
table long by willing hands-the freshest,
choicest things the earth and fruits thereof can
offer. Then the ramble seeing Nellie home
over the stile and stubble, through the lovely
lane, past sleeping sheep and kline. parting
when the night and morning meet. This is one
Autumn joy beyond the limits of the town. He
of the city never felt its thrill. He of the farm,
who husked and danced meath lantern light on
threshing floor, calls up the dream-a red ear,
laughing eye, a long lane, a goodby-she into
the light, he into the night; he one way, she
another.
BLIND people must be led, not driven.
THE washerwomen want new scale. They
won't wait long for it, either.
HER face was fair, her eyes were black,
Her dowry reached handsome sum;
He loved her, but alas, alack!
He could not wed the chewing gum.
STARVING people cannot live on sympathy
unless it is accompanied by soup.
I WATCHED spider spinning in the sun
Weaving a web SO fragile that thought
The wind would rend it ere the work was done,
And hours of patient labor go for naught.
But the silky net
Was deftly set:
That spider sly
Soon shared fly;
Its golden wings
In silvery strings
Were firmly tied
And there it diedi
HERR MOST now says he doesn'tlIke America.
It took Johann a long while to find out that
America doesn't like him, however.
THE model" actress whose shape shocked
Boston calls the Aldermen there ''old jays"
She is about as short of polite words as she is
of clothes.
THE FOUR STAGES.
Sight,
Light,
Might,
Nighti
GRAvEYARps are full of buried treasures.
THE Beaver affidavit mill is turning out a
queer grlsr. 1t may choke up the boiling ma
chine.
BEWARE OF the man or the woman who is
always telling you something in confidence.
They only abuse your confidence.
THE Press and the Pulpit can complete the
civilization of the world. We need powder to
cut away mountains for railroads and dig
canals for ships. But swords can be dispensed
with, even on dress parade.
THE men who dispace railway ties should
wear hangman's knot
If all women would boycott sealskins the
Behring Sea dispute would soon be settled.
Here's chance to test your strength girls.
Oh the sea, the big. deep sea,
When sleep dream of thee.
Your echoing caves,
Your rushing waves
Bring joyless fancies back to me,
o sea.
oh rolling sea. sea-sickening sea.
You surely are way up in G.
You salt your swells,
Your clocks are bells,
Your watches change when winds blow free,
o sea!
THERE'S drum in the ear, but it does not
drown the melodies of music or nature.
THE frog is compelled to leap for life.
IT takes nerve to have a nervy tooth pulled.
THE Boston officials who shut up theater
where play was running on the nudity and
naughriness of the French school have done
more to elevate the stage than any sect or class
in the country. Dress up or shut up.
YOUNG pig, loosely wrapped in brown
paper was sent through the English mails re-
Gently and delivered. to the addressee. If the
English p. o. d. is to be Uttered with such mail
matter the postmasters will surely squeai.
THE light is slowly but surely being turned
on the Dark Continent
THE potato is the root of all evil in Ireland
at present.
HOMES are blasted when blast furnace ex-
plodes.
THE city needs pilot. Organize a Bureau
of Information and steer the strangers through
the breakers. 1t won't break US but will make