Show THE PRESENT Gid Discourses Upon the Times and the People Editorx Herald The yellow leaf lies low now and so does the young man who in the effulgence of the ice cream season thought not of that called overcoat hence I communicate with you Without any note I impart to you the fact that autumn is still with us The gatherers of autumn leaves have scooped in the radiant ivy and the puke shop has done its work This moonlight with which the earth is luminous calls forth the remark re-mark that oysters are not healthy at this season of the year as they are conducive to pneumonia in its worst form Now is the season when the average lion of society saves 15 with which to bribe his tailor that he may migrate in a suit of clothes somewhat indicative of the time for calls and invitations to ye sworee ft I Our eldery friends do not forget that the appetite yearneth for something some-thing before a walk in the bracing air hence we find upongthe sideboard side-board or centre tabletthe luscious apple and its intimate friend vermi luge for who would dare meet one without the other Now is the time when the patriarchal hen is slaughtered slaugh-tered and shipped to town that the metropolitans may feast upon no that is gaze with reverence upon the monument of age and feast upon that respect which we all feel for a time honored monument if it be a hen The sweet voiced turkey is now corralled and lives high for a season and then its neck is yanked for we must feel thankful that these valleys have been blessed with an abundantharvest of sudden politicians politi-cians but the gatherers were few and the leftness is still there lIe makes up his mind and as he leaves the house asks her if she will be his owuest own and go to the series with him and dance all the circular dances with him She answers > es and he goes down town and communicates with his chum who is not laden with any girl and borrows 5 with which to purchase a ticket for the before mentioned series In the mean time he can safely gamble that next summer she wilr eat ice cream and go to the lake with some other man The gentle maiden now looketh about for the young man whose summer economy on the Denver and Rio Grande Railway places his affluence at 1475 and she lays her plans and snareth him yea verilywith a seductive seduc-tive smile and feels in her heart that parties and late suppers are hers until the said 1475 is at rest in the churchyard of oneness These are they ways Oh young man and maiden and when you are old you will gaze with longing eycs upon the past and murmur in your sleep 1 wish I had gone skating GID |