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THE CLAYTON TRIBUNE.
THERE 15 NO PAPER LIKE THE HOME PAPER TO HOME PEOMJB.
VOL. V.
CLAYTON. RABUN COUNTY. GA,. THURSDAY. APRIL 17. 1902.
NO. 13.
BILL 4RPS LETTER
Advent of Spring Spurs William
to Thoughts of the Beautiful.
TALKS POETBY, WOMEN AND FLOWERS
To Mythology We are Indebted for
Names of Our Most Beautiful
Flowers—The Goodness
of Providence.
It tfi nort quite time to Indulge In
eprlng poetry. I tried It some years
ago and strained my mind and shall
not try It again. One poem is enough
to make a man famous, and I have
never seen mine improved upon:
“The bull frog bellers in the ditches,
He’s shuffled off his winter britches.
The hawk for Infant chickens watch-
eth,t
And 'fore you know It one ho cotcheth.
Tho llzzard is sunning himself on a
rail,
The Iamb Is shaking his new born tail,
King cotton has unfurled his banner
And scents the air with sweet guanner.
The darkey is plowing his stubborn
mule,
And jerks the line with "Gee, you
fool.” f
Adown the creek and round the ponds
Are gentlemen and vagal jnds
And alt OpI^little dirty sinners
Are digging bhk' and .catching min-
ners." . ,
That is classic and ^n>resslve. It
rhymes well mean urea well and is
marks about Bowers, for ae Solomon
salth, "The winter is past; the raid
is over and gone. The flowers appear
on the earth, the time for the singing
of birds ia come, and the voice of the
turtle dove is heard in the land.” It
la an old atory that when God made
man and gave him hearing and seeing
and taste and smelling He created
birds to sing for him and please his
ears, and grass to grow and herbs and
trees to bear blm fruit, but Adam
wasn’t very happy and said these
are ail very good, but they cannot love
me nor talk to me nor comfort me
when I am sick and sad. I am here
alone and not even your angels vls>t
me. And so God took pity on him
and created woman and then he was
happy. But woman didn’t care to be
hoeing and planting and looking after
the eheep and the cows and so the
Lord created flowers especially for her
enjoyment. He also taught her to sing
,and make music on the harp and hence
cgme the old tradition that woman and
music and flowers were God’s best
Bltte to man. You see that neither
flowers nor music is mentioned in the
Mosaic account of the creation and
tradition says that they were not
made until woman was. It Is singular
that ia some of the ancient languages
the aame word that meanB woman
means flowers too. Among the ancient
Greeks Romans, Persians and Egyp
tians there was $reat reverence for
and even Idolatry of flowers. The lo
tus or'sacred lllly was worshipped
as a god In Egypt. In Japan the chrys
anthemum is equally sacred and near
ly all their female children are named
for some flower. In all countries every
temple service, every birth or mar
riage or death or funeral ceremony
calls for a profusion of flowers. When
soldiers went out to light and when
they returned they were crowned with
wreaths and garlands; strangers were
given flowers when they came In to
eee yon. Every , flower had Its mean
ing apd its sentiment, as for Instance,
a red rose meant, 1 lore yon;" a white
rose, “I will marry you.’* The Chinese
make the most lavish use of flowers
and have a Chinese alphabet of flow
ers. No modern nation has such love
and taste for them nor such beautiful
gardens, and Japan comes next China
to called the Flowery Kingdom.
' .11 th. .tvlll.ut H
Almost all of the civilised nations
havo a national flower. Egypt, Tor
key and India have the lotus. Japan
the pomegranate, France the lrla or
fleur de 11s of Louis VII. Napoleon I
tried to abolish it and put the hon 'if
bee instead, but the people rebelled
and it is still the iris. Scotland has
the thistle, Ireland the shamrock,
Wales the leek, Mexico the cactus,
Germany the corn flower, England the
rose, and the United States none at
all. In 1889 we tried to make it the
golden rod, but failed. The north
voted for the trailing arbutus and the
rose and some green house flowers,
and there was no flower elected. That
trailing arbutus don’t trail in this part
of the country.
