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She writes interestingly to friends of an old home there: ' ' “This is a grand old historic place, 'Woodlands.’ it used to be called, and is bow the property of Mrs. B. G. Saylor. One of the houses on the grounds is said to bi* haunted. It was built way back in the dim past, and many are living that declare they have seen strange sights and heard unusual noises in the rooms at night. This splendid structure was begun years ago by an elegant old gentleman of colonial days, but was never finished, as he died before the work was quite com pleted. . • \ • The woodwork in the library is beautiful and masetvp. The home is furnished as it was for the old gentleman’s occupancy, and. shows beds that are reached by steps, old mahogany tables, a splnnet that still gives forth feeble sound, and old fashioned chests full of rich clothes and hats and bonnets of *ye olden time.* An old clock worth thousands of dollars is there. Nothing has been changed for a ! hundred years in this haunted house. The ground® are terraced and thousands of hyacinths, violets, dewdrops and other •M-fashioned flowers give evidence of past culture and care. Grand and majestic firs keep sentinel around the place, and the dark arborvita lends a sombre tone to gotbe parts of the grounds. •‘There are three clear springs with run ning streams, an old. ivy-covered spring house. and green hills and distant moun tains to make the place enchanting. Be sides. the place figures In Augusta Evans Wilson s novel. *Bt. Elmo.’ which adds to its interest. Many tourists visit the place •nd make the summers here very charm ing.*’ N. W. GROSS WILL TAKE THE STUMP FOR GUERRY • w-mmmmmmmmm It era* announce,! at the Guerry headquarter* this morning that Hon N. W. Grom, of Thom son. would take the ttump in the interest of Dupont Guerry for governor. He ha, announced the following dates: Lincolnton. Lincoln county. April »th at 11 m.; Appling. Columbia county. May Id at 11 a. m.. Washington. Wilkes county. May Sth at 11 a. m.: Crawfordville. Talltaferro county. May Sth at H a m.;Union Point. Greene county. May 7th at 11 a. tn ; Sparta. Hancock county. April IMh at 11 a. m.; Milledgeville. Baldwin county. May 12th atilt m.: Irwinton. Within eon county. May 12th at 11 a. m.; Sandersville. 'Washington county. May 17th at 11 a. m.; Louisvine. Jefferson county. Moy 15th at. 11 a. m ; Swalnrbhr* Emanael eougty. May »th at 11 a tn : Milled Screven Voutfty. May 21st at 11 a. nt.: Waynssboro. Burke county. May 2Sd at U a m. Mr. Grose is considered a very effective speaker and will no doubt have large crowds to bear him. PERSONALITY OF HAMPTON ■ ■...» • - nt -■ • BY JOE HITT, IN WASHINGTON TIMES, It has frequently been declared that in the personality of “Hampton, of South Carolina'*—as the people of Dixie were wont to call him. and as he loved to be called—was incarnated the genius of the old South. He was the scion of a long line of proud, wealthy, and accomplished forbears, and. like those forbears, he was an aristocrat in every fiber of his brain and body—pos sessing all the virtues and ail the short comings. all the graces and all the foibles of his clasa Proud he was. with that gentle pride which has no kinship with hauteur, and brave with that serene and ever even bravery that Dumas grants to “kings and eagles.** And gracious he was. with that graciousness which has in it no tinge of familiarity and no hint of condescension. And honorable he was. with that pecu liarly pure and lofty kind of honor in which modern fancy Is fond of panopling the characters of Romans of the Repub lic. and which not even the cheapest and most reckless demagogue tn the revolu tion that overthrew him, so much as thought of trying to asperse. From the opening to the close of his long career, Hampton set his own Ideals and duties, and then serenely advanced toward them, regardless of who or what intervened, and making never a stop or a turn to win the friendship ar avoid the enmity of any of those who stood in or beside the path, eager to surrender their opposition for a smile from him, or re solved to smite him If he scorned to di vert his footsteps and make a detour where they stood. Following tn this course, which he had marked out for himself regardless of the opinions of other men. Hampton journey ed in his lifetime through scenes of war and scenes of peace—across quiet land scapes, wherein cotton squares were Mow ing and mocking birds were making music of the hours—ever ensanguined fields where men were reeling and staggering In the death-grip, and bullets were whin ing and sabers flashing—through stately forums and through gay and brilliant ballrooms —up summits of success and into valleys of misfortune—through stretches lit with the daszilng radiance of splendid triumphs and through shadows black with the inky gloom of direst misfortune, de feat, and grief—and always and ever all along that route, at every point of it, he was serene, self-poised, and inflexible, wearing a calm and almost a sweet smila the while, and displaying no exultation, revealing no despair, bidding for no favor, and offering no studied affronts. Thus he was when he swept in the head- HUMOR BUBBLES FREEL Y AND WIT FLOWS FAST IN CONGRESS I BY MILT SAUL. WASHINGTON. April 7.