Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-05-30

| down to Washington to look at the crema'
tory there. An experienced aud Intelligent
member of this craft told mo tue othcr DAY
that he had already in his minds eye
style of bronze o. osrthcru ware urn Tor
the entombment Of ashes from tho crcma
tory furnace. He would have the name
| of deceased cast on II In rolCt letters ana
u large ring on the top SO that 1t could
readily be identified and easily removed II
necessary.
On many sides SEQ evidences that the
old fashioned flowers are coming into
fresh favor "A bright lady writer gives VI
as her experience and observation that
there is a decided restoration oi tho
flowers OF our great grandmother gar
dens, such as tho pUonics, poppieS, hoiy'
hooks, sweet williams Glove ptnks, yellow
lilies, columbines, blue bells, itcur do lis,
monks hood, phloxes, lychnis, sweet sui
tan, So. They are not only for tho most
part beautiful in color aud form, but
great advantage OF thor cultivation Is that
when ouce planted they will delight the
senses for years. il q little attention is
only gwen to them in the spring by dug.
ging about the roots and applying p!cn-
tilul supply Of rich compost, and dN1diog
their roots in the autumn # toe crowded.
They bloom at season when flowers ate
most welcome.
e.
Who that has been familiar with gar
Gen of generation ago will not recognize
this picture " To make an old fashioned
garden there should bo beds of English or
Easter lilies, mingled with cIumps OF spi-
der lilies aud borders OF sweet williams
aud Columbines Of every hue, intermkcd
| with circles of such auuuA,S as mlSUuuCtte
and sweet a'yssum. edged with blue bells
| or blby's breath. Long beds are made OF
| tulips of a.! colors, single and double, aud
| C.umps Of le)niCs, phiO&Cs, Glove WLks,
| pOppies and garden pluks, with back
ground Of hollyhoCks an monks hood.
| The martagOu lilies, Easter lilies, yellow
| lilies and the iris, with is pure CRIMSON
| bells, succeeded the tulips. and then the
Juuc roses, which, in these days Of Iosc
gardens, would not be thought very beau.
tllul, bat at that time re aglory. Fifty
kinds OF garden roses were planted there,
besides climbers and bush roses, aud
various kinds of monthly tea, aud bank
| sia, whose clusters OF ban flowers were
exquisitlly beautiful OF course these
denCate roses were housed iu the cellar
| during the winter, rI. they added
great beauty 10 the O.d garden 10
the summer. CampauU'as, fox gloves,
pyrethrums and llgksVuUS also grew in
| abuudauCe. and cut flowers always nllcd
vases and dishes in ~CAo sitting room ara
parlor. The blood red, dark crimson and
| dwarf golden yellow sorts are very effect
| i've in mixed borders. sweet williams have
been greatly improved, aud produce flow
ers OF large sz9 and great richness pt col
| oru., with clearly defined eyes in the
| single varieties, whilu the double varieties
arr remarkably handsome. Tacse Old
flowers were brought from Eaglaud by
| our ancestors, and our love fOr Ihe ID can
never bs wholly destroyed,
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| Somewhere lately have sen poem
Connecting the old faiths and the Old uDT.
ers and whispering the fancy that with
the restoration of tho Old garden N)wors,
the harbinEers Of springt.ic, would come
the homely and the holy beliefs that re.
tiued "a age less material than this. -
mote il be.
York is now yGgy much ex x.-cISed over
the discovery OF strange bird that HIS
weakness for killing chickens and other
feathered gentry, aud ea.s anything from
carpet tack to q loaf OF bread. The
scribe who went to see his birdship asserts
as his solemn belief that tho unknown IS q
Banshee, the invs bic being that Irish
tradition asserts, announces By 9 mOurutul
wall the approaching dodth Of some
Que in the ueighbOrhold IN which it is
| heard. II the fsT1c fCa,hersd stranger
turns out Baushee, q startling disC0y"-y
| vii. have been made in OrulthOIOgy. For
| cannot find in all the works have con.
suited on the subject any al.usiOn 10 . bird
50 named. In fact, the BansaCe possesses
nc personality, being simply an old time
superstition. II perhaps took is rise
| from the ancient practice Of Irish baTds on
| the death of their patrons hanging TO trees
their neglected harps on which the breezss
played, evokin5 plaintlvo music.
| =
But IL was 10 Pike that ono Of the mos:
satisfactory female school teachers was
found 70 receive salary OF SlS per month
and 10 pay 80 for board. Aud the direc
tors gave as an excuse for this pend that
they already had exhausted their authority
by the levy Of a l3 mill tax rate. But
upon examination, Il was found that their
assessment was only about etenth Of a
fair valuation.
The story OF Barbara FritcAic, IS related
by Whittier is fiction, of course !;
and the poet took euti5ely Legitimate
(poetic) license with the name OF an old
woman who could no more have been the
heroine OF bQcn an event tllN tommy
Elliott could be satisfactory base ball
umpire. But there WAS such a wOmau-a
very old woman-as Barbara Fritchie, who
lived during the late war In Frederick, Nd
She had father, WHO dwelt there, too,
durng tho Revolutionary days and it
vas he, Caspar Frltchey, who was Indicted
for high treason IN the court of oyer aud
termiuer and jail delivery, held at Fred
erlck Town, Md, commencing on the 2S,h
day of June, 1881. The record, of which |
have a copy shows thar ho was cow otcd
aud sentenced
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Flckle May for the last few days has
been dalIying cOqUettishly 10 October 5
lap. The act is all tho more unpardOua
bio from the fact that tho ioCuss blossoms
had smilingly reminded US by their deli
cate fragrance that sprlngtime was Al
hand lfone walks into tho country now,
a rather anomalous sC=ne is presented The
earth Is carpeted with green, and
odOrs of sweet alyssum, cowsip and VlO-
Let fill tho air, and yet wtual comes an
October chill that iuVUuItlglly make Ion .
wish for winter coat aud the warmth Of
au opn n crate fro. Yet saw party of
plcuicers pleasure seeking along the wind
ing Conestoga, who secmcd TO mind bat
little tho autumual rawGess OF the atmOs
phere. Aud when | retraced my steps
towards tho city at dusk [ COuld hear In.