Well, of course, the rose is by uni
versal suffrage the queen of all the
flowers.
About six hundred years ago the
iuke of Lancaster chose a red rose
for his emblem. His brother, the duke
of York, chose a white rose. The de-
sceedents of the two princes got to
fighting for the crown and it was called
the war of the roses. But after awhile
the son of one married the daughter
of the other and stopped the war and
ths two roses were united into one
and callod the Tudor rose.
In the eleventh century the Danes
made war upon Scotland, and one dark
night planned an attack upon a for
tress that was the key to the whole
country. They took off their shoes
and breeches so as to swim across a
moat that surrounded the fortress,
thinking that the moat was deep and
full of water. But the Scotch had near
ly filled the moat with thistle, and It
stuck the Danes so terribly that they
yelled In agony and got out quickly
and the Scotch took them unawares
and killed nearly all of them before
they could put on their shoes and
breeches. The thistle saved Scotland,
and so they took It for their national
flower. *
Away back In the centuries when
good St. Patrick went to Ireland as a
"itoajjtttoarjuh© preached to them about
the TrfnltyUnd hpw 'there were three
persons In one God, and the people
laughed at him and said It was im
possible and they didn’t believe it.
So the saint picked up a shamrock
stem with its three leaves growing
out of It and exclaimed: "Why not?
Why not? If this little plant can make
three from one, why can’t God do it?
So he convinced and converted all
that people, and they took the clover
or shamrock plant for the national
flower.
In the sixth century the Normans
invaded Wales, and just before a great
battle one dark, cloudy evening the
Welsh went through a field where the
leeks qjc wild onions were In bloom,
and every man plucked one and stufck
It In his hat so aa to distinguish'their
soldiers from the enemy, and by this
means they whppped the fight and
saved their country. After that they
took the leek for thelr-natlonal flower.
When Napoleon Bonaparte overran
Germany and the emperor and his
family had to fly from Berlin and con
ceal themselves, he was awfully dis
tressed and they liked to have perish
ed, But his old mother made garlands
of a little wild flower, known-as the
corn flower or fcalserblume, and put
them ou him and cheered him up, and
when Bonaparte was vanquished the
emperor adopted that little wild flower
as the national emblem.
When Louis VII started out on the
Crusa&es he chose the Iris as hlB
badge, and when he returned with hto
army it was adopted as the nation's
flower. This Is enough of national
flowers. I wish we had one for our
nation, and we will have one when
the Federation of Woman’s Clubs
takes hold of the matter, and I hope
It will be the golden rod. It grows
from Maine to Mexico and bends its
graceful head In field and forest.
The reason I got to ruminating
about flowers was because our good
ladies gave an entertainment the oth
er night which was quite original and
peculiar. It was called the enchanted
garden. There were twelve pretty
flowera painted on a long curtain and
In front of them wftian old gardener
teaching a pretty little girl her first
lesson In flowers. He told her the or-
orlgln and how they got their names
and whenever he mentioned one of the
flowera that was on the curtain and
pointed to/It that flower disappeared
as If by enchantment and In iU place
thfere appeared the face of a pretty
girl or woman, ''Who sang a Bong that
fitted the flower—such ieongs as "Only
a Tansy Blossom,’* "The Lost Rose of
jjj ^ V ( . .' ■ * ‘ ^
Summer,” “Pond Lllll“s,” "A Bunch
of Daisies,” etc. At Intervals between
the songs the old gandener told bis
pupil how Clyta fell in jove with Ap-
polio, the god of the pun, and she
gaeed upon him so optlnually that
he got tired of It and turned her Into
a heliotrope, for this; Greek word
means turned by the sun. And how
Appolo’s cup-bearer wag a very hand
some boy and Appolo oved him so
much that another boj killed him
through envy and j^iis d sad body was
turded Into a hyacinth.