-Humcr. that potential element <jf American civilisation, finds no more spontaneous welcome in this country than that which greets Its appearance in the great deliberative body, the American congress. And nowhere in this great nation does humor bubble freer or wit flow faster than in this selfsame deliberative body. Hardly a day passes in congress that dees not bring forth some new and choice example of the genuine article, or at least some old example newly decked and adroitly applied. The subject under dis cussion does not control the character of the remarks and even the most practical and unromantic themes furnish occasions for the display of the keenest wit and the drollest humor. The oleomargarine bill, the Philippine tariff and even the revenue cutter' service has afforded the smart ones opportunity to get off the brightest flashes of the season. It breaks out suddenly and is therefore the more in tensely relished. One of the sights of the capitol is the spectacle of tae dlgmfled United States senate, gravely listening to a scientific and learned discourse, instant ly transformed into a boisterous and hil arious assembly of laughing, rollicking individuals convulsed by a dart of humor In the shape of a question hur.ed across the hall. The other day, during the debate on the question of investigating the Danish West Indies bribery scandal, "Uncle”. Joe Can non. a lank Republican from Illinois, held the floor. He was In a towering rage at the Democratic hints of Republican bribe taking. The purpose of his remarks s’as to show that neither he nor his party knew anything about the charges and the other side had better go slow In calling for an investigation. His form shook with ire. He closed his eyes, lifted his elench ed hands high above his head and skout ed: ”1 do not know that the $500,000 was used. I do not know anything about it, and until I do know mofie than the geatle man from Tennessee seeks to know I will not rise in my place and seek ” 'To know!” interjected a loud Demo cratic voice as the angry Republican floundered for ,a term. Even “Uncle” joe forgot his wrath for the moment and Joined tn the whoop of laughter that fouowed the dig at Re publican blindness when corruption is charged. When he recovered he went on to say be would not seek to cast dishonor on any man connected with the govern ment, but the Democratic shaft stuck in his argument and ruined it. When the discussion on the revenue cut ter service was on in the house Represen tative Richardson, of Alabama, took oc casion to say the revenue cutters never fought except in times of war. “Pete” Hepburn, of lowa, in reply, said this: "My friend from Tennessee, from his home by the side of that magnificent spring in Huntsville, so wonderfully adapted to nautical pursuits ” "I do not want to lose my identity en tirely,” Interrupted Mr. Richardson, “the gentleman ought to know I am from Ala bama.” • ”1 intended to compliment the gentle man first.” retorted Hepburn, "but now since my attention Is called to it I will compliment the state of Alabama by mak ing the correction.” The house applauded the neat parry and then went into roars of laughter as Hep burn proceeded: "The gentleman from that beautiful spring so adapted to nautical pursuits has said the revenue cutters tight only in time of war, and the gentleman from Pike’s Peak, perched pleasantly upon the summit of that vast mountain, taking in the com prehensive view which from that point discloses the naval and military establish ment of the United States, does not'hesi tate to Join him. My God, my friends, when would you have them to fight? Do you want them so organised as is my friend Mann from Illinois, who is ready to fight at all times and everything? When I have observed that peculiarity on the part of my friend from Illinois I have thought that if the theory of transmigra tion of souls be true and he hereafter ap peared as a later Incarnation, hr would come as an anima! with four