Milford chronicle., 1904-10-28
MILTON NEWS.

diving robes of Natures glory. One
more we see the fading leaf falling from
the pareat stem, lightly floating unde
atmospheric pressure and falling by tn,
wayside. We see the maple in its pretty
panorama Of variegated colOrs, and all
this beautiful scenery teaches us the
melan choly fact that we are one veal
older, than when the leaves faded last
autumn. FIR, NJ GOlconda's mines we
gather the diamonds; from Ceylons
shores we gather the pearls; and it may
be truthfully said that from the shade
trees of town, the busy housewife is now
gathering up the fadad souvenirs of sum
mer that are strewing her sidewalk, are
have been whirled into eddys around the
front porch. (Or perhaps her masculine
femininity 49, husband - is doing it for
herr Yet with all of the accumulations
of debris that autumn lea yes in its train,
we must sly we love the season, as we
do all other seasons, in its season. 1t is
superb grand sublime and we would
willingly las II HelOise said to her lover,
''If there he q word mere true, more ten
der, ard more strongly expressive of
what l feel, that word I would choose. ."
HelOlse loved her lover, aud may we
not be permitted to love autumn with
an equal affection as permeated the
breast Of the Greek maiden? We have
been permitted to witness several of the |
grand displays Of autumn, many of which
we can go back to in "reminiscences, and |
quote with Burns:
Still DER these scenes NV memory /
wakes,
And fOndly brOods with miser care;
lime but the impI ession deeper makes. |
As streams their channel deeper wear. "
But this autumn will soon be gone and
remembered only, perhaps, in the rec
or Is of the meteorological department
yet there may some incidents yet occur
that will make it memorable in the his
tory of some prominent individuals. We
have no desire to dabbe in politics in a
local letter, and for fear we are digress.
ing toward that all important and up-to-
date subject, we will desist from This
item "untl a more convenient seasOn1
and a more propitious occasion.
Miss FRITZ Scheff may boast of her
pleasing attitude at the Chestnut theatre,
Viola Allen of her wealth of golden tres
ses, but the darndest fools that ever
came under our observation, claim
nativity in Milton and are known as the
"Milton Town Council" " We have never
expected this august body to know, or
be versed in all mysteries of hydraulics.
and hydtOstalics yet we did entertain a
certain amount of respect for their nat
ural common sense. The reader will
the grammar in the above
without explanatory.
Apropos: The well that mas been dig
3 ed and he curb that has been settled,
which the writer took much pains
against his natural common sense to
eulogize, has proved a magnificent
failure The storm of Friday morning
filed the well and Overspread Handy
AlANE AAah , AAGiNAs AAAu nOM 4OhA NOuus
Gil want to engage two men at twenty
i've dollars a month to keep the well
la.ld out.
Most assuredly we have the greatest
respect for our officers. Individually
Ind collectively, in their personality,
hey are gentlemen, and above any sus-
les on OF wrong doing. But we submit,
& it not possible to get good man into
pace which is not competent to fill7
n does not take interest enough in his
work to properly adjudicate its require
nebis7 We think so For instance,
he writer may make some smatteriug
5 a newspaper correspondent. but it
rOuldn't do to put me at work in pow
er mill, for I should blow the whole
hing to smithereen before one could
ay Jack Robinson"
Wjth all respect. we must say as we
ave formerly written tunnell to the
ranch. The work can be dene and a
ood job cut of it for $500; and the ex.
enses have been half that amount al
.adY, and no results. 1t is not always
question of economy to do the cheap.
t way. This miscarriage of judgment
as the peoples talk on Friday after
eing results. Yet we and others who
We a right to express an opinion,
ghs have doHe the same as Town
uncil under similar circumstances
t us be just.
Perhaps nothing has ever given such
impetus 10 business in every grade as
the advent of the Steamer Mary M.
lyard TO the people of Milton and
ourbs. Naturally, to plunge into an
-erprise without knowing where the