THE VINTAGE OF THE LEAVES. 
Friday, October 21, was observed by Har¬ 
vard University as a holiday, — Columbus, while 
hunting for something else, having on that day, 
four hundred years ago, rediscovered America 
for the Europeans. On the same day, four 
hundred years ago, the Americans discovered 
Columbus, a weary and worn mariner, nearing 
the shore in a small and feebly-rigged ship. At 
that time America was much more of a boon to 
the explorer than he seemed likely to be to the 
continent. 
I left Cambridge about the time the sun 
reached it, and gained the valley of the Bear- 
camp at 1 p. M. There are some days in the 
year which seem to have happened upon the 
wrong calendar day. They are too cold or too 
warm to keep company with the days which go 
before and after. This was not one of them. 
It was a model late October day, with clear air, 
a rushing wind, dark blue-gray clouds moving 
fast across a pale blue sky, leaves flying before 
the wind, and with ruffled water full of cold 
lights, though in spots increasing in its reflee- 
