Clarksville evening chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn) 1886-1890, 1888-11-16
EvERaREEN LoDeE.
clarksvi,ie and Hopkinsviile Shake
Hands Over Bed Of Flowers.


eral arrangement of Capt. Crusman,
who has planed several similar excur-
sions on the l.. & N. railroad, the
young ladies and faculty Of Bethel
Female College attended byanumber
of their lady friends, seventy-five in
all, under the direction Of their presi-
dent, j. w. Rust, who has a peculiar
gift for conducting such affairs, with
several gentlemen, making in all q
party Of ninety peEons visited Ever
green Lodge at yodr city on a special
train.
The party was met at the Clarks
vile depot by Captain Crusman and
others and conveyed in private car
riages and hacks to the wharf where
they were received by Capt. Tyner of
the packet, b. S. Rhea, and taken on
a pleasant trip up the river. This
diversion was not on the program
and was as delightful as it was unex-
pected. The merry school girls well
coined the yellow Cumberland with
a chorus of silver laughter as breezy
and delicious as choir of Mocking
birds serenading Magnolia flower
on a moonlight night in June. 1t
lent recitation in logic. 1t was
better than a whole chapter in
grammar. But / thought it threw a
transient shadow of sadness over the
brow gilmore than one queerly Clarks-
vile mother whose memory recalled
the starlight promenade music and
dance on some noble phantom steam
boat of the long ago, when she was
"the bright particular star of adj
miration and the observed of all OBJ
servers" Alas, for the vanished joy
of the rivers, and the gallant stranlers
which sail no more the deserted
waters.
The party returned to the wharf,
took carriages and were driven
through the paincipal streets, ad
mired many pleasant aud elegant
homes, the abode Of thrift and refine
ment, and arrived finally at the gar
den. The delicious warmth of an
India summer glowed and throbbed
through the hazy atmosphere, invert-
ing in its tender embrace of love the
beautiful evergreens which embell-
ished the landscape. From an I'M
clouded sky silvery blaze swept
down and enveloped the face of ma
ture as if she would draw transpar-
ent veil over her trembling form to
shield it from the ardent kisses of the
impassioned Sun-GOd. The rarest
days of June found a rival in such a
November day as this.
The entrance into the palace Of
flowers awoke an involuntary cry Of
delight. If June suggested the pre-
lude of a concert, November sounded
the closing strain Of the gardens part
ing song as the vast assembly ofchry
santhemums in robes of royal splen-
dor, varied and gorgeous as the many
cOlOred flowers of AN autuInn sunset.
Such as we saw in the West when
homeward bound that evening, stood
up in their council chamber to re-
ceive the homage Of the day, to blush
at the praises of their own Ioveliness,
and bid their visitors mourniul fare
well for the season.
The chrysanthemums were in their
glory. The display would have
frightened the hanging gardens of
Babylon. 1t fairly rioted in daz-
cling splendor and widest range of
color. Royal purple and crimson,
CLEANS Of spotless snow, interspersed
with flecks Of scarlet and massive
globes of plumy petals which flashed
like leaves of beaten gold, or relieved
by streamers of richest brown, gIist-
nned in endless combination as the
plants stood in solid phalauX on the
long dais which stretched from the
entrance to tho farthest end of the
Each one Of the two
and fifty varieties had its
for each had its own pc
,uliar charm. Close examination re-
realed many novel sports and ca
PRECIOUS tints, as if like some way
ward belle, confident of her charms,
hey sought to captivate the specta-
or by some sudden within of color,
ler own sweet self unscatched by
'upids arrow, CHANGING harmless from
he
"Lills OF snow
Which her frozen bosom bears,
On whose top the pinks that grow
One of those that April wears"
Several visitors who had attended |