Show S nARB harbingers INGERS OP OF LIVE 11 PI S with the advent of the lee ice king by whose breath turns the golden autumn hues to silvery frost and bedecks bedecki the i hills w ath ath abow one is reminded of the T cages and vicissitudes of life not oaly of men but of natio nations no carlyle has ald in effect that an eternity waits before berthand birth birt hand and an eternity after birth both bearing upon the interim the lat ter fer existing in degree of happiness or regret because of what has been done oi or not done during life in the little round of the seasons when desolation and death are seen to pe be the harbingers at ac life we observe that justas just as verdant zi and balmy as has been the spring so usually the blossom and fruitage of and autumn will be an and d in the totter time the tints and hues on tree 44 hill will be all the more glorious aae af 0 ue the of Q the capt so be it is that in the career of humanity when men are blessed with a springtime of gladness and youth blossoms into a manhood beauteous with the flowers of virtue and truth then surely la is the harvest and grandeur of the autumn of af full maturity made all the richer and more magnificent and when the blight of the shadow falls and the sap of life begins to dry the blasts of the land of cold may wither and kill but the end is in accord with nature and a springtime will come A similar comparison may also be made in regard to the birth and life of nations usually out oui 01 me of pain and suffering they emerge into existence and grow in strength and majesty according to the soil tram from which they sprang and the environment and influences that surround their incipiency ci if the soil were watered with the tears caused by oppressions oppress ions hands and imbued with the blood of patriots and it if the struggle resulted as it did with us in the survival of the fittest and the triumph of freedo free domit mif the foundations were laid upon the rock of liberty truth and justice then that nation must needs have a gladsome springtime and give promise of a glorious summer of existence it is unfortunate however that few of the nations of the earth that have reached the zenith of power and fame have maintained their glory and grandeur undefiled the zenith has marked the beginning of the end progression has ceased and decay begun of public affairs and corruption places resulting at times in the oppression of the people arfe arb usually the cause and the winter of a nations life sets in when a government places an autocracy of wealth paramount to the will of the common people from whence its chief and only lasting power is derived and the ley icy hand of oppression is thereby placed on the brow of labor freezing the life blood of a nation then the end of that government is near but there is some consolation in the fact that the inexorable law in the regulation regul atlon of men and nature will prevail whereby after the storms and tempests of winter and maybe the blighting by death springtime will come through the travail of birth and a new life under better conditions be commenced for the progress of humanity and the salvation of the race |