The Greek spelling Is racinthus- and
Appolo stamped the Gre k letter Y on
every .petal and it Is til tre yet. And
how a very vain and ha idsome youth
spent all of his time la iking at him
self In a fountain of cli ir water and
one day he fell In and was drowned
and Appolo changed hfi body Into a
narcissus. And how the :arnation was
always a pink or flesh color for the
Greek word carnos meins flesh, but
now It 1» of all colors. Ai d how dande
lion means a lion’s tooth f am the shape
of Its leaves, and the t lip means a
turban and the geranl m means a
crane’s bill from the ‘ hape of Its
seed pods, and the nasti rtium means
a nose twister, for when you smell It
or taste the seed the •,pungent odor
and taste make you draw bp your face
and curl up your nose. And the old
man told .about many others, and It
seems that we not only get the names
of the days and the months and the
stars from ancient mythrflogy, but we
have even kept the names of their
flowers.
If flowers were as searce as dia
monds and pearls they would bring a
much higher price,-for they are roally
more beautiful. A kind providence
made the beat and.
things tile, moat abundac
poor mtiift'*b*ve them
rich. It does not take
sunshine nor ahower
grass nor the songs of birds nor
daisies and Ullies that adorn the fields
and meadows.
The great poets' books are full of
beautiful thoughts about flowers.
Shakespeare's lrfment over the death
of Imogen la full of tears and flowers.
Horace Smith, In his ofle to flowers,
aays:.
NEWS IN BRIEF
Important Happenings of
Each Day Set Forth in
Crisp Paragraphs.
“Your voiceless lips, oh flowers! are
book.”
Each cup a pulpit and each leaf a
living preachers,
Mrs. Heraans says:
“Bring flowers, fresh flowers, for the
bride to wear;
They were born to blush In her shin
ing hair.”
And Wordsworth says: “It Is my
faith that every flower that blooms
enjoys the air il) breathes and Is con
scious of its owt beauty.”
It was a tradition among the early
Christians that when Mary, the mother
of Jesus, fled with iter child into Egypt
beautiful roses and lilies sprang up
and bloomed aiong her pathway as she
journeyed through the plains of Sha
ron and Jericho. Woman and flowers
are always found together, both in
fact and in fancy. Some, men like
flowers, too, especially young men
who are in love, hut with many men
dogfennel and glmpson weed are as
sweet and pretty as roses and vlolotB.
—BUI Arp, In Atlanta Constitution.
COMBINE YAltN MILLS.
Giant Octopus is Being Formulated
For the Mtuih.
>« Plans are on foot for the formation
of a gigantic trust of aU the cotton
yarn mills of the southern states.
Investigation has been made by a
committee named dt a recent meeting
of the southern yarn spinners, and
they will report favorably to the forma
tion of the truat at a meeting to be
held in Charlotte, N. C„ on April 18.
SENATOR VEST ON HAMPTON.
In Senate Speech Bead Warrior is
Highly Eulogised.
Senator Vest, In hto' speed
senate Saturday,
beautiful tribute
Wade Hampton,
trembled with «
hto old friend and
than once he
proceed.
—Two negro boys were arrested In
Qrlffln, Ga., Sunday, charged with try
ing to wreck the Central "Dixie Flyer.”
One of them-conlessed aud told how it
was done.
—Policeman Brown, in Chattanooga,
Sunday killed Robert Gleason, a saloon
man. The crusade against Sunday
liquor selling caused the difficulty.
Threats or lynching were made against
the officer, wno was hustled off to jail
—General 1. B. Gordon has ordered
General Robert White to assume com
mand of tho Army of Northern Vir
ginia, vice General Wade Hampton.
He also announced the appointment of
Private John Allen as orator of the
Dallas reunion.
—The demonstration at the funeral
of General Wade Hampton, at Colum
bia Sunday, was unparalleled in the
history of South Carolina. White and
black followed to his tomb, aged wo
men trudging with feeble steps
through the dU3t.
—The grand Jury, considering the
case of Hon. R. H. Lowe, solicitor of
the eighth judicial circuit of Alabama,
finds that he be Impeached “for inccm-
petency and wilful neglect of duty.”
—The senate will vote on the Chi
nese exclusion bill Wednesday. The
house will be busy for the next few
days with the Cuban reciprocity bill.
