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The season OF the sere and yallow leaf is
far advanced. Every little breeze strips the
trees Of their foliage and robs them of their
beauty. Vegetation is fast decaying. and uni
versal nature is arraying herself in the weeds
Of woe. A beautiful mourner is she, resem
bling fair lady decked for while in gayest
coors, and then assuming the dropping veil
and dress of black. Bright summer with its
green-felds and joyous songsters is gone
Dreary antumn, the sadest season Of the year.
has succeeded, and now


Hark, through the dim woods dying


With groan,


Family the woods 9re signing,


Summers gone,
But autumn brings along with it, much that
is good for man. II affords food for reflection,
and though it,evcr causes sad and melancholy
feelings, it at the same time teaches humility,
reminds US Of our frailty and warns us of our
coming dissolution. Like the leaves of the
forest, we too must wither and decay, and il
were well for all OF us to prepare for that time,
and be ready to meet the messenger Of death.
With all our boasted strength and imagined
greatness. we are in reality as frail and feeble
as the delicate flower withered by au,umn's
frost, and liable at any moment 10 be arrested
in our course, and laid in the cold and silent
grave. 1t is said, and truly TOO, that


while the lamp holds out TO burn,


The uiesl sinner may return


but wisdom whispers, Now is the accepted
time and now is the day Of salvation, and not
only in the heat Of youthful blood, but also in
the strength OF manhood, and in the feebleness
Of old age should we listen to, and profit by,
lis admoniton. (Iron CITY.