New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-10-08
SONNETS OF AUTUMN.
OCTOBER.

OCTOBER.
October, 'Tis time of and shade.
4 time of radiant beauty and sad hours.
OF frosty morn and walks in sunny glade
OF nippng nights by glorious moons repaid
OF summer sweetness. lacking but the flowers ys
With which fair summertime her children dOwers
And with which all the earth is Overlaid
Beauty there is but rot the beauty vrrnal,
And warmth there is. but not the warmth Of June
And there are glories Of the he, hour mo nocturnal
oh lights and shadows! oh. the JOY supernal
That chNers while and leaves us all too soon!
AN OCTOBER NIGHT.
The nascent moon peers from behind cloud
From his proud station. wing with her beams;
The weeping Plead Sisters. lonely crowd
SUI The ei ttle DPper ladies' out sweet dreams
To souls receptive Oh now perfect seems
The night. when stars, rejoicing, speak aloud!
A breeze there is that fans the cheek of sorrow:
A peace there is from which our spirits borrow
ps2 fhe darkmes aee of the domStfui
-(St. Louis Po5t-Dispatch.
The following is from report OF court case in
England;
we were married last April and have been quar-
relling ever since" said a comey young at
Westminster yesterday. who charged her husband
with assault
The Husband-Soon after married you
stabbed me in the eye.
at you. You have threatened to murder me and
tied strings around my neck.
Horace Smith-Dear me. There hardly seems
time for all these horrors.
The husband remanded.
Papa have-have you seen Harold since you
told him he was too poor to think Of-of marrying
Yes; I across him at the club last evening
We got into conveTsation. and he struck me-er'-
Struck me 80, as quite an agreeable young man
thousand kansas City Journal.
1.-The Chicago Record Herald tells a story of a
absentminded clergyman In Washington. One day
last spring a policeman found him wandering up
and down First-st.. which runs through a new part
of the city to Of the gates OF the Soldiers Home
grounds There not many houses there. and
both sides OF the street occupied with stables
for mules and rough barracks for men employed by
the contractors who are building the filtration
works for the city water supply The dominic was
bewdered and. approaching a policeman with a
slip Of paper In his hand asked:
"Can you tell me where 1 find No. ISIS
First-st. -"
The numbers don't any higher than 240o
Who is the person you was looking for?'
II can't recall the name replied the minister
puzzled at his own loss of memory. And, come 10
think about IT. j don't remember what wanted to
see him for l found this memorandum on nv desk
and came out here. but you seem to be right
There isn't any such house"
Let's see that paper" said the policeman and
as IL handed 10 him he read aloud SIG
First then added: lis this all vou,va co, .,
go by?
Yes" confessed the parson shVIv 81 ,h,,
you. but l won't look any further ara st,r,aI
down toward the boundary. where he could ~, =
car back the city. That evening Mt the III, -
was telling his wife about his adventure and -,
to account for it. when II all came back tn hin, s
with a hearty laugh he exclaimed that tho -
he tried to find was the twenty-eighth verso ~ En-
sixteenth chapter " the First EpissIe to tn. CT,
thians
THE SHORTER COURSE
Hurry the baby fast you can
Hurry him, worry him. make him a man.
OF with his baby clothes. get him I'm Dants
Feed him on brain foods and make him advance
Hustle him he's able to walk
Into a grammar school. cram him with talk
Fin his poor head full of figures and facts
Keep on a-jamming them I'm till II cracks
Once boys grew up at n rational rate:
Now develop while you wait
Rush him through college, compel him 10 grab
OF every known subject dip and dab.
Get him in business and after the cash,
All by the time he grow mustache.
Let him forget ne ever boy.
Make gold his god and its Jingle his Joy.
Keep him adjusting and clear out of breath
Until he wns-neryous prostratlon and death.
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