legs Instead of two and he would paw with hfs front legs and kick with his hind legs!” Then Representative Mann got tn some humor of a broad brand. He said: "My remembrance is that the theory of the transmigration of souls is one held by the Hindoos. The gentleman having com pared me to a Hindoo. I may say I feel very much like the Hindoo; the poor, be nighted Hindoo, who does the best he kindo. He sticks to caste from first to last and for clothes he make his skin do!” The liveliest half hour the senate lias experienced in years was that which Sen ator Bailey enlivened last week by his clever retorts upon Senators Depew and R»At. ATLANTA. G*XWTTA. MOSf-AY. AfRIL 21. I*o2. long charge in the forefront of “Hamp ton’s Legion," and by reason of the fact his men followed him with a devotion and a faith that nothing could shake. And thus he was,when he swung Into the fight for “the redemption of South Carolina. And he still was so when he won it. “Redemption of South Carolina.” And when the people of South Carolina— the great common people, as the popular phrase puts It—(that class which he loved with all the lave of his lion’s heart as a whole, and wanted nothing to do with as Individuals—arose in their might and swept from power the bourbon .order of which he was the head, he retired, still serene, with a sigh for those who had fought for him and a smile for those who had w’helmed him. ■ When the Confederacy fell Hampton wasted no vain tears, spent none of -hie vitality In feeding despair, sought no temporary consolation in dreams of what might have been or of what might be “W” —but instead, true to his personality, and singularly illustrative of it. he dhlrnly laid his sword aside, studied for a moment the conditions which had followed Appo mattox, debating how best to grapple with them, and then grappled. At that juncture in his career there was opened to him, as to so many others of those who had followed the fortunes of the south, two alternatives In life, one of which involved hardship and danger and one of which offered nothing but material prosperity. His duty, however, he thought, lay with the former, and. with the former he accordingly went—pausing not a second to decide, and stopping not a moment to gaze upon the fair personal prospects which he “was passing by. Apd by reason of that choice and the services he ren dered his name is enshrined in the heart of the southland. * Stood for Class Rights and Lost. Later, under very different circum stances and in a very different way, he revealed to the fullest that very different quality which made of him such a perfict figure of the ante-bellum southerner -Of the upper class. This was In the revolt of the South Car olina Democracy which swept from flower the state’s ancient “aristocratic govern tnent.” "A rule of bourbons," the leaders of that revolution cried, “and the common people have no chance so long as they rule,” and when Hampton, the king of the bourbons, was confronted with the cry and told by his devoted people that If he would but utter a single word in denial of the shout the shouters would be and the uprising would cease, and begged to utter that word, he, for answer, declared in Spooner. In his speech the Texas senator had*drawn a comparison between a young girl coloring her cheeks and an agricul turist coloring oleoiqargerlne. “The senator from Texas shocks me,” Depew replied. “When he compared the color of oleomargerine to the art by which a young girl wins the heart of her lover, I felt that the American girl had been put In a wrong position before the American people.” Bailey retorted: “I forgot for the moment a recent oc currence in the life of the senator from New York or I should not have said .it.” Said Depew then: “And but for that occurrence I should have left it to a younger man to come to the rescue -of the American girl. It was the Texas senator’s youth and beauty which astonished me when he made that remark. And he never ought, so soon after Retirement of Senator Vest of Missouri. WASHINGTON, D. C., April 14.