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, , ~ —■■ —■ i i .... , _ iia-.- —X- 77 4gS "iri MWmMW| 'hgsggMftZElTFj SSO & - OF kehhesaw X g< ' : ,i^^Klgirg|ur<6tgj,DEPoT Vol. IV. Maid of Athens. BY LORD BYKCN. Maid of Athens, ere we part, Give, oh give me back my heart; Or, since that has left my breast, Keep it now, and take the rest; Hear my vow before 1 go, Zoe mou sas agapo. By those tresses, unconfined, Wooed by each J£gean wind ; By those lids whose jetty fringe Kiss thy soft cheek’s blooming tinge; By those wild eyes, like the roe, Zoe mou sas agapo. By that lip I long to taste; By that zone encircled waist; By all the token flowers that tell What words can never speak so well; By love’s alternate joy and woe, Zoe mou sas agapo. Maid of Athens! I am gone: Think of me, sweet! when alone. Though I fly to Istambol, Athens holds my heart and soul; Can I cease to love thee ? No! Zoe mou sas agapo. Chrysanthemums. The popular thing to-day is the Chrysanthemum flower, rich in its beauty and variegated in its color. Marietta ladies and many gentlemen are great lovers of this flower, and its cultivation is largely indulged in. The admiration for this flower has cul minated in a chrysanthemum fair in Atlanta, held on Tuesday and Wed nesday of this week. One of the greatest lovers of chrysanthemums in Marietta is Mr. W. H. Trezevant, of the Western & Atlantic Railroad. He has over one hundred varieties and nearly every morning can be seen with a bouquet of them in his hand as he journeys to Atlanta to his business. The rage for this flower is about to become national in this country as it is really the national flower of Japan and China. It is used in decorating the table at dinner or luncheon in fashionable circles. The cultivation of the chrysanthe mum began in England about the middle of the eighteenth century. It was brought from China, but through some accident its propagation was lost, and it was not till near the beginning of this century that any new attempts were made to introduce it into this country. There were then some eight or ten varieties, simple, undeveloped, and far from being the lovely flower that we have to-day. Patience, care and keen observation from year to year so developed and improved the plant that to-day nearly three thousand varieties are Unown to the florist, A humorous dare-devil---the very man to suit my purpose. Bui, web. The shape of the full blown flower, of its corolla and petals, says Prof. Guien, enables the nurseryman to classify and arrange the species sys tematically. Thus we have the tall plants, with large, wide, wavy like petals, the petals as they reach the centre becoming incurved; and again the flat, strip like flowerets as they reach downward to the heart, becom ing a coherent, cup shaped and sepa rate petal. Then there are the re curved or reflexed, which bend back ward from the center; the dwarf with their quilled, involute tube, a peculiar ity in many of which is the alternate strap and cup petal. Finally, there is the anemone chrysanthemum, with a centre like a small cushion or button, surrounded by rows, or rather rays, of small flowerets. These chrysanthe mums, as the name indicates, are really miniature sunflowers, which, fostered by the gardener’s care have developed into such beautiful plants. It seems incredible that most of our chrysanthemums should have origin ated from a single, daisy like flower, first brought from Chusan, an island on the east coast of China. It is only the patience of years and constant study which could have produced such a flower as “La Neige,” a splendid and pure white species. The “Lady Slade” is another beauty, and the ‘<Mrs. Haliburton,” the beautifully in curved, slightly quilled flowerets, with a deep rich bloom of primrose white color. Many a flower has its petals so slightly curved at its tip that it is a wonder how ever Mother Nature could have brought it about. But if searched still further with the micro scope, still more wonderful secrets will be discovered. The Japanese variety of this flower strikes one by its oddi ties, its fantastic shape and strikes its spotted petals with many fringes as delict 84 th(W of the blue gentm OTJR 'FIRST ■WIKrTER.” NUMBER. ATLANTA, CA., DECEMBER 1, 1889. They try the new critter— Ergo: Always Travel on the Reliable Western & Atlantic. With unsatisfactory results. lor pink haberneria. It dates from a much later introduction than the Chinese, and to-day proves more attrac tive to the general public than its older competitor. It is a hardy flower and deserves the boundless popularity it has won by sheer merit.—Jfaneffa (Ga.) Journal. Rough on the Squirrel. Most squirrels keep two or more stores of food. Wood, the British naturalist, tells of a friend who found one of these reserve stores which a squirrel had provided for an exigency, and the friend, in a moment of thought lessness, determined to play a joke on the squirrel. He accordingly ieplaced the nuts by small, round stones, and car fully concealed all evidences of his visit. One cold day in winter he passed the spot and found that the squirrel had called there a short time previously. This he knew by the fact that ten inches of snow had been ; scratched from the top of the hole, ! outside of which the stones had been cast by the disappointed animal. This struck the joker with remorse. He said: “I never felt the folly of practical joking so much in my life. Fancy the p'or little fellow, nipped with cold, and scanty food, but fore seeing a long winter, resolved to econ omize his little hoard as 1 »ng as possi ble. Fancy him at last determined to break this —perhaps his last —maga- zine, and cheerily brushing away the snow, fully confident that a good meal awaited him as the reward of his cold job, and after all, finding nothing but stones. I never felt more mean and ashamed in my life, and really would j have given a guinea to have known ■ that injured squirrel’s address. He I should have had as fine a lot of nuts as would have put him beyond the reach of poverty had he lived to be old &8 hjethu§elah.— Maid of Acworth. BY THE LORD KNOWS WHO. Maid of Acworth, ere I go, Tell me what 1 want to know! Does your father still declare I can never be his heir? Hear my vow before I get — I’ll be even with him yet. By those tresses bleached to gold, And those bangs in tinfoil rolled ; By your highly frescoed cheek, By my dollars, six a week; You can say I told you so — I’ll be even with him, though. By the aid which he might lend, By his cash I’d like to spend : By the joy which he could crowd Upon one who’s poor, but proud ; Tell him that I make my brags— I’ll be even with his jags. Maid of Acworth, I must flee, Eor another waits for me; I shall wed your rival, sweet, Who resides across the street. When her wealth secure I’ve got— Then I’ll show him what is what. Two Ways to Make an TEoliai) Harp. Wax a piece of button hole twist about two and a half feet long; tie each end strongly to a small peg and thrust the pegs down the crevice be tween the two sashes of your southern or western window, stretching the silk as tight as possible. It will surprise you the sweetness and variety of the tones the wind will bring from it. Having done this you may be moved to go further and prepare a more elaborate JEolian harp. Take some quarter-inch wood and make a box the length of your window frame, four or five inches deep and six or seven inches wide. Bore a few small holes in a circle near what will be the upper side of the back of the box when placed in the window with the open side of the box up, fasten two bridges like violin bridges, one at each end, and stretch on them several strings of catgut, contriving a series of screw pins to aid in the tight stretching necessary-and allow of their being tuned to one note. 'Phen raise a sash on the windy side of the house and the wind passing through the holes ami over the strings will, in its rising and falling, make very sweet music. The Western Atlantic Railroad runs from Atlanta, the capital and largest, as well as most enterprising city of Georgia, the empire state of the south, to Chattanooga, the pluck iest and most enterprising city of Teip pesppe, NO. 23.