Lancaster Standard and County Advertiser. — 1905-09-15 (Lancaster, Lancashire, England)

LOCAL NOTES.  Toon, le that wonderful change in the air wlach wan.. tie that 10111111101 has gone. Autumn hae laid her haml upon the trees and foliage, and the green of the bummer has given place to the ruceoet brown which heraide Lae final fall. There is that touch of ken old iu the atinoophere at early morn and eve No exhilarating to the soul and no moving to the blood. I..deivi, is thousand sigmi t, air the SlUlllller. lb over, and that we stand on the tlevehold of winter grim and  dr2ar. Meanwhile: however, we should ho erijoynis a fine and warm and clear autumn, but., alas, September is not what it used to be. Most of as mat remember when September W. 1.4 one of the most charming months of the yew, but lately ice character has changed. Su I' ibr , we hare nut had a reatly fine day since the month WIN; uslmmal in. Rain has fallen more less every day, and last Saturday's &Aug, will 6 the climax. There are three more weeks in which it may retrieve ha obarmier, but prescut indications rather pout to the melancholy thought that we have seen tho last of the fine weather for this summer.  1.1.. iv „we ocher indications, too, that the end sidniner is UpWI Us. Those hardy the harvest festivals, have already begun, and quite a series of others am advertised tor the next few days. Perchance the harvest is lba yet gathered in, but the voice of thanksgiving is to be heard in the land. Still another indication is the  " dosing down " of the places of entertainmint at Morecambe—or if not the closing down at least reductions in the expenses of the programme consistent with the lessened numbers of visitors now in the town. On the whole the season has been o splendid one. The wet neither of the second half of August interrupted the good business which the taxa has done, but if this week is taken as a criterion it looks as it the return of fine weather will bring back many Who either abandoned m curtailed their holidays Owing to tl th,, existing unfavourable conditions. But summer, nevertheless, is at its iant gap, and we Should treasure every hour of bright sunshine it yet is pleased to give as,  Alreuly people's thoughts are turned towards the winter evenings. Thin journalist notes this an much an anybody. For months past his work has lain chiefly in the day time, and in appointments suggestive of simmer and country life—agricultural and flower shows, and so on. lint the last of theso is at hand, and in their place is coming the winter's round of evening meetings. We have had a foretaste of them this week in the first meeting of the Astronomical and Scientific Aroociation, a society which is flourishing apace and to be a member of which will NO•011 ho regarded no " the thing." Already the society has had its first lecture of the coming sessio a Then we have had a missionary exhibition, rather a rare kind of thing, but full of deep interest to all who went to it. And finally the Storey Institute has published its programme of work and classes for the coming winter--a programme which should be read by all the youth of our town, for it is calculated to stir and awaken within them the thirst for knowledge, which is one of the best things in the world for " getting on" in life with.  The drama of Miss Alluaiby works out on cieep,r linen of tragedy the more its details tiesme, known. At first it was the note of mystery which rang out so sharply. Here Was A young woman who had written a boak, and, apparently, failing to find a publisher, had coucruitted suicide to draw attention to he work. That was the first. impression. Even the relatives fell victims to this belief. Her landlady knew nothing of a manuscript. Nor did her relatives at tertmel. They searched for it in her papers and boxes. Some of them believed it Wit. at Lancaster and would ultimately be found. As late an last Friday, the date of the funeral, when a "Standard" repiaventative interviewed the girl's uncle at Garrinel, he declared the ni,unuseript was there, unpublished, and aided that nothing would be done with it until after the fun;ral. Later events threw this structure down like a 'house of cards.  The real facts of the ease make the original -Jury giotesque and ridiculous. SO far from being an untried author unsucessssfully hawking a manuscript about from publisher to publisher, it turns out that Miss Allenby is mn authotmeiss of sonic repute. She has writtimn books before. They have been published under an anonymous signature. She had business; relations with her publishers, had called on them, written to them, and was personally known to them. In her prink/Iln works there was a touch of religious fervour which bordered on hysteria., and the üblishers hid been compelled to judiciously eut out parsage After passage which might !ewe been misunderstood by time reading latblizo All flicse facts are phussd beyond