The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-10-20
OCTOBER DAYS.
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 (By Andrew James Miller.)

(By Andrew James Miller)
 There is a time. just e'er the frost,
 Prepares to pave old Winters way, When Autumn in a revery lost,
 The mellow daytime dreams away"
 October may justly be styled the month of opulence. Its fresh and bracing air, invigorates alike both body and mind. free from the languor of late autumn and the nipping eagerness of winter. It pre- sents a rich feast of beauty. in the diver sified hues of foliage hedge and wood land, where Natures contrasts intensity each other. Look wherever we may from open fields to gardens and cultivated grounds, the sight of ripeness and plenty meet us, nor Is there an inconsiderable amount of blossoms left-the untended products of the meadow and hillside, which always call up tender, sympathetic emotions in the human mind, suggesting the departed glories of long days and bright skies. To the casual sojourner in the country, at this season, there is an undeniab ble beauty on every hand, in the rich purple, red, russet and other vari- colored berries that deck the roadside, though not a few are deadly enough in their loveliness. The sloes, in their smooth, yellow, shining coats, might be thought to offer as succulent flavor, as the juicy dewberry, which has long since been plucked from the neighboring bramble. The deceptive crabapple makes up in show what it may lack in flavor resembling. in this. many of Pamona's most highly cultivated gifts. Then, there are endless sprays of fern and bramble, wild phlox flags, sumac. and many-hued grasses, besides quaintly- shaped red-brown tendrils of twisting and climbing plants. ivy, mistletoe and what-not which go to the completion of this eye-festival of the woodlands.
 It is thus, in October, that Nature seems to have the artistic knack of deep ening all her tones and shades of color, with the declining year. enriching her whole aspect, up to her very death; even until the first keen frost sweeps each bough and twig clean of the last rem nants of its summer garb
 Nor is the angler without his share In October's opulencc There are many fnny denizens of our lakes and streams, which are most widely plentiful and af- ford capital sport during this month. The bream are still in fine condition, while the ruddy. filmed perch give sport of the most exciting kind. This diversion receives it's highest collaboration for those, whose happy chance 1t is to visit streams and lakes suitable for trolling or fv-fishing. One can deftly cast his fly
 
 up stream, just where some miniature rush-island divides the current and have a good chance of hooking one of the finest fish In the water-the trout As the ny like a thing of life. falls with gossamer lightness on the curl of the nipples 1t will happen, if fortune Is propiuous, that wary trout will dart at the lure and at the steel enters his lip, his bound will send that electric thrill along the taut Ita ,,hicb the f1y-6sher knows to be one of the few joys of life, that custom never stales.
 The month also has its myriad charms .ha hI,ntsman. The wild and wary rmaiI whose swift flight takes good shoot ing are now in their prime Of one can brave the elastic bird law) while the wild ducks are beginning to return from ,hair bleak and cheerless breeolne grounds of the far north.
 Indeed, the outdoor recreations oi October are innumerable. while the crisp rees of its early mornings only warns the nntbusiasm of those. who love to gair haaIth and sport afeld.