—With the adjournment of the fifty-seventh con gress the United States senate will lose one of its oldest, ablest and most highly esteemed members, for George Graham Vest, of Missouri, who has served his state faithfully and well for twenty-three years, will voluntarily pass out of public life and hand over his share of the duties of representing Missouri to a new states man. He will seek the peace and quietude attendant upon private life in his home at Sweet Springs, where the last yegrs of his noted. career will be spent In comradeship with those tyho share his. honors and his nation’s- gratitude for a wprk well done. He has passed his three score years and ten, and that paralysis which has for three years been slowly but surely enfeebling his slender frasne will, his physicians' say, abide with him to the end, to make his declining years more burdensome, perhaps, but doubling the solicitude and tender regard of a na tion he helped ‘ mould into greatness. With the retirement of Senator Vest will also pass away one of the most im pressively pathetic features of the daily sessions of the senate, the arrival of the invalid statesman, gray, sh/unken and feeble; almost borne In the arms of an other gray old veteran of the senate ser vice, James L. Edwards, a doorkeeper. Edwards came from Missouri with Sena tor Vest in 1879 and is one of the land marks. as it were, of the capitol.' Every morning Senator Vest leaves his home on P street in his carriage. An attendant telephones Edwards atrthe mo ment of starting and the old doorkeeper is always waiting at the entrance on the senate side of the capitol for the arrival of the carriage. Mfter the “gqod mornings” aye said be tween the senator and the doorkeeper, Edwards tenderly lifts Senator Vest in his arms and carefully stands him on the stone pavement until hp can close the carriage door. Then, handing the invalid his cane, they slowly walk to the eleva tor Inside the building, the senator's en tire weight almost borne on the old door keeper's. shoulder and arm. From the elevator to the senate cham ber the path is through a long marble corridor and along this they slowly pro ceed. Up three marble steps, through the glass-panelled door and they are In the senate chamber. Here Edwards lifts Senator Vest Into his chair, ceremonl- R*in sad sweat faro\ \ \ \ \ ] ■ have no effect cn stir rg-D Igd H harness trea.ed M A, gl ■ with Eureka Har- • «/< H H mm OU. it re- ' B sists the damp, jf p \ \ ' M No rough *ur- \ \\ \ K » fi KI face to chafe ' \ f //Lr \ B ■ and cat. The AV K* gu harness not \\ \ \ ' X xfc ma only keeps \ ' B looking like WnL wF. \ KL new, but Lf-IJfI H Wears twice [. P , ■fV’** OK as long by the ' t | use of Eureka jSf M XT"" 1 R Harness OU. £ 'v k\ | Sold 'A**l\ everywhere \f \ . \\\ liX oi/A’ in cans— If \ }u \ ' v/ all sires. /C \ [1 \ I Made by 1/. y '^ s \ Standard Oil /( \ \ v/f \ \ Company Jf C" ' \ clarion sentences that the cry was true— that South Carolina was governed by gen tlemen. and that the government they of fered was better for all than any the com mon people could set up. Easily could Hampton have saved him self and his personal fortunes. An eva sion. a yielding, a single shout for “the common people,” and he would have survived the order for which he stood. But he scorned to do any of those things —he scorned to change or even hide his uniform—he flaunted It, instead, and said that by what it etood for he would stand or fall—he shouted that It was trud he belived gentlemen only were fit to govern, and he declined to surren der his beliefs or stand aside for the avaldnche bearing down upon him—and so he was swept over a'nd buried—as other splendid champions of obselete systems have been engulfed and buried by the avalanche of progress, as those gentlemen who remained loyal to the principles which Louis personified were crushed and ended by the French Rev olution Juggernaut as they stood fast beside the standard of Divine Right. Confederacy’s Beau Sabreur. This gjreat defeat of Hampton’s, how eA-er, no more disturbed the lofty seren ity of the soul than did the many tri umphs and defeats that had gone be fore, and the Hampton who died yes terday was the same calm-eyed, sell poised. and courtly man as him whd was the Confederacy’s beau sabreur. Those who saw him in his closing years saw an exquisitely neat old man. with a delicate chiseled face, and a snow-white floss, and they observed, if at all observing, that two great scars lay upon' him, like emblems of his ca reer, and that true to himself, he Vore them like ornaments, those marks which would have disfigured any other man. It is not a rash prophecy to say that when the personal animosities which this old Bourbon aroused have gone with those who cherished them, South Caro lina will forget that Hampton stood op posed to the common people and will vote him her noblest son—by reason of the unequaled purity of his career, the loftiness of his purpose, the devotion of his soul, the unselfishness of his am-* bition, and the dauntlessness of his heart, and because gs the great service which he, in spite of dazzling tempta tions, and for sheer love of his state and pride of race, rendered South Car olina. Find Bostrom’s