The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1903-09-24
The Coming of the
Autumn.

The Autumn was savage in its first
appearance this year. 1t drove out a
too ardent summer and seemed to bring
all the vangnards of the winter with it.
Clouds aud cold and roaring winds aud
biting frost were all ushered in at once
before men had times to doff their ice
cream suits and to get their top coats
from their -"UDcles." But, seriously,
the coming of Autumn has its sad feat
ures. The sunshine like the migratory
oirds. seem to gather it's golden brood
and fly away; the pail Of the clouds is
spread upon the heavens; the winds take
IN their old storm tones; the leaves fade
on the trees and chill gathers upon the
air like the damp upon the brow Of the
dying True, the harvest in its fullness
fills the land. eranaries arc bursting, the
trees are loaded with fruit; the fruition
Of the gardens is on every hand; their Is
no fear OF want; but the smiles have
gone out of the sunshine;the mountain
brows suddenly become sere and wrink-
led, the reminders are all OF the swift
changes which come alike to the world,
and to men when the winter Of life is ap-
preaching. Still, there is nothing else
in Nature 30 beautiful as the seasons
professions, nothing else so filed with
symbols Of hope. The spring begins even
as human life does; at first but bud
so delicate that footstep would crush
1t or harsh wind wither it. But it ex-
pands and takes on more strength and
beauty daily. then music is born to 1t
until all the air is ringing with ioy-songs;
then comes the blooms and the flowers
and fruits. and later the harvest whitens
as it reaches maturity. But then sue
ceeds the autumn, the winter, and finally
the white shroud Of the SHOWS and the
fsce OF Nature is but as the face Of the
dead. How the first winter must have
crushed the hearts Of the men who
watched it descend. How they must
have whispered to each other, Alas, the
world is no stronger than we Like us
it has its childhood and manhood and
now in Its age, like us it falls asleep"
But when another spring came bringing
its sunshine and its warmth. when again
the buds burst forth, and the nesting
birds began again to sing; then the
ones saw that what seemed
to be death was but sleep; that, the rest
over, there was the same life aud light
and JOY, and FROM that example the hope
began to expand that may be man, like
the earth. does not die, but eleeps and
that may be with the new awakening
there will be buds more rare than any
that eoRie to this material world and
music swester than ever fell on mortal
ears. Men have long known that the
spring would follow the winter, they
have long held the seasons as symbols Of
mems lives, and still the coming OF the
autumn is not altogether welcome. The
chill, the hoarse winds, the leaden sky
and the beating OF the storms all come
with the looks of enemies and it takes
real philosophy to reason taat they all
are parts Of plan which was framed in
mercy to the children Of men.
When the world little more advances
we fancy that men will make new ad-
justment. When air ships are perfected,
then men will initiate the birds, leave
their old nests and fly away to the south
when the autumn approaches aud go
where the spring air keeps the foliage
fresh and green and where the fruits
ripen every month on the trees even as
they do in the cities OF the sun.
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