The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-05-08

pair of bones In negro minstrelsy.
The women folks put him to bed and
the nett day he wrote:
"One swallow does not make spring,
nor yet one fine day."
To this day the above is quoted
frequently. Thus we see the infu.
ing generations!
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Jack Frost Is universally regarded
as the swiftest painter extant. As
q brush singer. however, Madam
Nature is some pumpkins. About the
time the billy-goat begins to sniff at
the tin cans In the alley. brought to
view by the disappearance Of win.
ter's snow, Madame Nature gets busy
with her can Of green paint On
| every tree she hangs her mantle Of
daub, plates the grass blades and
signals the cottage owner to get out
his lawn mower. Then she grabs her
tubes OF varicolors and is away to
| the sunny, brushy hillsides, where
she revels in anemones, violets, GRO
cuses and wind flowers. Delicate Is
her brush and constant is her toll
the perfume Of her presence clinging
to her handiwork. When she has fin
| ished we have Spring. the May-day
festivals and the May-baskets. AS an
artist she excels the masters.
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! Solemn thoughts come and abide,
even in the springtime with her flow
ers and birds and promises.
But when shall spring visit the moulder-
| Ing urn
oh. when shall !. j. i dawn on the night
when shall 1t dawn on the night
of the grave?" Did Beattie mean a
spring for those who mourn outside
the mound, or for he who sleeps 30
quietly within? II the former, spring
may never come again as once 1t did,
and yet its coming may sanctify and
temper the heart to kindness, faith
and beauty. II the latter, It must
come in the Great Hereafter. The
Christian believes in its coming. the
grandest spring Of evolution, a spring
which mocks the grave and outshines
earthly life as the arc outshines the
| hichy. way IL uc ihuSSu oo.
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With spring, come the apple bios.
SONS! Isn't that worth an exclama
ton point? How they scent the air
and call the bees to buzz among their
petals. They carry man back to
the time when he was young and full
of green apples! They transport him
to the thoughts and memories of yes
teryear" many years ago! They re-
mind him of a rosy checked girl who
wore her hair in braid straight down
her lithesome back They hint OF
school days and schoolmates scat
tered to the winds or slumbering In
far apart! They hint Of Other
things! Suffice what else! This II
enough! Dream on and on, and dom
wake up until you have to-! Dream
ing of apple blossom time Is sucf
sweet dreaming.
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As q boy we never really believed
in springs arrival until we could dii
angle worms out back of the barn
Boy lore taught us, too, that wher
angle worms were ripe, fish nibblinl
had begun! We paid little attention
to the book.beer sign In those days
1t is only in maturer years that one
but the angle-worm sign never failed
Three days after we uncarthed tn,
first tentatus wiggleinktum the suck
ers started on q mad stampede vi
the creek and every boy In town wa,
out after a string Of the Ans! Suckers
and milk was a fashionable dish IL
those days! Alas! how our stomach
has retrograded! It is a sure sign
anyhow. When you can dig wiggle
inktums. Spring has sprung"
SSS
When the sap comes! Ha! Then l
Is indeed spring-or 1t is spring, In
deed! Take your choice. Often VI
have permitted our neighbor's boy Il
try the angleworm test while W
bored holes in fathers naples. W.
, have caught several cans OF sap dur
, ing our time. and II We hadn't been s.
thirsty would no doubt have "sugare
OF" quite q COB Of sugar! As a 81
CARER of we may have been q tota
failure. but as prognosticator. W.
were certainly par excellence.
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Sure sign Of spring Is the Ice mar
Not that you have completely Gu
him out during the winter from tn
, sanctity OF your steam.heated dat, Blu
his coming is sure prognosticatio
because 1t Is in the glad springtim
that he comes to raise the rate! Oh
Fate! that left us handicapped In thi
life, with no ice.house of our owr
: This is briefly considered subject
but II saddens us to comment broad
upon 1t. Let us not linger longer 4
the gloom!
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, Tennyson calls spring the "boyhoo
| - tna yaarn nuripg this odolescen