Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 135, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1903 — This Spell Was Not Fatal. [ARTICLE]

This Spell Was Not Fatal.

At last aooounts the Gditor who penned the following was still alive in Boston: '‘Graciously, tenderly it lingers—the Indian SQmmer, with its soft air and its tonic of the ripened year, that superbundant etherial wine which has power to make the dull eye sparkle and to hallow the faoe of Melancbolly with a smile from the heart deeps. Would you quaff the exhilarant at its purest? Then to the woods and the quite hil’sides bathed in go'den sunshine, carpeted with velvety mosses and russet leaves, and all redolent of Mother Earth’s preserving time But why do we call it Indian summei? It sounds pretty, in a way —prettier than Indian mush for instance. Why not have something apropos for a name? It isn’t summer, nor is it torrid, nor has it aught to do with the poor Indian, whose fate has bein anything hjut summery, Let us get in touch with the poets aud call this time of grace simply—the afterglow.