Improved Farm Level advertisement, and see what you get free. the American girl appeared so entrancing in her Easter hat and gown in the churches and on the avenues of Washing ton, to have gone back on her today by saying she is a fraudulent specimen of liv ing oleomargerine! With all her finery and flowers and ribbons and colors she wau Still the incomparable American girl!” Representative Talbert, of South Caro lina, got off a good one at the lawyers re cently. It was during a debate on the pension bill. Representative Vandiver, of Missouri, was taking exceptions to some thing Mr. Talbert had said on the floor. “Now if my friend was a lawyer,” said Vandiver, “he would understand these things.” *? Talbert sprang td hil'ieet and in tones of mock indignation “But I am not a lawyer. I am an honest man. Therefore I cannot understand these pension things.” 4 ously deposits the goM headed cane un der the desk, bows and withdraws to take up his duties as dborkeeper on the Demo cratic side fdr the day. This procedure is observed, too, when the senate ad journs for the day and Senator Vest is ready to go home. Edwards has assisted Senator Vest in this manner for the past three years. For two years the malady which racks the frame of the senator has been grow ing perceptibly stronger and he has grown accordingly weaker. But while the frame has weakened It is remarkable to relate Senator Vest’s mental faculties have re tained all their old-tlibe vigor and power and he is yet regarded as one of the ablest men of the great American congress. His lengthy speech on the ship subsidy bill was often Interrupted by intervals of weakness when he would stagger and nearly fall, yet it is considered perhaps the ’clearest and strongest argument made on the Democratic side. The pathos in The manner of Senator Vests’s arrival In the senate chamber Is remarked by senate members and even the visitors In. the gallery. The moment he appears at the door with his faithful old friend a hush falls upon the chamber. Every eye is turned towards him until he Is seated. Then the regular order pro ceeds but from the galleries and even the floor frequent glances are directed to wards him, Interest being awakened no doubt by that brilliant mentality set in a body so frail. But all during the dally sessions Senator Vest leans hravely back in his chair and closely* observes the proceedings of the body In which he has for so many years been a leading figure. When he Is gone a host of memories will cling about the desk where he spent the last year of his great public career. Whoever may come to the senate in his place, there can be no loftier sentiment expressed towards him than the hope that he will prove as valuable to his state and to his nation as was George Graham Vest. subscrFption given FOR TOBACCO TAGS The tags of the following brands of to baccos manufactured by Traylor, Spencer & Co., of Danville, Va.. will be redeemed In subscriptions to our Semi-Weekly: Plum Good. Bob White. Good Will. High Life. Natural Leaf. Patrick Henry. Right of Way. 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The chapel was. formerly the scene of Dr. Martineau’s London ministry. i I j£la I jin old bird isn't caught With chaff, and a Wise man isn't tempted With a cracker bag after he knows ■ I iWy Uneeda &J Iwliter Biscuit srj /ral ’/f’xz —the kind that come fresh and ' B HI good in the In-er-seal Package. ( ''l" 9 b,scu,t comrany - h ( ''••3a \ - * TW S F ~' ' ■ ~~fl THE FLOWER SEASON 1 NATURE’S MILLINERY OPENING , BY M. B. WHARTON, D. D. The time for flowers will soon be here. Already the advance guard has appeared in innumerable buds and blooms that have constituted our Easter glories. But a few more suns and showers will bring out the whole army of beauties that decorate the earth and give Joy to man. How wonder ful is the kingdom of flowers! What a desolatb world w*e would have without these gems more to be enjoyed than costly stones In royal crowns. All people, high and low, rich and poor, love flowers. The humblest people In our cities, with only a room or two for their homes, have pots of bewitching flowers in their windows, with the quaint reflec tion of the Hermit of Clavernook: ’’You see, sir, if we can’t go to hature, we must bring nature to us.” In the crowded ten antries of Ireland and on the Continent if there be only ten acres on which to support a large family, a little plat of ground Is sacredly kept for flowers. Dick ens in “Our Mutual Friend,” describes a little garden scene in the East End of London, where Rlah the Jew enjoys the pleasant air In his garden on the housetop. A traveler to