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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. 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