—The attorney general has instruct
ed the district attorney at Kirnsas 'City
to take steps to dissolve the beef trust
-Tun» ®*Jward and Mr. ’Cjpmby-
had a l ourtrence Sunday and the
da^iflople think that peace In
South Africa Is close at hand.
w—Three rioters were killed by the
police In Brussels, Belgium, during the
battle of Saturday.
—Major Waller, charged with killing
Filipinos without trial, was acquitted
by the court at Manila.
—London papers eulogtoe the late
Dr. Talmage and say he was Spur
geon's equal.
—Southern yarn mllis are consider
ing the formation of a $60,000,000
trust, to be chartered In New Jersey
and to control CO per cent of the mills
of the south.
—General Wade Hampton, oL South
Carolina, djed Friday morning/ Flags
were half-masted in the cities of the-
state.
—In the senate Friday, Messrs. Mon
ey, Simmons and Blackburn replied to
Senator Depew's attack on southern
election laws. Senator Blackburn was
very severe on the New York senator.
—There are persistent rumors ih
New York that the Southern railway Is
seeking to secure control of the Louis
ville and Nashville.
—Friday's dispatches state that Rev.
T. DeWitt Talmage was slowly dying
at Washington, his physicians having
abandoned all hope of his recovery.
—General Schofield In his evidence
before the senate military committee
urged that tho president be given
more power over the army.
—Professor Miller has confessed that
he murdered Mias Jennett at Detroit,
Mich.* He had ruined the girl and
wanted to get rid of her.
—Encounters between, the troops
and rebels continue In Belgium. The
entire kingdom Is in a ferment.
—Major Waller, testifying In bis
own defense at Manila, Justified the
execution of Filipinos on the ground
that they were perfect "fiends.”
—In the house of commons Friday
Mr. Balfour denied that the’govern
ment had any knowledge that the
Boers have accepted thp British peace
terms.
—In a bicycle race at Atlanta, Ga.,
Thursday night Robert WjiKhour low
ered by six seconds the world’s record
for live miles behind motor pace.
■haft of Georgia marble
lne mountain to the mem-
teral Leonidas Polk by Mr.
Id Morris, of Marlett^was
hureday with Imj^Kye
IMPORTANT.
"Do you think a woman should die-
tste to her husband?”
"Of coarse,” answered the tactful
woman. “But she should have the
skill to conceal the fact that she Is
doing so.”—Washington Star.
A Non-Slnkeble Boat.
Experiments are being made on a device
to prevent boats from sinking. By turning
a wheel several water-tight doom are in
stantly closed. If it is n success it will make
ocean travel as free from danger as Host ot
ter’s Stomach Bitters does tho road through
life. It is a specific remedy for stomach ills,
such as belching, flatulency, heartburn, in
digestion, dyspepsia and constipation. It is
also a splendid blood purifier and preven
tive of ia grippe, malaria, fever and ague.
Be sure to try It.
A person with a good sight can see an
other person's eyes at a distance of eighty
yards.
Tatter la Terrible,
But Tetterine cures it. “My wife nas bad
Tetter for twenty years, and Tetterine is the
only thing that doe* her good. Send a box.”
—A. J. Crane. Crane, Miss. 60c. a box by
mall from J. T. Shuptrine, Savannah, Ga., if
your druggist don’t keep it.
Among the twenty-four inhabitants of
London who are over 100 years old nine
teen are women.
Tyner's Dyspepsia Remedy Is a liquid
preparation and knocks all tablets out. It
cures Indigestion, Dyspepsia, Vertigo, Full-'
ness of Stomach, Headache. 60c. Druggists.
It doesn’t take a dentist to hurt ene’s
feelings.
Half- Sick
I first used Acer’sSarsaparilla
Since then I
in the fall of 1
have taken it every spring ee a
blood - purifying and
strengthening medicine "
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wr
If you feel run down,
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nerves are weak and your
blood is thin, then begin
to take the good old stand-
ard family medicine,
Ayer’s Sarsaparilla.
It’s a regular nerve
lifter, a perfect blood
builder.
II.MabottU. Alldrantflte.
Aak your doctor what ho thinks of Ayer's
flataaparilla. He knows all about thla grand
old family medicine Follow hi* advice and
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