a lonely Island In the Great Sea beheld a gentleman in his gown of many colors and green slippers, his head bound with *a red bandana, tending his flowers, turning up the soil and using i)ls water pot. It was Napoleon at St. Helena, he who had overturned thrones and de stroyed hundreds of thousands of human beings, found his chief delight in nour ishing and marshaling his flowers. How sweet these flowers are! Henry Ward Beecher said: “Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.” And how they preach to us! They say to struggling, anxious, unhappy men: "Be content as we are and you will be peaceful as we are; Just yield to God as we do, and your souls will be as beautiful as we are; be as modest with all your virtues as we are, and men and angels will love you as they do us and call you blessed; give without covetous ness as we do, and God will bless you as fie does us.” Christ preached through flowers, saying: "Consider the Hiles how they grow; they toll not, neither do they spin, but I say to you thgt Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.” Flowers are the language of affection. The Semi-Weekly Journal’s ** Seed Offer for 1902. W« have arranged with a reliable seed firm of Atlanta, Ga., to supply our subscribers with their Vegetable seed. 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Fine for slicing and make excellent pickles if picked when 3 or 4 inches tong. Hastings' Drumhead White Cabbage Lettuce. A favorite wherever known. Large, solid heads, weighing two to three pounds. Crisp, tender and free from bitterness. Leaves outside are a light green, inside almost white. Has but little tendency to run to seed. Fine for family use. Ponce de Leon Cantaloupe or Muak melon. Os rather large size. Strong vigorous grower, medium early. Melons are of the finest flavor. Flesh very thick and of light green color. Melons regularly rib bed, densely netted. Skin green but turns to a beautiful golden yellow when fully ripe. For |l.lO we will send you The Semi-Weekly Journal one year and in addition send the twelve PaP< Now i" e the P timQ P to d 6ecnre your garden seed for early planting. We invite your attention to what the firm says regarding the quality and quantity of the seed. OFFER— The Semi-Weekly Journal one yearsl.o3 The Twelve Papers of Garden Seed ■«> , $1.60 ‘ Our Price for All A Saving of 50 cents TO YOU. T he Semi-Weekly Journal, Atlanta, Ga. They welcome us at our birth, are present at our wedding and breathe upon us when we leave the world. So we welcome the advent of flowers. After the cold dreary winter, how wel come they are as they come to delight us with their beauty, to charm us with their fragrance, to express our lenderest feel ings, and sympathies, to decorate the graves of- our dead, to recall to us the beauties and glories of the lost Eden and urge us to reach the land where flowers bloom permanently—the promise of God. What a blessed thing it is that we live in the “Land of Flowers’’—a land concern ing which Robert Burns would say: “Where summer first unfolds her leaves and th&*e the longest tarries.” The conservatories of the south are love ly; the rare gardens like those of Eufaula, Montgomery. LaGrange. Augusta and other towns and cities more so; but after all to enjoy flowers in all their attrac tiveness we must go» out into the fields, and woods, and view tnem as nature strewed them in all their wild and capti vating loveliness. * They have homes, circles, society, cus toms—a kingdom all their own, and they seem to live for and upon each other. For example, to put it catechetlcally for the sake of the , young reader, when flowers are born what flower nourishes them? The honeysuckle. Who ao they play with? With buttercups and China berries. W’hat do they partake of? Ba nana shrub and apple blossoms. Who are their prettiest maids? Black-eyed Susans, blue bells and American Beauties. When they fall in love what do they prize? Pas sion flower. When parting with their friends what do they giye them? Forget me-nots. When they want visitors what do they wish? Cauliflower. When they kiss what do they use? Tulips. When they frolic what do they have? Wild thyme. What object dq most of them have when they wed? Marrigold. What do they say when indifferent to riches? Anemone (any money.) To what are thepr commmended when thirsty? Water lilies. What do they like to receive from lovers? Candy tuft. Who are their most admired correspond ents? Jonquils. What ink do they use? Violet. What.millionaires do they have? Asters and Sages. How do they send their messages? By (telegraph vines. When Florida Favorite Watermelon. A splendid