The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-10-21
HERE AND there.

Ws'fe happy now IN Hoyytlle. fur the tlmeS
are OF the best:
There's money In our p0cketU, an we're
An these d Us ats q inclined meet at
To fathom out the tangls Of the Briton
an the Boer.
There hain't 4 chap among Us as ever
Beln' brought Up here in Heyville. an IT'S
here we love to bel 80
Simple country fellers, with no time fur
An KNOWN little Of the trouble 'twixt the
Brlton an the Boer.
Yit you Kin hear uB nrEify untti the lights
20 out, taa
An BIlI Wilson shuts up shop an puts Us
Somehow we've taken sldes-bOth Often
DObatin' which Is whether, the BritOn or
There's Deacon Jones allows the Briton
Is to blame,
An cornbrake'B hired man he cuts In on
While Deacon Gray don't want to be put
dn'rr fur shore.
But, 'cordin' to his Judgment, the blame Is
Oh tne bocr.
An We have II hot an heavy at Mafeking
80 to speak;
sounds like Greek;
Till our voices drown the Winds that OUT
Fur Heyviiie tSkes an interest in the Brit
on an the Boer. -. W.
These are the days when the teacher
assigns. to her pupils, 1.-THE GlorIes Of
Autumn" as a subject for a compost
tlon. and the observant of the little
ones find it q fruitful topic. Autumn
has glorles In her sunsets that charm
the eye for the beautiful. 1t is full OF
reflections 70 the most callous mortal.
1t is the season OF melancholy days"
melancholy in chat they recall sweet
memories OF the hallowed past, suggest
ed by the fall OF the faded leaves. the
rustic of the wines through stumbled
fields and "nakei woods" the signs Of
decay where vegetation ranked lu%Iir-
liant few moons ago. In the change
less city natures pages are not opened
as in the country. Fall time seems 10
tell It's story only In the abandoned
parks, the decline In the mercury and
the advance in coal. The melancholic
nominations visit the city man when he
takes day or with dog and gun TO
track the festive squirrel to his lair.
Out in the whispering woods under
hazy sky on whose western boundaries
the sun Is directing his lazy retreat In
a patch Of FURNISHED gold. and with the
echoes trailing to his ears from the
neighboring hills and hollows, the hum
ter feels the impress Of the autumn,
and reflections crowd upon him ;hick
and fast. But to the constant habitant
of the town, with never journey 10
where only man Is vile" the Solemn
brood of care plods on, with each man
Chasing his favorite phantom" which
is generally pursuit Of his daily bread
and the melancholy days are no more II
feature Of autumn than OF any of the
other seasons He may give way to
melancholy because last years over
coat won't do. Too much money wasted
in the gladstone summer may also de-
press. Otherwise. "the saddest of the
year" are days consigned to be the
monopoly, the trust and the combine Of
the patrons Of pastoral scenes.
There is certain amount Of SYM
pathy to be ladled out to the boy that
has never spent some periods of his
life in the country. Cowper, the tender
English poet, may be pardoned for his
liues-"God made the country and man
made the town" A nature sensitive to
beauty and pure and inspiring pleas
ure revels amid the wide expanse Of
skies and fields, for solitude Is sweet Mt
times and the tired nerve and weAried
brain find rest and ease away from the
persistent and perennial rush and'rOar
of the city. And solitude means moth
ing except In among the hills where
the creek sings as 1t winds Its way and
the green plumes of the wooded bills
nod In a rockabye that needs no human
dynamo. Not that the city boy needs
solitude Is the import of this depression.
No: But schools are not all, Long he
fore the public school system, the
sermons in Stones" and "the books In
running BROOKS" stirred the muster
pen OF the Bard of Avon. And eXcur- 4
slons to the country are frequently
planned by modern educators for the
ediflcatlon of their school classes. Most
ly the botany and geology classes, It's
true; but so much the better for these
classes And 30 much. so good. But
happy the observant boy with IN in
dulEent farmer uncle. A model farm
house: the cellar stored with apples; the
attic with hickory nuts; the bird dog
and the trusty shot gun: the tales by
the evening fire; the weekly literary
or "sInRin" at the school house over
the hill: the taffy-2ullln or good old
fashioned dance a few miles away, and
the moonlight ride thereto-there are
IA 4. - /. H.,