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Show LIFE IS BEST AhltiH Hrlf iffl No Previous Period of Ono'o Exist till 3bbbbbbbbbbbbI ence Ma) Be Compared With 1 1 IIbbbbbbbbsbbI That One. ! Sl Neither the beauty of spring' ,j LtH flowers, nor the splendor of sumnorsj , ""H harvests, equal the mellow affluence. I'sbbbbbbbsbbI of autumn's glory. For personal etyti.- M jH Joymcnt and exorcise of tho noblery- fti IjjH powers, human llfo is nt Its beet after, r jjH Qf'y; and,. If personal experience bej LbbbbbbbbI the criterion, tbo writer would say, j jf after sixty. ft J H Not for command, or for executive1, ' B Initiation, neither for animal pleas- jffl JUH ures, nor for worldly amusements, nor; fei, m'H for easy conformity 'to the tyranny) , MH of social custom, but for pure delight) v HLbbbbbbbb! In tho higher realms of happiness, no I jH previous period In life, no April, Mny.j iM or even June or July of oxlstenco can i """ compare with Its glorious October. J M Then nro at their host tbo treas-, iIbbbbbbbbI ures of memory and of hope, tho rich ! ,"""fl fruitage of Intellectual culture, tho; I IjjH (satisfying pleasures of tho mind nndj , ' i ibbbbbbbbI tho raplureB of faith. From these re-: 1' IbbbbbbbbI rourccs is spread tho table of llfo as, , I JM never bcfoio, nud for the daily ban-) ' ' I bbbbbbbbI quot at which sits as guest, tho in-. , tH finite friend of man. i ,'H Life, no It lengthens In perspective, IbbbbbbbbbbI becomes more lntorcBtlug, nnd Its out-. ""H look grander. There is ever moro; i H that ono wishes to live for, hero or. I)sbbbbbbb1 hereafter. If ono has cultivated his' ILbbbbbbb! mind nnd taken n wider view of Mb- iJbbbbbbbbbbI lory and humanity, then for him tho ,H drudgery of textbooks, the grammar, H and dictionary aro largely over. .Ho, ' B sees with clear vision where ho onco. 'tl groped to find a clue. Ho enters Into )Lbbbbbbbb1 his Intellectual inheritance. Whero ,' :H was tho sowing is now the reaping i j- l! shenveB borno where onco tears fell i i i Ho Is no longer tho heir, under tutors' I JsbbbbbbI and governors, but tho possessor or, jH rlchcB, of which no slump In the mar- H kct, no panics or national-convulsions; H can rob him. Frpm "The House Wa V IH Live In," by Dr. William Elliot Qrlflls. II H |