The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1897-11-04

nest. We fought them with brush and
brooms and dirt, aud killed the last one
before we quit. OF course we got stung
sometimes, but there is where the
heroism came in. But now | have no
boys-they are all girls-and 80 | pour
cd hot water in the hole where the
jackets went In, and it killed few, but
there are over thousand In the colony,
and they all got mad with me and ran
me into the house, Then I piled up
dead grass and old papers over the
on 1t and set it on fire and killed q few
more, but still l couldent miss them.
Then | got stung on the ear and that
made me mad and mixed upa pan full
or mortar and souSad it down into the
hole and all around, and pied up q
big lot OF clay and gravel on top and
was cure | had them fast and would
starve them to death, but next morn
ing they had new hole and are at
tending to business at the same old
stand. | have put circle of empty
flower pots around the premises to warn
the children away and now | am walt
ing for further Instructions from my
friend in Mississippi.
When ! WAS last in Florida I pulled
up little sprout Of the oppoponax and
brought it home and planted it. It
grew oil nicely and we kept it in the
pit last winter and transferred it to the
garden last spring. 1t is now beauti-
ful little tree about eight feet high
with numerous branches, and | think
Will bloom next summer if we can save
1T. 1t belongs to the mimOsa family
and its delicate leaves are quite sensi-
tive, though not go much 80 as its hum
bic cousin, the sensitive plant. Like
that plant, its blooms are round tufted
balls Of different colors, but unlike that
plant, these balls shed delightful
odor. When pressed into q pincushion
Tor lady's bureau they will perfume
II Tor years: L am going to winter it
outside of the pit by protecting it'with
barrel and pine tops. Then there are
the lemon verbenas, or citradoras, that
are always refreshing and delightful
to the olfactorys. We put the small
ones In the pit and leave the large ones
out. Then there are q variety of pretty
plants whose flowers will gladden. us ali
the winter. A greenhouse eight bv
sixteen feet can be built and glasse3
for ten or fifteen dollars and il ia al.
ways pleasing and refining to t he fam.
lily, especially to the wifo and daugh.
terS.
And now the chrysanthemums are
budding into beauty and filling the air
with fragrance. There was time
whom tho flowers were all golden. and
hence it's name from crusos, golden: but
the art of the florist has developed near
lyall the colors of the rainbow. Then
there are the tall and gaudy Texas
plnks, or cosmos, that like the supflOw.
or and the morning glory, will spring
up anywhere and everywhere whether
you want them or not. There ia moth
ing pretticr than bed of morning
glories, their frail and beautiful now
ers resting, upon the dewy grass at sun
rise. We have had q woslth of lovely
roses this summer and are still enioy-
ing the exquisite beauty Of La France,
the bride, the meteor, her majesty, the
American beauty and some others.
How many pretty poems havo been
written about the flowers Horace and
James Smiths ode to flowers il sublime.
| Mrs. H'man's Bring Flowers to the
| Fair Young Bride" is a gem. Then
there is "The Last Roso Of Summer, y
by Moore, and 1.-THE Rose That An
Are Praising" and many others. Flow
ers adorn the wedding and the grave
L >ey are akin to music and both prove
the love OF God to his creatures
! Bull ARP.