melon for family use in the south. Medium size to large and very prollflc. Early and of the finest flavor. Meloha weigh from 20 to 40 pounds and are of a dark green color, slightly striped with lighter green. Flesh red. crisp, ten der, melting and very sweet A sure and heavy cropper. White Velvet Okra. A splendid variety, for home use. Our special strain of this is especially desira ble with its medium size, round smooth pods, free from ridges and not prickly to the touch. Very early. Hastings' Yellow Globe Onion. Splendid variety for early plantings in the south. No prettier, or larger finely shaped onions than this can be grown. Color, a very light yellow or straw color. Flesh firm and good keepers. Early Long Scarlet Radlah. A favorite in most home gardens. Roots long and of a bright scarlet color. Flesh crisp and tender and when rapidly grown is entirely free from pungent taste. Mammoth White Bush Squash. Every one knows tho White Bush or “Patty Pan" squash, grown so generally in the South. This is identical with that 1 variety except in size, our Mammoth, be- J Ing nearly double the size of the other, giving twice the quantity of squash from i the same vine. i they reject a lover what do they give him? Lady’s slipper. What is their savers- Ite handiwork? Sewing on bachelor’s but tons. Who are most forlorn among them? Old maids. When they go to war who , leads them? Marechai Niel. What are their favorite weapons? Sword fern, snow balls. blades of grass and artillery plants. What do they avoid when with their lov- S ers? Dog’s eye. What covet on some occasions? Night shade. Whom do they marry? Sweet Williams. How do they tell fortunes? With palms. WTien elect ed queens how are they crowned? With laurel. What is their sceptre? Golden rod. What do they ride? Horse radishes and peonies. What colors do they like in horses? Bay and sorrel. When they die what mourning do they use? Crepe myr tle. What mourning is used by their widows? Weeds. , Wonderful, wonderful indeed is the lan guage of flowers; wonderful are their very names. They sympathize with us in trouble, re joice with us In prosperity, comfort us when slpk, amuse us with their eccen tricities when we need diversion, smile upon us at our meals, look upon us in our business places, and assist us at church In our devotions. Gpd be thanked for the flower season, the resurrection of the beautiful, nature’s great millinery open ing, when everything in her vast domain, every stem and bole, and twig, and vine is presented with a hat more beautiful and tasteful than any artistic designers of Paris can supply. YANKEES WANT DUMONT TO TAKE A SEA TRIP NEW YORK, April 17.—A syndicate ten- ' tatlvely supported by officials of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit is preparing to, offer Santos-Dumont an opportunity to disport himself in American atmosphere. The syndicate will, it is stated, raise a fund of 17T.0C0 for the purpose of enabling M. Dumont to navigate a new dirigible | balloon out to sea from Brighton Beach, up the Narrows, around the Statue of Liberty, up the East river, above the Brooklyn bridge, and the New East River bridge, and back again to< Brighton Beach. . , . New Stone Tomato. The heaviest ylelder of all tomatoes to thia section. Fruit very large, smooth und flrm and of the flneat quality. This variety aoes not rot or split easily and lasts well Into summer. Good for either slicing raw or for canning. H. G. HASTINGS & CO.,’ WIICLEbADE AND RETAIL SEEDSMEN, NO. 4 WEST MITCHELL STREET. / ATLANTA. Go., Jan. XS, 19M. Atlanta Journal Co., Atlanta, Ga. I Gentlemen: # In reply to your Inquiry as to the col lection of seeds that we are furnishing you . | for premiums with the Semi-Weekly we would state that we hereby ruarantoe that . the seed used in these collections la the same that we furnish our own customers and that tho packets are of full alia ano that the seed contained therein is of the ▼ery highest quality obtainable. This col lection of seeds that you are furnishing your subscribers is identically ths same that they would have to pay us 80 cents for if they sent orders to us direct or purchased same in person at our store. Through you. they are not only getting ths best there is to be had. but the full quantity that ths- would get if purchasing for cash. Tours truly, „ Signed, H. G. HASTTNGS A CO. ——— Early Red Top Turnip. One of the favorite spring varistloe to come in before everything else In tho garden. A quick grower, flaoh very fine grained and sweet flavored. The dark rod or purple top extending down to where the bulb rests In the soil adds greatly to Its appearance. -<*-