The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1902-04-23

DN "ohO hoO oo oAos IN IL l. Nku
not know BETTER" she thought. "I
would say he was in love-"
BILL ARP GROWS POLITICAL.
He Writes About the Flowers
of Spring and the Birds that
Sing.
Atlanta Constitution,
1t Is not quite time to indulge in
spring poetry. 1 tried it some years
ago and strained my mind and shall
not try 1t again. One poem is enough
to make II man famous and L have
never seen mine improved upon:
The bull frog bellers in the bitches.
He's shutfied off his winter britches.
The hawk for infant chickens
watcheth
And fore you know it one he cotcheth,
The lizard is sunnin' himself on a
rail,
The lamb is shaking his new born tail,
King cotton has unfurled his banner
ana scents the air with sweet guam
ner,
The darby is blowing his Stubborn
And jerks the line with Gee, you
fool"
Adown the creek and round the ponds
Are gentlemen and vagabonds.
And all our little dirty sinners
are digging bait and catching min.
ners.
That is classic and expressive. II
rhymes well and measures we'll and is
considered the champion spring poem.
But L will venture to make a few re-
marks about flowers, for as Solomon
saith, "The winter is past; the rain is
over and gone. Tie flowers appear on
the earth, the time for the singing of
birds is come and the voice of the turtle
dove is heard in the land.n 1t is an
old story that when God made man
and gave him hearing and seeing and
taste and smelling, lie created birds
i sing for him and please his ears and
grass to grow and herbs and trees 10
zeal him fruit, but Adam wa, MT yery
happy and said these are all verv good.
but they cannot love me nor talk to mo
nor comfort me when L am sick and
sad. L am here alone aud not even
your angels visit me. And 30 God look
pity on him and created woman and
then he was happy.
But woman didn't care to be diooino
n hoeing and planting and looking
after the sheep 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 came the old tradition that wo-
man and music and flowers were Gods
best gifts TO man. You see that Meth.
or flowers nor music is mentioned in
the Mosaic account of the creation and
tradition says that they were not made
until woman was. 1t is singular that
In some OF the ancient languages the
same word that means m means
flowers too.
Among The ancient Greeks, Romans.
Persians and Egyptians there was great
reverence for and even idolatry of
flowers. The lotus or sacred lily was
woTshiped as a god in Egypt. In Japan
the chrysanthemum is equally sacred
and nearly all of their female children
are named for some flower. In all
countries every temple service, eyery
or banquet or sacred day
every birth or marriage or death or
funeral ceremony calls for a profusion
of flowers. When soldiers went ont
fight and when they returned thew
were crowned with wreaths and GAR.
lands; strangers were given flowers
when they came to see you. Every
flower had it's meaning and it's senti.
ment, as for instance q red rose meant
love you;" q white rose 81 will
marry you" The Chinese make the
most lavish use of flowers and have n
Chinese alphabet of flowers. No
modern nation has such love and tasle
them nor such beautiful gardens
Japan comes next. China IL called
Flowery Kingdom.
Almost all of the civilized pations
have anatiOnal flower. Egypt, Turkey
and India have the lotus. japan tbe
cbrysanthemum. Spain the pomepra-
nate. France the iris or aeur de liz of
Louis VII. Napoleon 1 tried to abolish
u and put the honey bee instead. bnt
thep people rebelled and it is still the
Iris. Scotland has the thistle. Ireland
The shamrock, Wales the leek. Mexico
.ha cactus, Germany the corn flower,
England the rose, and the United
States none at all, In 1889 we tried.
o make it the golden rod, but failed.
The North voted for the trailing arbn.
us and the rose and some green house
lowers, and there was no flower elect
'd. That trailing arbutus don't trail
n this part of the country.
Well, of course, the rose is BIZ mi.
'ersal suffrage the queen of all The
About six hundred years ano
he duke OF Lancaster chose a red rose
or his emblem. His brother. tbe
luke OF York, chose a white rose The
iee cendants of these Two princes cot
o fighting for the crown and IL Was
allied the war of the roses. But after
While the son of one married the
laughter of the other and STONED tbs
and the two roses were united mn.
o one and called the Tudor roae.
In the eleventh century the Daaea
made wal upon Scotland, and one dark
light planned an attack upon a fortress
hat was the key to the whole countrv
hey took off their shoes and breecbes
. as TO swim across q moat that anr.
ounded the fortress, thinking that The
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