Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1911-09-17
THE FALL.

So many things speak of fhe ap- proaeh of Autumn. The song of the cricket is abroad in the land, that song which may be called an audible in the stiffness.
 The Fall is all around us. It's signs and portents speak from hill and low land, from orchard, stream and woods. As its name indicates, it is the season of decline, of descent, of disintegra- ton, and decay. The eolors of it's banner are russet, and brown and vel low. It is the season when birds of migration go back to milder climes, unable to endure the eager and the nipping air that breeds the birds of hardy wing
 Oh. queen of the year is the Fall.
 All seasons puryey to her, all do her homage, all pay their toll to her gran aries She lords it over all nature and tfamP1cs in her vats the grapes of eye-y vineyard
 Tue Fall is eternal and universal. You iaeel ii everywhere. All civilza- ton spoats the language of the Fall.
 The history of the human race be gan with q Fall, the result of which were exposure, nakedness, the dress maker and the tailor. This primary Fall is the theme of the greatest epic in our language or probably in any tongue.
 But there Was a Fall anterior even to the time When Adam delYed and Eve spun,' and that was when the arch enemy of humanity, who essay ed revolt in Heaven, was tossed over it's battlements and fell through space: "From morn till noon, from noon till dewey eve, Summers day he fell" Ever since that initial Fall of our great ancestors, mankind has been stumbling and falling all the time Our very act of walking is a success sion of controlled falls, and we arise in the morning only to fall asleep at night
 The law of gravitation, by virtue of which it is more natural to fall than to rise, was itself suggested to the mind of Newton by the falling apple, the second apple, by the way, which figures in a fall. The truth is we all have the Failing sickness"
 History abounds with all sorts of falls, some great, some insignificant. Of the great falls, barring that of Ad- am and his bride, none is more im- posing than that of the great Caesar, when he fell at the foot of Pompey's statue, poyniarded, done to death, by the leading reformers of Rome, 70! what a fall was there, my country men,"
 Then there is the Fall of Sisera, as described in the Book of Judges, in words that themselves seem to fall as they tell the story: At her feet he bowed, he fell he lay down, at her feet he bowed he fell. where he fell down dead"
 We have the slow fall of Sampson's head in Delilahs lap. and the swift fall of the temple whose supporting pillars the shorn Titan tugged at and broke amain.
 We have the fall Of the mists, and night fall, and the fail of good man from grace and of the sinner back again into the evil of his ways, and the sound of the fire whistle that "Falls on the listening ear of the night"
 There is the earlr -. late rain that falls on the jus 2r3 njust. We have windfalls. tla fall of collapsed and inflated renutal;als, the falling of official heads into the basket, the falling out of teeth, the falling in of the cheeks, and falling stars, those celestial tramps. and fal- len angels, the mercies of God also which fall in unmerited abundance upon all the sons of men.
 All languages. all business, all pur- suits of pleasure or gain, everything which man touches, CT is concerned in, is infected with the fall. He falls into bed, and he falls into love. There is the infant falling to sleep in the arms, and the old deacon in his pew during the sermon. There is