For 4 days there has been a beautiful fall weather, the glass going nearly to 50, and the falling leaf, with here and there a touch of color, still left after the freeze of last week, the vari-col- ored oaks, and even here and there a few Aster novi-bel- gii with an unwonted brightness for the season, gave an aspect of lingering October; but the migrants are gone. The last bluebirds with dreary moon notes, as if mourning the depart- ing year, or the necessi- ty that impelled them on- ward, left a week ago, and the blackbirds fol- lowed a few days later. These Indian Summer days are cheered by the truly