Show AUTUMN WEATHER AT LAST Autumn is here at last in all her glory Elbowed aside for a little while by winter struggling to get in ahead of his turn wo almost despaired of having the sun and frost the crisp morning air and hazy views the brilliant bril-liant colors on the mountains the delightful de-lightful moonlight nights that autumn brings But nature is taking her regular course in spite of winters unseemly haste and we are going to have a real autumn after all The country with tho exception of the roadways is beautiful The city is full of the signs of fall The red and yellow leaves are floating from the trees on every breeze like mammoth tinted drops of snow The gutters are filling with natures old clothes the discarded robes of summer sum-mer the ditches are choking up with sore and faded leaves the hillsides look bare and brown and the trees are almost al-most shivering in their nakedness One of the certain signs of fall is the I appearance of wraps andheavier hats with the women and overcoats over the arms of the men Of mornings and evenings the coats are buttoned trigly up and the step and eye betrays no signs of summers lassitude The streets have taken on a different appearance not only on account of the different line of displays in windows where an attempt is made to keep pace with the season but in the ever flowing flow-ing stream of restless humanity True we do not see the winters crowds the jostling happy eager mass that throngs the streets by night and day when the holidays are drawing near or afterwards when there is snow and the sound of the bells sends joy tingling through the veins but the streets have lost the hot dustladen air the dancing heat the desolate almost deserted look of summer time People are no longer sighing to escape to the mountains or pass their days in the lake they no longer wear the woebegone woe-begone look so Uncomfortable to gaze upon imagining their lot is hard because be-cause they are compelled to stay in the city and toil and spin while others are going to the coast to the national parks or where they il The men and women with whom the streets are filled these days hold up their heads and feel that they are glad to live in such a glorious climate and in such a promis ingregion The ones who went away for the summer are glad to get back and the ones who stayed at hx > rri < no longer have any desire to go away The I season brings tho wanderers home and contentment to all alike I is the lime of the year for family reunions fireside fire-side gatherings political meetings ands and-s ia revivals I is anything but the melancholy season over which Jot shed their tears I |